The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1875-06-05
The Brooklyn Board of superviaior.

trial into verdict for Beecher, by re-
fusing to take action in the matter of
compensation for jury service until the
trial is over, although the Legislature
authorized them to allow Ave dollars n
day extra. If the jury 60 against
Beecher they will only get two dollars
per diem. 1t is very contemplate
trick OF the supervisors.
In Paris they make two eggs out of one
by cutting the she'll with GLACIERS dia-
mond and then slicing the egg quickly
with an oiled knife. The two halves are
deity dropped into boiling butter on the
plate. Which fixes" them, making them
look like two, and for which the custom
er-who has not seen the performance,
Nys without suspicion. Who couldn't
pay the Gcrrlans their indemnity and
get back to specie payments in three
years with such gains?
Not long since, two or three Iinanciers
Oh Liverpool went i'll big spec. in rice
They realized and nettcd large profit.
| Pleased with their success, they resolved
! to celebrate the lucky coup by little
spread. party of six sat down to din
ner the bill came to s45O-just G75 "a
head. Ten dozen chickens were killed
to provide one dish composed solely Of
tho ''oyster cuts" out of the backs, and
.cl01 was spent in flowers anil decora-
| tions for the room.
If the flames continue their deadly
work much longer insurance men will
be the bluest looking mortnls on the
earth. Every loss is on large scale: il
is not Il house here and there, but whole
towns, neighborhoods and business
blocks which nre going down before the
devourlng elo.nent. With MI our in
ventions. it seems we nre comparativclv
powerless before wcll-organized in
yasion Of fire.
Old Aachnriah Jackabee, Mt Rocky
Guleh, Nevada, is n ''forty-niner," who
has been through the mill. The other
day he hobbled mp to party of new-com-
ers and observed. Tend to yer business
boys, and yell be all right. I've been
here nigh thirty years, and have been
lynched, shot at, stabbed, knocked down,
| thrown off mountain and mopped
around generally, but I'm here to-day,
biSger'n box car"
Apropos of the growing rage for tight
lacinS in Paris, Emily Faithfurs paper
says the whole tendency of modern fe-
male fashion is to render the form of n
woman rs nearly approaching to thnt of
n tlShtly-strapped umbrella as possible
| we'll dressed young woman in the pre-
sent day is figure laughable enough
for Christmas pnntorlime or STRAND"
extravaganza.
At "a prayer meeting an old man got
up and prayed for n son now in felon's
cell for the crime of murder. Another
old man tremblinSly joined his prayers,
adding that he, too, had had n son, but
he hal been murdered. Their names
We're made known. and the fathers of
| Edward S. Stokes nnd james Fisk, Jr.,
stood, for the first time, face to face.
distinguished Georgia divine, while
preaching sermon in Augusta, made
use of the following expression: "When
time shall hang up his scythe he will be
no mower. Strange to say, that con-
gregation got up after the pronouncins
OF the benediction, left the church, and
month afterward little boy happened
to see the point
| a Wisconsin Adventist" having bid
farewell to worldly things, in confident
anticipation of the end Of the universe
last month, his worldly wife abused his
confidence by eloping with another ad-
ventitious gentleman, whom she had
wllcd the while he wildly waited for his
ascent instead OF staying at home to
manifest his dissent.
| Acsiueut-OI. q. w. 1nrker; Vice.
President-Wm. Gloze; Directors-Or-
lando Z. Bates, G.. e. Newton, F. w.
McMaster, John Mckenzie, VIM. Wal
lace, M. Fl. Berry. Thomas Boyne, f. H.
heinitsh and r. L. Bryan; Secretary and
Ircasurcr-OrlandoZ Z. Bates
a Washington special to the Courier
journal says: "Attorney-General Pierre
/ pont is preparing list Of United States
3lnrshnls and District Attorneys to be
removed between now and the 1st july
next. Most of those to be removed are
located in the South"
Cardinal McClosky confirmed GOO
children at one church, New York, on
Tuesday. After this service, he allowed
forty priests to knccl to him and kiss his
sapphire ring. The weather was quite
warm, and on the whole it is better 10 be
IL Cardinal in cold weather.
The Cincinnati Enquirer says it NAV
yet become necessary to send the army
and navy up to New Hampshire. and
expresses the hope that this may he done
in order TINT the folks in New England
may know how it is themselves
The Pullman sleeping cars will soon
be discontinued on Southern roads-the
Lucas improvement taking the place.
This new invention has many advnn-
tages over the Pullman. They are light
er, better ventilated and much cheaper.
| In MOURNING. Jake" said rather
seedy-looking negro to friend, .hev
you got black wesket to spare for few
days?" What for. Abe?" '.Oh, I lost
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