The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-01-26

eBf6otiyn soufS yesterday again i i,lns. I
esates the fact that truth is stranger than
nctlon. A woman claiming q large
amount OF money on the ground that
enc Was ehe vile Of dead s'sportsman,"
was tedunexpectedly with hus-
band whom she had abandoned thirty
years before. and with the records of a
h3gamoHs marriage to still another.
Com khts8ty brevity in the telling of the
Ffathee, dratAatic story, leaves US in
doubt, whether she got the money OF
IHsnt.to Jail. .,a
The citizens Of Anderson gave Judge
Ofr parting testimonial at the Waver-
ley House, in that town, on Saturday
night last. There were over 100 persons
present-.many of them the principal citi-
zens. j. 2. Reed, Esq, delivered the vel
coming address, which was feelingly re-.
sponded to by Gov. Orr. Several other
gentlemen delivered addresses. In pass
Ing out OF the room, each one bade good
night to Judge Orr. rendering him kind
expressions and good wishes for his
future welfare
a writer in the Kansas MAGAZINE has
measured the type used in O copy of tho
New York Herald, and also that used in
popular volume of travels. The for
mer Was found to contain about $50, 900
ems, while the latter, book of Sol
pages, measured only 836, 900 ems. In
other words. the single copy of the
newspaper. which sold at four cents. was
equivalent to book of $50 pages, or 80
more pages than were contained in a
volume that sold for 49, co.
DEATH OF Mrs BALLEw.-Mrs., e.
Louisa Ballew, relict of the late Rev.
Dnvid l.. Bailew, died at her residence
In this village on the 23d inst, in the
seventy-second year of her age. Mrs.
baiiew Tor twelve years pnst had been
great sufferer. having been stricken with
paralysis IN 1861, from the effects of
which she had been confined to her
room the last five or six years.
Laurenspile Herald.
EXAMINATION. clergyman wishing
to Know whether the children of his pa,
rlshioners understood their Bible, he
asked the lad whom he found one day
reading the Old Testament, who was the
wiokedest man. Moses. to be sure"
said the boy. "Mosesl" exclaimed the
parson, Show oaE that be?" "Why."
said the lad, she breke all tho command
mcnts ut once"
The Oldest man in the world has at
length been discovered. His name is
Jose Martino Continho, a resident of
Cape Frio. in the province of Rio Ja-
nero, Brazil, who was born on the Goth
of May. 1894. and is therefore nearly 1874
years old! It is said that he has forty-
two children by six wives, and can count
l23 grandchildren. 81 great. grand. chill
dren, % great great-grand children, and
70 children of the last.
An Town oloSxu.
Council Bluffs and sold some butter. fell
into the hands of three card. monte sharr.
ers, Lost all his money, and then fell into
the hands of the police. He EXPLAINED
that he was endeavoring to win the
gamblers money. for the purpose of re-.
turning it. with much good advice.
Since then, he has lost his reason, and
has been sent home to his friends.
A company has been formed in Eng
land TO run new line of steamers be.
tween Melbourne and San Francisco
Arrangements have been made with the
trans-oontinental railroads and A Atlaptic
steamship lines that will enable the
through trip to London to be made in
forty.two days. Well. every day some.
thing startliugly enterprising makes old
Isir Van Winkle rub his eyes.
no obnll 1tSUS says LnaG Harry
Bonneau, the colored man who was acci-
dentally shot on Saturday night last by
James 8. Stocker, colored, at the corner
OF Blnke and Drake streets, died Thurs.
day morning. from the effects of his
wound. An inquest was held in the
afternoon, but no verdict had been rem.
dered at lato hour.
1t would be very strange in The history
of the worlds affairs, if Col. Jerome M
poleon Bonaparte, Of Baltimore, q native
American citizen, should one day be
called to preside over the destinies of
France. Next to the Prince Imperial, lie
is declared to bo the legal heir to the
throne.
new steam street Car is running in
st. Louis, and is said to be n success.
1t can run at the rate of fifteen miles Der
hour, and while running at this rate can,
by the application of brake, be brought
to a stand in the distance of n street
crossing. The mules nre said to owe it
suspiciously.
The English Republicans have invent
ed an ensign. 1t is to be green, white
and blne-the first to stand for the fer.
tile earth. the whito fof purity, the blue
for the sky, beneath which ali mon are
equal.