The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1874-06-10

miners and setting fre,to the banker,
which was soon destroyed. While
fighting the flames. some burning tim
bers fell upon William Vivian, killing
him instantly. Alexander Ale, Charles
Keller, Hawley Walsh, Tom Lowell,
Tom MoManus, Henry Rsimensynder
and Lorenz Krebs, of the gang, who
were nlso engaged in fighting the FIRE.
were overcome by gas. and had to be
carried from the mine. The first two
were insensible when brought to the
fresh air, and have since died. The
others are doing we'll.
MEMPHIS. June "a despatch from
Sardis, Miss, says Nose Gregory, q
negro, attempted to shoot his wife,
but missed her aud killed his thirteen
year.old daughter. He admits the
killing, but says he tried to kill his
wife, and would kill her yet.
NEW YORK, June 9.-Wm. B. Og-
don wac. to-day, elected trustee Of the
North Pacific Railroad, uice J. Edgar
Thompson.
PROVIDENCE, r. l., June 9.-The
Legislature meets tomorrow in Joint
session to ballot for Senator. Burn
side is ahead in the voting in separate
houses. but lacks largely of q majority.
AUGUSTA, June 9.-Delegates to the
Convention of Cotton Exchanges, which
meets here tomorrow, have arrived
from New York, Norfolk. Nashville.
Memphis, Louisville and New Orleans.
Delegations from other cities will ar
rive tonight and in the morning.
Committees were appointed at meet
ing this evening to prepare business
for the convention.
WASHINGTON, June 9-The Commit.
tee of Ways and Means visited Boston
to-day.
The Senate Military Committee
agreed to postpone the consideration
of the House bill for the re-organiza-
tion of the army till next session.
The Conference Committee on the
Freedmen's Bank reached no conclu-
sion.
A delegation of Western tobacco
manufacturers is here, to prote: t
against the indiscriminate sale of loose
tobacco by producers.
The Committee on Printing sus-
tains Colonel Clapp, Public Printer.
In the Senate. the bill for the re.or-
ganization of the District Government
was reported, and comes up in day or
two. The Judiciary Committee report
ed adversely on the sutro-tunnel bill.
West, from the Committee of Confer
ence on tho army appropriation bill,
made report, which was adopted,
that three Judges Of the Court of
Claims shall constitute quorum. The
moiety bill occupied the day.
In the House, after the Louisiana
election case was disposed of, Sener,
of Virginia, reported on the enormous
frauds in the Western judicial Dis
trict of Arkansas. a bill to abolish
the district was passed, and the Attor-
ney General was directed to institute
an investigation, and to pay none of
the pending accounts until after he
reports to the House. The Geneva
award bill was then discussed until nd-
journment. The vote is to be taken
tomorrow.
In the House, to-day, the Commit
tee on the Expenditures oI the De-
partment Of Justice. through its Chair
man. reported and passed the House
bill abolishing the Western District of
Arkansas, and also bill providing that
all clerks OF the District and Circuit
Courts of the United States shall give
bond hereafter, not less than 1000
nor more than $4,000, aud oil mar
shals to give bonds not exceeding
$40. 900; and hereafter, all marshals'
accounts are to be approved in open
court, before being paid by the trea-
sury. The Western District of Ar
kansas, by the report, is shown to have
cost the Government $3.50. 900 in three
years, and to have been very stencil
in the nostrils OF the people Of that
County.
Probabilities-For New England,
tho Northern portion of tho Middle
States. and the lower lake region,
increasing cloudiness and local rains,
winds. shifting to Westerly
and N0rth-westerly, slight fall of
and stationary or rising
barometer. For the Southern portion
of the Middle States. the South At
lantic and Gulf States, generally clear
aud warm weather, except on the
Florida and Gulf coasts, South and
Westward, and no decided change in
the barometer. Light rain will pre-
vail in the Southern portion of the
South Atlantic States, and thence
Westward to Texas.
NIAGARA FALLS, n. T., June o.
The session of the American Institute
of Homeopathy commenced here this
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