The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-03-21

lAouS duu recent 1nVentlOn to catch
safe burglars. The depredator no
sooner commences, in perfect igno-
rance of the secret arrangements, to
force open the door, drill the lock.
or move the safe, than by so doing
he sends telegraphic despatch to
the nearest police office, exhibiting
the number registered in the police
books of the house in which the rob
berry is being effected.
KENTUCKY letter from Perry
vile, Kentucky, to the Louisville
Courier, says that the administration
of lynch law III that region effectively
checked the outrages to which the
citizens had before been subject; but
some parties, probably in the interest
of the outlaws, having written threat
enlng letters to several respectable
citizens OF Danville, a body of troops
had been sent to protect life and
property, . since whose advent disor-
der is on tho increase.
ARRESTED BY THE MILITARY. We
learn that Brrkhead, one of the
youths for whom the Governor has
offered reward. and who was arrest
ed recently by the sheriff at New
berry, has been taken into custody
by the military, and was removed TO
Charleston last week.
4 National Democratic Convention
has been called to meet at Louisville,
Kentucky, on May Z. This Conven-
ton was proposed 10y the recent Ken
tucky Democratic Convention, and
favored by the Democratic Convcn.
tions held in Ohio, Connecticut and
New Hampshire.
A GOOD SIGN. The Valley VI5yi-
"irm says only one merchant from
Staunton, and but one from Augusta,
have gone North for goods this
spring, and their orders are light.
Our people are preparing for the
worst. Homespun Will do very we'll
in "District No. L.
If Great Britain should lose her
Cork in ireland, would her spirit
run ont? Would it be wise to send
a screw steamer to Cork? Are these
revolutionary times in Ireland the
times that try meas Cork solcs?
Can the Ienian army be large enough
to succeed with Dublin?
They tell of an old farmer who,
while in town one day, was asked the
best time to put in rye. 1T is about
the best time now. said the old fel-
low, looking at his watch; ''and il
you We got any postal currency about
you, III 50 and show you how it is
done.
Our Yankee gentility is all wrong
in knife aud fork manipulation. The
Paris authorities have decided that
1t Is positively vulgar to pass the
fork from one hand to the other. 1t
must be kept in the lett hand, not
only when using the knife. but in
carrying the food to the mouth. 4
The principal theatres of Paris are
to adopt Il new style of curtain. In
the centr are several figures of
angels, bearing some on their heads,
others or their wings, charming
allegories OF the divers Parisian pro
ductions, with the names of those
firms which produce them
A society has been established in
France called ''Solidares, the mem
bers of which take a pledge to be
buried without the prayers of the
Church, and its practical working
has caused great annoyance to the
clergy and religious people generally.
a young lady says there is but one
word IN the Bible she wishes to be
altered. She would have the word
smlte changed to kiss in the follow
ing passage: ''Whosoever shall smite
thee on thy right cheek, turn to him
the other also.
Pennsylvania, among other things,
will be represented at the Paris Eek
hlbitlon by lump of anthracite
coal. weighing six tons. Montana
sends bar of gold worth about
100000.
ST. NIcHAEL's CHIMES. We are
Sratliieti, says the Charleston Courier.
to announce the release of the last of
these bells from the custom house.
and the prospect of their being in
position on Sunday next.
The world-renowned Rothschilds
ascTlbe their success to the following
rules: "Be an otf-nanded man; make
a bargain at once. Never have any
thing to do with an unlnckv man or
plan. BE cautious and bold"
SUFFRAGE The most advanced