The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-10-05

thereto, it is worse still.
Died, this week, Mr.. Francis J. Oaks,
member Of the Town Council of Cam
den. and O respected and valuable citi-
zen. Mr.. Oaks was a native of Ger.
many, but came to South Carolina with
bis father when boy, and located in
Camden about forty years ago.
A Western editor said in a most in
solent manner possible. that good fat
iron would probably oblige the new
style Of ruffles to stay down, and now
he is squelched by bushels OF letters
from Indignant ladies. ironically asking
him to read work upon mistaken yo.
cations.
The Shreveport yellow fever death
rate, if applied to New York. would sum
up " terrible mortality Of over $50, 600
of the population. These figures are
truly terrible, and must speak for them
selves TO every philantbropist in the
country.
The brigand Takos. the chief Of the
band which pcrpetratel the Marathon
massacre, was killed by the Greek
| troops in an encounter near Lamia, on
the frontier Of Thessaly, in August.
His band was surrounded, aud all we're
killed or made prisoners.
A well-known authoress gives it az q
secret of domestic felicity that hus-
baud should he absent from home ut
least SIX hours every day. Then whv
such a row if he chooses to select the
time TO suit himsclf-say in the even
ing?
Captain Calld6eld and the Rev. Mr..
jackson killed notorious man eating
tiger with strychnine, recently, in Ma
dras, India. This tiger, for tho last
three years, bud killed man week on
an average.
The woman's rights movement has
reached the aboriginees. An Iudiau
family appeared in Saginaw, Mich, re-
Gently, the husband carrying the pa
poose and the squaw nothing. It is the
first Instance OF the kind on record.
A Western railroad conductor, after
twenty years experience, concludes
that he would rather carry 20, 900 men
passengers than to have one lone, lurn
female board his train
docs one woman in fifty fill the
lower half of her lungs with arr" is the
stern inquiry Of Il sanitary exchange.
The editor Of that paper never heard the
voice OF an iufuriated nother.in-law.
a large metal button on the dress of
Il woman Mt Portland, Me-. saved her
life recently, by turning the ball from q
pistol which her affectionate husband
! fired mt her
II never was 80 thankful in my life!'
exclaimed Dover woman, when telling
II coroner's jury how her husband
dropped dead. I'VE hadn't had fight
nll that day"
y CiLciunati servant girl WAS looking
through q key-hole. when some acid
struck aud destroyed her eye. She
sued for damages, but all she go. was
the damaged eye.
a Gcod editor, in an obituary notice
of respectable citizen, was made by a
ruthless compositor to say: "ue has
gone to that undiscovered burn"
a woman ard child in Al glo, N. Y,
have lived in u LoRshead two months.
being too poor 10 pay rent.
Out in Montana. when they start a
man down hill in barrel, they speak OF
his ''appenrance III IA new role.
Since the lst of January, over 10. 900
books have been copyrighted in this
country; 1u, 25O are the exuot figures.
y Florida planter recently carried to
ColumGus, Ga, So, O00 in gold to invest
"a ope OF the factories in that city.
The English officials arrest man il
he attempts to get on train Of cars
after /; has started.
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