The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-10-06

Otis J. ohafee, fl, thirty ysas s msSl
chant Of Charlestons l On 81 ihsk
fH When ise lawyer nlpsS a doukeS2
I'd LeicAas bhire, Eng theES q, a
enaao who b beentkepsa sis
FfEA 100 feet OF tie cqasr dan on M Mt6s uppes
Rapids of the Missisipp ppf Bises gaxs way
on Thursday, causing damage 70 the
amotfht'of $3.50, 900. a. ~
A suicidal mania is raging in the
PrussiaI army, and in few weeks. at the
camp of Borna, near Leipsic, fifty-four
soldiers have put an end to their exist
ence. - I'D fLGA
Friday and Anthony Nixon, two CO.
lored men, have been confined in Charles.
ton jail, charged with the murie of an
other colored man named Dick Richards,
about week ago.
A Rangoon fisherman put q fish be-
tween his teeth. to hold il better while he
fixed his tackle; but the fish spasmodi-
cally jumped down his throat, caught
fast there, and strangled him to death.
This sounds fishy.
The Atlanta Constitution notes sinpu-
gularity in DeKalb County, lady
seventy-six years of age, who never rode
on the cars, never sent telegram, never
took doctors stuff, who is of sound mind
and body, and is now picking out cotton
every day.
TO THE PoINT.-The editor of the Pa-
latka Herald gives the following notice
for the benefit Of oil concerned:
"To those who trouble our office about
money In our absence, we would say that
we never leave any money at home for
fear OF fire, and never carry any away for
fear of robbers"
1t was worth hearing, the other night,
when little three-ye ear old, extempo-
rlzing his usual appendix to ''Now I lay
me" full of the desire that had pos
sessed him for on hour past, and not for
getful Of some elementary teachings on
the spirit of prayer, said: 80 Lord!
please give me pair Of boots-when-
you-get-ready."
They have n good joke Oh q rising
young lawyer of Troy. His eloquence
had cleared man charged with uttering
counterfeit money; and the grateful man
had given him fifty dollars for his SER
vices. He tried to use some of the
money after the fellow left the town, and
found that every dollar of it was coun-
terfeit.
SCOTCH Courts. scale of penal
ties In Scotch courts is somewhat pccu-
liar. In the Dundee circuit, the other
day. an old woman WAS sent to prison
eight years for stealing petticoat and
shawl. and the same punishment wa.,
given to young man who had murdered
his illegitimatc child, by pouring vitriol
down its throat.
A BABY FALLS OUT OF RAILnoAD
CAR WINDOW AND is NOT HURT.-On
Thursday night last, as the night express
on the New York Central Railroad, going
West, was near Guy Park, little West
of Amsterdam, baby fell out of one of
the cars through an open window. It's
mother, frantic with fright, rushed to the
car door, and leaped from the train.
Strange to say. neither mother nor child
were injured, except small bruise upon
one side of the baby's head.
''Sim," the Chief of the Washoe In.
dians, who filled large space in that
part of the public eye which was appoint.
ed to keep him in view, is dead. A
newspaper published among the Rocky
Mountains says of him obituarily: "He
was good, though very dirty. red man.
He possessed q we'll balanced head of
hair, and stomach enough for all he
could get to eat. His regard for the
truth was notable-he never meddled
with it. He left. no will, and his estate
consisted of pair of boots.''
MARK TWAIN AT THE TOMB OF ADAM
''The tomb of Adam! How touching it
was here in land of strangers, far away
from home and friends, and all who cared
for me, thus. to-discover the grave of
blood relation.s Tsue, distant one, but
still relation. cThe unerring instinct of
nature thrilled 5its recognition. The
fountain of'myilial affection was stirred
to its profoundest depths, and gave way
to tnmultuous emotion. L leaned upon
q pillar and burst into tears L deem it
no shame to have wept over the grave OF
my poor dead relatiEe. Let him who
would sneer at my emotion, close this
volume here. for he will find little to his
taste in my journeyings through Holy
Land. Noble old mamie did not live
to see his child. And I-I-nlas! I did
not live to see him. Weighed down by
sorrow and disappointment, he died be-
fore 1 was born-6, 900 brief summers