The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1874-06-28

The affairs of the Winnsboro Nu-
tional Bank have been so ably man
aged that during the past si1 months
the nett earnings have been S7,O42, 90.
A semi-annual dividend of Eve per
cent. has been passed to the surplus
fund. This speaks we'll both for the
trade of Fairfield and for the financial
ability displayed by the gentlemen in
charge. During the whole OF the
panic last yeer, the bank was Arm and
kept up the price of cotton one or two
cents per pound. Winnsboro Ne,cs.
The Senatorial contest in Rhode
Island. though prolonged until it has
become absurd, never had any signif-
canoe. 1t is in no way struggle for
party or principle. but fight between
half O dozen commonplaoe people over
seat in the United States Senate.
The whole trouble consists in the fact
that there is determination to defeat
General Burnside, but no clear pur-
pose of electing any other candidate.
Nei0 York Herald.
A FREE FIGHT AMONG POLICEMEN
On Tuesday, number OF Brooklyn,
N. " policemen, who we're detailed
to preserve order at Sunday school
picnic, got into row among them
selves in regard to the custody of
prisoner. A free fight ensued, pistols
were exhibited, clubs used, and the
excitement was intense. The Sunday
school scholars got very much alarmed,
and there was u general break up of
the whole affair.
DocroRs D1FFER..-A Now York
State Prohibition Convention met ut
Auburn. N. Y, Tuesday, and de.
manded for New York the re-enact.
ment OF the Maine law. 4 late Mime
convention demanded it's repeal for
Maine, on tho ground that it helped
on drunkenness more than iuir
license law does, and now Vermont
convention endorses that of Maine.
The bill removing the disabilities of
Hon. John Forsyth, passed the Senate
one second before the adjournment of
the session. Mr.. Forsyth, who has
long been one of the most eminent
citizens Of the State, will now be able
to take an active part in the campaign
about to be inaugurated to rescue Ala
S"l'" 'Aouh Gal k'ot' DhS Iulo.
Mr.. A. l.. Williamson, Methodist
minister, while ploughing in his field,
near Athens, Ga, was bitten bv rat.
tle-snake. on the Goth, and died in a
few minutes. The yenomous reptile
was killed and was found to measure
ten feet and to have eighteen rattlcs
and button.
Congress adjourned Tuesday, " SAWS
the Richmond Enquirer, "but we are
not more than half through with the
commencements, and then look out
Tor Letters from the Springs" There
Is always something to render life O
burden.
The annual meeting of the Grand
Chapter of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon
Society Of the United States will be
held in Augusta, Ca, in August. Over
lOO delegates, representing nearly
every college in tho Union, arc e1-
pected to be present.
Appropos to our Fish, and Bass, and
Pike, and Suckers, the Utica Observer
wants to know if the United States
Government is an aquarium? In an
aquarium the important element is
water.
The Chester Reporter states thas
Judge Maokey will hold an adjourned
term of the Court Of Common Pleas
and General Sessions at Yorkville on
July z. and at Lancaster on Tuesday,
July 81.
An enthusiastic meeting in tho inte.
rest Of the Greenville and French
Broad Railroad was held in Greenville
on the Goth. Delegates to the Ashville
meeting, on the lst July, were ap-
pointed.
DR.. Shipp, the President of Wofford
College, has accented a professorship
in the new Vanderbilt University at
Nashville, but mis- duties will not call
him there before Ootoler, 1875.
John Allen Ketchey. notorious cri-
minal. was hung in Salisbury, N. c.,
on the Goth; he was convicted of rope.