The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-05-19


LARGE HoG:-Captain ID. Brown,
of AnbGfn,S n. ~, passed through
the city yesterday, with hog weigh
ing fourteen hundred pounds. = It
was captured in Australia, and is en-
route to Norwalk, Ohio. The un-
tanned monster was in sty, built
in freight car for the especial pur-
pose of safe transportation. It's cir
cumference, Immediately behind the
shoulders, is six and half feet.
LCleceand (O.) Herald.
A man actually rendered printer
the other day, two silver half dollars,
in payment for notice. He was
about six feet high, dark complex
Toned, with cane and sbriar-wood
pipe. Ho was apparently same, but
it would be we'll for the public to be
on their guard, MS he. may attempt
the same trick on some ''poor blind
person"
LIKES MATR1MoNY.-A citizen of
Montgomery County, Indiana, was
married recently for the sixth time.
He has lost two wives by death, one
by elopcment, and two by divorce.
He still thinks matrimony good in
stitution, like tho fellow who was SO
| piously inclined that he Joined the
church four or five times.
An American lady in Paris, went
out shopping, and was surprised at
buying mn elegant silk dress for SIS,
and conld not account for the low
figure; when tho polite Frenchman
naively reminded her that in her
country the .'people have the luxury
of. self-government, you know, and
prices are very high"
Completely successful arrange
ments have been made, under the
supervision of Government engineers,
on one of the gnn-boats, establishing
the advantages ofthe use of petroleum
rs fuel under steam boilers. The
apparatus used was simple and in
expensive, and no alteration of the
boiler was required.
The Montgomery AdceiIiser SAYS
that, within few days, more than
300 chi1nons have been committed to
the flames by the ladies of thnt CITY.
a new style of chignOn is growing
fashionable in Alabama, and il is
| ooy ASNe eLO COCOuuup,
An exchange says that two. largo
pigs of lead were brought, during
the war, from the South to Roches-
ter, New York, by Mr.. Enos G.. Far
ley. Not long since, Enos attempted
to cut off n piece to run into bullets,
and found the metal was solid silver.
The Boston Post says: "Senator
| fol 1lro 10
'schoolmarm' to an urchin. If you
are a good boy, and mind me, you
shall have n cake; but if you ara
dIisobedient, you shall be shut up in,
the closet..'". I. ''+G : Z Il
A lady writes that salt is q sure
thing on bed-bugs. Wash the articles
and places infested with the bugs
with salt and water, and fill the
cracks and crevices where the vcrmin
hide. They will give no moro trou-
bic.
AS the color and general appear
ance of a stream at its mouth will
tell something of the soils through
which it has flowed, so in old age the
man bears marks of al the changes
through which he has passed.
"John, you seem to gain flesh
every day; the grocery business must
agree with you. What did you
weigh last?" "Well, Simon, I really
don't know, but it strikes me it was
n pound of sugar"
A young lady in San Antonia
thinks of going to California to get
married, for the reason that she has
been told that in that country tho
men folks crock the cradle" Her
heads right.
1t is asserted that homeopathic
physician in France cures rheuma-
tism by placing a bee on the spot
where the pain is tho scyerest, and
exciting it until it stings.
Enough clothing is rotting in
United States arsenals to clothc all
the armies of Europe for ten years to
come. Wouldn't Russia take old
clothes for her American colonies?
Hclan Clecht, of Milwaukee, beat
his wife to death in religious con-
troversy. "He proved his doctrine
orthodox by apostolic blows and
knocks.
The indefatigable Mr.. Alger is
thinking ont another book. 1t will
be called '"Tho Personal History Of
the Devil" The subject certainly
comes homo to lis all