The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-10-29


lAugusta Chronicle.
A MONTANA GHOST. T.-Montana has its
ghost story. The mysterious visitors
make their appearance in the neighbor-
hood of the town OF Sterling, in the
Lower Hot Springs District. There
stands at this place stone house, larger
and more pretentions than any in the
vicinity. 1t was erected by mining
company. and was occupied by miners
and ghosts. There was soon an ''incom-
pstibility of temper" between the two
| classes Of tenants. The mining company
would very willingly have served writ
of ejectment upon the ghosts, but they
wandered from room to room, making
hideous noises, approaching, retreating,
now overhead, now underfoot, and de-
fed human eye.sight. The miners en-
dured these nocturnal disturbances for
awhile, but at last their ethereal visitors
commenced to disturb the sleepers in
their beds, indicating their presence by
adjusting tho bedding, tucking it under
Mt the side as carefully as mothers do
about their sleeping infants, and lightly
patting the bodies of those in the beds,
and waving their hands above their
faces. They felt no touch of the hands
on the face, but distinguished the mo-
tions in the disturbance Of the air. That
was too much. The miners could with
stand the spirits when mp and awake.
but that the ghosts should "put them in
their little beds" so carefully, and in
such a motherly manner, was beyond
their endurance. They decamped.
DON'T DE AFRAID OF DIRT.-Old DR..
Cooper, of South Carolina, used to say
to his students, "Dnn't bn afraid of dirt,
young gentlemen. What is dirt? Why,
nothing at oil offensive, when chemical
ly viewed. Rub little alkali upon the
dirty grease spot on your coat, and it
undergoes a chemical change and be-
comes soap; now rub it with o little
water and it disappears It is neither
grease, soap, water nor dirt. That is not
a very odorous pile of dirt you see yon-
der; we'll, scatter little gypsum over it.
and it is no longer dirt. Everything
like dirt is worthy of our notice as stu.
dents of chemistry. Analyze it; it will
separate into very clean elements. Dirt
makes corn, corn makes bread and meat,
and that makes very sweet young lady,
that saw ono of you kissing last night.
SO after all you were kissing dirt, par
ticularly if she whitened her face with
chalk or fuller's earth; though may say
that rubbing such stuff upon beautiful
skin of young lady is dirty practice.
Pearl powder, / think, is made of bis.
muth; nothing but dirt. Lord Palmer
ston's fine definition of dirt is matter in
the wrong place. Put it in the right
place, and we cease to think Of it as dirt. u
WILL He KEEP HIS PLEDaEs?-And
now that Moses is to be our next Go,
vernon, what are we going to do about
it? Or what is he going to do about iti
Will he observe the party platform as
adopted by the South Carolina regular
Republican party, and OF which he is the
considered head and front? And will he
keep his solemn promises of retrench.
ment and reform made by him time and
again during the canvass? If he sus.
tans his promises and conducts his ad.
mnistration in accordance with the pro-
claimed pledges Of his party, his admi.
nistration will meet with encouragement
and support from the good people of the
State, and peace and prosperity will
bless the commonwealth once moro.
Edgg'eld Adoertiser.
Rosa Bonheur is always showing how
the lower animals gambol. Her latest
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