The daily phoenix. (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, February 08, 1874, Image 2
COLUMBIA, S. C.
8it>d>>;Moralag.gebmaty 8,1B74,
Try ?11 Thlngn.
* Wo made so mo referoMo, yeaterduy,
to the course taken by Mr: J. P. Moore,
member of the Legislature from Green?
ville, in opposition to the Tax-Pay era'
Convention, which is to be held on the
17th instant. We do not oare to allude
any | farther to the mieoonoeption he
?'earned to be laboring nnder, that one
o! the prime objects of the convention
will be to repudiate the recent aotion of
the Legislature in passing the Funding
Ast, or to his viaws of its value as a set?
tlement. We do not any more than
Mr. Moore think it advisable for the
convention to take hold of this matter
at present. We hope that it will not.
It will be time enough whon we see how
it will be rooeived by the creditors, and
how the faith of tho State has been kept
in regard to it and kindred matters.
Bnt Mr. Moore, claiming to represent
his Conservative colleagues as well as
himself, enid something more, that
grates unpleaf-^atly on our ears. He
stated that a canons of the Conservative
members?more than thirty in num?
ber?had been held in Columbia, and
had resolved that the re-assembling of
the Tax-Payers' Convention at this time
waa unnecessary and impolitic, and not
likely to effeot any good purpose, and
that ? petition to Congress for relief
from the heavy hurdeus under which the
tax-payers of the State were laboring,
would verj likely meot with no response.
We added: ? |
"?'As the convention would certainly
??' meet, he thought it should memorialize '
the Legislature, before it appeals to
Congress, for redress; that he felt more i
hope at the present time of a returning ?
sense of justioe on the part of the Le
. gislature of the State, than ever before, 1
feeling confident that au appeal to it, if 1
? devoid of partisanship, the evils of i
strich complaint is made and felt, would (
vzeeeiveau earnest and siuaore consider?
ation, and doubted not that redress
would be obtained."
The views of these gentlemen are en?
titled to respect. They come from the
few Counties where conservatism still
baa a hold. The other portions of the
State, whiah have no representatives of
their own choice in the General Assem?
bly, whiob pay taxes, but have no voice
in levying them, or in determining what
their, amount shall be, which, feel the
unmitigated evils of the present state of
things, without having any ability to
arreat them, look anxiously for what aid
they can get from the more favored
Counties. The representatives of these
Counties are, in a moral sense, at least,
their representatives, too. The con
elusions to which they seem to have
some may be snch as meet the approval
of their immediate constituents, but
hardly do justice to the large con?
stituency ui Ine Stale, who u.o iu <?
different condition. The conviction has
sunk deep into the public mind that the
time; has oome when every effort that
promises anooesa most be made to bring
about a ohanga for the better. Buin is
upon as, and disgrace and dishonor not
far off. Are we to be told that there is
no remedy at all for intolerable out?
rage? Cannot the people meet calmly
' to oonsider their grievances and devise
suoh methods of relief as may seem
practicable? For our part, we see a
hundred things that ought to be done,
and we see immense danger to the pub?
lic spirit in a hopeless acquiescence in
wrong and in spiritless indifference to
right. We are not wedded to any por?
tionier form of organization or effort.
We desire that the attention of the
whole eonntry shall be directed in an
authoritative way by our own people to
our exaot oondition. How do we ex?
pect to reoeive auy benefit from the
general public opinion, or the comfort
of any sympathy from other communi?
ties, unless we have the intelligence sod
spirit to speak for ourselves, and to en?
lighten them iu the very peculiar and
anomalous oiroumstauces which press
us down into the dust?
We fully coincide in tbo advioe of
Mr. Moore, to move directly upon the
General Assembly with our mamorials,
petitions and remonstrances. We have
urged this a hundred times, and we be?
lieve that we have lost many good op?
portunities of aohieving some good re?
sults, by standing oil and letting things
go on from bad to wore. It will be
wise to try this course, even if it should
be barren of immediate fruits, just us
it will be wise to hold a convention,
evon if no good results. from it imme?
diately. The call of a convention, the
attitude of the peoplo, the development
of facts daily tuking plaoe, the damag?
ing exposures whioh let in light upon
the conduct of officials, have already
produced a perceptible effect upon the
party in power in the State. They be?
gin at last to appreciate the enormity of
the wrongs they have done. They are
reflected so powerfully back upon them
in the mirror of tho pnblio indignation,
that they canuot help bat eoo them. I
And oriminsls a*1 most of those who
lead them ijre, and?oo their trial before
the bar of tho public jastioe and the
pnblio opinion, Wo aro frilling to give
them?-the-benefit of the plea which Mr.
