The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-07-02

inSe uiea sesh tiu sScnoDi, FOnee OF his
comrades set mp "a slate pencil. for.
him to sit Upon, The pencil pene-
trated his person to- tile depth Of five
inches and broke off A physician
was called, who extracted a piece of
pencil two inches in length, but there
are fears that the boy, may not re-,
cover. ~, Z !
The rich Jap who is coming to
Paris in search of pretty and
v1rtuons wife, is expected shortly at
Marseliies, in steamship that he has
had built expressly for the trip. He
intends to settle in Paris, and wants
to buy the whole right bank of the
Seine for palace. His income is
S3O, 0OO, ,OOO year. What blessing
II we could only get him here-and
tax him.
A rich farmer of Calais, Maine.
aged sixty-five, recently married q
second wife, who is only nineteen
years of age. A daughter of his first
wife is forty years old, and her
daughter, aged twenty, is about to
be married. Thus, there is child
who is twenty-one years older than
her mother, and grand who
Is year younger than her grand
daughter.
"Hallo" calculated an anxious
guardian to his lovely niece, as he
entered the parlor and saw her in the
arms of swain, who had just popped
the question. and seal it with q
smack, "what's the time of day
now?" II should think it was about
hnlf-past twelve" was the cool re-
ply; "yon see that we are almost
One."
An event interesting to the Japan
ese troupe now in London, happened
on Sunday evening, the 7th ult.,
IN the birth of small Japanese.
The addition is made to the family
of Hamaikari Sadakichi, chief of the
troupe. It is said that the musurnee,
or female infant in question, is the
first Japanese child born outside
Japan for the last ten centuries.
An Indiana drover, who was car
ried off by the Indians some ten
years ago, managed to escape and
return home about fortnight since,
only to find his wife comfortably
married to another man. He had
been kept so close, that lie knew
nothing of the late unpleasant
little difficulty" which lasted four
years.
"A child about six weeks old, with
four feet, twenty-one toes, and one
body, is on exhibition at Nashville.
Tenn. 1t is only one child from its
head to its hips, vigorous, healthy,
symmetrical. and at times exceed
ingly animated; but from its hips
down, it is two distinct persons,
with every organ, ligament, bone
and muscle we'll developed.
In the course of trial of an en-
gine-driver at the Gloucester Eng
land) Assizes, on charge of man
slaughter, of which he was acquitted,
the counsel for the defence incidental
ly gave an easy rule for remembering
and distinguishing railway signals:
!Vhite for fright. " red for wrong"
And green for "gently &c along"
A bereaved wife, whose consump-
tive husband died in Florida, where
they had gone for health, displayed
an economical spirit, by packing q
lot OF oranges and sweet potatoes in
the box with the corpse, that she
might please the folks to home. and
at the same time save expense of
transportation.
o, THE WRETcH!-The disrespect-
full fellow who wrote the following, is
daily expecting m indiscriminate
attack of broom sticks:
Duplex hoops and painted faces,
Patent calves and foreign curls,
Waterfalls and costly laces,
Tell too plainly what are girls.
Leow's ''bridge of size," which
ornaments Broadway, and which has
been receiving some hard knocks re-
Gently in the courts, is to be re-
moved. On the 1st of August, the
ponderous contrivance will be am ong
the things that were.
The First National Bank of Will
mington, N. c.. has voluntarily re-
linquished its privileges as q national
bank and government depository.
and has been permitted to withdraw
its securities from the hands of the
United States Treasurer.
IMMENSE ICEBERas. The ship Adol-
phine, at New York from Bremen.
reports passing on the 5th of June,