The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-07-14

odtuIuay iaSU, CHarleS Dean, con-
victed of biting off the nose Of
officer Hart, of the seventh police
district, w. sentenced in the Court
of Quar-, vssions to fine of 500
and all ,,risonment Of four yearsi
Dear bite, that.
In Connecticut, the relative num-
Der OF children has, it is said, been
steadily diminishing during the last
forty years. The per centage OF chill
dren to the population has fallen off
from 39.49, in 1920, to q 90, in 1860.
a relative loss of eight per cent
Garibaldi has requested his friends
to give up feting him "The time
for action" he says, .'has come, and
we must postpone festivals till the
Italian flag floats in triumph from
the towers Of San Marco"
Baron Rothschild long since re-
moved all the valuables from his cha
teau, across the Rhine, and this
example is now being extensively fol-
lowed by landlords in Prussia, Ger
many, Austria and Italy.
A Western editor has on exhibi
ton, in his office, the bladder of n
musquito, which, he says, contains
the souls of twenty Government
sw1ndlcrs, and the fortunes of a dozen
or more editors, accumulated in pub
hshlng country newspapers.
Thad. Stevens is an old bachelor.
E.rchmaye.
There is "colored lady" at Ian
caster, Pennsylvania, who will fight
yon on that question "until yonr
eycllds cease to wag"
3fobAe Register ard -Adre,1iser.
\ company, in Sheffield, offers
-, 200 TO whoever will find a substi-
tute for ivory, as the demand is so
great that the teeth of 10000 ele-
plants would be necessary, every
year, to furnish billiard-tables alone.
Here is a field for some American
genius
The Hon. Alfred Ely. We note, q
leading radical Of Rochester, has be-
come bail for the Fenian prisoners at
Canandaigua, doubtless hoping for
the "Irish vote" when next he runs
for Congress.
The Baltimore Gnseue and Balti-
more transcript have skinned Bolts
for his speech there on the 4th.
They found his hide greatly cut up
and scarified, and worth nothing at
the tanners
The New York Independent SAYS:
Gone days work, we'll done, will
save the country, and blow the Pre-
sldent forever ont of the way, like
fine dust The Independent has gene
rally depended upon wind for effect.
1t is stated that Queen Victoria
sends telegraphic despatch every
morning to the King of Prussia, con
tanning commonly only the words,
"God guide you for the best"
The Alabama State University is
trying to raise means to restore it's
buildings-which were burned by
Gen. Wilson-by a lottery, the prizes
IN which amount to $50, 900.
A Naples letter-writer says: M.
Ihalberg's time has not been spent
III vain; the great musician has be-
come large grower Of grapes, and,
what Is more, of first rate Wines
Department order Of yester Jays
date discontinucs the command or
ganizcd and known as the post of
New Orleans, as no longer necessa-
ry.-N. O. Bee.
Prot. -Agassiz is coming home with
his head full of hair-splittins names
and designations in his natural his
tory.
John G. SAKE says it is not neces-
sary to be proaigate, Il mendicant,
or to be predisposed to pulmonary
consumption to be poet.
The Pl" ians, Us distinctive
mark in = ,fesent campaign, wear
on the |, rnl band of white stnff
marked with q rcd cross.
If you had gone half crazy at not
having won your sweetheart as wife,
remember you might have gone the
other half if You had succeeded.
Two sisters lately met in Baltimore
after fortyeight years separation.
They talked thirty-six hours and
were still talking ut last accounts.
1t is supposed that Horny District
VIII pay this year an Interval Reve-
nue. tax of Mt least 500, 600 on naval
stores alone.
The Camden and Amboy Railroad
have completed their double track
from Philadelphia to New York.
Nearly twice as many divorces have