The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-08-16
General Grant recently paid visit

General Grant recently paid visit
to Kentucky, was in several Counties,
and made one or two speeches. h
Wherever be was seen, the Democra1
oy made extraordinarily large gains.
Can t the Democracy manage to get
General Grant to travel around The
country and show himself? - +.
LOuisuiNe Courier.
The dog that wakes up from a sound
slumber and looks about him for q
better position, turns round and round
dozen times or more, and finally
lies down in the same place, is per-
feet type of thousands of persons
whom we meet in the daily walks of
life.
A clergyman in Springfield, Mass,
who has the habit of adding ''ah" to
many of his words, recently spoke to
his congregation of "those who have
been brought up on the Lords side
ah!"
"Pa, said little friend of ours,
''what's the use of giving our little
pigs 80 much milk? they make hogs
OF themselves. Pa walked away.
A sporting man being solicited to
insure his life, replied: "He'd be
hanged if he'd play any game where
he had to die to win."
Many men who pretend to have
grains of good sense seem to have
scruples about using them.
An upstart threatened to post Gov.
Scott, brave Kentuckian of the
earlier days, because he refused to
accepta C allenge from him. every
we'll, " said the hero, "you post me
as coward, and then all the men in
Kentucky will know what I now
know, that you are liar"
The grasshoppers recently ate up
q half acre of tobacco for a man near
Des Moines, and, when the owner
went out to look at it, they sat on
the fence, and squirted tobacco Juice.
Heaven has killed its hundreds
this summer, but the lightning of
the stills Stays its thousands and tens
of thousands, summer and win ter.
The annual meeting of the stock
holders of the Spartanburg and
Union Railroad Company will be
held at this place on Wednesday next,
18th instant. A general attendance
is desired. UnionuiHe Times.
The New York Herald, of Tuesday.
thinks that Seymour will be elected.
But it thinks that the parties have
got the wrong men. Grant ought to
be in the hands of the Democrats,
and Seymour the nominee of the
radicals. What next?
Solong continued and excessive has
been the heated term in Russia, that
spontaneous combustion has taken
place in large beat beds, and vast
subterranean fires are in progress.
Prince Camille de Polignack, who
was in the Western Confederate
army and rose to be major-general,
has been reading q scientific paper
on algebra" to the Mathematical
Society of London.
Bishop James asserts that the Me-
thodists of the United States paid
last year S2,000,000 tax on the to-
bacco used BY them, while their
missionary treasury is $4,000 in
debt.
Cholera is said to be terribly pre-
valent on the Barbary coast In ono
place over sixth of the population
of 5000 died.
Over Mont Gents by rail must be
quite n new sensation. You travel
ut twenty miles an honr, at places
where you can look down 1000 feet,
only foot of masonry intervening
between the abyss and yourself.
Mosquitoes have appeared in great
numbers in England, and John Bulls
ire has been excited thereby.
The twenty-frst anniversary of the
settlement of Salt Lake Valley was
appropriately celebrated by the Nor
mons on the Oath of July.
Nineteen couples were divorced by
the Hartford co., Superior Court
during the July term.
One Augustus Monroe, who has
been in Jail in Des Moines, Iowa,
three months for larceny, was re-
leased on Sal turday, and celebrated
the event by running off with the
| jailor's daughter.
n OPPOSITE The st. Louis Demo-
| crI,/ ic a Rapub1ioop ,o,or. H. O.