The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-09-14

,Atman was recently arrested in .ote Of
The Ht. Lonis cemeteries under suspi.
| sion sGf beihg q .tplNsnatchef, hnt. he
lwas;1 discharged whsMB tra1lpiredt that
ne WaS only direcsS23 man, S6anvassing
the St0sab stones fofs sassistatoe ins get.
Sing Mp d directory that shallilay Ohica.
go'ss 486s 600 In the shade. dSt- Eonis
was unfortunate in publishing her "Di.
rectory frat
The French authorities seem to be in
earnest in the determination to suppress
dueling. NJ. Saint Greese, first Presi-
dent Of the Tribunal Toulouse, has Just
been sentenced to six. months suspen-
sion from Office by the United Chambers
OF the Court Of Cessation for having
provoked the proourator general of that
city to duel.
We have heard OF two lawyers who
entered into solemn compact not to
drink intoxicating liquors except when
out duck hunting, for q year, under q
forfeit OF 500. One of them Keeps a
duck in his back yard and shoots at il
every time he is thirsty. His fellow
contestant has just bought duck, too.
The Alexandria Gazette says that a
lady who, the other day, bought a
barrel of cabbages in the Georgetown
market, found live baby in it, we'll
dresaed with milk bottle in it's mouth.
aud 80 protected by the manuer in
which the cabbages had been arranged
as to prevent its suffocation.
It seems strange that yellow fever
should make it's first appearance in this
country this year in a remote town.
Yet SO it is. Skipping New Orleans, it
finds u lodgnlent in Shreveport. The
disease produces naturally the greatest
CONSERVATION, and is said to be apsum-
ing the most malignant form.
Restored Chicago has now 2l2
churches in operation, eighty three be-
nevolent and other public societies,
forty-nine Masonic and l10 other secret
societies, not including industrial
unions; eighty four newspapers, thity-
one railroad companies, and eleven pub
lie streets.
Two Milesians were standing at the
Fairmount water works in Philadelphia.
watching tho big wheels splashing the
water in every direction, when one of
them remarked: mike, isn't this a
quare country, where they have to
grind their water before they can use
it?"
The first libel suit in Fiji bas resulted
IN victory for ''onr side" The Fiji
Times was prosecuted by the Govern
ment for stating that the officials were
endeavoring to incite the natives against
tho whites. The jury acquitted the
editor. and audaciously added that the
charge was true.
A heavily loaded Adams express
wagon backed of ferry boat, while it
was running from New York to Jer-
sey City, and the contents, Including
a corpse in wooden case, were swept
away. The wagon went to the bottom
and Que horse was drowned.
A colored ruffian, named William
King, struck another colored man,
named Gilbert Green, in the head with
an a1n, inficting q blow from which the
injured man died. The difficulty oc-
Cured in Beaufort, on the 4th.
W. L. Blackwell, Of Durham, n. c.,
has paid revenue tax to the Govern
ment since January LIST, of nearly Sl4O,
OO0. His tax for the year of 1873, will
over-reach $500, 900.
The skins OF over 1000 bnffaloes,
slain on tue Western prairies, went to
supply the demand, last year, for robes
and military trimmings for European
armies.
A jealous Saratoga woman recently
prevented her husbands attendance at
bal! by carrying away every article of
clothing he owned and hiding them in
barn three miles away.
A wife in San francisco mauled her
husband with rolling pi: for his habit
Of soiling his shirt front with tobacco
juice, and tho court imposed only O
nominal fine.
A Cincinnati man, on his dying bed,
remembered that his wife was smoking
some hams. and he said: "Now, Henri.
etta, don't go snuilling around and for.
get them hams"
at the hre on Sunday morning, a
Danbury man, in the'excitc ment of the
hour, shouted "keno" instead of "hre, u
and his wife wants to know where lie
was the night before.
One of the Viatlis twin sisters, per
forming at Niblo's. only seven years old,
tested her muscle by lifting her father
from the stage while she was pendant
from the trapczo bar.