The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1870-02-04
Z "what made You quit the Easts" said.

othef, II came out mere because i got
into trouble by marrying only one wife"
"And l." added by-stander, 'came
here, because 1 got into trouble simply
by promising to marry one."
On the opening of the Gcumenical
Council on December 9Th, Monsignor
Gandoliff was preparing to enter the
Vatican, when two strange priests assist
ed him to dress. He afterwards dis
covered that the strangers had taken
magnificent golden cross set with dia-
monds, which the Pope had presented to
him.
A newly-married man at Hapnibal,
Mo-, threw his wife into the river, and
then repented and jumped in and rescued
her. When policeman undertook TO
arrest the man, his wife defended him
with a piece of board, and would not
see her darling taken to Jail. There is
no way of accounting for the eeccentricities
of these women.
At Christmas dinner in Santa Bar
bara, California. sweet and Irish pota-
toes, vegetables of MI kinds, lemons,
pomegranates, olives and strawberries,
were served fresh from the garden, and
the table was adorned with lemon,
apple, strawberry and raspberry bios
SONS.
Alfred Henning, the oldest member of
the New Orleans bar, died in that city,
on Saturday last. He was born in Mary
land in 1856. and in 1902 went to New
Orleans, making the trip down the Ohio
and Mississippi Rivers on Hat-boat.
He was brilliant scholar
PRENTICE Still LIVES. We find the
following hot-shot in the Louisville Cou-
ricr- Journal:
"The Chicago TriGune says Henry
Ward Beecher was sired for preacher
1t is feared that it may hereafter be said
that he was damned for the same thing"
On her downward trip from Augusta,
the steamer Swan lost II colored passenger
overheard. about ten miles below this
city. Edward Simmons, the passenger
in question, was engaged in moving some
freight, and lost his balance.
.4nyusio COnstifrtionalia.
The Democratic soldiers of Brooklyn,
New York. have organized a society
called the Grand Army of the Constitu-
ton. Gen. Koseloy ia commander, and
seventeen other generals are among the
members.
The Atlanta radicals, after publishing e
i'll the papers their employment of couu-
sci to prosecute Democrats who took the
oath, arc now telegraphing to Washing
ton, us rebel outrage, that funds have
been raised to secure counsel for their
defence! What next?
The President has received suit of
fur from Siberia, made in the latest
style, to be worn Mt Long Branch, next
summer. Then, Olive Logan can write
n drama entitled $50 near, and yet so
fur"
The "Wickedest Woman in Illinois
is at present in Quincy. She has been
present a burglar, and says she would
like to kill man just for fun. She is
from Chicago, of course.
a Cuban lady. Dona Louisa Fer
nandez, twenty-six years of age, has
been condemned to death by council of
war at Esperta Santo, for concealing re-
bel chiefs in her house.
y Nashville reporter has got it the
worst way. Describing n ire, he says,
"the smoke rolled in dark evolvements
over the city" How touching some of
these lunatics do write.
In New Orleans there IS man of
whom the papers say: He commenced
his career as pirate 102 years ago, and
now, at the age of 11S, he is dock rat
and river thief"
a New York sNindler advertised "a
small sewing machine for one dollar. !"
Whenever he received a dollar he sent to
the green one shoemaker's awl worth
fifteen cents.
Eugene brought white dromedary
home from Egypt. When "empressing"
fails she can set up quite menagerie
with her monkeys, dromedarics and
other pets.
Col William Diehl, "the first white
child born West of the Allegheny Noun
tains," died in Pittsburg few days
since, in his ninetieth year. He was
soldier in the war of 1872.
Beware of inquisitive persons; won
derful curiosity to know all is generally
accompanied with as great an itch to tell
it again.
The offspring of the marriage of q
white woman and black man in Ten
nessee compromised matters, being born
with two heads, one white and the other
black.