The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-05-31
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besn received here Announcing that Mr..
Bradlaugh, after leaving Madrid, was
seized by the. Oarlists and carried to the
headquarters OF the ipsurgent. chfsftain
Sabols. His life in said to be in danger.
!~ Amsrlean Matters. t-iit'fA
WASHINGTON, May 3O.-All business is
suspended for the decoration, OF the
graves. Officials are devotiDg the holi-
day to fishing or billiards, or. rum in
great meaaurs.
Probabilitias-For the North est and
upper lakes, and thence to the lower
Ohio and lower Missouri Valleys, North
east and South. east w;nds, high pressure,
rising temperature. partly cloudy wea.
and South Atlantic States and Tennessee,
North cast to Northwest winds, cool
F.. cloudy weather and rain.
4 NEw YoRK, May 3O.-A special from
London to the World says the English
Commissioner to Spain, BradIaugh, was
seized By tho Oarlists.
/ Vast crowds are going to Prospect
{ Park, Brooklyn, to- Witness the race be-
tween Gazelle and Fullerton for So 500.
Gaselle is the fayorite ia't
;, "A ,funaway horse fatally ipiuted q
driver and three children, who wore run
over at various points. ,.r,
Five sun-stsokes yesterday.
= 5000 emigrants arrived on Wednesday
and Thnrsday.; .!Ij3 .ci 54,at ~
LANCASTER, Pa, May 30-A recently
married coiored youth suicided. from
Jealousy. i ~.
BosroN. May. 900 A. MA fire
broke out about half-past 8 o'clook, in
the upper part of Haley, Nurse &c 90. y
largo furniture warehouse, No. Ill Wash
or - A..
!: fearful rspidity, the wind being strong
!. rection OF the fire is now towards Harri.
son street. Piles of light material,
: packed away in the warehouse. were like
so much tinder, and before the alarm
!, could be given, great volumes of fame
: were rolling mp dfty feet into the air,
and clouds Of smoke rising. Tie heat
generated was intense, and in twenty
minutes the upper stories of the build
ing, from front to rear, distance OF 200
feet. was mass of glowing fame. The
fire worked back into the stables of Geo.
+. Bonney, on BnKnstead place, which
runs out Of Boylston street, near Wash
iDgton street. and destroyed it. Event
, .ually, tho walls Of the immense edifice
fell. and crushed to atoms the extensive
gallery Of JourdaiD, with nll the stores
beneath it, on the opp-site corner of
= Fayette Court. The lanes soon spread
q to another great building adjacent, and
4 that was also destroyed, including Nos.
: 4O3, 4O5, 407 and 409, Washington street.
u The premises Of Rhodes, Ripley & Co.,
Z elothing: j. W. Bracket. pianos; Geo.
q Foster, hats. F. F. Libby, dry goods,
flames have crossed Washington street.
Chickering's splendid granite building,
with its immense front, and the Globe
Theatre, are in ruins. The fire has also
caught the steeple Of the Presbyterian
Church, corner Of Beach street and Har-
rison avenue, aud tho spire is q mass Of
flames.
II A. M.-The rear OF Ohauncy street
ts threatened. both from Hayward place
and Essex street, and the entire square
bounded by those streets and Washing.
ton street. which is not already destroyed,
is being abandoned by its occupants.
Chief Damevel expresses confidence that
the fire will speedily be stopped. The
loss already amounta to several millions.
It continues its course Southerly, from
It's place OF origin. The fire soon attack.
ed the International Hotel, q. R. Rioh-
ardt. proprietor, No. 4l5 Washington
street, and it fell an easy prey to the de-
youring element. The sway OF the mon
ster WAS irresistible, aud the next to fall
it's victim WAS the large four-story stone
front building, occupied by Kelly's bill
lard room, No. 4l9; George Thompson
4 Co., factors. No. AL, and Montgomery
& Co., confectionery store, No. 429. The
FIRE on Beach street, in the Presby yterian
Church, has been extinguished.
The military has been called out, and
crowds in the vicinity of the fire are
being forced back, giving the firemen
more room to work.
Z IL. Is O'Clock. The fire is now fully
under control. The widest excitement
exists throughout the city, and thou-
sands of extras are boing circulated. Il
being decoration day. all the insurance
offices were closed. but are now being
opened. on intelligence Of the oonAagra-
ton.
BosroN, May 30 Evening. 1t is i'm.
possible to give at once all The losses by
the fire, to-day, bnt it can be said that
from Avery street to Boyleston street, on
the West side Of Washington street, is
nearly Oh quite destroyed; on tho other
side, from Hayward place to Essex
street, little is left to show what existed
there at O'Clock this morning. Tho