The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-05-01

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The Spiritual urrectionists Jared rashe
badly in the Court at New York ON yMon
day. The tsstimony shows that anybod,
can photograph ghosts by smechanica
| means; We may therefore hope to see the
quackeryS exploded by their universal ap
pesrance. ga sp 3tt,3ts< ~ ~
Two members Of q church choir in Alba
ny, having seeded thefsfrorn, have beer
gratifying their spite by singing in the con
gregation out Of tune and at the top O
their voices. They have been arrested ant
discharged, end still persist in singing ou
OF tune. The fix is an odd one.
Montreal is suffering great distress from
the effects Of the great flood in the st
Lawrence River The police are engaged
in Distributing bread from boats, which ar,
padded through the streets covered b,
water to the depth OF two, four, and il
somecplaees six feet.
Miss Braddon appears to have many lera
difficulties. She has now sued a Frencl
translator OF one of her novels, and the
latter warns her that if she persists in car
rying the case into court, he will prove thai
she has taken most of her plots and charac
ters from old French novels
A PRINCELY OFFICIAL Revenue
New York Times shows the fees of the She
rlt OF New York to amount at present to
more than $1,000 per annum, and SAYS
that bill now pending before the Legisla-
ture, if passed, will increase the emoluments
OF the office to 1000, 600 yearly.
The Carolina Spartan has received from
MIR. Dukes, of Abbeville District, Pei.
metto Silver Medal, with the name of j.
w. Reed engraved on it. It was purchased
by Mr.. Dukes from Yankee soldier. 1t
will be delivered to the owner or his repre-
sentatives.
The Rev. Mr.. Smith, a Methof list minis
ter, was set upon by party of Loyal
Leaguers. on Sunday, the 25th ult, at
Little River, Tennessee, and beaten nearly
to death. Where's the Ku Klux2
The last spike in the Central Pacific
Railroad will be driven home on Friday or
Saturday next, near Promontory. Crowds
done.
A crusty old bachelor says that Adams
wife was called Eve because when she ap-
peared, mans day of happiness camo to
close.
The man who tried to sweeten his tea
with one of his wife's smiles, has fallen
back" on sugar. Nothing like first princi-
pies, after all.
WHO Is HE?-Mr. Allen f. Flowers a
native of Columbia, S. c., died at the resi-
dence of Mr.. J. r. Spann, in Washington
County, Texas, on the Sth ult.
In case of bankruptcy in New York, on
Monday, wife applied to be admitted as
creditor, having lent her husband 800.
The Court decided in her favor
The Globe, of Monday and Tuesday, con
tained thirty columns of letters to Senator
Sprague, endorsing his recent speeches.
landlady, in Boston, it is said, makes
her biscuit so light that her dodgers can see
to go to bed by them.
The gentleman who went on the tenor of
bis way is supposed to have been member
of an opera company.
What Spain wants of the Anglo Saxon
nations-England to give it loan, America
to let it alone.
The Chinese, it is said, now tolerate
every religion.
Charles Wesley is said to have written
1000 hymns.
How to accumulate real estate-Never
wash yourself.
Song of the escaped convict-"The last
link is broken"
Blnckberries have appeared in the Charles
ton market.