The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1875-04-06

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j. Fl. Welley, Greenwood.
Albany hns had her nobleman too; it
was Count Barli. OF course he was
rogue in gaain. BY any other name he
did not smell as wheat, 30 when they
detected his imposition he acknow-
ledeed the corn and left to escape O
thrashing.
Wolf scalps are received in payment Of
taxes in Missouri at the rate of five dol-
lars scalp. The legislative committee
appointed the other day to burn the scalps
accumulated in the last two years de-
stroyed about So. 900 worth.
Lord Chief Justice Cockburn's charge
to the jury in the famous Tichborne case
has just been published. In size it
equals Gibbons ''History of the Decline
and Fall of the Roman Empire"
eye living men, come view the ground
whore you must shortly lie," is what
lady told young lawyer who was called
upon to assist in dedicating o court
house.
Red used on railroad signifies dan
ger. and says stop. It should be 80
construed when displayed on mans
nose.
A Kansas editor accuses another Of
''plagueyism. The spelling school
MANN has not yet reached Kansas.
''Your son died rather suddenly, yes
terday of throat disese," is what AN Idaho
sheriff wrote to fond mother in Indiana
the other day.
One does not know, until oft times too
late, how much he loses by failure to
read the advertisements in daily paper
Try it to-day.
Marking the coming low-nccked
dresses, rural rooster says that lovely
woman is going to foam out over the top
of her clothes again.
Miss Jewell, daughter of the Post
master-General. shines and sparkles as
teacher in colored mission school in
Washington.
A Nebraska druggist got boy to take
big sniff OF hartshorn as a joke. Boy
kicked over a kerosene lamp; oil took
fire; loss on store 81 300. The druggist
is now driving team.
A Pennsylvania boasts that he makes
n soap that would '.wash politicians
character white as snow" There mus.
be good deal OF ''lye" about that soap.
a gentleman offered guest tiny
glass Of whiskey, saying Drink; that It
wont hurt you" "Ill be bound it
wouldn't" replied the guest. "even if it
WAS vitriol."
In dealing with furniture, remember
to keep water away from everything
soluble therein. oil from everything
porous, alcohol from varnish and acids
from marble.
The Mayor Of Richmond, Va, pro-
hibits the exhibition of the can-can in
that city, and has ordered the police to
tear down the hand-bills.
The colored people in Georgia have
! subscribed literally to the fund for the
relief Of the sufferers by the tornado in
that State.
Spinner's retirement will necessitate
the counting Of every dollar in the trsa-
sury vaults, amounting TO more than
100000, 900.
You will gain q good reputation if you
avoid those actions which you cens7ro
and blame in others. l>yf.
Eucalyptus trees, raised from seed and
only one year old, are already from eight
to fifteen feet high In Los Angeles
County, California,
The public debt of France nov
| amounts in round numbers to "a. .50O.-
lOO0, ZOO. sif rt,1. -l7,i
A negro man.in Henry County. Va. is
attended by . negro doctor, who treats
him for "a ground puppy in his sto-
McCully's Newfoundland dog, in Dam
VILE, Va, seized a mad COW and held IL
fast, thus saving the life of his owners
little child. 80 v(.
Cooper, Hswitt& Co.'S wire mills as
Trenton n. j., have been burned. LOSS
$4,000, including $1,000 pounds wire.
Women can practice law In Illinois,
Wisconsin, Missouri and Maine.
Let us State the matter briefly: IOA;
OIO; LOSE.
Mr.. John Webster, an aged citizen Of
Marlboro, died on the 26th nit