The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-04-29

agents with the Indians in the reserya-
tlons, and the encouragement the latter
have received by the example OF the
| Modocs. a..
II, as reported, food is so scarce at
Galway, Ireland, that the people and
sheep are dying Of famine, why don't
the foik live on mutton, or the muttons
lamb-like?
mr.. John Sloan died in Now York city
on the 2lst instant. Prior to the war he
was q resident OF Charleston, and Was
Tor many years connected With the old
charleston Theatre. He was also a
music teacher of considerable note.
The Porto Rico slaves that were sent
to Cuba and sold in anticipation OF the
emancipation decree applicable to Porto
Rico, resist their new masters, refuse To
work. and are only controlled by military
force.
The recent announcement of the death
OF Marie Taglioni, the celebrated
danseuee, proves to have been incorrect.
The old lady is still living in one OF her
Italian residences.
correspondent Of the Graphic asserts
that the President is chronic sufferer
from disease somewhat similar in its
manifestations to Bright's disease OF the
kidneys.
/ An unknown white man, who had
secreted himself on the steamer Georgia.
on her last trip from Charleston TO New
York, disappeared, and it is supposed he
Jumped overheard.
Messrs. James A. Gray & Co., mer-
chants OF Augusta, GA, have offered five
Per cent. OF their gross cash sales on
tuesday, the 29th instant, to the Ladies'
Memorial Association.
Parson Brownlow hesitated for some
weeks, but finally took the "baok paw
money. at the same time cursing the
poverty. protraoted illness, and big doc.
tors bills that forced him to do it.
A colored man has sued the proprietor
OF theatre in CleavIand, Ohio. for
So.o0O damages, for refusing to admis
hlm to seat in the dress circle, after he
had obtained a ticket.
A Detroit girl named Marion Dixon.
who was formerly one Of the most bean.
tlful and accomplished of the Young
ladies' OF that city, appears continually in
the police courts for drunkenness
The Savannah River has produced
Two oysters, one sixteen and one four.
teen inches long. They have been sent
to Baltimore.
Red men of the Pinte pernnas;on
shame their brethren by carrying the
Papooses when prom snading with Mrs.
LO. -,
Such foe weather prevails in Titus
VILE that the people eit in their arbors
and peruse patent Office reports and
other lightljterature. i!
The new Gardner. gnn, which, oom.
6ines both magazine and breech loader.
fires twenty-seyen shots in sixty. three
seconds.
A young woman in New York made
herself amennbie to the provisions of
the criminal digest by stealing locket
and swallowing it.
Some Of the duns are getting up their
"ittle reminders" in enamelied paner
with embossed monogram, and get some
feminine to address them.
A determined yonth at Mt. Pleasant.
Iowa, got his lady love ont Of her pa
rents possession by writ of habeas COR
pus and then married her.
Mr.. William F. Wheeler. of Montana
estimates the coin value of the gold pro.
duced last yesr in Montana at SIS. 1911
800. and that of the silver at So. 972, 500.
On the 1st Of May, the office OF III.
kimpton will be removed from No. 8
Nassau street to No. Exchange Court,
corner Exchange Place, New York.
soda fountain exploded in Whining
ton. N. c., on the Goth, and seriously in
jured two men.
Boston Aldermen are to be asked 10
prohibit the manufacture and sale of in
to1icating liquors.
Me1icans on the Rio Grande are mur.
dering, robbing, and, occasionally, roast.
ing Americans.
Mrs. Mary Cotton has been hanged in
England, for poisoning three husbands
aud sixteen OF her children.
The Indian Bureau denies the report
that Cochise is of his reservation GO n
mittipg depredations.
It is simultaneously announced that
Ohenbach is coming and that he isn't,
so yon can take your choice.
$1,000. persons have engaged passage
from New York for Europe by steamers
leaving in May and juno.
The Pickens Jail is empty.