The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-06-23
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Foreign Affairs.

:, AosDCNS cuuo. l6.-IQ6 sentence OF
tne French servant girl who murdered
ner mistress has been commuted to penal
imprisonment for life.
American Matters.
BATON ROUGE, La, June 22.-The
Conventions appointed committees OF
conference. The Packardites demand
the Endorsement OF Grant and the repu-
dlation OF Greeley as preliminary to q
Joint nomination for State officers.
WARRINGTON. June 22.-The supple
mental conference at the Fifth Avenue
Hotel resulted in the nomination of
Wm. :. Groesbeck, of Ohio, and Trede-
rick Law Olmstead, of New York, and
the adoption of resolutions, the con-
summation of which would be long
stride to yard the millennium. Cox, Of
Ohio, Withdrew. Prominent among
those present were Col. Grosvehor, s.
Il. Gault. Carl Dantzer, Park Goodwin
and W. O. Bryant.
Special dispatches. from Geneva fully
confirm last nights statement that the
arbitrators have decided that the claim
tor Indirect damages ia inadmissable.
VIM. Z. Blackford, of Alabama, has
been appointed Special Post Office
Agent; Jas. N. Davis, Assistant Superin-
tendent Railroad Mail Service.
The Indian Department thinks the re-.
ported invasion OF Indians into Texas
sen nsational.
Probabilities Falling barometer, light
to fresh and probably brisk Easterly to
Southerly winds, and partially cloudy
weather Tor. Sunday, North and West of
the Ohio Valley; light to fresh winds,
cloudy weather and areas of rain for the
Goif and South Atlantic States, and pos
sibiy for the Southern portion of the
Middle States; clear and partially cloudy
weather and light to fresh winds for
MeW England and the Northern portion
of the Middle States.
CINCINNATI, June 22.-Six fatal sun
strokes occurred yesterday.
NEW YORK, Juns 22.-The metal ma
nufacturers held meeting, and decided
20 make no compromises with the strikers
regarding hours or wages.
An explosion in a burning drug store.
on Liberty street, iDj 1red number of
hremen--some of whom will lose their
eyesight.
The Liberty street fire originated by
throwing kerosene on the fire. Twenty
two hremen were injured.
No additional jurors in the Stokes
case.
The cotton exchange adjourns from
the Sd to the 9th July.
The strike in the West Albany Raii-
road shops is over.
CHICAGO, June pa gas meter OK.
ploded at fire to-day; two firemen
were burned to death and three hurt.
SAN FRANCISCO, CAn., June 22.-1,5 500
pounds nitro-glycerine exploded in the
california Powder Works, four miles dis
tant from the City Hall. Six buildings
were wrecked and hole twelve feet deep
and 126 feet in circumference was made
IN the ground; none injured. The wea-
ther is intensely hot.
BEI1Ev1I1E, June 22.-A terrible ac.
oldent occurred on the Grand Trunk
Hoad, to train going from Toronto to
Montreal The passenger cars were
piled one upon the other. Nine are
dead and sixty badly scalded-mostly
second class passengers.
LATER. The unfortunate train con-
tanned many ministers of the English
Church, en- route home from the Toronto
synod. About eleven miles below Belle.
vlle station, the engine jumped the
track, carrying death and fearful torture
TO scores OF. passengers in the forward
cars The baggage cor remained on the
track, and tellescoped the smoking car
and second class passenger car, leaving
them on top Of the engine, exposed to
the escaping steam from the boiler.
Here the poor creatures were hopelessly
penned for sometime-breathine the
vapors of death and suffering ali the
agony OF immersion to boiling caul-
dron of super-heated water. An eve.
witness says Immediately after the acci-
Gent, he went 10 the second class car: it
and the smoking car were telescoped,
and on the locomotive, the steam from
which. issuing from the cars. was 90
dense that he could see nothing. One
after another of the scalded victims were
providing from openings. Orow-bars
were Immediately put into requisition by
the passengers from the first class cars.
all of whom escaped injury, and open
ings were made. Many were found en-.
tangled and were extrioated with the
utmost difficulty -timbers having to be
broken. Five persons were found dead,
ana were carried to the road side, where
the wounded lay for nearly three hours,
in the most fearful agony. The sight
was one to battle description. The ter.
rlbie cries OF the sufferers rent the ears
OF the lookers.on, who made every NOS.
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