The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1874-09-01

They occasionally get hold Of the
wrong man in Kansas when they are
hunting Tor a horse ttiei, bat they do
the fair thing with the widow. They
give her lot in the graveyard, buy
the coffin. and march in procession,
singing "John Browns body" After
that they make up purse, bny her q
shotgun and two dogs for her to make
q living With.
An Irishman found a Government
blanket recently, and rolling it up, put
it under his arm and walked of, sny-
ing: ''Yis. that's moine-U for Patrick
end 8 for Mccarthy; be me sowl, but
this larnin' is foiue thing, us me
fayther would say; for if I hadn't any
edication I wouldn't have been afther
findin' me blanket"
Father Hyncinthe is evidently very
restless person. Having renounced
Catholicism and taken wife, he has
now renounced the wife and gone buck
again to Catholicism, minus Papal
infaiibiiity. Mrs. Hyacinthe does
not seem to have been consulted in the
matter. Washington Republican.
1t is said that several of the regular
soldiers that have been sent out West
have married squaws. Marrying the
Indian women ID not o very war-like
proceeding, but from moral stand
point it il perhaps oetter than Sheri.
deus plan of burning them up in
smallpox hospitals.
Some men are born to misfortune.
At q Fourth of July pic nio. Coying.
ton chap got his eye punched for speak
ing to another fellows girl. and when
he. tearfully explained that he'd
"knowed her these thirty five years."
he got all his hair pulled out.
ROBBERY ON THE RAIL The truin
Oh the South Carolina Railroad, which
arrived in Charleston Sunday morning,
brought q lumber of passengers who
we're in queer predicament-thei
hats having been stolen from them IN
Toute by some unknown person.
Bazaine's bargain wax apparently
made with a steamship company ut
Genoa-a gentleman and lady char
tered little steamer for an excursion
along the littoral. with privilege to stop
at any point for any time, to be paid
at 80 much day.
When they tried to force Miss Guy, OF
Independence, Missouri, into a mar
riage against her will, she; kicked the
minister's hat off. knocked the young
man down, and rode off on mule,
with one foot on each side of him.
A German physicist proposes to
make poplar trees do the work Of light
ming rods. If. by this means, he can
succeed in doing away with lightning
rod peddlers. we can't see why this
shonld not be poplar method.
When they told an Indiana woman
that her husband had been sliced up
by reaper, she impatiently replied:
"Well take the pieces to the barn; I
cant leave the gooseberry sauce Just
now"
The United States Treasury will sell
81, 900. 900 of gold on the first and se-
cond Thursday, and $500, 900 on the
third and fouth Thursday in Septem-
bsr. Total So, 600, 600.
The Central Park at Chicago was
opened on Saturday, by d concert from
the Great Western Light Guard Band.
10000 people were present, and 1900
vehicles. 1t was success.
The Greeuville Republican delega.
ton is unshaokled as to Governor aud
member of Congress. A resolution
authorizing them to support Chamber
lain, was voted down.
The water in the hot springs near
the Geysers, visited by the newspaper
correspondents in Iceland, wns found
to be exactly the temperature for max.
ing hot Scotch whisksy.
When Massachusetts, temperance
man gets drunk. they carry him into
the presence OF his wife and leave him
there without any meaus Of defending
himself.
A young man, named Lindsay Rus.
sell. citizen Of Arson County, N. O.,
has recently disappeared, and his
friends are excited in consequence.
A lad. named VIM. Punkey, of Ap.
pomattox County, Va, was killed
few days ago. by the accidental dis
charge of his gun, in the woods.
Tom White, colored, on his way
home from church in Charleston. fell
down dead about 10 o'clock, Sunday
night.
"How doth the little busy bee i'm.
prove each shining hour" The honey
crop Of the United States is estimated
NJ 90 Q00 nm