The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-08-22

| 40 uESl bellicLueut.
Il is curious thing to consider how
many people there are III the world
whose daily habits arc very little supe-
rior to those Of the beasts Of the field.
They do not understand the use of the
bath. They are guilty Of all sorts of
dirty practices, and it is one Of their
peculiarities that they care nothing
whatever for the annoyance or discom-
fort they inhict upon others. The spit
ters are among the most offensive Of
this numerous class. They have no re-
spect for man, woman or child. You
SEQ their tracks in every thoroughfare
and every public building This is one
OF those evils which we can only de-
scribe without protesting to be able to
supply remedy.-Ne,0 York: Times.
The colored Republicans of Ohio are
dissatisfied with their share in the
honors Of the party, ard have issued a
call for convention, in which they re.
cite their grievances. They say thnt IL
sufficiently comprehensive civil rights
bill does not exist; that they do not re-
ceire, rs they ought, the same treatment
as white mon from public institutions
and common carriers; that the right Of
voting ought to carry with it the right
OF being voted for. These and many
other things they intend TO discuss st
Chillicothc, to-day.
DEATH OF AN EpGErIELp MAN IN
GEORGIA. 1t gives US pain TO chronicle
the death Of au cid and nonored friend
and former fellow. .citizen-Allcn l.. Ad-
Olson, Esq, Of Americus, Ga.-an elder
brother Of onr esteemed townsmeu,
John l.. AID Henry ". Addison. Mr..
Allen Addison removed from EIgeEeld
to South western Georgia before the
war, and ut the conclusion of the war
entered into mercantile business in
Americus. He died somewhat sudden
ly on Friday afternoon last-aged about
forty five years. Etly:tisM Adrertiser.
Rowell's new American Newspaper
directory reports the existence OF 400
religious journals in the United States.
Forty.seven of these are under the con-
troll Of the Methodists, the largest nun
Der In the hands of any single denomi-
nation. The Roman Catholics have
forty-one; the Baptists thirty.ive; the
Presbyterians twenty. nine; the Episco-
palians twenty-one; the Lutherans md
Reformed Germans fourteen each; the
Jews nine, and the Congregationalists
eight.
a coiored man was rim over and
killed on the Wilmington, Columbia and
Augusta Railroad either Tuesday night
or "Wednesday morning, about twenty
miles below the city. 1t is not known
by which train he WAS killed, us three
| trains had passed before the body was
found. The train cut him completely
in two across the chest. \ bottle Of
~hiskeJ was found lying near the body
SorruEES STATE DIETS. The repre-
sentntion is made that the next Congress
will be asked to assume the entire State
Indebtedness OF the Southern States,
and that Northern congressman OF
prominence have already promised their
support to tie measure.
N.r Tarl inns.
| From Barlow, Ga, we learn that
some ten or twelve days ago, Mr.. Z.
White, who lives about eight or ten
miles from that place, was called up at
II or IL o'clock ut night. On opening
the door he was shot through the head
aud killed and his house robbed. No
further particulars are given.
Bob Smith, colored, was run over and
Allleu ny tne up Train on the Whining
ton, Columbia and Augusta Railroad,
on the night Of the 10Th inst, near Null
Inns Depot, S. G. He was coming from
Nichols Depot to Mullins walking on
the track. His head was cut of COM
pletely.
eyes, take her and welcome," re-
sponded an Illinois farmer whom q
young man asked for his blushing
daughter. "Shes run away with q
schoolmastcr, eloped with Snowman,
shot wildcat and whipped her mother,
and tue sooner you tako her the better.
It is stated that the condition OF Mr..
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