The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-12-01
= KILLED ON THE RA,1RoAp.-Yesterdav-

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rate OF speed, the engineer discovered q
man on the track ahead of the looomo.
tive. The whistle was sounded and it
was thought, as matter Of course, that
the man would get off the track. The
engine soon reached and struck down
the unfortunate man, over whose body,
We understand, the whole train passed,
mangling it in a horrible manner. When
reached, after the train was stopped, he
was dead. We learned that his name
was Roden.-Augustd Constitutionalisi.
| ACCIDENT NEAR BnUNsoN's.-O Sa-
turday. the 10th instant, while Mr.. n.
}. Snider. of this County, was boiling
syrup OF the house of Mr.. A. G. NIchIil-
Ian, one OF his children, O very interest
ing girl OF about six years old, climbed
upon the top bench OF the mill, and be-
fore her perilous situation could be OBJ
served, the lever to which the horse was
attached came around, and she wns
crushed between the bench and lever, 30
severely that she died in about half an
hour. .-Beauf0rt Republican.
| A correspondent writes to the Eutaw
(Ala.) lVhig and Observer that q serious
dlihculty took place between Benjamin
Say ana his son, Thomas Ray. W. s. A.
>. Perry and G. e. Knott, two miles
from Bragg's Bluff. in the Tishabee Flat
settlement. in Greene County, by which
all parties wore seriously wounded. B..
hay died in forty eight hours from the
effects of five shot wounds from Perry.
Knott will die.
Kitchen BURNED. A. P. Lining
had the misfortune of losing his kitchen
on Monday morning, about / 10 o'clock.
| when discovered it had progressed so
far that all efforts were vain to extin-
gulsh it. MIR. Lining and his neighbors
succeeded in confining the fire to the
Kitchen. Nothing was saved. During
tne ire Mr. Lining sprained his leg, and
has been laid up for several days in con-
sequence. Can,de. Journal.
G1N-HoUsE BURNED. in-house
OF DR.. Arlington. about eight miles from
Louisville, IN Jefferson County, Fla, was
burned, together with several bnles of
cotton, last Saturday. The fire ia sup
posed to have been caused by matches
dropped into the seed cotton by negroes,
and which were ignited by the saws Of
the gin while passing through the latter
with the cotton.
| SUDDEN DEATH.-On last Wednesday,
Mr.. John Graham, an old man we'll
known IN this city. was found dead in his
room at bis boarding house on Mcintosh
street. The jury returned verdict to
the effect that the deceased came to h;s
death from nervous exhaustion and pre-
mature old age. Mr.. Graham was about
sixty five years of age at the time of his
death.-Augusta Constuutionalist
PRooREss.-The Chester Reporter
states that Blackstocks, situated on the
Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Rail
road, at the dividing line between Fair
field and Chester Counties, is developing
rapidly into the proportions oi icwn.
New houses are going up, and every
thing presents the appearance of bust
ness stir and activity.
ACCIDENT. Inst Wednesday afternoon
youth. named - Odom, about four
teen years of age, accidentally shot him
self in the side, while hunting in the vi
cln1ty OF Augusta. He managed to
reach home, but his pain was 80 great
that he was unable to tell how the acci-
dent happened. He ID lying in critical
condition.
SUICIDE DURING AN ATTACK OF MAMA
A-PoTU.-A suicide was committed. yes.
terday morning. about 8 O'Clock, by Mr..
John Shea, q laboring man, while suffer
ing from an attack of n,ania.a potu, liv.
ing in tho house of Mrs. Gavin, ON the
South eastern corner of President and
East Broad streets. by shooting himself.
[SaOManah Republican.
The Chief Engineer Of the Army, in
his report to the Secretary of War, asks
for appropriations in the following sums
for the repairs OF and strengthening sea
coast defences in the South: Fort Monl.
trie, S30,OO0; Fort Sumter, $50, 900:
Fort Johnson. $4,000; Castle Pinckney,
SS. 500.
The Sheriff of Clayton County, Ga ,
has lodged ia tho Jail in Atlanta a negro
villain who outraged little girl twelve
years of age, on Monday last. The little
girl was the daughter Of deceased Con-
federate soldier. and her mother wae
lying sick and helpless within reach of
the cries OF her child.
| Washington special says: INSPIRED
by Hodges pardon, friends have begun
efforts to secure the pardon of tho Go
vernment clerks Mardon, johnson and
Kenbig. sentenced for misappropriutiug
Government funds. sud now confined in
the Washington jail"
Ex Comptroller Connolly was at one
| time resolved to Stand his trial in Ameri.