The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-07-14

Aone Aocai administrations kept him
IN the clty's employ as public cemetery
Keeper until the Office was abolished by
the present municipal government. He
was The founder of the Charleston Fire
Company, and its first President.
charleston Courier.
Last week. train of cars near Phila.
delphla, struck negro man, threw him
twenty feet into the air, and tore his
clothing all to shreds. The train was
stopped, and the horrified spectators
went back to find him on his feet again.
resuming his line of march upon the
track. He proved to be deaf. and
seemed to look upon the affair as q com.
mon incident of travel. He did not
know what they were talking about. or
seemed to care, when questioned. The
locomotive probably struck him on the
head.
If "there were giants in those days. !"
tnere Is now, and giant in this. But
alas! the tallest man in Chicago. if not in
the country. is dead-Lars Tollefson, q
native OF Norway. He went to what
may with strict propriety, be called his
iong nome last week. He was seven feet
nine inches in height, and weighed 375
POUNDS. He kept place of entertain
ment' and strangers visited it and took
their drinks there, that they might he.
hold the Brobdignagian bar.keeper.
A large snake. of strange species. was
killed in Virginia the other day, which
had head in the shape of diamond.
tapering from the eyes to the nose. and
from the eyes back, with beautiful dia-
mond scales covering the top of the
head, long, pointed tail, and which.
when attacked, made Kissing or blow.
ing noise that could be heard at distance
of 100 yards.
MIR. Stanley, tho Herald correspond.
ent. must henceforth snppIant Chester
field in reputation for delicate courtesy
and etiquette. After encounteripp war.
pestilence and famine, his coming upon
the single white man he was in search of.
many meles in the interior of Africa
with "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?" for
a plon'5 and GOODNESS, certainly overtops
Chesterdeld's "Hand Dayrolles O chair. "
The American tide of foreign travel
THIS year, according to accounts from
abroad, tends rather to Germany than
to France. Most of the American tonr.
lists by the New York and Bremen steam
|
amptops as formerly. London, too,
gets greater proportiopnte share of
visitors, ms compared with Paris, than it
used to.
At Greensboro, N. c., on the 4th,
three colored men were attacked by O
mob OF about 100 infuriated negroes. in
the public street, for expressing their
political sentiments as opposed to the
Radlcals, and being in favor of the Con-
serVative Democratic party. They were
attacked with clubs and stones, and were
dangerously beaten before the police
could quiet the demons.
1t is stated in New York that after the
adjournment of the Convention. q move.
ment was set on foot in Baltimore for q
reunion of soldiers, North and South.
IN New York. during September. The
call ls to have the names of Generals T.
L. Clingman, J. B. Gordon, Fitzhueh
Lee, Bradley T. johnson and J. D. I'm
boden.
The recent floods in Bohemia da-
maged the fertile districts in which il 90.
cured to the extent of $15, 600 600.
The sudden rise of the waters. caused
the drowning of 700 persons, who were
In their beds at the time of the calamity.
Hundreds of houses. together with rail.
road bridges and embankments, we're
carried away by the inundation.
Not few people there are who fancy
that Macready is dead. The death oi
the great actor was reported, and his
obituary was written, few years ago
but, in fact, he still! lives, and is said to
be hale and hearty. His age is seven.
ty-nine, and his residence is Cheltenham.
England.
Thibadoux. Louisiana, has a curions
system of water-works. The town lies
below the level of the sea, end is pro.
tected by dyke. Over this embank.
ment water is introduced through laroe
siphons. by means of which the streets
are sprinkled, the ditohes kept clean.
and the atmosphere cooled.
A Berlin correspondent of the London
Standard writes that the increasing tide
OF emigration from Germany to A@erica
causes considerable uneasiness to the
Imperial Government, and measures for
the repression of the exodus of subjects
OF the Empire are seriously contemplated.
The tropical heat OF the last few dave.
n0S Infused new life into tba ol1;oo tors