The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1874-10-27

CSo'P"tou anbVuuCe6 tDe capture tOt
Nena Sahib.S the famous, or rather in.
famous Hindoo chief and leader of the
Sepoy rebellion in India in 1857, who
committed SO many wholesale mur-
deTS aud diabolical outrages upon Eu.
ropean men, women and children who
iell into his hands. After his final de.
feat by the English troops he fed with
band OF followers to the mouutains OF
Northern India, where he managed TO
evade pursuit, and ut one time it was
reported and believed hat he was dead
Il CITY GRADER A Texas man Inns
put IN claim for the entire city If
Nashville, Tenn. The fellow is greedy.
be 1s II grand-son Of Litton Lanier.
who Killed man over seventy years
ago, and fled from whnt is now Ten
uessee, leaving 32D acres OF land, on
which the city of Nashville stands.
About forty years ago, al attempt was
made by Gov. Wise, of Eirginiu, to
push this claim, but SO much excite.
meut was created that it was nbun-
doned.
One B. cker. for some time keeper
OF restaurant at Corsicaua, Texue.
made at attuck on the establishment
now run by his wife, avowedly to
break it up aud kill her. The bar
keepsr was seriously cut in protecting
the place, and policeman also seri
ousi cut in attempting to arrest
Becker. The lutter was fatally shot by
The officer.
Mt John Adams. Of Newark, n. j.,
hired two colosed mcu to carry three
tons "i coal III his cellar, Thursday,
aud then went 10 Il funeral. When ia
returned both Africans were dead
drunk on the coal heap, not more than
one quarter OF which had been housed.
They had drank seventeen bottles Of
wine. which they stole from a cabinet
in the cellar
Some idea OF the business done in
postage stamps in this country may be
formed from the fact, that on Thurs.
day last, orders Were received ut the
department for stamps to the value of
S4oI ,o0O. which is the largest number
ever sold hy tie dertr' ent in single
day.
Some persons in Bay City hayo
given S2o,'NU iur un evening paper.
We would be wiling to give $50, 600
for an evening paper, buI it would be
when we found that the same amount
could not be as rendiiy squardered in
ryIDB to keep npu smnll grocery on
the temperance plan.
ga party consisting Of twentylhree
ex-soldiers, both Uulon aud Confede.
ratio. will start from this city next
week, or IL pedestrian tour to a!l the
principal battle fields in Virgipia.
yvI I>oo al, al,
Washington Chronicle, 24tA.
"Corinne-if you are living, do re-
turn TO your friends" writes some
body in the New York Herald They
don't say what "Corinne" is to do II
she is dead. In that case she is pro.
bly, expected to reply through the
"Corinner. Chicago late,- Oce0n.
"Ben. Billings stole onttlo and then
lied about it, 30 his friends took hin
out and performed surgical operation
on him from which he never recovered,
is the way the death of q Nebraska
man Is recorded in local paper.
Now. aftsr lapse of ninety. odd
years. it has been discovered that spit
ting on the bait doesn't help in the
least to catch the fish. Is there any
one in America who isn't as mad as
blazes?
"There was On old family fuel be-
tween then. was what witness in
Chicago murder case said to the jury.
Ihe Judge asked her ii she didn't mean
''fand," and she asked him who was
telling the story.
why are men seeking Office called
candidates?" Because they are all
sweetness. They are something more
than candy; they are candy dates.
After their election they are called Of
tioials, because they act so officious.
Paris had marriage the other day.
OF the Tom Thumb and Minnie War
rem class. but with more drollery in it.
The husband is dwarf, forty inches
IN height. and the wife a giautess of
six feet six.
An editorial notice of a woman's
grocery store reads az follows: "Her
tomatoes are as red as her own cheens:
her indigo is as blue as her own eyes.
and her pepper as hot as her own tenn
per-"
A Delaware man arrested for mur-
der, proved that on TINT night aud at
the hour of the murder he was at
home mauling his wife, and this fuct
saved him. a word to the wise is, and
80 forth.
Sail q man 70 tb, Si,r.. e ~