The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1874-02-18
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Ooinb ooloCs OomUultt60 10 luV0e0Gat0
District affairs held meeting in the
room OF tho Senate Committee on the
Pacific Railroad, to make arrangements
Tor the approaching investigation.
La the Senate, to-day, Oonkling pre-
sented memorials of the Welsh Calvin
istic Presbytery and the religious So
cisty OF Friends of New York, asking
the appointment OF a commission to in
vestigate the liquor traffic. Logan pre-
sented memorial, signed by membera
OF the Illinois Legislature of both par
ties, and also memorials signed by busi-
ness men OF Chicago. asking the issue
of additional currency. Referred to the
Committee on Finance.
GLENN FALLS, N. T., February IT,
the race on the ice, at Ticonderoga, to.
remarkable time of 227, 2282l and
2.2l.
PouaHKEEps1E. February ia large
fire is raging at Sing Sing. Two blocks,
including Olive Hall, arc burned, and
another block is now burning. En-
!! gines have been sent for from Peekskill
! and Yonkers. ).
Boston, February 1.-THE ADDER
tiser says the nomination of W. A. Sim.
mons to the Boston Colleotorship is OBJ
ieotionable from every poiut Of view,
and he ought not to bs confirmed.
WASHINGTON, February 17.-In the
Senate, Fenton presented petition in
favor, and urged the passage. Ut his
bill to reform abuses in the customs
revenue service.
NEW YORK, February ia Herald
London special says Gladstone will ad-
wise the Queen to send for D'Israeli.
The Combination Rubber Company
and @. Z. Becker, dealer in window
shades were burned out last night; loss
$3.50, 600.
Assistance is going from all sections
to the Sing Sing tire.
John O. Johnston. night watchman
In Hoboken, who was assaulted by
mob, Sunday night, for shooting David
Bowie. is dead.
PHILADELPHIA, February 1.-THE
election is very quiet. The vote will be
arge. The contest is regarded as close.
SING SING, February 17.-The fra
was got under control after destroying
twenty-six places of business, prinoi.
pally on Main, Spring and Leonard
streets aud Central avenue. Most of
the buildings were built of wood. Olive
Hall was new brick structure, four
stories high. The fire originated from
heater in Olive Hall. Loss $l25. 900.
WASHINGTON, February IT,. The State
Department has advices of The death of
Lunalilo, King of the Sandwich Islands.
on the Sd instant.
In the Senate, the leading bankers
and business men memorialize for q
speedy return to specie, aud against an
increase Of the currency. Senator Cor.
don introduced bill to repeal all laws
which deprived the widows and orphans
OF old soldiers at the South of pensions
because of participation in the rebel
lion. It makes it the duty Of the Sec
| retary of the Interior to restore to the
pension rolls the names of all who were
dropped from the rolls during the war,
and to all their rights under the pension
laws. Equalization of the currency &C.
cnpied the balance of the day.
In the House, $500 were appropriated
for : =c.a3;=! z!=:. q; ...o .....o GuS; oou,s
of inquiry documents. A bill establish
:ng s military prison at Rock Island
passed. The Wiltshire and Gunter con-
test, from Arkansas, occupied the ba-
lance OF the day.
| a. oaobSO Ado bCCQ l1uuC LII lu6 Hb-
signment of officers on tho Howard
court of inquiry-Col. J. j. Reynolds,
of the Sd Cavalry, taking the place of
General Holt.
Twelve illicit stills were destroyed in
East Tennessee, and ten persons ar
rested.
Col. B. ". Fxobel. OF Georgia, to.
day, delivered an argument in favor of
water transportation before the House
Com mittee on Railways and Canals,
which the committee unanimously or
dered printed.
The Secretary Of the Navy, to-day,
received q telegram from Commander
Braine, commanding the United States
steamer Juniata, dated Savan nah, say
ing that he started in company with the
monitor Dictator, which tho Juniata
had in tow, on the night of the 14tll
instant, off Charleston, the weather
being thick at the time, and the sen
running heavy, and that the Dictator
had not arrived at Savannah on the
night Of the 10Th inst.
Dispatches from the West show that
the women's raid upon the saloons is
spreading. The numbers are not large,
but they comprise very determined
class Of the fair sex. The saloons close
upon the approach of the women, and
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