The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-01-26

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am entirely destitute of money"
Mr.. James Harley, an eighty year old citi-
zen of Orangeburg, died last week.
The custom house at Rio Janeiro has been
entirely destroyed by fire.
A defalcaton of $4,000 is reported in
the Fourth New Jersey Collection District.
boiler exploded at Newark, on Satur-
day, killing one person and wonnding
others.
Three children named Thorn were burn
ed to death in the Eastern District of Now
York, on the morning of the 21st.
y colored man named Ben. Jones, and an
unknown white man, had Il difficulty in Cal
houn street, Charleston, on Sunday night,
when the former was stabbed in the neck
and killed. The case is under investiga-
ton.
SUDDEN DEATH. Mr. Earnest L. Hart,
native of England, died in Charleston, on
Saturday, from hemorrhage of the lungs.
The attack was SO sudden and fatal that he
died before his clothes could be taken off.
MIR. Hart was about thirty years of age and
leaves young widow to mourn his loss.
The Colonel and Quartermaster of an Ohio
| regiment have just been made to disgorge
somo seventeen bonds issued by the city Of
Savannah, in aid of railroads, which they
stole from tho State Bank of South Caro-
lima, at Camden, during Sherman's march.
New DEVELOPMENTS this head,
the Atlanta Constitution, of Wednesday,
says: parties arrived here yesterday and
identified the man Perkins alias Grant. ar
rested by Capt. Ed. Murphy on the 2Sth
ult., as the man that made q run on Ia
Charleston bank in November, 1867, and on
Savannah bank in March, 1868, for 81 ZOO,
and on Kansas city bank for So, 500.
Trains on the Central Pacific Railroad are
running on schedule time to Carlin, Nevada,
six hundred miles from San Francisco.
Track layers are ut Humboldt Canon,
| twenty-five miles further East. No Interrupt
ton has occurred from SHOWS so far, the
twenty-five miles of snowsheds Mt the sum-
NIT of the Sierras working satisfactorily.
It is with much regret that we chronicle
the destruction by fire of the dwelling of
our friend, Mr.. VIM. st. j. Mazyck, at his
plantation, Haggley on Waccamaw From
what we can learn, the fire!was discovered,
on Thursday last in the course of the
morning, when alas, it was too late to save
the handsome and time-honored mansion,
formerly the home of that benefactor and
true patriot, the lamented Weston.
GeOrgetoeon Times.
From tho Union County correspondent
of the Yorkville Enquirer, we learn the sad
| uculu VI bduiel ClCcIo Oclt'TlCS, SUI Va
Samuel Jeffries, Esq The lad was playing
in some cotton in the Clubhouse, and crept
into hole in the cotton-pile, to keep warm.
Some time afterwards, he was found dead.
The suppostion is that the negro boys
about the Clubhouse, in sport, covered him
with cotton, and that he WAS thus suffocated
The Californians look with contempt
upon the new velocipedc. "They will do
very WELL, says an editor, "for Paris, where
many people cannot afford to keep horses,
and could not ride them very we'll if they
did; but they will never do in California,
where boys of ten years of age ride full.
grown horses at the top OF their speed
around the streets. How would a man look,
who has felt his blood stirred by a ten milo
dash in California saddle, on finding
himself trundling himself through the
streets like q schoolboy? We would as
soon think of riding broom handle, or a
rocking hobby y-horse."
SOUTHERN SECURITIES IN NEW YoEK. :
The following is the Herald's report OF
} Thursdays transactions in Southern State
securities: The Southern State securities
were, in general, sympathetic with the stock
market. Prices closed ut o'clock as fol-
lows: Tennessee G's ex-coupon 69(96SM
Virginia 6's ex-coupon, $50 e@59; Virginia
6's, new, 6224(963; Georgia 6's, 82(984;
North Carolina 6s, ex-coupon, 63(964;
North Carolina 6's, new, G1@6l n; Missouri
6's, 87@88; Louisiana G's, 76%(977; South
Carolina 6's, 71CD72; South Carolina 6's,
new, 70(071; Alabama 8's, 9414C095; Ala
bama 5's. 66(@67.