The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-06-18
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OTOuBuS ulu IRON Cupa. ~ nelly
effects were sealed by the United States
Consul at Santanto.
The Cortes has under Confederation
extraordinary faculties, under which it
will be empowered to levy oontribu-
ton of 100, ,O00.00 petals upon the
country.
LONDON, June IA second cable
from the coast OF Cornwall to Spain has
been opened for business. This increase
in the facility for transmission of de-
spatohes between England and Spain has
led to q reduction of the tariff.
american Matters.
CHARLESTON. June 17.--Arrived-
Steamship Sea Gull, Baltimore; Cham
pion, New York; Equator. Philadelphia.
MEMPHIS, Jane 15.-There were twen-
ty-one intermehts to-day against twelve
yesterday.
MEMpn1s. June 16.-The weather to-
day has been very unfavorable for the
improvement Of the health OF the city,
as during the night the mercury fell
twelve degrees and to-day was rainy and
hot. There were nineteen interments
to-day, Of which fifteen died of cholora
and cholera infsntum. The City Council,
this afternoon, passed an ordinance
establishing q Board Of Health.
NASHVILLE, June 16.-Thirty-two in
ported since Saturday. A large per
oentsge OF those attacked have recovered.
Nearly all the victims are colored people.
NoRw1ou, Conn.,, June 16.-Three
men were arrested in Plainheld last
night, and are now in the city prison
here, charged with placing obetructions
upon the track OF the Norwich and
Worohester Railroad on Sunday morn
ing. The engineer. Sidney B. Cooper,
and George Harvey, fireman, were &C.
verely Injured by the escaping steam
from tho locomotive. A plank was placed
on the track just below the depot at
Daysville, but was swept by the COW
catcher about 200 feet. Further on, the
engine encountered tie, in the very
heart of the village. and swept it some
500 feet to switch. where it caught in
the frog and threw the locomotive from
the track. The whistle blew down
brakes, and every effort was made to
keep the train on the road bed, bat the
speed WAS so great that the engine could
not be stopped. and it swept the cap.
stones from the bridge over the Five
Mile River, and the locomotive and
three cars, containing sixteen persons,
feet below, burying the engineer and
fireman beneath the ruins. After an
hours labor they were extricated, badly
bruised and scalded, but they are report
ed as doing we'll to-day. At meeting
OF citizens, q reward of $1,000 was
pledged on behalf of the town, to bs
paid on the conviction of the rascals
who were guilty of this diabolical crime.
WASHINGTON. June 16.-A pardon was
issued to-day to Elias Burnett, al al
lodged South Carolina Ku 1Klux, who
was sentenced to eighteen months i'm
prisonment at Albany in May, 1872.
NEW YORK, June I6.-A destructive
ire occurred among the stables at the
Fleetwood race course yesterday after
noon. during which large quantity Of
valuable property was destroyed and five
valuable race horses burned to death.
Sixty stables were consumed and all the
sulkies, harness and turf paraphernalia.
Two OF the horses were the property of
&. n. Ferguson. The infammable ma
terial and the absence of all fire engines
rendered all efforts to stay the flames
futile. The grand stand was saved.
ZANEsvInLE, OHIO, June 16.-Lsst
evening DR.. Lewis learned that Thomas
Smith. married man, had taken his
followed, overlook them and shot Smith
through the lung and then beat him 80
severely that he is not expected to live.
Mr.. Lewis has been arrested.
HARTFORD, June 16.-David Scott
who, with his brother, Mitchell Cherest,
committed the horrible triple murder at
Windsor Locks, in this State, in January,
1872, and was sentenced to State prison
for life, committed suicide at the State
prison.
BosroS, June 16.-General Butler has
at last announced himself as candidate
for the Governorship of Massachusetts,
and his second fight for the position may
now be said to have fairly begun.
New York, June 16-A terrible MUIR
der occurred last night, in liquor store
in Houston street. Two men, named
Edward Kirkland and Jamos Dat1y, had
an angry discussion and exchanged
blows. Finally, Kirkland drew a clasp
knife and plunged it into the right breast
OF Duffy up to the handle. The wound
ed man sank to the ground and died in O
few minutes. Kirkland was arrested.
New YORK, June 17.--A morning paper
says that Mt the present time there are
between T, 900 and 5000 ohildron lid.