The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-02-10

Oattell, In discussing the suffrage amend
ment, wished to exclude Chinese who
worship Joss.
In the District Court, Bradley having
formally declined apologizing to Judge
Fisher, was again excluded from practice.
Two picture frame factories and billiard
table factory, in New York wero burned on
Saturday. Total loss, $115,0O0.
The recent utterances and votes of Speak
er Colfax indicate liberal feeling towards
the South
young lad about thirteen years old,
named Thomas Felt, in Wilmington, N. O.,
was killed last Thursday, by being run over
by train of cars.
There were thirty homicides, ninety
four infanticides and forty-two suicides last
year, in Philadelphia. Let her be recon
structed.
The jailor Of the Orangeburg Jail, few
days ago, suffered two prisoners to escape,
and accompanied them in their flight. All
the parties are colored men.
The Missouri Legislature propose next
week to discuss n bill submitting the ques
ton of woman suffrage to the people as a
State constitutional amendment
Judge Cannon, of Clay County, North
Carolina. recently charged the grand jury
of that County that n lawful fence should
be "horse-high, bully strong and pig tight. u
A mailman in Hannibal, Mo-, under reli-
gious exciteme eat, killed his little daughter,
aged ten, horribly butchering the body, and
Offering it, he said. as q sacrifice.
A letter boy attempted to ride upon the
COW catcher of a locomotive in Wilmington,
N. c., few days ago, when he fell, and the
wheels smashed his head, killing him in
stantly.
WEALTHY IsRAELTrEs. 1t is reported
that, without counting the Rothschilds
there are in Paris about $50 Israelites whose
combined fortunes amount to about 5000
OOO, 900.
war of determination is being waged
against the crows in the pine hills neal
Winchester, Va. One party killed $50 the
other night, and 1t wasn't good night fol
crows either. The State pays three cents G
pair for feet.
at the fire in Hanlon Il Newman's distil
lery, New York, at the corner of Twentieth
street and avenue A, on Monday morning
young man named Joseph Pratt. who was
employed in the distillery, was burned tc
death. The body was found to- day among
the ruins on the top floor.
Rufus Choate once said: II don't like
aibis; they often break down. prefer
somnambulsm. That is something fresh
and can make it stick" If Choate was
alive in this advanced day, he would put up
with nothing short of a temporary insanity
FIRST INDICTMENT FOR SENDING A CHAL
LENGE.-At the instance of r. b. Garrett
colored, William H. Francis, colored, ha.
been indicted, in Charleston, for sending
him n challenge to fight duel on the 2Stl
of September last. The challenge grew ou
of politics
Solomon II. Sharp of the town of Root
N. Y, murdered his father-in- law, John Pull
yer, aged seventy three, last week, by break
ing his skull with maui. Sharp had com.
home late at night with companion, boil
drunk. Sharp dragged his wife out of bee
and compelled her to wait on them. Pulve
objected to this treatment of his daughter
when Sharp seized the maui and beat til,
old mans brains out
THE HoRRoRs OF ST. DoanNao.-Tha
stereotyped phrase--tho horrors of st. Do
mlngo-is as appropriate now as ever. A
the latest dates Salnave was raging will
even more than his wonted fury. He ha
attacked and destroyed the town of Tor
beck. He has also bombarded and des
troyed Port Salut, and bombarded and cap
tured Aquin. The inhabitants of Aux Caye
and the other towns in that vicinity are panic
stricken, and emigration to Jamaica is tn
order Of the day.