The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-12-06


remain ten or a dozen lives which have
been snutfsd GU: most mysterious'y, aud
whose manner of passing away is lea
lonsly guarded as dread secret by the
river and the street.
a.
The following is statement of the
United States currency outstanding ut
this date:
Old demand notes. $S4, 1897. SO; legal
tender notes. new issue, Sl04, 4Ol, 1872:
legal tender notes. series of 1869, 1888,
65O,OI4; one-year notes of 1868, S99, $40; ;
two.year notes Of 1868. S34, l50; two.
year coupon notes of 1868. $3l, 800;
compound interest notes, $3.50, ,O1O; frao.
tionai currency, first issue. 81. 377, ,254. 78;
fractional currency, second issue, $3, l8O.
6S7.01; fractional currency, third issue,
$3, 757, ,671 .46; fractional currency, fourth
issue. first series, $40. 394. 772.87; frac-
tlonal currency. fourth issue, second se-
riee, Sl2, ,0l6. 303 total $4O2, COZ, ,632 81.
PROBABLE PoIsoNINa.-A little daugh-
ter of Mr.. Hutson, the foreman of the
Savannah and Charleston Railroad work.
shops. situated in st. Andrews Parish,
died few days ago in sudden and IN. :.
accountable mauner. It is presumed
that she ate some poisonous herb or
berries while wandering through u piece
OF woodland near the shops. She was
only about five years old.
Charleston Me,os.
PRESENT TO THE VENERABLE APOSTLE
OF hETHoDIsM IN GEORGIA. Last Sa-
turday, his Excellency Governor Smith,
OF Georgia. presented the venerable
and widely beloved DR.. Lovick Pierce
with handsome gold-heuded cane.
This is deiioate sniI deserved tribute Of
respect to Christian citizen who holds
high estate i'll the appreciation Of many
thousands of his fellow citizens.
TREMENDOUS BLAST. Richmond
Granite Company. says the Enquirer,
have Just made one of the largest blasts
on record. having secured solid piece
of stone of excellent quality, sixty feet
long, fifty feet deep and forty-six feet
wide, measuring 1873. 600 cubic feet, and
weighing 1850 tons or, $4,000, 600
pounds.
BENTLY ACQUITTED. In Fulton Snpe-
rior Court, on Tuesday, the Jury in the
trial of Moses H. Dently. charged with
the murder of Malcolm Claiborne. a
negro member of the Legislature, in
1868, returned verdict OF not guilty.
Bently was a colored attachee OF the
Legislature. and the killing, it will be
remembered, took place in the Capital
building.
Tho Clubhouse of Mr. James Born.
near Lithonia, on the Georgia Railroad
was burned on the 28th ult., togethe or
with thirty bales OF cotton. 100 bushels
OF wheat, the same of oats. and 1,OOC
bushels OF cotton seed. A match in the
seed cotton ls supposed to have caused
the fire. Loss $500 to $4,000. Nc
insurance.
A terrible casualty occurred at Ora.
hams. on tho South Carolina Railroad.
on the Goth nlt. Tho wife and daughter
of Mr.. r. II. Martin were burned tc
death. Itnppears that the clothing Of
the young lady caught Gre in tho cook
room, and the mother going to hel
assistance. had her clothing ignited also
SMALL PoX IN NonrH CAROLINA. The
Wilmington journal learns that the
smallpox is still raging very violcntl,
near Summerville, Harnctt COUNTY
Much distress is resulting. At last re-
ports there had been twenty seven case,
and eight deaths. The disease was
brought from Baltimore.
There is said to be haunted honsc ir
Tradd street, Charleston Brick bats
coal and old bones are thrown about mys
teriously, and the colored folks in til,
vicinity arc terribly exercised.
Mrs. T. @. Cover, of Greenville. de
parted this life on Thursday, tho 2Stl
ult. Mrs. Lod Hill died at Ninety .Si,
on the 2d inst.
In tho libel suit OF Hepworth Dixon
us. the Pal Mall Gazste the jury award
ed the plaintiH damages to the amount
of one farthing.
It is claimed that no murder has h, or
committed in Frankfort on the. Main 70,
100 years.
st. Louis annually brews 35l, ,257 bar
rels OF lager beer requiring the consump
ton Of l,00] .0GO bushels of barley.
It costs Slo.O day TO play the Yer
sailles fountains.
The epizootic has appeared in Chester
but in mild form.