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

The gold necessities Of the Treasury
for the next reemonths are SIG, OOO., 900
Of this $44, OO0, 900 are for interest on the
public debt, $50, 900, 900 for called bonds
for the sinking fund, and So, 600, 600 for
the diplomatic service and for the foreign
service OF the navy. To meet this, the
Treasury now has S5G, 900, 900. Three
months remain to obtain the remaining
$50, 100000 The estimates for receipts
for that period are $40, 900, 900. OF this
S76,OOO,O0O, 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 d. l.. Love, Esq,
editor Of the Citizen, and Col. Louis A.
Middleton, editor of the Times, in which
the latter was killed by u ball from n
pistol in the hands of Mr.. Love. The
difficulty was non-political, and had it's
origin in paragraph in the Times
intended rs joke Mt the expense OF Mr.
Love, Of the Citizen.
1t is with the profounlest sorrow that
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 in his 85th year. He
leaves large circle of relatives and
0c1uaiatancos, who have cur deepest
sympathieS in their affliction.
Lexington Dispatch.
Ben. Butler says the Civil Rights Bill
| does not apply to bar-rooms AMI barber
| shops; United States Commissioner in
New jersey decides that the bill does not
apply to billiards; and 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
bug"boo-a mere br,aem filnen.
Washington special says: ssNo ac-
counts of outrages at the south have
been received by the Department of JUS
tice or any other branch of the Govern
ment for some time, and it is now be-
lieved that nothing further will be heard
of them until the beginning of the po-
litical campaign in Pennsy1vania 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
6,Wo destitute persons in Dakota Many
OF the sufferers are foreign born immi-
grants, without means Of subsistence.
petition bearing 1000 signatures hns
been presented to the Massachusetts
Legislature, asking the incorporation of
the Boston and Chicago Railroad Trans-
portation Company, intended to be n
grand freight line to the West and
South, and involving capital of s3O.-
| 600, 600.
Mr.. Jefferson Davis saws of the late
John Mitchell: Together we struggled
for State rights, for the supremacy Of the
Constitution, for community indepen-
dence, and, after defeat, were imprisoned
together. AS my friend, I mourn for
him, and regret his death as a loss to
mankind.
Late Madrid advices indicate the politi-
col situation as becoming more embar-
rassing. The efforts of the Government
In falllng to prosecute q vigorous cam
paign against tho Carlists is considered
likely to lead to disaffection unfayornble
TO Alfonso among members of his court
and other officials.
It costs the Shnh Of Persia II little to
buy bonnet for his wife There are
nifty of her One case with thnt number
OF new bonnets was sent from Paris the
other daj. directed to his Majesty Mt Te-
heran.
SUICIDE ORA GIRL. aged fourteen.
the adopted daughter of Thomas Hard
inS OF Wcstown, n. T., committed suicide
with revolver. She lived but a few
hours. and would not tell the cause
which led her to commit the deed.
In Connecticut, man on trial for his
life is no longer subject to the stupidity
OF Jurors. His case may be given to two
Judges, who ore expected to decide it
according to the best of their under.
standing.
spruce gam e,,mine is threatened in
Massachusetts,, the winter having de-
stroycd the spruce blossoms. Nany
young women will be either thrown out Of
employment or forced to turn TO shoe
makers wax.
FIRE. The dwelling house of Mark
Crawford, colOred, waS burnt one NIGHT
hast week. Three OF his children perishcd
in the flames. His wife, with an infant
III her arms. barely escaped II horrible
death. .'hu'ion Star.
For the first time since the ith of JAN
uary last, the doors of the State House at
New Orleans were thrown open to the
public on saturday last and the people.
relatively free, are again in possession OF
their property.
OF thirty-four men belonging to the
fishing village Of st. Mnry's, coast of New
foundland, who engaged in an adventure
to rescue an 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
overhauled.
Prof Tica of ST T,ouis DraJ;,t, +bo4