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


Celestials will contribute to the wealth
and prosperity of the country. It is the
first time in the history of the world
that Asia and Africa are brought face to
face in social and economical antagonism;
and the result will be watched with the
deepest interest by those who appreciate
the gravity of the interests involved.
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A candidate for the French Corps
Legislatiff goes, during the late cana
puign, to ship-bpilder's yard, where he
chats with the workmen and offers them
coffee, &C., which they are glad to ac-
cept. When it is time for leaving them
he pays the bill, "a hundred cups of coffee
and thousands of drinks,) and says TO
them, "Well. boys now that we know
one another, hope all of you will vote
for me-" 1--WE should like to do so,
sir" replied one of the workmen, "but
we ought to tell you that all us here are
Belgians."
The English papers record tolerably
smart mot that is attributed to Earl Cla-
rendon, the present foreign minister for
Great Britain. Mr.. Sumner, after liv-
ing into advanced age bachelor, mar
ried, three years since, young widow
of great personal attractions. Recently,
the man and wife have, on the ground of
lncompatibility of temper, separated.
Lord Clarendon being asked what i'm
preston Mr.. Summers late speech had
it, sir, with much interest, and have
formed from it very high opinion Of
Mrs. Sumner"
Three colored children, aged respec-
lively five, eight and eleven, were drown
- IL ID
Michigan, recently, by their step-mo-
ther, who was jealous of them. The
woman had been married to the father
of the children but few weeks. At the
point in the river where the children
wero drowned, the water is only about
two feet deep, and, US the mother con-
fessed, the children were held under the
water until life was extinct.
This is IN age of progress. In Owen
County, KY, for instance, grand jury,
last week, presented" an aged woman
of that place, on the charge of being n
witoh-lphich she says that she is not. It
is alleged that she cast an evil eye upon
her neighbor's cattle, SO that they sick
ened and died by the score; and, further,
that she affected the waters of the wells
upon which she looked, that NIL who par
took of them languished and eventually
followed their fathers to dream land.
A radical paper in Philadelphia says
with emphasis that Mrs. Grant is in favor
OF the governments giving q liberal pen
sion to Mrs. Lincoln. AS Mrs. Grant is
q Presidents wife, and reported to be q
sensible woman withal, we do not believe
that she would be guilty of the indelicacy
of openly electioneering for the establish
ment Of a precedent to insure to her own
benefit.
HAnk TO ,EM.-A son of Major Walk
or, of Madison, has presented Lewis
Mckenzie with eight hound puppies,
which he says he intends to train SO that
he can run all the carpet-baggers in his
District across the Potomac. Valuable
''purps" them. .%.ls
Jean Maria Farina, the genuine" CO.
logne manufacturer, is dead, leaving Sc
venteen other, but fraudulent, Jean Ma
Laura Farina, worth $2,00O,0OO, marri-
ageable, and but twenty-one, succeeds
him in the cologne business.
A great number of American children
attend school in Brussels, where tuition
and board are at much lower rate than
in New York, and where, moreover, the
Shio uIeSS siuply, auu uOI, rs III Lne NEW
York fashionable uptown schools, like
little duchesses.
The Treasury detectives have recently
captured about dozen members of O
counterfeiting gang which has been ope-
rating throughout several Eastern and
Western States. A large amount of
counterfeit currency and engraving ma
terials was also seized.
A load of 1900 eggs was recently
smashed in front of the post-ofice at
Batavia, New York, and as they eoulan't t
be picked up again, barrel of coal tar
was poured over the streets and set on
fire, as the only means of preventing q
very bad smell.
A traveller in Pennsylvania asked his
landlord if he had had any cases Of sun
stroke in that town., "No, sir,"' said the
landlord; '.if o man gets drunk here, we
say he is drunk, and never callib by any
other name"
At young ladies' seminary. recently,
during an examination in history, one Of
the most promiSinO ,,p,,ilo 1yoo snk