The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1870-05-17

CLEAN, an electioneering party in the in
terest Of Rev. Cadetship Whittemorc
visited the freedmen in that section OF
country with several gallons of wliiskey;
that several of the freedmen got beastly
intoxicated, and that one of their num-
Der died in q state Of coma. the result of
excessive drink. We understand the
negroes generally are very excited on
the subject Georgetown Times.
Terrible fires are raging in the woods
and among the mountains in Sullivan,
Orange, Madison and other Counties in
New York, extending over 100 miles OF
territory, and the loss is already esti-
mated at S5, ,0O0,O ,OOO In the night time,
the spectacle of the burning mountains
is both grand and startling. 1t is feared
that family near Deposit Station, on
the Erie Railroad, has been roasted alive.
FATAL ACCIDENT. MIR. FL. II. MoCor.
mick, young lawyer of Clarke County,
Virginia, fell from the window Of his
room in the Mansion House in Alexau.
dria, about o'clock Wednesday morn
ing, and was killed. It is supposed that
he had risen in the night end hoisted the
window, on account of the warmth in the
room, and in doing so, lost his balance
and fell out.
HIGH HEELED SHOES fashiona.
BILE young ladies Of Hartford have been
laid up for repairs, from wearing high
heeled shoes, and the doctor thinks he
has got job TINT will last him a year to
straighten out their little toes. One oil
The girls was to have been married soon.
but the ceremony will have to be per.
formed sitting down.
So Mcfarland is acquitted. Now LET
New York be reconstructed. The muir
der was wilfnl and deliberate. The vic.
tim was loyal man. We insist upon O
satrap, martial law, and two or three
brigades of Gu, airy. Congress ought to
intervene, by all means, but meanw while
it remains for the President to do his
duty.
The Indians in Texas have for some
time been stealing women and children,
and the Government, having been ap-
prised Of the fact, offers to pay all ex-
pen>es for their recovery. Ono poor
Texan offers $3.50 in gold for the reco.
very Of his wife.
A young lady fell out of the door of q
carriage while travelling the other day on
the London and Brighton Railway, and
was instantly killed. The guard, whose
duty it was to have locked the door, was
so horror-stricken ut the accident, that
he cut his throat.
Senator Revels (colored) lecturcd to a
mixed audience at Cooper Institute, New
York, Wednesday night. on the Ten
deucy of our Age" and the esprit Of
Caste" The hail was about one. third
full.
Sam. Hlilebrand, delegate from Mis-
souri, to the "Red River Convention" f"
shows 476 notches on his rifle, and
claims he has killed man for every
notch. How ''insane" he must have
been for 47G times.
The DARIEN EXpEDIrIoN.-It is stated
that official and private reports from the
Dnrieu ship canal expedition represent
that canal across the Isthnus of Darien
cannot be constructed.
Diego and Casper Agnro wero gar
roted in Havana, on the 14th, at noon.
They met their fate firmly. An i'm
mense crowd witnessed the garroting.
A Salt Luke despatch says that twenty
families of Josephite Mormons, number
ing in all 100 souls, have this week left
Utah for their old homes in the States.
The survivors of the Oneida disaster,
fifty one in number, have arrived in New
York. They declined to make any state
ments in regard to the loss of their ship.
A man named Irwin, living in Mowry
County, Tenn, in fit of anger, struck
his boy. fifteen years of age, with a chair,
and killed him instantly.
Miss Mary Vnsche, prominent mem
ber of the Richings Opera Troupe. died
in Charleston Saturday morning of
typhoid fever.