The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-07-10

httie ooin8-m'ddhng ~; receipts 126
bales; sales 73.
NOBLE. July Cotton quiet and 10
good demsnd- middling 15L; net re-
ceipta 73 bales; exports coastwise $50;
sales $50; stock l3, 567
Boston. July 9.-Cotton dull and
heavy -middling 2O26; net receipts 2O2
bales; gross GAG; sales 200: stock 10 6GO
NORFOLK, July 9.-Cotton steady
low middling 1877; net receipts 573
bales; exports coastwise 1854; sales 100:
stock 4,551.
BALTIMORE. July 9.-Cotton dull
middling 2014; net receipts 462 bales;
gross 4S2; exports coastwise 1877: sales
100; stock 4. 800.
MEMPHIS. July 9.-Cotton dull and
lower-middling 17ls; receipts 1911:
shipments AT; stock II $50.
There is an amount Of p4thos in this
little news paragraph from Western
paper that could not be forced into 70.
nance: "At present she is serving out
heavy fine at the work house, and, when
not at work, stands near the door OF the
room where the drugs and medicines are
kept, begging and pleading with the
clerk to give her morphine-morphin
a drug for which she is willing to slcri-
noe oil the happiness in this world, aud
her hope in the life to come. The once
bright-eyed, rosy checked country girl
has become miserable, wretohed crea-
ture."
When John Quincy Adams was Presi-
dent, the Potomac played him mean
trick one day. While taking an old.
fashioned sohool-boy bath in the river
the water rose so rapidly ss to sweep
away his clothes. As Mr.. Adams walked
toward the White House, in the garb
which nature gave him, he may have
felt like President; but we venture to
say that he did not look like one. When
man cannot find his clothes. after TAX
ing his bath, and is some distance from
home. he is very apt to be in anything
but serene, Christian state Of mind.
Charles Matthews. the veteran actor,
has re-appeared in London, where he has
been acting "The Liar" Charles will
do wisely to stay on his own side OF the
ocean while he plays that character
Harlan, of the Washington Chronicle,
Ben. Butler aud a thousand other politi-
cians OF the same school can beat him
out of sight in their fayorite role.
The Springfield Repa6licm (anti. But.
ler) says General Butler sis neither re-
former nor Q sure, steady, radical man
any way. he is beaten about by every
wind and tide of impulse. ambition and
passion. He is disorganizer, boom
erang, baggage smasher in politics and
government. 1t is o law of his members:
he can't help himself; he was made
suoh."
Houghton's "Monographs" has this
new, story OF Sydney Smith: lie was
good natured and tolerant; but when
Lord Melbourne, whom be had gone to
see upon some business. interlarded his
conversation with much cursing and
swearing, he quietly remarked: "Iet us
assume that everybody and everything
are dnmued, and proceed with tho sub
ject."
The SHAws.-The New York World
says that "a convention Of all the Shaw
family scattered through the New Eng
land States is shortly to be held, for the
purpose OF determining whether they are
descended from the Shats Of Persia, nud
II go, whether they cannot rake up O
claim TO propriesorship in the pearl
fisheries OF the Persian Gulf" Pshsw!
A horse thief, named Howard, lately
hanged by vigilance committee in Mis-
souri,, WAS ascertained to have been q
mombcr of that committee. The regu-
lations Of the committee demand in such
cases that the offender ehall be dragged
to the place OF execution by the tail OF q
horse-an act Of cruelty that was literal.
~ carried out in the case of Howard.
An insane man moving grass in q
pennsylvania meadow, with three others,
suddenly turned, and running his scythe
through one of them, John Myer, killed
him: The poor lunatic imagined that,
as I'LL flesh was grass. his companion
| ought to count as part of tho hay crop
TIE TRUE AMERICAN. A Republican
papor to be published at Abbeville, with
the above title, on or before the lst of
September next. It will be edited by
Messrs Il. B. Milford and It. A. Snlli-
van, and will be the organ OF the Re
publican party.
"A case Of miscegenation is reported in
Appling County, Ga. The parties are q
young girl OF seventeen, daughter of n
respectable farmer, and an elderly,
greasy dnrkey. Both parties are under
arrest-the latter on Oh additional charge
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