The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1874-05-07

gently. One has scarcely been told, ere
it is followed by another. The latest is
the story related of frightfal parrioide,
at village in Maine. James P. Davis,
q young man, brutally murdered his ia.
ther with an IKE. The mother, stepping
from the door Of the house into the
yard. at 8 o'clock in the morning, disco
vered the body OF her husband with the
top OF his skull split off, while over him
stood the murderer with the bloody axe
The son had been an inmate Of q lnnatic
asylum. bnt was considered cured.
A fine distinction was that the preach
or of the Richmond First Baptist
church, made: "My brnddere," said he,
when you were all slaves dar might b a.
been sense for cuttin' slice off marsr's
bacon, hookin' q handful corn meal, or
Robin de hen roost; for you all VIC rx
hard den. my brudders, you earn it, my
brudders and sisters. But now you is
all free men dar amt no 'scuse whatever:
you's all on yer own responsibility.
A newspaper has been started in
Idaho called the Idaho Vindicator. 1t
ID edited by two females, and it advo.
Gates woman's rights with vengeance.
Al the saiutatoTy it says: "We shall
have fellow feeling in our bosoms for
all struggling and oppressed humani-
" everywhere" This assurance will be
hopefully and gratefully received, but
we are dying to know who the thunder
the fellow" will be.
4 citizen OF New York has been de-
tected in tho act of pereuading his mo-
tner-in.law. to embark for Europe in one
OF the French line of steamers to which
the Vile dn Havre, the Europe and the
Amerique belonged. Such an attempt
at cold .biooded murder is said TO be
wholly unparalleled.
The PIattsburgh IN. W Sentinel tells
OF gentleman, 30 to speak, Of that
vicinity who recantly sold his wife and
children to, one of his neighbore for
coat. pair Of second. hand pants and S5
in cash, and then left the neighborhood,
perhaps to- keep the purchaser from
going back on the trade.
The, Emperor Francis Joseph has ex.
tensjye, stablesin, which 400 horses are
housed "ike princes" He also pos.
sesses more than 100 vehicles for the
use Of himself and family, in ad ddition to
thegorgeous State equipages.
aiBe civil and you'll be happy. At
least. that is the experience of John
Hunt. OF Philadelphia. who gave q
stranger a nights lodging years ago,
and has just received a legacy of GEO.
O0O.iot sa. t4iif Lua ,h4i4!ncaa
The Char 'otte Observer !puts on re-.
cord the almost complete recovery from
consumption OF q man named Walker.
oy drinking the warm blood Of goats
"O A"'Aso' t.ls-. gSsG Z ~ 4
The complaint of the actress who saws
that she hast'no nose for. tragedy" is
supplemented by a. wall from a sister
artistic, who declares she has no '.cheek"
Tor comedy.0t I 3 q 4H
Brooks, one Of the Governors of Ar
kansas was, in 1851, pastor OF Metho-
dist Church in Burlington, Iowa. He
left'there in August; 1862.
There is prejudice in human kind
against large ears, As, the poet says:
Man wants bot little ear below. nor
wants that little long" +
The Aiken Journal has passed into
the hands of Messrs. W. o. Cammack
and W. B. Mcdaniel.
Qoarrels would never last long if the
fault was ON one side only.
A Western Granger has written for
some Mardi Gyas seed.
Mrs. Jane Lunpey, wife of the County
Auditor, died at Darlington on the 1st.
John Tinsley. the colored Coroner of
Union County, died last week.
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