The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-09-21

;. = distinguished business man in Hol.
land has made q proposition, now Ii
possession OF SenatersM Morton, to bnild
q four traok railway from New York e
some point in Indiana or Ohio, With
two tracks thence to st. Louis or Obi
ocSo. .as Toa1 50 DO built 9: steel rails
In the most complete manner, Nc
grants, subsidies or subscriptions are
asked; the proposition exacts only tha,
the road shall be chartered by Congress
The Independent South, speaking TO,
mississippi, says befure the war the
pubic printing in the State coat no
moro than 5000 per nnpum, vet the
proprietors of the Pilot have been paifl
for doing it during the last three wears.
upwards OF S288, 600, making on average
OF $4,000 per annum.
The managers OF an Illinois County
fair have naturally reused the wrath OF
oil the matrons IN the neighborhood by
appointing committee Of bachelors to
award the premiums in baby show.
The women say il their rights can't be
recognised here, they will stand 10
show at all.
t.ls singular what little thing will
put q man out. A Jersey City lawyer
was making high flown speech the
other day, telling about angels tears,
when his Honor said, "Confine your
remarks to the dog fight case" The
lawyer sat down.
Massachusetts is not on the defensive
she asks no favor of the Administration.
and she will not allow it's incompetent
subordinates to crack its whip over her
head. She demands fair treatment for
herself. and not only for herself. but
every State in the Union.
Mr.. VIM. Smith, who lives near the
Southern boundary of Union County,
had reunion of his family short
time since. at which ffty-six of his chill.
dren aud grand children sat down mt
the dining table.
Berlin proposes to raise n monument
to the memory of Carl Wilhelm. the
author of the "Wacht am Rhein. f"
They call him q whole division of the
Germ An army.
Part of the profits $500, OOO) of Hol-
loway's pills is to be devoted by the pro
prietors to the erection of an insane
asylum, which is to be presented to the
British nation.
"If George hadn't bIowed Into the
muzzle of his gun" sighed a rural
widow at the funeral of her husband,
''he might have got plenty of squirrels
it was such good day for them"
One young lady at Saratoga created a
sensation by wearing diamond buckles
In her shoes. She WAS awfully careful
about holding up her dress when the
walking was wet or dirty.
Charles Bridgman. who held tho of.
nee OF organist at All Saints Church,
Hertford, for eighty-one years, died re-
Gently, at the age OF p'nety.fve.
A train on the Jacksonville, Mobile
and Pensacola Rail way ran off the track
Tuesday night. and killed the mail
agent, colored map.
1t is estimated shat over 100 young
ladies are already studying law in tin,
United Stntes. but their practice is like
ly to be BRIEF
The New York H4rnla, of the 18th,
quotes: South Carolina skies. 80; do.
new, January and July. l49l5; do.
do. April and October. 27@2S.
Mrs. Elizabeth Griffin, wife of Elihu
Griffin, died at her residence, four miles
South Of Walhalla, on Tuesday night
last.
The Atlanta Herald has discontinued
it's special mail train. and il now calling
on delinquent subscribers to come for
ward With their "back pay."
Gen. Grant was in Philadelphia or
the 18Th. and was waited upon by pro
minent and Influential gentlemen.
Gen. A. c. Darlington, formerly o.
Sonth Carolina, is n candidate for tht
Office of Mayor OF Atlanta.
Virginia Conservatives offsr a pr;zs te
the county which will give the iarges
majority.
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