The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1870-06-29

The new New York directory gives
2O4, 4,6l7 names; annual increase, Is, ,174.
The Smiths occupy thirteen pages-140
names to page-ani increase Of page
and half over last year. The plain,
John Smiths foot,up 149 3 Ths;Browns
occupy seven pages, the Jonesa three,
and.a-half, while tho Robinsons occupy
but two pages. Tho Johnsofs have
three-and-a-half pages, half page more
than the Williamscs.
Idaho Territory has at last got q
church bell, which is working wonders
in Boise City. 1t has called together
full congregation, many of them not
having attended place Of worship for
years. The first time it was rung, ono
man remarked, as he passed into church:
"Well, have not been into church for
eighteen years, bat that bell has called
me out"
AND THE FROG SwEnLED AND SwELLED.
An enthusiastic gathering in st. Louis
has devised plan to increase the bound
aries of that city to include fifty square
miles, giving eighteen miles river front
age north and south and six miles east
aud west, the whole to be surrounded by
an avenue five hundred feet wide, a pub
lie park of three thousand acres to be
reserved.
The long -mooted question of market
house III Charlotte, n. c., has ut last
been settled and the city treasurer au-
thorized to issue $4,000 in bonds for
building the same 1t is sadly needed.
The butchers and produce dealers now
dispose of their articles in different parts
of the town by means of hand-barrows.
Champaign Charlie is dead, and gone
for sure now, as the following item
proves:
Charlie Champaign. Frenchman,
twenty-five years of age, employed in
chopping wood near North Bennington,
VT, is supposed to have been murdered
for his money.
ACCIDENT. 10 o'clock, Nc nday
morning, while Mr.. Henry Horlbeck was
sitting in the dining-room at his resi-
dence, corner of Calhoun and Meeting
streets, Charleston, n large patch of plas-
tering from the ceiling fell on him,
knocking him senscless. One of his feet
was badly crushed.
An accomplished and very respectable
young lady, named Mary Crawford, died
in Cincinnati, on Monday. At the fune-
raj, yesterday. tho body was taken by
the coroner, who claimed that she was
victim of seduction and abortion, in
which tho girls mother and physician
are alleged to be implicated.
A good balance-the balance of Sill
600, 900 in the national Treasury. The
Government is getting on we'll enough,
indeed, to turn this balance into tho
pockets of the people by reduction of
their taxes, (including the abolition of
the income tax,) to the extent of $780,
100000. Why not?-Ne,O York Herald.
In Massachusetts, last year, there were
twice as many native as foreign mar
riages, but tho births therefrom we're in
an inverse ratio. In the Hub itself,
Hibernically speaking, seven-tenths OF
all the native-born Bostonians were
foreigners.
hen in Wisconsin is reported to have
Matched four kittens. The phenomenon
was sought to be explained by scientific
psychologists in the neighborhood OH
the theory that the hen was frightened
by feline incursion in the poultry yard
In n case in Germany, where little
girl died from injuries received bv her
clothes catching fire while locked up in
room by herself, tho mother was sen.
fenced to three months imprisonment
for manslaughter through carelessness.
A new Southern prima donna, Miss
Pauline Nininger, of Lowndes County,
Alabama, daughter of member of the
Legislature from that County, and q
pupil of Professor Parilli, has beon as
tonishing the people of Philadelphia.
OPPOSITION TO CHINESE LABOR. The
workipgmen of New York city are orga-
nizing in opposition to the introduction
OF Chinese labor, and secret sessions of
the labor unions are to be held to dis
cuss the subject.
In his Cuban message, Mr.. Grant
deprecated tho cruelty of the Cuban
war. By whose orders were l 400 barns
burned in the Shenandoah Valley, in o
single day?
In Lynn, Mass, Mrs. Brown tried to
fill kerosene lamp from can without
blowing it out. They buried her the
next day but one, and tho house was not
insured. Total loss.
between the extraordinary hoat and
the long drought, France is in bad way.
In PariS tha xUotar Of fko ,iuar Ca;,a Il,