The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-04-24


tulation or persuasion can turn him
from what he considers tho path of
his duty.
JUST TWENTY FOUR. .-Judge--
who is now very able Judge Of the
Supreme Court Of one of the great
States of this Union, when he "first
came to the BAR" was very blunder-
lngl speaker. On one occasion,
when he was trying case of reple.
win, involving the right to a lot of
hogs, he addressed the jury as fol-
lows: "Gentlemen of the jury-there
was just twenty-four hogs in that
drove; just twenty-four, gentlemen;
Just twice as many as are in that iury
box! The effect can be imagined.
RICH NEGROES. The richest negro
IN Philadelphia is Stephen Smith, q
lumber merchant; he owns seventy
i've houses in fee simple, and is
worth not less than $500, 600. Harris
Lindsey, q bounty broker during the
war, is worth $3.50, 1000. There are
live artists and number of musi-
clans that receive distinguished at
tention. Philadelphia has $4,000
colored people, who support seven
teen churches.
The LATEST DoDGE.-Birdsong-a
nominal slave until freedom, but liv-
ing apart from his owners and enjoy
ing with his family the fruits of his
labors-is worried by the imposition
1--WE quote him) of taxes, from which
he has hitherto been free. He saws:
IL paid, sir, SAG on my three bags of
cotton; they took that out, and I've
been q paying, and o paying; but,
sir, I'll match them this year-my
grandmother was an Indian, and I'll
be an Indian not taxed"
AN EXPENSIVE PIECE OF Property.
The tonnage duty of the Great East
ern on entering the port of New York
amounted to $6,O45.6O, which, with
the addition of the harbor masters,
health officers and pilots fees, and
charges on stamps, permits, &c. :,
being altogether only the expenses of
entering the port, will foot up $1,000.
She departed for France, carrying
III passengers, paying 500 each,
which amounts to $19, 100.
The editor of q popular American
magazine says he receives from $50 to
300 contributions every month, and
can only print about dozen of them.
He says that, Notwithstanding the
great number of contributions re.
ceived, there is still dearth OF
really good poems and stories. The
editor of another popular magazine
has now on hand stock of accepted
articles, enough to run the magazine
for year to come.
A gentleman was describing tc
Douglas Jerrold the story Of his
courtship and marriage-how his
wife had been brought up in con
vent, and was on the point of taking
the veil, when his presence burst
upon her enraptured sight, and she
accepted him rs her husband. Jer
rold listened to the end of the story
and then remarked: "She simply
thought you better than nun."
A long time ago. little boy twelve
years old, on his way to Vermont
stopped at q country tavern ant
paid for his lodging and breakfast by
saving wood, instead of asking it az
a gilt Fifty years later the same
boy passed the same little inn as
George Peabody, the banker, whose
name is the synonym of magnificent
charities-the honored of two hemis
pheres.
POISONING IN FRANCE 1851
to 1862, 232 persons were poisoned
IN France by arsenic, 10 by phos
phorus used in the manufacture oi
matches, II by the sulphate O.
copper, or blue vitriol, 33 by verdi
giiis. 81 by sulphuric acid, Toll O.
vltriol 23by cantharides, 6by opium
and 6 by hellebore. Eighteen othe1
polsoningss were effected by means O
various other poisons.
A list of the Irish Kings. from
1900 B. c., to the days when HenrJ
II annexed that island, points on
the curious historical and ethnolooi
cal fact, that out of some hundred
and forty monarchs, about a hun
dred and twenty Of them were eithe,
slain by their successors, OF killed
fighting.