The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-11-02

the doctors mentioned, with great
approval, the use of the warm bath
as remedy for the sick headache,
and of Southernwood for inhammato-
ry or common rheumatism, both of
which uses are new. The President
stated that but three medicines had
been thoroughly discussed and tested
by the society during its twenty.seven
years of existence.
GEORGIA.-It seems to be certain
that the Convention in Georgia would
have failed for want of q ma
jority vote, if Gen. Pope had not
ordered the polls to be kept open
three days, thereby, as the Nationa.
Infelltgence' says, enabling the ne
groes to vote under their numerous
aliases and in various places.
Henry Ward Beecher thinks that
only custom prevents the wearing of
mourning from being esteemed OBJ
trusive and indelicate. He says: 81
never met one muffied in black from
head to foot without certain horror.
The smell of Grape is to me like the
smell of q charnel-house
There is n new magician in Lon
don, named Rubini, one of whose
tricks is to cut off the head Of n young
lady, and carry it to the back of the
stage, where he unveilsit, and where,
ut his bidding, it addresses to the
audience moral and didactic SEN
tences.
DIR. Allen, celebrated dentist,
says that i'll the United States, in q
population of 3O,OOO,O0O. there are
10000, 600 of teeth lost annually by
decay-all caused by the use of bolted
wheat, which deprives the system of
the lime needed in the human teeth.
A little girl in Massachusetts has
been brought to life after being half
an hour i'll the water. She became
slightly conscious in twelve hours,
under constant treatment, and fully
recovered her consciousness in two
days.
a student in one of the London
hospitals, in pursuance of bet,
actually cut slice from the brcst of
a corpse he was dissecting, broilcd it
before the fire in the dissecting room,
and ate it in the presence Of his COM
panions!
An Indianapolis despatch, of the
9th ult., says the heavy rains some
three weeks ago, and the warm
weather since, started the growth of
the wheat crop all over Indiana, and
from an unpromising appearance
previously, it now looks fine.
New York city supports at the pre-
sent time ten theatrical and operate
companies, four minstrel troupes,
three variety troupes, and one circus,
besides galden concerts and other
entertainments ut different halls.
A ''loyal" young minister, at Rock
Island, ILL.,, has occasioned II great
deal of scandal at that place, in re-
ference to his popularity with the
gushing damsels of his congregation.
There lives at Detroit cousin of
Gen. Lafayette, by name Joseph
Jean Lafayette. He is ninety-four
years old, served in the war of 1912,
and was wounded at Plattsburg.
What is the difference between q
honcy-comb and honey moon? A
honey-comb consists of u number of
"small cells" and a honeymoon con-
sists of one ''great sell.
Two English noblemcn have been
arrested in New York for improper
conduct, and will probably have an
opportunity of examining the insti-
tuition on Blackwclls Island.
The Ohio wine-makers are nov
busily Mt work, and the newspapers
of that State estimate that its wine
crop this year will be the largest it
has ever had
Peter Lorillard, of New York, who
recently died at Saratoga, was one of
the wcalthiest men Of the metropolis.
He leaves an estate, it is said, worth
SIS, 100000
The Yazoo (NIiss.) Banner an
nounces that Dan. Woodbridge, n Con-
servative negro, will be candidate
for Congress in that district.
OF the 100 delegates elected to the
Alabama Reconstruction Convention,
sixteen arc negroes and but two Con
scrvatives.
Spurgeon says he never likes to
have one of his deacons pray for half
an hour and conclude with asking
the Lord to forgive his short comings.
A New York wife petitions for di-