The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-07-10

Durn case Gnat had escaped our memory.
We copy them as additional information
for the New York Tribune. which ap-
pears talkative on q subject OF which it
Is profoundly Ignorant. The Enquirer
says:
"The people Of Columbus know only
two of the murderers of Ashburn, and
know them as the murderers only by
their own confession. Why are not these
two men brought to punishment? Sim
ply because they were sent out OF the
State by the radical military authorities,
and are protected from arrest by radical
officials. If the Tribune really wants the
murderers punished, can it not begin the
work by having sent back to Georgia the
only two men known to have been par
ticipants in the bloody deed ?"
ELooUENcE.-But, as T said before,
we have proved to you where that town
line is. Yes, gettlemen of the jury.
there it is, and there it will remuin for.
ever; and oil the ingenuity of my learned
brother can never, never effsce it-can
never wash it out. No, gentlemen, he
may plant one foot on the utmost verge
of the outermost ring of the planet Sa.
turn, then plant the other on Arcturus
and seize the Pleiades by the hair and
wiring them till they are dry, but he can
not wash out that town line.
A promising young shaver Of five or
six years was reading his lesson at school
one day, in the deliberate manner for
which urchins of that age are somewhat
remarkable. AS he proceeded with the
task, he came upon the passage, "Keep
thy tongue from evil. and thy lips from
guile" Master Hopeful drawled out,
Observation-Disclosures
-thy-lps-from-girls."
A young man who, on being asked by
Judge whether he had father and mo-
ther, said he wasn't quite certain whe-
ther he had or not; first, his father died,
and then his mother married again. and
then his mother died, and his step-father
married again; and now he didn't exactly
know whether they were his father and
mother or not.
The fellow who perpetrated the follow
ing recipe for making Bologna sausage
has evidently travelled much and thought
more: 'Take an eel skin and stuff it with
ground cat OF dog; season it with Scotch
snuff and persimmon oil; lay it on the
hog pen to dry, and then hang it in n
Dutch grocery for three months for the
flies to give it the trade mark
A neat thing-lady visits legal gentle
man, consults him, is about leaving;
legal gent reminds her of his fee; lady
calls him mercenary, says: "You want
the shekels. do you?" Legal wit-"NIy
dear madam. if am to come down with
my talents you must come down with
the 'shekels.'" Exit.
Two citizens were lately comparinp
notes upon the merit of their spouses.
Mine" said one, 'would be q very
good wife, if she were not so talkatire. Is
"1aM at Ere9" replied the other, "why,
you are happy fellow; my wife talks
morning, noon and night"
A cable despatch from London has it
that the Ecumenical Council, which was
arranged to be held at Rome, in Decem-
Der OF this year, is TO be postponed for at
least twelve months. This is telegraphed
as rumor. 1t may or it may not be
true.
North Carolina State Senator is ac-
cused OF writing the annexed letter:
"Slster marry Wood hav sent your
by your husband if had known when
he was GOING to leve. you just buse him
for me but don't you hurt your Self in so
doing you affection brothear." &"
A remarkable litter of pigs is mention.
cd by an illinois paper. The seven pigs
have, in all, thirty-four legs. Two have
six each, two have five each, and the re.
naming three will have to- waddle about
on the usual number. The mother of
this family has five legs.
A young lady said to her beau, MS she
held q pot of hot water in her hand
promise to marry me, or I'll scald
you" "Let it come" he replied; '.I'd
rather have little poured on me now,
than to live in it all my life."
SLEEPY ONIoNs.-Some onions hap
pened to be planted near bed of pop
pies, and in consequence of their close
neighborhood to the somniferous flow
ers. they became SO sleepy that they
could hardly be pulled out Of their beds
Some genius has conceived the bril-
liant idea to press all the lawyers into
the military service, because their
charges are so great no one can withstand
them.
In reply to young writer who wishes
to know (which magazine will give mo
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