The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-12-22

BosToN, December 2l.-Cotton offer
lngs good; demand light-middliug 2O% :;
receipts 3,573 bales; sales GOO; stock
5000.
The London correspondent of the New
York Tribune says that Mrs Gates, who
ls one Of the victims of Bowles Brothers,
tho American bankers, sis lady of great
age, Southerner, who had disposed OF
her property in South Carolina ut con
siderable sacrifice, in order to put it in
shape III which both the property itself
would be perfectly secure and the income
froin it certain" She loses $4,000.
How TO PREVENT CHICKEN Tu1Ev1Sa.
A gentleman in Delaware County, Penn,
many depredations, few days ago shut
an old buck up in his chicken house.
Late in the night fearful yells, mixed up
with frantic cries and awful curses, were
heard, and, upon going to the scene, q
sprawllng chicken thief was found,
with head on him." and an old ram
going for him with vengeance.
CHEERING. THE Greenville iNountuin
eer learns that Mr.. Henry Gremshaw, of
Canada, has purchased $40 acres OF the
lands of the late Col. T.. S. Irvine, in
Guiding the family homestead. Tho
price to be paid for these valuable lands
is 50, 100. Mr.. Gremshaw expects, at an
early day, to bring about twenty families
from Canada to settle on the place.
Philosophers do sometimes commit
suicide. One did in Cleveland, Ohio,
the other day, and the modus operandi
was interesting. He first loaded his re-
volver, and connected it with clock
work, 80 that it should be fired off at
certain time. Then he took dose of
chlcroform, and before he awoke had
passed painlessly and peacefully into
eternity,
The experiments thus far mado in
Fresno County, Cal, in the growing of
cotton, have been SO successful, that it
promises to become one of the leading
cultures Of the Jonquin Valley, much Of
the ground that has hitherto been un-
suited to other crops being found excel
lently adapted to this staple.
The FUNDED LoAN-A despatch from
Washington says: ut is said that repre-
sentatives of syndicate of German
bankers arc ready to take the whole four,
four and half and five per cent. funded
loan for commission of 21s per cent,
leaving tho treasury free of all expense. !"
A Barnesville youth, after carrying
his sweetheart to her fathers door and
faltering ont tender good night, was
escorted to the gate by the deep -mouthed
Watchdog. The young man says it is
impossible to shake himself entirely free
from the suspicion that the old man was
hid out in the shrubbery.
An Illinois cattle drover, while riding
in Minnesota recently, heard tho explo.
sion Of pistol and felt himself wound
ed in the hip. After yelling ''assassins,'
he learned from his burning breeches
that the bombardment proceeded from
his own pocket.
In Downieville, CAL, in 1853, q wo.
man was attacked with insanity and shot
O miner. The populace Immediately be.
can1e insane nnd hung her by the neck
to bridge. It is needless to say that
Mrs. Fair does not propose to settle in
Downieville.
A Detroit dying man grasped watch
and held it so firmly that after death the
fingers could not be unclasped, and the
watch was buried with him. He must
have died of tick doloureux.
Keep sober and then you can talk
straight. One Of our druggists was
quite surprised the other day, to hear a
fellow inquire il lie had any of "Mrs.
Soothlow's Winsling Slyr'p."
When man falls into forty fool
we'll at Omaha, and ropes are not q,
hand to draw him up at once. q bottle
OF whiskey is sent down to him as m