The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-11-17

sMed for treaty with tho empirt.
Though nomiually independent, both
Ahoknnd and Bckhar.. are now really
pnrts OF Russia. LII 1870 tho Russian
Government begun to nuke complaints
against the Khan of Khivu. These ha, q
continued up to the present time. in spite
oi MI the etfoits of the Khan to please
ms powerful neighbor. 1t il the old
story OF tho muddy stream, the lamb nnd
the wolf. The Khan has entered into a
treaty g! commerce. allowing frue trade
TO !'ussiau merchants, through his DO.
minlons, "a nntl hus given his protection to
tneir caravaus. Enssia, however, is only
waiting pretcxt to place the territory
of the Khan at her disposal. an are those
OF Bokhara and Khoknnd.
The officers of the law in Memphis
have been making midnight raids upon
the gambling hells of thu. city. The
Appeal SAYS: "a half dozen deputy
sherlffs. with twelve or fourteen sub.
deputies, went for the keno rooms last
night. The III Dorado was luckily
closed, but Rocco Hall 'ootched' it bad.
fltty persons were arrested up there
The Assembly Hall folks got wind of the
operation aud escaped tho misery nicely
6y promptly closing up. About seventy
hve OF the chaps were hauled up to the
criminal court room to give bonds or 20
to Jail last night. Some bonded, and
others fniled, while few lacrymosed
themselves out" The Mayor of the
city was also arrested for licensipg gam.
ing houses.
ACCIDENT AT LEwIsvILLH.-On Friday,
as the day passenger trnin from Colum.
bla was passing, an almost fatal accident
occurred to Mr.. Sweeny. He was en-
gagged III qlieting some horses hitched
10 the pole OF large wagon, whom they
bncame unmanagenble ut the whistle of
tho locomotive, and starting to break
away, forced Mr.. Sweeny against post,
aud the end of the pole struck him in
the breast aud Inflicted dangerous and
perhaps mortal injury. Blood gushed
from his mouth and nose, and it was al
most impossible 70. him tc breathe. At
last accounts. he was in IA critical condi-
ton Ora"gedurg Ne'cs.
The Cartcrsvlile (Gs.) Standard says:
| "Messrs. Ii. Padgett and Charles B.
Wallace, managers of the Cartersville
car-worka. have just concluded CON
tract with the officers of the Western
and Atlantic i;,,ilroad Company to build
lou freight cars, the wheels, axIes and
other iron to be made at Rome, of Geor-
gia iron. md tho wood work to be of the
best Georgia pine. to be completed at
the ar-works i'll this city in the next ten
weeks, or at the rate OF ten cars per dey.
Tho above railroad company have been
testing cars bnilt at this factory for the
last twelve months, aud pronounced
them the best IN use on their road"
The Washington S!ur says: "The first
oiicr OF sympathy aud aid to Boston in
her great calamity calne from tho South ;
let that fact be remembered as evidence
that, however much tue different sec
tons of our common country may differ
politically, the mystic cord of brother
hood still exists. and only requires some
peculiar emergency to exhibit itself in
generous words and deeds. Raleigh, "
g., was the frat city in the Union TO np-
preciate the necessities Of suffering Bos.
tou."
The spread of the cholera in Europe
Westward continues, though insidiously.
ioon thern Austria IS now infected, and
to such u degree that rigid quarantine
IL enforced IN Italian ports upon vesaels
arrivin: from thut country. There arc
not few alarmists who predict that this
dreaded disease will cross the Atlnntic
and begin to diffuse itself over the
Cuitcd States with the opening of an
other summer. Before any panic is
awakened. suppose we have tho fullest
possible preparation for tho summer?
DlsGEAcEFrL ACT AT PMSCEroS Col.
LEGEr-Tle students ut Princeton are al
ways rendy to perpetratc Jokes, but
sometimes they over-reach the mark.
At o'clock Gu Sunday morning the col
lrgc chapel vas found TO he da to
the extent Of $200 by the Seats being
covered with tar. This outrageous nct
was not confined to the seats, bu. the
Bible used in tho chapel was also cover.
cd with tar. OF course the "joke." ns
may he expected. aroused very considc-
rnble Indignation.
George Grant. convicted Of tho mur.
uer OF Amanda Spence about year ago,
oxpated his crimo on the scnffold,
"Wednesday morning, Mt West Chester,
"a. This criminal, who in prison proved
himself SO desperate character that the
sheriff had to shoot at him in prcseryn-
ton Of his own life, completely changed
whom brought to face his tinal doom.
His courage seemed to utterly forsake
him, and he peacefully submitted to his