The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-08-20
"Comptroller of the CURRENCY.

In THE MIDST OF LIFE" &c-A cor.
respondent writing from Saratoga, in
ocscrioing the prominent visitors at that
popular resort, gives the following de-.
scrlptlon OF Que OF them: can interest.
ing' bnt rather horrible individual, be-
cause 80 uolelul. IL a gentleman with a
iong. pale faoe. eyes deep set in his head
seputchral voice, who has tho odd fancy
OF wearing deaths head upon his shirt
front. Aud this deaths head is CONT
hnaliy opening and shutting its ghastly
mouth, which horrible operation ia per
formed by means Of small palyanio
battery which it's owner carries in his
pocket"
MELANCHOLY SUICIDE. Raleigh
Ne''S learns that on Wednesday morning
inet, at Boon HILL, Johnston County.
AIRS. Rachael Perry, the wife of R. B.
ferry, prominent merchant of that
place. committed suicide by shooting
herself With pistol. She had only been
married to MIR. Perry about three months
NO cause is assigned for tue act.
Wm. Al. DeCamp, of Shueville, Iowa.
Union soldier, whose arm is with.red
from wound received in the war. and
now supporter of Greeley, replied TO
the taunt that tho man who shot him
would vote for Greeley, with the plump
declaration: Yes; and the man who re-.
celved the shot will vote for him, too"
Constantinople advices, oath ult. STATE.
that the Turkish authorities have orde-ed
two agents Of the British Bible Society
to leave Broussa. Their books were
seized, and the sale of all Protestant
works prohibited. The British embassy
ut Constantinople is investigating the az
fair
Howard Glyndon asks terrible ques-
tlon. She wants to know If any one
ever imagined what sort Of sight would
be presented by an interior view of the
ooo private rooms of fashionable water
Ing place hotel half au hour before din.
ner or hop.
The country along the line of the
Union Pacific Railroad is filling up at
an unprecedented rate, and towns and
villages are springng up as if by magic,
hundreds OF miles West of Omaha. The
red men are disappearing before the
rollin2 tide like snow before the summer
sun.
Tho Boston Post seems to doubt tia,
there ls such thing as ''justifiable sui
cide. But there is such a thinR-at
iease tnere would be, if such fellow as
Ben. Butler, for instance, wonId inmn
into the river and stay there long
enough.
Ben. Butler tells the shoemakers of
Haverhill, Mass, that if Greeley is elect
ed they will be taxed to paw for the
slaves emancipated by the war. And
Ben. should also have stated that he NAV
nave to pay for the spoons he stole dur.
ing the war.
This is what the Gloucester paper
says: "One of the biggest doses of las.
ses water ever mixed in this 'harbor was
on yesterday forenoon, when eighty
blooming damsels were bathing on the
Pavilion beach at one time.''
James Fl. Ingersoll, the Tammany
chalr maker, Was arrested in New York.
on LII 1rsday, under two Indictments for
forgery. AS hs is already bailed for half
million in civil action, the bail in the
forgery cases WAS fixed at $4,000.
A Republican paper in Ohio says:
"Our friends outside will please stop
claiming this State by 40, 900 majority.
1t looks as if it would give 1000 tho
other way"
1t often costs more to avenge a wrong
than to bear it.
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