The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1870-01-10
At Columbus, Ohio, they had a bap.

TOOK In darkey first, and after sloshing
him around in the tank, asked several
young ladies to step in who were all pre-
pared. They wouldn't go in unless he
changed the water, and he told them he
would see them d-arned first. That's the
way the matter rested at last accounts.
SUBLIME HYPocR1sy. few days ago,
Secretary Boutwell,, in the course of q
lecture, patheticvlly dwelt upon the folly
OF attempting to govern o people without
their consent. Boutwell, is determined
to believe that the South is not 80 gov
erned, and some of the Southern people
are anxious that he should continne to
think so.
MURDERED.-Mr. Dan Lee, doing
business in Cochran. was killed in that
place last Saturday night. He was be-
hind the counter, selling goods, when
some unknown person outside shot him
through the open door, lodging q load of
buokshos in his breast. He fell back
and died instantly.
Hd,okinsuiNe Dispatch, 3Oh uu.
IOne of Massachusetts, new Mayors, in
his inaugural address on Monday, gave
utterance to this sentiment: "As the east
ern horizon of the present is made glori-
Gus with its beaming rays of opportunity,
~ AA~oy VIZ aOuI VI buo luUuT0, Dy
the refractive Influences OF faithful duty
greet us with its gorgeous panoply OF
prismatic light"
The great land tenure conference of
nobility and laLd-holders of Ireland will
shortly assemble in Dublin. It's pro-
ceedings are expected to have great in
fuence in arranging the difficulties
which now exist between landlord and
tenant, and the public press unite in ad-
vising libt raj and progressive policy.
A PRoD1aY.-Missonri rejoices in q
mathematical genius who, through very
following figures 145, 145. 145, 145. AS
the result is 21,067, 113, 159, 163, III, ,O7l,
O25. we leave the reader to Judge whether
1T was an easy performance or not.
The man called James Logan No. 2,
Jerry Dunn, died Thursday night. He
signed paper declaring himself limo.
cent of the Rogers murder, some months
ago, and that he had no knowledge of
who committed the deed.
A store clerk in Fond du Lac, Wis,
got even with some boys who sat on the
stories to keep him awake. He poured
sulphuric acid on the step, and when
they left, the seat of their pants remained
They thought it would have been good
joke on any one else.
An exchange paper says that q delegate
from territory, in Congress, is q sort of
Congressional tadpole. He can swim
and dive, but he cannot croak. He has
no vote upon what he has been talking
about.
The last case of nodesty is that of q
young lady who discarded her lover, a
sea captain, because in speaking of one
Of. his voyages. he said that!he "hugged"
| the shore.
A young lady being charged by o gen.
tleman with having trihed with his feel
ings, very tunnily, rs she thought, ex-
claimed, "Well. I plead jilty."
The safe of the Adams Express Com
pany was robbed of 100000 between
Washington and New York, on the 7th.
No clue to the robbers.
Tho trigonometrical survey of the
kingdom of Great Britain, which was
commenced in 1888 by General Roy, was
ended last week, with the completion of
surveys in Scotland.
The New York Herald says General
Grant regards the law with contempt"
But it is hardly true. How can he re-
gard with contempt thing he knows
nothing about.
The firemen of Waverley, N. Y, are
going to resign. They have waited thir-
teen years for fire, and none has oc-
CURED. Their red shirts are ont of
fashion, and they are disgusted.
Two young ladies, named Cnrtiss, ex-
hibited the premium bale of cotton at
the fair in Brenham, Texas. It was not
worn about their persons.
The TVorlUs Japan correspondent
writes that Russia has seized some of the
northern islands of the Japanese Empire,
and the belief prevails that it is the in
tention of the Gar to ultimately absorb
the entire country.
An armed body of men stopped the
United States mail coaches on Tuesday,
between Denver and Cheyenne City, and
rltled them Of their contents. This is
the second time the mails on this route
have been robbed since Christmas.
We like cheek, but the young woman
who asked the photographer to take her
picture with an expression as If COM
for one person.
A telegram from Salt Lake announces
that the excitement among the Mormons,
caused by schism and the proposed con-
gressional legislation, continues.
A despatch from Troy, N. Y, says that
the Glenn Falls National Bank was en-
tered by burglars yesterday morning, at
an early hour. The safe was blown
open and 800, 900 stolen.
The Indians blamed for recent MUIR
ders. near Fort Shaw, Montana, were
innocent, the white men were the perpe-
traitors.
"Ohl what an excellent Tonic" is the
lanpnaoa of the invalid who naes RoIo