The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1874-12-04
DEPARTMENT OF STATE,
WASHINGTON. November ID, 1874.

:" "NSAINS1ON. Not6kuUoC 14, 1919.
MKssRs FAIRBANKS g. Co, NEW
YORK: There have been received ut
thiH Department medal and diploma
awarded to FAIRBANKS & Co as an e1-
hibitor at the Universal Exposition,
bold at Vieunn. in 1873 1 will thank
you to inform me- what disposition you
desire to have made of them. The
Department will deliver them to such
agent as you may suggest. or to Adams
Express Company, addressed as you
m"y indicate, upon the return to the
department Of the enclosed receipt,
duly signed. When the same are de
iivered in either way, the responsi.
bility of the Department will terui.
nate. am, gentlemen, your obedient
servant,
(Sigue1l HAMILTON FISH.
This Medal and Diploma awarded to
Fairbanks n Go. arc now on e.hih,
ton at their Scaln Warehouse, 3ll
Broadway. New York; also. the dccnra.
ti"n OF the knightiy Cross of tho I'm
periaI Order nt Frnucis Joseph, con
| terred by th" Eta pernr of Austria, at
'hn Grea. Vienna Exposition, upon
| MIR. Thaldems Fairbanks, tn. inventor
uf the Fairbanks Scale.
y story is ;ol,l of au engineer OH The
Cu;on Pacific Railroad who ran u rnce
with death ut tho rate of forty miles
NJ hour. and won by five seconds. IL.
was driving the pa senger train West,
aud was taken suddenly aud seriously
| Ill. He seemed to bo aware thut death
was near. yet the train must reach
Cheyenne before he could be relieved.
That was the eud Of his route. He in-
creased the speed Of the engine aud
ran for life. Forty miles an hour
saved his distance. He reached Chsy-
enne ahead of time, aud when the en-
gineer who was TO relieve him stepped
aboard the engine, lie family gaspe,l
lake the engiue; / am ready to dio
now" ln five seconds he was 1, corpse.
L! death had stepped aboard before
the other engineer, what would have
been tho consequence to the passen-
gers? But they did not see the grim
spectre running the engine, like a
phantom train. It was very close
shave. and is frighifui instance of a
ma' remaining at the post of duty
Just long enough.
The Albany Juay3lIfS assertion, that
the general expression in favor Of ex-
Governor Seymour's election to the
| United States Senate. means precisely
whnt the election of Senator Eaton
IN Connecticut and Of Governor Allen
in Ohio meant. aud what the election
OF Jeremiah Black in Pennsylvania,
woud mean-''the Bourbon impulse
of the Democracy has drawn out the
following from the Cincinnati Enyui,..
err: "We can tell the Journal whut it
! means much better aud truer than it,
has put it. 1t means that the Demo.
cracy propose to have brains in the
United States Senate. We don't ad-
mire tue financial views of either En-
ton. Seymour or Black, but they are
all men Of eminent ability and strict
integrity. and each OF them would be
an ornament to the Senate. It is about
time Wa had additional brains there.
Ii brains are Bonrbonjsm, then we
want to be considered as being for the
Bourbons
DEATH OF A CENrENAHIAN Tho old
est man III North America, George Le
Barre. of Middle SmithfieId. near
Strondsburg, Monroe County. Pa. i,
died ut his residence last Saturday
night. at tho extreme age of 112 years
He was borp in Pennsylvania, nnder
colonial rule. has shaken hands with
General Washington, seen the gallant
Lafayette and the patriotic General
Sullivan, and was deemed q tory in
revolutionary dnys. He was too old
for service i'll 1912. but he was still a
hale old man till within the last two
weeks. He had never been sick but
three times in his life.
People will get married, and m ost
OF us do not have but one chance, so
do 1t mp in style. Moreover, it is n
poor compliment to your friends to
invite them to your wedding with q
shabby Invitation. The Invitation is
your bow; 1t introduces the life of the
new couple, aud should be in the best
style. Walker, Evans g. Cogswell,
Charleston, s. c., have all tho finest
styles of paper. cards, &o., and exc
cute the work in the highest style of
tho urt. Send to them for samples
and prices. N 29t
The internal revenue receipts havs
exceeded the estimates by 81 600, 900,
| (which shows" SAYS the BROOKLYN