Moore- presents, that they feel a return?
ing aeoee of justice to an outraged and
deeply-wronged people, as they con?
template the wruok, _ devastation and
ruin they have wrought. By all moans,
let us remonstrate with them. Bj all
means, let ua demand reforms of abuses
from them. But we need not, therefore,
be precluded* from all othor resorts.
Lot us try all things, and bold fast that
which is good.
A Bon?l?"#i?eH.
The General Assembly, yesterday, in
both branches, was startled from its
propriety by the receipt of a billet-doux
from Treasurer Oardozo. This precious
epistle appears in another plaoo, and
when our readers peruse it, they will
not wonder at the consternation whioh
it produced. According to records in
the Treasurer's office, there remained ia
January, 1873, a balauoe of outstand?
ing bills payable of $192,724.96. In
?he same month, a committee, author?
ised by oouourrent resolution to regis?
ter outstanding legislative pay ocrtifi
oates and bills payable, reported that
they registered $260,506.85 of bills pay?
able?being 968,231 more than was re?
corded in the Treasurer's office. On
the 5th inat., a portion of this excess,
in the shape of a bill payable for $25,
300, was preseuted for payment at the
Treasury by the President of the South
Carolina Bank and Trust Company. It
was neither lettered, nor numbered, and
mere is no receipt whioh shows that
legislative certificates were given in ex?
change for it.* The Treasurer asserts
that he cannot find any evidence on his
records to show that the State ever re
seived any consideration for it. He.
ihoreforo, very properly raises tho ques?
tion, wnether it is a valid claim, and re?
fers the point to be further determined
and aeted upon by the General Assem?
bly. This body having authorized the
payment of the aluims of the South Ca?
rolina Bank and Trust Company, it is-a
pertinent inquiry, whether this irregu?
lar bill payable forms a part of them.
In any oase, the Treasurer caunot, as a
correct business man, or faithful public
officer, recognize it?boiug entirely
destitute of the marks which establish
validity.
The othor fact mentioned by tho
Treasurer in his communication is
equally astounding. The moneys of the
State attaohed and payment of creditors
stopped! Verily, this is humiliating.
Is there, or is there not, a good deal
that is rotten in this State of ours?
Have we arrived at pandemooium? No
wondar tb?t Senator Nanh, of Richlaod,
said that things looked squally. He
thought that in the terrible derange?
ment of affairs, the Sonate had better
remain in perpetual session and watch
over the government, lest its wheels be
blocked. A doubtful remedy for tho
evils of the times. They cannot be re?
medied by those who have caused them.
But we ahall see what we shall see. The
Senate appointed on the special com?
mittee to investigate these troubles and
report on Monday, Messrs. Nash, Dunn
and Gaillard, and the House, Messrs.
Hurley, N. B. Myers, Spears, Carter
and Holmes.
the static legislatur*:.
Saturday, February 7, 1871.
SENATE.
The Senato assembled at 12 M.
A message was received from tho
Houhc that the enacting clause of a So
nate bill to make appropriation for the
payment of the salary aud milcago of
the members of the General Assembly,
and other expenses incidental thereto,
had been Btrioken out.
Bill to incorporate Glenn Springs
Company, of Spartaoburg Couuty, was
reported upon favorably.
Mr. Swails introduced bills to amend
Chapter CXI, Title II, Part III, of tho
General Statutes; to authorize and re
qaijo certain Jury Commissioners to
prepare lists for tho year 1874, and for
othor purposes.
Mr. Hayne?Bill to make appropria?
tion to pay the claims held by J. Wood?
ruff and A. O. Jones against the Stute.
Bills to incorporate the Second Bap?
tist Church, of the city of Columbiu; to
renew and amend tho obnrtcr of tho
town of Due West, Abbuvillu County,
were ordered to a third reading.
The further consideration of tho re?
port of the Committee on Retrench?
ments, on resolution relative to uttacliues
of the Senate, was indefinitely post?
poned.
Bill to establish certain State scholar?
ships in the University of South Caro?
lina, war considered, amended and made
tho special order for Monday next, at 1
o'clock.
