The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-07-13

1sS'o @VvS coao16lSe 4, IA; sales
Al. O04.
WnA1ISoroS, July 12.-Cotton steady
-middling 10; net receipts 81 bules:
Gales l; stock 1,6O1.
SAVANNAH, July 12.-Cotton dull and
little doing-middling 1917; net receipts
312 bales; sales 35; stock 6,G4O.
CHARLESTON, July IL Cotton Quiet
mlddhng 10; net receipts $50 bales;
gross 430; exports coastwise $50. .alss
100; stock 8,287.
BosToN, July 12.-Cotton dull-mid.
ding Fl: net receipts 40 bales; gross ZIG:
sales 200; stock 10000.
PHILADELpnIA, July 12-Cotton quiet
-middiins 81.
The Salt Lake City Ners says the
question, "Who was the man with ;l,e
iron mask?" has stimulated, perhaps. es
much interest and research as either of
the following questions: .'Who was Ju.
nius?" "Who killed Tecumseh?" "What
became Of Morgun?" "Where was," and
new What shall be done with, Captain
JACK! "Who struck Billy Patterson?"
ana hnally, where's Billy Bowlegs?"
The latter is the most important oues-
ton Of the lot.
= western paper puts trihing mis-
understanding between two brothers.in.
Ia" down South in the following plea
SAINT way: George Leden, of Eogey Ba.
you' Fla, Was ately peculiarly unfortu
nate IN n job he undertook. He starte,l
IN TO XII his brother. in law, Capt. Geo.
Parish, and worked ut him for half nm
hour, ut the end uf which timo Purisl.
Deilevlng Tie man was in earnest. and
that 1t was war to tho death, closed up
the unpleasautness by killing Leden.
CRop PRosrEcrs "A gentleman lust
returned from trip to Columbia. S. O..
reports the crops OH the route as looking
remarkably we'll. at Woodgrove, about
fourteen miles th:s side of columbia. he
conversed with Messrs. Jeffries and
Adams, two large farmers of that yici-
nifty, who stated that they would make
better crops generally this year than any
previous year since the war. This he
found to be the experience OF prent
many farmers and planters whom he met
Wilmington Siur, 12M.
The Memphis appeal tells this: "An
inclined bachelor recently bought wire
rat-trap, and after batting it with cheese.
set 1t near the hall in his room. Next
morning the cheese was gone, but not q
rat trapped. The succeeding night the
mystihed bachelor left his light burning,
ana saw six mice enter the cnge and
onng out the cheese to several rats that
dared not enter. Since then, he hus
amused himself for hours watching fla
process the rats lave to get the bait. -
The Norfolk (Va.) Journal says tAero
Is mule owned by II woman in that CITY.
ana driven to market every day, that has
oeen an lnveterate tobacco chewer for
many years. Whenever the mule be.
comes obstinate, it is only necessary to
give him chew, when he becomes per.
iectiy kind and gentle. The woman pur.
chases tobacco for him regularly, and al
ways keeps it on hand.
AILLRD DY THE SENsELEss RACKET
Ibe Wilmington Commercial saws: On
West Third street. baby few weeks
DID, died yesterday, from the shock
caused by the noise of powder explosions
on the 4th. It had been i'll previous to
that time, but was recovering. The
dreadful noises, continuing through out
Friday. almost t.;nw it into spasms. and
so injured its condition that it died. na
stated. so
t'lKE.-A fire occurred on the premises
OF Capt. VIM. G. johnson. Eve miles
above Gillisonvile on Cypress Creek. on
the lst inst. by which a large two story
building and several smaller BUILDINGS
were destroyed. Also about 900
bushels OF corn, q lot of fodder, &c
Loss estimated at $1,000. It is SUP.
posed to have been the world OF an in
cendiary.-Benuou Republican.
The editor OF the Columbus E.,u;,,,
j. getting into hot water all around. A
Eennsy lnnpian publishes him as a De-
mocratic blackguard and Confederate
scoundrcl, while an Alabama patriot saws
ne Is a sneakiDg Puritan and skulkiug
Yankee. The editors name is Calhoun.
AT a meeting of the commissioners of
the Spartnnburg and Union Railroad.
held III Charleston, on tho llth, com.
mittee was appointed to wait upon the
directors OF the South Carolina Railroad,
and confer with them relative TO tie
prospects Of the contemplated roaL.
Among "pnlpit cccentrictics" of the
present day, is the preaching OF sermons
On the Epgiish poets, by the Rev. Stop
ford a. brooke, well-known incumbent
OF the West Fad Of London. lie be-
gan with Shelley, and has got rs far as