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

American Matters
CHARLESTON, July .-Arrived-steam-
ship Virginia, Baltimore; schooner Car.
rie A: Bentley, New York.
BOSTON, July 5.-George Harkins,
John, Doherty, Cornelius Doherty and
John Harkins landed on Governors
: leland, Boston harbor, yesterday. from
sail boat, and took refuge from q
shower In an Hnoccupied building. Dur
ing the storm, the building was struck
by lightning, and all the men except
John Harkins we're killed.
PHILADELPHIA, June 6.--Twenty-
three inqnests yesterday from
heat.
WASHINGTON, July GA band of Carl
the mail and important public docu-
ments.
NEW YORK, July Ga Mntamoras
special of the 9th says the capture of
Saltillo was premature. though Trevino
threatens it. with small but compare
lively. overwhelming force.
The Grenadier Guards Band had the
largest audience ever assembled in the
Academy of Music. Greeley was pre-
sent, and attracted considers BILE ntten.
ton.
The consolidation of the Erie and
New York Central Railroad Companies,
under the direction OF the English stock
holders, who have elected Commodore
Vanderbilt President, with unrestricted
powers, is announced. The freight aud
passenger tariffs West and North are to
be raised.
1900 deaths this week from oil cauess.
A APort-au-Prince letter says the Hay
tien Legislature has agreed to pay the
American claims in twenty years, and the
Americans are about petitioning their
Government to send naval vessels to fol-
low the exemple of the Germans.
Judge McCunn. died suddenly early
this morning. He was impeached by the
Legislature.
/! In the Stokes case. John Moore testi-
fed that he saw Fisk 90 in the Grand
Central Hotel on January 6. After.
wards. the boy Redmond came out. and
said Fisk was shot. Witness went in
and caught the Colonel under his arms.
No one was present but those two. He
was just going to ask, "Are you hurt?"
when Fisk said he was too quick for me
this time. When witness came out,
Fisk's colored driver asked him what
had happened, and telling him, the
coiored man said, II wonder the old
man did not pull on him, for he was
fzed," aid afterwards said, II carry
two myself for him sometimes" The
cross-examination brought out no con-
tradiotions.
The death of Judge McCunn, which
occurred at O'Clock this morning, was
the result of great mental depression.
caused by the action of the court of i'm
peachment. in finding him guilty of NAL
ieasance in Office, and removing him
from his Office. as Judge, by unani-
nous vote. His relatives, who were
with him at his last moments, stated
that he died Of grief and broken heart.
The death roll for the week ending at
noon to-day is 1900, the longest in the
history Of the city.
Specie shipments to-day 81 100000
ltis stated that Vanderbilt declined
the Presidency OF the Erie Road, ten.
dered him by the English stockholders.
ADJ and Janescheck have gone to Eu.
rope.
Work will be resumed on the old basis
at the Singer machine mannfaotorv
Monday. Nearly all the strikers are
taking their old situations. The father
OF the girl Elliott, who was murdered by
her mother, yesterday, had been on a
strike three weeks, and dissipated
This is said to have driven the mother
crazy.
MDD1ETowN. N. Y, July 6.-Chas
Clinton, aged sixty-three. relative OF
Dewitt Clinton, was struck fatally by
train. He invented the steam safety
valve and many other railroad devices.
WASHINGTON, July y6-Evening.- Duke
DeNoilles left Paris yesterday for the
United States. He is Minister to Wash.
ington.
BY a law of the State of New York, no
shareholder in the Central can become
an officer Of the Erie Road.
Probabilities-The pressure will di.
minish somewhat on Sunday from the
Lower Mississippi Valley to the upper
lakes. with light to fresh Southerly to
Easter)J winds. occasional areas Of rain
ana rising temperature. Clear weather
wili generally prevail over the New Eng
land and Middle States. and from the
Ohio Valley to the South Atlantic coast
with light to fresh winds.