The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1874-09-30

"oJ 70 sHS Stul@t uot5 10 l'lat youth
now.
Judge Mhckcy has snmmoued :he
grand jury of Fairfield to meet in
WInnsburo. on the 1,t of October, to
investigate tho alleged plot in the
Brice neighborhood Witnesses huve
been bound over to appear; among
them. a. S. Wallace aud T. Q. Caven-
der. IN editor Of tho Union Herald,
Who Is said to have henrd United States
Marshal Wallace say TINT plot existed
among the blacks to murder the whites
Judge Mackey clnims that the allega-
ton of Congressman Wallace was false,
and actuated by base motives. The
days OF Wallace ara mum bered if Ker-
shaw is nominated. and an energetic
canvass Is niada. Judge Muckry says
he Will stump the district for kershaw.
WianS5oro NerS.
RECKLESS SHooTING.-On Sunday
night. Coery f. Walker walked into a
saloon. in Little Rock. drew from his
pocket new hair trigger revolver. md
| with tue remark that lie wa. going to
kill somebody, fired and killed Rubrr,
Besehuf. the bar tender, u Young
Swiss. whom he had never seen before.
Coery is we'll known in Little Rock.
Besshof was the third man he had
shot He claims that the net was un-
Intentional, aud that he had bought
'ii' pistol to shoot L telegraph opera
| tor, who had lnsnltrd his wife.
Look Our. ex-senator O.; OHIO,
whose dialect was not always of the
dra" wing room lcxic"grsnhy, oncA said
! ol aa rnIlirnt inr,n!i..r Of tha II pCSr.
since der";,sr,l. and whose name we
nee. not give: when cid Smith puts
| his hanl .vrr lis heart aud turus his
eyes tiGard I-avcu, :!.c;t look ont for
u 'l.tarr.. zig lie. According to TIL.
rn!n, when yon bear blatant talk of
ciV!l rights. nr u hnhh!ing invcc,iye
against the press, yun may surely as
snmc that n stall III somebody's stable.
will sron be v;.cnnt or the United,
States Trensnry abbreviated hy some
conprche eosivr perlidy of plumber.
GovENHol. PEEKY's LETTER While.
Governor Z rry's letter, which wo
copy from the PNESIX, may not prove
entirely satisfactory to his thousands
| Va sAttt'i' III hoouttl SdtUllfA nuti IuG
Southern States, it will at least assure
the 4 R,dica!s OF the whole country that
the representative men of South Caro-
lima are III earnest in securing reform
and that they vii! have reform even Mt
the sacrifice OF their personal preiu-
dices and feelings GrcenrRle Ne,cs.
The tobacco statistics of the world.
could they be seen 10 one mass, would
astOniah the economists rs well as the
morallSts. France consumes annually
A. 00O. 600 pounds Of smoking tobacco
S.OO0, QUO pounds of cignrs, sny $50,
QUO. 600 in number; 17,0U0. 900 pounds
of stuff; l,500, 900 pounds of chewing
tobacco; which il either smoked, oi
chewed, or snuflad There are sixteen
tobacco factories in France, two
those OF Metz and having
been lost by tie German wary an,
about 40. 600 retail tobacco and cigal
shops, 1900 of which are in Paris.
AFFAIRS IN TEXAS a letter To th.
Richmond Why from IN. 3. i >
dated Waco, 16rh inst. :. says: The col
ton crop is short Ivy two thirds ct this
point. Negro troubles threatening,
bnt not begun yet. Emisrauts from
Europe pouring in. Heavy rains hnv.
fallen lately, aud the grazing is goot
again. though cattle were starving te
death few weeks age, Sonth- ives
from here.
"Graoious mel exclaimed ia lady il
Boston witness-box. chow should
know anything about any thing dor
know anything nbout?"
Old John Harper left $4,000 to lii
colored servants in consideration O
their fidelity to him. They didn't gel
their money iu timo to enjoy the
water melon season in full.
eve got EN-" shouted Missis
sippi boatman recently, when first th
comet broke upon his sight. "Snake.
I've had before. and now tho star:
have got tails on 'em. I'm den.
mani"
Don't try to ba too smart. 4 maj
(lately dcccasea) Ill Camillus. n. Y.
put n second cartridge into his cannon
before the first one exploded
Teaohcr-"Prter, you are such
bah boy that yon are not ii. to SIT il
tho company of good boys on til,
bench. Como up here and eit hy me,
sir"
They have minister il Noun
City, Kansas, who attracts people tt
bis prayer meeting by the music of