The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-09-29

MsPigot-who In believed TO hesshal
Oldest inhabitans of GeofgetoWnAdied
in thattown on the 2Ist, atsthe advanced
aga Of eighty. Z 4
The London Guaraian says that Che
question raised by Mrs.- Stowe will soon
be settled by the publication of manu-
script in Lord Byron's own handwriting.
I Cloth is becoming more and moro into
favor for winter suits for ladies, and, il
of good quality, there is nothing half so
satisfactory.
Jose Moreira has just died in the town
of France, Brazil, at the respectable age
Of 135 years. When he was born George
l was just dead, and Frederick the Great
had not begun the seven years war.
The managers of q County fair in Mas
sachusetts substituted trial of cooking
stoves for the usual trial of the speed Of
horses. There were large number of
entries, but the betting was not lively.
A man in Dover. N. b., has just re-
covered S3, $50 damages, in the Supreme
Court. from an old school mate for da-
IMAGES sustained in scuffle eleven years
ago, when they were boys at school.
The journals of Paris register the re-
cent deaths of M. Boismartin and the
Countess Morand. It is curious fact
that these two persons were born almost
at the same moment and died on the
same day.
| VIM. 8. Chapman, who used to bo
farmer in Minnesota, but could not get
land enough in that State and went to
California to expand, has cultivated this
year 30, 600 acres of land, and has 20, 900
head Of cattle.
GREAT DROUGHT IN ANDERsoN.-They
have dry times up yonder. The bar-rooms
in this village (says the Anderson Mteui-
gencer) has been closed. The Council
refused to grant licenses on and after the
18th instant, at which tima the former
licenses expired.
Lord Stanley scarfs and low-cut dou-
bic breasted vests will be considered the
genteel thing for city swells this winter.
New-fashioned dress-coats are made with
deep velvet collar, and invaribly with
large gilt buttons Of the genuine I776
style.
The sugar crop in Cuba this year is
estimated ut 3,313,OOO boxes of $50
pounds each, about 100000 boxes less
than last year. The mo!asses crop is ex-
pected to amount to 365, 900 hogsheads,
35, 900 less than last year.
The Chicago Times advises Mrs. A. G.
Brewer to get out a search-warrant for
tho stolen silver alleged to be in Mr..
Grants house at Washington. There
need be no special delicacy in the search;
the proprietor is very seldom at home.
Lady Montague, the famous wit, on
being asked whether she would not have
preferred belong to the other sex, re-
piled sternly in the negative, because in
that case she might have been obliged to
marry O woman.
OUTLAwRY IN TExAs.-On the morning
of Sunday, the 5th instant, intelligence
reached the town of Mckinney, Texas,
that Hardin Hart, the Judge of that Dis
trict. and District Attorney j. l.. GRAY,
OF Mckinney, while riding from Bon
ham to Greenville the day previous, were
fired upon from the brush,at point near
Bonham, and instantly killed. One of
the escort was wounded.
Louisiana must be good place to
make money. We have stated that the
cotton crop there for 1868 was nearly
100000 bales. The profits of sugar
raising in the same State are said to be
$3.50 per acre, clear. Some planters
have even made from $1,000 to $1,000
for each hand employed. Last year, says
James Noyes, President of the Board of
immigration, o six-acre orchard, contain
ing 60O orange trees, yielded crop that
was sold for 81, ZOO.
An infant was left in its cradle, while
the mother went out to see her husband,
who was at work in an adjoining field.
During her absence, a large-sized snake,
called a blue racer, got into the cradle,
and strangled the child, by putting its
head into the throat of the infant. The
parents returned, and the father was so
frenzied, that he struck the wife in the
head with hoe, killing her instantly.
He then rushed out of the house, and
when discovered. was found to be o raw
ing maniac. The terrible affair occurred
in Huron County, Michigan.
New IDEA IN TELEaRAPHY.-Dr. l..
H. Everitt, of Louisiana, gave an expe-
riment yesterday at the Fulton ferry
house, Brooklyn, on a new style of tele-
graph apparatus, protesting to transmit
sound through wire and dipense with
electricity. The doctor discards the old
theory Of sound being caused by the
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