The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1871-08-04
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plundered an express train and robbed a
post near Fort Benton.
The Excelsior brewery, in st. Louis.
was burned to-day. Ubsa $3.50, 600: 8.
The disaster at the schutzenfest was
exaggerated, only one person hurt, III. j
NEW YORK. August 3.-Three more
persons have been reported missing since
Sunday. Another Of the wounded died,
Rnfus Hunt. OF Nav, Orleans, holds
tho stakes In the Mace and Coburn fight.
HARRIsDURd. August 3.-Mrs. Burn
side. daughter OF Senator Cameron, is
NIGHT DISPATCHES.
New YORK, August Sin the disaster
Investigation, Henry Robinson, engi.
neer, being: sworn, said he left Staten
Island ati hill past 49, oame into. the
New York slip; tho, engine bell rapg
all done; went out and put hose on
sanhs, acd 'sant Oh dock 10 straighten
them; went back to engine room and
saw there we're twentysevsn pounds Of
| steam; went out; the foreman shut off
water; then saw the fireman coming
| out OF the fire room, and anked hin, if
| oil was right, and lie said yes; I then
returned to the engine and saw. twenty.
seven pounds steam; T. then walked
slowlyz off toward the bow, and saw the
captain with his hand on the wheel: I
then returned toward the engine room,
and when: within ten or twelve fee.
heard the explosions; rushed for the
engine room do ,r, aud stopped md
lifted the trap, when fireman came
up 80 badly injured TINT he died i'm me-
diatety; WAS not absent four minutes
after noticing twenty seven pounds on
gauge; don't know whether gauge was
correct or not; when there was no steam
on, gauge would sometimes stand at 2,
and ut Others at zero; worked twenty to
twenty-five pounds Of steam on the way
up; generally use from twenty-fi Eve to
twenty.seven; pounds of stenm; the valve
was at twenty-seven 30 as to give the
steam chance to. blow Of. and keep it
at twenty five; when the gauge ahowed
twenty-seven in the.slip. the safety valve
was just simmesing; the water in the
tanks is sometimes boiling; the valve is
FIVE inches; could not tell square Of five
oH difference between high and low pres
sure;: there were aometimes little pfn-
hole leaks IN engine, and there was a
patch on the saddle, pnt on last fall,
which was blown off at the explosion.
The proprietor OF the Jersey City
Euening Journal has been arrested, at
the instance Of George Watts. on the
charge of libel. sttiI ,,:a ]
the italian procession In the celebration
Of italian unity.
Sif Of this remaining sufferers from
the disaster will die. ,If,i 3u
KINGSTON, August 3-The Hornet ia
ready and is preparing to leave. A
Spanish MAE vessel is Watching her
Cl0S6iYx-
ST. LoEiaa,3 Argus { 8 s.-A sA!iauS waman oruzed
from qSHng heE eick child, took; ;it jnst
rags and 4ssa sersSs!ss a41nsa.u hersslf wi, by
tying b RIG rQnad:hsei throat, q
BosroNj :: August 8 The Lyman
school house waa-b burned to-day; loss
SALT LAKE. August 3.-Small. pox is
reported ID this vicinity. Three deaths
WAsH1NeroH, August s.-Thomas Il.
Dudley, for some years Consul Mt Liver
pool. has resiHled,5..li Ss..:F -
Ehe Treasury Department has an
nonncsd its readiness to redeem 81 ,375,-
COO Of three pek DENTS; .ishich cease bear
ing interest Ssbfamber.a 81.
Agsig1mshfs Not, 1and.- warrants must
hereafter b, made m on che back Of war
Probabilitiea elI!y;A lII!;1g. cloudy and
oleer weather fSprobable iof Friday from
Louisiana Eastward and in the South
Atlantic Stntes.::. Tie conditions will re-
main fatotable for laeaC atbrms from
Missouri to Ohio and Northward. The
low barometer, with threatening and
rainy weather, now prevailing from Ohio
to Lake Ontario, will probably extend
over Pennsylvania and New England.
OHARLEsroN, August 3.-Arriyed-
bark Kathleen, Middlesboro, England.
Sailed-steamer Empire. Philadel phia.
FORTRESS MONROE, VA, August g.
In bont raco on the Potomac, the club
OF Washington beat the Undines of
Norfolk. The distance round the stake
was mile aud half down the river.
Time. twenty-five minutes, fifteen Sc
conds
W1LM1NoroN. N. c., August 3.-The
election passed off quietly. The second
ward of this city hns conservative gain
Of seventy-dvo. Magnolia, Duplin
County. has o conservative gain of seven.
teen. The whole vote of the city is in.
The majority against the convention is
973, which is conservative gain of
twenty on the lust election. In Hniifux