The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-09-07

ruptcy; hled and referred to W. i.
Clawson. Registrar.
The criminal bushes Of the court was
finished on the Goth, and the court will
hereafter attend to the hearing of civil
business entirely.
DEATH OF Hon. GREEN KENDE1cK.
This distinguished gentleman died at
Waterbury, Conn, On the 9th Of Au-
gust. He was & Naive Of North Caro-
lima, and resided there for many years.
He enjoyed the highest confidence and
esteem of the citizens of Connecticut;
was frequently elected to the House of
Representatives. and more than once to
the Senate. In 1851, lie was Lieuten-
ant-Governor Of the State, and subse-
quently in an election by the Legiala-
ture came within one vote Of being
chosen Governor. He was twice Speak.
or OF the House.
A FATAL BURNING. A daughter of
Mr.. Boesch. the dyer in King street,
North Of Tradd. died on Wednesday,
from the effects of being burned on
Tuesday. She went too near the fire,
where dye was being prepared, when
her clothing became ignited, burning
her body. The lady, who was in her
thirty-frst year. had been suffering
under an athiction for years, which
made the sad event more distressing.
! Charleston Ners.
Even the Springfield Mass Repub-
lican refuses to believe Foote'S stories.
1t says:
According to 'Hargman Foote.
Jake Thompson found himself at the
CLOSE OF the war with S200, 900 Of Con
federate funds (gold) in his custody,
and proceeded to divide with Jefferson
Davis, Judah P. Benjamin, and others.
The story may be true, but it will take
better evidence than the unsupported
word OF Foote to make many people be-
lieve it"
TROUBLE IN SUoTH CARoLISA.-Whit-
field Swearingen, of Edgefeld Court
House, s. c., having been charged with
obtaining goods under false prstences
from an Augusta firm, the deputy
sheriff Of Richmond County attempted
to arrest him with o warrant from Co
vernon Moses. The friends OF Swearin-
gen prevented the arrest, but the latter
finally surrendered, and Low the sheriff
is after the friends.
UGH!-Tho rasoality of New York
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Tribune declares there is no doubt that
many body is carefully decked for its
last sleep, and laid in tho ground with
tears and prayers which, the next night.
is lying on the bare dissecting board
ready for the students knife, while tho
fond mother or wife comes day after
day to weep over rihcd grave.
The New York fire department con-
templates tho addition of new feature
to its organization, by creating q corps
OF sappers and miners, who are to be
drilled in the use OF explosives, and to
be prepared to quickly destroy build
lngs wherever snoh o step becomes ne.
cessary to prevent an extensive confa
grafton.
Is it our Ku Klux Bud? We take the
following item from the Iron Age, pa
per published at Marshall, Texas
"a young man, known ns Bud Will
liams, was killed three or four miles
from Cranberry, on Sunday morning
last. He was killed in attempting to
arrest another man, the particulars OF
which VIC have not yet learned"
Lancaster Court House is said to be
more sickly than it has been for twonty
years past. The Ledger attributes the
sickness to the fact that cotton is plant.
ed too extensively. In many instances
the gardens in the town are planted in
cotton.
Bids for nearly sl,OO0,0 900 of New
York city stock averaged three per cent.
premium.
DR.. VIM. NJ. Kinard turned out the
first bale OF now cotton in Newberry
County.
The Spar;ea iron -clads seized by the
English haze arrival nj Gihraitar