The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-08-01

4th instant, leaving four little children at
the house. The,ehildrep, in their efforts
ITO amuse themselves, accidentally set
fire to q shed. Terribly frightened at
what they had done, and to escape pun
ishment, two Of them ran into the woods
and bid themselves, and the other two,
Incredible as it may seem, ran to the
river and drowned themselves.
| A GOvERNAIElyT SPECULATIoN.--The
Treasury Department has sold eighty
hydraulic presses which have been used
for printing the fractional currency. The
presses originally cost about 81 800 each,
and now bring less chan 800 each. That
is the ond Of this little Government
speculation. The printing of this cur
rency is hereafter to be dono by contract.
A garter snake, with two distinct
heads, was killed in North Edgefield,
near Nashville, Tenn, on Monday last.
It was taken to DR.. Goan's store in Nash
vile, where it was placed in alcohol for
preservation as q curiosity. The two
heads are said to be exactly alike, and
stand out about the same distance from
the neck.
A railroad is about to be made through
the wild region known as John Browns
Tract, in the Adirondacks of Western
New York. The region has been accessi-
BILE only to hunters and adventurous
sportsmen heretofore The rond is to
pass from Saratoga Springs to Ogdcns-
burg, cutting the great wilderness in
two.
New York walters are an aristocratic
set. A local paper says: "The swell
est walters in the city are those in lower
Delmonico's-the house with the Pom
peiian portico. The aggregate value Of
the studs and bijouterie worn by these
foreign noblemen has been roughly esti-
mated at $50, ,OOO."
The brigapds who made travelling so
picturesque in Italy are gradually dis
appearing. Nearly two hundred and fifty
of them were captured last year, the
country population, who formerly sided
with the highwaymen, putting the police
on their tracks
A day or two since, to advance the
gold preniH-c, some Wall street specula-
tors had gold taken from bank and
carted around the streets, to give the
impression it was intended for the steam
er for Europe, putting it up three-fourths
per cent.
A person was asked why he did not
take q newspaper. because" said he,
''my father, when he died, left me good
many newspapers, and I haven't road
them through yet" He afterwards be-
came pauper.
| Mr.. Stewart has finally concluded the
purchase of the North east corner of
Broadway and Ninth street, New York,
| and will extend his store so as to cover
it; thus making it whole square in
extent.
The Cape God Gazette says man, re-
siding at Marston Mills, Barnstable, has
three sons, three horses, three COWS,
three calves, three hogs. three CATS and
three broods' Of chickens.
"Mammy!" sid precocious little
boy. who. againse his will, was made to
rock the cradle of his baby brother, .'ii
the Lord has any moro babies to give
way, don't you take 'em.''
Lee Harrison and Thomas .6ladman,
two respectable colored men OF Lynch.
burg Va, decline appointments of regis.
trars in Lynchburg because they cannot
take the oath.
The Indians are reported to be down
on Grants Quakers. "Uml' cried Hole
in-the- Bottle, chief of the Arapahoes
"Quakers no good; bring water; no whis.
key!' =
Miss Susan Caroline Godsey, the sleep
ing wonder, died at her mothers home
some eight miles from Hickman, Ken.
tuoky, on Wednesday, 14th instant.
Mr.. John E. Lark, q native of Ian.
caster County, in this State, was drowned
in the Ouachita River, La, last week,
by the upsetting of boat.
The Hotel Pelham, in Boston, weigh
ing 5000 tons, and having walls nearly
100 feet high, is to be moved by iron
rollers distance of fourteen feet
A bed of green mottled granite, the
first ever found in this country, has been
discovered on the line Of the Adirondack
Railroad, in New York.
''Figures won't lie' is an old and
homely expression; but few men car
look on fashionable woman's figure
nowadays and say as much.
The leader of recent camp meeting
in Ohio announced "The brother in law
of President Grant will now lead us in
prayer.
A New Jersey horse thief was, on Tues
day, sentenced to $50 years imprison.
ment.