The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1870-07-29

Charleston Courier, 2SM.
This morning, fifteenth amendment,
named William II. McAfee, about sixteen
or seventeen years of age, shot his
father, Lacy McAfee, fifteenth amend
ment,) with an army gun, in the abdo-
men. 1t is thought that the old man
will not survive. It is said that the old
gentleman asked his son to go to work,
when the latter shot him.
Atlanta Constitution.
DEATH OF A W1DELY-KNowNn CITIZEN.
1t gives US pain to announce the denth
of that old and very highly-respected
citizen, James Hatcher. Esq. Mr..
Hatcher, after long suffering from a
virulent carbuncle upon the shoulder,
departed this life, at his residence, near
the Pine House, on Tuesday night last,
aged fifty three years.
Eugefeld Advertiser.
STATUE TO GENERAL SCorr. Tho
Secretary of War has been authorized
to contract with Henry K. Brown, #
Newburg, N. Y, for the erection of n
bronze equestrian statue of General
Winfield Scott, to be made of cannon
captured in Mexico. The cost of the
statue will not exceed S35, 900, and it
will ornament Franklin Square.
Sewall Gordon. residing in Chester
field, Me-, hung himself in his shed with
an OK chain, Thursday evening. He was
discovered by his wife before life was
extinct, but he being heavy man, she
could not raise him enough to unlock
the chain, and before she could get
assistance from the neighbors, life left
the body.
Colonel Thomas G.. Bacons horse,
Lynchburg, won fine race at Saratoga,
lately, with valuable purse attached.
Colonel Bacon has left Saratoga, and
gone, with his stable, to the famous
bathing place. Long Branch, where he
has entries in several important races.
In Chicago, on Friday night, large
building, on Carroll street, used rs IL
pork packing establishment and for re-
sidence. was destroyed by fire. A Mrs.
Kelly, living in the house, was burned to
death
Colonel Joseph Hanlon, formerly city
editor of the New Orleans True Deus,
who lost an arm whilst in command of
the famous Sixth Louisiana Infantry,
died OF consumption, at the Warm
Springs. Va, last week.
The returning tide, 200 Cinnamon
left San Francisco for homo, last week
They were oil potted, however, having
died while constructing the Pacific Rail
road.
Mrs. Charles Kuhn, Of Philadelphia, ii
daughter of Hon. Charles Frnncis
Adams, of Massachusetts, died at Lucca
Italy, last week, from injuries received
In being thrown from u carriage.
THE "REBEL GRAY" The Fifth Re-
giment of Maryland Militia, nearly every
member of which was in the Army Of
Northern Virginia, had rousing rccep-
ton at Philadelphia, the other day.
a man in Curritnck County, Va,
named Joshua Harrison, has been arrest
ed, charged with the murder of his father
and young lad, several years ago.
Yesterday the little vessel "Red, White
and Blue" which 5raved all the dangers
Of the Transatlantic passage, was upset
in Now York Bay.
The Charleston Courier announces
that the mother of ODonovan Rossa.
the Irish martyr now in English custody,
is in that city, in very feeble health.
Col J. L. Bozeman, one OF Green
Ville's best citizens, died in that County,
on tho Goth.
A youth OF eighty-fve won the belt at
champion dance in Georgia.
Lunch every day at Pollock