The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-02-16


formed that she must 10 TO the seni6r
alderman OF the ward; he would then
tell the mayor, the mayo: would tell the
health inspector. the health inspector
| would tell the police, the police would
tell the dead cat man, and the dead cat
man would inform her what day OF the
week she could remove the dead cat
herself. Suoh is the energy OF the Hall
faxians.
Plato's tradition of the Lost continent
is being verified by leading Reologists.
and that the space now occupied by the
Atlantic Ocean was once that continent.
Upon the Rocky Mountains abundant
evidence OF the theory that they are the
outskirts OF it are found In the aquatic
plants and shells strewn over them. The
White Mountains and the Adirondaoks
are also recognized by those Interested
as high points of the boundary of the
country which lies under the sea.
DIPHTHHRIA AND MKNINarT1s.-Ws are
informed that these terrible diseases are
raging to fearful extent in and arohnd
Monticello. It seems that the two dis
easos nos.lJ affect children. The family
OF our friend, Mr.. Robert T. Yarbo-
rough. has been sorely afflicted, three of
Mr. Yarborough's children and his sister
having died within tho past few days.
He and his estimable lady have our
heartfelt sympathy. Winns5oro Ne,cs.
Charles Trash, better known in New
York city as 'Big Charlie, is dead. In
height he was 6 feet 4 inches, weighed
over 800 pounds, and could lift q 300
pound OK with ease. The butchers oil
say Big Charlie died Of too much Coney
Island. 1t was his habit almost eyery
afternoon, in the summer, to go down to
that celebrated bathing place and lie and
tumble about in the water for hours to-
gether like big porpoise.
The London Telegraph, initiating tho
New York Herald, sends out an expedi-
tion IN the interests Of science. It de-
spatches Mr.. George Smith, sauan of
the British Museum, to Nineveh. to de-
cipher the buried records OF Assyria.
Journalists do everything now. from
running for President to resurrectinR the
history OF the past-from sitting in Con-
gress to finding lost Explores. Verify,
the journalistic genius is versatile.
A SUDDEN DEATH.-Mary Mcdonald.
an Irish woman, about eighty years old.
was found dead in her bead yesterday
morning. at the corner OF Alexander and
Judith streets. She was in extreme des-
titutioD. dependent on charity. The
coroner's jury rendered verdict OF death
from disease OF the heart.
CArleston Neus.
On last Monday night, Noah Sutton.
resident OF the lower portion of Marion
County, was shot and killed hy one
Levi Soules, formerly Of North Carolina.
but lately from Marion. Both parties
were white. The deed was done on
board of flat which piled between Bull
Oreek, 8. O., and various landings on
Little Pee Dee River.
! A poor man in Washington was arrest.
ed and shut up the other day, for steal.
ing soup bone, worth fifteen cents. 10
keep bis family from starving. He had
seen better times, and his family was
found to be in wretched condition.
The man's stealing was on too small a
scale to give him any hope of immunity
in Washington.
a correspondent from Rocky Mount.
who had occasion to see the remedy
tried IN the recent smallpox sconrge in
Nash, says the followisg is positive and
nure cure for the disease: Slice onions in
halves aud apply them to the BODY.
Use chicken broth as the only diet.
Auo L CIV IsOSbl 1SalIrOau bridge, over
the Savannah River ut Augusta, has
been completed. The structure is com.
posed OF four spans, each 157 feet long.
and draw 202 feet in length. The lat
ter, Notwithstanding its apparent ponde.
rous weight, can be turned by one man.
Yesterday morning, about 10 o'clock,
the body OF Thomas Brinkmau, one of
tho five unfortunate pilots who was
drowned off the bar on tho morning of
the 14th OF December last, was found on
or near Battery Island, opposite Smith
ville.- Wilmington ISar.
An Ohio roost-stripper icolored) can
clean out an ordinary sized hen house in
ten minutee. He testified in court. re-
Gently. that be could wiring two chickens
necks with each hand, at the same time,
and never permit squak to escape the
victims
In Germany, when tho vote of the
jury stands six to six, tho prisoner is ao-
Quilted. vote of seven against Eve
leaves the decision to the court, and in a
vote OF eight against four, the prisoner is
convicted
A careful old gentleman at Nashville,
Tenn, stops his clock when the sun
shines, to save wear and tear, and de-
tcrmines the time of dnv by the ohli.