The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1871-09-30

II oncH .h"t ~ u1ue'eWouty.CnToo years IRON
l848, to 1870. inclusive, there. has beer
sent home from North America, througE
banks and commercial houses. q sum up
wards of Gl8, 1884, 600. OF what has been
4 sent Nome through private channels
Il there is no account.
i Since the collapse OF the oil specula.
ton, comparatively little has been said
about petroleum, and few people have
any adequate idea of the important rank
1t holds among the productions of this
country. From the report of tho Bureau
OF Statistics, it appears that last year pc.
troieum was the fourth article of export
from tile United States. exceeded only by
breadatuffs, cotton and corn. The total
value of the petroleum exported amount.
Ell to nearly $36. 200, 600.
The battle OF Dorking has begun; tho
British cavalry at Aldershott have been
routed by two dogs. They got into a
! night and frightened the horses that were
picketed near. These broke loose and
stampeded the rest, which charged in
every direction through the cavalry
camp. I .Result-.muoh mess property de-
stroyed, one man badly injured, and
Prince Arthur'a tent nearly run over; all
owing to defective picket ropes.
1t is said that within eiphty.six work
ing days the now Territorial Govern.
ment OF Washington City passed bills
appropriating $40, 500, 600. The Patriot
says that the existing and proposed debt
and expenditures created under the late
corporation and the present Territorial
Government will reach $4,000, 900,
equal to one-f1fth of the whole property
OF the District upon the assessment of
last year.
The Hillsboro IN. o. Recorder says
'that during the war on accomplished
lady, then, residing in Goldsboro. N. c.,
dreamed piece OF music and awoke
with the melody fresh in her mind. She
got up in her night dress, went to the
piano and played it off. A lady friend
arranged the notes to suit it, aud it is
now sold BY the mnsio dealers under the
title of Voices from the South, and has
become quite popular"
/ It would appear from recent reports
that the English Government is abont
sending full minister to San DOMINGO.
in order to counteraot what are called
"the designs" of the United States in
that region. The new diplomatic repre-.
sentative is Spencer st.. John, who is
represented to be an able, adroit aud ao
tive man, with great experience of the
people with whom he has to deal,
Search among the statutes of New
York has .unearthed one which appears
to cover the sin of publishing abortion.
lists advertisements. Tie Tribune un-
derstands that the law officers hnve mott.
ned the papers heretofore offending in
this regard that if the offence be not
promptly discontinued, their proprietors
will be prosecuted: .N
The South eastern Conference of Indi-
ana Methodists, now in session, has
voted unanimously that horse-racing,
theasres. circuses, card-plnying, base
ball clubs, social play parties, and the
dance. whether in the parlor or the pub
lio hall, are detrimental to virtue and re-
iigion, contrary to the spirit of the Cos
pei, and hostile to spiritual growth.
# numbers are any security against
corruption, the Massachusetts State
Convention to select the Republican can
didate for Governor, ought to be a re-
markably upright body, for it will con-
sist, according to the local papers, of no
less than 1902 delegates.
Sauabbles, an old bachelor, shows his
old stockings which he has just darned,
to maiden lady, who contemptuously
remarks: Pretty good for man darn
er. Wheraupon Squabbles rejoins:
Yes. good enough for woman, darn
her." '7
The deputy marshal of Pen sacola. Fla,
has o novel method of collecting city
taxes. A man who failed to respond to
the fret demand was knocked down and
brutally beaten in the presence of his
family.