The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1875-03-19
= FouR PrRsuNs BURNED TO DEATH. :

l AH .AISe hV4S6s, large tnre0I story
wooden building. at Gloucester, Mass,
was destroyed by fire recently. SO
rapid was the spread Of the flames
thes she occupants OF the building
escaped with great difficulty. Julia
Kelley. an employee. was taken from
the second story dead. The oharred
bodies Of Hector Skinner and @.
Smith, boarders. and Margaret Wal.
ton, an employee, were found in the
ruins this morning.
At last here is a new fancy in the
prestidigitation line. He borrowed a
bonnet from lady in the audience,
and as he was about to return it, it
caught fire in the gas. and he had to
stamp on it with both feet to extin-
guish the flame. Misery of the ladyl
1t was her best bonnet. Then he fred
pistol. and o bonnet just like it fell
from tbs chandelier in the middle of
the theatre.
The culture Of trees in the United
States Is becoming quite extensive.
Under the Act OF Congress, Offering
l6O acres OF land to any person who
would plant forty acres of them to
trees and cultivass them for eight
years, about l. 100 persons, it is stated,
bad taken up ITO. ZOO acres of land in
Minnesota up to January. The de-
mand for young trees to set out this
spring in Oalifornia is quite great.
Twelve years ago an efficient Micbi.
gan ,,prGsed duting attorney nearly ronred
away his l1pga .in convictine HeiirT
SuitFBg murder, and Henry has bsaS
10 the 'pehitentiary ever since. NOT
the friends'of the prisoner are tying
to prochrea pardon for him, the mnr.
dered man huviug died short time
ago, oonfessing that the murder had
never taken place.
An exchange notices it as singu-
lar fact. that in their correspondsaoe
with each other, Mr.. and Mrs. Tilton
never called each other pet names, but
alWays having it plain Theodore and
Elizabeth. 1t ia little singular, to be
sure; but Theodore has given Eliza.
beth pet name which it is to be fear.
ed will cling to her for the rest OF her
life.
A conductor in Burlington, Iowa,
was recently made happy by having
voted to him badge, at o public fair.
Being called upon for speech, he
was hustled upon the platform.
Looking round for moment he ejacu.
lated "Tickets!" and retired. It was
80 effective that the band couldn't pIsy
for ten minutes.
Every species of snake may be per-
manently driven away from n infested
place by planting geraniums. It is
Will known that the whole gerenium
genus is highly redolent of volatile
oils-lemon scented, musk scented and
peppermint scented. What, therefore,
is very pleasant nosegay for man is
repugnant to the serpent tribe.
The New York Graphic has discover
ed remedy for Pinchback, viz: To
send him as perpetual United States
Minieter Plenipotentiary to the Re-
public OF Liberia. II he was like
some other Ministers he would be
loafng at home over half the time, so
nothing would be gained.
"Fhe evidence in favor of Mr.
beecher g.ows stronger as it pro-
crosses, says the Chicago Inter- Ocean.
This Is also the paper which says:
"The bene6cent mission of the Re-
publican party il not ended" One
declaration is' abont as weighty as the
other.
'The proportion of the married
among the insane is smaller than that
of the unmarried" Undoubtedly. A
man who hus to scratch around and
make living for his wife aud eleven
children couldn't be insane if he
wanted tc. He hasn't the time.
1.-The Chicago Lnte,'- Ocean has done
good service" says the Albany Journal,
''in acquainting the country with the
truth about the South" This Of O
newspaper which never refers to the
South without violating every princi-
pie Of truth.
A scientist has iust appeared who
says lie can tell the origin and history
OF people by simply looking at their
feet. He thinks that the site of the
present city Of Columbia must have
once been occupied by elephants.
Since the passage of the Civil Rights
Bill, business has increased with the
Pennsylvania Colonization Society.
Eighty eight Alabama negro families
have applied for transportation at once
to Liberia. This is significant fact.
The Nashville Union and american
says q singular development of OWL
rights has occurred in that revenue
district. T. w. Sykes, the only negro
gauger. has been turned out OF Office
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