The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-01-04

-Ao AsnohSoAo VI hlSaOuIl Q6Slf6 TO
create discussions in the Liberal ranks,
and by SO doing to elect United States
Sen atOr who would not be the choice of
the majority. It is not probable that
experienced politicians as they are in
Missouri will allow the Radicals to defeat
Liberal majority twice in single win
ter. A lesson once taught in politics ia
not easily forgotten. A party caucus is
not pleasant thing to the Missouri
Radicals, but it can win.
One of the ouriosities of Indian war
fare is the introduction of howitzers and
shells in the siege OF the Modocs, of Ore.
gon. The Indians are entrenohed in
cave which, with it's ramifications, EN-.
braces an area of several acres in extent.
10 dlslodge them will be next to icapos.
slble. unless they are starved out; in
which case. we must suppose, they will
be exterminatad by the besiegers, and
there will be a prompt solution Of the
whole question.
Out OF the ruins OF the Centre street,
Now York, FIRE have been recovered the
remains of but Quo human being, known
and identified. The finding OF few
poor fragments Of something that was
once man or woman, tells a tragioal
tale. The fierce heat OF the funeral pyre
must havo utterly consumed most Of the
remaining victims, of whom six are yet
unaccounted for. The tale of the dead
can never bo completed.
Camel's-hair shawls can still be found
costing S5, coo, but there nre long shawls
Of antique design aud richest coloring
reduced in price to from $3.50 to $3.50,
formerly longcd for at 1900. The real
Decca is rs low as $50. Reversible
camers-hair shawls are especially popu-
lar, as ones friends are thereby cunning
~ deceived, aud the owner credited with
being the possessor Of two, and 80, 1uien
Sube?
ACCIDENTAL SHOOTING MFR. A. Moss.
al aged gentleman, who keeps shop in
tue suburbs, sccidently shot himself. on
Saturday last, in the leg, inGicting o
painful but not serious wound. It hns
been custom with Mr.. III. to carry in
his pocket loaded pistol cooked.
Darlington Souherner.
GIN HOUSE BURNEp.-We learn that
the gin house Of Mr.. J. G. Brown, toge.
gether with seven bales of cotton. and
the seed of about forty.five bags, was
consumed by fire on the 18th ult., caused
by accident, and not the work of an in.
cendiary, as is generally the case
Barn,oeN Sentinel.
Old Doctor November, the old colored
servant who has waited on the boys at
Chapel Hill, and cleaned up the college
rooms ever since Chapel Hill was q col.
leee, died in that place Christmas night,
ut the age OF ninety-seven ye.rs. The
college bell was tolled at his funeral.
shall ever consider Simmons Liver
Regulator as tho preserver Of the life of
my little son, who is now in blooming
health.
MRS. ELLEN MEACHAM,
J4t3gl Chattah ooohee, Fla.
After q life of peculiar vicissitudes.
commenced as CIRCUS rider and culmi.
mating as princess, the Princess Salm.
Salm closes her romantic career as u nun
in q convent at bleak Innsbruck, in the
Tyrol.
The elevated railway in New York paid
little heed to the recent snow storm.
High above tho highest snow it's s'iron
horses" rode, mocking all the efforts OF
the wintry weather. It was we'll pa.
tronized.
The bill for the incorporation of tho
New York, Norfolk and Charleston Rail.
road has passed both houses of the North
Carolina Legislature.
The baby hippopotamus. lately born
IN London, is brought up un the bottle,
with piece OF engine hose for nozzle.