Tho President laid before tho Senato
tho following communication:
Office Statb Treasurer,
Columbia, S. C, February 7, 1874.
To the Honorable the Senate and House
of Representatives?Gentlemen: I have
the honor to make tho fbltowing com?
munication to your honorable body,
omoerning the '?Lille payable,'! or
"Treasurer's notes:" '. '
On the 4th and 12th of March, 1872,
your honoiabt? bodleOntborised my j
predecessor, the Hoq. Niles G. Parkei',
ox State Treasprer, td borrow money to
pay the legislative oer tiaottes, and to
give bis obligation, whioh would be
binding on the State.. As no money
WBB borrowed, so* far as the records
show, I presame he was unable to do so.
He issued, however, "bills payable," in
lieu of the "legislative certificates,"
taking from the party who made the ex?
change a receipt therofor. Tho transac?
tion is, therefore, one of official record.
The receipts or records of the issue
of bills payable state tho no. caber, or
letter and amount of eaoh, and also
what legislative certificates were received
in exchange for it.
The official records show that $109,
871.07 of bills payable were issued, ami
tbnt $170 982.27 wore paid np to Octo?
ber 31, 1872, and that $238,838.80 were,
therefore, outstanding. (See report of
State Treasurer for tlsoal year ending
October 31, 1872, page 21.) I pa:d in
January, 1873, $46,613.85 of bills'paya
blo, in aooordanae with joint resolution
of January 29, 1873, leaving a balance
outstanding of $192,274 95. (Sou Trea?
surer's report for fiscal year endiug Oc?
tober 31, 1873, page 29.) Tti commit?
tee authorized by your honorable bodies,
by concurrent resolution of January 21,
1873, to register the outstanding legisla?
tive certificates and bills payable, report
that they registered $260,506.85 of bills
payable. (See reports and resolutions
of General Assembly, 1872 and 1873,
page 646.) My attention was called to
the faot, that the committee reported
$68,231 more as outstanding than was
recorded in my office. On noticing this
difference, I determined that whenever
I should be authorized to pay tho bills
payable, I should be governed by the
records of my office in paying such as
were issued in lieu of legislative certifi?
cates. There was presented to me on
the 5th instant by the President of thu
South Oarolina Bank and Trust Com?
pany one bill payable for $25,000, which
is not on record in my office, beiug
ueither lettered nor numbered, und for
whioh there is no receipt showing that
legislative certificates were given in ex?
change for it; .nor is there uny evidence
whatever ca my records to show that
tho Stat? ever received any considera?
tion from its issue, either in tho delivery
of legislative certificates or in the re?
ception of money.
Yonr honorable bodies have author?
ized the payment of the claims of the
South Carolina Bank and Trnst Com?
pany. In the per forma ace of that duty
I have discovered this anomalous condi?
tion of theaocountof bills payable, uod
I deem it my duty to communicate tho
fact to yonr honorable bodies, that you
may take what aotion, if any, that you
may deem proper under the circum?
stances. I deem it a duty that I owe to
the State, as well as to myself, that in?
asmuch as the Treasurer made the
issue of bills payable in exchange for
legislative certificates a matter of re?
cord, carefully taking a receipt from
eaoh party to whom he issued a bill pay?
able, numbering or lettering it, aud
stating iu the receipt that tho party de?
livered legislative certificates in ex?
change, that I should call thu attention
of your honorable bodies to tho fact
that a bill payable has been presented
for payment which has not passed
through any one of these forms.
If I pay ihe?o claims, entirely disre?
garding the records of my offioo, it
would be establishing a precedent of the
most serious and important nature.
There would be no guide to direct me
in sifting out legal from illegal claims
of this or any other kind, aud there
could and would not then be any limit
to these or any other claims of whioh I
have reoordB in my office. My records
state that thero are $102,274 of this
el lss of claims outstanding; but if lam
not to be governed by these rcourdn,
then $1,000,000 of them may bo pre?
sented for payment, and would be paid,
if you made an appropriation for them,
and ordered them to bo paid, without
inquiring from the records of their
legality.
In oonneotion with this snbject, I
deem it my duty, also, to inform your
honorable bodies that tho President of
the South Carolina Bank and Trust
Company has attached thu moneys of
tho State, deposited in his bank, to tho
amount of $68,000, without any process
of law, and has refused to pay my
official cheoks, and thus stopped en?
tirely tho payment of the creditors of
the State. I have the honor to be, very
rospeotfully, your obedient servant,
P. Ii. CARDOZO.
Treasurer State of South Carotins.
