The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-10-05

otam0ut, HuS U6COm6 OQlOu6, ana
where it is un)awfully held by individu-
ais without u shadow of right or title
thereto, it is worse STILL
Died, this week, Mr.. Francis J. Oaks,
a member of the Town Council Of Cam
den. and respected and valuable citi-
zen. Mr.. Oaks was native of Ger
many, but came to South Carolina with
bis father when boy, and located in
Camden about forty years ago.
A Western editor said in most in.
solent manner possible, that good fat.
iron would probably oblige the new
style Of rufiies to stay down, and now
he is squelched by bushels of letters
from Indignant ladies. ironically asking
him to read work upon mistaken 20.
cations.
The Shreveport yellow fever death
rate, If applied to New York, would sum
up terrible mortality Of over $50, 600
of the population. These figures are
truly terrible, and must speak for them
selves to every philauthropist in the
country.
The brigand Tahos. the chief OF the
baud which pcrpetrated the Marathon
massacre, was killed by the Greek
troops in an encounter near Lamia, on
the frontier OF Thessaly, in August.
His band was surrounded, aud ali we're
killed or male prisoners.
A well-known authoress gives it al q
secret of domestic felicity that hus-
baud should be absent from home at
lest six hours every day. Then why
such row if he chooses to select the
time to suit h;mself-sny in the even
ing?
Captain Cnuldfeld and the Rev. Mr..
jackson killed notorious man eating
tiger with strychnine, recently, in Ma
dras, Iudia. This tiger, for tho Inst
three years, had killed man q week on
an average.
The woman's rights movement has
reached the aboriginees. An 1udiau
family appeared in Saginaw. Mich, re-
Gently, the husband carrying the pa
poose and the squaw nothing. 1t is the
first instance OF the klud on record.
A Western railroad conductor, after
twenty years experience, concludes
that he would rather carry 20, 900 men
passengers than to have one lone, lorn
female board his train.
docs one woman in fifty fill the
lower half Of her lungs with arr" is the
stern inquiry of u sanitary exchange.
The editor OF that paper never heard the
voice of an infuriated inother.in-iaw.
\ large metal button on the dress OF
a woman at Portland, Me-, saved hel
life recently. by turning the ball from q
pistol which her affectionate husband
fired mt her.
II never was 80 thankful in my life!'
| exclaimed Dover woman, when telling
coroner's jury how her husband
dropped dead. I'VE hadn't had figh,
NIL that day"
Cincinnati servant girl was looking
through q eyhoie, when some acid
struck and destroyed her eye. She
sued for damages, but all she got was
the damaged eye. ., ).
a good editor, in an obituary notice
of respectable citizen, was made by s
ruthless compositor to say: "He has
gone to that undiscovered burn"
A woman ard child in Ar glo, N. Y,
have lived in u hooshead two months
being too poor TO pay rent.
Out in Montana. when they start E
man down hill in barrel, they speak O.
Ills appearance III new role.
! Since the lst of January, over 10, 0OC
books have been copyrighted in til.
country; 1U,2oO are the e1uct figures.
y Florida planter recently carried te
Columbus, GA. 1000 in gold to inves
n ope OF the factories in that city.
The English officials arrest u man i
he attempts to get on train Of car