The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1874-03-22

Cuba is to be expected from the gradual
breaking up of everything like financial
and commercial credit in the island.
Captain.General Jovellar has found it
| inconvenieut to enforce what is f,ce.
| tiously called the law for the part pay.
mont OF customs duties in gold, and the
paper currency of ''The Spanish Bank"
il becoming more and more worthless.
Iu oil this there is nothing surprising
except that it did not come sooner.
California is great State, and does
things on great scale. Hearing that
the temperance crusade was ut hand,
anu that the women were preparing Tor
prayers and psalm singing in the streets,
the Legislature passed bill making it q
misdemeanor to invite any person to
drink, or to accept an invitation to
drink at any pnhlic her. California is
said to have dry season for half the
year. II the Governor signs that bill, it
| Will be dry all the year round.
A singular and impressive incident
occurred mt the First Baptist Church,
Atlanta, on Sabbath evening, 9th inst.
The excellent pastor, Rev. +. ". War
rem, was preaching on the subject OF
the birth and crucifixion of our Saviour.
Describing in vivid words tho awful
scene at tho cross, 'when tho sun re-
fused to shine" by singular accident
tho lights in the church suddenly went
out. and the edifice was wrapped in
darkness.
Iceland celebrates her millenial this
year-S74-1874. The festival will be
held at Reyjavik, the capital, and will
attract the sons of this arctic land from
f0 ND l., T., 4.
country bus history, and strange md
memorable one. It is the most NORTH
ern settlement Of white men in the
world.
DRAMATIC HOTEL SOENE-Iu the yery
latest Chicago elopement the perse-
cuted bnt devoted lover snatched his
bride from the enraged parents in the
fourteenth story Of fashionable hotel,
and made good their escape by wildly
tossing her palpitating form into the
descending elevator just as the old man
reached, too late, the empty landing.
Too MUCH NJ L1rARY.-Ben. Hill, of
Georgia, dcprecates the fact that 30
many military men have obtained Office
North and South since the war. He
says there nre enough generals, colonies,
majors and captains in Congress to
form respectable army, but not enough
statesmen to make good committee.
Tennessee boasts that inIfour years of
freedom from carpet-bag rule she has
liked her debt 80 that the State can and
will Fay it, has organized thorough
system OF public education, while bust
ness is thriving, trade brisk, and money
plenty. -Four years ago the State was
almost as badly OFF aslLouisiana.
The Scientific american cautions peo-
pie against the too frequent use of cam
phor as medicine. II says the nature
Of camphor is that OF nervous stimu-
LIANT, similar to. opium or alcohol, and
when taken in large doses causes irrita-
ton OF the nervous system and produces
convult'ons, often fatal in their results.
y SHARP ANSWER A saloon. keep er
IN one CT the towns where the woman's
whiskey war is raging, made centre
shot when he replied to lady who
asked why ho kept his window glazed
md screen IN front af tho door, that it
was TO "hide tho temperance men when
they came i'll for drink
Ono peculiarity of the Spaniards is
now developed on both continents-that
IL to say. nobody gets whipped in their
wars In old Spain, Carlists and Re.
puhlicans are both triumphant in every
tight, and in Cuba every scrimmage is a
victory both to the volunteers and pa
triots.
Miss Ada G. Sweet has been non,i-
mated by the President and confirmed
by the Senate to be pension agent at
Chicago, uice Blnkely. resigned. She is
n daughter of tho lato Con. B. j. Sweet,
First Deputy Commissioner of the Inter.
nul Revenue.
My Bull AND YoUR Ox.-Senator
Conkling voted against on appropria-
tion to investigate District of Columbia
matters He was very swift, however,
to favor MI $4,000 appropriation to
hunt mp Kn Klux.
Somnambulated is the last word which
WcsterI journalists have invented on
account OF the poverty of the English
language.
The highest mountuin in the United
States is Mount st. Elias" in Alaska.
The highest point near us is "Mount
MitcLell, i'll North Carolina.
Mr.. Loyson, formerly celebrated as
the eloquent Perc Hyaclnthe of Paris,
lately paid visit to Rome, and was ac-
companicd by his wife and child.
When Jones heard that thero was q