The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-09-27
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North-wesfarn &c s.;iT ssy, on Saturday,
made the run from Fort Howard to
Chicago, 242 miles, in six hours and
fifty7two minutes, dedncting. stops.
or at the rate OF thirty-hve miles per
hour, which is claimed to be the Test lest
trip ever made in America. From
Woodstock to Chicago, fifty-ope
miles, the run was made in four
minutes.
DEcEAsE OF CENTENARIAN.- Mrs.
Elizabeth Snider, highly esteemed
lady of this District, died on the 10Th
instant, Mt the extraordinary age of
104 years. Up to the period of three
weeks before her death, she enjoyed
excellent health, was able to walk
about, and was q remarkable example
of vigorous old age. r
Orangebu,y Me,cs.
A captious laboring man, migrate
full for Jay Cookies "national bless
ing," complains that he has to get
up at five-twenty in the morning and
work till thirty ut night, in
order that the bond-holder may
breakfast at ten-forty, dine at seven
thirty, and enjoy himself, generally,
till ten-forty at night.
BUENos AYREs.-On August 18th,
the day of the terrible earthquakes
in Peru, tremendous storm burst
over the city of Buenos Ayres, and
was attended with the greatest loss
OF life that has occurred there for
some time. Numerous vessels we're
sunk in the harbor, and several
houses were blown down.
A New York tradesman having
three customers, father and two
sons, by the name of Wheeler, and
fearing confusion of accounts from
their different orders, solved his diff
ficulty by styling the parient "Stern
Wheeler" the eldest son "Side
Wheeler, and the youngest, rather q
fast youth, propeller"
If towns spring up like mush-
rooms on the line of the Pacific Rail
road, they decay as quicklp. Jules
burg, which, with 5000 inhabitants
last fall looked forward to a prospe-
rous future, is now reduced to q
population of twenty, living in three
shanties and an equal number of
tents.
The New Orleans Picdyune says a
composer and musician, whose COM
positions are familiar in every house.
hold in the country" now plays the
fiddle for nickels on the streets of
that city.
The man in charge of the animals
in Central Park states that one of the
female monkeys in his charge has
adopted the "Grecian bend" They
are very observant creatures--are
monkeys-and highly imitative.2a
The "Grecian bend" put q kink in
the backs of some angular ladies at
Saratoga, who tried it on, SO it las
been pronounced an improper cir
cumbendibus. Too much hustle at
Saratoga killed the bend.
The body of freedman, who is
supposed to have been murdered by
three others, has been discovered in
Laurens District. Several arrests
have been made.
In Warsaw the Polish hack drivers
were recently ordered to adopt the
Russian costume. They did SO, but
forgot to use Russian whips, and were
all arrested and fined.
The Deseret Neacs has Just heard
of the murders and suicides that are
being chronicled all over the coun-
try, and plaintively inquiries, "What
| is the matter?"
Grants letter may be summed up
in two lines: Gentlemen: L don't
care to have any ideas of my own,
but will act as figure head to your
machine. Smoker"
The first thing a young woman
wants to do after she is sixteen, is to
become bridesmaid, and the next
to have one.
''Scissors-ink-tum" is the last
coinage of the journalistic brain for
the heading of miscellaneous CO.
lumn.
Chicago is busy building churches
q good sign. Twenty-Five new ones
will be completed or commenced
there this year.
The New York Democracy are
making arrangements for torch
light procession. to contain seventy
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