The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1875-07-18

An electlOn Will be held on the oath Of
next month forthe Office Of Sheriff of
Fairfield, to fill the uHexpired term Of
u. W. Duvall, whose resignation was
accepted ut the last term Of the court.
There are several prominent candidates
IN the field, and we have no doubt TINT
the contest for the office will be pretty
| hot
"A TELEGRAPH OFFICE IN THE CLOUDS
The Western Union Telegraph is COM
plctln8 tower Of fifty feet in height on
the crest of the lofty Highlands of Never
sink. The operators, who arc to have
the most powerful glasses, will be able
to distinguish steamers and other known
vessels twenty miles out
An Indiana wife-murdcrer writes to
| the Judge who sentenced him to impri-
sonment for life: 81 intend to live n
christian life and hope to meet my be-
loved wife in that better land of promise,
where there will he no trials only ut the
bar OF our blessed Saviour"
There is such n thing, after all, MS
Keeping too cool this hot weather. A
richmond, Va, negro discovered this
fact when he died from plcurisy, the
other day, after having contracted that
malady by sleeping in n hammock in an
ice-ho"se on Il hot night, not long since.
The cotton congress, recently in ses-
sion at Raleigh, made sensible recon-
mendation to planters: To raise their
own provisions. It is now we'll demon
stratcd TINT no planter can buy his corn
and meat and keep out of the hands Of
the sheriff.
young girl named Giles, residing Mt
Mill Creek Station, near Pottsvillc, Pa.
who has been subject to epileptic fits for
several years, while washing floor re-
Gently had ON attack, falling forward with
her head In pail of water, and before
discovered she wns drowned.
Robert Schultz, the BROOKLYN man who
was shot byn burglar, last month, and
has just had his right out eye taken to get
Mt the ball, finds that he can now see n
great denl better than he used to with his
left eye, which has long been near
sighted.
MIR. Ezekiel Alexander, an old and
much esteemed citizen of Mecklenburg
County. N. c., residing near Hunters.
vile, fell dead, on Thursday afternoon,
Mt o'clock, while engaged in threshing
whent.
Under the regime Of President Grnnt
there has been one economy. In the bills
OF previous Presidents there was n repu-
lar yearly salary of $3.50 for books for
the library of the Executive Mansion. {"
Under Grant that salary disappears.
They don't wnnt any books.
Things nre very unequal in this world.
While that Austrian nobody, Hoyosprin-
zenstein, is made Minister to the United
States and covered with honors, poor Mr..
Storoskemodrachofskey is shut up in n
station-house at New Haven.
In Fourth of July procession Mt Bos-
ton, Gen. Butler WAS represented by nm
individual of "corporosity, strabisinus,
and badness, carrying an immense tin
spoon. Thus is the Essex statesman in
suited on his native heath.
The impensc cannon now being con-
structed mt Woolwich, England, will cost
the British Government fully So, 500, 900.
Such cannon costs more than IN Ame-
rican college; but then it may be ex-
pcc.ed to send forth more ponderous
material.
Two of the largest manufacturing firms
IN PittsburS have purchased one Of the
large gas wells in Butler County, Pm,
and propose to demonstrate the practica-
bility OF bringing the gas to that city
without the loss of inilnmmable power
The distance is about eighteen miles.
Another ovation was rendered to Mr..
Reecher, Mt his Peekskill County seat, on
Monday evening, by the people of that
village. Peekskill is very loyal" to
Beecher, and the best hotel in tile town
has been named by courtesy the Beech
cr House."
y Gallatin lawyer, who once thought
about committing suicide himself, says:
'Thc suicide is an audacious criminal
who, with m utter contempt for earthly
justice, carries his case to q higher
court"
A Nashville minister has been making
improper advances to young lady, and
meeting of the church officials suspend
ed him from the ministry until the
meeting of conference. He should have
been suspended from tree.
A young man got into trouble ut n
spirltualist woman's sennce. He caught
hold of ''mnterialized" child introduced
by the performers, and it proved to be n
raS baby. For his interference he went
away with bloody nose.
When q Peruvian editor writes
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