The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1875-06-10
The Grand ,Arpy Of the Republic fair
~ smoth6red the statde Of f,incSld n

=, hpAth hfPy W Iue thepuDuC talr-
ly smoth6red the statue Of tincSld In
Union Square, New York. with flowers
on decoration day, and performed vor
shlpful acts to the stone image. No
flowers and no reverence were rendered.
however, to the statue of George Wash
lngton, which stands on the other side
OF the square. That neglected hero stood
marble emblem of salvable principle d.
| renounced and insulted
A special agent of the Treasury has
made brilliant hit ut Washington. by
|Ithe capture of n $40, 900 lace dress and
other lace goods, valued Mt $4,000,
which had been smugglcd into the
country and finally deposited with q
pawnbrokcr for 1886. They were form
erly the property of the Empress Euge-
ME OF France, and were sold with her
lewelry in England after the fall of the
second Empire.
California is now actually suffering
from the too sudden influx Of popula-
ton, and her papers are discussing the
| question, what is to become of the peo-
pie who are inconsiderately rushing into
her borders. Indeed, the wave of emf
grafton towards California Just now, is
spoken Of rs one Of the most singular in
the history of the movement of popula
ton, because there is no apparent reason
for it.
A Cincinnati woman says: II never
knew but one woman, in nv life, who
chose to make her husbands shirts. and
| confessed she liked to do it; and she had
nothing else to do; could leave them nny
moment; had some one else to make aiI
the button-holes; had ready-mnde
bosoms, and when she finished her half
dozen, was presented by her delighted
spouse with twenty dollars in green
backs. No wonder she liked it."
The philosopher J. N. has lived to see
his views approved and adopted by his
countrymen, and the recent reports Of
decoration day ceremonies must be plea
SAINT reading to the impecunious sage.
It has been ten years since he first IN
dertook to prove that the North and
South were both right, and now he has
his reward.
AN artesinn well has just been COM
pleted in Milwaukee, Wis, which proves
success. 1t is 1,O49 feet deep, ITO feet
OF which was bored through magnetism
lime rock, and 1874 through sandstone.
The water flows at the rate of 5000 CAL
Ions day.
Mrs Rose, of Connecticut, said she
| would hang herself if Rose wasn't home
| ut eight o'clock. When he came in at
night she was suspended to beam. cold
and dead, and he rubbed his hands and
whispered: There's woman who
couldn't tell u lie!'
1t has been given out at Washinutop
| that suit Ii to be commenced aQninst f.
A: Sawyer, recently Assistant Secretary
OF the Treasury, for some $40, 900 which
| he failed to pay over when serving as
Collector Of Internal Revenue in South
| Carolina.
"We read in de good book" saws q
colored Baptist brother down South,
..of John do Baptist of John de
Methodist" And that, says Charleston
correspondent of the New York Observer,
ern people are Baptists.
The Governor has appointed o. P.
Wheeler, Census-taker, Marion: F. D.
Mears, Census-taker Ornngeburc. pice
Girardeau, resigned; A. F. Browning and
W. H. Girardeau. Trial Justices, Orange
| burg; 5. Il. Mellichnmp, Notary Public,
Orangcburg.
The grand jury of Clarendon County
have presented the County Commission
ers for paying medical bills for persons
who arc not pnupers, and do not proper
~ come under the classification of ssin-
digent. and also for paying money for
work not done
j.. 3. johnson, q champion swimmer,
and Thomas Coyle. Of Chester, Pa, have
made arrangements to swim a match in
July for $1,000 side, in the Delaware
river, from Chester to Philadelphia; dis
| tancc sixteen miles.
| Beach says he will only speak two DAYS
| to the scandal jury. That will please the
jury. One of them, Mr. jefferson, hos
been ruined, financially, by being taken
away from his business so long.
The John Bolton O'Neale," the pas
! senger engine on the railroad from Able
vile to Hodges, has been doing service
for twenty-five years, nnd is now in good
running order.
The editors comprising the Alabama
press association, many Of them accom-
panied by their ladies, are in the city,
the guests Of the Buffalo press. They
visit niagara Falls to-day.
A stock man, named Phillips, shot
another, named Chabbucks, dead yester-
1l3y!; in st. Louis, during n quarrel.