The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1875-06-12


woman can feel any sentiment for n man
who travels around in his night shirt of
n hot summers eve, with q suualling in
fant dangling over his shoulder. It is
then TINT she stops calling him .Dar-
ling" and descends to such common
place observations rs John Camtire. be
careful how you hold that baby"
On Sunday last, the unfinished resi-
dence of Mr.. &. S. Shiver, in Orange
burg, was burnt to the ground. 1t was
insured. On the following day, IL CO.
lorcd man was captured at LcWisyille,
and is suspected of being the incendiary,
as he had m assortment Of plumber with
him. He wns captured by n party of
colored men, who had to shoot him three
times before they could arrest him.
The total debt of New Orleans is
S24 ,O20, G52; assets 81 I,4GS, 500. The
yearly budget exhibits n deficiency of
nearly $50O,U00. a project has been
brought forward to liquidate the bonded
debt OF tlmt city by sort of lottery
arrangement known rs the "premium
bond plan, and it is approved by many
OF the bond holders
Tie voice of Roscoe Conkling is
strangely silent in the political wrnngle.
No man knowcth whether he is lying
low for the Presidency or whether he has
retired to voluptuous quiet, there to
train the curling lock his forehead boasts
to twist and neartly twine itself thereon
and deck the timely corrugations swcctly
DER.
THE SMALLPOX IN New YORK. The
number of deaths in New York from
smallpox for the week just ended num-
bered l2G, m increase of over the pre-
vlous week. a large number of vacci-
nntors hive been appointed, who have
| nation.
The Detroit Free Press says of newly
invented outdoor game they play ut
Troy, that lit is IL cross between base
ball and croquet, and you have chance
| baseball affords no such chance is the
chief reason why We have persistently
refused to adopt it MS profession.
| A colored man, named Abram John
son, has been arrested in Washington
and turned over to Chief of Police Alley,
of Spnrtanburg. He is charged, in CON
nection with others, with the murder OF
Dr. Z. c. Shell, of Laurens, in 1868.
Johnson has been livingGn the capital
city with his family, for several years
The dominant party must buy off Annn
Dickinson ii they expect to be elected
again. She is going about the country
saying: "Most of the peoples represent
tativcs are men whom no one would
cntrust with the key Of his Office for m
hour, or with the key of his safe for ten
seconds"
AT n meeting of the Board of Directors
of the Texas Agricultural and Mechuni-
cal College, held at Bryan on the 2d in
stant, the salary of the president of the
institution WAS fixed Mt $4,000, and a
committee was appointed to confer with
Jefferson Davis and tender him the
position.
A drowning accident occurred at Cam
bridge (Boston) yesterday afternoon, by
the sinking of n scow. Seven laborers
were on the scow mt the time, which was
heavily laden, and sank from sudden
squnll blowing the water on board, md
three Of the men, who were unable to
swim, were drowned.
Mr.. Melton J. Buckner, one of the
Oldest citizens of Savannah, died in that
city, on Tuesday last He was q native
of Beaufort County, S. c., but settled in
Savannah some forty years ngo. He was
q graduate of the South Carolinn College
Mt Columbia.
q The bottom has not dropped out o.
everything. We are sure Of it. for We
recently sat down on q wood bottomcd
chair OH which tack was standing on its
head. We Immediately arose with re.
ncwed confidence in our agility.
How doth the busy little pig improv,
each shining hour, and gather snusnges
"ll day from every opening flower: and
when the shades of twilight fall, Ii,
slumbers in his sty, or sings his prett,
evening hymn, "Root, little pig, or die
An interviewer tried to get something
out of Butler, touching Grants letter
Nay" said Bully Bon; Il renouncc the
Devil and MI his works" This is said
to be the most sudden conyertion on
record.
One acre of ground contains 43, SCI
square feet: $3.50 feet make one mile
G6 feet make one chain; 792 inches make
one link. One ten-ccnt cigar per day
for one year costs 5000; four bnrrcls o
flour mt )? per barrel costs 33G
The Portland Packing Company
works ut Dcdhum, Mass. were burnc,