The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1871-09-24

We find men in every walk in life mis-
taking passion for prominence, for q
desire for eminenoe. No eminence is
possible except we subject that passion
for prominence which causes us to over
look the very steps by which eminence is
gained. Tho passion for prominence
leaves us open to the sting OF unsatisfied
vanities; the desire for eminence makes
us calm in seeming defeat. The passion
for prominence makes us moro anxious
to stand we'll in the estimation of others;
the desire for eminence makes us chiefly
anxious to stand we'll in our own.
Morning STR.
"Do You GIVE IT Up?"-A friend
handed MS the following. We give it to
tho public, because wo sec worse things
going the rounds every week:
Why is an old bruised copper still liko
Grants administration? Do you give it
up? Because it has n great many Dents
in it.
The anthor of the above has fed to
tho mountains, we'll armed, and swcnrs
he will not be taken alive.
LdurensoiHe Herald
Stewart, the millionaire merchant Of
New York, is about seventy years of age.
yet it appears by the description just
published Of his new palntial residence
that he is still quito lively We are told. !.
for instance, that his bed, which is of
carved rosewood, inlaid with mosaic, has
on its central panel female figure
bathed in the warm glow Of a summer
sunrise. mud on the foot-board is figure
OF Cupid with his darts and quivers.
The following headlines from an In.
diana paper tells the story so we'll that
we shall refrain from in1icting the con
text: "a Preacher in Tronble-He Bu-
ries Wife, Engages Himself to Two
Ladies', Marries Another, Gets Di-
vorce, is Sued for Breach Of Promise, is
Tried by an Ecclesiastical Court mud
Suspended All in Five NIonths-Tho
Case of Rev. G. Brock. of tho NJ L..
Church, at Upton"
The Victoria ('rexas) Atluocate com
plains Of the colored soldiers camped in
the suburbs of that town. The Aduo-
cate says that they have been coming
Sixteen string Jack over tho Inhabitants,
and it asks: "Cannot the officers in COM
mand control them? IF not, wo most
solemnly protest against the sending of
moro troops to tue frontier ria Victoria,
rs there is but little choice between them
md the Comanchcs."
MAN BURIED ALIVE. Two colorcl
men, Alfred Howard and Peter Curtis,
were engaged in digging we'll in Will
mington, N. O., on Thursday, and while
in the excavation, tho earth suddenly
fell in, burying Howard alive. Whom
the earth commenced caving in. Curtis
got hold of some planks above his head
and pulled himself clear of the avalanche
which buried his unfortunate companion
beneath its ruins.
UNITED STATES Court. United
States District Court will not open hcre,
AS anticipated, on the first Monday in
October, Judge Bryan having ordered n
postponement until the first Monday in
November. The jurors and witnesses
from the country will bo glad to hear OF
this change. Charleston Ne,cs.
Mormonism is fast decaying. The
Hawkins adultery case, growing out OF
polygamy, will doubtless bring matters
to climax. The question before the
grand jury will be, is polygamy adultery
The law answers yes; and yet Brigham
Young and his followers have gone un.
prosecuted 30 long.
There are ugly rumors aaoat Of the
risk which besets London next winter
from organized incendinrism. The
source of this apprehended danger is not
stated in the authority from Which this
item Of intelligence is derived, but it is
safe to say that the International, or its
partIsans in England. is suspected.
Mark Twain actually, bona .fele, no
joke, took out patent at Washington,
on the goth inst, for a now pattern OF
trouser suspenders. He AYERS that it was
the atrocious ''set" of MIR. Greeley's
neither integuments which set his invent.
i've faculty at work.
A man in Kansas was present at the
funeral OF a neighbor, of whom no good
could be honestly said. But everybody
was saying something, and this man, not
wishing to appear singular, bnt being
incapable OF lying enlogy. remnrked that
1t waH "a nice, quiet corpse"
The Mount Gents Tunnel cost nearly
Sl5. 900. 900, of which $4.O0O.OOO are to
be contributed by the Victor Emanuel
Railway OF Northern Italy. France is
bound for some SIS, 600. 600.
King Charles, Of Sweden, is about to
become his daughters brother III law,
by marrying the King of Denmark