The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-02-11
Afarmsr in Oimstead County. Minn


reports That the snow drifted from the
prairie, bhrying belt of willows that
surrounded his house and stables. These
willows are from fifteen to twenty feet
| high. It accumulated in his yard and
on the buildings to such an extent as to
cover hts stables, he says, to the depth
OF hlteen feet. His house was not
buried 30 deeply. It took him forty
eight hours to reach his horses, which
vera tn thA stables. and he did it by
tunneiing under this drift to the stable
dUf. He found ina stock all right and
comfortable, b1s anxious for fodder.
| We are told Of the death of an Ameri.
can, named Roberts. in London, leaving
q fortune OF 5000, 900. When his father
set him mp in the secondhand clothing
business, in which he made his money.
he vas advised by that father "never to
let bis expenses exceed IS. Cd. Der
week." He adhered to the advice, and
ono OF his last struggles was an attempt
In his seventy-seoond year to live on q
diet OF horse chestnuts. It was fail
ure, and he went to join his revered an.
oestor IN place where the weekly ex.
penses are still less.
INQUEST. The Aiken Journal gives an
account OF an inquest held by Coroner
F. l.. Walker, in Windsor township,
Aatohway Dam, on Tuesday last, on the
body OF the infant ef Martha Turner.
coiored. The verdict was that the child
came to its death from wounds inflicted
by an unknown person. A colored man
named Cain Turner was arrested, but
discharged by Trial Justice Hall, the
evidence against him being insufficient.
There is glenn OF light in the Louisi
ana political chaos. It is thought that
enough candidates for the Legislature to
form constitutional quorum have re-
celved the endorsement of both return.
ipg boards. IT this is the fact, a solu.
tion Of the difficulty is possible. The
organization OF such quorum of the
State Legislature would give certain
nucleus around which State Govern
ment worthy the name might form.
| REMOVAL OF DISTINCTIONS AT CHURCH
thATs.-The Beaufort Republican saws
Gen. Gilmore has removed the obstruo.
tlons at Church Flats, which have here
tolore lmpeded the navigation Of the in
side route from Charleston to st. Helenu.
he took out 600 tons Of live oak logs
and many piles. Any vessel which can
get through Wapoo can now come over
Church Flats.
There recently died in London a
newspaper reporter who had devoted
himself for thirty years to the single de.
partment OF writing up fires. Let us
hope thnt he has gone to world where
there are no fires to write up. However,
in that case We can't imagine what the
poor fellow is to do for employment.
MIR. Thomas R. Dorsey, a weIl-known
and pnnoh ropnoofo1 S,,o.nIo~kz D-,..
more, was drowned some time during
| Wednesday night, having fallen into the
water at the foot of Frederick street.
His body was found floating in, the dook
early Friday morning.
The verdict OF the coroner's jury, in
the case OF Thomas P. Rose, of Lewis
vile, Orangeburg County, was that he
came to his death, on Friday night last,
from congestion of the brain and lungs.
superinduced by the too frequent use of
malt liquors.
A Mr. Olapp. Of Gnilford County, N.
o., was seen to eat one dozen hard
boiled eggs. then sucked forty-four, and
then bet three dollars he could suck forty
more, and twenty more were given and
he shelled them on top of the dose.
The two-and-a- half-story wooden re-
sidenee at the corner Of Smith and Beau.
fain streets. Charleston, occupied by Mr..
Job Dawson and family, was partially
destroyed by fire on Sunday morning.
Fully insured.
SENATOR SAwYEn.-The New York
Telegram. Of the 9th inst, says:
"Rumor has it that there is somo pro-
liability that Senator Sawyer, of South
Carolina. will bo called into President
Grants Cabinet"
The ladies of Believille, ILL.,, have can
vassed their town and alleviated all cases
OF suffering they could They we're
obliged to marry of thirteen disconso-
late old bachelors before their task was
completed.
The difference between defauIting re-
venue collectors in Tunis and in this
country, according to tho Louisville Cou.
rter. Journal, is, that in Tunis they are
impaled on stakes, while hero they usu-
ally walk off with the stakes.
The bodies Of two of the colored yo.
men, Silvia Dawson and Flora Toomer,
who were drowned in Cooper River.
opposite the Hagan plantation, short
time ago, have been recovered.
Governor Dix has granted respite of