The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-10-30

NOW, then, my heartleS, sad q
gallant captain, you have q tough
battle before you. Fight like heroes
till your powders gone; then-run!
I'm a little lame, and I'll start now"
A MAN PITCHES HIS WIFE OUT OF A
SECOND STORY WINDow.-At about |
o'clock, yesterday afternoon, quitean
excitement was raised among the citi-
zens residing in the vicinity of Ninth
street, West, and L street, North, in
consequence of man named Thomas
having pitched his wife out of Sc
cond-story window of q boarding
house in that neighborhood
lVushiugtoa Chronicle
GREELEY DISGUISED. Horace Gree
ley was noticed by a Rochester re-
porter, on Monday morning, footing
it heetly towards a hotel, carrying a
carpet-bag in u state of full collapse,
and his hair in its usual condition of
wild centrifugality. He had made an
Intellectual effort to disguise himself
under black hat
It is understood that Senator Will
son experienced change of heart
and obtained forgiveness through the
efforts of Henry L. Durant, Esq,
who is preaching with great effect in
Boston. Mr.. Durant is one of the
ablest criminal lawyers in Massachn-
setts. .-Nationol IlteUigcncer.
Gen. Neal Dow, of Portland, Me-,
recently spoke at q session Of the
English Social Science Congress, set
apart for the benefit of the working
men. There was such noise and
row made, that not word could be
heard.
A call for the formation of Coon
stitutional Guards is published III
the Washington papers They are
''to be ready at all times to aid
recruiting rendezvous has been open
ed in Washington.
1t is said that the Spanish Govern
ment has purchased of the United
States two monitors, at an expense of
$4,000. 600, and, as the Government
has no available funds, two wealthy
merchants of Havana have gone Sc
curity for the amount.
The contemplated Episcopal Con
vention of the Diocese of North Caro-
lima in November is indefinitely
postponed. Its object was to provide
an assistant for Bishop Atkinson, but
his health is too good to need one
Formerly, by hand, pound of
cotton was spread into thread about
1OS yards long, but since the applica-
ton of steam, it will produce thread
167 miles in length.
Radicals in the Old School Pres
byterian Conference in Missouri have
seeded from that body because it
would no5 adopt their views of poll
tics.
New sold mines of great richness
are announced to have been disco
vered in North Georgia. A company
of responsible parties has been or
ganized to work them
The Richmond Times says it hears
every day the most distressing reports
ofpoverty and suffering in Richmond,
some of which are so desperate as to
be bordering on starvation.
PARDoNED. A despatch to the He-
raid says among the pardons issued
| OAi L Al ioetttS NCi Z VIC iollOWllS IL OH
this State: David Garvin, W. S. Null
lens and Simeon Adkins
1t is singular that the more you
damp the ardor of troublesome
talker by throwing cold water on his
illusions, the sooner he dries up.
NATIONAL BANK STOCK 1t is stated
that S166,O00 of the stock of the
Shenandoah Valley National Bank, at
Winchester, Va, is owned by Balti-
moreans.
\ philosopher says that ''a man
without money is poor, but man
with nothing but money is still
poorer. %
The corn crop Of Southern Indiana
is now out of danger from frost, and
IS the largest ever known in this part
of the State.
The railroad bridge over the Bigbee
River, enabling trains to run through
from Selma to Meridian, has been
completed.
The full official vote of the Penn
sylvania election, from every County
but one, gives Geary II, 706 majority
The total vote reaches nearly 10000
A Baltimore bon rioout can only
describe Parepa's voice by likcning
the effect of it to that of '46 claret.
Chicago is talking about surround
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