The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1875-04-20
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won be0uteous maid, 4
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But whenI asked her dad Nv q
He got SO thunderin' mad, q .f'c
felt afraid. - .r} ssf,-
And when she bid me stick a.
did; but with frown
He snntched me by the crown,
And yanked me up and down, n
And then
[ busted quick"
Churchill County, Nevada, is poor and
plous. 1t never possessed u Jail. and.
until very recently, it never felt the want
OF one. But last week q real, bouncing
CRIMINAL invaded its innocence. He was
soon stopped in his mad carcer--arrested.
in short. Not having any jail, the COUNTY
authorities confined him in IA shaft 900
feet IN depth. He was hoisted to the
surface three times day, and given his
meals, after which he was lowered ap,in
to mediate and praise.
Bills OF THE BANK OF THE SrA1I.-On
Thursday last, at Groenville, application
was made to Judge Cook, in four cases.
tor mnndo'nus to compel james Nj. Run
ION, County Treasurer, to receive bills of
the Bank of the State in payment for
taxes by some twenty-five or thirty tax-
payers. In each case tho bills were taken
by the Treasurer and the names of the
parties endorsed. Judge Cook has fixed
the 27th for hearing the case.
The people of Massachusetts, have nett.
toned the Legislature to stop the wave
of indebtedness which now threatens to
overcome the cities and towns of TINT
State. The debts of these corpontions
have reached such I'M altitude M to in
Jure tho business and alarm capitalists
ana business men in serious manner.
ihey feel that remedy must be applied
TO protect their interests, and hence
their action in relation to the mntter.
At Il birthday party given by n German
mmliy, near Wheeling, last week, the
children were furnished with candy an
pies, colorcd very highly, which they ate
with n relish. Ono Of the children sick
cned and died the next day. and two
others are in most alarming state. The
apples were colored with aniiinc and the
leaves with arsenic.
An apparently insane woman, giving
tho name of Bauer, who was found wan.
dering about the streets Of Baltimore e ra-
Gently, was taken to the police station
and placed in cell, where, one hour
afterward, her lifeless body wns found
hanging by piece of bed-ticking from
the grating of the cell door.
We have the same old story from Cuba
OF plantations destroyed, regular troops
massacreing rebels, the Spnniards pre-
parlng for new campaigns. Surely no
country was ever SO miserably governed.
II this IL Spanish rule in America, the
sooner it ends tho better for our civiliza-
ton.
A number of young ladies OF the "best
families Of the West End, at Boston.
have organized IL cookery club, meeting
twice week at the residence of each
member in turn, who treats her sister
members to breakfast, dinner or tea
prepared exclusively by herself.
Wednesday was the tenth anniversary
of the assassination of Lincoln, in Fords
Theatre, Washington. by John Wilkes
Booth. Andrew johnson was sworn in
as President ON the morning Of the 18th
Of April, 1864 few hours after The
death of President Lincoln.
In tho absence of Governor Bcyerilpe.
Republican, of Illinois. Lieutenant Co
vernon Glenn, Democrat, will fill tho
Executive chair. This will be tho first
time Democrat has occupied the EY-
ecutivc Office of the State for eighteen
years.
He had jockey style of cap on, IL
leather band around his waist his trow-
ser-legs tucked inside his boots, and WAS
aged fifteen. Milk and spellinp-
matches for babies, he exclaimed, curl
ing his upper lip; "but as for me, gimme
base -balll"
Within two or three months seven ves-
sells, with their entire crews of about
ninety men, have been lost from the mort
of Gloucester. Mass. These vessels we're
all tirst-class, and the young men active
and probably under forty years of age.
Speak gently to the man who is sodd
ing your yard. Tho Galveston Ne,cs re-
members having heard that: "Ie who
causes blade of grass to grow where
before there was none, deserves to be
clasaed among the worlds benefactors."
VIM. Mcpherson, of Wayne County,
was instantly killed Mt Neville, Telfair
County. Ga. ON the 18th, by b. j. Car
michael, of Montgomery County, with n
scantlng. A few hnsty words was the
cause of killing.
Forncy has been working eight months
abroad for the centennial, and has re-
fused to take q cent for his trouble.
This information comes from m Italian
paper, but is not necessarily to be scoffcil
mt
EX-Confcderate officers of distinction
are to be invited to the reunion of the
Grand Army of the Republic, which takes
Olucc on 10Th of MOy Mt ChicaOO Graat