The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1870-02-02

OF jealousy and bad feeling, and that tn o
savings from the reduced military ex.
penditure could be applied to ameliorate
the condition of the poor. The handbili
says, also. that o project is on foot to
promote annexation by meetings, lee
lures, the press. &c.
CHAMPAGNE BATHS AND SIS, 900 SUppERs
A gentlemen recently from Washington,
and who was there while Bullock was
cutting up his highest jinks, informed o
member of the Legislature that the sup
per Bullock gave Butler and other radi-
Gals, to celebrate the passage of the
Georgia bill, cost $1,000; also, that
Bullock, in order to keep up during the
night and day sessions of Congress,
look three champagne baths at S75 each.
who pays2
A despatch dated Fort Shaw, January
2S, says: Colonel Bakers expedition
against tho hostile Indians has inst re-
turned. They killed 173 Indians, de-
stroyed A. lodges, with all the winter
supplies, robes, &C., and captured over
300 horses. The Blood Indians delivered
up all the stolen stock in their camp
Most of the marauders and murderers of
last summer were killed. The expedi-
ton was perfect success Colonel Ba-
ker lost one killed and one wounded"
1t is said that an aged couple, one
nlnety-two and the other ninety years of
age, ut Cavendish, Vermont, had to be
removed to the poor-house, to be taken
care OF, having become helpless through
the infirmities of age, and none of their
children, though we'll able, being willing
to take care of them. The old man died
of a broken heart, in consequence, and
his wife, at last accounts, laid insensible
at the poor-house.
CoRN-CoLoRED K1Ds.--A Rev. Mr..
Peck, Of Hoboken, having disappeared,
the other day, with the wife of one of
his deacons, the Courier-Journnl says:
This thing of permitting clergymen,
who wear corn-colored kids and part
their hair in the middle. to come about
the house, will have to be stopped It's
growing serious"
A couple in Germany, well up in the
nineties, recently celebrated their dia-
mond wedding. Both are in the enjoy
ment of excellent health. The Queen of
Prussia presented the couple with n
beautifully bound Hebrew Bible. The
City Councillors sent q deputation to
congratulate them in the name of the
city.
A woman was sentenced recently to
one years imprisonment in the New
York State prison for murder. The term
was made brief because she had an in
fant, whereupon, the New York World
recommends to future juries q verdict of
guilty, with extenuating babies"
The Green Line excursion party, com
prising some 800 gentlemen from Gin
cinnati and other points West. have been
on an extended tour through Georgia,
which terminated at Savannah, where
the excursionists were feted and feasted
by the citizens of the Forest City.
Reports describe the late storm on the
plains as the most fearful ever expert
enced. Seven men were frozen dead
oetwSSn Pembina and Fort Abercrombie
on Sunday. On the 10th, the thermo-
meter was twenty-five degrees below
zero.
The Atlanta Constitution learns that on
Wednesday last Mr.. VIM. johnson. re-
siding near Lithonia, in DeKalb County.
was accidentally killed by the falling of
well-curb on his head, while trying to
lower it into q we'll.
Goodl better! best! Mr.. Senator Came
ioh hao SivCn uOtlCot CLdC IL tue lTdu a.
ing privilege shall be abolished. it is his
intention to vote against allowing mem
oers OF Congress any postage stamps"
Willis Atkins, the lad who was whip.
ped 80 severely by q Chicago school
teacher last November, and who has laid
IN stupor ever since, died yesterday.
j. j. Ramsay, well-known citizen of
Memphis, was murdered by negroes,
near Cherokee, Mississippi.
The steamer America, from Memphis
for Fort Smith, with the 10Th infantry,
sunk. Four deck hands we're lost.
Rev. Richard S. Baker, pastor of ST..
Mary's (Cstholic) Church, Charleston,
died on Sunday Last.
High rent-teariDg lady's dress at
the shoulder.