The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-11-10
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gentleman well-known in the Southern
part Of this State, M. e. Harmon, pur-
chased plantation in South Oaroiinn il
tne year 1858. In 1869. ho paid ,therao n
Iorty dollars IN taxes. In 1870, the take
TeIe Si83. In 1871, tho texas we're
soao. for TIE year 1872. tuxes to the
amount Of 81 900 were levied ou the
p.antatlon, Wherenpon Mr.. Harmon
abandoned the property
The New Orleahs Picnyune OF the both
says: About hatf-past II O'Clock yester-
aay' young man, named John Vincent,
%no lately resided on st. Philip street.
oet%een Miro and Tonti streets, repaired
w. tne 81. Louis Cemetery for the pur-
while engaged in this mission Of love faii
dead at the tomb. The,yerdiot Vas :, 80
disease" ri' IT-t' -, f"''o f"''o ~ s'
Arnim had demanSsd 'nnS ~ opans psaa;a von
Thiers disavowal of Gen. Duorot,s NV
der Of the day is contradicte,1. 'Fnrtha-
Paris advices say that France will nav -
Germany this week 100000, 600 franaa
and Will continue aipqilir instalments
until the 1st Of January, when but two
m'i!lards OF the war indemnity viii re-.
main unpaid. "N''
At ''gaessing party" sometime AGO.
DR.. II -. propounded the followi5e:
"A boy went fishing. He caught five.
and on his return was asked whit he had
done with tbem. He replied that be-
had given three to his father and four to
his uncle. How did he do it?" For
some moments the company rovolyed
Inc matter, and gave it UP. "Why, "
the doctor said, "thc boy lied, OF course. {"
iaborer working in rolling mill at
Terra Haute, Indiana, died in that civ
recently. Upon examining his trunk.
onnk certificates and other securities
were found amounting to nearly $50. 600
de provedto be Thomas Evans, q Welsh
man. OF Plttsburg, Pa, where It is
thought, from evidences found, that he
has wife still living.
YOU are from the country. are Won
not, slr?' said a dandy clerk in book
store: to handsomely dressed % uaker.
VINO had given him some trouble. "Yes." !"
Noll, here IS an essay on the rearing Of
caves; "That. said Auinidab, as he
turned to leave the store, ''thee had bet
ter present to thy mother"
The trial OF Mrs. Emily e. Lloyd for
tho murder of her daughter Nand occu-
Pled tue Circuit Court OF London Coun-
~, W., Tor several days The jury finally
brought III verdict OF mot guilty."
Inns singular case Of alleged poisoning ia
Oh eSpeclnl Interest to 'metlicul men,
DIR. Patte, of Helton, Kansas. on
Tuesday evening. prescribed chIornl for
patent. who complained that he could
not keep it on his stomaoh The doctor,
to convince him that it could be kept
down, took the dose himself, aud died
from the effects of it.
Eben L. Childs, Chief. Clerk in the
Post Office Department at Washington.
died suddenly at Albany, N. Y, on Tues.
day night iast. He was seventy.three
years of nge, and had been connected
with the Post Office Department for over
forty years.
On the 3Oth October oranoe of Po.
irons Of Husbandry was orcanized at
Mechanicsville by Capt. J. S. Richard
son, with twenty five members. on the
same day with the above, & grange was
organized by Capt. Richardson at Bishop
VILE, under auspicious circumstances.
A mouse, which had put in the night
making q nest in the amplest part Of a
Lafayette gentleman's pautaloons. oooa-
sioned all the stamping the other morn.
ing. and gave rise 40 the report that the
gentleman was reconstructing his mo.
tber-in-l aw.-Iadianapolis Nsws.
To THE Po1Nr.-The following speeoh
was made by the winner of prize in a
foot race: Gentlemen, I have won this
cup by the use OF my legs; trust I NAV
never lose tho nse of my legs by the use
Of this cup"
The name OF the humorous penins of
the Danbnry Ners is Riley. The sheet
iron cat man of the Titusville Press ia
called Leonard, and the infinitesimal
oolioquialist OF the Louisville Courier
Journal is known as Pndman.
Ex-Governor Bullock entertained Se-
nator Sumner and large party of dis
tingnished Americans at dejeuue,. at Ills
residence in the Champs EIysees, last
week.
A Connecticut man has invented a
machine by which one man car make
1000 keys i'll day. or double the num-
Der which can be made with any tool
now in use.
Near Carbondale, ILL.,, lies one of the
grentest coal deposits known. For a
distance OF five square miles the earth is
nnderlaid with bed of almost pure car
bon, nine feet aud two inches thick.
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