The communication was referred to a
spcoial committee, and made the special
order for Monday next, at 1 30 P. M.
Messrs. Nash, Dunn and Caillard were
appoiuted said committee, with instruc?
tions to report on Monday next.
HOUSE OP REPRESENTATIVES.
Tho House met at 11 A. M.
Mr. P. Young introduced a joint reso?
lution authorizing and empoworiug
Lyttlotou Daniel, a Trial Justice of
Charleston, to exercise the functions iu
any portion of the oorporate limits of
the town of Blackstock.
Mr. J. P. Green?Bill to amend Sec
tioa 9, Chapter 103, Title 7, Reriaed
Statutes.
Mr. J. A. Smith introduced a resolu?
tion, whioh was adopted, that on and
.after this day, no membor be allowed to
speak more than too minutes, or moro
than once on the same subject, except
upon matters of fiuanco, without leave
of tho House.
Mr. Bowley?Bills to incorporate tlio
Jerusalem Church, of Collins town-hip,
Georgetown; to incorporate the Both
seda Baptist Church, of Georgetown.
Mr. Adamsou presented claims of
sundry eohool teachers of Kurshaw.
Mr. Holland?Bill to protect laborers
working under verbal contracts.
Mr. Spears?Bill to direct, authorize
and empower the Ooantj Commissioners
of Surater Conuty to aoll and coovoy
certain County property.
" Mr. Cain?Joint resolution io author, -
lee end am power 'the County Com ihIh
aioners of Abbeville to isauo certificates
of indebtedness for payment of the past
due indebtedness of said County.
Mr. Cochran?Bill to oharter the
Southern Insurance, Banking, Savings
and Trust Company.
Mr. Spears?Bill to incorporate the
Jockey Club, of Sumter.
A bill to incorporate- the Columbia
Street Railway Company was redd the
third time.
A bill to make appropriation for the
psymentof the salary and mileage of the
members of the General Assembly,
salaries of subordinate officers and em?
ployees, and expenses incidental there?
to, was agreed to. *
Tho Speaker laid before tho Housn a
communication from Treasurer Car?
doso, relative to "bills payable," etc.,
whioh was ordered for consideration on
Monday next. Messrs. Hurley, N. B.
Myers, 8f ears, Carter and Helmes wore
appointed the committee
Continued Success or Dr. j. A.
Jones?His Patients Number Hun?
dreds?He Cannot Get Away.?One
of the editors of this paper, who ac?
companied his friend on a professional
onll upon tbo doctor, several days aiueu,
found his rooms thronged with patieuts,
and was forced to wait two hours before
admittance could be had. These afflict?
ed visitors wend their way hither from a
distance of hundreds of miles, in tbis
and surrounding Status. They include
numbers of 'tho moat respectable and
wealthy of our people. Among them
may be found pbysioiuus, lawyers, mer?
chants, planters, mechanics, ministers,
and persons from every grade and sta?
tion io society. Thus far all are unani
j mous iu ascribing to the doctor great
professional skill, aud express the
! highest satisfaction with the result of
his mode of treatment. Somo eure?, [
indeed, have been most remarkable, and
! are attested by tbo evidence of tbo
parties themselves.
On Friday, Dr. Jones performed fios
difficult and delicate surgical operations,
besides prescribing for a lurge number
of patients. Two of these upou whom
he hud operated nailed at this office and
gave in their experience. Onoof them,
Mr. W. C. Wilder, who resides near
Kuoxville, in Crawford County, stated
that ho has been almost totally bliud for
I the past five years, owing to a film
whioh had spread over bis eyes, accom?
panied by great weakness, heat and con?
stant weeping. He bad oonsulted many
physicians and tried their remedies
without avail, and when iuduced to visit
Dr. Jones, throe weeks sinoo, considered
his oase hopeless. The dootor removod
the film by a skillful operation, and
treated him internally and externally,
also with such effeot that now his visiou
is restored, and he had every reason to
believe the oure permanent.
Tbo other, Mr. H. L. Porter, of
Griffin, a young man about twenty-three
years of .age, received accidentally
during the war a bayonet prick near
the corner of ono eye, whioh damaged
that organ seriously, aud left it crossed
over, almost under the noso. In five
minutes, the dootor removed the diffi?
culty, in tho presence of a friecd who
also accompanied him, and wbeu wo
saw him, the ball was perfeotly straight,
and moved about as naturally ns the
other, A blood-shot appearance iu tho
corner next the nose was tbo only evi?
dence that a surgical operation had
been performed.
