The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-07-06
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MRMPHIs. July B.-Thirteen cholera
interments Yesterday. The disease ia
spreading in the co1ntry.,
NEW YORK, July 5:-Two cases o: cho.
lera yesterday-bo fatal. It was re.
ported as Asiatic cholera by the attend.
ing Physicisps; but che doctors attached
to the Boatd of Health soy both were
aggravated cases of cholera morbus.
Jefferson Davis ia still here. at the
New York Hotel.
There were twenty-five or thirty small
nree yesterday, damages ranging from
$50 to $1,000. =
John Long was arrested last night, for
fatal shooting John Herring; both are
boys OF seventeen. Thirty. one accidents
to persons from carelessness in the use
OF firearms and works occurred in
this city. yesterday, and nearly as mapy
in Brooklyn.
John Dennis, driver of O market
wagon, was found fatally beaten in his
wagon. at jamaica. L. l., yesterday
having been robbed by two negroes, to
whom he gave ride on his way homo
from market. The people of Jamaica
turned out aud secured the woods, yes
terday. for the murderers. but they have
not been captured yet.
Numerous cases of un-stroke, yester-
day. including several Of the militia,
during morning parade.
Frank Walworth WAS, to o.day, sentenced
to the State prison. at Sing Sing, at hard
labor, for life. Judge Davis, in address
ing the prisoner, said he had fearful
doubts whether his case did not justify
the conviction of murder in the first de-
gree The prisoner stood the trying or.
deal with tirmness, without moving a
muscle of his features, and lef. the court
With his mother Immediately after the
Judge had concluded.
Probabilities-For Sunday, in the
southern States, generally light winds
and cloudy or clear weather.
Specie shipments to day S248,OOO.
One brother-in-law killed another, at
Greensburg. Ind.
Lightning burned house and killed a
woman, in Wolfboro, N. II.
Four men, while nshing, were drowned
at Deer island, off Eastport.
j. 81. Jackson, a real estate broker
died in his bath tub this morning.
Duringa heavy shower in Andover.
Alass., yesterday afternoon, lightning
struck the'old South Church and stun,
ned Rev. Mr.. Abbott, who was delivering
an oration, and also Ir. Carter, tenor
OF the choir. Both recovered in few
minuteP. The church was not materially
damaged. Several other buildings we're
also struck. 1t was the most violent
storm experienced here for fifty years.
SYRACUSE, N. Y, July at the great
Fourth of July celebration here. yester-
day, Gerritt Smith, in his address,
touched on the Cuban question, arraion.
ing the ADMINISTRATION for coidness TO
wards The cause of Cuban independence.
while allowing gun. boats to be fitted out
IN New York for Spanish use. Cuba,
by maintaining successful resistance
TOR nearly five years, had earned the re-.
oognition of beliigerens rights. He
hoped that since tue Government hesi
tated. people would take up Cuba's cause
and force the GovernmentI to act. A
resolution was adopted. expressing sym
pathy with Cuba, and calling on the Go
vernment to acknowledge belligerency, if,
indeed mot the independence Of Cuba.
ROCHESTER,. N. Y, July 5.-The party
that went over Niagara were sailing in o
ooas ct Chippewa. yesterday, and were
carried over Niagara Falls. Pieces of
the boat have been found. One couple
we're to be married on the day on which
the accident occurred.
CINCINNATI, July 5.-The storms of
the past three days have seldom, if ever,
been equalled in severity in Ohio and
Indiana. Hurricanes and tornadoes,
with floods Of rain. have followed each
other in rapid succession. This city and
immediate vicinity escaped the fury of the
storms. The country North of this and
parallel in Indiana and Ohio has suffered
severely by the furious storms which
passed over it, on the %, Sd and 4th in
stant. Telegraph wires have been gene.
rally prostra.ed. AT Springfield, Ohio,
it is reported that the telegraph poles
were blown down across the turnpike so
thlckIy in some places as to entirely oh.
struct travel East of Springfield. On
the Pacitic and Atlantic Telegraph limo,
there were 200 poles down, some of them
struck by lightning and others pros
trated by wind. Passengers from Lo-
lyansport say the storm yesterday levelled
trees nearly all the way from Logansport
to Richmond, Indiana. III Richmond,
trees were blown down in the street. at
Washington, Indiana, the Storm was ex.
ceedingly fierce. Shcaves of wheat were