The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1874-08-15
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lips Of a magnificent little Hebe, ar.
rayed in satin and flashing with dia-
monds, as she puts you back with one
delicate hand. while with the other she
draws forth from her mouth brown
ish-black roll Of tobacco, two inches
long, looking like a monster grub,
and then, depositiug tho sayory TO-
zenge on the brim Of your sombrero,
puts up her face and is reudy for sa-
lute. However, one aoon gets csed TO
this in Paraguay, where you are, per
force OF custom, obliged to kiss every
lady you are introduced to-"
SUDDEN DEATH OF You've LADY
WHILE SINGING. Mary Louise
GuTtbuft, daughter OF Rev. Victor III.
Hurlburt, of Home Ridge, n. Y. burst
blood vessel in the brain while sing
ing in the choir of the Reformed Dutch
Church at that place, on Sunday morn
lng, and expired in short time after.
She was singing duet. several of the
| notes OF which were in high key.
She sung them in voice unusually
strong and clear, and then sank buck
In her brothers arms insenslble, end
was soon dead.
FIRES. The gin-house and fixtures
of MIR. W. w. Rogers. of Iudiantown,
s. g.. was totally destroyed by fire on
Tuesday morning last. The house
WAS struck by lightning, from which
1t oaught, and had nearly burnt down
before tho fire was discovered. Loss
$500; no insurance. The store and
entire stock of goods belonging to Mr..
JAS. Harper was also destroyed by fire
on the night of the same day; cause Of
the Gre accidental. Loss $4,000; no
insurance.
Smuggling is pursued resolutely on
the Belgian frontier. but Woysten
Woytard was caught ut it the other
day. He attempted to run the line by
driving at full speed, but the custom
house soldier brought down the horse
with his rifle. There wrs 5000 worth
Of tobacco in the wagon, aud the horse
was III artnor, aud SO armed with
knives about the bride that one could
not have stopped him by hand with
out being cut to piecer.
"Our boy Fre,l," says correspond
ent. ''has 6ne lot of hens, and takes
great care Of the eggs. One night on
coming home from school, he found
that tho cook had rihed every nest of
it's contents. even TO the nest eggs.
Fred was in terrible stute of mind,
and sobbed out, And oh, father, If
you'll believe it, Bridget even cooked
up the hens patterns, and they won't
be able to lay good shaped egg this
summon"
Mr.. James Eagen, wealthy gentle
man of New York. was driving in his
buggy in East Mauch Chunk, on Sa-
turday. accompanied by Charley Booth
while crossing the bridge over the Le-
high. the horse took fright and backed
to the parapet. throwing both out. Mr..
Eagen fell distance Of thirty or forty
feet on tow path, and was instantly
killed. Booth escaped without serious
injury. The horse clung to the para
pet and was rescued.
It is q rather humiliating fact that
the American press has not been among
the first to give to the world accounts
OF the millenary festival in Iceland.
Those two interesting papers at Rey-
kjavik, the ThothhoIfr and the Islen-
dinger, have already published the
proceedings. All this comes OF not
having telegraph line to the volcanic
isle. But we shall have one before
another thousand years rolls around.
A Boston firm having recently writ
ten to debtor two or three times
without eIiciting any response, sent q
letter asking if there was not a little
lack OF commercial courtesy" in bis
neglect to reply. Promptly, by the
return mail. came check for the nc
count and the tcrse and comprehensive
reply: "No lack Of com morcial courtc-
sy, bnt lack Of circulating medium
here"
MURDER IN CHUnoH. Daring n scr
vica in Methodist church three miles
from Carlisle, KY, rough named
Hamilton jumped up, cursed the scr.
vice and hourished his pistol. Trustee
Thomas Shaw. in taking Hamilton
out. was shot by him through the
head. The murderer WIS taken to
Jail and then removed to Lexington to
avoid lynching.
''As goes North Carolina, so goes the
Union" The election, Thursday, nav
turn the scale for the Democrats in '7G.
The Civil Rights Bill did it. That
bill was blow aimed at Southern De.
nocraoy, and 10! it has struck the Re-
publicsns fatal blow. They hive
been hoisted by their own petard.
Charlotte OJSerpey.
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