Dr. B. Borge, also of Goneva, Ga ,
who has for many years been a sufferer
from the most distressing form of
asthma, was induced to try tbo doctor'*
wonderful inhaling apparatus aud mode
of treatmeut, and in loud in his praises
of the man who had afforded him snub
iuexpressible relief.
On Friday, Mrs. Jadge Speer, of
Grillin, had surgical operations per?
formed upon a son aud daughter, for
deformity, with such success that she
was moat profound in her expressions
of gratitude, and went away determined
to do all io her power to induce her
afflicted friends to consult Dr. .Touch.
Mr. J. N. Ktrkpatriok, of Opolika,
Alabama, writes as follows: "I am proud
to suy that I have never regrettod the
fee paid you for prescribing for my
lungs. I have been a new man ever
since, and have not had to loso a d?ty
from my business siuco you were here."
He then adds: "I am out of medicine,
aud don't know that I will over need it,
but still prefer to have it iu readiness.
Send tho same. I am requested to ask
if thero will be any chauoo for you to
visit our placo nguin soon, by several
parties."
Again, from Lexiugton, Ga., Mrs. S.
E. Lumpkin, who is widely kuowu, in a
letter, dated February ID, 1873, Bays:
"I write to tell you of the progress your
prescription is making whioh was given
to my niece. She soems to be getting
cn fiuuly, and says her head feels clearer
tiud better than she ever remembered to
have known it. Tbo disagreeable smell
had entirely left her noso, which, of
course, is a great comfort. I follow
your directions perfectly, aud all our
hearts are full of hope. Her father
hcodja moro than delighted with your
treatment."
And so wo might go on multiplying
onto after case, in addition to tbosu
already previously published, all estab?
lishing, beyond contradiction, Dr.
Jone?' skill, and the astonishing success
which has attended his practica bore
and clsewboro. But enough has been
said and written.
The above editorial we take from the
Afacon ''Telegraph and Messenger." Dr.
Junes has been induced to visit South Caro?
lina, and is now healing the ojflicted at
the Wheeler House, in this city, where he
remains until the 26th instant.
Tho Lancaster Ledger has entered on
its twenty-third volume)
City Matters.?Subscribe for the
Phoenix,
The Goort of General Sessions was!
not in session, yesterday.
Fine's Norfolk oysters ere all the
rage?they are large, plump and juicy.
Tho Colombia Hotel Is being re?
painted and otherwise pat ia order.
Colds are the prevailing epidemic,
und nearly orerybody is on the "blow."
Cash will be the role at the Phoenix
office hereafter.
Tho sun once more put ia an appear?
ance, yerterday, and was gladly wel?
comed.
There were eight deaths in Golambin
for the week ending the 7th?whites, 2;
colored, 6.
The Governor has appointed as Nota?
ries Public Randolph Tqmor and Dr.
R. M. Smith, of Spartanburg.
Rev. O. A. Darby has been appointed
agent for the collection of funds to aid
in erecting tho Washington Street Me?
thodist Church.
Tho Pnosmx job office is eomplete in
every respect, and cards, posters, pro?
grammes, bill-heads, etc., are turned
out with alacrity.
Mayor John Alexander will accept our j
thanks for a oopy of the Sidaey (aus-,
tralia) Town and Country Journal, of the;
20th December.
The Senate has confirmed tho follow?
ing appointments: D. A. Townsend,
Union; F. M. Davenport,Greenville; P.j
P. Hedges, Charleston, Trial Justices;!
and Isaac Epps, Auditor Williamsburg.j
Mr. John Veal is now at the jawelry!
establishment of Mr. Wm. Glaze, on!
Richardson street, where he will bej
pleased to see all his old friends and na?
trons.
A bill to revive the free transporta-,
tiou by mail of newspaper exchanges,;
and of newspapers within the County of
publication, has been introduced ia the
House of Representatives.
The store of Messrs. Hope ?fc Gyles
Was entered, on Thursday night, and
robbed of money nnd goods to a heavy
extent. An entrance was effeoted on
the Blauding street side. Some of the
parties have been overhauled.
A milk white deer was recently killed
on Dewces' Island. It is to be stuffed
and placed in the Charleston Museum.
