The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-08-30

Ihey nave anarchy organized in Pope
County, Ark. 1t seems that the sheriff
and his deputy we're desirous of holding
their offices another year, and SO got up
little sham bushwhacking, Which
proved to be great deal nearer the real
thing they intended, two men being
killed in the performance. The sherifi
then tried to get martial law proclaimed,
in order that he might hold over, but
the citizens protested, and the Governor
got bewildered by the conflicting testi-
mony, and things became pretty consid-
erably mixed.
DEATH OF A FAMOUS TRorrER. Wade
Hampton, well-known and popular
trotter, owned at one time by Alderman
Doris, OF this city. was killed by an acci
dent at Springfield. Mass, last Tuesday
week, while he was being removed from
the oars to the race course at that place.
to take part in the races there. At the
time OF his death, he Was owned by Mr..
Abram johnson. who purchased him
from Alderman Doris, last April.
IAugusta Chronicle.
STURGEON CoMINa.-It is said that the
Rev. Mr.. Spurgeon will visit BROOKLYN
in the autumn as the guest of DR.. Tai.
mage, and will probably preaoh for him
in the Tabernacle. That would be an
event in current religious history which
would cause an excitement similar to
that which attended the visit of DR.. New.
man Hall to this country.
The Scandinavians of Chicago. wea.
ried with being claimed as being unit
for Grant, thought they would put q
stop to the assumption. So they had an
enthusiastic convention, and pledged
themselves in favor of Greeley. It was
sufficient anewer.
SUDDEN DEArH.--About O'Clock, on
Tuesday evening. Ar. G. Gerkin, q re-
spectacle German citizen, fell down in O
lit at the corner of Vanderhorst and Kine
streets. while on his way home from bust
ness, and died shortly afterwards.
There is no funeral so sad to follow as
the funeral of our own youth which we
have been pampering with fond desires
ambitious hopes, and all the bright ber.
ries that hang in poisonous clusters over
the path of life.
On and after Monday next, the I'd @,
September, the Charleston Ne,cs will be
issued from its new publication Office,
No. 10 Broad street, the building form.
erly occupied by the Southwestern Rail
road bank.
A Southern claimant" sent as proof
OF his loyalty to the United States during
the war, that "whon he was drafted in
the Confederate army his mother cried
like -"
Mr.. j. Messer Jenkins, residing in the
lower part of the County, died very sud.
denly on Last Wednesday night, at his
homo near Jenkins Bridge.
lGreenoiRe Enterprise.
Gen. Wade Hampton says that he is
compelled to decline serving as mem.
Der of the Democratic State Executive
Committee.
At last, the East coast African slave
trade is doomed. England, France and
America have joined hands in earnest to
be rid Of the horror.
EaEvery great and original writer, in pro.
portion as he is great or original, must
himself create the taste by which he is
to be relishe2.
Oliver Wendell Holmes has added n
new word to the vocabulary. He speaks
of 'imbibitionists" as an antomvn OF
"prohibitionists.
He that does q base thing in zeal for
his friend. burns the golden thread that
ties their hearts together.
Two twin boys in Warren County.
Ind, aged seventy.two years, are tender.
ly cared for bY O mother of ninety.six