The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-08-10


the cost to light sea-coal fires. The
ravages of the yellow fever have been
80 destructive that natives have become
hardened and brutal in their conduct,
and utterly lost to all sense of honesty
or decency.
Absenteeism ut Washington is grow
ing worse and worse. There is not
department of the Government from
which principal officials and those who
get the highest salaries IRE not absent.
The chief clerks might easily be dis
pensed with. Their principal business
hitherto was TO frank letters and other
documents, and now that the franking
privilege is abolished, those chiefs lave
nothing In particular to busy themselves
about, except, perhaps, to lick stamps,
which o healthy darkey could do us
we'll, and they absent themselves con-
tlnually from their offices. Some are
not present one-third Of tho time for
which they draw salaries.
SAD ACCIDENT IN BARSwEL1. From
the Barnweli Semiine! We regret to learn
that, on Wednesday morning last, after
the return from deer hunt, James
Wise. the son OF Capt. S. S. Wise, was
accidentally shot and killed by his bro
ther, Joseph Wiso. James Wise had
passed into the yard, Fogler following
him, whose horse refused to go. Wise's
brother struck him with his gun, at
half lf-cock, which went of and dis.
charged its contents, twelve buck k-shot,
into his bowels, killing him instantly.
A CoLoRED EXCURSION PARTY IN
TRoCDLE.-On Wednesday, the Lincoln
Light Infantry, Of Savannah. excurted
to Macon. A Charleston company was
to have united with the Savannah COM
pany, and did get as far as Savannah,
hut, unfortunately for the success Of
the excursion, the treasurer absconded
with oil the funds, and the company
had to excurt back to Charleston as best
they could.
Somo thieves in New York not only
robbed dwelling. which had been left
unoccupled by its residents, of all NOV
able articles, but took malicious plea
sure in destroying what they could not
carry c1. Sl.500 worth Of pictures
were slashed and cut with knives, many
being family portraits, and specially
valued on that account. Two Of the
rascals have been arrested.
An Indiana wife commissioned her
husband to select new switch for her.
He sent home two, changing the tags,
putting the SO tag upon the $40 article,
After careful examination by the lady
and her friends, tho switch containing
the highest number was unanimously
chosen, and the miserable husband re-
joices IN the saving of S15 by this base
piece of deception.
Leprosy threatens to dopopulate the
Sandwich Islands. If our Government
will only send out there Simon Came-
ron, Ben. Butler and other moral lepers
who flock to Washington every winter,
there will bo no danger of the depopula-
ton OF the islands, although an influx
of such immigrants would add new hor-
rors to the leprosy, says the Courier
Journal.
LICK Him FIRsT.-Sixteen years ago,
North Carolina father, who knew the
virtues OF the rod, threshold his big boy
and sent him out to hoe corn. The
first seen Of him since was last week,
when be returned from California with
sos, 900 on his hoe. When you send
boy to hoe corn always click" him
first.
AN OVERDOSE OF KEROSENE. A man
and woman came to their death, tho
other day, through the careless handling
OF kerosene, at Smokes Cross Roads,
Colleton County. Will the time ever
arrive when people will learn to nppre.
ciato the dangerous character of koro-
sene? Handle kerosene in the day time,
or else not at oil.
A Georgia paper recently contained
the following item in its society gossip:
"The amiable and delicious Miss Polk
ington, whose charms Of mind and per.
son have turned the heads of our gal
lants, now does her hair up in braids,
and patronizes this paper exclusively in
her personal mako np."
Noah was made "nonArch OF all he
surveyed" by the food. and he had
long and successful rain.