The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1874-03-07
10.156; exports to Great Britain 4, 4,798;
continent. 81 SIT; Franco, 2,4Sl; coast
wise 86. I6l: sales 10. 500.

NEW ORLEANS. March 6.-Cotton
less active aud prices maintained-mid-
ding 1875; low lniddling l45a; good or.
dinary 1875; ordinary II; net receipts
5.46O bales; gross 5.5GY; exports Great
Britain S.2ll; coastwiso 426; sales
$500; stock 304, 5S3; weekly not re-
ceipts 80. G84; gross 1l,963; exports
Great Britaiu 1895; continent 81, 100;
France 3.7O8; coastwiss 6.8l1; sales
80, 100.
BosToN, March 6.-Cotton quiet and
tirmer-middiiug lG1aa; net receipts lob
bales; gross 490; exports Gre1t Britain
$50; sales 200; stock 5000; weekly net
receipts $50; gross 1856; exports
Great Britain 1.849; sales l, $50.
PHILADELPHIA. Muruh G.-Cotton Eirm
--mlddling 16L; low middIing l5A;
strict good ordinary l434; ordinary
l214; good ordinary ID; weekly net re-.
ceipts 2,094; gross Ats; exports Great
Britain 90l.
SAVANNAH, March G.-Cotton firm
middling P%; stock "a. 053 bales; week
y net receipts 2,l3l; exports to Great
Britain S.797; to continent 23,7l4;
coastwise 1885; sales 1854
NORFOLK. March 6.-Cotton firm
low middling 14>a; stock IL, $50 bales;
| "e"n'J Hot EeoeiPtb 1l.otl, exports
ooastwise 12. 973; sules 2.l5O.
MEMpHIs. March 6.-Cotton quiet.
firm aud unchanged-low middling
l449l4H; receipts l.275 bales; ship.
ments 1.497; stock 5S.7 .7G6; weekly re.
ceipts 8. $50; shipments 1o,206.
AUGUSTA. March Cotton quiet
middling Is; receipts 406 bales; sales
l,02S; stock 27.59l; weekly receipts
3,l76; shipments 1851; sales 4, 4,OSS;
spinnsrs 623
The Detroit Free Press tells us that
'thoy have just discovered that red
rum spells murder" if the worl "mnr-
der" is spelled backwards" Almost sin
guiar and startling discovery, certainly;
anu yet, there are human beings so
stepped in crime and swamped IN de-
graduation, as to epell the most cold
oiooded aud diabolloIl 'murd.r" buck.
wards and swallow it every DAY of their
miserable lives.
| We WoNDER When VII reulizY in u
measure the wickeduess OF this genera
ton, and reflect thnt it has not been de-
stroyed by fire or Hood, We cannot help
wondering whut the moral condition Of
mankind was in the time of our respect.
ed ancestor Noah, when the world was
hooded and the people thereof des: :royeu
for their sinfnlness.
[Frmri9e (Ka) Mercury.
The youthful Emperor of China is
said-iike the Caiiph Haroun.elRas-
chld-to walk at night incoga;lo through
the streets OF Pekin. THIS violation of
all the sentiments and traditions of his
ohce IS taken by foreign residents az "a
good sign that hs will follow q wise and
0enehcent policy throughout his reign.
Chorus Of ladies TO comeIy curnte
who Is ascending the ladder to hung de.
corations)-"Oh. Mr.. Sweetlow. do
take carei Don't go upl SO dangerous! !!
Do come down! On" Rector. fsar
oastioaily.) Really, Sweetlow. don't
! you think you'd better let married
man do that?"-PuncA.
CATERING FOR THE Cara "A r~nn-
man III New York, with au eye to busi-
ness. has hit upon the novel i.1en of
catering for cats, or rather furnishing
provender for them at SO much u week,
The originator Of tie plan bus over 100
fellnes to feed. for which he gets thirty
cents pe7- capita.
In his day, Ernbantio, the Venetian
Senator. must have been one of the
Conservative school of politicians. op.
posed to the "hayseed" movement. for
he says in "Othello," act I. scene r:
What tellst thou mo OF robbery? Nv
house is not graugt!"
A South Australian man has lust dis
covered cure for diphtheriu, which
has been used in the colony with great
success. It consists of dose of four
drops OF strong sulphurio acid in thre.
quarters OF tumbler of water for ad uIts.
and u smaller dose for children.
The finest and largest specimens ia.
malca ginger ever seen grew on Dunn's
Lake, Florida. It is perfect in every
particular. and from its great produc-
tiveness will yield per acre sufficient
quantity ut ten cents per pound to make
$500 clear profit.
When you buy new lamp chimney
put it in vessel of cold water, set it. on
the stove and boil. You can reTer
break that chimney. uaIcss you throw
q fat-iron at it, and won't breuk it even
then-if you miss it.
The poorest girls in the world ure
those who have never been brought up
to work. Every daughter should be