The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-01-05

tRe shape OF q bottle made to look ex-
actiy like q cigar. On the cars, or even
when walking with "the pride of yonr
heart, you pqt the supposed cigar be-
tween your lips, and before you have
time TO ask whether smoking is obiec.
e1onah!e, you bite off tho end of the
cigar tha! hall and drink OF old rye
oofrugates your throat in a twinkling.
! A New York paper gives currency to
the report that Theodore Tilton will pub.
!lsh statement in the Golden Aqe deny
ing the domestic Irregularities recently
alluded to by Woodruff & Olafip. His
statement has been ready for some time.
but was withheld until the women were
released on bail. Mr. Tilton at first de-
termined to ignore the whole matter, but
has been 30 severely pressed that he has
determined to make statement.
Mrs. Elizabeth Starr, well.known in
years past as one of the best hotel keep
ers in Augusta, died Sunday night, in
this city. She was. it is supposed, about
eighty years OF age. She, at one time.
kept the Globe Hotel. and afterwards,
the Augusta Hotel. She also kept the
Starr Hotel. in Hamburg, and the Trout
House, in Atlanta.
augusta Constituencies.
PURSUIT Unto DEATH-Two young
men OF Marshall County, Tenn, three
years ago, murdered a man who was
eloping with-th sister. He lived long
enough to be married. and the wife is
resolved to hang her brothers for the
murder. After long search they have
Just been captured in Texas, aud brought
back to Lewisbnrg Jail.
An exchange gives the following sim-
PIE recipe for ''greasing the griddle:"
Take turnip. cut it in half and rub
the gr1ddle with the inner side, and you
Will lind the cakes will come off nice and
smoothly. and you will be rid of the
disagreeablo odor of burning fat"
| Eve students, in attendance at the
Sandy Greek Union School, keep o union
bachelors hall. Every morning one of
them builds the fire, another mixes the
batter, third grcases the griddle, q
fourth daubs the batter upon the same.
fifth prizes the cakes off, and the whole
i've then swallow this result of co-ope.
rative labor.
a Cincinnati editor thinks that war.
pestilence and famine always follow one
another. We have had war, are now
haviag g pestilence, and, he thinks, will
soon have the famine. Like Joseph. of
Egypt, he is laying in on immense sup
ply OF corn; only he takes it in its fluid
| form.
Quite an excitement has been created
among the colored people of Detroit by
hearing that an old man living on Indi-
ana street, who has married fifteen or
twenty couples during the past year, has
had no authority to warrant him to per
form any such ceremony, he never having
been a minister.
A Radical politician at Whitewater.
Wisconsin, wrote two letters after his
election. One was to his son, containing
the single word "Hurrah," the other full
OF consolation to weeping friend who
had Just lost his wife. In his excite
ment, he got them mixed in directing,
and the result can be imagined.
Boston's former pride, its first ''great
organ" had final stop put upon It en-
Sunday, by the burning of the BROOKLYN
Tabernacle, whittier it had been induced
to hemi-grate some time ago.
A shrewd party who had invented
close-htting iron safes to carry money in
beneath his clothes. recently fell off n
North River steamer while clad in full
armo;. The inventor saved the money,
and the heirs regard it as success. The
weight OF the iron held the body firmly
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easily recovered.
While two young men aud three young
ladies' were crossing the Chattahooche
+. River, above Columbus, Georgia, the
other day, the boat capsized, and the
three ladies were drowned. The caution
of the youths, who successfully padded
ashore. is moro to be commended than
their gallantry.
Since the great foods of 1852, the
river Thames has not been known 10
rise so high. It has overfowed its
banks in many places. inundating thou
sands OF acres; and Home Park at Wind.
sor is ono vast sheet Of water.
The United States ana Spanish Go.
Vernments have just concluded an agree.
ment for jointly taking testimony in
Cuba, to be used by the commission
holding it's session in Washington, for
adjudication of the claims of American
citizens growing ont of tho present re-.
bcllion in that island.
A man who disappeared from Syracuse
live years ago has just made his astonish
ing appearance, and fuds his heirs Of
comfortable as could be expected on