The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1875-04-01

The gold necessities of the Treasury
for the next three months are SIG, 600, 900.
/ OF this 81, 600, 900 sre for interest on the
public debt, $50, 600. 900 for called bonds
for the sinking fund, and $4,000, 900 for
the diplomatic service and for the foreign
service of the navy. To meet this, the
Treasury now has $50, ,OOO,O 900. Three
months remain to obtain the remaining
$40, O0O,0 600. The estimates for receipts
for thnt period are S4O,000.00O. Of this
$1,000 large sum will go abroad
ONE MISSISSIPPI EDITOR KILLS ANOTHER.
a melancholy and fatal rencounter oc-
cured at West Point County, Miss, on
Thursday last, between ID. l.. Love, ESQ,
editor of the Citizen, and Col. Louis A
Middleton, editor of the Times, in which,
the latter was killed by ball from II
pistol in the hands Of Mr.. Love The
difficulty was non-political, and had it's
origin in paragraph in the Times
| intended rs q joke Mt the expense OF Mr..
Love, of the Citizen
1t IL with the profOunlest SORROW thut
we have to chronicle the very sudden
death of Mr.. Henry Hendrix, proprietor
of the Hendrix House." Of our village.
which occurred on Sunday morning last.
Mr.. Hendrix was one of our oldest fellow
townsmen. being il his S5th year. lie
leaves large circle Of relatives and
acquaintances, who have our deepest
sympathies in their aff1iction.
Lexington Dispatch.
| Ben. Butler says the Civil Rights Bill
does not apply to bnr-rooms AMI barber
shops; United States Commissioner in
New Jersey decides that the bill does not
apply to billiards; and n Judge of the
United States Circuit Court declares that
it does not apply to anything or anybody.
1t begins to look as if the bill was simply
n buS"boo-a mere br,aem ful,nen.
4 Washington special SAYS: ..No ac-
counts of outrnges at the South have
been received by the Department Of JUS
tlce or any other branch of the Govern
mcnt for some time, and it is now be-
lieved thut nothing further will be heard
Of them until the beginning of the DO
litical campaign in Pennsylvania and
Ohio next fall.
The military enrolment of destitute
persons in the grasshopper district of
Minnesota numbers over 5000. Rations
of pork and -four, and also army cloth
ing. will be supplied at once. There are
5000 destitute persons in Dakota Many
OF the sufferers are foreign born immi-
grants, without means of subsistence.
A petition bearing 5000 signatures has
been Prcscntcd to the Massachusetts
legislature, asking the incorporation of
the Boston and Chicago Railroad Trans
portation Company, intended to bo Il
grand freight line to the West and
South, and involving IA capital of $780,
600, 900.
Mr.. Jefferson Davis says of the late
John Mitchell: Together we struggled
for State rights, for the supremacy Of the
| Con st ifyftnn for
dence, and, after defeat, were imprisoned
together. As my friend, mourn for
him, and regret his death as loss TO
mankind.
Late Madrid advices indicate the politi-
col situation as becoming more embar-
missing. The efforts of the Government
In fuilinG to prosecute n vigorous cam
palgn against the CarliSts is considered
likely to lead to disatfection unfayorlble
to Alfonso among members of his court
and other officials.
Il costs the Shah of Persi, :, little to
buy bonnet for his wife. There are
fifty q: her. One case with that number
OF new bonnets was sent from Paris the
other 'lay directed to his Mnjesty Mt Te-
heran.
| Suicide orA GIRL. ---Ida, aged fourteen,
the adopted daughter of Thomas Hard
Ing, Of Westown, n. Y, committed suicide
with revolver. She lived but n few
hours, and would not tell the cause
Which led her to commit the deed
In Connecticut n man on trial for his
life is no longer subject to the stupidity
of jurors. His case may be given to two
Judges. who are expected to decide it
according to the best of their under
standing.
\ spruce gam famine is threatened in
Massachusetts,, the winter having de-
stroycd the spruce blossoms. Nanv
young women will b" either thrown out of
employment or forced to- turn 20 shoe
makers wax.
FIRE. The dwelling house %: Marl,
Crawford, colorci, WAS burnt one n;uh,
his. week. Three OF his children perishc,l
IN the fumes. His wife, with All infant
IN her arms. barely escaped !, horrible
death. jLuion SIR
For the first time since the ith of jan
uary last, the door, Of the State lIous, at
New Orleans were thrown open to the
public on Saturday last, and the people.
relatively free, are again in possession ui
their property.
Of thirty-four men belonging to the
fishing village of St Mnry's, coast of New
foundlnnd, who engaged in an adventure
to rescue ~ abandoned vessel in the ice.
thirteen were frozen to death.
Joseph Lomisberry, deserter from
the Union army, who killed Pennsyl-
vania Sheriff during the war. for at
tempting to arrest him. has just been