The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-06-11
LAND-BUYERs FLOORING no v1p-

ulNlA.--Ine -HagerStown 1IdiI SAYS
the stream of visitors from Pennsyl-
vania in search of lands in Virginia
Is unusually large, and has made the
hotels quite lively in the evening
after the arrival of the cars. Many
OF them are from Lancaster. Miflin,
huntington, and Centre Counties.
Most OF these gentlemen desire to
invest in valley lands.
TYPHOID FEVER IN WAsHINGroN.-
The typhoid fever is alarmingly pre-
valent in Washington. The physi-
clans report hundreds of cases. It
would not be wonderful if all the
diseases known and unknown visited
Washington. It is the filthiost place
III the United States. It's suburbs
and by-streets are in horrible condi-
ton.
A Nashville paper says that at a
recent wedding in that city, "the
bride and groom knelt and Joined
hands from opposite sides of q table,
IN the middle of the altar, on which
was an open Bible, covered with q
wreath of flowers. 4 beautiful pyra
mid of flowers was suspended over
their heads from the ceiling"
A representative from the Birming-
ham (England) Board of Trade is
now travelling through the United
States and the British Provinces.
urging the boards of trade of the
various cities to take action in favor
OF abolishing privateers during war,
and i'll other ways reducing the liza
Dility OF private property to capture.
A slight muss occurred at Nashville
last Sunday, from an attempt, which
was partially successful, of the blacks
to take possession of the street cars.
These troubles all grow out of the
meddlesome and mischievous mean
white cusses, who are thousand
times more to blame than their poor
dupes.
A thickly populated house is said
to exist i'll Worcester, Massachusetts.
The Gazette. of that place, says in q
one-story tenement house there live
two families, who are the possessors
of twenty-fourhogs, twenty-five hens,
tive ducks and COW, all of whom,
both human beings and animals, live
in the same room.
a lady III Holyoke, Massachusetts,,
obtained divorce from one hus
band on the morning Of the 7th
instant, married another in the after
noon of the same day, and in the
evening presented her new husband
with an heir. All parties are doing as
well as could be expected.
The New England Anti-slavery So
ciety met i'll Boston the other dav.
Considering that the only slaves left
III this country are the editors of
newspapers, and their emancipation
is indefinitely postponed until "the
good time coming, boys" this looks
like useless session.
Reports are current that Gen. Joe
Johnston has determined to write q
history of the late war, or rather of
his own campaigns in it. The ab-
surdities and misrepresentation of
Pollard's "Lost Cause" and other
pretended Southern histories, prompt
him to do so.
Two negroes, near New Canton, in
buckingham County, Va, got into n
fight last week about some chickens
one had stolen from the other, dur
ing which one Of them was killed
by blow on the head with a brick.
bat.
Professor S. T. B. Morse, the vene-
rable inventor of the telegraph, is
now residing with his family at Paris.
His health is good, and he is busily
engaged upon history of the tele-
graph.
a New York paper, which, almost
alone. for some weeks past, has been
preaching up Fenian raid on Cana
da, now declares that these reports
are all bosh, and that they are upheld
for smuggling purposes.
a joint stock company is being
formed III New Albany, for the pur.
pose OF engaging extensively in
the manufacture of boots and shoes.
Why should not such companies be
formed still further South?''
1t is current rumor in Paris that
Napoleon has discovered that during
the war Bismarck had one of his
ministers, Random, and one of his
marshals, Forey, in his pay.
BY the upsetting of q cauldron con-
tanning ton of molten iron into n
moist mold, q Louisville foundry was
demolished, and q workman blown
out at the window.
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