The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-08-27

A PRETTY PIcruRE.-The Washington
correspondent of the Baltimore Gazette
thus sketches what he saw, day or two
since, in the Treasury Department.:
1.-The rooms were generally totally va
cant In one I saw q brawny negro
clerk, cutting capitals On clean sheets
of paper. He was fanked by couple
of white ladies, who were adding up
long columns of figures, and at his back
was lame white messenger, who was
holding in his only hand tray bearing a
glass of ice water for his friend and
brother. Iu another room were couple
of white clerks and q colored sister, all
very busily employed in discussing the
new ORDER called the deduction law"
1t is pleasant thing to note how
many radicals are beginning to get the
light of little reason. The other day,
Governor Palmer, of Illinois. who
during the war was Federal General,
and almost the equal Of Burbridgc in
brutal atrocity, made speech, in which
he announced his opposition to the if-
teenth amendment, because he held that
1t was nm infringement upon the right of
the State to decide tho question of snf-
frage for herself. This is the argument
"f the Democracy, and they have never
advanced any other. We shall wait now
to see whether the radical press will tell
him, as it so frequently has the Demo
cracy. that the States have no rights.
Ne'r York DeniocrM
CURIOSITY OF THE ECL1psE. E.--The la
milton (N. W Republican says that n
young lady residing near EarlviIlc, wear
ing q highly-polishcd silver pin, was
looking ut the eclipse through smoked
glass dnring the time Of the transit, and
afterwards discovered that the eclipse
Lad daGuerrcotypcd itself upon hcr pin,
at the time tho sun was about half Oh
scurcd. The impression remains there
permanently, resisting the action of rub
bing as well as exposure to the atmos-
phcre
SAD OCCURRENCE. On Saturday night
last, about II o'clock, party of young
men of Staunton, Va, some disguised as
colorcd men, went to house, Oil Market
street, occupied by Ginnic Sorrclls, u
cyprian qnadroon, with the view Of duck
ing man, whom they suspected of CO.
habiting with her, and whom they ex-
pectel to find there at that time. Several
entered the house, pistol was fired, and
Jacob Scherer, one of the party dis
guised, was almost instantly killed.
At the annual meeting of the stock
holders Of the Spartanburg and Union
Railroad Company, held on the 18th
inst, the following officers were elected
for the ensuing year. President-Thomas
b. Jeter; Directors-S. Bobo, j. w.
Miller, G. W. II. Legg, J. Z. Bomar, j.
l.. Young, L. n. Dawkins, J. +. Gist,
VIM. Munro, r. J. Gage, J. T. V. Legg,
j. II. Evans and A. Cameron.
SUDDEN DEATH.-NIrs. Gossct, wife of
Pleasant Il. Gosset, died ut her home
on last Friday. She dropped dead in
stanty, while engaged in her domestic
duties, giving no indications of the sad
event. We are informed that she had
been afflicted with heart disease for some
time.-Sparlambury Spartan.
| A woman of rare presence of mind was
overtaken by train on high trestlc-
work near Marietta, Ohio, recently, and
dropped between the ties, holding her.
fcI, suspended by her arms until the
train passed over, when she climbed
back again; all without q scream.
Anna and Julia Cleary, who have set
type for the Troy Times for the past fif-
teen years, receiving the same pay as
male compositors, have laid down the
STICK ana gone into private life, with q
snug little sum laid up from their earn
ings.
A German in Louisville, being newly
| married and hearing that his wifo's for
,ner husband was still living, poisoned
himself and his bride by putting NOR
phine and arsenic in the beer they were
both drinking.
HORRIBLE OUTRAGE. respectable
lady at Adairsville, Ca, was found yes
tcrday morning murdered, and giving
evidence Of having been violated. Itwas
supposed to have been the work of ne
gro ruffian.
A young man named Marshal H.
Evans, who is thought TO be insane, kill
ed his aged father, Thomas l.. Evans,
in Philadelphia on the 9th, by shooting
him with a pistol.
One section man was instantly killed
and two others badly wounded at Co
rinth, Miss, on Wednesday, while pry-
ing q Car on the track, by u lever break
ing and letting the car fall on them.