The daily phoenix. (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, July 30, 1874, Image 2
COLUMBIA, S. C.
Thursday Morning, Jnly 30, 1874.
THirty-ftlX to One?Taxation with ft
Vengeance.
A merchant of this oity, who pays a
heavy tax, and ia keenly alive to the
subject of assessments and the actual
amount of taxation, was on a visit, not
long since, to New York oity. He
learnt from friends there of whom he
inquired, that assessments made of
property for purposes of taxation, were
far below its actaal valae. In some
cases mentioned to him, they reached
?not more than the half or ono-third of
the price the property would bring if
put on the merket. Stopping on his
tetarn in Philadelphia, he made simi?
lar inquiries, and ascertained a ?isi!!-r
?tat? of f aota to exist in that oity. A
real estate properly-holder, also of this
oity, who has been made to Wince
?ander the lash of severe taxation, has
'waited upon as with some statements
which are instructive and our ions. He
. cal'a onr attention to tha smallndss bf
*tha tax levied in Ohio for the year
1873, it being only 8)? mills, one mill
of which is levied for common sebools,
Aud is returned to the Oounties in pro?
portion to their school ohildren. This
portion of the tax is ob purely local in ]
its nse aB the levies made by the local <
authorities. The rate, then, for State i
ipnvpoeee is 2j? mills, and that is an .]
inoroaso of eix-tenths of a mill on the I
dollar for the .current year. JRoal .
.estate property is appraised for pur- ]
?poses of taxation at not more than i
one-third its value, and not more than <
one-qaarter of the personal property t
is listed for taxation at all, and that at :
.a .rate far below its value. Theee lot- ;
*ler statements we get from tho Cinoin- i
uati Enquirer, in a notice of the State 1
Auditor's report. t
In fttjis State, under the Oonstitn- ]
Hon. allipKOpnr.ty is subject to taxation t
in proportion'to its value, andjwo may i
ho eure that of late years, the valnrf- I
tion has never fallen .below it. iih t
Mach .generous usage m**vail?;?f plac- j
ing 'it at one third the r value, as pre- '.
?aller-in'Ohio. The3 auditors, on the f
contrary, have been'directed to "lay it t
oa thiok." The habit has been in- i
dulged in by theoa and tho Board of j
JSqualiaation to pot property np to {
Abe highest figure it oould be made to ]
roear. Theover aeeessrfienta last year |
were oamplained of :a? over life State, '
and iR some Corintiajs )ed to such a i
determined attitude of the people as
made the State Government moderate
its demands. In Marlon, in oonee- '
qoeuoe of the exorbitant assessments j
made by the tax ofBoers end the com- <
plaittte of the aggrieved tax-payers, 1
rthe Legis!iture was compelled to re- 1
^rert to the assessment of the year ,
1872 for that County. But the citi?
zen of Mar on were more fortunate in i
this respect than the iax-payer* of the 1
?Stato generally. The real estate pro- !
rperty owner of Columbia, to whom we
-have allnded, owns two squares in this
oity, which he wonld gladly aell at '
?500 each. But while they attract no .
purchasers at that price, they are j
valued by the State, for tit purposes,
at 91,000 each. The tax being fifteen
mills, onr friend'e tat last year was 915 ,|
<m -sauh block.' Let us see what he
would have to pay on this property in !
Ohio. The -etna! value heisg 9500
fox the block, wonld afford the sum of
4164.66 to be taxed, end the tar e! '1%
mills on this sum would amount to
forty-ono cents. Fifteen dollars in
South Carolina and forty-one cents in
Qhio, or thirty-six times more heie
Chan therel The.valoation for taxing
purposes ia six times greater, and the
sax itself is six times greater in the
one State than in the other. These
are facts, strange aod incredulous as
they may seem.
