The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1871-01-07

OF some loud and long debate. Ibe
resolution as fually passed, is to tho
effect, that the present Land Commis-
sioner, r. @. DoLarge, be required to
make o full report on the 10Th inst, Of
the transaction Of the Land Commits
sion since he entered upon the duties
of the Office = and that the Advisory
| action SINCE its first creation.
During The discussion of the above
resolution, tho hour for the special order
relative to proposals for public printing
| arrived, and was postponed.
At 3:20 the House adjourned 10 meet
tomorrow at II NJ.
MURDERS. arc informed tint
Anthony Johnston, tho colored Trial
Justice of this County. and candidate
for the Legislature at the lnte election,
was shot and killed by parties unknown,
at or near his house in the neighbornood
of Pncolctt Depot, on tho pight OF the
goth ult. We have learned nothing of
the particulars Of this outrageous act
that excites even suspicion US to who
were its perpetrators. But accounts we
have heard, satisfy us that it was brutal
and outrageous murder, and no doubt
the good citizens in that section will ex-
ert themselves i'll attempting to bring to
Justice tue guilty parties. We will give
the report we have had of tho nf1air,
which ,is briefly this: That three persons
went to the house Of Johnston and
made demonstrations of II kind that
caused him 70 quit his house to find pro-
teotion in the woods. md when he had
reached the distance of II few hundred
yards, he was SHOT by parties unknown,
! Ian Il hi Iyy f.xlI 1,rn ,,.,l,
was found Johnston's mother was in
the house and saw the party who is sup
poHed to have committed the murder,
but did not recognize my one Of them.
| We have not learned that they were in
Disguise. and We have not heard Ku
Kiux mentioned in connnction with tho
nfiMr. We learned from our informant
that Johnston had rendered himself very
unpopular with several colored persous
in his neighborhood, by acts of tyranny
and fraud towards them, while acting rs
Trial Justice, 10y taking tho little pro-
perty which they hnl exempt by law, in
payment Of his costs in cases which he
had induced them to institute without
cause, and in various ways dereiving
anA aefrauding the more ignorant Of his
color.
! We only mention those facts which we
have learned to Indicate the course OF
probabilities. At this time ws have
learned nothing that attaches ,his foul
deed t" any ono. Efforts will he made
to detect the gnilty parties, because our
law-abiding and peaceful citizens are de-
tcrmined to pnt stop to such occur
rcnces i'll this County. In this Instance
we think it proper to state, the imprca-
sion exists that this act was committed
| for the qualification of some personal,
malicious feeling. disconnected with po
lltlcs, as the facts above stated might
| suggest.
james Hammett, colored man, was
shot with nn Enfield rifle and killed, by
Harry Jackson, also eolored man, on
the night Of the 29th of December, nlt
This murder was committed ON the plan
| tntion OF Mr.. James T. Jackson, on
North PncoIett River, where one of the
parties lived. a Jury Of inquest was as
sembled by Coroner Willis, who return
| ed IL verdict in accordnnce with The fucts
above stated. -CWoiina Spartan.
SWALLOWED A MOUTH ORGAN little
son of j. q. Kondrup, the Danish Con-
sui, residing with his father OH Capitol
ilil!. III Washington, has met with an
nnfortunate accident which will prove a
field of study for tho medical world It
appeals thnt OH Friday last An elderly
brother, who had been playing with u
common mouth organ, about two inches
III length, threw it upon the floor. which,
being within access Of the child, he
picked it up, and by somo means it be-
came lodged in his throat. Attempts
were mado to extricate it, but had the
effect of forcing it down his throat and
causing him to swallow the instrument.
The health of the child seems unim-
paired, and, aside from the anxiety Of
the parents, the huge pill does not seem
to incommode him in the lenst.