The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-07-28

orahu DlVISlOn ana TO the friends OF
temperance. This will take place on to-
morrow, the 26th instant. These divi-
slons will assemble at the hall OF Chester
Division, at 10 o'clock, and move in pro-
cesslon, in the full .regalia OF the order,
to the grove near Mr.. J. n. Walkers re-
sldence. There addresses will be deli
vered by b. d. Townsend, Esq, and
others Chester Reporter.
The FEMALE COLONEL CnAF11N. Sir
Toby, who was permitted to inspect the
female Col. Clafin, in full regimentals.
at a private sesnce the other evening,
pronounces the report that her beauty is
fading utterly false. Her gallant bru-
nettes claim that she is the handsomest
officer OF the National Guards, and Sir
Toby feels certain that when che makes
her public appearance chepal the gene
raj opinion will confirm the Judgment
of her colored braves.
It appears that the recent reverse Of
Baez, President of Santo Domingo.
amounted to defeat, which he aus.
tained at the hands of Oabral. The lat
ter, however, retres ted from his advan-
tageous position, having no more am-
munition. Baez is reported to be
stayed and comforted in these trying cir
cumstances by the hope that his country
will yet be annexed to the United States.
His confidence in President Grants pow
er and pertinacity is truly sublime.
HORRIBLE DEATH OF LITTLE Boy
In Selma, Ala, on Tuesday, little boy.
son OF DR.. Russell McC Cord, while at play
in the yard, at his grsndmother's resi-
dence. flying kite. walked backward
into kettle of boiling syrup. Before
he could be extricated by his mother and
others alarmed by his shrieks, the little
fellow was so horribly burned that
death relieved his agony in about three
hours after the accident.
1t is bad enough behavior for woman
to run off and leave her husband to get
on through life without her assistance.
but when one of the legs with which he
must take the journey is of wood. it is
"hendish outrage" for her to carry that
away An English woman has done this
very same thing, and the poor husband
is left with but one leg to stand upon
and no wife to help him along.
A few days since "wee bit of boy
astonlshed his mother. She had occa-
sion to chastise him slightly. for some
offence he had committed. Charley sat
very quietly in his chair for some time
afterward, no doubt thinking profound
~. AT last he spoke out thus: "Muz-
zer, wish pad get anuzzer housekeep-
er; l'se got tired sesin' you around!"
The physicians who luminously dis
| coursed at the Stokes trial will be graft
tied to hear from the lips of the jurymen
that the intelligent body "gave the
medical testimony no consideration
whatever" It is worth while to be a
doctor when the road to professional
Immortality is 80 easy.
1t Is said to be curious fact that
while foxee, cranes and squirrels are
abundant on the Indiana side of the
Ohio River, they are never seen on the
Kentucky side; and. strange enough.
the grey squirrel, to befound anywhere
on the Kentucky side. is rarely or never
seen on the Indiana shore.
Jack Hairston, of Danville, Va, re-
Gently had his skull crushed and portions
OF it driven into his brain by a stone
thrown from blast. He was trepanned.
and three days after, walked twenty five
miles under u broiling sun, to visit his
family.
Two daughters of Robert Hicks, of
North Carolina, were graduated on the
same day, engaged and married on the
same day and by the same minister, and
professed religion and were baptized on
the same day
Conkling says that amnesty is dead
Issue. On this head. Mr.. Greeley's let
ter OF acceptance makes o point or two.
It will be we'll for the people to read
both. before they decide about the fune.
raj.
An English chemist AYERS that the
manufacture of wine is now conducted
on such highly scientific principles, that
grapes are gradually being dispensed
with.
As an Atlanta Judge was administer
ing. sentence. the prisoner encourag.
ingly remarked: go in. old bald head!'
This was more than the Judge could
"bear. and the sentence was appropri.
ately heightened.
A church in Philadelphia, on recent
Sunday, was ornamented with canary
birds. which sang during the services
Anything for a novelty. M