The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-06-24


Gen. Crooks success in quieting the
Apaches has been but partial. Two
tribes gave in their submission. The
wild, savage nature OF others appear to
be uncomfortable. The agent stationed
at the San Carlos Apache reservation hns
been compelled to leave in foar of his
life. and has turned over the agency to
the military authorities. Lientena Mt
Almy was recently killed there, and tho
reservation has been in state OF agitn-
tion for some time. 200 Indians have
left 1t, aud have not returned. The pros
poets are favorable for hot work for Gen.
Crook in Arizona this summer.
The London correspondent OF the New
York Graphic says that there is some.
thing in the rumor that Mr. james Cor.
don Bennett is about to start daily
journal in London, to be the Herald Of
that old fogy city. The story is that Mr..
Fitzjames Stephens, 'fhe most powerful
journalistic writer in England" is to be
the editor, with a salary of $4,000 a
year, and that the expenditure for news
and kilograms is to bo on scale to asto-
nish John Bull.
4 prominent Tennessee Republican
politician reports eX-President Johnson
as sloshing around with an eye on the
United States Senatorship, and having
poor prospects for that unless lie can
make an alliance with the Republicans
which the same gentleman says the ex-
President is now trying to arrange. 4
special friend OF Mr.. johnson saws the
plan is to make him Governor first and
next Senator, both of which he regards
as qnite easy to be fixed.
Some forty years ago, parcel Of fe!-
lows who were hunting stray cattle
among the everglades OF Florida came
upon purity Of Indians-the compatri.
OTIS OF Osceola engaged III skinnine
some bccves. They fired into the party
OF Indians and killed five Of them. That
one volley of buokshot cost the Govern
ment $50. 900, 600. But, thank good
ness, the Government paid the debt like
a gentleman, as bho was in those days.
BLOODY END OF A QUARREL John
Harden shot and killed his cousin, Ell.
bert Harden, Saturday, at Beech Island,
near Hamburg. Both parties were ye.
spectacle white farmers in moderate or
cumstances. They had quarrelled sevo.
raj times before. After killing his vic
tim, the murderer broke his gun.stock
over the head OF the dead man, and then
walked to Aiken and surrendered him.
self
Muj. Henry Ewing, senior proprietor
of the st. Louis Times, died in St. Louis
on the 18th inst, aged thirty-one years.
His wife and three children survive him.
Maj. Ewing entered the Confederate
service at the beginning of the war, and
took m active part till its close.
4 committee of the Mobile Common
Council report that on the 9th inst.
there was deficit Of 331,941.77 in tho
finances, and that the city will be unable
to meet its July coupons and bonds.
The total bonded debt of the city is
81. 1851. 800
In Thompson, Ga, last Saturday, a
little girl, in pouring kerosene oil on the
tre to start it. exploded tho can and set
herself and her slater Oh fire. The
youngest died in OH hour, and the other
on Sunday morning.
ANOTHER CASE OF INsASIY.-A Mrs.
Rosa Canning has been indicted in Bing-
hampton for the murder Of her mother,
occupying year in working out her
liked design Of q decisive settlement with
the old lady.
Congressman Ashley, Of Ohio, is in
Illinois arranging to go into the business
OF manufacturing steel. Back pay Con-
Ura9anan cnohk ~ knOv oil about