The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-01-31


that her abandoned daughter might.
see it and repent The picture was
passed around in several meetings.
unth at last it met the eye for which
1t was intended. and the guilty girl
or"ke into tears, and set out at once
for the home of her childhood.
The corpse of an Indiana lady was
recently taken up near Bonneville.
Tor the purpose of removing it to the
cemetery near the town. It was
found to be in the state of pctrifac-
tlon, weighing some 700 or 800
pounds, and taking some eight or
ten nen to lift it from the vanlt
The features were perfectly natural
but hard as rock.
The report Of j. Ross Browne
special commissioner. on the finan.
clal resources Of the States and Ter
ritorles West Of the Rocky Noun
talns, gives an estimate of the pro
duet for 1866 of gold and silver at
Sl06, 000,O OC0 from California. Mon
tana, Idaho, Colorado, Nevada, Ore
gon, and other sections.
Prof Hall, OF Albany, WHO is put
ting together the bones Of the Cohoes
Mastadon, says it Will stand about ten
feet high, and fifteen feet in length:
that 1T existed some % 900 years AGO.
and that the Hudson River has made
all its channel since the monster
lived and died
\ CoREUrr JUDGa. The case of
Judge Smith, OF Oneida County. New
York, charged with bribery and cor
i"ptlnn. was takcn mp in tho State
SenA.n Oh Friday last. The accused
wa:, iounu guilty, and his removal
from Office recommended.
RATHER 3Au. 4 Gotham Journal
states that the prices Of the absolute
necessaries OF life are higher now
than during the same time last Wear.
Hour costing from two to four dollars
more per barrel, and whiskav nearly
twenty cents moro per gallon.
Tie wcisIt of tho flour in u barrel
i, supposed 10 he 1876 pounds. The
Buffalo Board of Trade has alortc3
= resolution requiring 200 pounds in
each barrel, to conform with the
c2njTal SYSTEM Of weight ana meg
a'lres
The Attorney General has given an
opinion that nosol,lier who acts under
orders III the capacity Of detective
can be held liable b.y the civil courts
Tor any property he may have seized
ana carried away in pursuance Of
such orders.
\ colorcl child Was born nj Knox
vile, Tennessee, on the 18th, who
had one ear, no nose, eight tinrcrs
on each hand, eight toes Oh each
foot. and one eye in the middle of its
forehead. The little cyclops lived
hui z fcw minutes.
The Lebanon (Tenn Hcruld states
that farmers in that vicinity find
llt'l" difficulty in hiring negro labor
80 : l23 and $3.50 for the current wear.
The supply is fully equal to the dc
| mand.
A freedman near Riceville, Va,
| about one month ago, to spit. his
wife, with whom he had quarrelca,
deliberately chopped off the head of
his little son with an axe, and threw
the body into the woods.
\ lady, in Rev. Mr.. Spurccon's
congregation. has given 100000 for
founding an institution for vagrant
children. The Institution is to be
modelled after those Of the Five
Points, New York.
a gentleman named Harris, en-
gagged IN planting in the vicinity of
Innlca Bend, while en- route for Mem
phis, taking his cotton to market, de-
liberatcly " jumped overheard and was
drowned
The Boston transcript says: "Three
conductors on the New York and New
Haven Railroad have received their
discharges for 'picking. One of
them, it is said, made some fifty
dollars a day in that manner.
The difference between Whittier's
new poems and the Massachusetts,
schoolmarms is that the former is the
Tent on the Beach, and the latter
are bent on the teach.
According to the annual report of
the Board of Trade for 1855, Eng
land has %, 26l, S3} acres OF farm
laed under cultivation or sixty eight
per cent. Of her entire territory.
The King Of Prussia has decided to
send Prince Ado Ibcrt, lately created
m Admiral, to the United States, to
study the modcrn Improvements in
naval construction