The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-09-28

The yorkingmen are, showing healthy
signs ofi progress, and re,gettiDg out Of
the narrow e1olasiveness .vhioh has
heretofore been their chief 3baus.. AT
the annual meeting of the International
Oigar-makers' Union, in Detroit, few
Gays ago, the convention struck from
its constitution the clause which forbids
union men from working in non.union
establishm ments.
DR.. Reid, the celebrated medical
Writer. was requested By lady of iitera-
~ eminence to call at her house. "Be
cure you recollect the address," said
she, as she Quilted the room, mo.
Chesterfield street." '.AIadame," said
the doctor. II am too great an admirer
OF politeness not to remember Chester
field, and. I fear, too selfish ever to for
get number one."
Tho Paducah Kentuckian, noticing
the resolution OF the late Massachusetts
democratic State Convention, charging
the Republicans with seducing Demo.
cratic members OF Congress into the
corrupt schemes of the Republican
party, expresses the fear that the Demo.
cratic members 80 seduced wero of
rather ''easy virtue"
During the past twelve months 514
deaths occurred in San Francisco from
consumption. The health officers, in
his annual report, says: 1T is an un-
| doubted fact that more deaths with this
disease occur among the Irish popula-
t!on than the people of any other na-
tioLality."
Frederick William, Eleotor of Hesse
Cassel, has formally recognized and con-
sented TO the annexation Of his terri
tory to Prussia, and renowned his
right OF property in the revenues of the
electorate. IN compensation for which
the Prussian Government has granted
him All annuity OF 100000 thalers.
| CURIOUS INSANITY. Rev. Mr.. Garlic
ton thinks the reason his son, the
Cashier Of the Union Trust Company,
etole $500, 000, was because he had bee
crazy since the death of his wife. Pro.
badly his wife drove him crazy before
she died.
PAX NoD1scCM.-A telegram from
New York says Wm. Quinn, Vicar
General, was at the Emigrants Savings
Bank Wednesday, advising depositors
to leave their money with the bank
where it was snfe. That's the wayIto
restore confidence.
| On the 18th of this month, Col. D.
w. Aiken addressed 1900 persons in
GAINESVILLE, Wis, on the subject OF agri-
culture and the oranges. He is one Of
the three members Of the Executive
Committee Of the National Grange in
the United States.
There are ten ministers in Anderson
County over seventy-five years old, six
or seven Of whom are eighty or up
wards, and the Rev. Thomas Dawson is
ninety-two years old. and is the Oldest
minister in the State.
lao girls, all under thirteen years OF
age, picking over rags in New York
warehouse, struck for higher wages the
other day, made speeches., passed reso-
lntions and went back to work at the
same old figure.
The giant mule, supposed to be the
largest living specimen, is now exposed
for sale at Einstein's market, Newark,
N. j. This mule was grown in the far
West, is now six years old, stands 1711a,
bands high, and weighs 1,G05 pounds.
VANDERLILT-The venerable Commo.
dore admits that he is "in the dark
about the situation, and knows no more
about it than he does about the granges
or the deoulogue.
A Louisiana man puts q two-ounce
can of nitro -glycerine inside of a
chicken, tosses the chicken to an ALI.
gator, and that alligator does no.
trouble that bayou any more.
Two babies were sent by express
several hundred miles through Oregon,
recently. and arrived all safe. What an
extraordinary species Of baggage master
they must have in those parts!
A Radical paper in Tennessee refers
its readers to the Now Testament for
the ten commandments. It's knowledge
and observance of the ten command.
ments are exactly equal.
The race for the October handicap
took place at Newmarket, nonr London,
on the 25th, and was won by Tichborpe
Lord Goreh second, and Lemonade
colt third. There we're sixteen starters.
From the 1st Of September, 1872, to
the 1st OF September, 1873. the mer.
chants Of Anderson shipped 1901
bales Of cotton.
The Philadelphia Herald announces Il
balloon enterprise in that city on an