The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-08-21
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"o VIZ CSStuuluS OF July, III
consequence OF tine extraordinary
luck which an old lady from England
had Mt the roulette table. She won,
in five days, nearly hundred thou.
sand forms; and then, instead OF
losing it again, as the proprietors of
the hell had fondly hoped, she went
to banking house, bought draft
for the whole amount, and left the
place. si'; a3'1'i ~ =
LAST WoRDs.-It is important to
Know the last words of great men, as
their biographers are apt to credit
them with high sounding phrases they
never uttered. 1t is agreed that Thad.
Stevens final articulation was "Give
me some ice! Perhaps his tongue
anticipated some reminders of that
"penitentiary" to which he wished all
"rebels" consigned.
A deaf and dumb negro, who, it is
said, was an important witness in the
McSwlne assassination case, was
murdered on the Sd inst, by the
Loyal Leaguers, at Coffeeville, Miss.
A few nights afterwards, band of
men, in masks, took the assassins of
McSwine from the Coffeeville iail and
hung them.
The bugs are said to have stripped
whole potato fields in Ohio, leaving
nothing but the naked stems: from
these they assailed cabbage leaves
and other vegetables; while the grass
hoppers had levied on the clover
fields, cabbage, potatoes, oats and
timothy, laying low every stem, and
leaving the fields as bare as a floor.
The Go1CoNDA-The American
Colonization Society's ship, the Col
conda, which sailed from Savannah,
Georgia, Oh the 18th of May, with
45l emigrants, arrived, oil we'll, at
Monrovia, Liberia, on the 10th of
June-having made n short passage
of thirty-four days.
In Richmond, Indiana. O 2OO.pound
negro recently fell from the second
story of a grocery, and lit on Mr..
Charles Plummer, who was working
In the room beneath. It was a soft
thing for the darkey. but rather
rough on Mr.. Plummer, who was
smashed oil of heap.
The great railroad iron bridge
which has been building since Febru-
airy. 1867. by the Chicago and Bur
llngton Railroad Company, across
the Mississippi, was, Thursday, pro-
nounced complete, and trains ran
across it, connecting Chicago to the
great West by one more iron link.
The Chester Standard states that
Pleasant Goode and William Stow
ers--two colored speakers from Co.
iumbia-addressed large audiences
In that District recently, and believes
that the colored people were favora.
bly, impressed.
Fifteen hundred miners of the
Mahoning Valley, Ohio, who have
been on n strike for nearly four
months, have agreed to resume work.
The strike is a failure with them,
they not receiving the additional
twenty cents per ton demanded.
Spots on the sun have lately re-
celved more than usual attention
from astronomers. Some of them
are very large, and it is expected that
In a day or two one of them NAV be-
come visible to the naked eve.
smoked glass being used, of course.
A Democratic mass meeting is to
be held in Abbeville on the 26th in
slant, and n number of eminent
gentlemen of South Carolina and
Georgia have been invited to be pre-
sent and address the meeting.
Some one said of very handsome
woman whose feet were immense !:
"She's very pretty; but she upsets
completely the ordinary system of
measurement. by proving that two
feet make yard"
General Grants record is known
Tor his many achievements in the
field, his uncompromising hatred of
rebels, and his endorsement of the
acts of Congress.
While Baltimore is having n fair
retail trade and many visitors, New
York is said to be dull as a deserted
village.