The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1874-08-26
CHICAGO TO CHARnEsroN.-Hon. W.

CHICAGO TO CHARLEsToN.-Hon. W.
8. Raymond, President Chicago and
South Atlantic. Railroad, writes to hir.
A. @. Kaufman. Secretary Spartanburg
and Asheville Railroad: "We have let
q section OF our line in Indiana. and
will let other sections as fast al engin.
GERS get location ready. We have se-
cured right OF way through Illinois to
CITY limits, which is a valuable oonsi-
deration. as we will have our own rail
to the heart of Chicago. I understand
the Kentucky branch will soon pc or
ganized under charter granted by the
Legislature. I hope the day is not far
distant when the South and West will
be united by this great trunk line in
bonds Of common interest and fellow.
ship"
A drunken colored man, named
VIM. Simmons, who forced his way
into the house of an elderly colored
woman il Augusta, Ca. on Sunday
evening last, was killed, by two stabs
from pocket.k by white man,
named Edward Owens, who had gone
to the assistance Of the old woman.
Simmons used his teeth and Owens his
knife. The ooioaer's jury, after tho
! roughly Investigating the affair, re-
turned verdict of justi6able homi.
eide.
A new mitrailleuse has just been
tried at Corie, in tile Grisons. The
barrels. instead Of clustering around q
centre. are placed horizontally, thus
delivering the balls like platoon of
infantry instead of in cluster. Twen-
ty rounds we're fred in q minute, but
the inventor, Col. Albertini, of the
Austrian army, maintains that forty
i've rounds can be- fred each minute,
and that hsi mitrailleuse will cost one
sixth less than the one actually in use.
AS peouniary investment, the Bri-
tlsh Government has not found the
purchase of the telegraphs profitable.
Ihe revenue last year amounted to only
per cent. on the outlay. 1t is, how
ever, to be remembered that the Go
vernment has opened many new Offices
and III many cases reduced the charge
for the transmission of messages.
The Bishop of Strasbourg recently
sent to the Pope $4,000 francs 1913.
00O) OF Peters pence, whereupon the
Norfh German Gazette observes that
the Oppressive taxes" do not seem so
troublesome in Alsaoe as they we're.
Alsatlans may anticipate an increase in
the impost, for Berlin never indulqes
in joke for q Jokes sake.
Since the development of the rela.
tlons OF Germany to the Madrid Go
vernment, it seems just possible thai
Schmidt. whom the CarIists shot as 9
spy. was really there in the interest oI
his Government, and not of a news
paper.
As final argument in his favor
Col. Jack Brown, of Americus, Ga.
announces that he has failed in every
thing since the war, which he takes te
6e q convincing proof of his fitness fol
Congress.
Gen. Roger a. Pryor has been re-
tanned by Tiltnn aH counsel in q sui
against Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, il
which the damages are laid at 500, OOO
During one week recently Chicae.
had fourteen fires, and in the same ne
Rod London, with nearly nine times a.
many inhabitants. had fifteen fires.
The steamer Tagus. on her next trir
'Ioul NeW 1orh TO England, will taxi
out ten locomotives for the Russian
Government.
Charlotte Cushman is about to com
mence another farewell engagement.
iwenty-one years ago, she tried the
same dodge.
Charles G. Sisson, one of tn
wealthiest capitalists of New JERSEY
died at Tenany. Friday evening.
Some queensware dealers in Cincin
natl have been importing goods from
England by way of New Orleans.
Charleston received two balEs of th
new Sea Island crop of cotton from
Florida on Sunday.
A number of severe cases of diph
thera are reported in Charleston.