The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-08-20


Wilson, 439 Dickinson street, and re-.
ceivcd shelter. She was wasted to q
skeleton. Her limbs we're not thicker
than mans finger, and her body cau
be spanned readily. Hsr friends called
III q pl ician Her condition is criti-
ca! today. The authorities have been
made aware Of tho affair, and the ac-
cused taken into custody. After the
iuli hearing IN the case, the accused was
committed for q further hearing.
GOOD TEMrLAks CnARGro DOUBLE
FAkE.-The Rome C0mms,ciM is re-.
sponsiblc Tor the statement that Col.
w. 5. Cothran, President OF the Romc
Raliroad, has the dead sure thing on S,
Q. Kooinsor and his Good Tcmp,ars.
Lie informed the Grand Worthy Secrc-
tar5, few days ugo. that he would have
to charge all Tcmplars double fare, in
order to mako up for tho falling clT Of
freishts on whiskcy over the roal.
A funeral procession at Wheeling,
West Virginia, was recently ascending
steep grade, when it was met by two
boys, who were at tho moment quarrel
ing over the possession of some fishing
rods. The action Of the bows scared
the horses Of tho henrse, and the horee
OF the first carriage also began to plunge
violently, throwing the whole line into
confusion, during which two carriages
were precipitated down q steep embank-
ment, utterly demolishing ono and
seriously injuring the occupants of both.
Back hair is nobler thing than back
pay. The other day heroine on the
Mississippi swan into the river like
man and gave her four feet of hair TO
drowning man. When they are mar.
rled, If that man doesn't use that back
hair more roughly than that, it will be
because thnt young woman is a better
man than he is.
ut costs rs much" says the Rev.
Henry Morgan, "to launch a woman on
the sea OF life in these times as it would
take to fit out small schooner" Well,
inasmuch as the woman, when once she
IS thus launched, is worth whole feet
OF schooners, you ought to be ashamed
to talk of her in TINT way.
The Cincinnati Gazette says: ut ap.
pears by the above that we are guilty Of
long list OF sins against women. t"
When Deacon Smith, that truly good
mau, thus publicly confesses his sins, it
is about time for the rest of Us to pro-
cure cushion and como down upon our
| knees also.
The gospel is dispensed with to such
an extent in the region round about
Memphis that when clereyman as-
sumes serious countenance, and asks a
man if he is prepared to die, in the ma.
]ority Of cases the person so questioned
gives an unearthly yell and breaks into
| q run.
HTho Long Branch News, August 1lth,
says: A marriage ceremony was per-
formed on the beach at Ocean Grove,
on Saturday evening last. The coa-
tractlnS parties were Rev. M. Whittier,
presiding elder Of South Carolina,
and Miss Annie Traf!on, of Philalc,-
phia.
There is lady at Saratoga Springs
who is extremely fond OF pets. She has
nine singing birds. one prrrot, one tame
dove, one peacock, six Iogs, rine cats
(some OF which arc kit.els.) two sGir.
reis, two gold fish, three turtles and a
young alligator.
Men arc easily delulcd," says the
x-Enpress Eugenie; "thcy are dupel
on every hand; tie snua arts succeed
with all Of then, and tie woman il .
gcnias who strikes ont Lew way to gel
the bcttts Of theIn."
a Texan town WIS recently visited by
4 Clergyman tor the first tine il its Lis
tory, and the hospitable inhabitart;
proposed getting mp Acrsc rare ior i.!s
entertainment.
Aa Old gentleman ci ?Lol.rct! VII:
had the whole OF his tongue aul his
lower jaw removed sonc months aco,
not Only cats anl drinks with ease, Du,
"artculates SO a. to be understood"
Scandals over Illinois divorce la~:
continue. Depriving a wife cs cithe,
or both Of her ears las now been al
judged sut1icient ground for diyorc,
there.
A gentleman in Indiana, when asket
why'he did not marry and settle down
teelingly replied that he thought NOR.
seriously OF being divorced and settling
up.
Mr.. Louis E. Grouse. of Augusta, ha
written on the back OF n postal cart
3,O1G legible words m extract from
Bnlwer's Last Days Of Pompeii'-witl
C pon.
Mrs. Darlington says she hears thu
Wise. the balloonist, is IN airy unucht
and she supposes he must be, for til,