The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1875-04-23

| africa IL announced III England. This
! ts the formation of n canal for COM
percial purposes from the mouth of the
River SBelta, on the Atlantic, in the
i3eighborhood of Cape JUDY and Cape
t8ajador, opposite the Canary Islands, to
the Northern bend of the Niger at Tim
buctoo, o distance of 74O miles. To such
Ia highway for opening up the African
continent it Is believed there are no for
midable obstacles, but that the conforma-
ton of the great Desert Of Sahara f,vors
the scheme. The author of the project
is Mr.. Donald Mackenzie.
| The meanest of thieves should he
ashamed to rob the poor-box of church.
But young man who has for some
months been engaged in such contempti-
BILE larceny has been arrested ut ST.
fatrick's Cathedral, New Toth. Ho il,
supposed to have stolen about $500, all
of which was taken from orphans and
widows, whose distresses the charitable
supposed they were relieving, while, in
fnct, they were sustaining this lubberly
scamp, too lnzy to work, but industrious
enough in theft.
The Northern steamers having made
arrangements to accommodate the truck
farmers in the vicinity Of Charleston by
changing their schedule, are now leav-
ing with scarcely any of this class of
freights; where week ago, they took
1000 to 5000 packages, they have now
scarcely 1000. This sad falling off is
effected the growing crops even moro re-
verely than was at first anticipated.
The following paragraph in the West
Point (ky) Times led to the killing of
the writer, L. A. Middleton, by John
Love, of the West Point Citizen: ..How
much was the editor of the Citizen graft
fled, when he climbed that pole at the
Court House, the other night. so as to
look into the dressing room of the Indies
OF the D'Este Troupe, while they were
making their toilets!'
serious riot took place mt the opening
of some pleasure grounds in the suburbs
| OF Glasgow. 4 stand, on which were
i,5OO people, gave way, and precipitlted
the entire mass to the ground. Thirty
persons were injured. The visitors, in
dignnnt Mt the carelessness of the proprie-
tors, destroyed everything on the
grounds, and burned the barricades
around them
Madison County, ILL.,. girl has Of
fered herself as n prize to the one of her
four suitors who outspells the others.
The trial is to take place in the district
school-house. and twenty-five cents nd-
mission is to be charged, the money to
go towards furnishing AZ house for the
young couple.
The YACHT DISASTER. Another one of
the bodies of the unfortunate persons
who were in the yacht Ella Anna was
found near the black buoy. in Sullivan's 8
Island Cove. 1t WAS that of Mr.. Adolph
Davis, twenty-seven years old, native
OF Louisville. KY, and IN employee in
the United States Paymaster's Depart
| ment.
Mr.. Frederick p. Warren, Of Three
Oaks, Michigan, Il man OF ingenious end
mathematical turn Of mind. whose mis-
sion has been to make a prictical calcu-
lnting mnchine. died on Friday The
instrument hi. genius leaves to the
world il pronounced the most perfect
ever yet made.
The lanterns were hung ont in the.
tower OF the old North Church in Boston
ON Sunday night, by Robert Newman,
son of the sexton OF the church, who per
formed the same duty 100 years ago,
when the British took up their line OF
march. The glnnd-son and grent-gruntl-
son OF Paul Pevere were also present
On Sunday night last. n negro woman
pS tue uille Oh Mllly OpleSDS, tell from
the trestle on Choestoe Creek, near John
Mason s, on the Air Line Railroad, break
ing her skull. She WIS found dead next
morning, and iii inquest held, finding
ns the cause of death, q fall of fifty feet
from the trestle. - Keo,cee Courier
The safe in the Office of the abscond-
ing Sheriff of Fairfield, l.. W. Duvall.
has been opened. but not n cent was
found. The books have not vet been
| thoroughly examined. but the supposi-
tion is that he is ,lcfaulter to the extent
of about S10,00O.
SUDDEN DEATH. An old colorcd man
named James Williams was found dead
in sink on Mrs. Peoples premises, IL
Rose Lane, Charleston, yesterday morn
ing. An inquest was held over the re-
mains. and verdict of death from heart
disease rendered.
Mr.. Daniel AIcHnm died Mt his humble
home, about two miles from Spartan
burg, on the 18th instant. lie was LOG
years of age, and his last days are said to
have been "embittered by the presence
of actual want"
Shakspearean quotation for the Beecher
trial:
"Thus have we swept suspicion from our
seat,
And made our foot-stool of security.
Come hither, Bess."
The proposition To call Mrs Tilton rs
a witness i'll the Beecher trial meets with
general approval Her story will he n
strange one, no doubt. but cannot fail to