The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-12-16

CHARhgsroN. December 15.-Cotton
htgher--middling l51@152s; low mid.
ding 10; striot good ordinary 14%@
14I: net receipts 1886 bales; exports
to Great Britain 1893; coastwise 3,37S;
sales 5000; stock 53, 826
MEMPHIS, December l5.-Cotton
quiet and -middling 15I5; low
middling Is; receipts 4, 800 bales; ship.
ments 1886; stock 4S.623.
GALVESTON, December Is Cotton
domand moderate and offerings light
good ordinary IL; ordinary 1919; ne,
receipts a,2!G bates; exports 10 Great
Brlta'n l,734; coastwise l,54I; sales
l,50O; stock 6S.5S3
baltimore, December Is Cotton
low middllng 15is; strict good ordinary
14tl.; gross receipts l $50 bales; exports
coastwse 301; sales $50; stock l6, 500,
SAVANNAH, December l5.-Cotton
strong-midd'ing 1888; net receipts
9,272 bales; exports to continent 4, 49o:
coastwise .6S7; sales 1900; stock 1O9,-
7l2.
NORFOLK. December 15.-Cottoo
steady and firm-low middlirg 14al; e.
receipts o,540 bales; exports coustw;se
2.674; sales 425; stock IL. .060.
PHILADELPHIA, December l5.-Cot-
ton tirm--middling 1G3l; low middling
l6; strict good ordinary 15is; net re-
cslpts G57 bales; gross l. 147
MOBILE, December 10 Cotton firm
.rd higher-mlddling 1921; low mid.
ding lo15; good ordinary l4ls; net re-
celpts 4tO; exports to Great Britain
3.54l; coastwise 93G: sales 200; stock
43, 1876.
AUGUSTA. December l5.-Cottou de-
mand good -mid,lliug l4l1; receipts
1.Gl2: sales 1873
WILMlNGroN. December l5.-Cotton
firm-middling 10; net receipts 597
bales; stock 3. .112
BosroN, December l5.-Cotton stroue
-middiing lG34; net receipts IL bales !;
gross 5.365; sales 3; stock 5000.
Denver journalist. whose name,
had lie lived at Jerusalem in the first
century. would probably have appeared
IN the fifth chapter Of Acts, instead oi
that OF AnnniuS, has erected a model
sensation. While mother is washing
her baby, her daughter appears, covered
with blood, and says that she las cut of
Johnny's head. The mother asks.
"Why?' "Eecause you said you'd do
IL II ha t"Jk any preserves. aud he took
some Ihe mother imprinted knock
OF aN c,lon On her daughters brow with
II wash-5oard. killing her immediately.
tnd then dropped the baby into u tub
OF scald!ng water, then rushed from the
house, hOwiiny maniac, utterinr
shrleAs which iilled-uearl two woconmns
Of the paper. Prudent mothers in Den
Yer nov 40 longer wash tb cir babies.
Buffllo is now being agitatcd by a cu-
rionS and complicated occurrence. \
wealthy lady of sixty hus Just married
her owa widowed son-in law OF thirty.
i've. tho former husband oi her own de
ceased daughter. who in dying lett two
dren to her bercavcd partner. Ol
these childrcn, the grand. mother has
now become the step III other; while their
! 'a:her, marrying his mother-ir-luu..
makes himself the step-iather OF his
WI sisterin- law. Some of the EuiI.,lo
people arc nearly distracted in their ef.
forts to unruvel or smooth out tie rela-
tioushiEs now existing from this strunge
| marriage.
Destructive FIEE.-A destructive
fire occurred at the little town OF Mag
no!in. in Duplin County, yesterday
morning. 1t originated in the board.
ing honse Of Mrs. Middleton, which
was entirely destroyed, the ilamcs
spreading to tho stores OF Alessrs. Mer
rImon. Newberry and HolIiugsworlh,
the Wilmington unL Weldon Railroad
office and warehouse. telegraph oiiice,
&c., all oi which were consumed.
Wilmington STR.
a portion of the people of Coif.x
township. Davies County, Mo, have
met and resolved that they canno: pay
their taxes; that they will not bid on
each others property, if offered for sale
ny the tnx collector; and also, .'thut il
my outsiders come to the sales, We will
give them warm reception"
The books and papers of six or eight
New /ork dry goods firms have been
seiz,>d by customs officers on charges oil
it:.nd in importation Of haptlkerchicfs
Suits have been entered against thre. OF
The firms Others are under invr,tipa
ton. Between 500, 900 aud $500, ,O0(
Is the amount involved
! The Kentucky Bon,huus ure usina
Gronnd. 1t is asserted that .he new
! Legislature drink, less wi:iskr p.rr,a,
! tnnN any t{.tt i.t. J.,,,,