The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-09-26

'.'Give n negro watermelon and an
umbrella, and he is o happy man." is an
old Southern adage. It was lcuriously
illustrated the other day. Old Uncle
Tony, who is very religious, was seated
IN his door, gazing at the starry skies,
when Mass John came along, and re-.
marked: '.Wall, Uncle Tony, the end OF
the world hasn't como yet" "No, Mass
John; an 1 was just thinking how good
de Lord is to us poor niggers, to put it
OFT till arter watermelon season."
REMARKRBLE LONGEVITY. .-Archibal d
W. Oxendine, who died on the Sd inst.
at Benton's Creek, near the NIeramec
Iron Works, in Phelps County, Ken
tucky, was born on Pedee River. South
Caroline, August 26, 1859, and was con-
sequently over ITO years of age at the
time Of his death. He served through
out the war of the revolution rs one of
"Marion's men," and for forty years was
minister of the Baptist denomination.
The MAD-HoUsE HORROR. The New
York Times publishes an account given
by MIR. rockingham, a well-known citi-
zen of New York, of how he was in
ye:gled into Bloomingdale Lunatic Asy-
lum, and comments at length in an
editorial upon the ease with which scoun-
drels can manipulate perfectly sane
persons into the places of confinement
provided for lunatics, under the laws of
New York.
Mrs. Halpine, the wife of mechanic
living at No. LII East Warren street,
Brooklyn, while in fit of insanity, re-
Gently, killed her son, boy of eight
years, by cutting him over the head with
natohet. Her daughter, Alice. attract
ed by the boys cries, broke in the door,
and was also attacked, but managed to
secure the hatchet and bring in the po-
nee, who took Mrs. Halpine into Gus
tody.
1t is said that Commodore Vanderbilt
went to Canada to be married, SO that
Fisk and Gould should not get out an
injunction and put his intended into the
hands of q receive-her.
Cincinnati Commercial.
And so he put himself under English
law, where he could proceed by writ of
attained-her.
ONE HUNDRED IcEpERas. The captain
or the ship southampton, arrived at New
York on Monday, from Tehuantepec,
reports that between latitude SO and SO
s., longitude 46, he saw 100 very large
lcebergs. One was from seven to eight
miles in length and from 800 to 400 feet
in height.
Col. J. W. Powell, of the famous
Powell Exploring Expedition in Colo
RADIO, has returned to Chicago, and re-
ports that the part Of the country
through which he travelled is barren. and
not susceptible of cultivation. No pre-
cious metals were discovered.
Col. T. W. Napier. Sheriff of Lincoln
County, was shot and killed, and Ed.
Davidson, Marshal, mortally wounded,
at Stanford, Ky, on Saturday night, by
O. drunken man named Holmes, whom
they were trying to arrest for creating
disturbance. Holmes escaped.
The skeletons of woman and child
have beon discovered near Loch Lomond.
IN New Brunswick, and man named
Zane, whose wife and child they are sun
posed to be, has been arrested on suspi-
cion of having murdered them.
The Universal Peace Congress is in
session at Lausanne, Switzerland, and
victor Hugo at banquet given to the
delegates on Tuesday, toasting the United
States, said Europe would eventually be
a federatiVe republic.
The Montgomery (Ala.) Nail is autho-
rlty for the statement that Ex-Governor
James l.. Orr, in conjunction with
others, is "quietly Scnterizing and Wal
kerizing South Carolina"
The photographers of Milwaukee have
cleared the streets of that city of loafers,
lby photoographing the groups and exhi-
biting them in the windows as "city
loafers." /"
The publication Of the Lutheran Jour.
nGl, which has been regularly issued in
Charlotte, \. c., for three years past,
has been suspended
The National Banks in South Carroll
ma have Sl1 $685. in gold; S271. "a in
silver, and 80, 43S.O6 in gold checks. To-
tai of specie. SIS, ,390. 16.
Two children were kicked to death
while going by horse in field in Della
ware County, IN New York, day or two
since.