The diversion of the tax funds to
other than legitimate uses has some?
times led to the remark that suoh mis?
appropriation is worse than the tax
' itself. Radical writers and speakers
improve npon this, and say that, after
all, the tax is not so very heavy. Tho
Whittemore delegation made thin
statement to the Judiciary Committee
of OongresB and to. the Pr?sident, and
insisted npon it that the evils com?
plained of in South Carolina were
mostly imaginary. Now that reform
is so profusely promised, what is easier
than to eay that the tax ia rather mode?
rate, and that it shall be misapplied
no more? Bat neither statement can
be oredited. What will produce greater
honesty in tho disbursement of the
publio funds hereafter, than has boen
shown heretofore? Every effect mast
have its cause. The promised effect
has none to rest on except tho fears of
those who are in power that they shall
lose it. And as to tho intolerable
eeverity of the tax, we lot tho faots
we havo given tell their own talo. And
dow we would like to know why we
pay on oar 8110,000,000 as muoh
money into the State Treasury to sup?
port our sticking, one-horse concern
of a government, and to keep onr ofli*
oials in fine clothea, jewelry, horsep,
furniture, wines, tfcc, &c, as tho peo?
ple of the great Stato of Ohio pay
upon their $5,300,000,000? Why do we
do it? It cannot be said that it is be?
cause we enjoy it, nor because theBo
people whom wo thus pamper are
modeld of virtue and paragons of pub?
lic usefulness, and worthy, as Socrates
said he was, to be supported at public
expense in the Prytaneum. We don't
admiro them, we don't lovo them, and
we fiud them neither useful uor orna?
mental. And yet they bestride us like
a Colossus. They ride us whither they
will, like'another Old Man of the Sea.
Quo usque tandem?
Bnmble-B?e-Iiin.
We have had a fine time with the
bumble-bees, They came buzzing
about our ears in a great but impotent
rage from our newly-fledged contem?
porary's oolumnB, yeaterday morning.
Really, we didn't mean onr "fearful
bnrst of indignation and wrath" {vide
Union-Herald) altogether for the one
Bolt head on wbioh it took effect. A
little typographical error caused this
3i version. We are sorry that it hurt
io. It was delivered in tho most
placid good humor and was meant for
.he whole "invincible organization."
is to our own sufferings from the pel
ets of the ofliciul organ, we havo to
?eport- that we are pretty well, thuok
p-on, aud quite sure to recover. In
inswer to tho inquiry, why "tho Pike
Its. don't writo us vigorously against
VIoses as it used to," it must be borne
n mind that Apollo does not always
lend the bow. And we havo a new
tttraotion. Oar attentions incline to
\Lv. Chamberlain, and we cast occa
lional aheeps' eyes towards CoDgreas
aan Elliott. Onr feelings are more
airly divided and nnder better control
bad our neighbor's. A virtuous news
laper, liko_u virtuous woman, as Mrs.
Tilton says, should instantly check an
ibsorbing love. That is the danger of
he U.-Fl.; it is too exclusively devoted
low to Mr. Chamberlain, as a short
vhileago it was too exclusively devoted
o Mr. Moses. We love 'em all alike,
finally, will tho much-edited organ
end as the loan of its microscope?
fVe want to And "the argumenta"
vhich it hints we can't answer.
United States Distiuot Couiit,
?harleston, JotiY 28? Judge Bryan
presiding.?It was ordered, in the pe?
tition of Heribert A: Son, for a mooting
>f creditors, in the matter of Adolph
tfimitz a: Co., bankrupts, that a meet
ng of the oreditors he held at the
jflioo of J. N. Nathans, G9 Broad
{treat, on the 20th of August next.
The following is a list of the grand
ind petit and pleas inrors drawn before
fudge Bryan and United States Mar?
shal Wallace, yesterday, to serve for
the Ootober Term of the District
Donrt:
Grand Jury ?Adam Finley, Charles?
ton; Carolina Thomas, Branchville;
W. A. Coartenay, Charleston; M. Pol?
litzer, Beaufort; W. Sanders, Charles?
ton; William Ravenel, Charleston;
Robert Peel, Timmonsville; Andrew
Wines, Society Hill; Peter Powell,
Grahamville; Benjamin B. S. Fraser,
Charleston; J. Q. Steadman, Aikon;
D. O'Neill, Charleston; Walter Steele,
?harleaton; Franklin Tal herd, Beau?
fort; Lewis Oartlege, Hamborg; An?
thony Gran ville, Darlington; Christian
Oaldwell, St. Matthew's; Jamea M.
