The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-12-03

MleTs III hu aAterCatlOn, enOC ana Killed q
citizen and wounded his child Tue
friends of the citizen demanded of the
civil authorities the arrest of the soldier.
Ihe OWL authorities declined to inter-
tere, aud referred the applicants to the
military authorities. These latter refus
ing to surrender the soldier to the civil
authorities, the citizens organized and
made Ill attack on the barracks, when
twelve persons were killed and wounded
on both sides.
A foreign letter gives this description
OF King Victor Emanuel: "His Msjesty
was looking even more repulsively ugly
than usual, his head nearly disappearing
between his shoulders in consequence of
bis increasing bulk, and his complexion,
always dark. haviug become neurIy black.
His neck Is now 30 short, from obesity,
that his enormous moustnches rest on
each shoulder, aud a perpetual scowl
clouds his face
Gen. Sherman's report shows the
actual force of enlisted men in the army
to be 29336, aud of com missioned
| officers, 2. .104. He submits with this
report those of all the officers command
ing military departments and divisions.
which, he states, are 40 full that thev
leave him nothing to do but to submit
them with his hearty approval of the Sc
veral recommendations therein.
Quartermaster. General Meigs reports
that the examination aud settlement Of
the accounts of the war hive ut leuuth
been completed nnd tho business brought
MP to date. The vastness of the labor
may be inferred from the fact that it has
taken seven or eight years to perfurm it,
IL ls matter of congratulations that the
books are balanced at lust.
A young man engaged in making him
self attractive to IL young lady on Elm
street, Monday evening. WAS taken with
violent tit of coughing, and brought
up two marbles which he had swaIlu;Yu,!
when boy. She said she didn't want
to marry stone quarry.
Dan6u,y Ne'os
Cooper Rains, charged with having
set fire to q cotton Clubhouse ut Florence,
in October last, has been arrested in
Wilmington by detective Henry Wray,
OF Charleston, and lodged in Jail. The
necessary executive papers have been
completed, and lie will be brought to
this State for trial
BURNED TO DEATH Mrs and Miss
Martin. residing nsar Graham's Depot,
1 IL oaiu"til SuuuIy, were aCClQenCnIIy
burned to death On last Thursday night.
The young woman was cooking when
her clothes took fire, aud her mother in
trying to extinguish the flames was also
burned to denth.
SURVIVORS OF THE MISSOURI DISASTER.
The steamer MORO Castle. from Havana,
brought four of the crew saved from the
steamer Missonri-John Freeney, first
assistant engineer: d. A. North, third
assistant engineer; Charles Sinclair, OIL
er; Charles Conway, fireman.
The Comptroller recommends that the
law be 40 amended that national banks
may be- Organized upon the deposit of
S10.0 of United States bonds with the
Treasurer, instead OF the deposit of one
third Of the capital paid up as now rs.
quired.
The Fincastle (Virginia) Herald says
the discovery of banks of ore near
Buchanan, in that Stnte, is creating con-
siderable excitement. Land that was
considered almost worthless sells at the
rate of $500 per acre.
DEATH OF PROMINENT CITIZEN. Mr..
j. w. Horton. Of the well-known firm of
Horton & Walton. died yesterday even.
ing about 6 o'clock ut his renidence, of
typhoid pneumonia, after short illness