The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1871-08-20

to by somebody. inevitably by men, if
women in the near future shall be called
to Take charge of public affairs. then it
is plain that there must bn meAns pro.
vided for the education of those who are
to undertake these duties.'
Not long ago some hunters and pros
pectors encountered in ravine to the
North of Tucson, Arizona, toward the
Salinas, party of hostile Apacliea.
After the fight. the pouches of the slain
Indians we're found to contain several
golden bullets, hammered out of mug
gets picked up by them in the course Of
their rambles. ''These bullets" says n
correspondent, II saw and handled ut
the time, and am thus enabled to confirm
tho account of Aubrey, whose statement
with regard to the use Of gold bullets
was received, years ago, with ridicnle
and doubt"
Gatesville, Texas. is excited over the
appearance OF An immense orang-outang
in it's vicinity. The animal is described
as being about seven feet high, and
covered from head to foot with thick
coating OF hair. It's eyas shine like fire,
and it boasts double row Of mnrderous
looking teeth. When last seen it had in
one hand a lnrge crooked stick, and un-
der the other arm n young calf, appn-
rently Just killed. A hunting party has
been Orgauized to capture or kill the
| monster
There is trouble between Franco and
! Germany about the evacuation of the
remaining fonr departments still occu-
pied by the German troops. The French
Government has even bud recourse to
hostile measure. On the other baud, the
Berlin official Provincial Gazette COM
plains bitterly Of the rrovocations Of the
French journals. 1tsnys that the evacu-
AS the French Government shall have
paid tho war Indemnity, but no sooner. 4
THE BURNING OF THE Town OF COLDS
BoRo. The Goldsboro IN (. C) Messenger
gives details of the destructive fire which
occurred there on Sunday night, 18th
inst. The FIRE broke ont in the Exchange
Hotel shortly after midnight, and spread
rapidly. There is no doubt that the fire
was of incendiary origin, and is general
| ly supposed to have grown out Of the
recent riot. The cause of the fire is to
be fully investigated.
KILLED BY LIaHTNINa.-We learn that
q small colored girl was killed by light
ming, Oh the plantation of DR.. J. T..
Mickey, on Wednesday evening of last
week. She WAS passing through field
in company with her father, when tho
etaptly killing tue girl but resulting in
no serious damage to the fnther. -
- Lancaster. Ledger.
First Lieutenant James Cnrlau, First
United States Cavalry. having been tried
by court martial aud found guilty OF con
duet preiudicial to good order aud mill
tary discipline, in having ordered IL sol
dier to discharge his cnrbine ut tnrget
before which trumpeter Keesey wns
standing, and by which the trumpetnr
was killed, has been dismissed from the
service.
That "babe in the house." which was
"a we'll spring Of pleasure" is dend.
The son Of Martin Furquhar Tupper was
lately killed, near Cape Colony, en- ronte
to the diamond fields, where he hoped to
nuke n fortune. He was only twenty
four, and is represented ns q very pro
missing young man.
A young man in Missouri cspicd Il
flock Of wild turkeys, but ns they were
too fur of to shoot. he secretel himself
in the bushes and "callel" them. An
other hunter coming along, heard the
call. md concluding it was turkey Sc
creted i'll the bush, fired and killed him
The Germans III Moscow hnye pur-
chased magnificent team of three white
Russian horses for 1000 ronblcs in sill
yer, intended for d present for Prince
Bismarck. The horses came from the
same stnd MS those presented to tho EN-.
pcror Napoleon, two years ago.
a sud death is recorded in Now York
in tho case Of James Scullen, q yonne
Scot, who fell from building in the at
tempt to rescue child from dangerous
position. Scullon had engaged passage
home to join his wife, to whom he had
been not long married.
Wilson Agar, poor Virginia miller, is
! said by the Brooklyn Eagle to have re-
ceived over $1,000 during the pas,
three months from sales of an improved
boiling apparatus used in the manuiao
ture Of flour.
A story comes from Rome that very
large and magnificent candle sent to the
Vatican by some unknown person. with
the request thnt it should be used in the
Pope's private chapel. was found to con.
tain small Orsini shell.