The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-10-10

Vf6bbl6S OI bD6 lOuablOnlStS, mas Clnsl
celed legal tenders 60 the full amount
allowed by law, thus removing from
the currency 100000 OF, the ire,
deemable paper which degrades the
currency and makes oil commercial
transactions sheer gambling.
When George Augustus Saln came
to the United States to write fiction
for the London Telegraph, he had
in progress q novel called "Quite
Alone" which was running through
Az the Year Round In the ccnfu-
sion of his American career, he forgot
all about his plot, and the novel had
to be finished by another hand.
1t is officially announced, through
the Christian Adoocate, that the cen
tenary contributions of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, so far reported,
exceed Sd, 600, 900, and it is estimated
that when the Western conferences
are heard from. the aggregate will
probably reach $6,50O,OOO.
Two colored Philadelphia females
attempted to establish themselves in
the ladies' cabin of steamer plying
between Baltimore and New York,
but after considerable parley were
forcibly elected. They vowed ven
geance.
The General Post Office in England
has issued notice that under the new
postal treaty, which took effect on
the 1st inst, entire postage, Ameri-
can as we'll as British, on newspapers
mailed in Great Britain for America,
must be paid in advance.
Sheridan had no reception on his
arrival in New York. He reached the
city Mt 5 p. M. rode up Broadway to
the Fifth Avenue Hotel without being
recognized, took supper and started
forthwith TO the theatre to see the
"Black Crook"
The fastest time in American rail-
roading was that of directors train
on the New York Central Railroad,
the other day. from Hamburg to
Buffalo, ten miles in eight minutes,
or the rate of seventy y-eight miles an
hour.
Two Minnesotans were kept all
night fiat on their backs and mo-
tionless, feigning death, by fero-
cious animal, which they supposed
to be bear, but which the morning
light showed as large Newfoundland
dog.
The Chicago Republican copies
from the New York World, Latin
quotations, "Quis custodiet custodes9"
which it translates, "What cuss would
diet on custards?" and then COM
plains that it does not see the appli-
cation.
Sir Henry Bulwer is engaged on a
work containing his "reminiscences
of the diplomatic world, with which
he was long connected. Prince
Talleyrand and Lord Palmerston will
figure largely in this book.
There is verse-writer in Phila-
delphia, who rejoices in the name of
Lynn G. Doyle. From the curious
nature of the name Ninseed oily
many people think it is a non1me de
plume merely. 1t is not, however.
The sparrows in the public squares,
of New York are increasing rapidly.
Union square has now over 500 of
them. Fifty additional sparrow
ictScS were pldCou Ill MuulSOu SQuuro
last week.
A man courting a young woman
was interrogated by her father as to
his occupation. 81 am q paper
hanger on large scale" he replied.
He married the girl and turned out
to be bill-sticker.
The Bangor Whig is informed that
in making the survey of the channel
of Penobscot River, the men en-
ployed bored through beds of saw
dust in some places ten and in others
fourteen feet in thickness.
The Topeka (Kansas) Ledger says
it would publish the list of candidates
for sheriff in that county, but for the
fact that it would be impossible to
print them all, before election, at the
rate of three columns per day.
A magazine, to be called the Wo-
mans World is to be issued in Lon
don shortly. We presume, from its
name, it will be devoted to fashion
and gossip.
The Aiken IS. C.) Press has been
suspended for want of patronage.
The proprietor did net require pay
mcnt in advance, to which fact he
! attributes the cause of SUSPENSION.