The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-01-23

rExton did xeyolutionize -Greace. In
france poor LsmaFtine performed q
feat worthy OF Apolln ih:--,lf, when he
propItiated an inf'.sls' risian mob:
whIie NJ. Victor i. : % has oeen a mem.
Der OF Parliament more than once, and
would fain be member of Parliament
again. All these men loved solitude and
hated society, with trne poets instinct:
ous they, did not shrink from action and
become mere nightingales. ululating
amid secluded woodlands. That is pre-
o!se!y what Mr. Tennyson has done in
obedience to an exceptional disposition,
and the consequence is to be seen in
every page OF his writings. He is a
etudent, both by bent and by habit, and
has at once the excellence, but still more
the defects, OF his leading quality"
ACCIDENT. Mr.. VIM. Glenn, OF Lau-
rens county. while on q visit TO New
perry, accidentally shot himself on Thurs
day last, though not seriously. He had
inserted hia hand in his pants pocke!
to get piece Of money, and in drawing
out hastily, small d Deirineer pistol was
made to discharge, the ball from which
entering The groin, passed down into the
thIgh, from whence it was cut out by Dr..
Garmany.
The devotion of Mary's little lamb,
which followed her to school one day, !"
ID equaled by that of a duck at Athol,
which IL so much attached to young
lady who feeds it that it attends her 10
chnrch, or wherever she goes. At re-
cent entertainment at Music Hall, the
duck waited below until the young lady
came down stairs, and then escorted her
nome with many compiaisant quack.
THE BALL ROLLS Ox-The house at
Manch ester, recently kept by Mrs. e. S.
Campbell, was destroyed by an inoen-
diary IRE, on the night Of Saturday, the
18th inst. The house was unoccupied at
the time OF tho burning. It wns q new
building, just erected, on the site of her
former dwelling, which met the same
fate about eighteen months ago.
Smmter News.
Mr.. Charles Baker, and old and highly
esteemed citizen of Augusta, died in that
city on Monday morning, Of pneumonia.
alter short illness. He was for many
years leading grocery merchant, and
had large circle of friends
The weather has been so cold in New
Hampshire that the mercury sank quite
out OF sight last week, and even alcohol
Thermometers lost Their spirits in trying
to make AZ degrees below zero.
In the portico Of one of the fashiona-
BILE 'chapels in Paris. fine infant was
lett IN basket. A note stated that the
little stranger was a Bonupartist, but
threw itself on the republic
A medical expert in Georgia wisely re-
trained from examining a mortally
wounded man very closely, for fear that
counsel for the defence would prove that
murder to have been done by his probe.
An individual who had an eve. like
Shakspeare's play, with wild leer in it.
was soundly thrashed in Memphis last
week, by bashful damsel from the rural
districts ior staring at her.
EXECUTION. Friday, the Oath,
is the day appointed for the execution,
In Marion, of Sam Brown, colored, con-
voted at the last term of the court, of
the wilfnl murder of his father-in-law.
Betsy Cobb, an old negro woman age d
seventy six, WAS found dead in her cabin
at Greenwood ON last Monday. De
ceased ''came to her death by visitation
Of God"
A Richmond woman has had three
teeth drawn by stomach pump. She
swallowed them in q moment Of excite
ment.
Pioohc, New, leaves it's natural health.
fulness to be inferred from the fact that
no one has ever died a natural death
there.
Seventy. fivo members of the Eoumeni-
cal Council have died since it was
opened in Rome, in December, 1869.
A new kind of suspender is advertised,
which the patentee asserts will "impart
tranquility to the mind"
The Queen OF Denmark is rebuking
extravaganza, by appearing in public in
calico dresses.
The school.house in Beaver Dam Fork.
Sumter. was destroyed by an incendiary
hre on the Goth.
A colored horse thief, with several
aliases. has been arrested in Abbcville.
John G. Mackey, E-q Trial Justice
OF Charleston. died Yesterday.