The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-09-09
The house of, Robert Rayill. in the

lChdrleston Courier.
The house of Robert. .Ravill, in the
township of ,Pierson, Montcalm
County, Michigan, was burned on
Monday morning last, and five chill.
dren, ranging from two to sixteen
years of age, perished in the flames.
Mrs. Ravill, with her babe and her
eldest son., were saved by jumping
from n window. Mr.. Ravill was not
at home. The family came recently
from England. The fire was caused
by putting ashes in a wooden box.
One of the silliest of many silly
associations has just been discovered
at the West The head of it calls
himself "Princess of Jerusalem, and
the object is to form q new govern.
ment, to be ruled by females. It
came to light through the plots of a
man who claims to be ssson of the
divine order of things" plotting to
gain her place.
DIR. Gibbon, of North Carolina.
read paper at the Chicago Scientific
Convention, in which he sought to
show that civilized people dwelt in
North America anterior to the Indian
races. His theory is based on the
discovery of fossil human bones, and
also of eleven Punic characters in
Wisconsin.
The work on the Suez canal is
prosecuted with such vigor that the
directors affirm that it will be finish
ed in 1869. 10000 men are empIoy-
ed upon the canal, which will be
twenty-six feet deep all the way, 24O
feet wide ut the top, and about ninety
feet wide at the bottom.
Successful experiments, it is re-
ported, have recently been made at
Koenigsberg, Prussia, with a new
tire-arm having thirty barrels.
From two hundred and TWENTY-FIVE
to three hundred and thirty.three
shots can be fired per minute, and the
balls carry fifteen hundred PAGES.
John Hopkins, the wealthiest man
IN Baltimore, now approaching octo-
genarian life, has made his will, be-.
queathed million and O half, with
magnificent suburban estate, for
great university, rs we'll as another
million for hospital in the city.
A negro boy, fourteen years of
age, killed a young negro girl with a
butcher knife, in the streets of New
bern, n. c., on the 28th ult. The
difficulty grew out of dispute about
q cent.
A radical orator at Chicago COM
pares Grant to Moses. The Times
thinks the only point of resemblance
Is Grants having ordered IN exodus
Of the Israelites from his military de.
partment.
The Hon. B. II. Hill is about leav-
ing Georgia to stump the North and
West, in the interests of the Demo.
cracy, and for the purpose of repre-.
senting the true condition of affairs
in the South.
What q situation! says the New
York Mdi' Senators of the State of
South Carolina discussing angrily
their own right to enter hotels. Yes;
and what senatorsl
Boston pays tax this year of
80, 1884, S29. The valuation of real
and personal estate is $493, ,573, 700,
and the rate of taxation is $3.50
per thousand.
A Mormon elder was recently pre-
sented with nine boys and five girls
on the same morning. He would
have made a good "colonist" in the
early stages of our provincial exist
ence.
The Chinese ambassadors at Wash
lngton spent Sunday in smoking
opium quietly in their rooms. Mi
mister Burlingame, beinga Christian,
rode out in four-horse carriage.
One of Louis Napoleon's former
mistresses keeps O. concert-cafe at
Brussels, where she points to two
children who have as much Napo-
leonic blood as the Prince Imperial.
The Governor-General of India has
a salary of $40, 400 month, $I25, 900
per annum, besides $50, 900 for enter
talnment of guests, and also an al
lowance for servants.
The murderers- three negro men
OF the young man Charles Wilson in
Savannah, few days ago, have been
arrested.
A California murderer is described
as having 50 wonderful talent for be-