The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1875-05-07

genteen Aldermen in the city of Raleigh.
Monday: The Aldermen elect the Mayor,
| thus giving that Office to the Democrats.
This LII the first time the city has gone
Democratic since the war. Tclegrams
from Salisbury. Hillsboro, Durhnm's,
Henderson md Warrenton Indicate that
the :Democrats have swept everything.
Charlotte is in state of excitement oyor
the result OF the municipal election.
w. +. Davidson, by SO votes
| YOUTHFUL. MURDEnEas A murder was
committed Saturday morning. in the
North-western portion of Fairfield. A
| colorc,l girl, aged twelve years, who hnd
for some time pnst been compelled to
nurse the infant child OF her sister, took
the ininnt, carried it to McLurc's creek,
diycsted it of clothing, threw it into a
hole and drowned it. Search wns insti-
tutcd for the lost infant. and upon the
assertion of one of tho by-stunGers that
| he could put breath into the infant, the
Blrl confessed her crime md showed the
place where it had been committed.
Fault is found with. the President for
wearing n shocking bad hut at Concord
and Lexington, and complaint is made
that Secretary Fish wore a hnmiug ban
danna on his throat. President NAV
appoint his every living relative to Office,
and give every old criminal in tho coun-
try chance, but when he appears in n
crowd OF American citizens wearing de-
cayed hat, and in company with a man
displaying ~ red handkerchief, he liz no
longer tit tor the exalted position to
which mysterious Providence has ele-
vntcd him
An Oshkosh despatch says it is re-
ported thnt the proprietors Of Morgan s
mills, the first building consumed in the
inte fire, hns sued the proprietors of
Spalding & Peck's mills for damages for
the destruction of their property, which
caught fire from spark from Spaldinc
" Peck's mills. 1t is customary for ali
mills to shut down on windy dmys, to
avoid fire. Spalding & Peck were asked
to shut down. but refused, and tho con-
ilaEriltion was the result If the trial
proves successful, numerous others will
follow.
| A countrylnan saunterod into "a hotel,
Yesterday. sat down by the stove, spread
his lobstor-h -hued paws out around the
periphery of the gas-burner like n shadow
on the wall. When he got pretty we'll
thnwcd out he "riz" up, surveyed the
room, and said: That WIS II mighty
brief summer we had" The inimitnble
soborness md enrncstness Of the speaker
added much to the effect Of this terse
ep:grammatic observation.
! [Iitusrite Herald.
To THIS, AT LAST. The spelling mania
has reached its highest development in
Madison County, Illinois, where girl
offers herself as prize to the ono of four
suitors who outspells the others. The
match will be held in school house, and
an admission fee oftwenty-Gve cents will
be charged, the proceeds to 30 toward
furnishing house for the young couple
| lie man who gets thnt woman for u wife
may count on having an interesting
spell.
A caveat for novel invention has been
filed ut the Patent Office. 1t is for o new
motive power, which is to be sort OF
cold steam generator from water and air.
The inventor clnims that it will super
cedo coal and wood Ebr oil purposes
except warmth md cot&ing. and that ii
will reyolutioniZe the present system of
motive power. The scientific experts
who have examined it state that the
invention is entirely practicable and will
be patented.
Brother Beecher may or may not he
guilty; no mny or MAY not have per.
jured himself like ~ Christian gcntlo.
mnn; the jury may or may not decide
against him; but let all this turn out as
it may, the world cannot look upon the
gorgeous array of female lovelincss
which has daily crowded the BROOKLYN
court room without coming inevitably to
tho conclusion TINT if Brother Becche,
~ not guilty it is his own fault
In the United States Court, in Charles
ton, on the 9Th, james Waties and james
Alexander were indicted for stealing
from tho pos. Office. The grand Jury
returned true bills against Isaac McDuflie,
John Harris, BENZ. Moody and Thomas
Lowry, for stealing from the mails, and
JAS. W. Heyward for perjury. The eases
OF Jns. ". Hayward and jas. Mnloney
for falsely personating revenue officers
were continued until July term.
Mrs Thcn. Ouilrtto. of the Parish OF
st. Francis, \. t., died recently Mt thu
age of forty, leaving n husband and
twenty-five children to mourn her loss. =
1t must have been very hard for the poor
woman to leave her little flock of children
at her ngh but what m immense saving
of soothing syrup it would have been il
she hhl left her husband twenty Years
ago!
CONVICTED OF OurRAG1NG HIS DAUGHTER
A correspondent writing from Winfield
Putnam County, West Virginia, under
date of April 9th. says: ''Simon Milan,
held in our County jnil since August last
on the charge of Outrage committed on
his own daughter, was found guilty and
sentenced to ten years in the peniten.