The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1874-08-12
was 100 to .25 In favor 81 Edwards.
On the efeVenihS ro6nd. q few ex.

was 100 to 25 IN favor 81 Edwards.
On 1.-The eleventh. ro6nd. * few ex.
changes w5rea hs3; ~haa Collier re-
fused to continue the fight, on the
ground that Edwards had something
ia his hands. The Judge refused to
allow the claim and ordered the fight
to go on. Collier refused and the
Judge withheld his decision.
MIDWAY, WooDFoRD COUNTY, Ky.
August I'D. B. Main. q jsweller,
was killed. lust night, and his body
carried away. It is unknown whether
robbery or revenge prompted the act.
AToH1soN. KANSAS. August 11.-The
grasshoppers have literally devoured
everything in Northern and South
western Kansas and Nebraska. The
damage inflicted on vegetation is tar
greater than in 1866 The corn crop
throughout all this region is totally
destroyed.
CHICAGO. August 1l.-Bishop White
house had been sick but little over
week. Previous to his illness, he had
taken trip Of twenty one days to
Wisconsin, and during that period had
preached forty sermons. HIS efforts
proved too much for his constitution,
and be at once give up work on reaoh-
ing home. He was not considered
dangerously Ill until Saturday even
ing, when he.suffsred paralytio stroke
and became unconscious Yesterday.
he ronsed sufficiently to recognize his
children aud receive the holy COM
muuio0, but thenceforth declined
gradually until his death, which 90.
Cured ut O'Clock, this morning. at
the tina of his deoease, his age was II.
CAPE May. August 1.-two lads
drowned whiIo bathing. 1t is feured
the Keeper OF the new lighthouse at
Henford Inlet has been lost, as his
boat WAS found bottom up.
ST. LOUIS. August 1.-THE police
nave considerable information in the
f'ortimeyer abortion case. but refuse
to give it out ut present. It eau be
said, however, that she has made q
confession, to the effect that she has
been in the business seven yeurs, has
procured several hundred aoortions
and duplicates quite number of
highly respectable persons in this city.
1t had been her custom to burn all
fetuses, on the ground, as ahe e1-
pressed it, thai "ashes tell no tales. !"
The German girl who was sent to the
hospital. she says, will die
MEMPHIS. August ia special to
the Appeal, from Helena. Arkansas,
received at 3 O'Clock this morning, SAYS
at II O'Clock. last night. three ladies
and two gentlemen arrived here from
Austin. in sklff, and report considera.
BILE fighting late Yesterday evening.
The commander Of the post. whose
name We did not learn, despatched II
scout OF twenty-five men on the rond
TO Cold Water Station, on the Missis-
slppl and Tennessee Railroad, aud
captured q picket Of twenty negroes,
who were stationed about twenty miles
from the town, and brought them in
as prisoners and disarmed them. One
of them, as they were being put into
the Court House yard, tried to nuke
his escape, when he was fred upon
and killed. aud in the melee which en-.
sued, another negro was wounded, but
not fatally. Later in the evening. a
larger body OF negroes advanced from
the South and attacked the town,
driving in the whole of the skirmishers
to the Court House, where the main
body of the whites were stationed. A
chariye was made by the whites and
the negroes were repulsed, with Il loss
Of several killed aud wounded. The
hghtlng Wa. going on when our in
formants left, and they we're fred
upon as they crossed over TO Ship
Island. A second despatch from He
lena says: Major Horn Chalmers, of
fernando. has just arrived here, for
the purpose of chartering boat to
take men to the assistunce of tho
whites in Austin. He says II courier
from Mayor Woodson, of Austin,
reached Hernando, at daylight, stat.
ing that the town WAS surrounded by
about LOCO negroes, and asking for
help. About 200 men from Hernaudo
and vicinity will be- here ut 2 O'Clock,
and in company with volunteers frcm
this city, will start at O'Clock for
Austin. DR.. Smith. who is the unfor.
tuna:e cause OF tho trouble there,
reached here last night. Some three
weeks since, he was attacked in the
streets of Austin by IL negro, and
drawing pistol, fred al the negro,
but missed him aud killed IL little ne
gro girl standing by. which exaspo.
rated tue negroes to such an extent
that they collected mob and took Dr..
Smith to the woods to hang him,
which they would have done, Dut for
the entreaties of Mayor Woodson and