The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-08-25
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h IJtHcbSQ 4ICGbA0B hb IlbWhlu6Vllle, VA,
| i 4 few days ago, @ body of negroes.
Iabout seventy in number, we'll
iarmed, marched up near the church
lat night, fred off several guns, after
1 1 Tiii5h MI if eiiey marched boldly and de.
1fiantly into the church and took their
seats, after otherwise insulting the
congregation. The Americus Repub-
lican says scarcely day passes that
we do not hear of similar acts being
perpetrated by negroes and SCALA
wags.
THE CROPS IN ENGLAND. The
Mark Lane Cypress sums up the con-
dition of the crops in England as
follows: "Wheat is uncommonly
good, both in quantity and and quail
ity; green crops o failure; barely
fair but not heavy crop; beans
good crop; oats fair but not heavy
crop. Prices of wheat are going down
rapidly and will continue low until
seed time next spring. The prospect
of help for stock, owing to prevailing
drought, was getting worse daily"
A letter from Romney, West Vir-
ginia, states that the insane son of
man named mclaughlin, near that
place, day or two ago, crossed the
Potomac, to the farm of Mrs. Myers,
and there beat to death, with fence
rail, an old man named Rector. He
literally mashed the skull and horri-
bly, mangled the body. He made an
attempt to kill others, but was se-
cured and put in prison. Mrs.
Myers and her family were at Capon
Springs.
The Montgomery Nail gives q re-
port that Gov. Smith, of Alabama,
will soon issue his proclamation for
an election of Presidential electors
and Congressman at the regular time
for election in November. The cleo
tion, it says, will be conducted pre-
cisely as the old code directs, except
that those hitherto disfranchised,
must file their applications with the
Probate Judge of the County before
voting.
During the second session of the
Fortieth Congress there were 2, 1856
pen-knives distributed among the
members of the House, at q cost
of $500, or at a cost of over
So each. There were 194 mem
bers of that body, thus making four
teen knives and O fraction to each
member, or about $50 for each mem
ber in pen-knives during one session
of Congress.
Mr.. Buchanan and Thad. Stevens,
though living in the same town so
long together, never spoke when they
met in the street Nevertheless, Mr..
Buchanan admitted of his rival,
'"Thad. Stevens has good head and
a good heart, and if it had not
pleased Providence to omit the moral
part of his nature, he would have
been great man."
EVENING DRESSES. Screen and
white are the most fashionable colors
for evening dresses at present. Pale
buff, French gray and white for
street and house. Skirts are still
gored in front and at the sides, and
are quite full in the back, being
frequently looped up in panniers.
The wide Spanish founce is more
fashionable than three narrow ones.
A family in Louisville attempted
to make right little domestic ire
gularity among their servants, by
compelling the footman to marry the
lady's maid. After the wedding, it
was found that the footman had
already three wives, and the Freed
mems Bureau has now been appealed
to.
A Screven County correspondent
of the Savannah Republican relates
cruel murder in that County, COM
mitted by O negro upon his wife,
whom he beat to death and then
threw the mutilated body upon the
track of the Central Railroad, in
hopes to convey the impression of
accidental death.
The Washington Express says:
"Chicf Justice Chase has returned to
that city in fine health, and much
pleased with his official visit to West
Virginia. He expresses the opinion
that the conservatives are largely in
the ascendancy in that State, and
will control the Presidential ticket"
A tidal phenomenon occurred off
San Pedro, California, on Saturday;
the tide rising sixty odd feet above
the usual high water mark and re-
ceding again in half an hour the
same distance below low water mark.
The rise and foil onourrad onvoro1