The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-10-16

Tha. receipts at the United States.
.I'resss:.sr on aJoount OF what is known
as the conscience fund, from Novem- q
ber, 1868, to June 80, 1858, amount
ed to $96, ,692. go. This very large,
amount is from. small rogues, the
sums sent seldom exceeding $3.50,
often falling as low as $40. Tf the
big rogues, they who defraud the
Government of thousands, were to
make returns, there would be a SUM
which would go far toward paying
the interest on the national debt.
A FoRM1DABnE ARM.-Capt. Meigs
has invented new rifle, with which
fifty shots can be fired, without TAX
ing the gun from the shoulder, in
forty-fve seconds, and easily in one
minute, the cartridges being contain
ed in the stock. The weight, with its
fifty cartridges, is but twelve pounds.
| Washington Star.
A party of robbers slushed the
track of the South Carolina Railroad
about forty miles from Charleston,
on Tuesday night. stopped two
freight trains, burst open the doors
of two cars, and robbed them of
goods; the stolen property was after
wards recovered, but no clue obtain
ed as to the robbers.
"I say, boy, is there anything to
shoot about here?" inquired a sports
man of a boy he met.
"Well, replied the boy, nothing
just about here, but our school-m
ter is just over the hill there cutting
birch rods; you might walk up and
pop him over"
"Papa, please buy me muff when
you go to Boston," said little three
year-old Ruth. Her sister Minnie,
hearing this, said:
"You are too little to have muff."
cam L too little to be cold?" re-
joined the indignant little Ruth.
The pulse of young ladies general
ly beats stronger in the palm Of the
hand than at the wrist. This curious
fact of physiology has been frequent
ly observed by young men of an in
vestigating turn of mind.
A fellow being treated to glass of
wild cherry wine, exclaimed, as soon
as he got the pucker out of his
mouth, "gosh, I hope them cherries
was SO wild that the man didn't catch
many of them"
An Irish clergyman, once said,
whilst preaching, ''My friends, 1 am
just half through my sermon, but as
you seem to be tired, the last half
will not be more than quarter as
long as the first"
A thoughtful and provident old
gentleman is going to get his life in
sured, so that when he dies he can
have something to live Oh, and not
be dependent on the cold charities of
the world as he once was"
"What fine head your hoy has?"
said an admiring friend EYES,"
said the fond father, he's q chip of
the old block-ain't you, my boy?"
eyes, father, teacher said yesterday
that was young blockhead."
A Sandusly mother recently re-
proved her three-years- -oldster for
eating icicles. The analytical infant
replied, "I didn't eat 'em, mamma;
I only sucked the juice out of 'em.
An old bachelor thinks that the
trains of ladies dresses arc Internal
machines, from the fact that blow
ing up took place directly after he
had stepped on one.
Josh Billings was not ten miles out
of the way when he flung this off:
"Men who have a CRATE deal to do
with hosses, seem to demoralize far
more than the hosses do"
A good instance of an absence of
mind was an editor quoting from a
rival paper one of his own articles,
and heading it "Wretched Attempt
at Wit"
A learned doctor, referring to tight
lacing, AYERS that it is public benefit,
inasmuch as it kills all the foolish
girls, and leaves the wise ones to
grow up to be women.
The Canton (nl.) Ledger contains
this: "Hon. W. P. Kellog, United
States Senator from Louisiana, is now
spending short time at his home in
this city"
A Sermon mandatory" has been
started in London. Clergymen who
subscribe are promised q Carefully
written, sound, orthodox sermon
every Sabbath.
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