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

uc1et, the person purchasing can legally
claim a seat, "A person in New York
State was recently elected from o palace
car, In which he had taken n seat, be-
cause he could find none in any of the
llother caf He brought snit against the
company, and the court awarded him
81, 600 damages.
80, gracious, no" exclaimed Mrs. Mar
rowfat to Mrs. Quoggs, raising her hands
and speaking In IL very excited tone.
"She was so i'll when her new bonnet
came home, that She couldn't get up:
but, dear snakes! Jane, that didn't matter
lay with her head out OF the window the
whole afternoon"
"Shal women," exclaimed Lucy
Stone, in public lecture mt Providence,
the other day, "ieave their children. at
home and neglect them while they go
to vote:" Just at this point little in
fant, that had. been quietly sleeping in
its mothers arms, awoke, and, in protest
to some motherly correction, cried out
Justify, "No-o-o!,'
1t is said that ga woman of culture
skins over scandal like q bird, never
touching it with the tip of q wing"
This is not the case in BROOKLYN, where
women Of every sort have for months
past been plunging heels upward into a
sea Of scandal and foundering there
like dolphin in the waves.
A few days ago, a cclored boy was
burnt to death by the explosion of
kerosene lamp at Grnniteville. He was
passing the table on which the lamp
stood, when it exploded and dashed the
burning oil oil over him. He screamed
for assistance, but before it reached him
he was fatally burned.
Cortinn, the brigand Mayor of Mato.
moras, is said to be organizing o gigan-
tic raid into Texas He has defied his
own Government, and between the Tex
ans and President Lerdo's effort, it is
possible he may be extinguished, nj
though he has large body Of desperate
men under him.
BROOKLYN EprrHErs.-Mr. Evarts says
that the East River Bridge, when finished,
should be loaded with train full of
Brooklyn epithets, and If it will bear
that, 1t will bear anything. But will he
not give his colleague, Porter, passage
on that train2
1t in said that the bonds of the State
held by Mcssrs. Morton, Bliss & Co.. of
New York. as collateral security, were
sold at auction and brought 341 on the
dollar. These figures are an improve
ment on prices realized at a former
sale.
If colored theological student in
Mississippi concludes his course of stu
dies and writes his first sermon without
being shot in the leg for fooling around
q hen-coop, he is considered promising
man.
CHILDREN BURNED TO DEArH.-Four
children. one an infant, of D. II. Chris
tain. at Versailles, Ohio, were burnt to
death last Wednesday, by the explosion
them was endcavoring to. .kindle fire.
The experiment of sSi imming across
the English Channel vi accomplished
by Paul Boyton, with tle aid of his life
saving apparatus. He was in the water
about twenty-four hours.
Judge Cook hns complied with the re-
quest of number of citizens of Pickens,
and will hold no court in that County in
June. 4 special term may called here
after.
Mrs. Keen, of Springfield, declined to
allow her daughters to take part in spell
ing match, because she heard somebody
say that knotty words would be given
out
There is young woman in Anoka,
bHnn.. who can't boast of saving much
wood, but she got mud the other day,
picked up her lnrge old mother and
pitched her out OF q window.
A little girl, hearing her teacher spoken
OF as pains-takinS woman, remarke thatd
the scholars were the "pains-takinest,"
for they were whipped III around every
day.
Mr.. Charles Gray, merchant of Ha-
milton, Ont, who has been suffering
from brain disorder. committed suicide
by shooting himself through the head.
This years Western grass-hoppers are
said to be so pnnny that they are dying
of rapidly. They don't seem to endure
over-eating like their sturdy progenitors.
a young immigrant in Northern Cali
fornia writes buck to warn others that the
girls there are all from Boston, and that
stimulants are twenty-five cents drink.
This is a net gain, said q witty girl,
who found n valuable silk hair net hang
ing to the fringe of her shawl, upon her
return home from an evening lecture.
We think it no more than right that
men should seize time by the forelo..i,
for tho rude old fellow, sooner or later.
pulls all their hair ont.
A Cincinnati paper says that recently
in that city five women spent two long
hours in making selection Of one sim
pie little straw hat.
The Saratoga chap who married girl
last summer, having fallen in love with