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

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The Knoxville dealers patience has
given out at last. and he talks ferooiously
OF writs and constables.
There is man travelling about Penn.
sylvania who has solved the problem Of
cheap and easy living. he says he is
iorty-one years of age. and has never
done a days work of any kind. He has
travelled over the greater past OF Europe
and America, begging his way, and
boasts OF more varied knowledge OF
station houses, jails and other inexpen-
s've lodgings, than any other man alive.
Gilmore, OF :ld-deafeDing l'diapa-
sonic" memory, has had this precious
boon conferred upon him by the Ger
mans: "Friedenfestmusiksp elma-
cher" He is taking it apart as fast az
he can and shipping it to this conntry by
detachments. Experts will accompany
the last Importation for the purpose OF
putting the fragments together again.
Stephen Lowrey and Andrew Strong
were at Moss Neck yesterday as the train
on the Wilmington, Charlotte and Ruth.
erford Railroad passed that point. Nei-
ther Tom Lowrey or Henderson, tho
Herald correspondent, were shere, nor
could anything be learned of their move
ments.- Wilmington Journal, 20M.
SUDDEN DEArH.-We regret to learn
OF the sudden death OF Mr.. B. O. Nap
per. OF the lower section of our District,
on Monday last. He had been on visit
to the village, and died on his way homo
at the store near Mr.. Clatworthy's. We
nave not heard the particulars of this
sudden death. .-A5beriNe Press.
Two gentlemen, one Of whom was a
perfect nuisance on account Of his bad
breath. were ascending flight OF stairs,
"Oish!" said this unpleasant companion.
Il am sure am ont Of breadth"
"It that's true" said his neighbor,
"let me congratulate you"
Charles Kingsley says he considers
history largely o ie." Well, Sir Ro-
bert Walpole said, with still more en-
phasis, 100 years ago: "All history is
lie" Napoleon. more philosophically,
termed it: 'But fable agreed upon"
Boston Globe.
A hotel keeper at Millerton, Dutohsss
County. N. Y. was going to masque-
rade ball, aud made an unannounoed call
on his aged mother to see if his disguise
was good one. It was. Shs gave one
scream, broke blood vessel, and died
i'll FIVE minutes.
A little boy was lisping his prayers
with his twin brother, at his mothers
knee. When he came to "give us this
day our daily bread" he was astonished
to hear a fraternal whisper, "Ask for
cake, Johnny, ask for cake"
A Philadelphia woman who had broken
her leg. was so modest that she would
not permit tho surgeon to set it, and.
there being no female doctor around,
modification ensued, which resulted in
death.
There have been three frosts in Florida
during tRe last 100 years, which have
done damage to the orange trees. In
1885. the trees were all killed. In 1868
and 1870, the tender shoots and fruis
were killed.
A Wisconsin woman has done all the
family sewing for twenty years with q
paper OF needles which was presented
to her on her wedding day. Though her
family is large, the needles are not oil
used up yet.
Two hunchbacks celebrated their nup-
tials in Paris the other day, in the pre-
sence OF thirty invited guests, also hunoh-
backs. At the wedding ball all the
musicians were hunchbacks-as was
every dancer.
A dagger, with jeweled handle, worn
in tho belt, is now considered by some
ladies to be quite Indispensable with
full toilette.
An orange grove at Palatka. Fla, con-
sists of over 500 trees, which last season
yielded over 100000 oranges, with a
profit OF $4,000.
One Of the largest Mississippi steam
boats is commanded by woman named
Sarah Pinckney.
There were Is deaths in Charleston
for the week ending the 10th instant
whites 10; colored Is.
A tombstone dated 1910, with Latin
inscription, has been found in Ten
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