The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1875-07-08

Hete VA OAcaI DTltdlu.
The Mark Lane Express, of this week,
seys the weather is calculated to greatly
hinder haying and harvesting. Dryness
is required, and consequently the pros
poets are rather threatening for the fu-
| ture. The prices of wheat are shilling
| higher, and in some markets two shii.
lings.
The British gun-boat Lively sails from
Portsmouth for tho Spanish coast, to
protect British interests in tho ports
threatened by the military operations of
the Carlists and Alfonsists.
MADRID, July 7.-Gen. Dorreearny.
with fourteen battalions, comprising
almost the entire Carlist force in Valen.
clA and Arngon, has rapidly crossed the
Hulsca and Lerida Railway, between the
stations Tordienta and Selgua, and re-
| turned IN the direction of Barhastro. It
Is believed that he is going to Urgel, but
as he lacks cavalry to operate in that dis
trlct, which is free Of mountains and full
OF Liberals, it will be impossible for him
TO remain there. The Car1ists traversed
ninety kilometres in one day; their
flight liberates four provinces.
HAVANA, July 7.-The Spaniards dis.
persed a party of Cubans, near Sansti
Spiritus, killing 10; Spanish loss 5 killed
and wounded.
CITY OF MEXICO, June 30.-The Sonora
railway bill has become law. Fernando
q. Wil!et, Secretary of the American le-
CATION here, is dead.
TeIegraphic...American News.
CHARLESTON, July 7.-Arrivcl-
Steamship Charleston, Now York.
NYAcK, N. Y, July GA heavy rain
storm, accompanied by lightning and
thunder, passed ovor this city, this
afternoon, and two men, Abin Newman
and Jacob Tucker, were instantly killed
by the lightning. Houses were un-
rooted, troes uprooted and other damage
DONE
New YonK, July 7.-Latcr mail adyices
from different places in Colombia more
than confirm the horrors by the earth
quake in May. A letter from Salaza,
May 20th, says: Cucuta is q pitiful sight.
Everything is in ruins. Not house re-
mains standing. Thieves and robbers
from the surrounding country have
swept down on the ill-fated city, and
hardly single safe has been saved from
the custom house. 400 mules were killed
on the street, and as there is no one to
remove them, the stencil is becoming
1rightful. The villages of San Custobal,
Farina, Guassimo, Capacho, San Anto-
Mo, Lobatera, San Juan de Wrena, Ro-
sarlo and San Cazetano are completely
destroyed. The storehouse at Puerto
de los Cachos was sacked and burned by
bandits. A letter from Ocana, May 3Otk,
says III, QUO people were killed Mt Cuouta
IN addition to tho other thousandsrwho
we're seriously wounded and bruised.
Death and destruction rcigned overy-
where. Great numbers of haciendns
have been destroyed and hundreds of
houses IN the country overthrown, leav-
ing the people homeless and consigned
TO poverty. Many Of tho trees were torn
up from the roots. Small hills were
opened like q melon. The cause of the
great catastrophe is, of course, unknown.
ana the precise place Of its first manifes-
tation. Some suppose that the Volcano
OF Sabotera, which was in action in
1913, is again breaking out, while others
say that a new volcano has appeared in
the hills of Girncha A private letter
from Bucrramauga, of May oath, says
that in Piedecuesta the town hall is de-
stroyed, and in Pampeluna the cathedral
is in ruins. A telegram from Hon.
Aquilo Para to President Peres, dated
Bucaraneange, May Oath, says the earth
quakes continued last night. The cathe-
dml in Pampelona fell. Great alarm and
great devastation throughout the valley
of Cucuta. A despatch to President
Peres from Chrinacota, May oath, says
the population of San Jose, Rosonet and
San caqetano have disappeared. The
rest of the department is in ruins. More
than 1000 victims. A despatch from
Sacorro, dated May oath, says the situa-
ton is assuming grave aspect, and
sickness and starvation in Pampelonn
are increasing. A telegram frono Chi
quinquira, of May Oath, says the shocks
are repeating-two last night md one
to-day: Great alarm among the people.
Appeals for help were being circulated
through all the cities of Colombia, and
tho most liberal responses were being
made.
During a thunder storm, this after
noon, in Portsmouth, Va, two youths,
named Guthrie and Hubbard, were
struck and killed by lightning, and the
schooner Windward, lying at the wharf,
had it's mainmast splintered.
The boiler of q saw mill, near Hot
Springs, Arkansas, exploded, yesterday,
killing four persons and seriously in