The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1874-05-09


gross l.O49; exports to Great Britain
8. 1924; coastwise ACT; sales 8. 05O.
MEMPHIS, May 8.-Cotton firm, with
good demand-low midd!iug l6LM
16T; receipts 443; shipments 1,G7S;
stock in 1874, 31.962; in 1873, IS, ,735;
weekly receipts 2, 1877; shipments 1866.
=. middling Is; ordinary ii; net receipts
81; gross 100; weekly net receipts 252;
gross 1929
1t WAS agreed on Tuesday lust. ut IA
meeting Of the Posts of The Grand
Army of the Republic of the Depart
ment Of New York, that there shall be
no distinction between the Union aud
Confederate graves on decorations duy.
Those OF both Union aud Confederate
soldiers will be decorated. or the latter
there are many in Cypress Hill aud
other cemeteries around New York.
At the city election in Hannibal, Mo
tuesday. the question Of license or no
license was submitted, and Tho indie
pendent proposition "nO liccuse" was
carried 10y Two to one. Tho novel fea-
tuEe of the coutcst was that many ladies'
on both silcs Of the question remained
at tho polls all day, and elcctioneered
with great vgor.
a New York paper says: "a rcgulu-
ton black and tan poodle, to be worth
500, must have head about the size
of black walnut; eyes that stand out
side of their sockets; tail about the
size ot IL leud pencil, and legs so a,tcnu-
ateu that the animal falls over on his
back every time he lifts his head to
bark"
James II. Piles, tho coIored Chancel
lor OF Sardis, Miss, is in Jail for larceny.
The lawyers who argued c,ses before
him, missed their books, and, obtaining
II search warrant, they were found in
his house, with the owners names
erused aud u. II. Piles" substituted.
he was convicted and tue Chancellor of
Mississippi is still in Jail.
FATAL FIsrrcUpr F1Gnr. Albert
Chewning. un aged citizen of Nelson
County, Va, residing near Roses Mill,
got into fight on Wednesday, with u
young man, named alexander Wright.
LII the melee Mr.. Chewning was so badly
beaten that he died from his ipjuries.
Both men are very respectfully Connect
ed.
GOOD EXAMPLE. At Santa BLr-
oar;, California, recently, the Press was
Tue nstonIshed recipient of Sl,025 IN
gold, the gift OF citizens who felt "that
tho PreSS had performed and was still
Performing IA nuble work for the town. -
Such Is the reward. at very rare inter
vals, OF those who do write.
L. Mothc was not great writer, but
he understood human nature Finding
that his book had slow sale, he pro-
cured prohibition against the reading
OF 1t, aud every copy was disposed Of.
Daniel Boone had very brief reli-
sious creed. 1t was simply to love and
lear God, believe in Jesus Christ, do all
the good to his neighbors aud himself
that he could, und as little harm as he
could.
There" says an old topper. ''sce what
all this temperance crusade praying has
done; first, busted the Lindell Hote.
tank and liked to drowned st. Louis;
and now overhowed the whole South
with water. If the women keep on.
we'll have another food, sure."
California juries are to decide in capi-
tai cases whether the accused shall suf-
Ter death or imprisonment for life. Two
cases are on trial in that State in which
this discretion will, for the first time.
be exercised.
OF the American colony that went to
the Holy Land some years ago, to re-
build tho temple, not q soul serviyes.
They got into the habit of taking too
much miasma in their whiskey.
A New York tailor makes pants with
an attachment about the waistband for
eating big dinners. The pockets are
sometimes too "short" for paying the
bill, however.
law court in Iowa has fined farm
er $50 because he made his son turn q
grind-stone sixteen consecutive hours
for going home with an old maid from
singing school.
a Colorado paper says that men ont
there will ride fifteen miles to .spark" a
girl Sunday night, but the women out
there will ride double the distance to
see man hung.
Tho Tennessee negroes in convention
assembled have resolved "that it is their
duty as men to arrange for the perfect
development of postority."
rhe good oli-fashioned four-horse
stage coaches have just been revived as
means Of travel between London and