The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1874-08-28

W". f. Ourl6o6s ESQ., Gn6 Of1gl.'
,nator OF the Edgef1eld. Advertiser, died
Jpn the 2lat. alHe vas Ia the funeral
:procession. Of his brother!in-lsw Mr.!
G. nj. Roper, when his mule became
restive, ran off ind threw Mr.. -Durisoe
against stone. TheiinjaryIwae so Sc.
we're, thht he'died In thirty-s hours.
He was highly respected. i.'r"
Mr.. Hiram McAbee informs us that
during thunder storm, on last Satur-
day. u large tree about forty feet from
his house was struck by lightning,
killing six fine hogs. feeding on scat
tered oats under. the tree, where Mr..
WIN. Alexander had fed his horses and
left only few minutes before.
Carolina Spartan.
Misa Ceara Louise Kellogg wants to
know why will tall women forever
get with little men? Why will yel-
low-haired girl wear blue dress?
Why will ssndy.haired old man dye
his moustache black? Why will the
ashy pale woman wear red? Why will
the red-faced woman wear white?
Last Thursday morning, colored
boy. about sixteen years of age, ut.
tempted to jump upon the down train
on the Blue Ridge Road ut Seneca
City, and missing his hold, fell under
the train while in motion, aud had
both legs run over and crushed so that
he died the same day.
1t is said that two boxes of State
guns we're sent from Abbeville to Nor
woods plantation, on the Savannah
River, a week or two siBce. The re-
port is that the negroes into whose
hands these guns were given have seen
tit to make threats.
FRosr.-There was frost in COTS
town and Weare, N. H., on the 23d,
and it is thought that the fall crops
huve suffered. Early on the morning
Of the 23d, over.coats and gloves were
in requisition there. Fears are enter.
tanned of another frost.
Col. J. +. 1rumpler, OF Little Rock,
Ark, is on his way South. He claims
that he is being bounded down by the
strikers Of Powell Clayton. late Co
vernon OF Arkansas, and other promi.
nent and interruptions Radical politi.
clans of that State.
CHESTER AND LENoIR RAILROAD.
The workmen engaged in changing the
gauge Of this road are now about nine
miles from Chester. aud it is thought
they will complete the work through
10 that place within two weeks.
I. d. Bellne, tax assessor of Tala.
dega, Ala, went out at night and sat
down Oh a oross-tie to get the cool
breeze. where he fell asleep. His
friends gathered his remains in q
blanket the next morning.
Old Jack Adger. colored mau aged
l05 years. was in Winnsboro the other
day. having walked ten miles. He is
d native African, and was brouget to
this country in 1888. Mt the age of l9
years.
Spotted Tail declines to remove fur
ther North. and desires to make fur
ther trouble. If this tail we're we'll
pulled, it would do the body of the
tribe much good.
\ girl, seventeen years old, and
only thirty-seven inches high. is exct-
INK the wonder Of the Charlotte peo-
pie. She is perfectly formed aud halls
from Philadelphia.
The ruthless dog g-catchers of New
York are accused of taking dogs from
the laps Of ngel women and rheu-
matte men and bearing them off in tri.
umph to the pound.
A colored man had terrible rem
coutre with IL mai dog near Augusta,
Ga, a few days ago. A. hickory stick
skliifully wiel,led ended the dog.
Fortunately the man was not bitten.
"A meeting OF Georgia and South
Carolina Grangers, living on the Sa-
vannah River, was held in Augusta,
on the 26th. A permanent organiza.
tion was effected.
Police officer john Weemer was shot
and killed in Pittsburg, Pa, Monday
night, by Il. II. Hillon, whom he had
arrested and was attempting to take to
the stntion house.
The FIFTH IN KERsuAw A Tax
Union was formed ut Buffalo, on Sa-
turday. 22d instant, with sixty. five
members, and is called Buffalo Tax
Union.
Mr.. Z. E. Adamson, formerly Of
Camden, was instantly killed by light.
ming, in his yard. near Gainesville,
Fla, on Wednesday,, 18th instant.
An extraordinary pictorial novelty,
styled "Deluge. r Paradise Lost. u
will be- brought ont ut Niblo's Garden,
New York, on the 7th prox.
Mr.. T. L. Ligon, Sr.. died in
Winnsboro on Friday last, of paralysis,