The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-02-12

,ieho ol loyal government, iaftar
the Stevens pattern,) signed by
l,239 black whites, and $50 black
| blacks, from various Counties in
North Carolina, and Patrick County.
Virginia.
A Western exchange says the habit
OF drinking can be cured by giving
the drinkers all the liquor they want
all the time. That this experiment
Will prove q success, we know. 1t was
tried on man not long since, who.
after drinking all the liquor he could
hold, Tor two weeks, imagined he saw
| snakes, Ben. Butler and ThaG. Ste
vens, and jumped out of q four-story
window. running curb-stone into his
head. He has not drank u drop
since, nor will he the rest of this
century.
Panama correspondence reports
the operations, at that place, of a
company recently organized by
wealthy capitalists in New York,
called the Pacific Pearl Company.
The company intends to operate at
the Pearl Islands, about thirty miles
from Panama. A submarine boat has
arrived, capable of carrying ten or
twelve men at one time, who can
work under the water for many hours.
George Francis Train has address
ed an application to every corpora
ton in England, Ireland and Scot
land, and every one of the fifty-two
parishes In London, as the promoter,
lntroducer and patentee of street
railways in Great Britain; and an
nounces that he is ready with men
and means to lay them down any
where.
An exchange says: There is q
warning voice coming up from eyerv
section of the land, which plainly tells
our Congressional rulers that the
country wants peace. That's so.
The country wants peace-but that's
just what Congress don't want. Peace
would be the death Of the dominant
party In that body, without the hope
of resurrection.
An election was held at Walhalla.
on the 10Th January last, for an In
tendant and Wardens, with the fol-
lowing result: Intendant-H. w.
Pieper. Wardens-H. G. Rochau,
ID. Knee, sr., d. Biemann, j. Kauf-
mann, Aug. Brennecke, II. Stucke.
The Infamous distinction of being
| the first man to bring a criminal
charge against the Chief Magistrate
OF the nation, is enjoyed by Ben.
Loan, loyal guerilla of Missouri.
There IS not respectable journal in
that State which endorses him.
The finding, by q dog, of on old
pair OF pantaloons, hid in o hollow
tree, near Miles, Michigan, led to the
| arrest and probable conviction of q
man named Matux, Tor % murder com
mltted over twelve years ago.
A poor woman in Indianapolis, in
| order to save herself and children
from starvation, sold her head of
hair to an aristocratic belle of that
city for one dollar and fifty cents.
A Louisiana paper says, "four men
were murdered here last night, and
it wasn't considered good weather for
killing, either"
Almost every Hebrew is an Odd
Fellow, Free Mason, Druid or Red
Man, and his race is represented
wherever civilization is active.
Mr.. Lane, of Hampton, N. c., is
i'll from eating pork, which has 5000
trichina to the cubic inch. Good
deal of turning in that Lane.
Mrs. Stephens, the Head Centres
wife, calmly goes shopping at Dalk-
ley, Ireland. With whose money is
| not stated
A Methodist minister in Brooklyn
was presented on Christmas day with
n baked potato, in which was enclosed
$500 greenback.
New York has 10000 more school
children than there arc inhabitants in
Boston.
Six mines in. California have yield
! ed $3.50, ,0OO in the last three months
to their stockholders.
For the first time during nineteen
centuries the navigation of the Rhine
is free.
A project has been started in Paris
for sending an expedition to the
North Pole.
A new theatre with every prospect
of success) is being talked of in
Charleston.
In Paris the city taxes amount to
tep francs-or about two dollars for