The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-05-04

proposed in France. a French che
mist estimates that n human corpse,
OF ordinary dimensions, by process
OF combustion in retorts, may be
made to yield $500 cubic feet of
Illuminating gas, Mt cost of about
Sl.6O. This process is certainly
making light of death.
Reports from Arkansas are to the
effect that while the recent floods in
that State were very disastrous, the
overflow will not prevent the putting
In OF large crops of cotton and corn.
While it has been customary to plant
cotton in April, the best that was
raised last year was not planted until
May. Should the summer prove q
dry one, the crops will be better for
the overflow of this spring.
They have an odd way of doing up
rampant females in Memphis. They
sack 'em. A Memphis paper says:
An obstreporous woman was taken to
the Adams street police station on
Monday night, tied up in q bag, her
head only being out. She was thus
kept from doing mischief, and was
carried along on the back Of O. sturdy
black man.
Anna Dickinson has preached in an
actual pulpit in Toledo, and very
well she is reported to have done it.
though the performances reminded n
local newspaper man of DIR. John
sons saying about woman's oration:
"Why, sir, woman speaking in pub
lie IS like dog dancing; It is not
done we'll, but we are surprised to see
it done at all. F"
There are three ex-Confederate
naval officers editing newspapers in
the South-Lieut. Kerr, of the Wei
don STATE; Lieut.. J. r. Eggleston, of
the Mobile (Ala.l Tribune. and Ad-
mlral Raphael Semmes, of the Mem
phis (Tenn.) Appeal. All distinguish
ed officers of the old navy, and most
accomplished gentlemen.
Silk-worms, after various expert
ments, it is found, can be grown on
oak trees, and this kind of silk-worm
Is being introduced into Europe to
SO great IN extent that it is the be-
lief there that the oaks of European
forests will soon produce abundant
silk crops. especially in sections
where the silk of the mulberry can
not be produced.
The British iron -clads don't prove
SO terrible after oil. Those Of one
class are so utterly unseaworthy and
perilous that crews refuse to serve in
them, and the Lord Clyde and tho
Bellerophon, two of the latest built.
roll so id the sea that they cannot
fire. They can only carry four or
five days fuel.
The Accidental Insurance Compa-
ny of London have refused to pay
the policy Of Mr.. Parkin Jeffcock.
who met his death in the endeayor
to save the lives of his men at the
Oaks Colliery disaster, on the ground
that they did not insure against
accidents voluntarily incurred.
Queen Victoria's favorite room, at
Windsor, overlooks the tomb at Frog
more, where Prince Albert lies. The
night he died, the Queen called n
young widow, who was in her house.
hold, to sit with her, and when all
was over, the Queen said, ..'No ono
now lives that can call me Victoria.
A female pick-pocket, who was
being taken to prison by an officer in
Phiiadelphin, on Tuesday, hailed q
gentleman in passing carriage, ask
ing protection from intended outrage.
The gentleman attacked the officer,
and the woman escaped.
The Cork Qrish) Eramine, says
that for many years there has not
prevailed moro destitution than Mt
present exists among the numerous
poor in the city of Cork. 700 young
men and women left Queenstown in
one day for New York.
The Michigan papers say that if
what the farmers and fruit growers
say is just criterion, that State
never had finer prospect for heavy
fruit crop. Wheat promises better
than Mt any time within tho past five
years.
The Cincinnati Times says the re-
lected candidates for the post Office
in that city talk of having n banquet.
The trouble is to find an appropriate
place sufficiently large to accommo-
date them. 1t suggests that they
have o procession also.
A lady tainted n few days since in
the cars. A medical gentleman pre-
sent who went to her relief, exclaim-
ed, elias any gentleman got flask
of whiskeey or brandy?" Over thirty