The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1874-07-31

PACoAaAoSs -4o tuo potltlOu OF w. y.
5humate. assignee. in the matter of
Perrin O'Dell, bankrupt, it was Or
dered thnt the report of the Registrar
be confirmed, and that the assignee
sell tho property mentioned in the re-
port on tho first Monday in October, at
Pickens, s. Q. Wylie Hanna, of Spar
tanburg, was finally discharged in
bankruptcy. Henry D. Lowndes,
Theo. Stoney and Theo. G.. Snowden,
of tho firm of Stoney & Lowndee,
bankrupts, received their final dis
charge.
Baron Anselm de Rothschild died at
Vienna, on Monday, at an advanced
age. H. was the head of the Vienna
branch nf the celebrated banking house
of the Rothscbilds, and his declining
years were marked with tho benevo.
lence nnd philanthropy which huve
always been distinguishing trait of
this wealthy family. He built schools
and nsyiums throughout Austria, and
has contributed large sums of money
for the establishment of hospital in
Palestine. His private charities are
said to have been immense.
In A TRANCE James Robinson, CO.
lored, has a capital way of curing re-
ligions fanatioism. Last Saturday
morning, his boy Scott went out to get
religion. He fell into trance and
dreamed that he saw his fathers family
hanging over hell. On getting home
he told about the revelation, but his
father did not do like George Wash
ington. He took Scott out and gave
+, hale l., L.
tentiously expresses it: II gave him
h" "-AbbeuiNe Medium.
Schuyler Colfa1 would leem to be in
beatific state Of mind. In recent
Fourth of July oration he declared
that in politics nova. days men are
elevated to position only to have
mud thrown at then; but he believed
that there is still left the assurance
that right will prevail and be done
them at the grave. This is beauti-
ful sentiment.
IMPURE WATER. Jersey City peo-
pie, opposite New York, are greatly
troubled about their drinking water.
which thoy get from the Passaio. The
forty per cent. within the year. and
physicians decide that many of the
prevailing diseases are caused by the
foul water the people have to drink.
The assistant pastor of Plymouth
Church reports Mr.. Beecher as being
quite jolly This was to have been ex-
pected. The man who wouldn't be
jolly at the thought of being the chief
proprietor of the most beautiful and
extensive scandal of the age, must
have skin as thick as the epidermis
of rhinoceros.
'There is no OCCASION" says an e1-
change, "to enter into an argument to
prove that the comet is of the femi-
nine gender." Certainly not But we
don't believe he is female-not fe.
male of respeotability, at any rate, or
she would not be wandering about
alone at night as he does.
Now, by st. Paul, the testimony ac-
cumulates. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
and Susan B. Anthony knew all about
Mrs. Tilton's sin long before the dis
gnsting Woodruff published the news.
Tilton told Stanton, and Mrs. T. told
Anthony. The committee OF Plymouth
Church need not hunt for witnesses.
If we may Judge from the utterances
OF quite number of the Republican
papers, it is an eminently proper thing
for negro leagues to be &C uttered oil
over the South, bnt O scand Ions thing
for white league to be organized in
Louisiana.
Sheriff Yooum, OF Chester, while ad.
dressing a Republican meeting at
Blackstock, recently, pitched into the
members Of the Legislature 80 severely
as to cause one OF them-Prince
Young-to sqneal. and to shake his
| fist at the Sheriff.
At a meeting of the Directors OF the
Lanrens and Asheville Railroad Com
pany, held in Greenville on Friday
last, Captain G.. G. Wells was unani-
mously elected Secretary and Trea-
surer.
The young German who murdered
Miss Tucker. of Anderson, on the
18th, was in the town OF Anderson the
day before, and, it is thought, was
somewhat Intoxicated when the deed
was committed.
There are two things that always
pay, nven in this not over remunera-
tive existence. They are working and
waiting. Either is useless without the
other. Both united arc invincible and
inevitably triumphant.
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