The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1874-08-13
The correspondence OF tho New

The correspondence OF tho New
York Tribune. from Williamsburg,
a sss,, says that very little change. so
far has been nude in the fade ofythe
oon1try over which the food swept.
Ssnd,and bowlders still make wilder.
mesa OF once pleasant lanes, streets and
fields, and bat few houses are thus furi
building. Where houses once Stood
you find wooden CROSSES erected, on
which are rudely painted suggestive
legends like these: ''Dr. johnson y, ull
drowned (seven;p "Birmiugham's. NIL
lost (fveD" ''Seventwecn swept away
and drowned between here aud the
mill, &c. There is an indisposition
yet to build, until property-owners
know whether they ure building on
sand or rock.
MASKED OUTRAGE IN KENTUCKY ID
b Main. II jewrler, of Medway, Wood
ford County. Ky. while ou his way
home. Monday evening, was se.zr,i by
four masked mou, and no truce Of him
has siuce been found in the nciShhor-
hood whore lie was captured. It is
probable that !ie was murdered and
his body hid. X man who heard his
cries and went 10 hts rescue was driven
back with threats Of death. Several
negroes u little later saw the men car
rying Main away. Ho was ttcu s;rug.
Cling and grooming.
FIRES The gin-housc nul fixtures
of Mr.. ". w. Rogers, OF Indiantnwn,
s. g.. WAS totally destroyed by fire on
Tuesday morning last. The house
w"s strnck by lightning, from which
it caught, and had nearly burnt down
before the lire WIS discovered. L)ss
$500; no insurance. The store and
entire stock Of goud. belonging 20 Mr..
jas. Harper was also destroyed by fire
ou the night of the same day; canse of
the fire accidental. Lpss $1,000; no
insurance.
MURDER IN CHURCH During IL ser
vice III IL Methodist church three m.l.s
from Carlisle. Ky. rough named
Hamilton jumped up, cursed the SER.
vice aud hourished his pistol. Trustee
Thomas Shaw, i'll taking Hamilton
out, was shot by him through tho
head. Tho murderer YVES tnken to
Jail aud then removed to Lexington TO
avoid lynching.
Rev. Webster, of tho Oraugcbure
Free Citizen, received mauling from
IN irate official, +. Mckinluy, Of
Orangeburg. Il few days ago. He took
it meekly. The cause OF :he assault,
was certain structures Of The newly
fiedged editor.
A man named John reterrnau was
run over by train near the Catholic
Church at East Bridgeport. Conn, OH
the llth. nnd Instantly killed. His
body was horribly mangled. He leaves
a family.
Nearly all the stone workers on tho
new Stnte House at Hartford, Conn.
have struck to maintain the rule of
nine hours ms days work, the CON
tractor requiring ten.
AWFUL. to kill Tllon by
calling him koprophagous. the IPorLi
newspaper now attacks him as IA
Cory bantian cnckold."
The kitchen Of John A. Calhoun,
Esq, of Abbeville. was consumed by
fire during the past week.
Mrs. Gabriel Hodges. Mrs. Annie
Duncan and Mr.. Eli Thornton died
in Abbeville last week.
An aged colored man, named Harvey
Davis, died suddenly in Newberry, a
few days ago.
There were 81 doaths in Charleston
for the week ending the Sth-whites
6; colored 2l.
Ex-Land Commissioners Leslie is
working hard in Barnwell to be sent
to the Legislature again.
Mr.. j. II. Bake, Charleston
grocer. died suddenly on the 1lih. of
heart disease.