The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-11-18
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Ky.s recently, led by a band of mu-
Hic, in accordance with the terms of
an alection bet. attracted snnh .
crowd and created such q disturb.
ances that the police interfered with
the progress of the novel procession.
s5ted the two men and carried
them to jail for disorderly conduct
and disturbing the public peace.
An English expedition, under the
direction of the advance survey, has
gone to Palestine to endeavor to set
tie the disputed points as to which
mountain is Mt. Sinai, and what
course the Israelites took, after cross
ing the Red Sea, as we'll as to gather
other interesting facts of the sacred
country, so strangely allowed to be-
come obsolete or doubtful by the
Jews.
The question "Shall we ever learn
to fy?" according to the statement of
Russian journalist, is about to be
solved. In n letter addressed to the
Lemberg iSlaoo, he mentions the in
vention of machine for navigating
the air. The motive power is steam,
and the inventor estimates the attain
able speed at eighty miles per hour.
Patents have been granted him by
several European Governments.
The substantial business men" of
Laramie keep Sunday. They don't
do business on that day, but Just 90
around hunting up suspicious charac-
ters. and hanging them to telegraph
poles.
Frank Blair takes his defeat philo-
sophically. In Chicago, some of his
Republican friends casually mention
ed ''Salt River" to which Frank
replied that Salt River was not large
enough; he was "going to Salt Lake"
It is said of fashionable lady, who
went to party in the city not long
since, that she arrived there about
the first of the evening, but the last
of her dress did not arrive until after
II o'clock.
ga tailor is the ninth part of
man," said O would-be wit in the pre-
sence of the knight of the shears.
"But, responded the latter, ga fool
is no part at all"
ELECTED. General James Shields.
the hero and patriot, has been elect
ed to Congress from one of the Mis-
souri, Districts, by majority of 5SS
"a Democratic gaiu.
The Boston transcript saws: s.The
light of Heaven has been SO success
fully excluded in many of our city
churches, that both morning and
afternoon services are conducted by
gas-light."
ga French Major" said Lion Gov
Ian, sis man who has three decora-
tions. The third was given him be-
cause he had two, the second because
he had one. and the first because he
had none"
What white teeth that girl had?"
said blind man of girl who had
just left the room. "How do you
know that?" he was asked. .iBe-
cause" he replied. ''she has done
nothing but laugh the last hour"
'Tell me-" said one French child
to another, (Which would you rather
lose, your father or your mother?"
81 don't know" "I do. L would
rather lose mamma, because it's papa
"AA" AAA'-AS' 0ii tho Iuouey.
A man in New York has made
500. 600 by carrying newspapers.
He has been seventeen years at the
business. and hopes to be able to
carry seventeen years longer.
A hospital for women who have be-
come disgusted with their husbands,
is to be established in Cleveland.
But where on earth will they find
building large enough?
A man in Coventry. Vermont, re-
Gently presented bill of thirty dollars
against school district for water
that the scholars had drank from his
well.
A physician stopped at the shop of
Vermont apothecary and inquired
for pin armacopeia. Sir" said the
apothecary, s.I know of no such far
mer living about these parts"
A French newspaper, speaking of
new cemetery opened near Lyons,
says: IN. Gascoigne was the first
person who had the pleasure of being
buried in this delightful retreat"
A lodger in Portland (Me.) hotel
few evenings since came down stairs
and told the clerk that the gas-light
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