The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-05-13

fmAke fnp@ Tor the initiative Ceiestisls.
llSSAtePf 80 Wing ont their time and saving
fnsAe money, tho Cinnamon set up On
soeiti own nocount, and sold shoes ct 90
!2wa rsse fhss ffsy completely beat ont
snslE, l 0la; seAdpaSS Sets, who, to their
EGmAH ,sH6AS aud thagrin, found them
Essises nAabls to compete With their for.
NET emPf63ses. 80 the shoe manufao.
Sarera hAso resolved to take white an
prenstcas In future, and the recent
Chinese importation of l, ,248 immigrants
are not wanted at any price.
In an action for slande.. Justice q
Oresswell put the CASE to the iury in the
emphatic words: "Gentlemen, the de-
iendant's q foul-mouthed fellow. What
asmsges3 AN example oi iudicial
orevity only to be matched by -aron
A1derson's address to q convicted pri-
soner. Who prayed that Goodnight strike
aim dead where he stood il he were not
innooenk. After moments silence the
Judge stesnly and coldly said: sPrisoner
a. she 5sr. as Providence has not inter-
posed IN behalf OF society, the sentence
o. tne court is that you be transported
for the term of twenty years."
a Florida coast letter to the New York
Sun says: "Most of the Inhabitants here
wear wrecked goods. Even their hats
and shoes come from stranded Ships.
Their wives and daughters have dresses
and aprons made Of wrecked calico.
their tables are covered with wrecked
amen, and their beds ere spread v:.h
wrecked muslin. A good wreck will
supply an economical family for years
The ship ashore is regarded as legiti-
mate prey. The people are honest and
passably industrioue, but they will 90
for wreck like gulls for dead fish. ="
ANOTHER JEWISH Exodus. The brutal
prosecutions which the Jews have suf
Tered 30 long in Roumania will probably
result not only in benefits to the Jews,
unforeseen by their prosecutors, but in a
great gain to this country. Several
wesithy Jews have seoently arrived in
New York, as agents of their brethren in
Houmanis. to select home in the New
World, where the colonists may enjoy
religious freedom. As soon as a home
is saoored, from 5000 to 5000 Jews will
embark for New York.
PENstoN TO WIpows.-The pension
laws as amended by the last Congress
VII. give increased pension to widows
having one child. The amount of in.
creaae is "a per month. and has not been
allowed heretofore except where there
Was more than one ohild. Many claims
are now being fled under the new law.
and the question to be decided is whether
the increase is to date back from July 22.
1865, the date of original Act increasing
~ldows pensions, or from date OF modi-
fed law OF last session.
Moncure D. Conway tells this story in
one OF his London letters to the Cincin
natl Commercial ''IIet me conclude nv
letter with the following little converse.
ton which overheard at the Adeiphi
Theatre few evenings ago. The play
was Jack Cnde." First stranger. re-.
marking upon one of the earliest thefts
OF the hero, says. He's fair candidate
ior Newgate.' Second stranger says, If
he went to America he'd be fair oandi.
date for Congress. Fact"
TRIFLINa WITH A NOBLE RED MAN
a Kansas district school was recently
visited and addressed by Messrs. Biz
Mouth. Powder Face and Spotted Wolf
all the noblest kind Of noble red men.
A mischievous school.boy placed pin
trap where Big Month sat. down, and
that chieftain was observed to rise hastily
and remark: "Ugh! too much fee
o'.o' VIC 10 stay 10 near Glass IN Ana
lytical Geology" Then he left.
BRUTAL AssAULT.-Mr Aaron Thoma,
was brusally assaulted one day last week,
by two negroes. whom he met on the
highway. One Of the negroes knocked
him off his horse with an axe, and the
other stamped him in the face With bis
feet. Mr.. Thomas thinks he knows one
OF the party. The assault was made
without provocation whatever. Mr..
Thomas was very seriously hurt.
Pickens Sentinel.
Hector Gardner, colored thief, who
has been plying his vocation in Augusta,
Charleston and Aiken for some time, was
arrested few days ago, and while being
carried to tho latter place for trial, sue.
ceeded IN slipping his hand cuffs and
made his escape from the cars as they
were passing Willston. This is tho SO.
cond time he has escaped at that point.
1000 Yankee clocks were recently
shipped to Japan, and now every daimio
in the country that can raiso the stamps
wears one Of those neat and reliable. but
not gaudy, time pieces, strapped on his
breast, and when the clock strikes he
draws larger crowd around him than a