The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-07-09

Inc coarsess fese. They earn about
twenty eight cents per day wages. A
fearful tale OF decentralization of course is
the seque! OF all this. In the hospital
provided for these poor females. only
about one-sixteenth Of the births are le.
gitimate children.
They have rather rapid way of living
and dying in Atlanta. DR.. Miller, Of
Atlanta, who was in Memphis while the
cholera prevailed there, narrates q
sprightly incident. At z o'clock man
went to market and bought his break
fast, went home, cooked it, and was eat
ing it, when he was taken with cholera.
He sent for DR.. Miller, who visited him
at o'clock, prescribed and told him he
would be back in an hour at quarter
past 10 he returned. The man was not
only dead. but had been buried. and The
room swept and garnished for another
occupant. What could Dr. Miller have
given him?
The Shah OF Persia, now on q visit to
Europe, confers gifts in truly Oriental
style OF muni6cence. He wns purticu.
larly liberal to the imperial servants both
ut Potsdam and Berlin, bestowing the
sum Of 81. 600 in cash, besides gold
watches, shawls, brooches and the Ike,
III abund anoe. The Emperor got very
costly gold snuff box. set with diam onds:
the Empress a necklace of rich brilliants: !:
while minor dignitaries received the
Grand Cross Of the Order OF the Sun
and Lion. How welcome this free. hand
ed Shah would be made in Washington.
A storm OF unusual severity passed
over the Wilmington, Columbia and Au-
gusta Railroad on the evening OF the 4th,
at about 8 O'Clock. The postmaster at
Mayesyilie states that several barns and
other ousbuildings were blown down
IN that neighborhood, and he was fear
fnl serious damage had been done at a
distance from the station. Trees and
FENCES were prostrated on both sides Of
the railroad for a considerable distance
beyond MayesyilIe station.
The New York Journal Of Commerce
thinks it good sign to soc both parties
at the West-Republicans as we'll as
Democrats-comipg out against corrup-
tion, without reference to party lines or
party conditions. When parties thus
oeSlu to make sanitary inspection of
their own households, the tendency is
worthy Of the warmest announcement.
and even small beginnings can be ac.
corded praise.
Ihe carelessness Of American work.
men Is common subject OF oeusure. but
their brethren IN England don't appear
TO have much the advantage of them.
The late disastrous oonhagration of Alex.
hndria Palace was caused by a metal
worker leaving brazier OF lighted Goals
on the roof while he went to his dinner
Ihe tire at Canterbury Cathedral and the
burning OF Warwick Castle were caused
by oarelessness CT like character.
1t is delightful to read that in Sand.
wlch, N. H.. on June 10, there was a
anowdrift three feet deep in a pasture.
White honeysnckle blossoms near it, and
the abundant foliage of trees bends
above it. On the Southern slope of
Black Mountain, too, there is q snow
drift which han resisted all the sun and
rain OF May aud June.
Secretary Robson ia building some
S3O, O0O stables at the Brooklyn Navy
lArd, and the New York Sun wants to
know what he is building them for. We
aont know. as we are not in Admiral
Kobeson,s confidence; but wo presume
he is building them for the acoon moda-
ton Of the horse marines.
\ colored boy. at Smyrna, in Carteret
County, n. c., went out into the field to
work with his hoe, and failed to put in
49, oPk'S"inhOo AZ Luc uSIal lOur. lie
was sent after, and when found was
dead, with a rattlesnake coiled around
his body, the snake still biting him.
Parson Brownlow is still abusing pco-
pie through the newspapers. He will
never learn to grow old gracefully. it
would seem. Aud as for dying, whether
gracefully or otherwise, he is evidently
determined never to crafty the public in
that way either.
\ skeleton has recently been found in
Italy that is said to be 100, 900 years old.
and it looks no more like the skeleton OF
M ape than that of Shakespeare or Lord
Bacon. Get thee to nunnery, Oar
win.
"Bill Arp" has returned from New
York, where be has finished full and
complete arrangements for his new book.
It Will be out in very few days. Matt
O'Brien has devoted MI his genius of
illustration to this work.
Stokes. Simmons and King. the New
York muIlereTs, will, it is supposed, es-
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