The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-10-05

/ NAoSpSscu tkOtn NSW ixOEk TO AfWe8E.
ern paper says that one OF the uniuoky
nI nrms OF gold dealersS (Smith, Gould,
martin & GO. assert that they ohold a
Written order from the highest officer OF
sse Govsrnment to buy $4,000, 600 OF
gold; and that if balances are not settled
the document will be published. /" This
is an assertion no less bold than start
ling. If false, ''the highest officer of the
Government" should expose it as such.
LII true, the proof should be forth looming
as nm interesting contribution to the his.
tory OF the Int financial furry.
A Wall street speculator, returning
nome on Saturday evening in no envia.
Ole frame of mind, announced the result
OF his operations to the family group F.:
mo more silk dresses this winter. nv
dear; no more balls and parties; no more
opera boxes;" and then, warming with
MS SUBJECT, mo moro internal winnings
and dln'ngs, and no more d-n nonsense
OF any sort, Matilda" Surely the most
uninltlated would have known that the
man was q bear.
STATE ELECTIONS. are to be
held IN Indiana, Iowa, Nebraska, Ohio
ana Pennsylvania, October 12; in West
Virginia, October %; in Arkansas and
louisiana, November L; in Alabama,
FLORIDA, Illinois. Kansas, Maryland,
nMiassacnusetts, III Michigan, Minnesota,
NJ Missouri, Nevada. New Jersey, New
YORK and Wisconsin, November 2; in
ooutn Carolina, November 28-(to fill
vacancies in the Legislature.)
AT tho seventeenth annual meeting OF
the American Pharmaceutical Assooia-
ton, held IN Chicago. on the 7th ult., q
resolution was adopted, expelling Mr..
frederick Stearns from the association.
because OF his manufacture of ON article
called "sweet quinine," which contains
no qulnlne, and is, therefore fraudu-
lent imposture.
SAD CALAMITY. few evenings since
Mrs. Marion Johnson, of Hart County.
ii attempting to iii lighted lamp, ignit.
ed the Kerosene, causing an explosion
Whlch burned her so seriously that she
died In few hours. The house took fire
aiso' but was extinguished by little son
or deceased-a lad ten years of age.
athens Banner.
In the South part of Boston recently,
MRS: harrington, her brother and little
child have sill died suddenly. Her hus-
band and Mrs. Dumply are suspected
OF having poisoned them, and have been
arrested. The case occasions considera.
ble excitement.
Indian outrages continue in Arizona.
A drunken white man has succeeded in
reinforcing the hostile tribes by an at
tack upon friendly chief, who has
turned with his tribe upon the whites.
and has already committed several den.
relations.
The cost of the Suez canal and the i'm.
provements connected with it will be
about S95, 100000. The canal is ninety
miles long, 328 feet wide at the surface.
seventy-four feet wide at the bottom
and twenty.six feet deep throughout.
On tho adjournment of the Grand
Lodge of Odd Fellows at San Francisco.
Grand Sire Farnsworth was presented
with diamond ring set in gold from the
filings of the last spike Of the Pacific
Railroad
by taxing the bonds just rs all other
property is taxed, we could dispense
either with the income tax, or with the
duties on tea, coffee, sugar and salt. Is
1t not partisan idiocy to reject such relief?
Starved to death in city of plenty,
was verified in the case of child in
Brooklyn on Tuesday.
At A. T. Stewards store in New York
twenty 81, 900 shawls have been sold this
season, and one worth SIS, 700.