The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1875-07-17

Northwestern States say that it is an
error to call the insect which has been
desoluting the country n grnsshopper.
They recognized in it the locust of their
own Southern Russia MS soon rs they laid
their eyes upon it.
The whole world is waiting anxiously
Tor the development of the startling in
ventlons Of Alessrs. Keely and Webster
which remand steam back to the dark
ages. Stockholders in the Kelly motor
are ventllating very roseatc views Of the
coming steam annihilator
The residence Of Prince Kirby. color
rd' IN Darlington County, was destroyed
by fire on Saturday last. Kirbv's wife
had been troubled great dcrl bv ficas.
and attempted to burn under the house
with straw in order to destroy them. She
succeeded.
In recent investigation of the num-
bcr OF missionaries and converts in Ja-
pan, the following WAS the result: Greek
Church, missionary, 5000 converts; Ro-
man Catholic, 40 missionaries, 10000
converts; Protestant, 70 missionaries,
200, 900 converts.
/. There is n village in New HAMPSHIRE
which has produced twenty-six editors,
and 1t was in allusion to this circuul-
stance that pions old deacon there re-
marked: Yes, there were twenty-six on
en-, but rs they've NIL left town I reckon
the Lord won't lay it up agin us"
During the two days of the Fourth of
July celebration, when the Government
departments remained closed, official
letters to the number Of $1,000 accumu-
lated. The various departments receive
OH an average 10000 letters every day.
There is talk in Western Texas of
establishing new State, provided the
Mexican States of Tnmaulipas, Nueva
Leon and Coahuila can be annexed. San
Antonla Is the proposed capital The
Radicals are said to be in the majority in
Western Texas.
Mrs. Wilson, nee Miss Augusta J,
Evans, the distinguished Southern au-
thoress, has just completed what will
probably be the last of her literary works,
MS her husband hns obtained from her a
promise TINT she will write no more
An exchange declares thut Brigham
Young hns offered to marry all the girls
OF Fassar College. The girls, before de-
clining the offer, should remember that
1t may be the last one that some Of them
will ever get.
Avoid standing before q fireplace, or
where current of mir cHn strike you,
during thunderstorm, MS nearly every
casualty from TINT cause can be traced to
something Of the kind.
A1r. james Denmark, Jr., of BulIoch
County, Ga, while returning from his
field, where he had been ploughing, was
/ dashed by his horse against II tree, and
instantly killed.
Mr.. D. 4. Halloman, of Wilkinson
| County, Gn., is the happy owner Of a
dog which Inst fall and winter caught
2lS opossuns, nineteen coons and two
foxes.
\ change seems to have come over the
minds Of the coloreu people in Union
County, and it is thought that disgrun-
tied individuals are stirring up strife and
uncasiness among them.
The South Carolina Historical Society
held meeting in Charleston, on the
7th, and decided to issue IN address to
the people of the State in the interests Of
the society.
| The Greenville -Nou,,tiinecr states that
i the revenue officers are carrying on q
vigorous raid against the illicit distillers
i'll that County.
\ heavy rain and wind storm is report
cd III Union County n few days ago
Several building were unroofed and Il
number Of trees demolished.
The cOlored soldiers who served in
the department Of South Carolina during
the war, propose to form veteran asso-
citation.
An old colorcd man, named JOS. Har-
vcy, carpenter by tmde, fell dead in
Charleston, on the 18th; heart disease.
Capt John b. Cousnrt, Messrs. j. r. Is.
! Canthen, Eli D. Crockett and John
Steele, of Lancaster, died last week.
Miss Mary Booth died suddenly Mt
Timmonsrillc, on Friday last Heart
disease.
Mr.. Henry T. Crumpton, of Kershaw,
died IL few days ago.
4 pair of white mocking-bifds have
been captured in Kershaw.