The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1874-12-05

"a0 Aaoi sCo at AAuCue6lcT uull Out not
quotably lower.
The ring that beats Tweed's rug, or
any other ever yet ventilated in thi.
country. is the Washington DISTRICT
ring. The debt Of the District govern
ment. which can now be very closny
approximatcd, amounts to so. 600, 000.
According to ring estimates 1t was
$40. 100000. The expenditures OF the
rug were over $50. OOO.OOO When it
Is stated that the whole taxable pro-
perty in the District is worth only
S97, ,O00,O 900. the enormity Of the grab
may be appreciated.
Very gradually the national debt of
England IL being paid OF. Th. Lon.
don Gazette. Of November 10. con tains
au offi,Ial announcement from the
Chancellor Of the Exchequer, that the
cum of 81. .3l5 .2l5. being one-fourth of
the surplus of income over expenditure
/ n the year to the 3Oth Of June, 1874,
| Is ready to be handed cyer to the me-
| tIonal debt com missioners, aud by
them applied to the reduction of said
debt. This is the second payment OF
this nature for such purpose.
SHARON. Nevada has new Senator
named Sharon. He is richer than
Jones. His daughter, the Rose of
Sharon. had wedding the other day,
which made the nuptials of Nellie
Grant and Maria Sherman pale their
weak, Intellectual fires. Descriptions
have been given Of the wealth and
splendor OF the father OF the bride,
but nothing conveys to our mind a
better idea of his magnifcence than
the fact that his coal-sknttle cost Sl25.
The reader must imagine the rest.
FOREIGNERS IN BRAzlL.-What Sir
Boyle Roche might have called "na.
| tive American" excitement exists in
Pure, Brazil, in the form of rising
on the citizens against the resident
Foreigners. The troops have been re-
qnired to protect tue latter, and the
brazilian Government announces that
1t Will prosecute newspaper which
has bson active in creating the perse.
cution.
Abe Simmons, long faithful ser
want OF our worthy townsman, Mr..
John Simmons, died in this village, on
the 26th ultimo. Tho decsased was for
mnny years q waiter aud porter at
Simmons Hotel, and woiI known to
the travelling public.
LaurensoiNe Herald.
Business grows lively at Chicago.
The bunks arc III funds, having SILL
600. .00O more OH deposit than at any
time since the panic. Hogs aud gran,
come into the city in Unprecedented
| quantities, aud the farmers are recpiv.
ing funds III rcturn. The whole West
feels the new stimulus.
DELAWARE. 1t is going the rounds
as somathlug strange that tho Leg,slu
ture elect OF Delaware does not contain
single lawyer. Are wo 10 understand d
by this that lawyers nre excluded al
together, or only the unmarried men of
the profession?
"A writer in al exchange says that il
the emigration movement succeeds in
| carrying of tho idle IoAfers uronnd
tho cities and towns it will do heap
OF good. Bnt the trouble is, kick
these sort Of folks down stairs aud tLey
will get up and walk straight back.
An able paper in an English review
says that ''from utter lack of uuy ra.
tlonal. systematic oversight Of charity,
New j ork has become tho receptacle
for the paoperism not only Of the sur
rounding States, but Of half the coun.
tries in Europe"
The CoTroN TAN. -Wo learn from
Western exchanges that Samuel Smith,
Esq Of MarysvllIe. Cal, has IL scheme
to pay tho cotton tax oluims, which in.
wolves the issue of forty year Z per
cent. bonds by the Government.
/ The Laurensville Herald claims That
number of traudulent csrti Gates
have been issued by the flro Commis.
sionors of that County. Treasurer
Fowler has refused to pay some OF
! them.