The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-09-13

section of the Act of July 13. 1866.
imposes on all beer, lager beer, ale.
porter, and other similar fcrmcntcd
liquors which shall b. brcwcd or
manufactured and sold, or removed
tor consumption or sale, within the
United States, Ivy whatever name
such liquors may he called, Il tax of
one dollar for every barrel containing
not moro than thirty-one gallons, and
at like rate for any other quantity.
or for any fractional part Of II barrel.
The Commissioner of agriculture
has on hand some specimens of
watermelon grown in tn expert
mental garden from seeds Int from
China. These arc the first of that
variety raised in this country. and the
fruit is pronounced the bet ever
grown III the United States. The
Commissioner will shortly be pre-
pared to distribute q quantity of the
seed.
Mr.. VIM. Cameron, Of Petersburg.
Just returned from abroad, brought
homo pair of ostriches, which he
turned loose upon the lawn The
Inde' says ''two interesting colorcl
children and several pigs" are miss
ing since, and adds: ''rlc Inference
IS painful, bnt as public journalists
We arc bound to state facts rs they
occur, or at least us they seem
\ young man named David Leslie
shot II young lady named Martha
kaylor, in New Lebanon, Ohio,
Friday. because she refused to marry
him. While she was sitting in the
doorway of her mothers dwelling.
sewing, Leslie fired ut her from The
upper story of hotel opposite, in
which he dwelt. She lived only
three or four minutes after receiving =
the wound
Tho Harrisburg Th.uuj,h has the
following: "Ralph Hill, nincty-onc
Years old, and n resident Of Forest
County, Pa, passed through Cory
recently, on his way to Boston to find
friends he has not seen for fifty years.
lie never saw 4 steamboat nor n train
Of cars till last week, and has lived
ten miles from any neiSibor for the
last fifty years.
\ guerilla leader, Dick Hampstead,
was, on Wednesday, captured by the
regulators, near Little Rock, Ark.
who, after trying him, and finding
him guilty of eleven murders, all OF
which he confessed. burnt him to
death by q slow fire, which totally
consumed his body, SO that hi, ashes
mingled with those OF the fuel
so common has become the shoot
ing of ministers in Missouri, it is now
regarded as Il branch Of sporting.
In Cooper County, the other day, a
stranger, in search of game, was an
swercd. "Not much, sir: bat there S
the preacher coming over the hill. -
SAD Academia Mr. Thomas J.
Howle, most respectable citizen of
the Martin Town section OF Edgclicld
District, was thrown from his horse
against Il tree, on Sunday last, and
died soon after of his injuries.
A German, in Savannah, arrested
for some offence, pleaded in defence
Kat SItciStiuch ,utS de,s zreiie,l E.uStcr
yeop"$Sfn. The judge, not being able
to see it in that light, fined linn five
dollars
y little girl was stranslel to death
recently near Milton, Pa, by Il hinge
black snake. The reptile had coilcd
itself around her neck many times,
and 1t was necessary to cnt linn III
two ere he released his hold.
JAS. T. Izlar was elected Intendant
and Jos. Mcnamara, John A. Hamil-
ton, F. H. w. Briggman and G. ID.
kcitt Wardens of the town of Orange
burg, on Monday last.
\ ST. Louis paper states that in the
forty eight hours preceding the 9th
instant, there were 155 cholera inter
ments, with four cemeteries to report.
There are three representative men
IN the Convention at Philadelphia.
They arc Darky Douglass, Beast But