The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1875-06-15

ouceu 9oo,1oO uuIlnS tne year. Inc
revenue for the year was s505, 654 and
current expenses S420, 1874.
An inquest was held ut Marlboro, over
the body of VIM. Barlow Driggers, in
FAINT son of Thomas Driggers. The child
caught between the bed railing and the
side of the house, where it remained
suspended until next morning.
The ex-member of Congress, Barry,
who died the other day, hailed from
Mississippi, by virtue of Reconstruction,
was born in New York, and organized
the first negro regiment in Kentucky to
Kill Southern men. He WINS ii brave man
but we can spare him.
despatch from Abingdon, Va, says
that gang of eight countcr:eitcrs have
been sentenced to terms of imprisonment
in the Albany pcnitentiary varying from
two or ten years, and to fines Of from
$500 to 81 800.
Mr.. Weld, who WAS arrested in the
Boston post Office last week for robbing
the mails, is the eighth clerk arrested in
that office during the presen year by
Special Agent Field, ugainst all OF whom
there was abundant proof of guilt.
There are in Georgia 1855, $50 acres
Of improved land, valued Mt S9G, oil 935.
This Is nm average valuation of SD. so per
acre. The wild land of the State is
returned Mt 100000 acres, valued mt
So. 191.S54.
The grand jury of williamsburg
County have presented Trinl Justice L.
Jacobs, (the Daniel who issued n warrant
and tried man recently for assault and
battery committed on goose,) and
Henry Evans for official misconduct
The italians fancy pence will not long
be kept among the growing dogs on the
continent, and hence they nre doing
what they never did before, viz: fortify-
ing on the side of Nice and Savoy.
Red Cloud and Spotted Tail appear to
be particularly fond of draw poker. Why
can't the Government send over for
General Schenck to come and play
them little game for the Black Hills?
A suit for $1,000, 1000 has been COM
menced by the State Of New York against
the widow, administratri1 of the estate
of James Watson, the County Auditor
under the regime of Tweed.
A child three years of age, o son of
Patrick Porter, residing Oh Dean Swamp,
about four miles from Aiken, was killed
on Saturday last. by eating concentrated
lye the previous evening.
Indiana only paid out $3.50 last year
from the Treasury for the expense of the
State military. Ohio's expense for State
defence was SLABS. What was South
Carolina's?
Jos. P. Gardiner, wealthy merchant
of Boston, was found dead in the woods
near that city, yesterday, with n revolver
by his side. 1t is supposed that he COM
mitted suicide.
\. T. Stewart is said to have bought
for less than S200,O the Glenham
Woolen Mills, ut 3Iatteawan, N. y, which
cost 81, 900, 600 more than that prizes.
Brigham Young was kissed 4, 4G8 times
on his birthday, last Monday, which
makes honors about easy between him
and Beecher on the osculatory business.
The Washington official organ, of the
10th, publishes fifty-two page supple
mcnt, containing lists of delinquent tax
payers in the District of Columbia
Hayward Duprc, colored, was found
dead in his bed on Saturday morning, mt
Hardeeville, s. C. The cause of the
death is unknown.
Mr.. j. G. Levy, native of Charleston,
but resident Of Savannah for the last
twenty-five years, died last week. He
was eighty-scven years old.
A lad, named Eugene Moscly, who had
broken an arm only few days before,
was drowned in pond near Augusta, on
the 18th.
The Woody-McDuffie gang of mail
robbers have departed for Albany, in
charge of Marshal Wallace and several
deputies.
Sheriff Bowen has been "ruled" by
Judge Reed, for falling to execute the
sentence Of the law upon the criminals
Hardee and Bunch.
Capt. George II. DIofiett. of Charleston,
fell ovor the railing Of his piazza. few
nights ago, and was so seriously injured
that his life is despaired of.
While pitching quoits in Fayetteville,
\. c., recently, Mr.. C. A. Mcmillan. an
aged and respected citizen, was struck in
the head and killed.
The Greenville papers are ngitating the
cXpedicncy of building the Grccnvillc
and Cumberland Gap Railroad
A colored man, named james Jenkins,
| was drOWeu in SOcncer's mill non1 nr,r