The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-05-01

beo Dugs, according to Il lady cor
respondent, have great aversion to
salt. She states that if the articles
and places infested with bed bugs are
washed with salt water, and the ere
vices in which the vermin hide are
filled with it, they will give no more
trouble.
PROSPEROUS CoLoRED NrEN.-The
Detroit Adre,fise1' publishes a long
list of the colored men of that city
who have accumulated property
worth from $500 to $4,000. It
says that the aggregate amount of
wealth in possession of this class is
not far short of $50O,OOO in value.
A gentleman in Boston is said,
after experiencing religion rsome
months ago, to have broken to
powder mc- BILE copy of the Venus
di Medicis, burned up q number of
very valuable paintings and engrav-
ings, and destroyed a library which
cost $4,000,
Three Of the richest bankers in
Hamburg-MM. G. f. Garrison, J.
r. Schroeder and J. NJ. II. Olsman-
have renounccd their rights as citi-
zens and left the city, in order not to
be obliged to submit to the orders of
Prussia.
The heirs Of the Lawrence Town
ley estate, III England, have been
advertised for. They have n plum in
the shape of $4,000, OOO-about
forty millions better than the Russian
possessions which our Government
has just purchased.
The Boston T'areNcr says the ad-
vance in rents and scarcity of houses
are occasioning no little concern to
families of moderate means. Fabu-
lous prices are offered for the summer
occupancy of furnished houses in the
suburbs.
The "quarter' SO frequently. men
toned in British trade returns in
their reports of the movements and
consumption of grain weighs $50
pounds, and is made up Of eight
bushels of 70 pounds ehch. It is
equivalent to cwt.
When Paris shop-keeper is de-
tected for third time in using false
weights and measures, large pla-
card, designating his offence, is sus-
pended in his show-window, for thir-
ty days, by the police.
A correspondent of the Providence
Journal WHO has gone over Sherman's S
route i'll Georgia, says "the people
all along the route are in the most
abject poverty, actually starving to
DEATH"
A rural contributor says he has en-
larged his establishment, and now
keeps head of oxen, head of hens,
and several heads of cabbages, while
he is also trying to keep a head OF
the times.
A yellow rain fell recently at Bowl
ing Green, Ky, md the drops being
analyzed were found to contain a
solution of pitch pine, probably
derived from mountain forests over
which the clouds had settled.
1t is estimated that upwards of
1,2OO men, over 1000 boats, and
II, 900 traps, and at least capital of
$15O,000, is employed in the lobster
business in the New England States.
WENDELL PHILLIPS. Wendell Phil
lips says he was welded to truth and
philanthropy when n boy. The Bos-
ton Post thinks Wendell must have
become widower when quite young.
The habit of resolving without act
ing is worse for lis than never resolv-
ing at all, inasmuch as it gradually
snaps the natural connection between
thought and deed.
The New Bedford Mercmry says
that the report is incorrect that the
State constables have been instructed
to Seize the spirit levels used by car
pointers.
A German paper says that young
man recently married widow twice
his age, and he ascertained subse-
quently that his wife had been his
vet nurse.
Senator Wilson, in his Richmond
speech. appealed to the colorcd peo-
pie "to help in procuring colorcd
suffrage in New Jersey, Pennsylvania
and New York"
When the floor of IL stable on
which horses are standing slopes
down, and is lower on one side than
the other, the horses are liable to dis
eases of the legs.
The NYcsson Cotton Factory at
Woodville, Miss, is now spinning
!i'ooo pounds OF cotton per day, and
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