The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1870-01-04

mouth, and killed himself instantly.
Henry Ward Beecher, in his sermon Of
Sunday morning, ct Plymouth Church,
pronounced on extravagant eu1ogy upon
Edwin M. Stanton, whose fame he pre-.
dicted would rise in time to be regarded
as is thatiof Washington. Mr.. Beechel
said something similar of John Brown,
when that notorious breeder Of sectional
hate and od-ahed was hanged, =
| ] "A young man named French, with his
sister. broke through the ice at New Ha-
ven, Conn, and French was drowned.
When men were going to his rescue he
cried, .'Saye my sister, I .am' all right. u
But when the sister was. saved it was
found that he was ''wrong. g.mrTenra-t
In Macon, on Monday, pair of muld
attached to dray, ran into the street ~
geant of Rohinson's Circus. stirred b
the animals, smhshed the,band waI 10,
broke the tune of the musicians and dp-
set them into the mud. There was hen
considerable ''cussing," if not moi 81
The Southern Express Office q Hunt
ington, Tennessee, was robld, on
Wednesday night, Of $4,000. fhe rob
bers first knocked Edward 5ole, the
agent, insensible, and then dliberately
broke y. open the safe, Thay1H no clue
A yonng man in North Rams, Mass,
who last week learned tb y the woman
he had looked upon ms III wife for four
years, was the lawful fe of another
man, Immediately left for his fathers
ei eg9ss; sri.i. and then soon hsnsa and :.i died
The Attorney Geuf f2il Of Iowa decides
that the legal word Anale" includes fe.
male; that, therefo% female is male,
and that Miss J1fa Addington is emit
tied to the officetbf superintendent of
common schools 1to which she has been
Forney's Phi jldelphia Press has a lead
ing article he3ed "A Thing of Shame. I"
It has no ref4ence to. Forney himself.
He is a thiqy without shame, says the
Courier, JOY M' '''
The MOI State of the Union, fnan-
oially CON iered, is Iowa. BY the 10Th
Of next f0nth, she will be out of debt
and haP surplus of $500,000 in the
State 4eaaury.
WIZ MURDER AND SUICIDE IN CIN-
C1NNLh.-John r. Wilder, of Westwood
v;llaA, attacked his wife with hatohet,
nh4ting fatal injuries. Wilder then
welt into an adjoining room and blew
h1 own brains out.
/The Denver mail coach was captured
py robbers Saturday night, fifteen miles
from Cheyenne: the driver and passen-
gers were turned ont, and the robbers
drove off with their prize. o......
A whole bridal trousseau was recently
stolen in Louisville on the night before
the wedding, and jealous rival Of the
bridegroom was found to be the thief.
This is true, so-but that's enough.
Not including small ponds, Maine has
l ,62O lakes, with water surface of about
8, 200 square miles. No wonder that
some ofthese numerous lakes have quaint
names. H- t1 ~
Wehave received the important intel
ligence of the conversion of young man
in Chicago. The news will be transmit
ted to Europe by cable.
A Nashville artist has just completed o
bronze bust Of Stonewall Jackson, which
is said to be the most striking likeness
of Jackson that has yet appeared.
Calcraft, the Londan hangmcd, has
been retired on account of old age. He
has hanged several hundred criminals.
A Detroit belle hos had one toe ampu-
lated from each foot with great success,
as regards small boots ~
A Nashville negress, 100 years old,
says. "De Lord done forgot to call for
me" She is in, no great hurry, though.
Texas is settling 80 rapidly that eni-
grants have to Lis out doors until huts
can be built for their accommodation.
A colony is to be formed in New Jersey
by Texas negroes h"' ei'
3 A two.cent clay pipe formed the sub
lect OF a. Euffalodnw.suit the other day.
During the past year only 1895 new
were erected in New York city,
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