The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1870-02-04

OF SI,UUU was arranged Tor the next
Annual Fair, and will be published in o
few days. Last year the premium list
amounted to only $4,000. We are glad
to notice that the Society is going for
ward in the good work it has under
taken, and we trust that the people Of
this section will be fnlly represented in
the exhibition next fall
anderson InteIigcncer
CONFEDERATE NAVAL OFFICER Muir
DERED.-Captain Smith was murdered at
Fort Wrangler, Alaska, on the 25th Of
December last, by a drunken Indian.
The chief of the village refused to sur
render the murderer, whereupon the
commander of the fort shelled tho viii
lage, killing two Indians. After consider
able skrmishing, the murderer was sur
rendered, tried by court martial and
hanged. Captain Smith was formerly in
the Confederate naval service.
MAIL RoBBERY.-We understand that
in consequence of several money letters
having recently miscarried through
White Pond Post Office, S. c.. special
detective of the Post Office Department
visited that Office few days since, and,
by mailing n decoy letter, succeeded in
ascertaining the probable cause of the
thrown out was found in possession of
the postmaster, who has heen held 70 ali
explanation, augusta COnstituti0ndiist.
There is lot of Bohemians in Wash
lngton who make u precarious living bv
writing speeches for illiterate Congress-
men. They write for any party and on
either side One related recently, in
great glee, how he had prepared IL speech
for an honorable member, and few days
afterward was employed to answer his
own argument by gentleman in the op-
position, which he did with decided
success.
negro was caught in gentleman S
garden at Roanoke, N. c., the other
night, i'll close proximity to lot of fine
cabbagcs. When Intercepted as to what
he was doing, he replied, Good Lord!
dis niggar can't go nowhar to pray with
out bein' troubled!' The next day it
was discovered that he had prayed some
half dozen heads of cabbage off their
stalks.
Some music teacher once wrote that
"the art of playing q violin requires the
incest perception and the most sensibili-
ty of any art in the known world"
Upon which an editor comments in the
following manner: 1.-The art of publish
ing newspaper, and making it pay, anil
at the same time making it please every
body, beats fiddlin' higher than a kite"
RUSSIA AND AUsrR1A-Considerab
attention has been directed to the lately
published pamphlet of the Russian Gen.
Fadejew, who openly, and without any
reservation whatever, proclaims the de
molition of Austria MS the safety impera-
lively demanded by Russia, and without
which no development of Russia is pos
sble.
An important case has recently been
tried, in Edgefield, where one man sued
another for enticing off his negro labor
ers. The jury made the defendant pay
$500 damages and all costs 1t was
alleged that the negroes were enticed of,
or hired by the defendant, about the last
of January, after they had been already
hired and set to work by the plaintiff.
The parties to this suit were neighbors
A woman who wants divorce at In
dianapolis, says her husband has only
bought her pair of shoe-strings since
their marriage. Our sympathies are
with her. What woman could lie sup
posed to make q decent appearance
dressed only in n pair of shoe-strings?
Exchange.
EYES husband never gave her that.
The steam tug which acted as sort of
consort or pilot to the iron clad Mianto-
nomah, on the voyage to Portland, to
meet the Peabody funeral fleet, burst her
boiler, while steaming short distance
ahead of tho monitor, and, before the
headway of the latter could be arrested,
was run down and sunk. Four firemen
on the tug were drowned
There is queer suit being tried in
Ulster County. A young lady, who
wished to marry youth with $4,000,
promised n lady friend $4,000 for her
assistauce, if the game proved success
ful. The young man fell victim, OF
course; but the successful bride refused
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