The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-10-09

A fashionable lady of Reading,
/ sPennsylvania, woman OF culture and
refinement, was found in the streets
of that city on Monday, in state
brutal intoxication, and uttering
most shocking language AI.gentle-
man acquaintance happened to meet
her, and conducted her away to her
home. : <. 80 ~
Rita Sangalli received severe fall
while dancing in the Boston Black
Crook, last week. In the grotto
scene, she tripped on nail near the
foot-lights, and with a slight cut on
the knee) landed in the lap of a
clarionet player, fright in the mid
die" of German band.
Some idea may be formed of the
numbers of our base ball players, by
the fact that single manufactory in
Lynn, Massachusetts, has made and
sold 30, 900 pair of shoes for base ball
players this season.
Ohio is reported to have more
sheep than any other State in the
Union-6,5 568, ,O52 out of the 80, 695, =
797 in the United States. In 1866.
the live stock of Ohio was valued at
$151, 100000.
A citizen aof Connecticut has in
vented printing press, which he
claims will strike off 1000 copies of
the New Testament per diem, or
400 copies of newspaper per mi
mute.
They have queer idea of "pro-
hibition" in Vienna. The police re-
Gently threatened a lager beer seller,
to fine him heavily if he did not
increase the size of his glasses.
A distillery has recently been disco
vered on board n canal boat, near
Philadelphia. The illicit business
had evidently been pursued on n
large scale. :,
The Austrian Bishops held coun-
Gil recently and resolved in favor of
maintaining the concordat and sup
porting the temporal power of the
Pope.
Two stock brokers, in Paris, have
made a bet. it is seid, of 800, ,OGO, that
General Grant will, or will not, be
Emperor of the United States within
five years.
Santa Anna still remains prisoner
in the Castle of San Juan d'Ulloa, at
Vera Cruz, from the parapet of which
he can see the spot from where the
ball was fired which took off his leg.
The New York Herald predicts.that
the radicals will be beaten in that
State in November by not less than
10000 votes.
Mrs. Maria Starks, residing in
Ontario County, New York, cut and
harvested this season over twenty-five
acres of wheat with her own hands.
= A New York company has pur-
chased 100000 acres of land in North
Carolina, and are going into a WOOL
growing speculation on it.
An old lady says the milk is 80
poor nowadays that children fed on
it, instead of growing fat, die with
water on the chest and the brain.
A Chicago judge sentenced thirty
seven prisoners in one batch on
Wednesday morning, sixteen of them
going to the penitentiary.
A letter was received at the New
port (Ky.) post Office, few days
since, addressed to Mr.. John Ollen-
Observation-Disclosures.
The Howard Association, of New
Orleans, acknowledges the receipt of
81, ,O0O from the Southern Relief AS
sociation, of Baltimore.
During the last three months
$3.50 barrels of flour have been in
spected at Lynchburg, Va.
At the auction sale of Pittson coal,
in New York, on Wednesday, prices
ranged from 81. As to $4.75 per ton.
The defalcations of the President
of the Kingston IN. Y bank amount
to the respectable sum of 1851, 500.
TRY 1T A QUARTER.