The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1870-12-11
A New York correspondent writes that
Nmankion ia made of an allianca near at

A New York correspondent writes that
"meption is made of an alliance near at
F6ahd between four-story stone house,
with carriage and servants, and fortune
on top of it Of $3.50, 900 on the one hsnd,
encountered by 200 pounds Of flesh and
blood, with the bloated countenanoe of
widower; and on the other, chignon
and love of the world, the flesh and the
devil, 81! done UP in the painted form of
fashionable young lady"
A youth cleaning up San Francisco
printing Office found keg of black
sand. Another boy bet him the spruce
gum that it was powder, and he took
firmly dropped into the keg. There
was no insurance on the building. The
two experimental youths ore supposed
to gave gone into the country looking
for the spruce gum.
A Versailles letter refers to O secret
visit of the Bishop of Orleans, who is
King of Prussia. His object, it is be-
lieved. was to interest the King in a com
promise between the Lcgitimists and the
Orlonnists. by which the Count do Cham
bord would ascend the French throne,
and. being childless, would be succeeded
by the Count de Paris.
despatch from San Francisco. De-
ccmber 6, says: Last evening, Mrs Jesse
Barsell and her two little children were
murdered in the most revolving manner
at their residence Mt Portersville, near
Visalin. Two Indians, who are supposed
to be the murderers, have been arrested,
and will be tried tomorrow. They be-
long to peacenble tribe. bn. it is feared
the citizens, in their excitement. will kill
tho entire baud.
The reports from the sugar cane dis
tricts of Florida continue to he very
favorable. The Live Oak HenrM cu!cu-
lntcs that sugnr Gun be produced this
year ut ten cents per pound, and syrup
ut sevcntyfvr cents per gallon. and that
the profit will bo much greater than
could be realized from short and long
cotton Mt seventeen and thirty-three cents
per pound.
The ATLANTA ELECTION. Demo
Gratis of Atlnnta lost the race for Mayor
in tho election on Wednesday-the radi-
Gals electing Hammond, member OF
the boiling fraternity of so-called Demo
Gratis, to that Office by 148 majority. The
Democrats, however, elected six ont OF
tho ten Aldermen, thus giving them con-
troll of the city government.
FIRE IN BARNwELL.-T kitchen OF
Mr.. B. +. Brown WAS destroyed by fire
on the night of the ID instant. The
Journal says: fortunately it was very
calm, aud although the kitchen was with
in ten steps of the house, the latter did
not catch. The fire was the result of
negligence on the pnrt of servant"
TD o1> -.
inability to cope with the German
admitting that the large consumption of
that most deleterious of liquors-ab-
sinMe-has really had seriously injuri-
GUS effect upon the morale and physique
Of the French army.
An Ohio man, who passed around q
plate Mt a religious meeting for contribu-
tions for the heather, and then pocketed
the money, has been acquitted OF steal
ing, by jury of the vicinage, on the
ground that he was the greatest heather
they knew, and therefore justly entitled
to the money.
A physician mt Beaver Dam, Wis, who
was arrested for beating his wife, tore
down his sign and swore he wouldn't live
in community that interfered with II
man UOueStlC 1LolrS. Ills banner has
been flung to the breeze in Chicago, with
brilliant prospects OF success.
There is m old saying that ''orime
seldom pays in the long rum" we don't
know. Some Rodicals have had pretty
'long run" of it, and have got rich.
But wait till they die. It's mighty
"seldom" if they can make it pay down
there.
Allen Barksdale. one of the most aged,
estimable and distinguished of our citi-
zens, died Of paralysis, ut his residence,
two miles from this place, on the morn
ing of the 7th instant, in the eighty
seventh year Of his ago. @ -
LdurenSoiNe Herald
Nevada man traded his fourteen year
old daughter for q yoke Of oxen. The
purchaser locked the girl up in the barn,
and she set fire to it, and in the con-
fusion escaped to her grand-fathcr's.
In my opinion, says Sallust, he only
may be truly said to live and enjoy his
being who is engaged in somo laudable
pursuit. and acquires q name by some
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