The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-05-26

WAERE THE SUGAR GoEs.-Of the
01, 136 boxes Of sugar exported from
Havana this year, 81, ,297 cleared for
the United States; 178,719 for Great
Britain and market; IA, GIT for Nor
way, Sweden and Denmark; 1887
for Hamburg and Bremen; 10. 3Si for
Belc'nm; SO, S43 for france; 66, 767
for Spain; 8, AL for the, Mediterra
mean ports; 4, 303 for South America.
Neither Russia nor Holland take any
Cuban sugars, except suoh as they
get through English markets.
GOOSE RACE The colored amuse
ment-loving darkies of New Orleans
assembled at the hallway house on
the canal last Sunday, to witness q
goose race; considerable excitement
prevailed and bets ran freely. Two
men appeared and took their position
in tubs floating on the water, each
having team of six geese. The
whole scene is described as ludicrous
in the extreme. One of them came
out ahead, stakes were handed over
and the crowd dispersed.
The Buffalo Adrertiser has seen q
stove just invented in that city. It
is heated with crude oil, and can be
kept in operation all day at cost of
about ten cents. It bakes four loaves
of bread in forty-fve minutes; broils
steak in five or seven minutes; heats
flat irons faster than woman can
use them; bakes potatoes, roasts
meat, &C., &c., and all this without
heating the apartment, or producing
the least perceptible smell of the oil.
ANTIDoTEs TO STRYcHN1A. 1t would
seem, as the long series of expert
ments conducted by Professor Bellini
demonstrates, that the best antidotes
against this poison are tannic acid,
and tannin, chlorine and the tinctures
of iodine and bromine. These agents
do not, however, act chemically on
the poison, but only through the as
tringent effects produced by the acid
on the mucous or inner surface of the
stomach.
An old colored preacher and school
teacher in Columbus, Ga, was asked,
the other day, what party he belong
cd to now. Like "man and n bro
ther," he replied: "Don't b'long to
no party, sah; loves all good people
jes alike; prays for all jes alike"
"Then," said the inquirer, "you are
philanthropist." "No, sah, I isn't
dat-dat I isn't-I'se Babtist. sab;
q Babtist.' /
SpBLMrrY OF IMpUDENCE.-It is
stated that Northern man, who cot
possession of a confiscated plantation
in Florida, sought information from
its old owner as to the proper means
of cultivating it. This actually equals
the case of the Chinaman who Stole
a gentleman's watch and brought it
back to him the next day TO learn
how to wind it up.
A New Orleans paper says that n
justice of the peace of that region
was called upon to decide the owner
ship Of mule. The swearing was
evenly balanced, and the Justice saw
no way of settling the question ex-
cept to experiment upon the theory
that "the ass knoweth his masters
crib" which was entirely successful.
THREW HIM OvERBoARD.-AnI Irish
man, at Savannah, who became in
censed ut n negro man, day or two
ago, took him by the back of the
neck, dragged him to the waters
edge, and threw him into the river.
The negro, happening to be good |
swimmer, succeeded in gaining the
shore.
ALARGE CATHEDRAL.-Arch bishop
Kenrick has acquired possession of a |
most valuable lot in st. Louis, stu
ated on Lucas Place, between Twen-
ty-third street and Pratt Or Jefferson
avenue, The property was the dona-
tion of Mrs. Ann l.. Hunt, and upon
it will be erected cathedral to cost
not less than S2.00O,00O.
A PIoUs FAMILY. One of our lead
ing citizens and president of
bank. on being applied to by his
female help for an increase of wages,
replied that he considered it was
worth So per month to her for the |
privilege of living in pious family,
therefore he could not accede to her
request. Bridgeport Farmer.
A would-be bride in Dayton, Ohio,
aged sixty, has sued gentleman of
seventy for breach of promise. She
shows one of his letters, in which he
said he "existed only in her smiles,
and that the happiest day of his life
would be that on which he should
call her his own"