The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-07-09

tho brick-layer devolves principally upon
women. They have no home, but sleep
about the buildings on the shavings, ard
make their meals in the baker shops on
the coarsest fnre. They earn about
twenty.eig cents per day wages. A
feaffu! tale Of Decentralization of course is
the sequel OF all this. In the hospital
provided for these poor females, only
about one.sixteenth OF the births ars le-
gitimate children.
They have rather rapid way of living
and dying in Atlanta. DR.. Miller, of
Atlanta, who was in Memphis while the
cholera prevailed there, narrates q
went to market and bought his break
fast, went home, cooked It, and was eat
ing it, when he was taken with cholera.
lie sent for DR.. Miller, who visited him
at O'Clock, prescribed and told him he
would be back in an hour. at O quarter
past 10 he returned. 'The man was not
only doad. but had been buried. and The
room swept and gernished for another
occupant. What could DR.. Miller have
given him?
The Shah Of Persia, now on visit to
Europe. ooniers gifts in truly Oriental
~, nAuCGuCe. he was pArtlcu-
larly liberal to the imperial servants both
Mt Potsdam and Berlin, bestowino the
sum of $1,000 in cash, besides gold
watches, shawls, brooches and the like.
in abundance. The Emperor got very
costly gold snuff box. set with diamonds:
the Empress necklace of rich brilliants:
While minor dignitaries received the
Grand Cross of the Order OF the Sun
and Lion. How welcome this free hand.
ed Shah would be made in Washington.
A storm of unusual severity passed
over the Wilmington, Columbin and Au-
gusta Railroad on the evening of the 4tb,
at aoout q O'Clock. The postmaster at
Mayesvllle states that several barns and
other outbuildings we're blown down
in that neighborhood, and he was fear.
ful serious damage had been done at q
distance from the station. Trees and
FENCES were prostrated on both sides oil
the raj. road for a considerable distanoe
beyond Mayesville station.
The New York Journal of Commerce
thinks it good sign to soc both parties
at the West-Sepublicans as we'll ae
Democrats-comiDg out against corrup-
tion, without reference to party lines or
party conditions. When parties thus
beglu to make sanitary inspection of
their own households, the tendency is
worthy of the warmest announcement.
and even small beginnings can be &C.
corded praise.
The carelessness OF American work.
men Is common subject OF oensure, but
their brethren in England don't appear
TO TO have much the advantage of them
The late disastrous condagration of Alex
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worker leaving brazier OF lighted Goals
on the roof while he went to his dinner.
The fire at Canterbury Cathed raj and the
burning of Warwick Castle were caused
by carelessness of like character.
1t is delightful to read that in Sand
wich, n. H.. on June 10, there was a
anowdrlft three feet deep in pasture.
White honeysnckle blossoms near it, and
the abundant foliage OF trees bends
above it. On the Southern slope of
Black Mountain, 600, there is O snow
drift which has resisted all the sun and
rain OF May aud June.
Secretary Robson is building some
S3O, OoO stables at the Brooklyn Navy
Yard. and the New York Sun wants to
know what he is building them for. We
don't know. as we are not in Admiral
HsooooSd oobAueuCcs Uut W0 presume
he is building them for the ac,on moda.
tlon OF the horsemarines.
A colored boy. at Smyrna, in Carteret
County, N. c., went out into the field to
work with his hoe. and failed to put IN
an appearance at the usual hour. He
was sent after, and when found was
dead, with rattlasnake coiled around
his body, the snake still biting him.
Parson Brownlow is still abusing peo
pie through the newspapers. He viii
never learn to grow old gracefully, it
wou!d seem. And as for dying, whether
gracefully or otherwise, he is evidently
determined never to crafty the public il
that way either.
\ skeleton has recently been found il
Italy that is said to be loo, 900 years old
and it looks no more like the skeleton oil
IN ape than that of Shakespeare or Lord
Bacon. Get thee to o nunnery, Oar
win.
bill Arp" has returned from New
York, where he has finished full anC
complete arrangements for his new book
1t will be out in very few days. Mat
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