The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-02-16

cleared 910, 900 by the publication of
her book of mild twaddle about
dearest Albert" His death is quite
lucrative to his bereaved relict. A
London correspondent says they do
say that Her Majesty is already worth
about $4,000, 900. "a wretched
idiot named Neill or O'Neill II forget
which) left her e5OO,OOO in one lump
some years ago, not one penny of
which, you may be sure, has her
most thrifty Majesty ever touched"
Renewed prosecutions of the Jews
are reported in Moldavia. Their
houses are burned or torn down, their
stores sacked, and their persons hor-
ribly maltreated. In some cases
they have been obliged to escape
secretly to save even their lives. 1t
IS said that the authorities did not
even attempt SC prevent these out
RACES. All who attempted to defend
the Jews were treated in the same
manner.
TUNNEL1NG NIAGARA.--A propo-
sition is made to tunnel Niagara
River, so that n railway may be laid
under the river. The point selected
is the narrowcst crossing between
Fort Erie and the American side.
The bed there is Of solid stratified
rock, and the stream twenty-five feet
deep. 1t was suggested in 1S42 by
William Wallace, engineer, and is
now revived.
BRIBERY IN New YORK. Con-
stitutional Convention has agreed to
an article for the new Constitution,
providing that any officer accepting
bribe to influence his official ac-
lion shall be deemed guilty of felony,
and, on conviction, shall be punished
by five years Imprisonment and
fined not exceeding $4,000, and that
any person offering a bribe shall be
liable to similar punishment
FoUNDLTNGs IN DEMAND. There is
n lady in Boston, it is said, who has
furnished homes for over 1000 found
lings. The demand for children for
adoption in that city appears to be
very great, which seems to accord
with the statistics that have been
given as to the decline of births
among native families in Massachu-
sets.
The gossips at Berlin arc somewhat
exercised about the rumor that the
famous White Lady" the appari-
tion which is said to announce i'm
portant events in the Hohcnzollern
family, has again made her appear
ance at the royal palace. The old
domestics Mt tho palace firmly believe
in all the stories told about the
"White Lady"
A negro member of the Virginia
Reconstruction Convention. named
Hodges, favors the abolition of the
Frcedmen's Bureau. He "does not
want negroes to stand around the
Freedmen's Bureau, squealing like
hogs for few grains of corn, but to
go to work like men and make their
living"
The Washington correspondent of
the Boston Post says: Baron Stoeckl
was being joked this evening on the
probability of Congress refusing the
necessary appropriation to pay for
Alaska. He jocularly replied:
Very well; you have it, and if you
won't pay for it, very good; you shall
have it without pay"
II is related that near Dantzig,
Germany, young MIN of twenty
four, who has just married widow
of forty-two, has discovered, since
the marriage, that his wife was his
wet nurse. A French paper com
mcnts: "Thus it is! One always re-
turns to his first love"
Pension APPROPRIATION BILL
The pension appropriation bill before
Congress appropriatos for invalid
pensions, $10,O00,OOO; for heirs of
soldiers, $50, 100000; for navy pen
slons to invnlids and heirs of sailors,
$3.50, 900. Total, $50, O,35O,OOO.
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