The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-04-23

Calabar, has translated the Old Testa-
ment into the Elk language, the
New having been previously trans
lated. The National Society. of
Scotland has undertaken to have the
whole stereotyped, printed aud
"A suit was tried ut Bipghampton,
New York, last week, in which lady
brought an action for assault and Dat
terry against young man, the accuse
tlon being that he kissed her. while
occupying the same seat in railroad
car, she being asleep ct the time, with
her head resting upon his shoulder.
The jury failed to agree.
A magnificent Russian chapel -vas
recently erected in the outskirts of
Geneva. It's golden cupolas NAV be
seen at a distance Of twenty miles.
The dedication ceremonies were yery
imposing. All the Protestant pastors
IN the city were present. The Papal
Church was without representative.
Paris gardeners now employ toads
in the hot houses to consume
insects, and cocks and hens in the
gardens to eat the slugs. Only to pre-
vent the poultry from scratching up
the flowers they are accommodated. or
lnconvenienced rather, with list slip
pers.
The Dean of Winchester was re-
Gently presented, on his ninety
second birthday, model of Win
chester Cathedral, three feet eight
inches in length, the work of shep-
herd Of the Hampshire Downs, who
carved it with no other implement
than q pen-knife.
The statement has gone the round
of the papers that, during the last
three months, five clergymen in full
Anglican orders, belonging to the
ultra-High Church school, have
given up their curacies, and have
been received into the Romish
Church.
The British and Foreign Bible
Society has Mt last received permis-
sion to sell the Bible in Poland. A
depot for the sale of the Scriptures
has been opened in Warsaw. On the
first day, 1,016 copies we've sold, and
during the first week the purchases
amounted to 9,172. ..'r,
AT Bayonne, there is q glut of sar-
dimes. A local paper says: "The
streets never cease resounding with
the cries of the sellers. Such has
been the abundance that pinnace
of st. jean de Luz, not finding the
fish fine enough, threw the whole
back into the sea-"
The population of Mexico is about
5000, 900. Ex-Gov. Harris, of Ten
nessee, who has been there and
knows something of the quarreisome
nature of the people, thinks that if
about 7.O00,0 900 were exterminated,
the balance might be able to live
peacefully.
The Germans in New Y York club for
the purchase~of lager beer by the keg
on Saturday, and meet ON Sunday to
drink it. So they get around the
excise law, and, getting their tipple
cheaper than they used to ut, saloons,
drink more of it.
Bismarck, taking the Emperor Ma
poieon for Il model, has gone far
ahead of his master, and is now the
ablest rogue among European states
men, and the ablest statesman among
European rogues.
Tennyson's flowing locks and some
what quaint attire, enveloped as he is
In an ample cloak of the old fashioned
make, fulled into q collar, render
him an object of marked attention in
England.
a man was prosecuted at White
Plains, New York, by married wo
man, for having offered her his seat
on Hudson River Railroad car, and
other Outrageous conduct" A YER
dict was rendered for defendant.
A man who had been sen fenced to
the State Prison for life for one
crime, in Brooklyn court, when ar
raigned for another offence, said, "I
suppose the judge means to sentence
me for the life to come
A man came home drunk on q cold
night and vomited in basket con-
taining goslings, which his wife had
placed before the fire, upon seeing
which he exclaimed: "N1y God, wife,
when did swallow them things?"
Bonnets made from the skin of the
cobra dicapella, and ladies' muffs
made of vulture down, are among the
articles sent from the Cape of Good
Hope to the Paris Exhibition.