The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-04-05
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case OF G.. W. Patterson vs the South
Carolina Railroad Company. Colonel
f. W. McMaster officiated as special
Judge in the case. The jury rendered
q verdict in favor of the plaintiff for
2,169.17. The subject OF controversy
was eighty-nine bales of cotton destroyed
by fire accidentally in 1864. Mr.. W. S.
Monteith conducted the case for the
plaintiff, and Messrs. Chamberlain, Sea-
brook and Dunbar for the defendant.
Row LAST NIGuT.-As the torch light
procession of negroes celebrating the
late elections in the city passed along
tho Main street, last night, in front of
the Columbia Hotel, rocks were thrown
from the procession through the glass
doors of the hotel, at the white men
standing inside. which, being replied to
by pistol shot from the hotel side,
came very near causing serious and
bloody affray. Rocks and brick-bats
were hurled hy the mass of negroes in
rapid succession. smashing the glasses
and painfully iniuring several gentlemen
who were sitting quietly in the vestibule
Of the hotel.
A whoop and savage yell was raised
by the infuriated negroes, and wildly
brandishing their torches, rush was
made for the door Of the hotel, and for
the space of ten minutes, furious
struggle was made to force the passage.
Through the efforts of Captain Jackson,
however, with some Of the police force,
and Of Sheriff Frazec. their entrance
wus successfully prevented, though for
some minutes it appeared as if the mob
would overpower them, and rush in, in
spite of them; in which case, maddened
with excitement, as the negroes were,
serious consequences must have followed.
Much credit is due to Captain Jackson
for his promptness and intrepidity, and
to Sheriff Frazee. A detachment of
United States infantry was stationed at
the hotel to prevent a repetition of the
riot.
PuGS1XIASA.-If it is wise to have
two strings to your bow, it is also pru-
dent to let one of your purse-strings be
q check-string.
Human life is q gloomy chamber.
in which the images of the other world
shine the brighter, the deeper it is dark
enod.
Where did Noah preserve the bees
during the flood? In the ark-hives.
Small deccits so blunts the moral
sense that the victim is blinded to great
ones.
Crime makes its way easily by first
giving on opiate to conscience.
An editor. alluding to the demand
for female suffrage. female doctors
and female clergymen, remarks that
another want presents itself-that of
female women.
Genius in man to day is individual
ism of character and effort, the power
one hero and there is seen to have
to light his own FIRE and drive his own
engine.
Necessity, that great refuge and ex-
cuse for human frailty, breaks through
all law; and he is not to be accounted in
fault whose crime is not the effect of
choice, but force.
A brave man thinks no one superior
to him who does him an injury; for he
has it in his power to make himself
superior to the other by fergiving it.
To hatter persons adroitly, one must
know three things-what they are, what
they think they are and what they want
other people to think they are.
False happiness renders men stern and
proud, and that happiness is never com
municatcd. True happiness renders
them kind and sensible, and that hnppi-
ness is always shared.
The widows "mite"-The littlo chap
who married the dend mans big bounc.
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