The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1871-03-17


Resoloed, That we respectfully request
that all law, abiding citizens-wbite and
colored-in every township in York
County unite in efforts to this end. and
that public meetings be held in each
township for snid purpose; and that said
meetings appoint delegates-whitea and
Yorkville, on the 25th of March, inst.
The preamble and resolutions were
unanimously adopted. y
YorkriNe EmquirerN
The Montgomery MuH says that since
the law was passed in Alabama giving
every woman 95, 900 whose husband had
been killed by the Ku KIux, lots Of
female carpet-baggers are coaxing their
husbands to 60 ont in the woods, hoping
they may be Ku Klnxed. Extensive
emigration is expected in tue State from
New England this spring, on account
o. the $1,000.
The board of registers OF Clarendon,
Iowa, decided that women were entitled
to vote in that city. aud the names of oil
ladies' OF n proper nge were placed on the
rolls. Several gentlemen, not liking
this movement, erased the names of their
wives, and several ladies also erased their
names. at the election to-day no wo-
men claimed the privilege Of voting, and
the men had it uil their own way.
Within the past ten days detective Of
hcers have been making extensive arrests
OF parties in Harrisburg. Pa, and vicin-
lty for dealing III counterfeit United
States treasury and national bank notes.
Eight arrests hive been made, and it is
thought that others implicated will be
captured.
Tho old court house and jail at De
pere, Wis, was burned on the 18th, and
two young men, named Vim. Howard
and Buckly, who had been locked up
the night previous for drunkenness and
disorderly conduct, perished in the
flames. 1t is supposed the Jail was set
on fire by one of the prisoners.
Henderson Oxendine, one of the noto-
rious band of outlaws that have, for
many months past, infested the County
OF Robeson, N. c., and the upper por-
ton OF Marion County, was tried, con.
victed, and sentenced, during tho sitting
OF the Superior Court III Lumberton,
last week, to be hung on Friday next.
Horace Hawes, who died in San Fran
cisco, on Sunday, left nearly 50, ZOO. 600.
On his death bed he requested that there
should be no meeting of the bar or ad.
Journment of the court in honor of lis
memory.
In brief temperance article, the
other day, the Toledo (Ohio) Bimle at
tempted to say something about "the
chief point in the battle,' but the per-
verse types got it 1.-The chief pint in the
bottle"
The last story is that Sumner was de-
posed because Grant had promised the
British Minister to have q new chairman
OF the Committee on Foreign Relations
appointed.
The ''heathen Chinee" settled in Ala
bama are very deferential; they never
full to say ''goo by" as they "iumber''
out OF church while service Is going on.
A bill for an appropriation of 81, 900,
to purchase a piano for Mrs. Gov. AL.
corn, was defeated in the Mississippi
House the other day.
A farmer out in Carthage City, Mo-,
has just been detected in a wholesale
poisoning of horses and then Offering TO
cure them.
A miscegenationist named Williams
was tarred and feathered, and dumped
into the river, at Grenada, Miss, the
other day.
The editor Of the Saugatuck CONNER
cial "thauks the friend who laid O dozen
eggs on his table"
A lady at Schenectady advertises her
fugitive husband, and declares she will
pay no more of his debts.
The only female editor in Mississippi
is Miss Piney w. Forrest, who controls
the Liberty Adoocate.
Mr. James Bray died in Richmond, on
Saturday, in the SD year of his age.
He was soldier of the war of 1912.
George Swain, soldier of the war OF
1872, died at Alexandria, Va, on the
18th, in the eightieth year Of his age.
Hope & Co., the bankers of Amster.