The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1875-01-01
sAN1 FnANo1sco. December 81

proprietors OF tbs CoTnwsil watch fac.
tory to employ Chinese in all the de.
pArtmeits1 oi5 the works. seventy
operatives from Chicago have protested
against the measure, and several OF
them were discharged to-day. a gone.
raj strike IL threatened, but the pro.
prietors are Arm, and promise to
adhere to. the new, plan. The com.
pany propose to employ about 500
persons. The works are not vet in
order.
john Delaney and Samuel Richards
were killed yesterday by an explosion
in Sutro tnnnel. Alr. Rillon was
fatally and several other persons seri.
ously injured.
Most OF the operators of the Cornell
watch factory have struck against the
employment OF Chinese.
PORTLAND. Me. December 3d.
About 6 O'Clock, this evening, Thomas
Pennel, Treasurer OF Cumberland
County, was Knocked down in his
office and his safe robbed of between
50. 900 and $4,000. One of the rob.
bers first engaged his attention by ask.
ing to have check cashed, and imme-
diately after knocked him senselees
With the aid of a confederate, the safe
was plundered of its contents. Pen.
nel's pockets were also rihed. The
thieves escaped aud no arrest has vet
been made or clue found to their iden-
tity.
BosroN. December 3O.-Mr. Fronch,
Chairman of the Legislative Commits
sion on Reservoirs, visited Haydens.
Vile. yesterday, to ascertain the cause
OF the late disasters there. His YER
dict was faulty engineering, faulty ma.
terial and faulty buildings, and that
the dam was not wide enough, the
stone not suitable and the granite not
good enough.
ATLANTA, Decembar 30.-The Su-
preme Court of Georgia, in a case
brought by certain bill-holders against
the Mechanics Bank of Augusta aud
its stookholders, decided that the bill.
holders are entitled to recover. The
decieion is placed upon the grounds:
That the charter of the bank WAS no.
cepted and became contract between
the stockholders and the State. That
the defendants fail to allege in their
pleas that the contract was in aid of
the rebellion. That the 18th section
Of the 9th article, paragraph I'd, OF
the Constitution Of Georgia of 1868,
is void as to contracts made prior to it's
date. because it impairs the allegation
OF contracts and sets up q defence
which did not exist when this contract
was made.
DUoHAss JUNCTION, December 81
A fall nf rocks at Garrison tnnnal will
detsin the Hudson River Road trains.
NEW YORK. December 31.-General
Morgan L. Smith died to-day, of con-
gestion of the lungs.
The Masons gave the King Of the
Sandwich Islands a spirited reception.
The Board OF Apportionment. this
afternoon. passed resolutions oensur-
ing Comptroller Green for paving an
excess of $500, 900 for the interest on
the public debt. over the sum appro-
priated for 1874. without the consent
or authority of the bonrd.
A Salt Lake City despatch says q
bridge wass burned Tuesday, between
Evanston snd Green River, on the
Union Pacific Railroad. neoessitating
a change OF cars.
Al explosion occurred in coal mine
near Evanston. Wyoming Territory,
tuesday, by which eight persons were
killed.
The funeral of Alvah Crocker, Mt
Fitchburg, Mass, yesterday. was
largely attended.
FALL River. December 3I.-The
employees differing with tho VIEWERS
and spihners. shorter time or lower
wages seems certain. A resolution of
the operatives to draw the savipgs
from the banks was adopted. The
spinners accept the reduction of wages
under protest, with view to u strike
in the spring.
Maurice Vignaux beat Joseph Dion
900 points for $1,000 and the cham.
pionship. Vignaux won in forty eight
innings-Dion scoring 53S.
NEW ORLEANS. December 31.-Mar-
shal Packard. before the Congressional
Committee, quoted: "He did not be-
,.eve the Republican State Government
could maintain itself in this or any
other Southern State, without aid or
protection of United States troops"
On Christmas Day. in New Orleans,
two negroes were killed in an affray,
an old white man was thrown from a
mule on the pavement of the street
and killed, negro was run over and
killed by freight train, and young
lady was shot in the neck by stray
pistol ball.