The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1875-05-09

DEATH OF A GALLANT Ex-CoSFxpEEArr
Dir. Allen Il. Shaw, manned Confcdc
rate soldier, who was member of Capt.
r. J. Wilson's company. 4Sth Georgia
Regiment. Wrishts Brigade, during the
war, and who WINS severely wounded ut
the bnttlc Of Mechanicsvillc by n musket
ball which struck his right hip and dis
abled him, died Mt his residence near
Augusta lust Wedn estlay.
Thirty-six jurors were drawn in Lar.-
rens County, the other day, of whom six
we're whites and thirty blacks. This is
understood to be n put-up joh in order
to get true bills against number OF gen
tlemen charged with being ku klnx
Judge Moses has made threats that he
intended to have true bills found against
the last one of them.
The County Commissioners Of Sumter
will decline to effect any settlement Will,
Treasurer Gardner except upon the basis
of their checks-the latter holding n
large amount of paper which snid Com
mlSsionerS refuse to receive or acknow-
ledge rs paid out by them. The matter
will likely so into the courts.
DEATHS. Died, at her residence, in
Piokens, on the 2Sth uls:, Mrs Elendcr
Griffin, wife of Mr.. Anderson Griffin.
aged sixty-six years. At the residence
of her husband, Capt. VIM NJ Orr, on
the 4th instant Mrs. Jane L. Orr, who
had been in delicate health for IL long
| time.
DESTRUCTION OF 4 TnwS Y FIRE. =
fire broke out ut J. Is o'clock, Mt Marshall.
Texas, on tho 7th, in the block Of stores
Northwest Of the Court House. Every
building VAS destroyed Loss roughly
estimated at S1l0, ,OG0: insurance So0,OOU
to $50, 900.
At the anti-Mlsonic Convention, in
Hartford, the other day. the Rev. Mr..
linthhun read nineteen or twenty verses,
'describinS the JOY II seeding ROYAL
Arch Mason felt on being cmancipnted
from the chains thnt bound him"
COMMITTED. Allen Gillian, Il colored
youth. WAS committed 10 jail on last
Saturday, churgeG with committing n
henionS crime upon the person OF n
white woman. in tine nei.hborhood Of
Table Rock.
Among the presents at Il wooden we'd
ding i'll Allentown, Pa. the other night.
WAS IN immense cake. This was re-
served for the last: ana when they came
to cut it they found it to he only II
checse-box covered with icing.
A person was told that three Yards OF
cloth, by being wet, would shrink one
quarter of n yard. well, then" he in
quired, eff you should wet quarter of
II yard, would there be any left?"
An experiment which has been tried
i'll Chicago and proved aminently sue
cessful is that of placing boxes for the
collection of mail matter on the street
cars.
Everidge Cain, an ex-member of the
Legislature and public school teacher in
Abbeville, has been arrested for assault
and battery with criminal intent upon
the person of cOlored woman.
The tornado, M usual, did no end of
damage to the citizens of the County OF
Lexington. Major Meetzes house was
badly damaged.
INJURED.-The Pickens Sentinel is in.
formed by some Of the farmers that their
wheat has been considerably injured by
the recent frostS.
There is only one black man in Wash
ington County, Indiana, and SO tho civil
rights law doesn't worry thom much in
those parts.
The ship Henrietta, the largest vesse
ever built in South Carolina, was success
fully launched at Bucksville, on the 2Ott
ultimo.
KILLED. ALL the peaches in the Pick
ems section have been killed, and bu
few apples escaped the same fate.
The gin honse of Mrs. N. p Garner
near Timmonsville, was blown down b,
the storm of Saturday last.
The Viceroy of Egypt has 500 wives