The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-03-28

| DRATHs.-Mr. William Bailey, an
esteemed Citizen. died ut his. residence,
three miles North: :east Of town, on Mon
day night last, infshe seventy .nisb. year
days. :sse,& .sg iiy l:.i
Mrs. Mary Rankin and MIR. Baylis
watkins, Of the Slabtown nelghbDrhood,
died recently. Both were octogenarians
We believe. andiwerei universally respect
ed wherever known. IiIGI
Henderson 1nteAigencer.
THROUGH TO SpARTAnHuRa The Air
Line Railway will be completed to Spar
tanburg, 8. O., BY Monday morning.
The first train will go through from this
place to Spartanbqrg oa Monday, and,
will carry a cone iderhble number OF citi-,
zens OF Charlotte onAa visit to our neigh
Dor. Preparations are being made in
Spartanburg to celebrate the arrival of
the first through train. public dinner
ts talked Of Charlotte Obseroer. IL:
lNcENDIARIsM.-We are reliably in
formed that the large gin, house, pin.
thresher and machinery, kitnated on
Snow Creek, in Ooonee County, and be.
longing TOT. 3. Sitton, Esq, of Pendle-
ton, were entirely destroyed by fire on
Sunday n!3ht, 9th instant. This is,
clearly the skork ;of an incendiary. No
clue as to the perpetrator..,
= lAnFersoa .lateAigencer.
A meeting Of the stockholders of the
Chester and Lenoir Narrow Gauge Rail-
road Company will be held at Chester on
Saturday next. The purpose of the
meeting is TO organize tue company, by
the election OF President and Directors,
and to take necessary steps for consoli-
dating with the Carolina Marrow Gauge
Railroad Company, chartered by the
Legislature Of North Carolina.
The Ne,rs says considerable excite
ment was created in Raleigh, on Friday
last, by the appearance in that city of an
e1asperated father in search OF his
daughter, who had eloped from het
home. i'll Warren County, with negro.
The man secured his daughter. who is
described as beautiful girl OF seventeen,
and returned to his home.
DR.. Davega. the President of the Ca.
rolina Narrow Gauge Railroad, which is
to run froIn Chester. In this State, to Le-
nolr, N. o., is pushing the enterprise
with his well.known energy. He fully
expects to have engineers in the fold,
engaged in preliminary surveys, by the
middle OF May. [.,--
DEATH OF Mrs. HOLDEN. wide
Unknown aud much beloved lady. the
mother Of Mrs. James Il. Hill and a sis.
ter Of the late John Bones, Esq, Of Au.
gusta, departed this life, At her home.
near our villnge, on Friday morning.
Edg9seld Advertiser.
The Sumter Nous learns that small
colored boy, residing with his mother,
on the plantation OF John 8. Richardson,
Esq, four miles from town, shot himself
fatally on Sunday. the 10th inst, while
carelessiy handling a pistol.
| SERIOUS ACCIDENT @. G. Wilt
ford, of the Rock Mills neighborhood,
Anderson County, was considerably in
jured q few days ago, by falling from the
upper story to the basement of his gin
! honse.
negro girl, fourteen years old, ut
Fort Valley, Ga, last Wednesday, was
hung up, hands tied, and her inLuman
mother beat her with large hickory
stick. until she swooned, and died in q
teW minutes. The woman gas arrested.
King Lunalillo, who aways the sceptre
over the Sandwich Islands, is expected
to arrive at San Francisco during the
present month, in company with Gen.
Schofeld. who is now on a visit to the
Sandwich Islands for his health.
Mrs. Halleok and her two children
were asleep on an Iowa prairie in sod
hut with a hay roof, when the roof
caug ht fire, fell in, and burned them to
death.
We arc informed that Judge Cooke
has declined the idea of perma emily re-.
siding in Anderson. He will probably
make Greenville his home.
AcoUIrrAL.-M J. 8. Ashley, who
was inflicted before the Superior Court
OF Eibert County, Georgia, for man
slaughter, was acquitted.
Charles Knight. so widely known as
IN nuthor as we'll as publisher of popu-
lar works, died in England on the OH
inst, in his eighty-secopd year.
A rise in the price OF strychniue is re.
ported in Alabama as the result Of re-
cent Act of the Legislature exempting
widows from taxation.
There were 81 deaths in Charleston for
the week ending the 22d inst. = whites,
3; colored, 18.