The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1874-01-08
eon,inont s.o4a; to France sss; s.lss

ocdsthSob OSV3Oj To 3 EuDCo 900: 6AlaB
4,600; stock 276, ,339.
BALTIMORE, Jan nary 7.-Cctton firm
-middling 15T; low middIing l5L;
etrict good ordinary Az; gross receipts
4l1 bales; exports coastwise 297; sales
465: stock l5.464
MEMPHIS. January 7.-Cotson quiet
and easy-low middling 14H@l4A; re-
oeipts 1.46O bales; shipments 1900;
sto,k 65. 7SS. IN
NoRFoIK, january 7.-CottoH firmer
low middling 1423a; net receipts 2, ,642
bales; exports 80 Great Britain 100;
coastwise 2,O5S; salss $40; stock 2G, 1879.
PHILADELPHIA. January 7.-Cotton
qniet-middling 1GIs; low middling
l5la; strict good ordinary 10; net re-
ceipts 3l1; gross 1.133
"!LAI1NoToN, January 7.-Cotton
steady -middIing 15; net receipts 20S
bales; exports to Great Britain 63G;
sales 2l3; stock 3,179.
BosToN, January 7.-Cotton strong
middling 1Gl9; net receipts 10 bales !;
gross 2,OoS; sules 300; stock $500
How BR1oGs' BABY WAS TREATED -
Thomas Briggs, Of Twelfth street, has u
boy baby about ten mouths old, who is
admitted at the beginning of this article
to look just like his father, and to be
the smartest boy baby Of his ngs in De-
trolt. Yesterday morning. the child
was sitting on the door, playing with
i've or six big coat buttons on q string,
and taking au occasional nibb!e at an
apple to bring oct his first crop Of teeth.
Mrs. Briggs and neighbor were talking
away as only women can gossip, when
the baby hid the battons under mat.
and started to finish tho apple. 4 bit Of
the skin got in his throat aud he gave a
cough and whoop and paved the air
aud rolled over on his head. "Oh,
them buttons! he has swallowed them
outtons!" cried the mother, as she
ynnked him up and shook him. "Pound
him on the back!" yelled the other
woman, trying to hold tho baby's legs
still. RIM for the nei.hhors!" cried
Mrs Briggs. "Oh, he'll die! he'll diel'
screamed the other, as she ran out.
Anu tue neighbors came in and made
him lie OIL his stomach and cough, and
then turned him on his back and
rubbed his stomach, and joggled him
about all sorts of why's until he
got mad and he went to howling
Then boy ran for Briggs. and Briggs
ran for " doctor. and the doctor cam.
and ohoked ths baby, and ordered sweet
OIL aud mustard plaster, and told them
to hold him>on his back. Everybody
knew that those six big buttons were
lodged in that baby's throat, because he
Was red in the face, and because he
atrAngied as he howled aud wept. They
poured down sweet oil, aud put mus
tard across him, and wcpt over him, aud
the mother said she could never forgive
herself. Boys drove by calling out,
Slab wood for sale!" and the scissors
man went by shouting, "Shurpl sharpl"
but that distressed crowd held the baby
down and she'd their tears over his
whole length. The doctor was looking
serious, aud Briggs was thinking that
he hadn't done anything to deserve such
blow, when one Of the women pushed
the mat and discovered the buttons.
Then everybody laughed and danced,
and they kicked the sweet oil bottls
under the bed, threw the mustard
plaster at the doctor, and Mrs. Briggs
hugged the bowling angel to her bosom
and called him her "wopsy topsy hopsy
dropsy popsy little chernbim.''
Detroit Free Press