The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1871-04-07

AiDi CiuBtetOn, OF Hilton Head. The
owner of the other wo did not learn.
On Sunday last, eleven of th. bodies
washed ashore on Dawfuskie Island.
Ihe rest havo not boen seen as yet, but
Will probably be thrown up by the waves
on some Polns c! land or other, if they
do not drift out to sea- a-.Saaunnth Ne,ns
New Orleans protests against receiving
any more iegacies from well-intentionei
but rather crack Drained old millionaires.
John McDonough's g large beouest, tho
pnpers say. was absorbed by the law
yers; the greater portion of that left by
John u. Fink was stolen by somebody;
and, lastly, that continual bone of con.
tentlon and litigation, the Girod beuucst
OF SlOO, 900, has dwindlsd to $4,000
Great excitement was caused at Fort
Shaw. by the buffalocs crossing Sun
River, just above the fort, in immense
numbers. The garrison turned out and
slaughtered them by hundreds. It is
supposed they were driven across by
band Of Sioux Indians, who are said to
be moving in the direction of the fort
The buffaloes rubbed the telegraph poles
down faster than the men couh reset
them.
VERY UNFORTUNATE OCCURRENCE.
On Monday night last, as we regret very
much to recount. Mr.. John Garner, an
elderly citizen OF the Horns Creek Sec
ton, was shot in tho stomach by Mr.
Augustus Glover, of the same section.
and now lies low, with but little hone ri
recovery. Mr.. Glover has surrendered
himself and given bnil.
EdgeielU Advertiser.
Near Susquehanna, on branch of the
Erie Road, there is what is called a
.slnk hole" One day, the track sud-
denly went down with two cars The
place has since been filled up repeatedly
with gravel, which invariably disappears
by the next day, leaving the '.sink
hole" deeper than before. Whcro the
gravel filling goes is nm unsolved mys.
terry.
Put Our. ~ Aunctta Gilbert, of
Charleston, whom the Now York San
describes as q beautiful aud modest
young lady OF twenty-threo, with slight
tinge OF African blood in her veins, has
Instituted suit for $4,000 damages
against tho New York and Charleston
steamship Company for refusing her a
state room on the Manhattan.
A young man in Connecticut was left
half interest in $40, 900 estate by his
grand father. But he married against
his fathers wish and undor age. So the
fond parent got himself appointed his
guardian. and under the law allowing n
guardian to sell the property of minor
to an amount not exceeding $500, with.
out advertising it, he sold the boys
S2o, ,OOO estate to his mother for S275.
A brakeman Oh an Ohio railroad, who.
while IN the discharge of his duty on the
top OF freight car, was cnught under
the chin by telegraph wire TINT passed
across the track, and thrown beneath the
cars. sustaining thereby the loss uf leg,
brought suit for damages against tile
telegraph company, and has recovered
80 600.
The present laughing. stock of Wash
ington is Senator Ames, whose school
boy speech, delivered ia true urchin
style, is said to hare been one of the
most nmnzlpg as well as amusing per-
formances ever witnessed upon the floor
OF either house. e.-Nctc Orleans Times.
NEGRO CHILD FATALLY BURNED. On
monday night, small colored child of
Hapry Perryman, in the employ Of Mr.
Dennis Hallahan, was fatally burned. it's
clothes catching fire during tho tempo
Irary absence of its mother from the
kitchen.
MORE DANGEROUS THAN FUNNY. We
relish good April fool invention, but
when the Macon Telegraph skins II
Frenchman olive, and Radical ut that,
IN order to get one of, we are inclined to
think it may create more harm than good
Mt the present ,juncture.
The latest report from the Isthmus OF
Darien represents that the newly. .discov-
cred route for the canal is only twenty
two miles long, and the deepest ontting
necessary will be not more than $50 feet,
and perhaps only seventy.fve or 100
feet. lteit