The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1874-12-11


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From present pains and future unknown
harms,
And baby sleeps.
A Roman Catholic priest was lately
sentenced to imprisonment at Nfui-
hauaen for reviling the Protestant re-.
hgion, and another Austrian priest,
the vicar OF Obernergheim, has just
been sent to prison for fourteen days
Tor like offence. On his trial he as
sumed very defiant tone, and had re-
peatedly to be called to order by the
Judge. It is remarked that these ex-
ceases are always committed by young
priests.
The remains of tho Confederate sol.
diers who fell in the movement on
Washington during the late war. and
remain in graves outside Of cemeteries,
will be removed to the cemetery of
Grace Church, near Silver Springs,
Md, to-day. DR.. A. Y. P. Garnett
will deliver an grafton ON the occasion,
and number of members of Congress
and leading men from the South will
take part.
The Memphis Appeal says: A terri
BILE disease, known as the black death,
has broken out in DeKalb County,
and, defying medical skill, is playing
havoc with the population. Able ply
sicians OF Nashville think the disease
must be bilious dysentery of fatal
type, similar to that which followed
the cholera last year, but not conta.
gious.
An Augusta hunter succeeded in
bagging two turkey buzzards, recently,
under the impression that they were
wild turkeys. He strung them across
his shoulders and did not discover his
mistake until his clothing had become
impregnated with the peculiar odor-
bouquet de dead dninai-which these
birds emit.
A New York despatch says: "Ad.
vices from Pottsyille are to the effect
that the market is oyer-stocked with
coal, and o general suspension of min
ing in that region may take place,
throwing $4,000 men out OF work dur
ing the severe winter months, entail
ing great suffering. Several oollieries
have already closed"
A WoNpEBFuL .4FRAT.-A colored
hunter fell out of his boat into the Sa.
vannah River day or two since. He
says that on reaching the bottom, and
finding that he could not rise, he
pulled his coat off, and thus relieved
OF weight, rose to the top.
BCTLER.-Gen. Butler attributes his
defeat to his persistent advocacy Of
woman suffrage. Well, Ben. is not an
Adonis, and perhaps his ungallant con-
duct in New Orleans rather detracted
from belief in his sincerity among
the men of Massachusetts.
REPAIRING BREACHEs.--Oolorad
and New Mexico are to be made States,
thus giving the shaken Republican
majority in the Senate chance to OBJ
tain four recruits from two rotten
borough commonwealths.
And now the Rev. Mr.. Stubbs. of
"York State" is added to the Bcech.
ets, the Giendennings, and the rest
VINO nave loved net wisely but too
many: Heavens! Will the line stretch
out till the crack OF doom?
Henry D. Thomas, manager and
treasurer OF the Prairie Farmers Pub.
llshing Company, of Chicago, has dis.
appeared: It is alleged he has en-.
bezzled $4,000, belonging chiefly to
Western grangers.
Two thousand partridges were
shipped, by oRe firm, from Salem, N.
O., last week. There is bill now
pending in the Legislature for the pro.
lection OF these birds.
Lawrence Branan, of Atlanta, was
shot in the eye and instantly killed at
West Point, by Dock Frost, on Satur-
day night. The coroner's jury said it
was accidental.
A Frenohman, Intending to compli.
ment young lady by calling her o
gentle lamb. said: ''She is one mutton
as is small"
The Warren House. at the Hot
Springs, Arkansas. and number of
other buildings have been destroyed
by fire.
Charges have been made against
Paymaster Wallace. OF the Northern
PaSiio Railroad, for embezzling $60,-
mMr. y. Milton Blown, Of Anderson.
died on Sunday.