The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1874-08-21

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to get back to their old pluces. The
State Central Committee has called
State Convention, and the Constitn-
flonal Convention now in session is to
be wholly ignored. Possibly they
may have assurances of support from
washington, and intend to sturt big
row. The recent acts of the Consti-
tutlonal Convention have been very
sweeping. and have, perhaps. created
feeling OF opposition which they are
anxious to take advantage of.
HAuGING.-Several OF our m ost valu-
able exchanges declare that many
iawless deeds are perpetrated because
hanging Is virtually ''played out"
| Many good men excuse lynch law on
the plea that the American jury system
Is q farce and q fraud. There must be
something radically wrong when the
best people of community have so
little faith in 80. called courts ofjustice
Is it the law. the lawyers the Judges
and the jnriee. or ia it mixture OF all
that has SO degraded jnstice in the
popular mind?
Perry, Supervisor of the Internal
Revenue Bureau of North and South
Carolina, has been in Washington city
recently, and alleges that the recent
triumph of the Conservatives in North
Carolina will render it necessary for
more troops to be sent to that State,
IN order to keep the people from vio-
latlng the law. Bah! Mr.. Perry.
SUICIDE.-Mr. Martin Privett. aged
about 50 years, living two miles East
OF Monroe. n. G, Committed suicide
on tue 18th Instant, by blowing out
his brains with shotgun. The de.
censed hid been in bad health for
about year and ut the time he COM
mitted the act was laboripg under ab.
erration of the mind.
jess So. THE Courier. Journal
says: III the North wants war of
races Mt the South, it must prepare for
civil war ut home aud despotism at
Washington. We have for wears
sought to escape the race issue and the
sectional issue; but if they must come.
let them come; and the devil take the
hindmost!"
The Republican County Conven-
tion Of Uuion County has met and
elected June Mobley, J. p. Kuuckels
aud james b. Goss delegates to the
State Nominating Convention. These
three worthless are old political hucks,
who have all been feeding on the pub
lie funds for ak years.
terrible storm OF wind and hail
passed over Anderson, on the l4th, ut.
terly annihilating growing crops. Cot
ton bolIs were Knocked about like bull
let's and corn blades cut to pieces. Ia
Seneca City, house was blown down,
lnlurlng several colored persons, who
had taken refuge iu it,
The Chicago Tribune has this saw on
"Platonic Loves" "rhe young woman
or married woman who finds herself
beslesed by Plato, especially white
cravated one, had better betake her
self to tue wash-tnb, or some other
form of labor not conducive to senti.
ment, If she wishes to be saved.''
The FoRKED LIGHTNING. About 0
O'clock, on Friday evening. Camden
was tho scene of terrific storm, ac.
companied by heavy winds. thunder
and lightning. DR.. d. L. DeSaussure
lost two very fine mules from the ef-
fects Of stroke Of lightning near his
stable.
SUICIDE OF PARIS FINANCIER M.
Betns. brother of Baroness Roths-
Guild. and member OF the Ratisbonne
famliy. committed snicide in Paris on
the "a inst Heavy Bourse losses arc
supposed to have driven him to self
destruction.
One mode OF churning butter in
Chill Is to put the milk in skin,
usually dogs skin, tie it on donkey,
mount u boy on him with rowels in
bis spurs about the length of tho ami
mails ears. and then run him a four
mile heat.
FIRE.-We regret to learn that the
residence of Mr.. w. H. Kerr was
totally destroyed by fire on Tuesday
morning last, near Buckhead. MIR.
Kerr lost everything in the building.
The fire was oansed by cooking
stove WinnSboro NerS.
despatch received from official
| sources ut Shanghai, says the Chinese
Government has allowed the Japanese
Government three months to withdraw
it's troops from Formosa. A refusal to
comply with this will be made cause
of war.
The delegates elected from Sumter
to the Republican Nominating Con.
vent'"n are pledged against Moses and
chamberlain. The Governor was da.