The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-08-15
rnLE1aRAPHIo
roroiHn Affairs.

German auth critics., the Jesuit establish.
ment at Alsaoe has been closed.
PARIS. august 14-Thiers will arrive
here to-day rom Trouville, and will pre-
side at a Cabinet council this evening.
American Matters.
CHARLESTON, August 14.-Arrived-
steamships Manhattan, New York: Sea
Gull, Baltimore.
PrrrsbURa, August IA despatch
states that the failure of Fisher Brothers
causes great excitement in oil circles
there. Their liabilities are believed to
be over 81, 100000 but they ask time to
make everything good.
HAVANA, August 10, VIA KEY WEST,
August 14.-Brig. Gen. Morales Rios
goes to Santiago de Cuba, and Gen.
Riguelme, commander of the depart
ment, takes the field, ana assumes chief
command of the Eastern and Central
Departments. Communication by rail-
road between Nuevitas and Puerto Prin-
cipe is interrupted.
ASHLAND, PA, August 14.-3 o'clock
this morning, elk men, returning from
Gowell and Audeuried Mines, near Cen
tralia, where they had been engaged in
repairing the works, were fred upon by
party of Molly Maguires. secreted in
the woods, and George w. Davis, John
P. Webster and Alfred Bupge we're badly
wounded; Davis. it is supposed, fatally.
The men had been ut work contrary to
the orders. Of the Molly Maguires. The
assaseils are still at large.
MONTREAL, August 13.-The Spanish
Vice-Consul at this place was yesterday
put in possession of information which
led to the discovery of widespread
organization in this country for the en-
listment Of volunteers for the revoiu-
tionary army in Cuba. The scheme
contemplated the enlistment of men in
the principal cities of the dominion. and
concentrating them at some place on the
Bay OF Fundy. A vessel had been char
tered to be In attendance at the rendez-
vous some time next month, and was to
have taken her cargo out to meet
Cuban cruiser at point further South,
where they would have been transhipped.
A large number OF recruits have been
made in Montreal, st. John and Halifax,
and IT will now require great energy and
watohfnlness on the part of the domi-
mon authorities to prevent the carrying
out of the undertaking
CLEVELAND. August 14.-Annie Wat
son. of Pittsburg, won $4,000 trot.
Time. 2 361s. 235. 2.37L.
LOUISVILLE. August 14-.At 10
o'clock, last night, during a severe
storm, the. walls of new unfinished
building, owned by s. P. Suit & Co..
opposite the Gait House, were blown
down, with fearful crash. The walls.
which were seventy-two feet high above
the ground, fell East, on the adjoining
two-story brick residence of Mr.. Jordan
Giles, entirely destroying the building
and its contents. The loss by the aooi.
dent is estimated at 100000. A small
building on the West side was also
crushed. No person was injured.
New YORK, August IA Green's
boro. y. O., despatch says that Jim
} Johnson, the ice cream poisoner, has
been indicted and jailed. Several of the
persons poisoned are yet in great dan
ger, one or two of their lives being de-
SPARED of. The excitement there has
greatly snbsided.
European mail advices report the
death Of M. Kaiser, the celebrated
astronomer and Professor at the Uniyer-
sity Of Leyden.
Nj. Beck, General Of the order OF Je.
suits, has oonvoked an assembly of Je.
snlts at Rome. to consider the project of
changing the name and dress OF the
Jesuits expelled from Prussia, making as
many as possible to enter into the orders
still suffered there.
Three OF the victims to yellow fever
on the Numancia were yesterday inter.
red in the quarantine cemetery. Strict
health regulations are exercised in refer
ence to the pest, and it is not apprehend
ed that the scourge will visit Staten
Island, within mile of which tha rom
is anchored.
CoRsY. Pa, August 14.-H. Donnelly.
of Dunkirk. N. Y, was murdered, this
morning. in the lookup in this city, by
James Nevills. an insane man, whom he
was conveying to the asylum. His head
was chopped off with an old axe.
Dover, DEL, August 14.-The Demo.
cratic Convention formed an electoral
ticket for Delaware, and nominated
Oustis W. Wright for Congress. The
Convention took no action regarding
Greeley.
The grinding mill at Dupont's powder
works exploded, killing one.
NEW YORK, August 14-Eveninp.
The thermometer ranged from 100 to
1O6-the highest point this season.
WASHINGTON, August 14-Eyeninp
They don't know ar tho Wat. r.