The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1874-08-28
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III Free S0mn9tce anQ no tarlu, except
Tor revehhe PURPOSES.
NAspyIL4n, August 27.-Goyernor
Brbwk E45 ..SSzfs;;rssaa $500 reward for tho
arrest OF the Jail breakers. aud offers
assistance ,to.the sheriff, whom he di-
rects to Summon posse Of the best
citizens to maintain order. Nothing
later received from Gibson County or
owsaroN. f iKr.,, y Aagnss 4, y1 21AThe par.
ties to the Russell-Smoot fedd agreed
to deliver themselves to the federal
authorities. with the understanding
that they would be protected until the
court decides the differences.
MEMPHIS. August 27.-The Sheriff
OF Tunioa County arrested thirty-four
ring.leaders of the late Austin trouble.
PIrTsRURa, Pa, August 27.-The
Iron Convention advanced the price of
bar. sheet and plate about Sc per ton.
TOPEKA, KANSAS. August 27.-The
Republican Convention was organized.
The resolutions recite the achievement
of the Rep lblican party during the war
and favor free banking.
NEW YORK. August 27.-The steam.
ship City of Peking arrived from her
trial trip at o'clock, this morning.
Everything satisfactory.
Professor Blot, the culinary artist,
is dead
The Democratic Convention nomi-
mated Warren j. Woodward on the
sixth ballot.
JORDAN ALUM SPRINGS. Va. August
27.-General Beauregard and other
distinguished gentlemen assisted at the
bel! in honor of the First Virginia
Regiment.
SALT LAKE, August 26 Brigham
Young's answer to the complaint of
Ann Eliza, his nineteenth wife, for
divorce, was filed last evening. He
denies she is his lawful wife, alleging
she is the lawful wife of James L. Lee.
He says his lawful wife ia Mary Ann
Angel. He claims that lie and COM
plalnant were members of the Church
or the Latter Day Saints. and by its
doctrines that church members can
enter into plural marriages. such cere-
mony was performed, but complainant
knew she could not claim his society
in the ordinary relation between hus-
band and wife. He denies her charges
of cruelty, neglect. etc. and says he
amply provided for her
WASHINGTON, August 27.-JeweIl's
commission as Postmaster. g en eral was
signed by the President, who cume to
the White House this morning.
Two post Office officials. the Super
intenient of Foreign Mails aud the
Superintendent OF the Money Order
System. have been detailed to attend
the Berue Postal Convention.
Probabilities-Over the South At.
lantio and Gulf States, during Friday,
lower barometer, slight changes In
temperature, Easterly to Southerly
winds, cloudy or partly cloudy wea-
ther and rain nreas ure probable.
The Norristown (Pa.) Herald says
that Geueral ". s. Hancock spent
several days last week in visiting his
friends III Norristown and it's vicinity,
and that while in conversation with
SOME Of our citizens, he Unlimited that
he WAS au nspirant for the highest DO.
litical honors. and that his name would
be offered us a candidate for the Presi-
dency in the next campaign. He
stated that there would be number
Of candidates hronght forward. hut
there were certain considerations which
he thought entitled linn 10 party favor.
BosroS,sAugust 27.-Reports of the
railroud convention in Boston ON
Tuesday, on reduction of freights, ac-
cidentally omitted Great Southern
Freight Liue, ria Charleston, which
was represented aud acted in harmon y
with the meeting.
| New York. August 27.-Shipments
OF specia to Europe to-day S2l7 900.
OF which SIS. 900 was gold coiu.
Otis Dyer, veteran OF the war of
1872. died in this CITY. yestel day, aged
eighty seven. Hs formerly lived in
Montgomery, Ala.
Bowen has commenced proceedings
for 100000 against the Brooklyn
Et1gle aud 5000 against the reporter
who furnished the alleged fulse inter
view. The reporter wns hailed IL
So, 600.
John Sehatleburg was to-day com
mitted for trial for placing log on the
Canarsie Railroad, yesterday, for fun
by which tue locomotive went down
an embankment. the engineer badly
bruised and two passenger cars full OF
excnrsionists narrowly escaped demo
lition.
ST.. LOUIS, August 27.-The follow.
ing are among the resolutions of the
Missouri Democratic Conventions: That
while the West is heavily burdened to
sustain the manufacturers of the East,
sum of upwards OF S10U, 600. 900 il
annually collected from us in the shape
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