The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1875-04-27

AZ spelnng match. last Thursday
night, the audience laughed vt every
man who rnissed, Of course m sre was
not word given out on the stage but
that every man in the audience could
spell, OF course. Col; Rogers gave out
the word '.sachel." Mr.. Taliaferro1
spelled 1t as just indicated, whereupon
the audience laid down and rolled over
and laughed and bleated and roared and
squealed and Uttered and hunched each
other, and at last subsidized so that Col.
Rogers could be heard. He blandly In
formed the audience that Mr.. T. had
spelled the word correctly. Then they
commenced to look blank ut each other
and look green and foolish and had the
dry grins, and you could have heard a
pin drop.
1t Is said that the matrimonial pros-
poets OF the Baltimore girls have been
seriously damaged by that little incl
dent of five babies ut birth which re-
Gently transpired in that city Inaamuch
as the mother of that infant mob merely
intended to show what Baltimore GIRL
can do when she tries, it is really cruel
to hold the rest of the girls there respon-
slble for the very remarkable success
which attended the effort
Some Of Beecher's friends are paradinp
the story that Tilton has the germs Of
lunacy in his constitution, rs he had a
brother who died in q lunatic asylum.
Judging from the developments of the
brooklyn trial, however, there is as much
insanity on one side M the other, and
paroxysmal insanity at that.
Ex-President Davis attended a meet
ing of ex-Confederates at Memphis. Sa-
turday, to arrange for decorating the
graves of Confederates on the 22d of
May, at which resolution was unani-
mously adopted asking Union soldiers
to participate in the ceremonies. An
other Southern outrage"
A half century ago, an old gentleman
In Southern Massachusetts caused every
sAlngle with which he covered his roof
to DO first dipped in boiling whale oil.
The other day, his grandchildren re-
placed the shingles on the old mansion
for the first time, and found many of
them in a perfect state of preservation.
Gen. Butler is making money at Wash
lngton. 1t is reported that he has re-
ceived S25, ,oOO in retaining fees since the
adjournment Of Congress, and as he is
worth 81, 600, 600, he will probably get
along comfortably till the end Of his
days. He has built o palatial mansion
Mr.. Austin Daily, the New York theat-
ricnl' manager, says that in Paris he has
seen "colored spectators sitting side by
side with Duchesses, and he don't see
why the same thing may not be done
mere. We would suggest that it would
be necessary to first trot out the Ouch
csseS.
The Turkish Minister declares that the
report that many murders had been COM
mltted by the Turks in Bulgaria and
Ronmania is without foundation; and he
adds O good reason: There are NO Turks
in Roumania-"
GOOD IDEA.-Those artists in France
whose pictures have been rejected for
the exhibition are again to have an cxhi-
ton OF their own, and the world will
have an opportunity to learn whether
committees always do reject only the
good pictures.
Col. Thomas A. Rogers, one of the
most estimable and worthy citizens of
PIckens County, died on Saturday night,
the 10th inst, in the sixty-ninth year of
his age. Col Rogers was o native of
Spartanburg.
rRoBABLE 1NFAETICIDE.-A negro wo-
man named Dorn Pyram was arrested in
Charlotte and tried for infanticide. It
appears that she gave birth to O child.
and, in order destroy it, put it in an
oven and actually cooked it.
Daniel Webster's library, which has
remained since his death in the room he
built for it in his country house in
Marshfield, is soon to be sold at auction
In Boston. It is large and valuable
collection Of books.
1t is said that Temperance people
complain of the large quantity of cham
pagne consumed in Wisconsin" We
shall probably never hear the last of
such complaints until the cultivation of
the turnip is strictly prohibited in this
country.
The Secretary of War has issued an
order requiring soldiers to wear the new
trowel bayonet in their scabbards. The
.'trowel Is said to be very murderous
implement. The Secretary is preparing
for war.
In Paris &Ion: "My mother-in- law
IL furious monarchist" "Ah! then one
naturally imagines that you believe in
the republic.
When fortune wants to let fellow
being fall the hardest, she lifts him up
the highest
Boston has one man who cannot tell a
lie. He il q deaf and dumb peanut
vender.
Short crops-Convicts' hair.
Union Council, No. s, r. & 8. Il.