The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1875-04-20

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dec bro theirs, confined in Charles
ton Jail under sentence of death for
murder of Staten Ianier. While
administering spiritual consolation
the. preacher said: Glow happy
You should ibe, to know the very
day on which you viii meet the
Lord how much better than I,
who do not know where I will 20
when / die" These words of cheer
were addressed more particularly
to The, two brothers, whose sentence
had on that day been commuted to
imprisonment, 4 of which fact, it
seends, the preacher WAS not in
formed. The brothers, who, had
been made aware of, their good
fortune, answered the preacher by
saying: :tN'Wee's excused, md are
no better of. ,as far as meeting dc
Lord is concerned, dan you," the
preacherI x1 The divine looked
somewhat puzzled, but realized the
true state pft affairs when George
Hardee, the brother who is to be
hung, said: "I'm de-. ono-I'm to
meet de 'Lord on next friday
PPaazzrs' R1aHTs.-By the deci-
sion of q New York, Court of Special
Sessions, q fman has been, sent to
prison for boxing his sons ears,
The ypungster. who is, about nine
years of age, objected to having his
cara TAApped, and applied for q
warfsnt fof his; fathers arrest.
Tho NARRATIVES granted, and
though tue con failed to appear in
court, the father, on his own admis-
mon that he slapped the boys ears,
was sent. to jail for five days. ~
AaDetroit doctor Informs the
r&sess that sno king is injurious
amply because '.it interferes with
molecular change coinGident with
the development Of the tissues, and
makes the blood corpuscles, oval
and irregular at the edge" This is
precisely what we have told smokers
tho5and times or more; but
strange as it may seem, it has re-
duced the importation of cigars
scarcely twenty per cent. Dii
The sil9erware for the great
Palace Hotel at San Francisco cost
$50, 900; and among it's features is
quite a novelty, in the shape of sill
YER caddies, with four compartments
for as many different kinds of tea,
which will be set before the gnest
at the table, with scalding water of
hand, that they may help them
selves to the leaf and make their
tea after the Chinese fashion.
Georgia papers boast of "the
ugliest and smartest set of repre-
sentatives that any State will have
in Congress.' They are represent
ed to be, jointly and severally,
physically puny and ugly in a
unanimous and awful degree.
The Supreme Court of Michigan
has decided that the consent OF the
parties is all that is requisite to
make . marriage valid, and that no
ceremony is necessary-the same
doctrine that has already been laid
down IN several States. ~ :" ..
Several new railways are pro-
jected In japan. .Telegraphic COM
munication lis enoW ,oeatabiahed
between allthe importantJ Japanese
cities ~ ,ilan oir6aiN "a hir1 ~ 4
..ir'p q Is .DItIii.u {,i6 ..H'i, =
A,PrussiAn physician offers q
new thing which does away with
physic. He washes the stomach
by machinery ghroagh 4 l rubber
pipe. e M h9a 10 1aaqO
Ai;Nsw York iatS couldn't, ,decias
whether silK Dresses ( we're y khs
''necess6rias lbf kfaS Most ..Sspyy
worhsH could hXye tod them. " ~ -
AfhumpT sspct tkecsriy \ exposes i. , ei;
o case 81 sosp in' his show window,
with thsNsyypaytin inscription,
"cheaFs: Nan dirs.a S.
'a7Ja3l lodits 3 lfoss a,