The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1870-06-16
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There are not as many Joness in New
Hampshire as there we're on Saturday.
Hiram Jones, of New Market. got jealous
OF his wife just for living with another
nan some, and cut her throat and then
cut his own. They were both planted
on Sunday, and the man who caused tho
jealousy was the principal mourner. He
said something always did happen just
as he got everything comfortable.
How is this? Kate n. Dogget-a wild
woman from Rome, writes to her con-
frere, Mrs Cady Stanton. that. having
travelled through Europe and seen ''thc
miserable condition Of my sisters, Ame-
rica seems to me to be the paradise Of
woman" And yet these same wild wo-
men would paint the lily, gild the refined
gold, and reform their heaven. Oh, wo-
man! woman!
The Virginia Enterprise summaries n
new pastime in Nevada: "Our friend
Perkins went out yesterday to practice
throwing boomerang, sent him by his
brother in Australia. The physicians
think TINT his nose can be pntched and
straightened up, but say his left eye is
entirely gono."
Some white gentlemen who took seals
in the colorcd mems car on q Georgia
Railroad, the other day, were invited to
another car by the conductor, rs the
two colored passengers objected to white
gentlemen sitting and smoking in their
car.
Il Mrs. Urbane, of Elizabeth, Indiana,
has been trying that playcd-out expert
ment of kindling her fire with kerosene.
If she was good while on earth, she is
now an angel up there, with wings and
n white nightgown.
a water-spout recently burst in Tran
sylvania, by which eighty houses were
destroyed, and the dead bodies of 214
persons were found strewed about in the
fields, and taken out of neighboring
river.
The new bridge over the Connecticut
River, on the line Of the New York and
Boston Shore line, was formally opened
to public travel on Saturday. Hereto
fore passengers have been obliged to
cross the river in n ferry boat.
One of the feasts given to the Duke of
Edinburgh, in India, was greatly enliv-
ened by the blunder of native waiter,
who poured n dish of peas into the ear
trumpet of nm old lady, .held out to him
to get reply to her question.
Mrs. Morris and Mrs. Neil continue TO
exercise their functions rs Justices of the
Peace in Wyoming. They are the terror
of oil rogucs, and afford infinite delight
to all lovers of peace and virtue.
The meanest man has been found ont
in Munice, Indiana. He charges his
children for board when they come hun
dreds of miles TO visit him aud the old
lady. Hc is man of wealth.
Nine families have contributed three
members each to the English House of
Commons, and in the Same body there
are twenty-one pairs of brothers and
seven pairs of fathers and sons.
An incendinry fire in Sumter on the
10th, destroyed the carriage shop of Mr..
James L. Flowers and the adjoining
dwelling of Mrs. +. A. White No in
surance.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. NJ. Steinberg, of
Missouri, who were married u short time
ago, and were each twenty-five years of
nge, died within few minutes of each
other, few days since.
j. D. Waddell, who sued the Rome
Railroad for damages caused by walking
off an unlighted depot of the company
and got verdict for $50, 900, has com
promised the suit for SIS, 1000.
The people of Paris are to be pitied.
Having scarcely recovered from the PIE
biscitum, small pox is now raging among
them to fearful extent
An exchange says that "thc great want
of the age is men," We have frequently
observed the prevalence of this want,
particularly among the ladies.
The temperance cause is receiving aid
from above, Philadelphia distiIlery
having been struck by lightning and con-
sumed, with no insurance.
The frequent failure of cotton-b brokers
is but the result of the summer fashions
in ladies' dresses. 1t is not being worn
this summer as much as usual.
John Connor. aged sixty five, commit
ted suicide in Philadelphia, Tuesday, by
hanging himself by his suspenders to a
bed-post.
ALondon husband, pounding his wife,
was attacked so ferccly by the family cat
that the woman had to take her off to
save his life.
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