The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1871-09-10
TIE H1ouKsr TIDE YEr.-A New Or.


It is sad but an imperious duty to
warn the inhabitants of all our Gulf and
Atlantic coast that it is time to begin to
prepare for the great tidal wave, which,
| according to the calculation of pro-
found astronomer, is to sweep over the
whole ocean coast from Hatterns to Ba-
hal, to the height of fifty feet or more,
on the night Of the 9th OF October, or
in the morning OF the 9Th.
Before Scotch Provost, not long
since. young boy was charged with
breaking into gardens md stealing fruit
therefrom. The charge wes fully sub
stantiated, and the magistrate, address
ing the juvenile offender, said, in his
gravest manner: "If you hnd IL garden
and pilferiug boys were to break into it
aud steal your property, in what way
wonId you like to havo them punished?"
"Aweel, sir, replied tho cute urchin,
II think [ would let them ava for The
first offenco!" The little fellow got otf
There is no more modest and sensitive
man than the Rev. DR.. William r. Will
liams, tho eminent Baptist divine. He
recently published charming little
work on tho three parallels in the 18th of
Luke, the appropriate title of which
was: 'Ihe Lost Sheep, the Lost Coin,
and the LosusSon" Imagine the horri-
bio feelings Of the sensitive divine when
hc saw tue typographical bluudcr Of the
Christian Union, which reviewed it under
the title Of 1.-The Lost Sheep, tho Lost
Cow, and the Lost Sow"
INVENTIVE LADs-A countrymnn liy.
ing in Tennessee, where forests aud
gnmo are plenty, says that his boys,
who all have gun apiece, became
short OF percussion caps IL few dnys
ago, md the first thing he knew they
were shooting with match heads ms II
substitute. How many boxes Of matches
he lost in tiiat way he did not say, but
he found that they fired us clenr ns the
cap itself. 1t is said that necessity is
the mother Of invention.
The decline and fall of slavery in Now
Jersey are illustrated by tho census
figures giving the number Of slaves in
tue State in each decade from 1890, as
follows: Year 1790, slaves, IL 1923; 1900,
IL, 1872; 1910, 1851; 1920, 7.547; 1880,
2,254; 1910. G74; 1850 23G; 1860, 18;
1870, none. The l8 who appear in 1860
were The colored apprentices for life by
the Act to abolish slavery, passed April
Is, 1916.
ANOTHER CONCLUSION THEOKY.-Some
t:mc ago Mr.. Hardee, of Florida. started
q theory in regard to killing the ''cur-
culio" and developing vegetable life by
concussion. Now he proposes to apply
the same ''cure all'' to yellow fever and
cholera. His theory is that yellow fever,
cholera md other epidemics are caused
by animnlculn III the air. and that con-
cussion Of tho atmosphere will DESTROY
them.
The sea serpent has emigratcd from
Nahant, Mass. iwherc he had become 9
ridiculous, to North Carolina On Neuse
River cit has been sccn," says the Ra-
leigh Sentinel. 9th inst, ''by several very
reliable gentlemen, with smnll lambs and
little pigs in it's jaws. having seized them
when Mt the water edge drinking It ia
comforting to remark that tho authority
here is not the reliable gentleman, but
is Several very reliable gentlemen
A Snn francisco medium" has inter
viewed tho ghost that walks the wharf ut
Oakland by night, and ascertaincd that
he was one of the ferry boat "El Capi-
tan" victims, and would have been res
cued had not another man jumped on
his back. and in saving himself, drowned
him. He is now looking for the man
who did it.
a meeting of the registered voters OF
Greenvillo, Oh Saturday last, nominated
james p. Moore, Esq, for Mayor and
the following gentlemen for Aldermen:
Ward No. l, L. A. Walter; Ward No. 9,
Wm. Beattie; Ward No. 8, NJ. J. Beard.
III; Ward No. 4, John Ferguson; Ward
No. 5, l.. D. Cline; Ward No. 6, Leo
nard Williams.
Hero we havo tirst.rate bull made by
a French preacher, who lately said: "Ad-
miro the prodigious strength Of Samson!
With the jawbono of an ass, he put a
Thousand Philistines to the sword. =
Paddy from Cork may try long while
before he blundcrs into anything 80 ex-
cellent as that:
Mr.. Brick Pomeroy has fnitb fully read
Greeley's "What l Know About Farm
ing" and has logically deduced half
column Of invaluable agricultural aphor-
isms from this standard work. One of
the most important of his deductions is
this: "Put q swivel on your scytho SO
that it will cut both ways"
a little shoeless three-yenr old down
in Tennessee, few days since, was told
that he might go out visiting with his
mamma. Being missed soon after, he
was found in the back porch with both
feet thoroughly blackened, and using his
best endeavors with q brush to give them