The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1874-09-22

Council, died this morning. DR.. Wash
ington Altee Hoffman, port physician,
died yesterday.
NEW YORK. September 2l.-Carlos
de Varona, Cuban. residing in Paris,
has placed at the disposal OF tho
Cubans here $4,000 for the purpose
of carrying on the war against Spain.
The United States steamers Lanoas-
ter and Monongnhela were at Rio
Janeiro August 26; and the United
States steamer Wasp Mt Montevideo,
August Z. The health of the squad.
ron was good.
AUGUSTA, Ga, September 21.--Con-
the coalition OF affairs in EdgeGeld
County. The negro Tenant, ring
lender of the party, was not arrested,
Us reported yesterday. The latest re-,
port states that all is quiet.
NEW YORK, September 2l-A Fall
River despatch says the feeling of in-
dignation ut the way the fire was man.
aged Is growing very bitter. Chief
Euglnoer Durfee is censured for incn-
pacity by many, and is accused of
losing all control over himself and his
men. The mill company is blamed for
inadequate means of escape from the
building. There are two hook aud
lndder companies, provided with lad
ders thirty-iive feet long, which conid
haye been splicea SO as to reach the
upper stories, the highest OF which is
but siNty-three feet from the ground.
No attempt was made during tho fire
to splice them aud save the women in
the top story. Many declare that this
could hav" been done. and would, hut!
not the hremen and their chief been
paralyzed with fear. The chief says
that box II. over quarter of mile
from the fire, was FIRST struck; after
that, there was an reference between
tue alarm from box No. 72 and the
bc1 in the mill, 80 that it was impossi-
bic to count. He believed the disaster
due to the cowardice of the workmen
In the filth story. who knew they were
to blame for not having the machinery
oiled, and thought to put out the fire
without an alarm aud save themselves
from oensure. They must have wasted
at least fifteen minutes before sound
ing the alarm. He Was sure Of this,
for he noticed that all the barrels of
water had been emptied. The firemen
of one company declared that the
cause of the loss Of life was the keep
ing OF operatives on the sixth floor
shut up too long. This story was told
from the first aud was corroborated by
the dying statement Of the coffee girl,
thia morning. who declared she beg
ged and prayed to have the door
opened, but 1t was refused These
| statements are somewhat at variance
with those made by the agent of the
Granite Mill, who said there was no
lock or means of fastening the door
and no attempt nude to shut them up.
The Narragansett Fire and Marine
Insurance Company, of Providence,
! r. l., hus suspended and an imm edi-
ate dissolution is probable, because of
heavy losses By fires in Boston and
| Chicago.
CARnoLroS. Ky, September 21.-
| Half OF the most valuable block of
buildings burned to day.
CINCINNATI. September 2l.-Private
advices report the burning of the Ma
rietta and Cincinnati Railway Machine
Shops at PurkersDurg. West Va, yes
terduy, together with tho round
49, ~, cAo AoOo"oLifo auu tuS DIhCk-
smith shop. Loss not less than S20,.
600. Incendiarsm.
CHARLESTON, September 21.-Ar
rived South Carolina and
Manhattan, New York; schooners Hat
tic A. Whites, Boston; Curtis Tllton,
| Baltimore.
| WAsHINGToS, September 21.-The
State Department, to-day, paid to
Grent Britain nearly S2,0O0,OOO in
gold to satisfy British claimants ac-
cor'ling to the awards Of the mixed
commission, under the treaty of
Washington; -. per cent. was with
held to pny expenses Of commission.
The 100000 paid by England to
sntisfy the Alabama claims from Ame-
rican citizens is still covered in the
treasury.
A. u. Rockafellow reports discou-
tent regarding Georgia Federal Office
holders. He gives the following as
the new slate: United States Marshal,
W. II. Smyth; United States District
Attorney, D. A. Walker, of Dalton.
Ga; Postmaster at Macon, Edward
Belcher; Postmaster at Augusta, Hon.
Benjamin ConIay; Postmaster ut Sa.
vannnh, Osgood; Postmaster ut At.
lanta, j. &. W. Mills; Collector of
Fort Of Savannah. Col. Thomas P.
Robb; Collector Of Internal Revenue
of 4.h District, L. @. Hitchins.
Major 81. @. Hodges, Chief Quar-
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