The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-09-30

JACK, and Kate, and Sue, and Bet, sup
posesD was the reply; ''and if it is too
crowded, one Of you must turn in with
me and dad, and Dick, and Tommy, and
the twins."'i - '.I .ii.s N :, ~
Lay DErEaATroN.-The vote on Me-
thodist 10y delegation, according to re-
turns received up to the present time,
stands "a f0lloWs: Whole number of votes
cast, 225, 600; for lny delegation, 15O, 600;
against lay delegation, $4,000. The
whole number Of members belonging to
the Methodist Church is reported to be
1,200, 600, but a large discount is to be
made for minofss x = ts "
1t is reported that, one day last week.
an individual residing on the line of the
Western and Atlantic Railroad had the
misfortune TO lose q CALI. He regretted
the loss so, much that he took the body
OF the calf. and laid it across the track.
The freight tran over it. The conductor
stoppedsto examine it, and found it cold
already. The trick didn't win.
DR.. 81. @. Hamlin, of Maine, says that
Eglnabla IliarSondstex exist in Alabama, and
could be gathered and prospected for by
expert laborers. They have. been found
near. Gainesville. and further to the
Northeast, at the Glade and Horshaw
gold mines Some of these stones were
of several carats weight and of fine water.
England is suffering from q cotton
famine. Lancashire acknowledges dire
distress for want of reasonable supply
of the raw material, the London Times
remarking that the current of the trade
of the world, with its profits, are being
revolutionized rapidly against Great Bri-
tain. .TfpTs'3. = s'~7'l u
Kentucky promises that ere long our
bellies shall not have to send to India for
cashmere shawls. The Angora goat is
now successfully bred in this country;
and of the 5000 or 1000 wool-bearing
goats Of the best breeds, Kentucky
claims the largest share. rF
Physicihns are now administering to
conEumptives diet of finely-chopped
raw beef, properly seasoned with salt
and heated by placing the dish contain
ing it in boiling water. This food is
given also in cases where the stomach re-
jects almost every other form of food.
Tolbert has turned up. He writes to
the Abbeville Banner from Greenwood.
The Banner refuses to publish his sdia-
tribe, which it says sis in the nature of
a valedictory addressed to the public
very turgid and very abusive of certain
individuals"
A woman at Plattsburg. N. Y, didn't
know whether she could fill kerosene
lamp while it was burning until she tried.
She now wears wig, and her face, here
tofcre handsome, looks like rare beef
steak. You see, as we have remarked
before, the stuff is dangerous.
Two respectable young men in Carters-
vile, Ga, had streetrencontre, on the
Oath instant, when one of them named
Green Spencer killed another named
Richard Smith. Five pistol shots from
revolver did the business. The MUIR
derer escaped.
The cotton buyers are now paying for
the emancipated negroes at the rate of
$500, ,000, 900 annually. In ten years.
they will have paid for all the slaves.
Every laborer who wears shirt pays his
proportion.
FAnh1Ne OpT.-The foreign importa-
tions at the port of New York, during
last week. were about 81, 500, ,OOO-a
marked falling of, compared with the
average of the month, or for six weeks
past.
Mr.. Grant and family are making a
brief visit in Washington, and are said
to be much pleased With the novelties
and works Of art il hat remarkable
city.
It is stated that leather can be tanned
with the dry leaves of the forest better
and much cheaper than has heretofore
been the custom with oak and hemlock
bark.