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

We saxion5yssssrday, the, beadsiful
iron Ornament presented by Mai. John
Alexander. Of Columbia, to Mrs. Cleve-
land. 1t IS q pretty thing, the flowers
neatly painted, and will add much to
the architecture of the front s,
! 4..t lGreenville Ne,cs.
| A Western contemporary, chronicling
the suicideof o melancholy agriculturist,
who hanged himself from rafter in his
barn, asks itself elf the wretohed man
had any thought of hereafter2" Mani
festly he must hive thought of this here
rafter.
Eleven wagons, heavily loaded with
the County records, have arrived in
Blackville from Barnwell. The records
are now in the Blackville Court House,
the titles to which have been reinvested
in the people. There is great rejoicing
Secretary Robeson is reported to
have said that the Pennsylvania third
term resolution was "cowardly yield
ing to public clnmor." That "olamor F"
however, has evidently unsettled some
deep laid plans.
| 'My dear" said husband, in startled
tones, after waking his wife in the mid
ole OF the night, 81 have swallowed n
| IL, II,
goodness sake lie still, or it may come
up"
At the meeting Of the Grand Lodge OF
Colored Mnsons. of New York, on
Wednesday, the Grand Master said the
sadly impoverished and disheartened by
the failure of the Freedman's Bank.
A despatch from Washington states
/ OF
daily, since the publication of his third
term letter, numerous letters from all
parts of the country, congratulating him
upon that document.
It is reported that as soon as the trial
| Is over, Brother Beecher is going to
Jerusalem. Then, he doesn't believe in
Mnhomet's story Of Paradise and the
Houris, or he would go to Mecca.
Dictionaries exchanged for carnmels +"
says a placard in Chicago candy store.
The girls of that city will certainly par
| ticipate in the spelling matches now that
there is market for the prizes.
A little four-year-old woke up very
early one morning, and seeing the full
| moon from the window, he iAnocently
| remarked: II should think It was about
time for bod to take that moon in"
For the race-horse Kangaroo the Mar
quis OF Hasting once paid IL, 900 guineas
say sG3, 900. This horse now goes in
| front of q London cab ut sixpence a mile.
Vicissitudes of great families.
The body of an old colored woman,
named Mary Fripp, was found on Port
Royal Island, recently. The dogs and
buzzards had fearfuily mutilated the
| remains.
Why call him the 'groom" as eight
out of ten people do? A groom's bust
ness Is to look after horses. A BRIDE
groom's business is to look after his wife's
! mother.
There is no use wasting the voyage of
life in preparation for it. One may sail
by the old chart, and find out as much
abont the universe as by drifting.
A negro child was killed on last We'd
nesday morning ut Rock Hill, by dose
of morphine administered to it for calo-
mel by the mother.
els this the Adams House?" asked q
stranger of Bostonian. ''Yes," was the
reply, ''its Adams House until you get
to the roof, then it's caves"
They wondered at the short collections
in Missouri church, and investigated
to find that one of the collectors had tar
in the top of his hat.
A traveller called for mint-sauce at q
hotel the other day, and the waiter said
that they had none, adding: "Oar cook
makes all the mince into pies, not sauce. ="
The Italian brigands ore holding an
English mother-in-la law for ransom, and
the son-in-law says they con hold her
and be disappointed.
| Twenty buildings were destroyed by
fire in the village of Chatsworth, Ontario,
yesterday. Loss S37, 900.
"Died from the effects of mixed collat-
erals, arc the fashionable words for
delirium tremens.
A bride in silk and groom in his
shirt sleeves. recently sat down to dinner
Mt Troy hotel.
Obstinacy and vehemency in opinion
are the surest proofs of stupidity.
Those who eat but little meat recover
quickest from wounds.
Show may be easily purchased: but
happiness is homemade article.
DR.. s. L. Owens, of Barnwell, died
| last week.
Funeral Invitation.
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