The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1874-01-03


A Washington letter sayE: ''The pub.
location lately made OF the assets Of Jay
| Cooke 4 Go, ,shss not strengthened pub
lic confider oe In the ability Of the firm
to liquidate the Indebtedness. Is was
known that the firm was very heavily
'loaded up with Northern Pacific, hus
no one imagined that they had OIL hand
such mass Of other wild cat securi.
ties. Tho most sanguine creditors hafe
are now not expecting to realize more
than ten cents on tue dollar. The
Cookies themselves, huwcv-r, sill con-
tinue to insist that they will pay Up in
full"
A mature Clsabiauca has been dis
covered i'll the Rnssian army He is q
private soldier who was on duty "a d
sentinel in the town Of Bardosck. The
great fire that occurred in ths town r.-
Gently, had spread to Iii. wutch-box. It
was burned. and the sentinrl'a clothing
was on fire, when IL corporal arrived to
relieve him. Tho Emperor has made
the man non-com m issioued officer,
decorated him with the Order Of St.
Anne. aud given him fifty roubcs
IMMIGRATION. We learn from Rev.
Mr. Knhns that twenty-five families
have been ordered for DIR. Davis and
others, at Ciintou, aud that the immi-
grants will arrive in few days Five
families have been ordered for Mess, g.
D. G. kibber, l. W. Bowers, j. Il. z.
Crosson aud Rev. J. G. Boyd, ut Poma.
ria.
Among the articles sold as unclaime d
freight at the depot of the Hudson
River Railroad, last Friday, were seven
grave-stones, with the uHmes of the
parties for whom they were prepared
inscribed thereon. Coming under the
head OF dead stock. the lot brought only
fifty cents.
| Old Mr.. McOmber arrived the other
day, III Schedectndy, n. T.. FROM the
West, IN destitute condition, aud his
oon, who lives tberp, sent him ut once
t" tue p''"r hon>,. Tint night be took
nn overdose ot opium, uni died thu
next morning.
The r.pnrt "f tho lrowniny. last
week, of party OF negroes by the up
setting Of their boat IN tho Savu,inul, |,
River. below the city, appears to br
confirmed. The boat contained over
thirty persons, only one Of whom was
saved
! The New Orleans Times states that in
accordance with resolutions adopted hy
tho CLEARING House Association, al! ,hu
certificates have been retired, und the
banks begun the payment ot currency
on the 22d nit. Su far the deposits have
exceeded the payments.
a Tltusviile pnper says: "a man
called ut one Of our shoe stores, yester.
day. and vainly essayed to get on either
namber IL. II and 13 shoes. The store.
keeper then suggested that ha should
put Oh thinner pair Of stockings and
try on tho box"
a Maine gentleman refused to get up
and light fire, and his wife SAID she
wouldn't. and they remained in bed
thirty-seven hours. Of course the wife
had to give in.-Boston Post. The
editor IF tho Post dare not say so ut
home.
A New Orleans woman who hates
children, declares that when she grows
to be an old woman, it will be her am.
bltlon and delight to be lame and use
crutches so that she can sit on her door
step and beat to death every child tha,
passes her way.
TICHHoRNE Collector Allen, Of New
Bedford, Mass, who las been in Eng.
land to testify in the Tichborne case,
has returned. convinced Tint the claim
ant is fraud. and that DR.. Kenealy.
his counsel, begins to believe it, too
The Duke Of Hamilton is about to re.
tire from the turf, on account OF his
marriage. Thirty seven horses belong
ing to his stable in Paris were cold r..
Gently for 1873, 705 francs.
A Rochester IN. " man, named
Forbes, gets sixty days IN the peniten.
tiary Tor stealing one newspaper left G
subscriber by carrier.
Ii you wish TO travel chcaply, patro.
nize those railroads which advertise tc
carry, their passengers through with.
out change"
! 1t seems that Ben. Butler refuses to
recognize newspaper people in Wash.
ingtun this season. Good for the news.
paper peoplel
Hero is tcpid joke from some paper
"Citizens Of the Hub now spell it bos.
Ton, so as net to b-littIe the big L
drinks"
The Graphic says the fate of the Vir.
ginins is eminently fit and proper, con-