The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-12-27


CHARLESTON, December 25.-Arrived
-steamships Manhattan. New, York
Falcon, Baltimore; Virginia, Philadel
phia.
NEW York, December 26.-The ship
Newcastle was wrecked off Cooks Strait
on the 10th of November, and sixteen
persons were Lost.
Dispatches from the West report the
severest weather yesterday and last night
that has been known for years.
The King Of the Sandwich Islands is
The steamer Wild Cat and the barge
Swallow were sunk by tho ice below
Cairo.
Five girls and boys perished in Centre
street, New York. by fire.
The Clifford Hotel. corner 31st street
and Broadway, New York. WAS damaged
by fire to the extent of $5, 900 to-day.
The guests escaped.
The details Of the accident OF Glouse
Greek. near Pleasant Station, are horri
bic. The oars we're burning and there
was no water, and only two axes. E. 81.
Ball, telegraph operator, was killed. No
Southerners in the list. Twenty. one
were killed, sixteen OF whom were
oharred beyond recognition. Three ad-
ditional bodies are still under the wreck.
The shrieks of the sufferers lasted nearly
m hour. Several of those rescued will
die.
a vigilance committee at Visata, Cali-
tornia, hung Charles Allen, murderer
The rear Car of yesterdays train on
tho Indianapolis, Pennsylvania and Chi.
oago Railroad ran off the track by a
broken rail. Twenty persons we're in
jured, three fatally. No Southerners.
heavy Northeast gale prevails at
Fort Monroe. All trains approaching
Philadelphia are Delayed by snow. It is
showing persistently here and at tho
North.
Only hfty passengers were on the train
wrecked near Prospect. Pa, of whom
twenty-five are dead and sixteen wound.
ed. The passengers we're crowded into
one car, the truck Of which was crushed.
a passenger train on the Atchison,
Topeka and Santa Fe Road, snow-bound,
was telescoped by following train. Two
killed and four hurt
a nine.year old boy was killed by
snow ball thrown by playmate.
Cheers III the Spanish Cortes greeted
the reading of the bill emancipating the
Porto Rico slaves, within four months.
with compensation to the owners.
The Russian Czarowitch has the
typhoid fever, seriously. King Laonea
is dead-the last of the royal line, and
named no successor.
PHILADELPHIA. December 26.-The
snow crushed 400 feet of Whitine's car
wheel factory. A number of workmen
were buried.
W1LIAMsPoRT, Pa, December o.
Tho floor and ceiling of the Baptist
Oharch fell while 500 were worshippinQ.
Fourteen were killed and thirty wounded.
New YORK, December 26.-The Bow
cry Theatre and Canterbury Hall were
damaged by fire.
Twelve inches of snow. Teams and
street cars nearly ceased. A gale still
blows from the Northwest. Oars from
six to twelve hours behind. Outdoor
business is suspended. All approaching
mails are snow-bonnd. The storm con-
tlnues. and everything is stopped.
Trains due from the South are showed
up at Newark, N. j.
Il Mayor Hall proposes to give public
reception to Judges Campbell and Ken.
nedy. of New Orleans.
WASHINGTON, December 26.-Tho
White House is closed until after New
Years. The President receives no off,
cial visitors.
After George Bard was confirmed as
postmaster at Chattanooga. Tennessee,
Senator Brownlow moved g reconsidera-
ton. pending which Bard's commission
III withheld. Meantime, the present in
oumbent holds.
Probabilities-For New England and
the Middle States. winds backing to
Northerly and Westerly, with clearing
but partly cloudy weather; the former
Diminishing in force. For the Southern
States, Northerly to Westerly winds and
clearing but partly cloudy weather, with
increasing pressure. From the Ohio
Valley and Missouri to Lake Erie and
the upper lakes, increasing pressure.
Northerly to Westerly winds, and gene
rally clear and cold weather. From
Kansas to Minnesota, diminishing press.
ure and Southerly Winds
MOBILE, December 26.-The entire
through mail from New York for this
place. of the 10th and 18th instant, has
failed to reach here. Several later dates
have been received. Tho delay causes
great inconvenience.
PHILADELPHIA, December 2G.-A man
was found frozen stiff last night.
BUFFALO, N. Y, December 26.-An
Easterly storm for forty-eight hours has
driven water out OF Niagara River into