The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-10-06

drum and castanet accompaniments'
The cost Of it complete, was Z. 600 francs
or about 81 400, the purchaser to have
the privilege Of naming twelve airs to be
arranged on two of the cylinders that
were blank. The instruments made in
Geneva range in price from five francs
TO 1000. The high-prioed ones are in
elegant rosewood cases, but most of
them are surprisingly low when we con-
slider the price at which the smaller
boxes are sold in the United States.
The following is list of the nomina.
tions made for Williamsburg County:
Legislnture-F. 81. Frost, Fortune
Guilds. James F. Peterson.
Sherih-W. W. Ward.
school issioner-Henry Fl. Mou-
Clerk OF Court-Ar. J. Hirsch.
Judge Probate-Louis jacobs.
County Commissioners T. Scott,
VIM. Scott Ambrose Tisdalc.
Coroner-L. Donath.
The Edgefield Adceviser says: zone
y. A. Green, signing himself 1t. Col. &
in rolling officer. S. G. NJ issued an
order to Mr.. Wales to organize one
company of militia at GIover's Mill, on
the 18th September. Was the company
organized? and if 30, why are not the
people generally organizing militia com.
panies? IT it is necessary to organize
the negroes into militia companies, by
all means let the white people be SINH
larly organized"
On Saturday lust, Nashville, Tenn,
experienced the bitter fruit of the "in
dependent candidate" policy, in the
election OF o Radical Mayor, Thomas
Kercheval, by majority Of seventy.six
votes. The Democrats had two candi.
dates in the field, h1essrs. Harris and
Wiikinson, the former receiving 2.O44
votes, the latter 9l7. while the Radical
candidate received 2,12O Thus, by q
divided vote, has serious blow been
dealt to the capital of our sister State.
The Princess Salm -Salm has entered
convent ut Innsspruck, in the Tyrol. Her
lie has been romance. She was an
American, and circus rider, and her
name was Agnes Leclercq. She saved
her husbands life in Mexico, and had
him restored to his military rank in Ger
many. He was killed at Gravelotte at
the head of his regiment. Her devotion
to the unfortunate Carlotta hos gained
her many friends in Europe.
Sergeant Gilbert 81. Bates, who ira
veled through the South, with the Ame-
rican flag unfurled, at perilous period,
immediately succeeding the lnte war,
left Suybrook. ILL.,. on the 30th ult, en-
route for New York and England, through
which latter country he proposes to
march under the flag the same as he did
through the South.
A LIBEL SUIT FOR $4,000, ,OOo.-A suit
for libel has been commenced in the
New York Supreme Court, against Ma
thaniel Niles, ex-Speaker of the New
Jersey Assembly, by the New Jersey
Railroad Company. The damages are
laid at $5. 100000, and tho alleged libel
is on article which appeared in the Ma
ton.
A jury was brought into court in order
that one Of their number might be in
structed upon the following point of law
IF believe that the evidence was one
way, and the other eleven believe diff
ferent, does that justify any other jury
man in knocking m down with chairS''
The Judge answered in general terms.
Each voter in Pennsylvania will bo re-
quired to handle and deposit. separately,
SIX tickets i'll the October election. This
may bother the average homebred voter,
but the gentlemen who have gone from
the Potomac and beyond, to ''work on
Simon Cameron's road," will be especial
ly instructed.
Tho Nashville Union has the following
ga colored Grnnt orator ut Alton the
other night, congratulated his hearers
that 'the Id Dutch could not become
Presidents. while we (the Africans) are
the stuff from which future candidates
are to be madc.'"
Devotion to public opinion was
evinced by lady aged eighty, who re-
Gently married man of corresponds
ingly appropriate age, because, she
said, "he comes about my house 40
much. if don't marry him people will
talk"
Pennsylvania petroleum producers are
endeavoring to organize combination
to close most of tho wells in the oil re.
gion, 80 as to create an artificial scarcity
and thereby increase their profits Their
motto (having many barrels Of oil on
hand) is "All's well that ends we'll"
The people have passed Judgment on
runaway Governor and his crew. Now
listen to their verdict. next Tuesday, on
the candidate for Governor who gets his
electioneering documents from the Pen.
itentiary, and his character from n con.