The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-03-22
Three men in Disguise, supposed
o be members Of the Ku Klux Khan

hhOo 'hlon III uleButho, supposed
to be members Of the Ku Klux Khan,
iaw snights Sits, s::ssssa went TO the mouse
OF Q negro, about -Four andsa half
miles from Nashville. on the Lebanon
road, and demanded admission. The
negroffired and killed one Of them,
who upon e1amination proved to be
Henry @. Blair, Of MoWhirteville. in
the neighborhood. The affair has
created considerable feeling. but is
not likely to lead to further trouble.
The Connecticut gold diggers are
still hard at work CT .shs Scan TIC
river, picking, drilling and blasting
tho surface of the earth. = They have
struck. the walls.of the treasure. bear
ing cave, and as coon as they can
penetrate to the interior, the bars of
gold and chests of diamonds will be
within their grasp. The medium"
in Boston sends daily directions for
the prosecution OF the search. "
DRowNED.-We regret to learn that
Mr.. E. J. Mcclure, Of this District,
committed suicide by drowning him
self in Seneca River, on last Satur-
day morning. His mind had been
affected for some days, and there is
no reason to doubt that he ended his
life in ht of insanity. He was about
sixty years Of age.
..., anderson Lateaigence7'.
A Portland paper says that last
week, all along the shores of the bay
there, immense numbers of frozen
fish were cast ashore, chilled and
dead by the almost unprecedented
cold weather OF the past winter. Such
On event has not been known for
many years. Thousands and millions
of cunners are piled along the frozen
beach. rr .t,' ,isi
The new Post Office Directory
shows that there are 25,712 post
Offices in the United States in actual
operation. OF this number, 1925
are money-order offices, and about
the LIST of June 200 more of this
class will be opened. This directory
contains variety of useful and inte-
resting matter in regard to rates of
postage, &c.
In California, they deal properly
with prize-fghters and their admir-
ers. In one County in that State
5000 people have been indicted for
witnessing prize-fght, and the she
riff is travelling about arresting the
entire population.
The birth of son to the Crown
Princess of Prussia increases the
number of Queen Viotoria's grand
children to twelve, viz: Princess
Royal, five; Prince of Wales, three;
Princess Alice of Hesse, three; Prin-
cess Helena, one.
APPoINRhIENT.-Jos Miller has
been appointed Tax Collector of Ches-
ter District, upon the recommendation
of the delegation from that District
to the recent Convention.
We learn that Mr.. VIM. Simmons,
one of the oldest citizens of Lanrens
District, died at his residence, on
Saturday last. He had passed his
ninetieth year. t,E
A big negro burglar broke into
female college in Oxford, was sur
prised by the female occupants,
chased up and down stairs, and finally
shot dead.
A brute, named VIM. Thomas, has
been arrested in Norfolk, charged
with attempting to commit outrages
on several little girls.
A gun factory in Cincinnati is now
engaged in the manufacture of now
ing machines. This is q new way
of turning spears into pruning hooks.
The citizens of Waltham, Mass,
have voted that no bees shall be kept
in that town. To bee ,or not to bee
was the question in Waltham.
In Memphis, the other day, a little
son of Z. p. Leake, revenue officer,
drank the oil out of sardine box,
became sick and died.
A woman in Paath Hnnna.u t.