The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1874-07-09

Sears, Lorena;J P Ligon, city.
Under the new law requiring the
national banks to keep reserve in the
treasury of five per cent, 100000
has been received, and the treasurer
esti mated that the next days receipts
would swell the amount to So, 600, 900,
which is one half of the total amount
required to be deposited. National
bank notes for redemption are coming
in rapidly. over $500. 900 having been
received on the 7th.
a gentleman Of Washing eton County,
Co., who used commercial manures
extensively last year, and uses none at
all this. says his crop is better this
year, without guano, than it was last
with it. He is strongly of the opinion
that commercial manures are largely
composed of bug that has been q
great pest to the country, generally
known as 'humbug."
Gen. Gustavs P. T.. Beauregard. of
New Orleans, has received from the
Argentine I.epubiic of South America
the appointment OF chief engineer of
that country, with the handsome
salary of $4,000 in gold per annum.
He vii! have charge Of the section of
defensive works. and besides superin-
tend the exploration of the river
Pntte.
HARD ON CoNaRRss. The Cincin.
natl Commercial lind. rep) Rays that
I'VE have almost as many statesmen,
in the original meaning of the term,
in Congress, in public life, rs Sodom
had of righteous men at. the time that
Madnme Lot made q mess of it," Yes,
we have hard lot.
Paddy Thomas, colored girl three
years old, whilst playing with an axe
on the plantation of Mr.. Smiley
Gregg. near Florence. accidentally
struck and killed coiored child, aged
abont one and half years, son of
Colston Anderson, on Wednesday last.
The first experiment is now making
to utilize Chinese labor on the plant,!-
tions Of Georgia. Some thirty of the
Celestials have been at work since
March last on Barnwell's plantation,
opposite Darien. They appear we'll
satisfied and their employer ditto.
Among the removals, Wednesday,
in the Treasury Department at Wash
ington in tho interest of retrenchment
and reform, was the driver of Gen. o.
=. Babcock's 8 carriage, who was borne
on the rolls OF the department as o
clerk or employee.
Just by having II sweetheart, the
young woman in Ripley. Ohio. has
killed her brother, wounded her
father, widowed her sister-in law, or
phaned her nephew, and made herself
miserable. No wonder the funeral
was mile long.
During the storm on Saturday, the
beautiful Episcopal Church at Belts
vile, Maryland. on the line of tho
Washington branch of the Baltimore
and OHIO Railroad, was blown down
and completely wrecked.
The tax levy for the city Of New
York for the ensuing year has been
fixed at s3l,S22,39l And this in
reduced budgetl" 0 politics.! what
expenses are incurred in thy namel
WA:rED-A few more advertise
ments, to enable as to publish paper
for the good Of others as well as our
selves.
There were 81 deaths in Charleston
for the week ending the 4th-whites
Is; colored 10.
The only colored graduate from
Yale this year, Mr.. Bouohet, comes
out sixth in q class of 125.
a Mrs. Morton. OF Anson County.
N. c., was killed by lightning on the
5th.
Mr.. Howell Stuokey, an aged citizen
of Sumter, died on the 1st.
The taxpayers Of Horny County re-.
fused to levy an additional school tax.