The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-04-25

A gentleman, who takes common
sense views of things, being recently
asked his opinion of poetic indi-
vidual, replied, ooh! he's one of
these men who haze soarings after
the infinite, and divings after the
unfathomable, but who never pay
cash."
Two French gamins were looking
ut an Egyptian temple erected at the
Paris Exhibition, wondering what
the hieroglyphics meant, when one of
them solved the doubt by stating that
it was the tomb of the inventor of
photography.
. The Kalmia Mills property was
sold under foreclosure of mortgage.
on Tuesday, by Messrs. Wardlaw &
Carew, to Messrs. Harvey Cogswell
and others, for $21O, 600, which
amount is $4,000 i'll excess of the
aggregate mortgages.
The Martinsburg Nep Era saws
that one day last week, Mr.. Thorn
ton Henshaw. residing n short dis
tanco from town, killed fifteen foxes
in one day, and it was not a good
day for foxes either. He discovered
q den, and dug them out.
The Memphis Acaktnche announces
the failure of couple of firms in
that city, whose members were of the
Republican stripe, i'll the following
style: Zone by one, the leaves of
radlcalism wither and decay"
Firemcn in Brighton, Mass, set
the numerous fires there last wintor.
Ten of them are under arrest, charged
with burning eleven houses, two
school-houses and q church. One of
them has turned States evidence.
Yale College has, for building pur
poses, $1,000, and it is designed soon
to erect an entirely new set of brown
stone dormitories, memorial chapel,
the Peabody geological museum, and
new Divinity hall.
The Paris (Texas) Press. says that a
great deal of stock has perished in
the bottoms during the late high
water. In one place, the carcasses of
twelve horses were found in pile.
At the Methodist Conference in
New Haven, a few days ago, it was
stated that in three cities III the
State, one-third of the people had no
Bible last year.
Every workman and workwoman
in Paris is to be given a ticket to the
Exposition by the Government, so
that they can make at least one visit
to it without cost.
Major F. H. Wigfall, son of cx-
Senator Wigfall, is travelling in Texas
as the representative OF commercial
houses in New Orleans and England.
His father is residing in London.
UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE. 1t is stated
that Thaddeus Stevens is writing a
pamphlet i'll support of Summers
bill securing universal suffrage at the
North. .-Ndtional huteHigencer.
A Texas exchange contains brief
details Of three murders recently
committed in that State, besides
robberies and Indian raids sufficient
to make up column.
DEAD.-Judge Romulus M. Sam
ders, cf North Carolina, died ut his
residence, in Raleigh, on Sunday
last, at the age of seventy-six.
The Kingston, G. W., police help
the burglars in their midnight
forays. Two of them are now in
prison for burglary.
A loaded express car on the New
York and Erie Railroad was totally
destroyed by fire last Friday. The
loss is estimated at $4,000.
At an election for mayor at Hunts
vile, Ala, recently, tho colored vote
assisted to defeat the agent of the
Freedmen's Bureau.
The Empress Carlotta is worse.
instead of better. Her its of insanity
are more violent, and the lucid
intervals more rare.
On Tuesday last, S153, 333 worth of
cotton was shipped from Savannah,
Ga, tc Liverpool, in two vessels.
The strike of the iron-workers of
Pittsburg, Pa, has terminated, the
men resuming work at the old prices.
Gen. Schofield has decided that
Confederate copscripts are not neces-
sarily deprived of the right to vote.
Gen. Sickles has recently removed
certain members of the police force
at Wilmington, N. G.
What goes most against the grain
Of farmer? A reaping machine?
Honolulu is soon to be lighted with
gas.