The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-12-29

A citizen of Burlington, Vermont,
has invented clock that runs by
electricity, and never requires wind
ing. It has only three wheels, no
weights or springs and it is claimed
that it has little friction. is not affec.
ed by heat, cold, dampness or jarr-
ing. A single clock and battery can
be connected with any number of
dials and indicators, in the same
building, or even along the whole
line of railway.
A man in st. Louis attempted to
commit suicide by taking poison.
His wife refused to allow him to re-
main in the house, and he was re-
moved to the Sisters Hospital, to
die, as it was supposed, but by tho
care and attention of physicians he
may recover.
Spend your money where you
make it. Buy your goods at home
and not abroad. Encourage your
own mechanics. Let each be for the
other, and all for public improve
ment-"charity begins at home"
Our town first-others afterwards.
Remember "dese liddle dings."
An Irishman, noticing woman
passing along the street, spied two
strips depending from under the
lady's cloak. Not knowing that these
were styled 'sashes," and were hang
ing in their right place, he exclaim-
ed: Faith, ma'am, your gnllasses
are united"
Ar attorney, about to furnish n bill
of costs, was requested by his client,
baker, ''to make it as light as he
could" "Ah!" replied his attorney,
that's what you may say to yonr
foreman, but it's not the way I make
my bread"
A laborer, while breaking stones
on the roadside. having shade over
one eye as q guard. was accosted thus
by companion: II say, Tommy,
hast zee lost an cye?" "Why," re-
piled the other, ''hast zee found
| one?"
Two pick-pockets were caught in
the act on n train of the Mobile and
! Ohio Railroad, near Humboldt, Mon
day evening, and taken by the pas
sengers and citizens at the station
and hanged to Il tree.
Cornelius Vanderbilt is reported to
have made five or six million dollars
out of his great corner in New York
Central. His late movement is con-
sidered the greatest financial coup
det0t Wall street has ever known.
Sp'ithers says that, when the laws
say that man can't marry his grand
mother, or his aunt, or wifes's mother,
the law makes an ass Of itself; when
man marries nowadays, he mar
ries the whole family.
The Valparaiso lind. Republic tells
OF young couple married on Satur-
day night, who, on Sabbath evening,
were made happy Tor otherwise) by
the birth of Ave children, four of
whom are living and doing we'll.
MONSTERS IN HUMAN Form. First
monster in h. f.: "I mean to have a
run over to Paris next week." Sc
cond monster in h. f.: care you going
for pleasure, or dye take your wife
with you?"
A train of emigrants from North
Carolina, which lately passed through
Richmond, Missouri, told the local
editor that they left the "old North
State" because the "bottom rail was
on top" there now.
In Troy Christian girl buried a
still-born baby in n snow bank. 1t
was resnrrected by school children.
A pious deacon is likely to smell
grief.
An article Announcing the decease
OF person, says: "His remains were
committed to that bourne whence no
traveller returns, attended by his
friends"
Frank Smith, clerk in the employ
of S. Franklin & Co., of Augusta.
was killed in Washington, Georgia
on Wednesday last, by the accidental
discharge of a pistol.
A slave in Brazil has carved n
statue of Cupid, for which he has
won the national medal for the best
work of sculpture, and received his
liberty.
There is man in Boston so poor
that he cannot pay & debt OF graft
tude. 1t is proposed to get up q tes-
timonial in his behalf.