The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-08-23


oeivei by the commissioner, OF the Mar.
row Gauge Railroad Company, at this
place. thst meeting of the stockholders
Will be held at Lincolnton, N. G., on
tuesday next, 9th instant The object
OF the meeting is to elect President
and Board OF Directors, and make such
other arrangements as may be necessary
to get this important enterprise under
way at the earliest day practicable.
PorhuiUe Enquirer.
ANOTHER CHANCE.-A lonely pioneer
writes as follows from La Corna, Wyo-
ming: II sincerely wish that many hun.
dreds of old maids and widows. who
cannot get husbands at home, would
come out here, where they could speedily
get choice of good. honest, hard. work.
ing men, who could make them comfort
able and Independent. There are, T
really think, five men here for one wo.
man."
"A London letter-writer says that Bull
wer, who IS now nearly seventy years
old, lives in almost complete retirement,
and is no longer snowy man of the
world. He stoops, is exceedingly deaf,
ana mas altogether strange look of an
dith." now middle-aged man, is in the
diplomatic service
KILLED BY I1GHTN1Na.-On the 10Th
instant, two men, named Window and
Ciendenin, were waiting at West CoIum.
bia, Mason County, West Virginia. for a
steamer to arrive. A storm came up
suddenly, and they ran up hill to get
shelter from some trees. About half way
up. both we're killed by lightning. The
bodies were terribly disfgured.
BOUTWELL, A FAILURE. The New York
Herald concludes an elaborate review of
the condition of our national finances
with these words: 1.-The truth is, our ma
tional finances have been badly managed.
and the financial policy of the Admins.
tration. or rather of Mr.. Boutwell,, is a
failure"
The Win nsboro Ne,os suggests that the
citizens of the Fourth Congressional
District opposed to the reelection of A.
s. Wallace, meet in convention, through
their delegates, in Columbie, on the first
tuesday of September next, to put in
nomination o candidate to represent the
district in the next Congress-.
colored woman in Raleigh, while
handling kerosene lamp, accidentally
turned it over on her dress, when the
lamp exploded, setting fire to her cloth
ing. from the effects of which she soon
died. At the time of the accident, her
husband was lying corpse in the house.
SOUTH CAROLINA CoNFEnRScE.-A
notice IN the Christian Adoocd.e from
bishop Paine. changes the time of the
meeting Of the South Carolina Confer.
ence from the 18th to the 18th of De.
cember, 1872. The Conference meets at
Anderson @. 81.
A Nashville paper SAYS there was
never before such glorious crop of
pairs in that city as there has been
this season. Nearly every front gate is
loaded down with them on pleasant
evenings.
A despatch to the New York Woylf
from Easton, Pennsylvania, states that
the Radicals have determined to expend
So,O0O,OOO to carry the State election.
OF this amount Simon Cameron blanks
up no less than 81. 100000.
COSTLY LENs.-A microscopic lens was
recently made in London, at a cost of
ESQ from diamond. The magnifyino
power OF the lens is an increase over thai
OF glass in the proportion of eight to
three.
The Charlotte IN. c. Observer saws it
ls rumored that Gen. D. III. Hill and
Gen. John @. Breckenridge contemplate
reviving the military school at that
place.
Coal is at 30 high price in England
now that not only are old workings to
be re-opened, but fresh borings are to be
made in various parts Of the country in
search OF coal.
The editor of the Madison Pyoorsss
has recipe for getting rid Of bod bugs.
He sends beds and bngs to the auction
eer, who at once transfers them to the
highest bidder.
A Photographic marriage certificate is
the latest novelty. It is provided with
receeptacles for the photographs OF the
bride and bridegroom, and officiating
clergymen or officers Of the tlaw.
The negro murderer who committed
such horrible outrage near Memphis.
on Friday night, has not yet been heard
from. Neither can Capt. Pott find any
trace OF his three little children.
The New York Day Book, which form.
erly supported the straight out Demo
cratic movement, has come out for Gree.
ley and Brown.
The way they muzzle dogs in most Of
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