The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1874-02-24
Grace Greenwood, in her last letter

Grace Greenwood, in her last letter
from Colorado, describes typical poor
white family of Missouri, careless, shift
less and intolerably lazy, the daught
| OF which were accustomed to go bare
foot till the coles of their feet were ae
hard rs horn; and then tells this story
Zone of these young ladies', on coming
homo, one day. after long ira mp in
the rain after the COVE, was standing on
the hearth drying her clothes, when her
old mother drawled out. Sal, thar 's-a
| -live-coal-und -under-yer-foot.' I'll q
girl slightly turned her head, and
drawled back. 'Which-foot, nam my q"
FROM THE CHURCH TO. THE Grave
On Sunday evening, the Rev. Il. De
Witt Talmage. Of Brooklyn, N. Y.
preached terrific sermon on future
punishment. Many of the congrega.
ton were deeply affected. Among those
present was Mary Liucoln, q yonng
lady whose home was in Rhode Island,
but who was visiting her friends in
Brooklyn. When she went to the
church she was apparently in her usual
good health. At the conclusion OF the
discourse she tainted, and was carried
out OF the church. Before her friends
could get her home she died.
General Reaurcgard has tried the
"hreless engine" on the New Orleans
street railroad, of which he is President.
two yenrs, and believes in it. It starts
with pressure of 125 pounds and
makes six mile trip with on average
loss of seventy five pounds. One en-
glne Is equal to nine mules, is more
manageable, and can be more easily
stopped and started again; aud the ex.
pense OF running road with this
species OF motive power is only quar-
ter the cost OF mule power.
a Washington telegram to the New
York Herald says: "President Grant. in
recent conversation with Southern mem
bers Of Congress. remarked that as far
as it was in his power, he should here
after strictly follow the policy of con.
ferring appointments in the South on
those whose loyalty and character we're
such as to entitle them to his favorable
consideration. He was of the opinion
that the so-called carpet bag element
had not contributed much to the good
OF the party in that section"
The French Prince Imperial will bo-
come OF age on The 18th of March, and
apprehensions are evidently felt that II
Bonapartist reaction in the Empire will
oulminote on that day. The prcfects
have, therefore. been instructed to keep
watch upon people who leave their de-
partments for Chiselhurst for the pur-
pose OF doing homage to the Prin ce
This crisis once past, the republic will
breathe freer.
A COMPLIMENT TO ATLANTA CONTRA c.
ToRs.-The Courier. Journal says: At
lunta has bnilt granite Confederate
monument sixty five feet high, for
81, 000. Almost any where else the
contractor for snch n structure would
have insisted upon margin of Mt least
S4. 600 stealage, and wouldn't have
struck lick Of work until he got it. We
shan't be surprised to hear that the
man who built tha monument has been
afflicted with "the vice of honesty
until he has fallen away to mere bloat.
Love, Miss. letter in the Memphis
appeal: IA negro insulted some ladies'
in Banks. Love g. Co. IS store, and at
pso,. ~ :.::::::m;' o-:4 e :..c .i--, -ha,
iie wao politely kickc;. out. The Negro
thereupon drew q dirk, and made MT
the young man, cntting his coat Just
above the region of the heart, strikin,
with such force that the dirk in the dc.
scent entered his own thigh, severipa
the femoral artery. The negro died in q
short time from loss of blood"
The morning after the celebration OF
Mardi Gras. in New Orleans, two pro.
minent citizens, who had been active
contributors and participants III the
festival, departed this life suddenly
Col. A. W. Merriam. tl,e proprietor Of
the Crescent City Billi6rd Saloon, (whc
is believed TO have pefsonated Comu J
and Mr.. Thomas Cl9fk. we'll known
merchant. ApoplexS in the one case,
heart disease in the other.
One OF the Washington courts once
undertook to decipher tho name Bigned
/ to letter, and the bench aud bar finally
decided thnt it was 'W. II. Nnrb;" but,
IN the end, it turnad out to be NJ. Il.
Waite, the name of the new Chic
Justice. All really great men writ,
their names illegibly; most small men,
who fancy themselves great, do not, re-
garding bad penmanship, as the com
mon run OF fools DO, as mark of great
ness.
At n school examination, M cloqusu
| clerOyman made n hrief ojfrocs IN H..