The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1874-08-22

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Mrs. plttendrsig apparently did not
'ay her lodging in London, ~ when
s!lr came home next time they did not
"!ren the door. Then she rang. II may
he conceived how the British nation can
ring ut the area bell, the visitors bell
aud any other bell that is handy. Pit.
tcndreig rang that way. Forty shil.
llnSs was the fine, and it was iu vain
she pleaded her residence iu the house
mud her right there Tie magistrate
was AZ leaf AS the landlord.
Close npon the best time ever made
in tro;,iug II miie-Goldsmith Maid
making itin 2.l424 mipntes-comys the
quickes. mile ever made in running
race. Mr.. Brimont's horse Gray
Planet ran his mile over the Surut.,ya
conrse, on Friday last. in Az, tile
bast running time for that distance on
record. Like the man and woman of
tue period, the horse of the present
day seems to be fully equal to the fast
age in which he lives.
1000 MILES DAY The Peunsyl-
v"nia Railway Company huve begun
to run lightning express between
New York city nnd Pittsburg. Pa.,
making the entire trip of All miles in
the brief space of eleven hours. In
order to accomplish the journey within
that time only three stops are made on
the route between the two cities. The
average rate on the trip is over forty
miles an hour.
The long deferred suit OF the city Of
New York against the Broadway Bank
Of that city, TO recover $4,000, 600, al
legged to have been paid illegally after
it had ceased to be depository of city
moneys, has Just commenced in New
York. The bank is to be held respon.
slble for money paid to "Boss" Tweed.
1ngcrsoll and Woodward, on bogus
warrants. The city's plea is unwar-
rnntable careiessness. if not actual
completely i'll the illegal payments.
At distance of thirty miles South
OF the Union Pacific Railroad and 800
miles West of Omaha, great hill of
almost pure sulphur was discovered
about two years ago. This is one of
the most remarkable deposits of native
sulphur in the world. Itcontalns only
fifteen per cent. Of impurities. Iu tie
sulphur deposits Of Sicily. says tho
Scieat!dc Americaa, the pure sulphur is
only sixty i've per cent.
at u meeting in London, to receive
report from the missionaries sent to
discover the tribe Of Iarael, Lord II.
was asked to take the chair. II take, "
he replied, "a great interest in your
researches, gentleman. The fuct il.
have borrowed money from all the
Jews now known, and il you can find a
new set. [ shall feel very much
obliged"
A man bought horse. It WAS the
hrst one he over owned. He saw in
newspaper that a side window in a
stable makes q horses eye weak on that
side; q window in front hurts his eyes
by the glare; window behind mak 81
him squint-eyed; O window on diago.
mai ilue makes him shy when he ira
! vels; u stable without window makes
him blind. He sold the horse.
Up to this date the amount of circu
!ation withdrawn by the deposit of
legal-tcnders is greater than tho
amount issued since the passage of the
new loan by about $1,000, 900. thus
working the contraction of the cur
rency to that extent. a majority of
the banks thus withdrawing their cir
culation are located in the South and
West.
New CAROLINA CoTToS. we're
received in Charleston, on the Goth,
per South Carolina Railroad. two bales
new crop Carolina cotton, grown in
Barnwell County. One was from Mr..
j. E. Free, Bamberg, olassed good
ordinary, and sold at fifteen cents, and
the second was from Mr. 8. Brown,
Blackville. classed strict low middling,
and sold at sixteen cents.
The resources of pursued thief in
Indianapolis, the other night, was to
knock of the hat of man whom he
met. Then he stood III n dark door.
way while the other man rau after the
wind-wafted hat. when the policeman
kept after the bnrc-headed runner until
the mistake was discovered. The thief
had not waited.
That execrable and widespread
"Tom Collins" joke reached tho Pa.
cilic slope and ended in II tragedy. A
mining boss in town in California.
while on search for tho myth who
had accused HIM of robbery. accident
ally shot himself fatally while about to
pail trigger on "rom."
OF a lecturer, who recently appeared
in San Francisco, reporter of that