The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1871-03-02

AnoNAnAE metch E5rIno ClgAf-4AketS
met to-day, and sent q petition to Spain
TO repeal the monopoly passed last Jan
qary. 1t efeots the tobacco interest un-
favorably in Cuba.
ST. LOUIS. March david B. Hill is
doad; his age was eighty-one.
HARRIsBURa, Il M,rch Gov. Geary,
!c h!s message, says when corporations
advance rates to tho injury of the peo-
pie, the officers eau be indicted for CON
spiracy.
ST. LOUIS, March 1.-Tho steamer
Rob Roy, hence for Kcokuk, exploded
"er drum-head; killed negro and blew
two camels overbo ,rd.
WASHINGTON, March 1.-The proceed
lngs IN the Senate indicate that the pro-
visions of the Act of 1864, limiting the
jurisdiction of the Court of Claims, will
be extended to all the Southern States.
Ii comes up as m amendment to the
army appropriation bill.
The conference committee on the
Southern Pacific Ruilroad meets to.
morrow morning.
Officers of the Tehuantepec Ship ca
nal report, on February 6, two distant
earthquakes and tidal wave a foot high
off Minitillan.
The debt statement shows deer ease
of ST, 7,250,000; coin in tho Treas ury,
Slo3, oeG, 600; currency, $2l, 600, 600.
Ames, Hamilton, Of Texas, and Os-
borne were the ouly Southern Senators
voting against the amendment paying
Southern loyalists for army stores.
The Conference Committee on the
part of tho House on the Pacific Rail
road consists oi Wheeler, Logan aud
Sherrod.
lu the House, John II. Rogers, who
clnimed II seat for Tennessee ut large,
was paid $500 for expenses. A bill cx-
empting the undistributed shares of i'll
surnnce companies from taxation was
passed. bill amending tho Act of 1868
declaring tho bridges on tho New Or
leans. Chattanooga and Mobile Railroad
post roads was passed, and goes to the
President. y bill granting lands for IL
railroad from Decatur. Ala, to Ahcr-
dccn. Miss, failed. The report of the
Conference Comraittee on Indian Annro.
priations was adopted.
In tho Senate. the sixteenth and
seventeenth joint rules were suspended
for the balance of the session. 4 reso
luton WAS adopted continuing the
Southern Outrage Committee to next
session. Army appropriations were re-
snmcd. The amendment alluded to in
the noon report was adopted. 1t pro-
vldes ior the examination and payment
OF claims OF Southern loynlists for quar-
termaster nnd commissary stores fur
nIshcd the Union army, in the same man
ner rs similar claims are now examined
and paid, which originated in Northern
States. aud West Virginia and Tenncs-
see. 1t Was stated in tho debate that the
amount thnt will bo paid under this pro-
vision. II it becomes law, will not pro-
badly exceed 81 200, ,000-tho aggregate
being much lees than. is supposed. The
bill was then passed.
New York, March 1.-Charles I.anicr,
Treasurer of the French Relief Com
mittec, has sailed for Cuba.
The civil action of tho colored seamcn
against the Captain of the Neptune, is
virtually dismissed, the damages being
only sS25.
MEMPHIS. March 1.-No progrrss in
affairs ut Little Rock.
a bill prohibiting the running of rail
road trains on Sunday was defeated in
the Mississippi Legislature.
ALBANY, N. Y, March 1.-The Assem-
bly, adopted resolutions approving the
repeal OF the duty on coal.
Tie following estimate of womau's
love appears in an English contempo-
rary: "a French woman will love her
husband if he is either witty Or chiynl.
rous; German woman if he is constant
and faithful; q Dutch woman if he does
not disturb her ease aud comfort too
much; Spanish woman if lie wreaks
vengeance on those who incur his dis
pleasure; an Italian woman if he is
dreamy and poetical; Danish woman
If he thinks that her native country is
the happiest and brightest on earth; u
Russian woman il he despises all West
erners as miserable barbarians; an Eng
lish woman if he succeeds in ngratiuting
himself with the Court aud urlstocracy:
an American woman if he has plenty of
money.
a girl in Wisconsin,, whose lover hnd
married another woman, engaged her
self as servant to tllut lovers wife.
She had marked out her course, and
won; for three months after tho murri-
age, the wife, on returning from IL visit
10 her fathers house, found TINT the
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