The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-04-21

The Missouri Cducasion thus dis
oourseth. through several columns. of
Man.: "bfanl A blotch, leprous pim-
pie on creation's face; foul and ulcer.
GUS wart upon her nose. whited SO.
poicre. fair indeed to look upon, but
within full OF rotteness and ashes. A
gilded cage Of uncleRn birds. An enam-
el rind-cnveloped mass of animated car.
ron, In which swarms of shiny moral
reptiles revel and hold high carnival
loathsome vermin of lnsts, battening,
sqnirming and entwining, in every nook
ana corner OF their fostering feasting-
place-the hideous maggots of embryo
murder, rape and robbery" &c., Sc.
A mild-lnannered Missouri writer saws
OF the opponents of the passive policy
"Ha! ha! Their ears would do for stee-
Piles to nigger meeting houses. All this
6ust.head oratory, this gushing on the
defunct whimsics of twenty years ago,
is simply windmill charging-if persist
ed IN, only the rattle of the cleds on
their own, our own political collins
only the slashes Of the crazy spades that
Will dig themselves q sepulchre, from
whose bottom omless depths no legion Of
daorieis, though with heaven cracking
o!nst, shall ever resurrect them.''
The cherry buzz Of the buzz saw, as it
turns out first class fatal accidents, is
waited on every gale from Maine to Flo.
rldn, and rises above the crash of the
non-explosive coal oil lamp. Soon the
combined mower and reaper will com
mence to reap Il harvest of fingers and
toes, and shooters of spring ducks will
blow down their guns to see if they are
loaded. For these and MI other mercies
mny we paragraphists be made truly
grateful Chicago Post
Speaking of distinguished Confe,l-
erate officer lately deceased, the Chicago
Nc''s says: 1--WE would willingly draw
the vail over his unpatriotic and treason
aolo conduct, but cnnnot do so if others
proudly flannt it in the eyes of the whole
world" Such vail would hardly cost
more than seventy-Gve cents, but we
must nevertheless accept the excuse of
the Netcs, Us it doesn't look like nows-
papor whose income would justify tho
expense.-Couricy Journal
KANsAs.-Just as a traveller was writ.
Ing his name on the register of a Leayen-
worth hotel, bed-bug appeared, and
took Its way across the book. The man
paused and remarked: 1--WE been bled
by. st. Joo tieas. bitten by Kansas City
spiders, and interviewed by Fort Scott
backs, but I'll ID if I was ever
IN place before where the bed-bues
looked over the hotel register to find out
where your room wns!"
The night previous to the late shake
man named w. II. Stewart lectured in
Sacramento, and after the lecture, at 70
o'clock, directed the attention of a party
OF friends to the peculiar state Of the at
mosphcro, and predicted M earthouake
within ten hours. It camo in two hours
and thirty minutes.
WILLIAM Ladder, Eso.-It is with
great pleasure we announce the gradual
recovery OF our esteemed associate, VIM.
Ladder, Esq. from his late illness. He
paid us short and pleasant visit mt the
otiice. yesterday, and, in common with
the communlty. we hope for his speedy
restoration to health. with renewed
energy and vigor.- Charleston Courier.
~ Newfoundland dog, in Salem, Mass.
who saw the team Of his master start to
run, sprang into the wagon, seized the
reins III his teeth, and in IA short dis
tnnco brought the horse to stop. Then
the dog jumped out, and, Standing by
tho horses head, barled till the driver
came, when he resumed his nap on the
sidewalk.
y shoe maker named Nichols, resilipp
With his family at Mazda Hill, suburb
OF London, recently murdered oil his
children, four in number, and then COM
mltted suicide. 1t is not known what
prompted tho man to commit this terri
BILE act, though it is believed he was in-
sane.
@When the new frontier fortresscs of
Germany are finished. it will be rroha.
bly, the strongest line of defence in the
world. The line will run from Cologne
through Coblentz, Mnycnce, Metz,
Bitsch. Strasburg and New Brisach, to
n new fortress, which will bo built some
where i'll tho Black Forest region.
:, Speaking of the carpet-baggcrs. the
New York Nation asks: "Nhat service
have these persons rendered the country
that we shonld grant them tho monopo
ly of robbing the rcbcls?" They Ger
tainly rendered the North very great
service by leaving it. .
MADE GooD.-Tha Washington cor
respondent of the New York Herald
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