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

We sawlon yesterday, the beautiful
iron ornament presented by Maj. John
Alexander, of Columbia, to Mrs. Cleve-
neatly painted, and will add much to
the architecture of the front.
Greenrile Ne,cs.
A Western contemporary, chronicling
the suicide.of a melancholy agriculturist
who hanged himself from q rnfter in his
barn, asks itself ''if the wretched man
had any thought OF hereafter?" Mani
testify he must have thought of this here
rafter.
Eleven wagons, heavily loaded with
the County records, hive arrived in
Blackvillc from Barnwell. The records
are now in the Blackville Court House,
the titles to which have been reinvested
In the people. There is great rejoicing
Secretary Robeson is reported to
have said that the Pennsylvania third
term resolution was n ''cowardly yield
ing to public clamor." That "clamor." &"
however, has evidently unsettled some
deep laid plans.
| My dear, said n husband, in startled
tones. after waking his wife in the mid
die of the night, II have swallowed n
dose of strychnine?" "Well, then, do for
goodness sake lie still, or it may come
up"
At the meeting of the Grand Lodge of
Colored AIasons. of New York, on
Wednesday, the Grand Master said the
colored members and lodges had been
sadly impoverished and disheartened by
the failure of the Frecdmans Bank.
A despatch from Washington states
that the President has been receiving
daily, since the publication of his third
term letter, numerous letters from all
parts of the country, congratulating him
upon that document.
1t is reported that ns soon rs the trial
is over, Brother Beecher is going to
Jerusalem. Then, he doesn't believe in
Nlahomet's story Of Paradise and the
Houris, or he would go to Mecca.
dictionaries exchanged for caramels, t"
says o piacard in Chicago candy store.
The girls of that city will certainly par
ticipate in the spelling matches now that
there is market for the prizes.
4 little four-ycar-old woke up very
carly one morning, and seeing the full
moon from the window, he innocently
remarked: ~ should think it was about
time for bod to take that moon in"
| For the race-horse Kangaroo the Mar
1uis of Hasting once paid IL, 900 puincas
say SG3, 200. This horse now goes in
front of London cab Mt sixpence mile.
Flcissitudes Of great families.
The body of on old colored woman,
named Mary Fripp, was found on Port
Royal Island, recently. The dogs and
buzzards had fearfully mutilated the
remains.
Why call him the ''groom" as eight
out of ten people do? A sroom's bust
ness is to look after horses. A bride
Sroom's business is to look after his wife's
mother.
There is no use wasting the voyage of
life in preparation for it. One may sail
by the old chart, and find OH. as much
about the universe as by drifting.
negro child was killed on last We'd
nesday morning at Rock Hill, by dose
of morphine administered to it for calo-
mel by the mother
''1s this the Adams House?" asked a
| stranger of Bostoninn. Yes" was the
reply, ''its Adams House until you get
to the roof, then it's caves"
They wondered ut the short collections
in Missouri church, and investigated
to find that one of the collectors had tar
in the top of his hat.
A traveller called for mint-sauce at a
hotel the other day, and the waiter said
that they had none. adding: "Our cook
makes all the mince into pies, not sauce. F."
The italian brigands are holding an
English mother-in-law for ransom, and
the son-in-law says they can hold her
and be disappointed.
Twenty buildings were destroyed by
fire in the village of Chatsworth, Ontario,
yesterday Loss S37, 900.
Died from the effects of mixed collat
erals. are the fashionable words for
dclirium tremens.
bride in silk and groom in his
shirt sleeves. recently sat down to dinner
Mt Troy hotel.
ObStinacy and vchcmency in opinion
are the snrcst proofs of stupidity.
| Those who ca. but little meat recover
quickest from wounds
Show may be easily purchnsel: but
happiness is n homemade article.
Dr. S. L. Owens, of Barnwell, died
| last week.
| Funeral Invitation