The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1874-06-26

An exchange asks. Don't hanging
prevent murder?" We hate to tackle
oonundrum Of this kind, but our
private opinion is that it does prevent
IL. There is not case on record OF q
person committing murder after he
has been successfully hanged. This
style of treatment appears to reform
them III some way.
! ANDY !nhesen will deliver the 4th
OF Jolly ora.ion at Pembroke, Md.
"Nlnety.eight yours ago, our fore.
iathers-and permit me to remark in
this connection that I have held every
Office, from Alderman Of
A negro boy was driving mule in
Jamaica, when the animui suddenly
stopped and refused to bulge. won't
60, eh?" said tho boy. Feel grand,
90 you? | s'pose you forget your
ladder was jackass.'
A young widow advertises in Gin
clDnatl paper that she has un income
OF $4,000 a year, and will marry any
man, young or old, who possesses tbs
same means. and can produce ccrtifi.
cate Of good character.
The Highland Park Hotel. in Aiken,
as huge as it is. ia nevertheless to be
Immensely enlarged. Mr.. Chattield,
the proprietor, departed for the North
few days ago, to complete his ar
rangements for beginning the work.
A package Of poisonous roots, in.
Guiding hemlock. has been discovered
in public we'll in Rock Hill. The
extraordinary amount of water, it is
supposed. prevented any evil effects
from being experienced.
A Richmond man, wishing to send
suit of clothes to Montana, and find.
ing that it would cost Sl8 by express,
forwarded them by mail at an expeuss
OF 24S 80.
The reading clerk of the Senate has
om bittered the life Of the Hon. Poland
by reading judicial calumny and ca
ricntnre" where Poland had written
judicial oalmuess aud correctness"
There is rumor that Gen. Worth
lngton. collector of the port of Charles.
ton, ls to be appointed to q foreign
mission, and that Gen. Wm. Gurney
will succeed him rs collector.
correspondent of the Augusta
ConstifntioHdtisi. writing from Barn.
well, says that Q. P. Leslie ia about to
return to this County. with view OF
coming to the Legislature next term.
A double hull steamship, the Casta-
liza. for the English Channel route, by
the use OF which sea sickness is ex.
pected TO be avoided, has beer
launched at Black wall.
An Iowa woman hns considerable
faith iu life insurance. By its ageuc,
she realized $50. 600 off two husbands 5,
and not very good husbands either.
The snpposition now is, that the
FIRE at Blacks Station. iu York County,
last week, was caused by rats nibbliue
u box of matches.
1000 perambulntors we're sold ia
Salt Lake City last year, which indi.
Gates healthy condition of the baby
market.
Marx Gill, former friend. shot and
killed Mortimer Sullivan, in New York
city few days ago, aud then tried te
Kill the officer who arrested him.
There are bnt three persons in the
jai! at Camden. and the County is sc
completely plundered that they are
kept on half rations of bread.
Forty persons were poisoned recent
~, at picnic in Henderson County
KY. BY the mistake of putting arsenic
into food instead of soda.
Young men are 80 scarce in Mem
phis that ono is considered enough t.
take care of fourteen girls at picnic
Beecher snys that we are all lik.
Rhode Island greenings: that the worlc
is the better for our slips"
England has started general cru
sade against dogs. It is to be wished
that it nay finally reach this city.
The colored AIasons of Charleston
celebrated st. Johns Day in nppro
pirate style on the 24th.
@Mr. John McGrsgor, nm old anG
highly esteemed citizen of Anderson
died few days ago.
Deepening the channel is the topic
OF conversation in Charleston.
In Maine Miss Fits gave them to he,
mother-with knife.