The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1874-03-19

OOuntleS. Bridges, railroad tracks and
telegraph poles were washed away at
Flint River, cutting of all direct com
mnnication with Columbus The Ma
con and Augusta track has been tempo.
rarily repaired, and train passed over
ttom Augusta this evening. The o.
mulgee and other rivers are higher than
known since the great Harrison freshet
OF 1S4l. and within q few inches of that.
1t will take weeks to repair damages.
Teiegraphic-Foreirn Annir..
ENGLISH AFFAIRs-TRoUB1E BREWING IN
AUSTRIA, ETC ETC.
LONDON. March 1.-THE Duke and
Duchess of Edinburgh visited ex-Em-
press Eogene ut Ohisehurst, to-day.
DIsraeli and Sir Stafford Northcote
have been elected to Parliament without
opposition.
VIENNA, March l7.-The Roman ca.
tholio Bishops in Rechstrath, Thielen,
will withdraw if the passage Of the
ecclesiastical bill is pressed.
BERLIN, March lS.-The Prussian
Gross GazeAe intimates that the Reich.
stag will be dissolved, if it persists in
its refusal to fix the ordinary strength
OF the army at 400, 900 men, as dcmani.
ed by the Government.
Joahan Heinrich Maidlcr, a ,listin-
guished German astronomer, is dead.
He was seventy nine years old.
LONDON, March 1S.-It Is said the
Queens speech, on the assembling of
Parliament, will propose reduction of
two pence on a pound in the income
tax.
Viscount Burlington, Conservative,
has been reelected to Parliament from
Eyre, Suffolk, by 270 majority.
TeleSraphic-Amertca Matters.
THE GRANT PARISH PRISONERS Rs-pLANTA.
TIONs OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES CALLED
FOR-YKSsEL BURNED-RAIhROAD COM
PLIcATIoNs-sUsINER's SUCCESSOR SOON
TO APPEAR-HEAvY DEFAnCATIoN-sA.
LOON KEEPERS ORaANIzING-K1Na OF
THE SANDWICH Is1ANDs-TERRIFIC
HURRICANE-DEsTRUC-Iv FREsHETs,
RTO., ETO.
DANvl1nE, Va, March 16.-Captain
Charles E. Waddell, Travelling Agent
Tor the Great Southern Dispatch Line,
arrived in this city, on Tuesday last,
ana was taken with q congestive chill.
The chill was followed by pneumonia,
and he died this evening, about T
o'clock. His family reside in Peters
burg, Va, but his headquarters were in
Charlotte, N. @.
New ORLEANS. March 1.-THE Jury
in the case of the Grant Parish prison
ers brought in verdict of not guilty as
to Alfred Cherves. The jury announced
that there was no possibility of an
agreement as to the others. aud were
discharged by Judge Wood, and the
prisoners were remanded, on motion Of
the District Attorney, who announced
other indictments against them.
a break occurred in the upper base Of
the levee, three miles below Lake Pro.
violence, on Friday. It was 200 yards
long at last accounts. A dozen or more
large plantations back Of Goodrich's
Landing are verhowed from this Gre
vase. 1t is reported it has already
stopped the running of trains on the
Vicksburg and Shreveport Ralroad.
NEW YoRK, March 17.-At meeting
OF the Importers and Grocers' Board OF
Trade, to-day, the report of the Com.
rnittec or Trade Statistics and Pnblcn-
ton, touching the currency questions
pending III Congress-, was received. Yhe
report condemns the moiety system and
the present custom house system. 1t
also asks resumption of specie pay
ments. RESOLUTIONS to this effect were
adopted.
The German saloon keepers OF the
: 7th, 17th and 18th Wards held meet.
ing, yesterday, to complete their pro-
tective associations.
CAIRO, Marcn ia terrible hurri-
cane, accompanied by thunder, light.
ming and rain. passed over this city Mt
3 o'clock this morning, causing conside-
rable destruction of properly. The
centre OF the storm seems to have passed
South Of Cairo, as the wires work as
usual North, and no damages are re-
ported from that direction. No loss of
life is reported.
SAN FRANoIsco, CAL, March 17.-The
steamship Mikalo, from Australia, ar
rived at this point o.day. She brings
Important advices from tue Sandwich
Islands. The Legislature of the Sand.
wich Islands has chosen David Kalakna
as King, by an almost unanimous vote.
The result Of the vote created the great
est excitement in Honolulu, and tue ad.
herents of Queen Emma grew wild over
her defeat. The streets IN the vicinity
OF the Legislative hall were crowded
with excited people, and several nom
bers of the Legislature, as they emerged
from the hall into the streets were