The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1870-07-06

oh for o soda-fount spouting up boldly
From every hot lamp-post against tho hot
Oh for proud maiden to look on me coldly,
Freezing my soul with glance of her eyel
Then oh for q, draught from CUP of ''cold
And oh for q resting place in the cold gravel
With bath in the styI, where tho thick sha-
'' dow lies on
And deepens the chill Of it's dark-running
wavel
The Buffalo Courier tells a story of
Mrs. Jane Larkin, native of ireland,
who, at the age of LOG years, has come
to this country, at the urgent request of
her four sons, only to find on her arrival
that since the day of her sailing, three
of these young men have met with vio-
lent death, and the fourth, it is feared,
has shared the same fate. One of the
boys was killed in on elevator in Buffalo;
another on O steamboat; the third in q
railroad collision; while the fourth, who
left Buffalo for the West, has not since
been heard from.
A two-story frame building, occupying
three-fourths of block on Warren,
Morgan and Bay streets, jersey City,
was destroyed by fire on the 1st. The
building was owned by the Atlantic and
Great Western Railway Company, and
occupied by 81. Leslie, as boiler manu-
factory; Cummings & Co. g car shop, and
j. AIoMahon's cooperage. Total loss
$4,000.
At match race of carrier pigeons,
during the last month, two pigeons flew
distance of 700 miles in less than eight
hours. They were let loose in the morn
ing, ut 6 o'clock, in Pesth, Hungary,
and arrived at 2 o'clock p. M, at Co.
logne, although in an exhausted condi-
tion.
A Portland darkey called ut q drug
store for ''settler powder" The seid-
litz was duly prepared, and its uso ex-
planned, but he drank the two solutions
separately. When the boiling fluid
foamed from his nose and mouth, he
yelled: "My stomach's bust, I can't live
minute" and bolted from the store.
In no country in the world is adultery
SO severely dealt with as in China. A
married woman near Shanghai, recently,
had formed q guilty alliance, and con
her lover. The crime was discovered,
and the woman nailed at full length on
her husbands coffin and left to die.
Frank Vizetelly, the well-known Lon
don artist, was drowned at Margatc, last
w
the late war, and passed some time inside
the Confederate lines, sketching for the
London Illustrated Ne,0S
When Gen. Grant was told of the ra-
dical defeat in New York, he is said to
have calculated, between the puffs of his
cigar: "Ah! parties are very short
lived" There is something of the Ma
poleon ring in that sentence.
&&;o1 ,rl,; ;oI, x,;11 10 -~o III A..
gigantic on record, is about to take place
in Hungary. The accused are brigands,
800 in number, and sit is expected that
200 Of them will be condemned to death. I"
G. Ernst Esche, of Milwaukee, on
Sunday afternoon, endeavored to prevent
his insane wife from leaping into the
canal, by catching her dress, but she
drew him in, and both were drowned.
A recent alarm of fire in Philadelphia
was caused by an appearance of smoke
around church spire. The 6remen
hurrying to the spot, found it cloud of
minute gnats.
A Cincinnati oensus.taker, who was
also employed by the marshal in 1860,
says many OF the ladies have grown
younger during the past ten years.
A fashionable wedding in Pittsburgh,
last week, was enliyened by one of the
grooms-men leading mp a bridesmaid,
and being married too.
''TALLY. "A man at Shreveport, with
this unfortunately apropos name. has
just been robbed for the TIN time dur
ing the present year.
Fifty-one followers of the Josephite
Mormons left Ogden, day or two ago,
for their old homes in the New England
States.
The village of Burlington, Wisconsin,
boasts of not having single loafer in it,
every one having employment and work
ing steadily at it.
Sixteen of the Fathers have died since
the assembling Of the Gcumenical
Council.
A German chased his hat off wharf
at Hoboken, and when he was taken out
Of the dock mud, he didn't need it.