The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-08-06

LdE OoOIdEfN IEESBYTERIAN REyIEW.
This neatly printed Quarterly, for July,
has just been issued. The following is
the contents: Dootrinal Preaching, Life
Insurance, Is Baptism Immersion, The
TRANSPORTATION, An Efficient Ministry,
The General Assembly of 1869, Critical
Notices.
jon OFFICE. The Ph@ni.c Job Office
is prepared to execute every style of
printing, from visiting and business cards
to pamphlets and books. With ample
material and first-class workmen, salts
faction is guaranteed to all. If our work
does not come up to contract, we make
no charge. With this understanding our
business men have no excuse for sending
work North.
INQUEST. Thompson held an
inquest, yesterday, upon the body of
Preston Brooks, colored, Whose death
was noticed in the PHGS1x,) and after
hearing the evidence of witnesses and
post morteDa of the body by DR.. W. P.
Geiger, the jury returned verdict:
'That Preston Brooks came to his
death, on tho 4th day of August, 1860,
near Frost's Mills, from the effects of
blow or blows inflicted on his head and
fractnring his skull, by one William w.
Marshall. with stick of p;no wood"
Marshall was arrested on Wednesday
night, by Constable Minort, colored, and
committed to Jail to await his trial.
THE MONTHLY AGRICULTURAL REPORT.
The monthly report Of the Department
of Agriculture for July has just been
printed at the Government printing
office. The present number embraces a
condensed statement of the condition of
the growing crops, together with a va
riety of extracts from the correspond
cncc of the department, Il table showing
the imports for three c-quarters of the last
fiscal year, an article on chemical ma
nures, meteorological tables and notes on
the weather for June, aud minor items
from various soHrces, compiled by J. II.
Dodge, Esq, the statistician of the de.
partment.
Notwithstanding the heavy rains and
the low temperature, the reports con-
corning the wheat crop are generally
favorable, Kentucky, West Virginia ana
Virginia producing the best average
crop, while in Winconsin and several
North western States the crop is consi-
derably below tho average. The pros
pect for the corn crop on the 1st of July
was fully up to the general average. The
same can be said of the rye crop. In
this crop, Delaware and Nebraska stand
foremost. The oat crop is reported fine
especially in Florida, Texas, Kansas and
Nebraska, which produce twenty per
cent. above the average yield, while in
oil except Kentucky the crop is reported
as an average one. The other crops all
look favorable, especially potatoes, which
promise an abundant yield.
| The fruit crop is n littlo below the
average in New England and New York
and the Southern States, and above the
average in the middle and most of the
Western States.
HE TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE SuN.-To-
morrow afternoon will occur tho total
eclipse of the sun, the only one since
1884 that has been visible in any extend
ed portion of the country, and the last
one that will be seen during the century.
In ancient days such phenomena in
spired widespread terror among the ig-
norant hcathens, and they viewed it with
the most fearful apprehcnsions. Now
science points out unerringly the very
moment of its appearance in every part
of the world where the interposition of
the moon between the sun and earth will
cast shadow upon the planet which VIC
inhabit, and traces exactly the belt of
country where the light of the sun will
be utterly obscured and the eclipse will
be total. The path of the eclipse over
the earth's surface-that is, where it will
be total-will begin in the North-eas
part of Asia, passing up Behring's Strait,
thence South -easterly over Sitka. Des
Moines, Iowa, Louisville, Kentucky,
Abingdon, Virginia, Raleigh, Goldsboro
and Newbern, North Carolina; and end
ing in the Atlantic off the North Caro-.
lima coast. All along this line there will
be points of observation, where dis.
! tinouiShed scientists and astronomare