The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-06-12

WAL-RussIA. revenue cutter,
now stationed at San Francisco, will
soon sail upon cruise to Sitka, and
along the shores of the new American
Pacific possessions. She will have
aboard FIVE members of the Coast
Survey. and an experienced naturalist,
and it is expected that q vast deal of
information will be thus obtained
about the last territorial acquisition
of the United States.
AN AGED DIvINE.-A correspond
ent of the Columbus Enquirer, speak
ing of the Rev. DR.. Lovick Pierce,
says: '"This aged minister Of Christ,
now i'll his eighty-third year, the
pastor of st. Paul's Church, breaches
regularly on Sabbath morning, and
at . o'clock in the evening; and al
though so greatly advanced in years,
he breaches with the spirit and power
Of youth.
In the free city of Bremen, n sin
gillar custom of taxation prevails.
The Government announces the sum
that it requires, and chest is placed
in the town house, to which every
taxpayer brings the proportion
which he judges it right for him to
pay. The amount of tax received
has never failed to surpass the esti-
mate of the public necessities.
A handsome young bride was OBJ
served to be in deep reflection ou
her wedding day. One of her bride
maids asked her the subject of her
meditation. ''I was thinking" she
replied, (which of my old beaux L
should marry, if I should become a
widow"
4 man that hath no virtue in him
self, ever envieth virtue in Others
for mems minds will either feed upon
their own good or upon others evils,
and who wanteth the one will prey
upon the other
The gold production of Australia
is said to he falling off. The decrease
of production-which was 2,9S5, 991
ounces in 1S56-has been gradual and
continuous until 1865, when it was
but l, ,4S0, 597 ounces.
LONG EDrroR1ALs.-On the 1st, the
Memphis appeal had an editorial
eight feet long upon "The Duty of
Loyalty;" and on the 4th, it had one
seren feet long, on "The Period Of
Transition.
a Dublin paper says n fearful
blight has set in among the early
planted potatoes in Ireland, and
whole fields are affected by the dis
ease.
The Richmond Dispatch publishes
n tabular statement, showing there
are 1,3GO business men in that city,
and that they pay license tax of
$50, 1917.
Congressman John NIorrisey is
the purchaser of Barnum's beautiful
residence, at Bridgeport, Conn. The
price paid was S65, 600.
The Prince of Wales has given rise
to much scandal in Paris, in connec-
tion with her Grace the Duchess of
Manchester.
The Police Commissioners of Chi
cago are taking measures to prevent
the sale and use Of fire works in the
city.
4 married man in Williamsburg,
aged forty, ran away with his wife's
niece, aged twenty-five, on Tuesday
last.
Sarah Turner has recovered so, =
600 from j. w. Sidle, of GAINESVILLE,
Ohio, for breach Of promise of mar
ria &c.
Equal TAXATION OR RErUD1ATIoN
The Buffalo Independent raises the
motto at its masthead, equal and
just taxation, or reputation.
1t is stated that gold-bearing rock,
yielding to the assay $12O n ton,
has been found in Duchess County,
New York
HEAVY. The Cleveland Herald saws
that child was born in that city, Il
few days since, which weighed twen-
ty-one and half pounds.
The Massachusetts State Constable
has notified the proprietors of lager
beer saloons to stop the sale of that
beverage.
In portions of Indiana, the hydro
phobia panic has canscd IL suspension
of the schools.
a negro in Georgia hogged his
daughter to death for clnndestine
"sparking"
4 father in Charlevoix, Michigan.
accidentally cut his child's head off
while engaged in chopping wood.