The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-04-22
Affairs in tho Sandwich Islands arc

.~"J ""uAhS III Potloct equluOr10m
yet, the new regime having scarcely had
time to get into working order. The
agitation of the questions Of annexation
and reciprocity are alternately discussed
with considerable vigor, and their adyo-
oates are using all their powers Of per-
suasion to get hold upon the people.
All this agitation and diBcussion, it is
thought, Is owing to the inexper;enoe CT
the King. and to the fact that very in
efficient men have beon appointed "a his
advisers. . -
A news letter from Jacmsl, Hayti.
dated March "a. gives particulars 6f an
abortive revolution at Gonaives. of
which General Michel. was the ring.
leader. The authorities succeeded lin
qnellings the adisturbnnce.l Thirty 'iof
those implicated, Including the leader, I
were executed MiohSl who Was q
hair-dresser' ID 1853. and, ,becan Hene.
ral in 1858, made grandiloquent speech
on the scaffold. He said great men like
Napoleon and others bad their desti6y.
to fulfill, and he fulfilled his. al
A six year-old son .of Mr.. Burke, OF.
Auburn. N. Y, went in search of eggs
last week, and, thtusting his head into.
oarrei which contained q nest, lost his
baianoe, and slipped in such manner
edge of the barrel, while a slat nailed
across confinod his head. He hing sus.
pended thus for half ON hour. and when
his mother discovered him, was entirely
lifeless. @i.Ilr-r
There is good deal of excitement in
Knoxville, Tenn, over an awful stencil
which arises from bottomless pit lately
discovered in the heart OF the city. The
superstitious believe that the devils fran
g!pannl bog has exploded. while others,
OF practical turn of mind; think that
an old fle OF Brownlow's Knoxville Whiq
was accidentally dropped in the chAsm
some years ago.-Courier.J Journal. :
ENTBRPRIsE AND DESPATCH The
Langley Manufacturing Company had
twenty-four looms shipped from Boston
on Saturday, April 9th, which reached
langley Friday night, the 11th, and on
Monday, the 14tb, several OF the looms
were ut work in the mill turning out
cloth. i.i',
There is great excitement in Texas
over the request Of the President for the
release OF .the murderers Sautanta and
Big Tree. both of whom are as unre-
pentant as ever, while the latter talks of
revenge. The Legislature has passed a
resolution instruoting the Governor not
to comply with the Presidents request.
"ME. Speaker. you're a brazen liarlr'
he said, aud they expelled him. He was
an Arkansas legislator. ''Thst's whit
he said," remarks the Memphis Apa-
Aa,iche, "but they didn't expei him. He
still represents an admiring constitu-
ENJOY" 'i'IGt. -
Wonders will probably never cease in
New York. The last, and one.sufioiently
bloody, occurred in that city Oh Satur.
day night last, when ,ags man entered q
store with his throat ont from ear to ear.
he said the deed was done by three men
who waylaid him, and then fell dead.
:. The Loniaians papers sas,.they had
rather have centralism and all. Tho evils
OF military despotism than The Present
regime OF plundor. debauchery aud op-
preston. Desperate, truly, muat. be the
condition OF people who talk that way.
Congressman Perry, of the .6tate of
New York. is going to invest Ills back
pay OF S5. 600 in bonds and cancel them.
he IL patriotic enough to feel that the
act will be worth 5000 to him in the
next race for Congress. =, i1ri"l'i
During the German Emperor's pre-
sence in ST. Petersburg, it Is proposed
to perform monster tattoo, similar to
that executed at Berlin at the Three
Emperors' Jete. 1,50O military bands
mon are to take part in the performance.
The great bridge over East River, con-
Meeting New York and Brooklyn, is be-
ing pushed forward pith rapidity, the
piers on either side are rising foot a
day, already having reached, height of
$50 feet on the Brooklyn side
at two recent elections in Galveston.
Texas, Zone for the municipal officers 4
and the other for. State Senator the co.
iored men voted in body with the
Democrats.
A co)ored gentleman recently elected
to Congress from Alabama, has shown
his devotion to tho State by nine years
service in the State penitentiary.
The play bills of some of the Partisan
theatres have printed on them map of
the principal streets in the vicinity, for
the convenience OF strangers
Minnesota dram shops are compelled
by law to support IN inebriate asylum.
HEALTHY DIGESTION Life Is rendered.
miserable when the digestive organs are i'm.