The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-08-18

ed operations, and the glare OF its
fires can be distinctly seen at forty
miles distance, but no damage is yet
reported. =
They are running one Bates and
one Lippincott for radical treasurer
and auditor in Illinois, and the
Quincy Wing tradicaD admits the
former s'has been indicted for per-
jury, and the latter murdered man
in California"
DR.. Dio Lewis has built two or
three stories of wood on the top of
five or six of brick, which mako up
his residence on Beacon street, and
some of the Boston people say that
it looks like an attempt to fence in
Mr.. Boutwell's hole in the sky.
The Providence Journal says there
is u gentleman, well known in New
port, who has been married four
times. and who has never been u
widower over six weeks at any one
time.
A trooly loil gentleman, canvass
ing railroad train in Wisconsin,
found one solitary vote for Grant.
Naturally they fraternized, aud ut
the end of the route, the canvasser
missed his pocket-book.
Ashley has made such confounded
fool of himself, that the Toledo
radicals intend kicking him over
board, and will nominate q new man
for Congress.
Speaking of the newspaper discus
sion concerning the adulteration of
milk, Punch gives his opinion that
the best article on milk is cream.
DR.. Harris states in his report of
vital statistics, that there were 751
deaths in New York last week, and
2G7 in Brooklyn.
PERSONAL. General DEPRESSION,
of the domestic ah-nae, is in the CITY,
ennui are his entertainers. SO says
the Augusta ConStitutionaliSt.
An intoxicated colored woman,
named Elizabeth Maxwell, alias jack
son, fell into we'll, in Charleston,
on Saturday night, and was drowned.
In reply to refusal by his parents
to take boy to church, "because he
was too small" the latter replied,
"Well, you'd better take care of me
now, for when I get bigger, 1 mayn't
want to 60" Consequence-the lit
tie philosopher went.
Instead of a tear for the suffering
of the poor and needy, drop shin
plaster, it will do more good.
The Boston Post says: The negro
barber in Louisville. who left an
estate OF 100000, made his money
by never charging more than five
cents for q shave. Don't some of our
BARRIERS want 100000?
A commercial man who travels fire.
qnently between Boston and New
York. relates an amusing anecdote of
fellow-passenger who fell asleep
soon after the train left the depot,
and on its arrival Mt certain station
the conductor called out, "Jamaica
Plain" when the sleepy fellow sang
ont, "Not by n - sight! Brandy
cocktail for me-"
Joan of Arc has found imitators in
many countries. The latest is u
young Cretan lady, who recently
arrived i'll Athens, dressed in the
masculine attire, which she had as
sumed for the purpose of preserving
her incognit0 while fighting against
the Turks in Crete.
Whatever may be the end of man,
there can be no doubt, whom we see
those long trains gracefully sweeping
the floors and roads, that the end OF
woman is-''Dust."
A 'Fresh Air Society" is sought to
be established in New York-its
object being to provide means where
by poor people can visit the country,
and inhale, now and then, pure
atmosphere.
Somebody calls courtship q ship
with two mates and no captain. Too
frequently the purser commands the
craft.
Ont of seventy-nine new serials
started in London since January l.,
only seven now live.
The ice machines Mt New Orleans
make thirty tons day, and it sells
for seventy-five cents hundred.
A fashion writer says the soul of q
lady is in her handkerchief. Then
it stands q good chance of being
blown away.