The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1874-12-11

again IL Weepg,
I And A. ,sms! aoa7dq'h take 4 irsm the mothers
From present pains and future unknown
harms,
And baby sleeps.
A Roman Catholic priest was lately
sentenced to imprisonment at Null
hausen for reviling the Protestant re-.
ligion, and another Austrian priest,
the vicar Of Obernergheim, has just
been sent to prison for fourteen days
for like offence. On his trial he as-
sumed very defiant tone, and had re-
peatedly to be called to order by the
Judge. It is remarked that these ex-
cesses are always committed by young
priests.
The remains OF the Confederate SOL
diers who fell in the movement on
Washington during the late war. and
remain in graves outside Of cemeteriea
will be removed to the cemet. Of
Grace Church. near Silver Springs,
Md, to-day. DR.. A. Y. P. Garnett
will deliver an oratioh ON the occasion,
and q number of members of Congress
and leading men from the South will
take part.
The Memphis Appeal says: A terri
ble disease, known as the black death,
has broken out in DeKalb County,
and. defying medical skill, is playing
havoc with the population. Able ply
siciAns oi Nashville think the disease
must be bilious dysentery of fatal
type, similar to that which followed
the cholera last year. but not conta-
gious. i 4,
An Augusta hunter succeeded in
bagging two turkey buzzards, recently.
under the impression that they were
Wild turkeys. He strung them across
hls shoulders and did not discover his
mistake until his clothing had become
impregnated With the peculiar odor-
bouquet de dead dnimol-which these
birds emit.
A New York despatch Gays: cad
vices from Pottsville are to the effect
that the market is over-stocked with
coal, and general suspension OF min.
ing In that region may take place,
throwing $4,000 men out of work dur
ing the severe winter months, entail
ing great suffering. Several oollieries
have already closed"
A WoNpEHFuI ;sERAT.-A colored
hunter fell out OF his boat into the Sa-
vannah River day or two since. He
says that on reaching tho bottom, and
finding that he ico1ld not rise, he
pulled his coat of, and thus relieved
OF weight, rose to the top.
BUTLER. Gen. Butler attributes his
defeat to his persistent advocacy OF
woman suffrage. Well, Ben. is not an
Adonis, and perhaps his ungallant con-
duct in New Orleans rather detracted
from belief in his sincerity among
the men of Massachusetts.
REPAIRING BREACHES. s.-.Colorado
ana New Mexico are to be made States.
mus giving the shaken Republican
majority in the Senate chance to OBJ
TAIN iour recruits from two rotten
borough commonwealths.
And now the Rev. Mr.. Stubbs. of
york State" is added to the Beech.
ers. the Glendennings, and the rest
who have loved net wisely but too
many: Heavensl Will the line stretch
ont till the crack of doom?
Henry D. Thomas, manager and
treasurer of the Prairie Farmers Pnh.
fishing Company. of Chicago. has dis.
appeared. It is alleged he has am.
hezzled $50. belonging chiefly to
Western grangers.
Two thousand partridges were
shipped, by one firm, from Salem, N.
O., last week. There is bill now
pending in the Legislature for the pro.
tection OF these birds.
Lawrence Branan, of Atlanta, was
shot in the eye and instantly killed OF
West Point, by Dock Frost, on Satur-
day night. The coroner's Jury said il
was accidental.
A Frenchman, intending to oompli.
ment young lady by calling her O
gentle lamb. said: "She is one mutton
as is small"
The Warren, House, at the Hos
Springs, Arkansas. and number of
other buildings have been destroyed
by FIRE.
Charges have been made against
Paymaster Wallace, OF the Northern
peeifo Railroad, for embezzling $6O,.
mMf.'J.' Milton Blown, Of Anderson
died on Sunday.