The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-02-20

AT Lafayette, Ind, T. P. Pink
ham, aged ,seyenty-ore years, died
very suddenly last week. He was
in good health till half an hour be-
fore his death, when lie went down
stairs and remarked. ~ am going
home; in half an hour--in thirty mi.
nutes-I shall be q corpse" He ex-
pired in exactly thirty-iour minutes.
His relatives wanted to go for doc
tor, but he said, cit is no use; I shall
go honce in half m hour"
At Norwich, Conn.,, little school
girl, who had received various little
knick-nacks from her mates, thought
it was her duty the other day to
reciprocate the favors. She accord
ingly provided herself with box of
cathartic pills, and distributed them
around among the astohished little
ones.
Not long ago, boy was seen put
ting up Fenian posters in London.
The police arrested him. All the pa
pers copied the poster, but the edi-
tors were not arrested, although they
gave the incendiary document far
greater publicity than the boy could
have done.
A number of gentlemen met Mt the
Astor House, New York, On Thurs
day, for the purpose of perfecting an
organization for the purchase of
Virginia lands from insolvent owners,
and throwing them into market in
small lots, for the benefit of men of
moderate means.
Naples is frightening Europe by
manufacturing red shirts, presuma-
bly, for Garibnldians. They all have
an immense letter V in black cloth
on the breast, which, it is said,
stands for renClettd, and means that
the wearers are to execute vengeance
against the French.
A citizen of Richmond, Va, owns
cat which is really a curiosity,
being the largest recently seen or
heard of. "Thomas" measures from
tip to tip nearly four feet, weighs
about twenty pounds, is. very ap-
proachable, and demeans himself
with true French politeness.
An American missionary has re-
Gently, most unexpectedly, encoun-
tered Mohammedan community in
one of the interior provinces of
China. 1t is estimated that ONE third
of the population of the province are
followers of the False Prophet.
At Troy, N. Y, DR.. Parker cut
open the wind-pipe of horse, re-
moved n piece of tin the animal had
gnawed from his manger, and after
thus rescuing him from threatened
strangulation, sewed him up again as
good rs ever.
Flakes Bulletin says that the mill
tary authorities treat Texas as q na-
tional Cinderella. She was kept
under martial law longer than any
other State, gets nothing from the
Peabody fund, and no rations.
The New Orleans Crescent, n De-
mocratic paper, estimates that only
about 1000 will be DISTINGUISHED in
Louisiana by the provision of the
Constitution adopted by the State
Convention.
Burrlllville R. t. ladies, forty or
fifty of them, took sleigh-ride to
Woonsocket without e'er man,
dined, wined and paid their bills
the landlord furnishing the segars
free-and called it leap year affair.
A descendant of Martin Luther,
the Great Reformer, is now living in
Hagerstown, Md. He is of the eighth
generation, in regular descent from
his distinguished ancestor.
Quite q sensation was caused in
Washington, last Wednesday, by n
woman who promenaded down Penn
sylvania Avenue in perfect state of
nudity.
Madame Juarez was arrested in
the City of Mexico for fast driving,
taken before magistrate and fined.