Tho old legend has it, that a terrible pe?
nalty attachos to the slaying a white, or
"silver-footed" deer.
Persons indebted to the Phoenix office
are earnestly requested to call and settle
at once. There is a large amount due?
tho greater portion in small sums. The
indebtedness must be liquidated, or we
shall be forced to resort to extreme mea?
sures.
Tho great original San Francisco Min?
strels, from Broadway, New York, will
entertain M>* nwwd* of Colombia far
two nights, to-morrow and Tuesday, at
Irwin's Hill.. The ontertainment pro?
mises iu be eikOtitidingij faaay and inte?
resting.
Transfer printing inks are invaluable
to railroud companies, banks, mer?
chants, manufacturers and others. They
aro enduring and changeless, and will
oopy sharp and clear for an indefinite
period of timo. Having just received a
fresh supply of inks, we are prepared to
execute orders at moderato prices.
A colored mao, named Robert Hogg,
employed by the Charlotte, Columbia
aud Augusta Railroad Company, met
with an accident on the road, eoveral
months ago, but it was thought he had
entirely recovered; on Friday, however,
bo died suddenly, and a jury of inquest
decided that it-was the effects of the
injury.
The city market presents tho appear
ancc'of a vast smoke-house. Piaces of
pipe, from six inohes to two feet in
length, protrude in every direction,
from which smoke and sparks poor forth
continually. Well, the building is on
ungainly, gun-boat looking affair, and
it is to bo hoped that when it is burnt
down, it will be replaced by a bettor
locking one.
PnuixixiANA.?It is easier for a man
to bo engaged than engaging.
Do not meddle with business you do
not understand.
True politeness is good nature beauti?
fied aud refined by art.
Nothing no muoh prevents our being
natural as tho endeavor to appear bo.
The parrot iz not a gams bud, altho
they bight good, hang on well, and di
hard.
To SrnsouiDEits and Advertisers.?
Orders for advertisements, job work,
etc., must be accompanied with the
cash. No exceptions can be made.
Ordinary advertisements $1 per sqaart
of nino printod lines for first insertion;
fifty cents each subsequent insertion;
weekly, monthly and yearly rateB fur?
nished on application. Advertisements
inserted once a week, Si eaoh insertion.
Murringoa and funeral invitations, $1.
Notices in looal column fifteen conts u
line, eaoh insertion.
Improved Order or Red Men ?The
following officers of Oatawb* Tribe,
No. 1, of this order, wore installed, last
evening, to serve for the ensuing term:
BT. N. Emlyn, Sachem; Wade H.
Manning, Senior Sagamore; O. F.
Howell, Junior Sjgamore; Jasjca F.
Troy, Keeper of Wnmpana: Bichard
Jones, Chief of Records; Charles A.
Calvo, Jr., Prophet; J. D. Brumfleld,
1st Brave; Wm. Campbell, 2d Brave;
W. H. Moncktoo, 1st , Warrior.; John
H. Dugan, 2d Warrior'; Chester Bay,
3d Warrior; T. E. Gapell,.4th Warriqr;
Charles Wallio, 1st Sanuap; J. W. Mo
Devitt, 2d Sannap; W. E. Harth, Guard
of tho Wigwam; E. B. Watson, Guard
of the Forest.
Dr. Jones at the Wheeler Ho?sit.?
This successful physician is busy from
9 o'ulook iu tho morning to 9 at night,
prescribing for the afflicted who como '
to him from far and near. All who
know anything about his treatment
?peak highly of it. The supplement we
?end with this morning's paper should
be carefully read, and those of oar
readers who need his skill will do well to
obtaiu it before it is too late.
Iu the convention of femalo dress-re?
formers at Vineland, New Jersey, the
other day, Mrs. Mary Tillotson, one of
the vioe-preeidents, we are told, "was
gorgeously olad iti crimson velvet tunic
and pantaloons, and ornamented, as to
her head, with curly blonde wig and a
page's cap, with an ostrich feather and
an amethyst aigrette." It is interesting
to speculate as to tho size of the over?
dose of strychnine an ordinary white ?
man would have wanted to swallow after
seeing his wife fooling around that con?
vention in those olothes.
