The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-09-01


from window above, and as the car
riago drove off all the old foot coverings
about the place were thrown after It.
One enthusiastic gentleman threw a
broom on top Of the carriage, and the
CROWD shouted themselves into O yery
not and hoarse condition. When the
oridal party reached tho hotel the bride
sang, Mt the request of her friends. some
OF the songs she had learned in this
country accompanying herself upon the
panic, which was presented to her while
in New York.
Ihe Oldest carp in the world is dead.
1t had attained the ripe age of 375 years.
ana belonged to the proprietor of q rich
eotate IN Chantilly. It would have gone
on, like Tennyson's brook, forever and
forever, had it not lost it's temper and
engaged in furious fight with iuye-
nile pike, who ingloriously slew the his.
torio fish.
A:aine husbands come a cruel dodge
on their faithful, if too talkative, wives.
One tells his wife he is going to Auea-
nauqnatansogowmongotongo fishing. and
In his abeence has his friends call at the
house and inquire his whereabouts.
When he returns, the poor woman ia
exhausted, and doesn't speak again for a
month.
Too MUCH. .--Rector's daughter
"Well, Dennis. how are you getting on?
bow do you like your new master P"
Faith, Miss, dunnol" Reo-
tors daughter-"He's very kind and
excellent man; you can't do too much
Tor him! Dennis-stAn' shure, Miss. 7
don't name tol''
SPURGEoN CoMINa.-It is said that the
Rev. MIR. Spurgeon will visit BROOKLYN
in the autumn as the guest of DR.. Tai
mage. and will probably preach for him
in the Tabernacle. That would be an
event in current religious history which
would cause an excitement similar to
that which attended the visit of DR.. New
man Hall to this country.
HE CATERpILLARs IN FLORIDA
P. B. Fl. Dudley, a successful and e.pe.
rienced planter, writes from Archer.
Alachua County, one Of the finest sen
island cotton regions of East Florida.
that the caterpillars have brought terrible
havoc in tho cotton fields, so that he
doubts whether half crop will be made.
FRATnc1DE. We are informed that
Ealley Grain stabbed and killed his bro.
ther. Frank Grain, IN the upper portion
OF Greenvilie County, on Saturday, the
l7th inst. The difficulty seems to have
originated about some pigs, belonging
10 Eariey. getting into corn patch OF
Frank. .-Pickens Sentinel.
A New Orleans gentleman, writing
from Montreal, Gays: 'There ore very
lew Americans at our hotel; those who
are here. I think, are all Yankees. for I
take notica that when they leave the
dlning-room they are always chewing
aomething. as if they couldn't spare the
time to finish eating at the table,"
MOE SPECIMEN Aiken
was arrested in New York on Tuesday
morning. while in the act of committing
burglary on his beat. He confessed to
seventeen burglaries within Few
months. Another officer was arrested ns
an accomplish.
BURNT BY LIGHTNINa.-On Friday last,
during q storm. the stable and store.
house of J. Q. Dickerson, in Kapawba
County, w. Va, was burned by light
ming, with farming implements and
other contents to the amount of 81, 500.
A burglar in Atlanta, on Tuesday
night, stole the boots. watch and artifi.
cial teeth of Mr.. J. G. Dunlap. Tie
teeth were not missed until Mr.. DUNLAP
attempted to take his accustomed bite Of
toast ut breakfast.
RISE IN SALT AT LIVERPOOL. "A tele-
gram from Liverpool states that owing
to the scarcity of coal, the sult manu-
facturers there had stopped work, which
action on their part had caused an ad-
vance in the price of over fifty per cent.
At the camp-meetinga at Martha's Vine
yard the thieves are said to be very de-
won't In their devotons, and some of the
enthusiastic brethren think the process
OF conversion somewhat expensive.
| The OLDEST ADMINISTRATIONS
mourns the loss of it's oldest inhabitant.
at the age of 1863 years. Diana Mingo
was her name, and Africa her nation.
AS matter Of course, she was on init
mate terms with General Washington,
and the personal friend of Lafayette.
An Iowa editor has letter from a
subscriber, who writes: II don't want
your paper any longer" The editor
says. this is to be regretted, as he
had arranged to make the paper about