The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-04-24

ohAOO AuOutuS, ab OoW6puTJD GuS-
land, for assaulting his wife in the
most brutal manner, because "she
was having too many children" He
had said he would not feed his wife
and children, but he would feed his
bulldog.
|: Portland is one of the most ORDERLY
cities in the world. But six police
men are employed as day force,
and twenty at night, with four at
headquarters and in the City Hall.
The restoration of the new City Hall
will cost 100000. 1t will be ready
for occupancy in November.
AN INFA111D1E SIGMA gentle
man of experience observed the
other day, "Wbeuever I see man
walking along the street, persistent
ly keeping the middle of the side
walk, I know he is not and never
can be gentleman, whatever may
be his pretensions.
The scandal is current in Florence
that King Victor Emanuel was in
duced to marry his mistress about q
year ago, said mistress. .feigning to be
sick unto death, but unwilling to die
till she had made her peace with
Heaven. In q week after, the lady
vas up and we'll.
Mai. Gen. Shaler, of New York,
has declined, in advance, O testimo-
NAL to which several thousand dollars
had already been subscribed, on the
ground that it might hereafter en-
barrass him in the discharge of his
official duties. It is rare case. and
worthy of imitation.
The Memphis (Tenn.) .Acalonche
trembles for the future of the South,
because the Northern church-espe-
cially the MIe:hodists- dead
against President j ohnson, heSouth,
and everything except the radical
Congress and its doings.
ADVERTISEMENTS MARYLAND ed
itor perpetrates an advertisement,
offering ''fifty millions of dollars for
the lost Constitution of free coun-
try; any one returning the article will
receive the reward, and no questions
asked"
|. WnLNG.-An exchange tells of n
new dance called the "l1iss cotillion, )"
in which the gentleman always kisses
the lady as they swing the corners.
We are not chiefly" on dancing. but
are willing to take corner in that
figure.
Lord Justice Cairns, of Enghnd,
has decided, says the New York Iri-
6u'ae, that the bonds of railroad
company edo not run against the
property of the company, but only
against earnings"
A little boy asked his mother what
blood relations meant. She ex-
planned that it meant near relatives,
etc: After thinking n moment, he
said, "Then, mother, you must be
the bloodiest relation I've got."
"You young rascal" said an old
gentleman to rash little boy on the
street, ''if that cab had run over yon,.
where would you have been now?"
The boy answered, Cup behind, n
taking of hisnumber!' =
Some of the Hungarian mobiles are
extensive cattle owners. When Prince
Esterhazy was asked how many sheep
he had on his estate, he replied, sI
can't say; but they tell me I have
1,50O shepherds" = 49,,
A fashionable young lady asked a
young gentleman which he thought
the prettiest flowers, roses or tulips.
''Your ladyship's two lips before all
the roses in the world"
It is so mountainous in +ba Chill
country" of Colorado that many per-
sons have to look up through their
chimneys to see who are knocking at
their next neighbor's door.
The people of East Tennessee have
lost their faith in the Bible promise,
that there shall never be another
food. since the recent high. water
there.
The Paris horse meat butchers sell
about eighty horses week now, and
expect during the Exposition to
double that number.
An Arkansas colonel had the fol-
lowing order for mounting his men
First order-Prepare fer tur git onto
yer creeters! Second order-Git!
Prentice says: "What was the
American republic is now cross be-
tween monarchy and anarchy"
A Richmond paper calls General
Sickles' military orders "drum-head
Legislation,
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