The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-04-18

says thu Rock Hill Lantern, q gentleman
had monkey. A colored iadiyidnol
| went to dee it. After surveying il for
some time, he expressed bis opinion
thusly:
''Dese niggers bout here tries to
make out dis thing is no kin to dem.
Look at dat mouf, dat head and dem
eyes. 'dwey. niger, il dat monkey
alnt no 'lation to you, 1'se no nigger
tall. dun give it up Tore seed it.
Ha! hal ha! jus like desc ole Souf 'Cliner
niggers.
The question Of clearing the outlet Of
the Mississippi continues to aRitate the
people OF New Orleans. It is now bro.
posed to, cut canal through q clay bot.
tom and thus get access to the ocean.
The great river, draining 100, 600 square
miles. OF the richest land in the world,
must OF Necessity discharge large quanti-
ties OF mud into the shailow water OF the
Gulf, and eventually oh0keSnnless new
means are fonnd By which it msy reach
the ocean. The question is very im=
portant one. and requires the attention
Of the Government. l ~,
COSTLY OANDLEsT1oKs.-Tinity Pa
Ilsh. New York, expended upwards OF
Sl 900 Tor flowers Ito decorate the mo.
ther church and her various chapels on
Easter Sunday: As Trinity one of the
most interesting incidents Of the Easter
celebration was she display. for the first
eight feet in height, with branches for
fifty seven lights each, presented hv
John Jacob Astor, Esq. They cost
81 900 each.
The New York Herald is publishing
iryin -
spatches and terrific headlines in behalf
Of one OF its correspondents. Mr.. O'Kei.
~, who appears to have fallen into the
hands Of the Spanish soldiers in Cuba.
It could settle the difficulty il a yerv
little time il it would send STANLEY to
find him. There is nobody living better
fitted to put mares nest In q process of
in Cuba tion.
Louisville Courier Journal.
An immense waterfall has iust been
discovered in British Guiana. There
appears, in fact, to be a series Of cat..
racts on the Massaruni River, near Ro.
raima Mountain. From this mountain
four distinct waterfalls plunge. 2, COO feet
is given as the height OF tho mural preci-
pice over which the water falls. and the
sight, with the rays OF the setting sun
shining full upon this immense sheet of
water, is said to be magnificent.
"a Methodist preacher in Vermont
named Hough has been suspended a
year for breach OF promise"
Decidedly rough
On the Reverend Hough;
But. though it is tough,
LIZ it rough enough?
Miss Amanda Vancil, q school teachor
in Indiana, has made $40, 900 by invest
ing her salary in United States bonds.
and now there is q manifest disposition
among the impecunious youth in Iudi.
ana to invest Miss Amanda Vsncil with
the United States bonds of matrimony.
One Of the Georgia papers reports
that on the 1st of November last. Mr..
Crawford Nally left Paulding County.
that State, for Arkansas, with O family
of twenty.one persons, and that sinoe
that ttnte, every one of them has died of
smallpox.
A member Of the House of Commone.
speaking OF the large sum realized from
the tax on liquors, said that it was evil
dent drunkards were the sheetanchors
OF the British Constitution. As topers
are often "half seas over" and "three
sheets IN the wind" as we'll as "sheet-
wy I"y oC CAAIeO UQuft Cal
set.
Quint, the lawyer who defended l. .ura
Fair. is wonderfully sharp. It is upon
record in the journals Of the California
SENATE TINT he once obtained $50 votes.
in little County precinct where only
seven persons resided. Quint would be
valuable man for tue Radical party in
this country.
1t is said there is nothing new under
the sun, but at Pompeii there is q fac
simile OF SIMS specuiam, and in Nineyeh
Layard found bushel of magnifyipo
glasses. There is probably Herouiane-
um Herald and it, no doubt, contained
ad7ertising lodges and dead head ad-
vertisements.
An old colored woman walked forty
miles to Natchez, Miss. to get her re-
Gently deceased husbands bounty mo-
noy. When sho presented the docu-
ments, they were found to be the dead
mans registration papers.
Rochester woman married to n
second husband recently said to him ::
ION. how happy poor Charles would be
II he were still alive, to see himself re-
placed by man as agreeable as you
are!"