The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1874-08-09

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Clafin md her mother were to have
sailed for Europe to-day.
! Henry O. Bowen sends despatch
from Putnam, Conn.,, August 8, as fol-
lows: ''In dispatches printed In the
papers to-day appears what purports
to be tho substance of an interview OF
81. O. Bowen with the reporter Of the
Brooklyn Eagle. on the Brooklyn
scandal. I have had no interview
whatever with that or any other paper
or individual. The whole story, from
beginning to end, is stupendous
fraud"
The residence of w. NJ. Tweed,
Forty.seoond street and Fifth evenue.
N. Y. recently was sold ut auction, by
referee, for Sl95. 900.
| III. G. Galdborn & Co., large whole
sale and retail dry goods dealers in
New Haven, failed on the 7th for
$500. 600.
V1oKsBURa. August 8. Henry Ames.
from st. Louis for New Orlenns, with
u full cargo, snagged; three lives lost.
ST. Louis. August 8.-The creditors
of Alexander, Dorman & Co. concluded
to-day to put tho firm into bankruptcy.
This action is based mainly upon the
fact that about week before Alexan
der's operations we're made public, the
State Savings Association aud the
Fourth National Bank discovered that
they held forged receipts, aud re-.
quired him to take them up or be ex-
posed, whereupou he paid the State
Savings Association $4,000 and the
Fourth National Bank S45, 1000. Under
the bankrupt law, the banks will be
obliged TO turn these amounts over to
be divided with the other assets among
the general creditors of tho firm.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn, August S.-Last
Sunday afternoon, negro, named
William Marley. assaulted white girl,
fifteen years old, i'll tue woods, near
Johnson's City. Washington County,
East Tennessee. The negro raped the
girl and then murdered .her-cutting
her throat from ear to ear. Search
for tho missing girl. (who was of q
highly respectable farmers family,)
continued until yesterday, when the
horrible discovery WAS made. The ne-
gro Marley was suspected and arrest
! ed; being accused of the crime. he con-
fessed. Last night. while being taken
| to Jail in Eiizabethton, he was hung.
CINCINNATI. August, 6. 8.-Tweuty-two
victims of the Pat. Rogers disnster
have been recovered. Among them:
Charles Dittman, pilot; Charles Rec
singer. Stokes, Sheriey, Sydney, and
Miss Kate Elkenworth, of Cincinnati; !;
Miss Youmer, of Madison; W. O.
Brown, of Cincinnati; ono fireman and
two unknown ladies'. NJ. q. Brown
ing. Of New Albany. and Edward Shur-
roff
Virginia, ore supposed to be among
the lost.
LITTLE RooK. ARK, August g.
Three horse thieves were hanged at
Ozark.
A fight occurred at small village
in Clark County, Ky, on election day,
in which two white men we're killed.
two negroes mortally wounded and
| fifteen negroes more or less severely
wounded. Tho fight began at the
polls.
At AIason's Depot. Tennessee. o
fight is progressing. Oscar Barton
and two men named Reeves have Doe n
killed so far.
New ORLEANS. August 8.-The vote
stands Packard 122, Pinchbaok ~, for
the Chairmanship of the convention.
Sypher has been nominated for Con-
gress.
NEW ORLEANS, August S.-The Re-
publican State Convention re-assem-
bled this morning. Among the reso.
lutions reported by the Committee on
Resolutions was the following: That
duty and sound policy alike constrain
Us to nominate aud support for Office
none but men OF known honesty and
capacity. and that men who are IN.
mindful OF the interests Of the State
and those whose records are reproach
to the party shall not be permitted to
forco themselves upon us in any CO.
pacity or under any pretense whatever.
The resolutions endorse the State ad-
ministration for pursuing right
course while contending with au or
ganized system OF villifcation or mis-
| representation at home and abroad;
denounoe violence and attempts to
bring about conflict of races. and
pledge the purity to give fair election
and reduce the expenditures.
SARATOGA, August 8.-The track
was heavy, owing to yesterdays rain.
The first race was for Kentucky stakos
for two-year- olds. 800 entrance, with
900 added. Ten horses started.
Chesapeake won-time 1.48lI. Se-
cond raoe--two miles-Lzzie Lucas
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