The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-09-07

Halifax, another through the Hoosac
| iannel to Lake Ontario, and third TO
the Hudson River and the coal fields. In
the city itself. according to the Board of
Trade, new freight depots, storehouses
ana grain elevators are to be erected.
ana the utmost liberality is to invite q
constantly increasing volume OF trade.
ihey are sanguine, these Boston people:
but. whatever may be their faults, they
undoubtedly understand business and
commercial enterprise.
RETURN OF PRoDIaAn.-A TELEGRAM
20 the Richmond Dispatch says: wayne
Brown. agent OF the Southern EXPRESS
Company at Athens, Tenn, about four
years ago, absconded with about $40. 600
OF the express compafy's money. He
returned to Athens from the South a
few days since. Brown is in the last
stages of consumption, and says he has
come home to die"
The New York Commercial sava.
Ever since n. G.. clasped hands with
the Secretary of the Navy across a clam
chowder at Rye Beach, he has fallen into
the habit Of hitohing his trowsers and
spicing his conversation with sShiver nv
timbersI" We have no doubt that bv
that olasping OF hands H. G.. acquired
ABOUT all the knowledge of naval affairs
that Rnbeson possessed.
Louisville Journal
MIR. O'CoNNoR. Hon. Nj. P.
O'Connor, who has been urgently re-.
quested to take part in the Liberal can.
vass IN the Eastern States, left Charles.
ton thursday evening, and will probably
speak in both Boston and New York in
the course OF next week. One thing is
certaln-Mr. O'Oonnor will do the Gree
ley cause yeoman service, wherever he
may be.
FIRE.-On Wednesday, the 28th ult.
thr turpentine still of Mr.. J. W. Holli.
day. at Galivant's Ferry, together with
about 800 barrels of rosin and crude
stuff, was consumed by fire. The fire
was occasioned by q leak in the still. Mr..
Holiday informs us that the loss will be
about SO. .000.-Horry Ne,os.
A Liverpool paper states that the
Alessrs. RothschiId's subscription list to
| the last French loan amounted to H1lO.-
QUO, 700 and that of Messrs. Barring Bro.
theirs d 90. to G44 4,O0O,O 900. A member
OF the House of Commons put his name
| down on Messrs Rothachild's list for
98, ,0U0,O 900.
Among the heaviest articles probably
ever sent by railroad we're two immense
iron paddle shafts recently sent from
Bridgewater, Mass, to San Francisco.
They were nearly forty feet long, twenty.
six inches in diameter, and weighed to-
gether upwards OF seventy-one tons.
II don't miss my church 80 much "a
you suppose. said lady to her minister.
who hnd called upon her during her iii.
ness, ''for make Betsy sit at the window
as soon as the bell begins to chime and
tell me who are going to church, and
whether trey have got anything new."
The statistician OF an Eastern news.
paper AYERS that the flies are so good
natured this season, that well.oroanized
one will allow himself to be brushed off
ones nose eighty-seven times aud not
show any temper.
Punch's cartoon represents German
trooper. who, on looking at the subscrip.
ton to the French loan, exclaims: "Von
tnusend six ondred million boundsi
Mein Gott! mein Gott! und dev sav va
plondered dem."
Some one asked the daughter of New
Yorker, who was about to marry his
fourth wife, who was going to perform
the ceremony. She replied, II don't
know, but presume that it will be DR..
Spring. He generally marries father
HoRR1BLE.-It is stated that many of
the bodies washed ashore from the fated
steamer Metis, were robbed of money
and jewelry.
An old blast which had been put in a
rock at Lexington, Ky., twenty-one
years ago, recently exploded and killed
two men working near.
HoAIoIpE.-A oolored man, named
Furman Simon, killed another colored
man, named George McFarlane. near
Society Hill, on the 18th ultimo.
An enthusiastic meeting in the interest
of the Little River and Oheraw Rail
read, was held in Bennettsville, on the
| I'd instant O
A ton OF coal can be dissipated into
10000 cubic feet OF gas.
Flaminius Olympicsthanes Agrippa
Williams sets type in San Francisco.
4 flying machine is on exhibition at
Dubuque.