The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1870-11-09

he surrendered to terrible, but una
Voldable, fatality. Those who thus
wantonly accuse the bravo officer happi.
ly cannot tarnish the famo of man who
might have dono immense service to his
country had he from the start been free
in his actions.
The noble red men do not indulge in
protnberant middle names, but thew
make up for this in the delicacy of their
cc.ognomens: A noticeable appellative in
the aboriginal cattle-ougue is that OF
Sitting Bull, chief out West whose
overcoat has been captured by the
whites. A Sioux City paper describes
tho garment as of barbaric splendor.
and remarks that it is the handiwark
OF S. BIS favorite daughter, Reclining
Heifer.
LYING AS AN ARr.-A quasi-religious
paper at the North, in an article ou
lying as political force" remarks
"that the improvement in tho art of
lying seems to have kept pace with that
made in all the other arts which contri
butte to the comfort or entertainment of
mankind" It is more perhaps the mix
ing of religion with politics that leads to
TINS admirable state Of things than any
thing else. Let the religious press keep
out Of the dirty pool of politics.
TESTING HUMAN ESDrnAScE.-T ora
tlfy scientific observers, Weston, the
walker, will now try to walk 400 miles
IN five consecutive days, and to attempt,
during that time, the feat of walking ] u
miles in one day-under the auspices
aud advice of some eminent New York
surgeons, who propose to investigate his
physical condition, weight, &C., of his
food and other matter for five days pre-
ceding, five days subsequent to, and the
five days of the race.
We learn from the Western (Missouri)
Sentinel that fatal accident occurred on
last Saturday near that place, resulting
IN the death of two children. A woman
named Brown seems to have taken the
two little victims with her to procure
hre-wood, when she carelessly cut q
tree on them, killing them both in.
stantly.
Ihe British Government has pardoned
the Fenian O'Bonovan Rosa and few
more OF his colleagues confined III Eng.
lish prisons. Rosa was sad victim to
the cruelty OF convict prison discipline,
and probably comes out into the world
poor wreck of humanity. Some of his
fellow-cOnvicts have either died or gone
mad in prison.
The young wife of Mr.. Henry Miller,
of Montville. New Jersey, poisoned her
husband, few day. ago, and then com
mitted suicide The object was to get
rid of the old man and obtain possession
of his property; but suspicion having
been directed towards her, she put an
end to herself
4 sailor named Joseph T,bhle. who
was III small boat on Lake Huron ut
the time of the late earthquake, states
that tho waters seemed to boil, that small
Jumps of mud were thrown into the air,
and that thousands Of fish came to the
surface and jumped about as if being
pursued.
The BLACK Llsr.-The Democratic
papers OF New York, frcm day to day,
I'LL whole columns with black list oi
the thieves, mnrderers, pimps, pandcrcrs
and loafcrs generally who have been APP
pointed by Grant u Co., to supervise the
New York election and make it nm
"honest one"
An Irish police officer West, who was
recently found enjoying his pipe over n
smoking bowl of whiskey punch, gave
as an excuse to his superior officer that
he had been pursued by ghost, and
would have died in u cold perspiration
but for the heating influence Of the whis-
key.
a wealthy old miser recently starved
himself to death ut Chicago. He had
lived for years on rotten fruit, decayed
vegetables, putrid meat and stale bread.
His death finally resulted from strangu.
lation and gangrene Of the intestines.
A two-year old colored child was acci-
dentally drowned in a cistern, in Phila.
delnhiA atraAt Ghnrlaaknn on tha AL,