The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-11-01
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Foreign Affairs.

oAA u1Oio COuluR.
RoME, October 31.-Despatohes from
4nrln report no abatement of the foods
The damage is beyond calculation. In
Ferara alone, 10000 peuple are house,
less.
BERLIN. October 3l..-The Upper
House OF tho Prussian Diet rejected the
country reform bill, by u vote of l45 to
IL, in the face of threat from the mi
nority that if the measure was defeated,
the Government would dissolve tho Diet.
American Matters.
CHARLESTON, October 31.-Arrived-
Steamship Mercedita. Philadelphia;
sohooners A. j.. Glover, Boston; Jessie
s.. CLARK, New York.
WASHINGTON. October 31.-Two of
this mornings papers relate the result
oe inquiries ct the railroad, express and
livery stables, and the conclusion reached
is, that forty or fifty horses have symp-
toms of the equine epidemic; while an
other morning pnper. the reporter of
which visited numerous stables, says ve-
terinary surgeons IRE not attending any
horses in tho city suffering from the dis
ease; and, furthermore. they did not be-
lieve there is a oast. In town. There are
horses, not an unusual uumbcr, suffering
with colds-certsinly not unusual at this
season; but many owners Of, aud those
who huve horses IN cara, express fears
that their auitnal, wiil bo attic cked by
the disease, and are taking precautions
accordingly.
New YonK October .3o.-All tho horse
cars stuppld eoriy Tonight. In Cleve.
land the diseRse is spreading. Several
livery stables nre closed, and tho fire tiu.
partment and express companies horses
for
tie change is repurted in Boston; but tho
disealse las extended to Water Vale and
Eastport, Me. Iu. .Poughkeepsie, N. Y,
and other places on the Hudson River,
the disease Is l,ictensinS.
SAN; ;F1.AEoisCo, Ootqbof Sc sc. The rao,,
between Lucy and. Ocoident. at Treats
Park Course, A.amada, this afternoon,
attracted 10000 people. The track was
not In good condition; q portion was wet
and heavy. The. horses were in good
trim; and excellent.splrits. The race was
for a purse of 81. 500. best three in Ave.
to harness. The pools at noon sold,
Lucy. $50; Oceident, BIS; and tho time
pools,f 2. 81, at $40, and 2.19 and 2 20 at
SIT. q lurge amount of moneg WAS
pending on the race, principally on time
pools. ln the first heat, Oocident drew
the pole. A good start was nude in the
second scoring. The horaes run evenly
to tho quarter pole, When Occident broke
up aud lost buddy, at reaching the half
mile. The horse then gathered up, and
closed within two lengths. when Lucy
passed the score. Time Q, 25I5. In the
second heat, Il fine start Was nude, after
considerable suoring. Ocoidant CON-
menced breaking soon after they got off
The chnuce of the heat was lost in p plcing
in the first quarter. Lacy cont:nu Vi to
gain to the end, and passed the score.
leaving Occidental distance OF thar y feet
additional. Time 2.2O. Considering
the track. Luoy's time created surprise
Great disappointment is manifes' ed ut
hdence in the California horse.
New York. October 3l.-Col. Albert
s.. Evans, an author, journalist and
agent of the New York Associated Press,
at San Francisco, died yesterday.
Bracing weather seems to huve slightly
abated the malady. ITO deaths were re-
ported yesterday.
Another inmate. of Wards Island In
sane Asylum is dead, from alleged Iii
treatment.
LOUISVILLE, October 31.-The fou ndry
OF DENNIS. Long & Co. was partially
burned. The loss will not exceed SIS, 900
NORFOLK, Va. October 81. Tue horse
malady has appeared here aud in Ports
mouth, notwithstanding the rigorous
measures of the city authorities TO pre-.
vent it's introduction by Infected horses
from other places. Two horses have
died from the disease. and others are re.
ported in C critical condition.
GRAND RAPIDS. MICHIGAN, October
3l.-Three blocks on Pearl aud Canal
streets were burned; loss 5000. 900.
WILMINGTON, N. O., October 3l-Last
Saturday, the grand jnry for tho Supe.
ri"r Court OF this County, now in sos
sion, threw out bill of Indictment for
libel against the Journal, Democratic
newspapcr of this city Monday, the
Solicitor, Republican, Informed the
Judge, also Republican. that he wished
to send new bill, aud askcd him to
se1d for tho jury, to instruct them spe-
oiaiiy 10 relation to the law of libel. He
also Informed the Judge, that the parties
against whom he wished to proceed were
taa editors Of the Wilmington Journal.
Tho jury was brought into court, and
the Judge charged thut the matter sot
forth in ,he indictment then exhibited in
court constituted libel; and that, if a
true bill wera nok fOurI tIo ;,.o.,