The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-09-15


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fifth Avenue, aud There iswrath thereaA
81 Aconvent for the colofed sisters sof
FpfSyidsnoe" is beingsbuilt in New OR
leans, .4he first Of the KIND for that -rnre
In Louisiana.
"A yonng Belgian has lost his sight by
trying to swim for fifteen minutes on his
back, in the Scheldt, with his spectacles
on. The sun burned his eyes out.
T.. Merchants do not have business
enough in Panama to pay their daily
taxes, and the 'isthmrs is being rapidly
deserted.
Henly Hart, n prominent citizen of
New Orleans, connected with the railroad
and omnibus interests of that city, was
drowned at Grand Isle, on Saturday last.
A disappointed old bachelor says it
makes little difference whether II man
commits suicide or matrimony. In one
case he loses his life, and in the other
his influence.
Messrs. A. T. Stewart e Co., of New
York, say they have never done as large
q business ut this time in any previous
year. They attribute this fact to their
having advertised more this season than
ever before.
The great Juggernaut festival at
Scrampore, India, was failure this year.
The. worshippers of the great idol not
only refused to throw themselves under
his wheels, to be ground up, but also
declined to drag his car. and left it stick
ing in the mud by the roadside.
The FRENCH EMPEROR. Louis Napo-
leon is now pronounced we'll by the
latest cable advices, but Mt the same time
the inventive Paris correspondents are
circulating story that, fearing liabili-
ty of n return of sicknes, his Imperial
Majesty is contemplating abdication, as
if to get the regency in good working
order before he does. The story is only
given as rumor, however.
SUICIDE OF a Cow.-A COW, belonging
to man in Dubuque, Ohio, hung her
self in a tree, on the bluff, few days
ago. She was grazing in that locality
with other cattle, and by some means
ran her head between two stout branches
overhanging the bluff, and swung off,
breaking her neck. When discovered,
she was hanging in the air. It is mys-
terry how she got into the position.
EXTREMELY WAsulSGroSr,v- Mrs.
Catharine Washington died in Delhi
township, Ohio, yesterday morning,
aged eighty. 1t is claimed she was n re-
lative of President Washington. Her
maiden name was Washington, and she
married man named Washington. She
was born and married on the Washington
estate i'll Culpepper County, Virginia
She leaves two sous bearing tue name of
Washington.
A child three months old, was poison
ell in Hoboken, New jersey, by the care
lcssness of its father, who went to q
druggist, and obtained one grain opium
pills to give to this child for diarrhoea.
4 young inexperienced clerk gave him
the pills, dnly marked. The child of
course died alter one had been given it.
The father and the clerk have been ar
rested, and the proprietor of the drug
store has fed to avoid arrest.
A REMARKABLE FENCE. fencing
around tho site of the new post office
building at New York, opposite the Astor
House, was leased a few days since for
two years for advertising purposes The
bids. over 200 in number, ranged from
$500 to $4,000 The successful compe-
titor was regarded as having paid price
entirely too high to save him from loss
That this idea was mistaken one is
evinced by the fact that on Tuesday last
Mr.. Bonner paid SoOO for the privilege
of its exclusive use Il single day.
A WOMAN GIvEs BIRTH TO Four Cu.n-
DREN. are Informed by the Bristol
NeUS that a very poor family passed
through Wytheville on Tuesday evening
late, and camped in an old field near by.
During the night, with no canopy but
that OF Heaven to shield her from the
pclting rain, and no friend but lazy
husband. the woman gave birth to four
children. The husband was too lazy to
carry straw from a neighboring stack
yard and make the woman a rude bed.
She was found among the rocks and
brush exposed to drizzling rain.
Stay-at-home Northerners have little
conception of the rapid rate at which the
South is recovering her former agricul-
tural and commercial prosperity The
cotton crop this year will be 5000, 600
bales, worth fully $500, 900, 900; that of
corn will amount to SS5, 600 bushels,
worth 5000, 100000 at least; and sugar,
wheat, tobacco, and other productions
will yield $3.50, 100000 more, making a
total of $3.50, 100000, which among q
population of 1l,000, 900 is nearly sixty
dollars per head all round South
ern land at its present low price is one
of the best investments in the market