Mail Arrangements.?The Northern
mail opens 6.30 A. M., 3 P. M.; closes
11 A. M., 6 P. M. Charleston op cub 8
j A. M., 5.30 P. M.; doset, 8 A. M., 6 P.
i M. Western opens 6 A. M., 12.30 P. M.;
joloseB 6, 1.30 P. M. Greenville opens
3.46 P. M.; closes 6 A. M. Wilmington
opens 4P. M.; closes 10.30 A. M. On
Sunday open from 2.30 to 3.30 P. M.
! Religious Services Tins Dat. ?St.
; Peter's (Catholic) Ohuroh?B>ev. J. L.
Full er ton. First Mass 7 A. M.; Second
Maes 10% A. M.; Vespers ?% P. M.
j Trinity Church?Kev. P. J. Sband,
I Rector, 11 A. M. and at 4 P M.
I Lutheran Church?Rev. A.' R. Bade,
ill A. M.
i Washington Street (Methodist)
[Church?Rev. O. A. Darby, 11 A. M.
land 3?? P. M. Seats free.
I Baptist Church?Bev. J. K. Menden
jball, 11 A. M. and 7 P. M. Sunday
School at 3 P.M.
t Marion Street (Methodist) Ohuroh?
!Rev. W. D. Kirkland, 11 A. M. and 7
?P. M. Seats free.
Prosbyteriau Church?Bev. J. H.
jBrysoo, IIA. M. and 7 P. M.
! List of New Apvetisements.
i Ohas. Burnt,n\?Dog Notice.
??. O. P^t"*?"" &Ek>ia*-Aiirdhi'u Sale.
Meeting of M. &F. B. & L. Asso'n.
Meeting Myrtle Lodge.
! Store Room for Bent.
? Hotel Arrivals, February 7,1874.?
.Wheeler Bouse-O B Oirlisle, North
'hamptou; D J Boyd, Albany; J B Hall,
.Newberry; WM Smith, W M Jacobs,
'Augusta; G C Sheible, New York; W H
jWebb, No wherry; L H Milleohamp,
,0 LB Marsh, Wilmington; M BCooper,
jPort Royal; Miss L Meed, W Dudley,
;W Burns, G A Seymour, Charleston; A
'HAnford, J Abiodrotb, W F Mathews,
[New York; J E Frymier, Philadelphia;
(D Hemphill and wife, Chester; W H
McCaw, oity; J E Brnff, B S Findley,
M M Bay ley, Baltimore.
Columbia Hotel?J M Seigler, New
berry; Miss Wilson, N C; J R Galbraitb,
N Y; B B Phillips, Pa; V T Nelson, W
A Piet, Baltimore; A O Elder, Black
stook; Mrs A G Holmes, W H Evans,
Charleston.
j Hendrix House? O A Hamner. N C;
'L O Rollins, Timmonsville; L P Robin?
son, Yorkville; B F Cole, J B Clark,
Baltimore; T Kiukead, N X*; H J Bris
senden and son, J E St Amand, Obarles
lloo; J L Black, S C.
? Nervous Debility.?A depressed,
irritable state of mind; weak. ner?
vous, exhausted peeling; no energy
or animation; confused head, weak
^memory, often with debilitating, in?
voluntary discharges.?The oonse
jqaenoe of excesses, mental over-work or
j indiscretions. This nervous debility
finds a bovereion cure in Humphreys'
1 Homojpathio Specific, No. 28. It
tones up tho system, arrests discharges,
dispels tbo mental gloom and despond
'enoy, and rejuvenates the entire system;
jit is perfectly harmless and always ef?
ficient. Prioo $5 for a package of Hvo
[boxes and a large $2 vial of powder,
which is important in old serious oases;
or $1 per siugio box. Sold by all
'druggists, or sent by mail on receipt of
'price. Address Humphreys' Specific
HoMfEHATHIC M edi cine COMPANY, NO.
5G2 Broadway, N. Y. For sale by
Geiger Sc McGregor, Columbia, S. O.
Decl7 fUlrn
l. -?*-? ?
I Tbo Hebrew relief com mi tee of Mem?
phis, organized during the ravages of
?itho yellow fever hu t summer, on exa
; mining their accounts, found themselves
Jin possession of a 8nrplns fond amount
' ing to 825,000. The commitee, after
investing 810,000 of this sum in United
i States bonds, as u relief fnnd for future
contingencies, divided tbe remaining
$15,000 among :ho Hebrew orphan
sohools in New Orleans, Baltimore,
1 Charleston, i?ew York, Cleveland, Cin?
cinnati, and San Franoioco.