The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1875-06-01

tefe8rapheQ emperor William, entreat-
ing him to postpone operations until the
Berlin interview. He also instructed
the Russian Ambassador at the Court of
St James to suggest the cooperation of
Great Britain in behalf of peace. -.
TeIegraphie:.-Amerlcan News.
CHARLESTON, May 81. Arrived
Steamship South Carolina, New York.
SPa1SoF1ELp, Mass, May 3O.-A de-
structive Are occurred here to-day.
Forty buildings. including. a number of
business blocks, were burned. Loss
wAsHrxerox, May STA boy thought
to be Charley Ross, was found in Berry
Vile, Virginia. 3
The President has appointed Luther
j. Hewlett Appraiser OF Merchandise in
Louisville. 9A -
The Court of Claims to-day gave an
opinion in the cnse Of the Union Pecifc
Railroad Company. The suit was
brought to recover the. one-haff of the
amount earned for .G8rernment trans
portation, but now Withheld by the Go
veEnment to pay interest. advance when
the subsidy bonds mature. The Court
gave Judgment for the company in the
sum of S5l2, 600. The Court over-ruled
the motion for a new trial in the Elge
cotton case, in which ON award of $780,
600 had been awarded. The over-ruline
Is, without prejudice, and the motion for
new trial can be renewed by the United
States, if the books of the purchasing
agent Of the so-called Confederate States
can be produced, showing that Eloe sold
his cotton tolthe Confederate States Go
vernment. The evidence can be pre-
sented to the Chief Justice Of the Court,
who will remain In Washington during
the greater part Of the vacation. Several
additional afidavits were read by the
Assistant Attorney General, tending to
show that Elge sold his cotton to the
Confederate Government, and, there
fore, the claim was Improperly allowed.
The Court adjourned till Monday. the
29th of November next - ~
There has been q long confab at the
Post Office Department.. Col Scott an
nounoes that no cars of the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad will be allowed to pass
North Of Philadelphia, with OF without
the United States mail:' notwithstanding
this, the Post Once Department viii
give the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad the
New York mail o-p,orrow, which action,
it Is said, will delay It six hours at Phila-
delphia. Fifty employees discharged
from Pension Office.
Probabilities-For the South Atlantic
States, falling barometer, warmer South
east winds and partly cloudy weather.
For the Gulf States, tennessee and Ohio
Valley, Southerly winds, lower pressure,
warmer and cloudy weather, and posi-
bly, occasional rain.
The Government steamer Swatara,
from the transit Venus. expedition, has
arrived at New York.
The President leaves on Thursday.
Judge Pierrepont has issued circular
to the officials, whereby it is hoped there
will 5e modification in tine swindie OF
needless witnesses and other indirect
charges. "a
A Holyoke special says the latest esti-
mate of the Holyoke church disaster
gives the number OF dead as sseventy-one,
fatally burned twenty-five, otherwise
burned and wounded twenty-seven,
making total of 12O. Fifty-ive of the
dead are females and sixteen males.
Eight persons, all females, are missing.
1t is disputed whether both front doors
of the church were open and available at
the time of the fire. It is expected more
bodies will be taken from the ruins. A
public funeral of the victims will be held
to-day, at 1O'A. NJ. Some pitiful scenes
were witnessed yesterday, Us the bodies
were visited by friends for the purpose
of recognition. Paul Jeter was fright
fully burncd-his left arm mere stump
his face and neck almost charred. He
was held up by the officers, and his great
grief was painful as he recognized. in n
blackened corpse before him, the body
of his wife. An old woman of sixty
found the body Of her aged husband, her
only support, among the dead in the
school house. One woman, though
, quite dead, still retained her grasp on o
fan, with which she had endeavored to
qusneh the flames when they first started
in the church. The inquest has been
adjourned till Monday Another special
says several persons IN the church were
90 tightly vedged IN by providing to.
gothcr and by the pressure Of the beams,
that tho 6remen had to pull hard TO get
them out while tho flames were licking
around them, One mans hands came
OF ~ tho wrist, ono lost . leg and another
q foot, the limbs having been burned
and were uhabte toIbeAf the strain.
The Rey. j. II. Eccleeon has been
elected Bishop of lows by the Episcopal
Convention, on the sixteenth ballot, by
one majority. ~; - y
H. g. Mauher. who, three yesEs ago,
defaulted as postmaster at Winona
Mas, e8ain defaulted, and was arrested
In Charleston, MissouSi. 'i"Ts ~
The Government will sell $500, 900 In
gold on each Thursday In Juns ~ !
1850 persons perished id Asia Minor
by an eafthquAkA h''' .kf"@
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