The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-08-08

sprinkling of white Office holders. and
tue spectacle of the Secretary of the
treasury standing up solemply boforn
such an auditory, and gravely discussing
the weighty questions of the taxes. the
revenue and the public debt. is a most
dlvertlng one. Boutwell, and his finan-
ces strongly remind US of the old Scotch
man and his metaphysics: when the
maun that talks dinna ken what he talks
a6oot. and the maun that is talked to
dinnn ken what he hears-that's meta
physicist"
| venetian chemist does the scientific
IN the murder OF two loving people after
the most approved fashion. He invited
TREND and his inamorata to visit his
laboratory, in order, as he told them. to
receive II present. When there. he
talked of electricity, and interested them
both IN his conversation. Then they
wanted shock-it just suited him to
give it; in fact, was part of his plan. He
put one pole OF Rumkerf apparatus be.
tween the girls fingers, the other into
the lovers hands, and joined the cur
rents. In five minutes they we're dead.
while the chemist murderer very coollv
reported an accident" to the police.
The ALLEGED DIAMOND D1soovrR1ps
trustworthy persons at Denver, state
that the diamonds and other preoions
stones exhibited in San Francisco. were
brought from some point Sonth of that
place and taken through there to San
francisco. 1t is said that they were
found somewhere near the Northern line
OF New Mexico and Arizona. In con
tirmation OF this story persons in San
Francisco are telegraphing to their
friends in Denver asking how far from
Denver are the diamond fields, but il
seems impossible to give the desired in
formation.
a German paper Of Chicago, has
straw pnrporting to be direct from
heaven. The apostles took a vote on the
residential candidate at their last sup.
per, which resulted in eleven for Greeley
and ore for Grant-Judas Iscariot CON.
stituting the minority.
One by one the prominent men who
think that Greeley's election will kill the
nnanclal prosperity of the country, are
being heard Of. The last one is Mr..
Collins, pension agent at Washington.
His defalcation is nearly 300, 700.
Missouri Republican.
Horace Greeley was born on Monday
last at Decatur His father is still living.
and Is an ex-alderman. Horace ia noted
for his bald-headednes and other bawls.
and what he knows about farming is CON
hned strictly to the summer management
Of milk. Chicago Times.
We read of a son of Edward RutIedee.
OF South Cnrolinn-one of the sipners of
the Declaration of Observation-Disclosures
Is said to be still alive in Illinois. at the
age OF lob. He was boy of seven years
when the bell of liberty rang in Phiiadel.
phia.
The New York Independent was util-
ized at Worcester for covering the circus
hoops through which the performers
were to leap. Nos the first time it has
covered up fringe" "-Boston Post.
Tho United States signal service will
shortly place an observer upon the sum-
NIT of Pixies Peak, $4,000 feet above the
level, and more than twice the altitude
OF Mount Washington. A telegraph line
10 the summit is in contemplation.
The new Paris Opera House. not vet
much more than half finished, has SO fnr
cost the snug little sum of $4,000, 600
1t IS estimated that nearly $1,000, 600
moro will be required to complete it.
The mother of the Worrell sisters
turned every diamond presented to her
daughters into hard cash, and purchased
property on Bay Ridge, L. T., which has
quadrupled in value.
Niagara Falls has been stormed bv
bridal parties of late, and their Romeo
and Juliet exhibitions in public have
dissnsted bachelors and driven old maids
almost crazy.
~ Cincinnati butcher tied up his
daughter by the hands, 80 that her toes
Just touched the ground, and then
smeared her feet with molasses to attract
flies.
A woman living in Polk County. N.
o., has declared dividend of seven chill
dren IN two years. Pretty good invest.
ment for the "old man."
Mr.. VIM. James accidentally killed
himself, on the Goth ult., in Spartunburg
County, by the discharge of q shotgun.