The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-01-19

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thS'effect oi one ofyhis Somp3sisIdnsson
the folks at home without ooniessing it's
authorship. His mother fell asleep, his
sister groaned, his brother asked him to
shnt up, as they had had quite enon9h
OF shower OF words without wit, and at
last his wife tapped him upon the shoul-
der, with,the sweetest possible won't
that dof" he has seen how it was him.
self, buried his portfolio. recovered his
dlgest,on,3 and has beena happy man
ever since. ~ g.
DEATHs,-Mr. Abram Hollingsworth,
high!y esteemed citizsb, wss found
dead In his bed on Friday, morIiinp. The
10th inst, at his residence, near Gross
Hill. He was. eighty lone years of age.
Mrs. Elizabeth TEN P.ston, wife OF Sam.
uel TempleSon, died at her residence in
this County, on the 10th inst, aged &C.
venty-seven years.-Ldurensuine Herald.
A few days ago; Iek. Farley. his vile,
and two children. were approaching the
bridge over the, Maramee River, in:Jef.
terson County, No, in wagon, when
the team becsme unmanageable land
dashed down the river bank and ont
upon the ice, which, gave way. Mrs.
Farley and the children were drowned.
as were also the horses. $50.
An old maid in Lockport, N. Y, pur.
chased one Of the Egyptian mummies at
the Niagara Falls Museum, the other
day, for parlor ornament. She said it
would seem better to have man around.
even If he was advanced iu life and
withered.
A young lady who let her lids drop on
being spoken to tenderly by gentle
man, is anxious to recover them, and
oilers a handsome reward for their resto-
ration. A nautical gentleman of her ao-
quaintanoe assures her that they could
not have been properly lashed, or they
would not have been lost.
A couple Of doctors are giving what
they call entertainments in a Phila-
delphia opera house. They cause gen.
tlemen and ladies in the audience TO lose
their identity, and imagine themselves
Kings, queens or possessors of post
Offices. That may be fun for the doc
tors, but the country pays about enough
Tor the enjoyment of lunatics already.
J. n. the wandering philosopher. was
tined IN Eufaula, Ala, the othet day, for
drunkenness. Having for once failed to
lift the vail and remove the pressure, he
passed from the court room grandly NUT
tering, 20 Justice, thou art fed to
british beastsl" and repaired to the
Times Office to wrestle with the ex-
changes.
Who dares affirm that the down-trod-
den colored race is incapable of high
civilization after hearing that q San
Francisco negro has sued another of his
race for $40, 900 damages for libel, and
that in Brooklyn dusky maiden has in
stltuted breach of promise suit against
good deal duskier man?
An Illinoisy tippler Of Trenton, hay
ing rendered himself disorderly with a
dollars worth Of whiskey, hos recovered
sixty dollars damages from the bar
keeper who sold it to him. 5000 per
cent. on the Investment seems profita-
Die way to nse-your.rye. >
''Indian Tom," the last of the Creek
Indians in Epson County. Ca, died last
week, on an island in Flint River, where,
for many years, he has lived in hut
built Of drift wood he had caught as it
foated down the stream.
"Yon'd better look ont for Your hoss' 8
feet above here, mister" said q ragged
boy to traveller. 'Why?" said the
gentleman, nervously pulling up. Zoos
there's fork in the road there" was the
candid reply.
In the streets OF Springfield, Mass,
well dressed lads in almost helpless
intoxication" are reported to make :'fre.
qnent!spectacles Of themselves by means
OF Ugh glasses.
Vanderbilt has commenced chewing
tobacco. AID laments that fifty years Of
his life were wasted without knowing
the goodness Of the weed.
The total amount paid to the United
States Treasury for cotton tax, while
that tax was in existence, wes s6s, ,O72,-
3S8.
Prince Bismarck has been presented
with FIVE French cannon. captured dur
ing the war, and which are to be placed
as ornaments in front Of bis country re-
sidence.
Perhaps the severest criticisms, in IN
epigrammatic form. passed on the mis-
takes OF Napoleon III, Was that of
Thiers-''rhere are no more faults to
commit"
A Mrs. Painter, aged ninety-five
years. was buried near Gadsden, Ala,
recently. at her funeral were threo of
her children. tripJets. over forty years of