The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-03-21


after?-Afrs. Burleigh.
AN OLD TINE EunoaY.
two years have passed since, on the floor
of Congress, John Marshall announced
the death of Washington. His words,
dictated by the deepest reverence and
affection, are rs follows: .:Let us pay
the last tribute OF respect to our de-
parted friend. Let the grand council
OF the nation display the sentiments
the nation feels. However public con-
fidence may change, and public affsc-
tlon fiuctuate as to othors, with respect
to him, in war and in peace, in public
and private life, they have been as
steady as his own firm mind and CON
stant as his own exalted virtues"
At st. Johns, (New Foupdland,) q
lover recently married a girl whom lie
supposed WAS as poor as church mouse,
and. not being Crmsus himself, love in
cottage was his only expectation.
After the knot was duly tied, however,
the girl informed him that she possessed
II ,OOO,O 600 sterling in her own right.
and one OF the handsomest residences in
Canada is to be the future domicile of
the happy pair.
story comes from Crochet, Texas,
that in thunder. .etorm ut that place, an
'eroiite fell concurrently with the light
nlng's flash. 1t was large fused mass
OF molten matter, with holo through it
perhaps one OF Jove's string of beads.
1t may be that a streak Of lightning
knocked joint out Of comets tail, or
ran afoul of q crazy little meteor.
A curious literary treasure was recently
announced for sale in Paris. It WIS
copy of the Constitution of the French
Republic OF 1874, bound in human skin.
The volume is supposed to have been
issued from the Meudon tannery, where,
it is asserted, this kind of leather was
manufactured during the Reign of
Terror.
The horses in Arizona suasist Oh dry
pea vines that would mako a horse sick
to look at in Q civilized country; but the Q
Indians outdo them. They eat tunas of
the cactus, and pepper them with the
allkall Of the plains to assist the internal
machinery In cutting off the rough edges.
The Boston" is so popular in Wash
ipgton that it is said several couples
wore caught by the sexton dancing that
mazy measure in the vestibule of q fash.
ionabls church in that city. to the tune
Come, ye disconsolate," which was
being sung at the time by the choir.
Tho Italian public has just discovered
that. stored in the vast garrets OF the
Palazzo Veochio at Florence, is q col
lection Of 5000 pictures. which have
been imprisoned there for more than
three centuries. Many OF them date
from the time Of the Medicis.
A young lady in Mississippi, who had
just graduated, came home and hired d
few colored people, and undertook the
experiment OF farming. The results q,
Tho end OF the year we're: Eight banks
OF potatoes. 600 bushels of ooru, and
1869 in cash from :he sale of cotton
after all expenses were paid.
A young female vaccinator of Boston
has taken away much Of the custom o.
the male lnedicals. The bloods of Bea
con street submit their Pilgrim fatherl5
arms with extreme JUNCTION to the mani
pulations of the charming small .pox pre-
ventOr.
An old farmer living near st. Joseph
Mo-, visited that city n few days ago
became intoxicated, was thrown into
tho lock up, Tas dead and the body
partially destroyed by rats in foul
hours time
The lifelong, but. for Franco over
ardent Republican, Blanqui, when asked
at his recent trial where his usual resi-
dence was, replied, "A1y usual residence
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