The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-08-27

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Is the survivor of five wives, and is
now living with the sixth. He is
the father Of twenty five children by
two OF his wives-twenty-o are
living.
| A suspicious clink was heard from
the garments of suspicious female
at recent picnic near Gotham,
and, on investigation by blushing
Fenian, it was found that she had
been stealing lager beer glasses. She
had strung them around her garters.
A convict in Auburn prison had
himself boxed up as u case of bro
gans, and but for all unlucky mistake
In marking the box, would have been
expressed away to freedom AS it
happened, his attempt, like the box,
Was bootless.
A man dressed in dark brown
suit has been passing himself off in
Tennessee as Gen. Perrin, of South
Carolina, and Col. Robardeau, of
Missouri, and swindling the heads of
several educational institutions.
REGISTRATION IN PIcKENs. AT Pick
ems @. H., 100 persons were regis
tered-whites ST; colored SO. Cheo-
hee, 10S-whites 90; colored Is.
Guines, 23-whites 13; colored TO-
PickenS Courier.
According to the daily papers, "the
troops are still securing the country
after the Fenians. This is surely
unnecessary. The country cannot
be so very dirty, since the Fenians
managed to get clean otf.-Pmch
Mexico is bad place for women
The wife Of Mcndez is insane; the
wife Of Mejia is mad; the wife of
N1iramon is stricken beyond hope of
recovery, and the Princess Salm -Salm
is in jail.
The Charleston Nems states that
Col. Green, of the United States 9th
Infantry, late Commandant of the
Post of Columbia, S. c., has re-
signed.
A correspondent of the New York
Post says that a small piece of cloth,
saturated in carbolic acid, and hung
up in n room, will soon drive off
both flies and mosquitoes.
County meetings are the order of
the day in Alabama. The purpose
of them is to elect delegates to the
State Conservative Convention, which
meets September 4th
Papers all through the interior of
the State of Missouri, are complain
ing of the drought. Unless they
have rain soon the farmers say the
corn crop will be ruined.
A butcher in New York has been
sentenced to thirty days imprison-
ment and to pay fine of fifty dollars,
for cruelty to m OK.
No papers are now published on
Mondayin Vienna. Printers, editors
and reporters have concluded to en-
Joy themselves on Sunday.
One person out of every five in the
New England States dies of con-
sumption, while in Georgia, only
one ont of thirty-six is victim of
that disease.
SoULLEss SMILES. A lacy who
parts her lips to show fine set of
teeth, real or artificial, may fatter
herself that she achieves n smile, but
in truth she grins.
Two freedmen had a pistol fight
in church in Carrolton, Mo-, some
two weeks ago, about who should
walk Mt the head of an emancipation
procession.
The famine in India last year de-
stroyed 100000 lives, and forced
the Hindoos, who will not eat dogs
or cats or COWS, to dine off their own
children.
The two handsomest kings in Eu-
rope are those of Bavaria and Portu-
gal.
The Nation says twenty-five dollars
will purchase any testim ony wanted
in New York.
Ten persons lately died in Wanda
lia, Ill, from eating corn boiled in a
brass kettle which had not been
properly cleansed.
Counterfeit ten dollar bills on the
Market National Bank, New York,
have been discovered.
1t is said that Roger A. Pryor in
tends to start weekly Johnson paper
next fall, in conjunction with Ben.
Wood
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