The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1870-01-11

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At Columbus, Ohio they had q bap
tS;pgs not long sipce. Itaidplttuyn bni
to be- a success, hsnanaA tha sniaiste.
took in dafksy Arsb. and after Soshine
MIN Iatouna Ia lths tank, asked }6esera
young ladies 70, step In who. wara all pre-
pared. They wouldn't go in unless he
changed the water, and he told them he
would see them d armed first. That's the
way the matter rested at last accounts.
SUBLIME HYPom1sY. few days ago,
Secretary Boutwell,, in the course OF q
lecture, pathetioelly dwelt upon the folly
OF attempting to govern Q people without
their consent. Boutwell, is determined
to believe that the South is not 30 gov
erned, and some of the Southern people
are anxious that he should continue 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 load of
buckshot in his breast. He fell back
and died instantly.
Ha,okins0iAe Dispatch, 30h sh
Zone of Massachusetts new Mayors, in
his inaugural address on Monday. gave
utterance to this sentiment: Gas the east
ern horizon Of the present is made glori-
GUS with its beaming rays OF opportunity,
80 may the sunset hour of the future, by
the refractive influences OF faithful duty
greet us with it's gorgeous panoply Of
prismatio light"
The great land tenure conference of
nobility and laLd-holders Of Ireland will
shortly assemble in Dublin. Its pro-
oeedings 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 liberal and progressive policy.
A PRODIGY Missouri rejoices in a
mathematical genius who, through very
little rate, squared, in three minutes, the
following figures 145. 145 145. l45. As
the result is 81. .067, 113, 159. 163, III, ,O7l,
O25, we leavethe reader to Judge whether
it was an easy performance or not.
The man called James Logan No. 2,
who was recently shot in New York by
jerry Dunn, died Thursday night. He
signed paper declaring himself inno-
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 oven with some boys who sat Oh the
doorstep ut nights and told obscene
stories to keep him awake. He poured
sulphuric acid on the step, and when
they left, the seat of their pants remnined.
They thought it would have been q good
joke on any one else.
An exchange paper says that delegate
from q territory, in Congress, is 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 modesty is that of a
young lady who discarded her lover, a
sea captain, because in speaking of one
of his voyages. he said thatIhe "hugged"
the shore.
A young lady being charged by gen.
tleman with having triAed with his feel
ings. very tunnily, as she thought, ex-
claimed, "Well. L plead jilty."
The safe of the Adams Express Com
pany was robbed of $50, 900 between
Washington and New York, on the 7th.
No clue to the robbers.
The 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. z, are
going to resign. They have waited thir-
teen years for q fire, and none has oc-
Cured. Their red shirts are ont of
fashion, and they are disgusted.
Two young ladies, named Curtiss, ex-
hibited the premium bale of cotton at
the fair in BRENNAN, Texas. It was not
worn about their persons.
The Worlds 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 Gear to ultimately absorb
the entire country.
An armed body of men stopped the
United States mail coaches on Tnesday.
between Denver and Cheyenne CITY. and
rlfled 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
q picture with an expression as If COM
posing poem, had more than enough
for one person.
A telegram from Salt Lake announces
that the excitement among the Mormons,
caused by sohism and the proposed con-
gressional legislation. continues.
A despatch from Troy, N. Y. says that