The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-01-25

.et '" snts came s!c IL q GGOTEia court n
lew months ngo, snys the Savannah
Heus, and both the man and woman
we're hned and imprisoned. The negro
appealed to the United States Court, aud
the Judge decided that the State law for
pudding the intermarrying Of whites and
blacks did not conflict with the four
teenth amendment. aud dismissed the
appeal.
A WANToN MuRDER.-A bill poster
named Michael Nixon came in collision
With Charles PLyfo, q trnokmsn, in
Chatham Square, New York, Tuesday,
and after some words drew a pistol and
shot him dead. Nixon was arrested, and
on being asked why he committed the
deed, replied: Il just pulled out my
pistol and shot him, because he said he
wonld strike me with a whiffletree."
PhJfe resided in Brooklyn. He leaves q
wife md four children. Tho order of
Red Men have taken charge of his body.
Last Saturdays investigation into the
Credit Mobilier business developed the
fact that the Union Pacific Railroad
Company let ont to themselves the con.
tract for building the road. The profits
arising from this job are supposed to be
at least $50. 600. 600. The road is deeply
involved in debt. It owes the Govern
ment large amount. Yet it coolIv
pockets $50. 900, 900 profits on nice lit
tie speculation it costly arranged for it.
self. Such are ''the Influences OF our
civilization" God help US!
The colored voters OF Lockport. New
York, have resolved that their children
should not attend public school set apart
for them, and intend to apply to tho
courts for an order admitting them to
the Caucasian class.rooms This aues-
t1on was before court in Albany, New
York, recently, and the Judge decided
that where schools of the same kind
we're organized for coIored children as
for white, the former could ndt be forced
into the schools for the latter.
The TERRIBLE STORMS Our WHsr.-
The awful tempest thut swooped down
on the prairie State of Minnesota lasted
without intermissiou for over ifty hours.
As many as quo lives were lost, and the
snow drifts mounted higher than The
houses. Babies were frozen stark at
their mothers breasts, and the scene
presented after the hurricane ceased was
altogether more appalling than any ever
yet witnessed on the tornado.swept
plains or the West.
FRRsHET IN WATRREE RlvER-On Sa-
turdny last, after the heavy rains. the
river began to rise rapidly, and all transit
was suspended from Saturday until Mon
day, when persons came over by Peay's
Ferry. The lower ferry, however, was
impassabie until Tuesday. The freshet
comes ut time when, perhaps, it will
do less damage than at any other. Some
of the planters will lose few bales of
cotton.-Can,rien Journal.
The Robesonian says: Old Aunt "Ssl-
lie' died suddenly on Christmas Eve, on
the plantation of Dempsey Coleman,
near Fair Blnf. She was member OF
the Baptist Church. about ITO years of
age, and in 1871 could see to use fine
needle. She was servant Of the we'll
known Enzor family. of Horny County,
8. O., aud had distinct recollection of
the old war.
DEATH OF VENERABLE CorroN MRR.
ANT.-Dsath has agniu Invaded tue
mercantile circles Of Augusta, and claim
cd one OF our eldest aud most respectn.
Bile cotton merchants, Mr.. David l.
Adams. who died ut his residence, ut
Summer Hill, near Hamburg, s. O., ut
MI curly hour yesterday morning, aged
about eighty years.
augusta Chronicle and Sentinel
Rev. Yynyan Henry Moyle, Vlcar OF
Eiton, England, il charged With forging
share Certificates 10 tho amount oI
SllO, 600 III an iron manufacturing cor
poraiiun. in which ho WAS iii oflicer.
He il suspected OF similar "irregulari.
ties' in otlior stocks.
The st. John IN. B. Globe states that
although no organized body of anuexa-
uOnists exlsts Ill the Domiulup, the num.
ber IL worry large, aud rapidly increasing.
The Globe says leading auuexationlsss'
are about stnrtiug u duly paper in st.
John, and another in Halifax.
FIRE AT SOCIETY HI1L.-The large and
handsome residence belonging to tho
late Colonel John N. Williams WAS en-.
tireIy destroyed by lire on Sunday Inst
The house was occupied by Mr.. Race.
and the fire caused by Sparks.
San Francisco markets are now sup.
piled by tho nsighborlng farmers with
string beans, peas. asparagus, groeu
corn anI other productions scasonuble
ut New Years.
The Oolgate., of New York, have pre-.
sented to tho BAp.is, Society, with which
thev Wnruhin ,,t Ynukoro NJ " =, a.