The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1874-03-01


rnched with point alpaca, aud an over
skirt OF rose ginghan with border OF
parsley blossoms. Her tournure was
particularly noticeable from tho fact
that her hair4-Was so deliciousIy scram.
bied IN front. She also wore No. 6 lilac
double.button gloves, and No. 4 stbre
shoes slashed ut the heels, and Pompa-
dour socks.''
A MAN BEATEN TO DEATH WITH STICKS.
Friday night, Miles Purcell and Jimmie
Purcell, the first named colored man,
and tho latter white, committed MUIR
der ut or near Gilchrist's Bridge, on
Lumber River, some twenty or twenty
i've mills Northwest Of Lumberton,
! The Purcells took horse aud buggy
belonging to Thomas Seals without his
consent. Seals demonstrated with them,
when tho brntes turned upon him and
beat him to death with sticks.
Wilmington Star.
Aud now it turns out that the New
York Sun has only about one. fourth the
circulation that it has been claiming for
itself oil along. This accounts for its
very email advertising patronage.
Shrewd advertisers are generally we'll
posted rs to the actual circulation of
newspapers, and their value as adver-
tising mediums, and use their columns
accordingly.
Mr. Hiram B. Coffin. OF AIassachu-
setts, has been engaged for several
years III collecting death statistics, and
he finds that "geutleman" lives on an
average sixty y-eight years. judge sixty
i've, carpenter forty-nine, painter
forty three, and factory operator
tbirty-two. The Importance Of being u
gentleman is thus strikingly illustrated.
Professor Henry received, Saturday
morning, the announcement by teir-
graph from the Academy of Sciences,
Vienna, of the discovery OF IL comet in
rlght ascension. twenty hours and forty.
two nnutes; deolination plus twenty
four degrees fifty-one minutes: faint,
motion South west twoand. q half de.
Erers.
Au"ng.the latest European news is
that street passenger cars are to be in
troduccd into Rome. The Eternal City
IS obviously improving. Already
tourists complain that everything is
getting TOO new; and for being utterly
practical and prosaic, it would be hard
to End the superior of the street car.
It is pleasant to know that the Texas
missionarios have established Sunday
schools in Black Jnck, Lazy Cove. Rat
Skin, Coon Hollow, Wolf Greek, Sleepy
Hollow, Bull Mountain, Smoky Hollow,
Goose Greek, Lousey Level and Tare
Shirt.
| PAHDoHED. Upon the recommends
tion of Judge G. p. Townsend, the Go
vernon has pardoned Moses Cannon,
who was convicted of manslanghter at
the June 1873 term Of the criminal
court for Darlington, aud sentenced to
ten years imprisonment in tho peni-
tentiary.
| SUDDEN DEArH.-Mr. Robert W.
t'"1nk died Suddenly Ut his residence
about ten miles above Bennettsv.llc on
Monday, the 10th Instant. About II
o'clock lie complained OF pain in the
eye, after which lie became specchless,
aud died about 6 O'Clock that evening.
| ACCIDENTAL SHOOTING While little
son Of Alr. Isaac Langley, of Bcnuetts-
vile. wns handling gun. few days
ago, it was discharged, the contents
lodging i'll the body of grown daugh
ter of Mr.. Langley. The wound vii!
probably prove fatal.
continental dam" is not profanity.
When the old continental currency was
redeemed, the counterfeit was stamped
dam" (iumnataS.) As the eeuu.uo
was no better than the counterfeit, it
was said to be mot worth continental,
dam.
a Chicago merchant was SO p,nsc:i 1T
tho news that ho WIS the fatiler uf !,
daughter, that he gave orders TO IL
baker to Distribute 500 loayes of broad
to the poor each day for ten days.
"The fortunes that swim in our
rivers, says the New York Commeyci,,!
4AarertiSer, speaking Of pisciculture.
Good. Riches, wo know, have wings,
und now it seems they have fins also.
A reporter on an Iowa paper wrote:
Yesterday morning wiRter and spring
kissed each other in the sunrise, and
each spread it's choicest favors on the
pure air." He was married next day.
Phantom parties" are tho latest.
The guests come robed in sheets and
pillow.cases, and after several dances,
throw off their disguisos and burst forth
in oil the display Of elaborate toilets.
A monster eagle recently ATTEMPTED
| to carry Off q tifteen-year MD oirl mar