The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-06-01


The National Board of Underwriters,
at their late meeting in the city Of New
York, resolved to raise fund Of $10O, 900
for the detection, conviction and punish
ment OF persons engaged in the nefasious
business of incendiariam and arson. The
Executive Com mittee of that Board, at
their meeting on the 14th ult., carried
out the resolution and opened the sub
scription.
HAIL SToRM.-A heavy hail fell at this
place, on Friday evening last, the storm
lasting twenty or thirty minutes. The
average size OF most Of the particles was
from the size OF partridge egg 10 hen
egg. A few of the stonss picked ,dp in
the streets measured ak and eight inches.
weighing from two to three ounces.
Pickens Sentinel
SUDDEN DEATH.-Yesterday morning,
about half-past Z o'clock. Eddie Poinaett,
colored man. who was engaged as q
porter in the store of MIR. D. Fitzgibbon,
fell dead. he was driving wagon,
when he was attacked with q severe ho-
morrhage of the lungs, which, in a few
moments, terminated in death.
Charleston Ne1os.
Last week was q melancholy one for
Aiken. In its trief space of eeven days
as many deaths occ 1rred-the mortality
ranging from the tender infant to the
ripe old man. A majority of the deaths
we're occasioned by constitutional dis
eases beyond the reach OF the curative
art.-Aiken Tribune.
N"ttans' Crystal Discovery for the
hair, the greatest discovery of modern
chemistry, will positively restore gray
hair to its natural color in from three to
ten days. Warranted TO contain no lead,
no sulphur, no silver or other poison.
Get your Druggist to order it. Take no
other. For sale by Q. 81. Mot. M3Of3
The Marquis OF Qaeensbury believes
in the ''still noble art of self-defeuce, -
and thinks that England may regret
some day that her SONS should substitute
for the use Of their fats the first dead :
weapon that comes to their hands,
Two little girls were recently playing
near Pittsburg. and one Of them, in q
moment Of pleasantly, applied q lighted
match to can of carbon oil. An ex.
plosion, OF course, took place, and they
were burnt to cinder.
An Indiana farmer don't paw any toll
on the plank road. He shoots the gate
keeper and jogs right along. They have
tried him twice, hut he gets clear. since
one OF his wiie's aunts used to act
"f1ighty like"
100000 worth OF bonds, stolen from
the Waterford bank. Troy, N. Y, have
been returned by the thieves, who have
received thirty-dve per cent. and es-
caped punishment for their trouble.
RMr. W. s. McDiarmid, editor and pro-
prietor Of the Lumberton, N. c., Robe
sonian, was accidentally drowned, while
bathing in the Cape Fear River. a few
days ago.
Atlanta, Ga, has house where only
male children have been born for twenty
years.
A Fall River. Masa.. common council.
man has been expelled from office for at
tending cock fight.
Dr.. Robert W. Coleman, of Feaster.
vile, Fairfield County, died last Tues
day, after brief illness.
"Medicated cider" is what you will
have to ask for when You &C to Boston
now.
Whiteiaw Reid acknowledges subsorip.
tions through him to tho Greeley statue
fund OF $10.683.
4 speoini TO tho TTorid says the Car
lists have released Bralsugh.