The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-08-17

f. i: ARothas new rsadipg~TMang proposes
but woman accepts. ; q - ~
Professional thieves lead comfortable
llfe because they take things easy.
Somebody advertises real estate dirt
cheap. -
The Prussian diet-Lager beer apa
pretzels.
Shifting the responsibility ty-Dressing
the baby.
An excellent car-toon-The whistling
OF locomotive.
A. swindler keeps tailor-shop in
Kansas City.
The child who cried for an hour, one
day last week, didn't get it.
10 kiss rosy.cheeked girl, and find
your mouth filled with Venitian red, and
she growing pale on it, is truly awful.
Motto for n rejected suitor-He wooed,
ana she wouldn't. He cooed, but she
couldn't.
Sheridan defined an Irishman as
machine for converting potatoes into
human nature.
"What blessings children are !" said
the parish clerk, when he took fees for
christening them.
In the last five years, fifty new street
railroads have been built in New York.
costing $25, 100000. The entire system
cost $35, 100000.
"Now, SIR" asked police magistrate
OF vagrant Irishman, ''what motive
brought you to London?" "The loco
motive, sir"
Loving wife, at Long Branch-"Ths
horrld surf makes me keep my. mouth
shut" Sarcastic husband -"Take some
OF it home with you"
Saw-dust pills would effectually cure
many of the diseases with which man.
kind is afflicted, if every individual
would do his own saving.
The Blackfeet and Pigeon Indians at.
tackled an OK train, on the Sth, near Camp
Cook, killing Samuel Payson and another
man and wounding several
A boy named Coleman, while hunting
squlrrels IN Jackson County, Ca, few
days ago, was brutally murdered. A CO.
lored man has been arrested.
The yellow fever is still raging in Kew
vest. The troops have all been removed
The Catholic priest who lately arrived
from Havana, died on the 9th.
MIR: Charles Ray died at his residence.
near Blackville, on Tuesday evening last,
from paralysis. Mr.. Ray was loved and
esteemed by all who knew him.
A little boy, named Parker. while on
his way to Sunday school, last Sunday.
accidentally stepped upon O piece of
plank In mill-race, was precipitated
into the water and drowned.
1t is stated that the health of Georpe
Peabody, who is now at the White Sui
phur Springs, is no better. Those most
intimate with him say he is failing fast
and he cannot now write his own name.
A duel was fought near Atlanta, Ga,
few days ago, between an engineer, named
Maloney, and q Mr.. Butoch, in which
the former was killed and the latter se-
verely wounded.
negro man named Nelson Thomas
was killed by lightning, near his house.
In the public road, on the plantation Of
the late Gen. Tobin, near Blackville. the
latter part of last week.
SUPPOSED Loss OF 400 LyEs.-Tbe
steamers United Kingdom, from New
York to Glasgow; Cheduba, from Bonn
pay Tor Rangoon, and two others are be-
iieved to have been lost, during the last
three months, with all on board about
400 persons.
terrible fire broke out in Paris on the
night of the 23d ult., in the depot of the
Compagnie de Petites voitures, in the
Rue Stanislas, which was DESTROYED, to-
gether with number of adjacent build
ings, occupied by poor families
OF whom have lost their all. $50 cabs
and fSo,OOO of other property was lost.
Operations have been commenced on
the railroad bridge over the Savannah
River, for the Charlotte. Columbia and
Augusta Railroad. 1t is to be of the
''How Truss" patent. supported by four
stone piers; tho extreme length will be
900 feet, and it is to be completed by the
first of January. Mr.. w. Murdoch is
the contractor for the masonry, and the
well known bridge builder, Mr. Renno.
OF North Carolina. has charge of the su-
Perstructure.