Urofut, Beaufort.
Petit and Pleas Jurors?G. H. Lin
stedt, R. M. Alexander, Charleaton;
Alexander Coultry, Oolnnabia; Josiah
Elmore, George Curtis, Hilton Head;
J. F. Early, Darlington; Peter Gibbs,
Beaufort; J. W. Carmalt, Charleston;
James E. McGregor, William Sim?
mons, Beaufort; Cie-tar Holmes, Or?
angeburg; J. D. Geddings, J. J.
Burko, Charleston; L. Duncan, Wal
terboro; C. E. Sorun, J. M. Quash,
Charleston; L. LiteH, Lexington; ?
Piohsloy, Hamburg; Frank B. John?
son, St. Matthew's; John O'Mara,
Charleston; E. Molver, Darlington;
Motte A. Pringle, Charleston; S. S.
Smith, Summerville; E. M. Moroland,
H. H. Williams, Charleston; Samuel
Haguenin, Hilton Head; S. N. Brown,
Charleston; Joseph Cohen, Beaufort;
J. LI. Albers, William Roach, Charles?
ton
Sad.?The body of n beautiful I
young girl, about sixteen years of age,
was found floating in the Mississippi
River, a few daya ago. The Picayune
says she wore a rioh black delaine
over-dreBS, with white spots, black
silk under-skirt, and embroidered
skirts, petticoats and ohemise. On
her breast was a heavy sot cameo
breast-pic, while on the third fingor of
her loft hand was a heavy gold ring,
without any mark or initial. Around
her neck was a rioh looe collar. Hor
auburn hair was very long and beauti?
ful, and hang in two plaits way down
her buck, reaching almost to her knees,
just like a Marguerite. There were no
marks about her person by which sho
could be identified.
Mrs. Martha Stroble, of Spartan*
burg, died last week.
13AHBABITIE3 OF SPANISH WABFABE.?
The barbarities of the Spanish contest
are shocking all the civilized nations of
the world. Spuin, moro nearly than
any other nation oalliug itself enlight?
ened, approaches in its domeatio con?
flicts the cruelties of savage warfare.
Ferocity and revenge, seem to be pecu?
liar and ineradicable traits of Spanish
character. The genius, dignity and
undoubted horoism of Spaiu are marred
and disfigured by the sanguinary and
brutal dispositiou of its people. Tho
military excesses committed under
Philip II and the Duke of Alva hnve
been repeated iu tho oivil war now
raging iu Spaiu. Tho inhumanity of
the Carlists is conspicuous. Iu all
Captured planes, it is charged, they
suck and burn bousee, with people iu
thein. After some successful engage?
ments, tbey kill thu Republican pri?
soners taken; ou other occa&ious, they
shoot one out of ten. Somo of their
exploits remiud us of the Apaches
The Prefect of Cuenoa, which they
took the other day, sayu that thirty
foor bodies of Republicans were found
there so horribly mutilated as to be
unrecognizable. The war ou the Carl
ist side will boou he one of extermina?
tion. "No quarter" will be the rule,
and the other side are not Spaniards if
they do not agree to it. The other
nations of Europe seem dispoeed to
step in on suitable provooation and
aid in crashing out these mediaeval
batchers. The North German Gazette
says: "Germany, in behalf of out?
raged European oivilization, will seek
and find means to teaoh the Curliste
that the murder of a captured Gertaan
shall not remain unpunished." At any
moment tho Carlists muy enrage Eng?
land by tho butchery of one or more id
her oitizens caught straying among tb?
linen, bat innocent of any hostile in?
tentions. In their mad cureer, the
Carlists respect no fl.ig, and it. is luck,
and not discretion, that bun kept them,
so far from embroilment with England.
If the North German Gazette speaks tho
official voice, the threat we quote i?
not un empty one. The Republican
Government bus issued one uew order, I
prohibiting the shooting of prisoners
in retaliation for Carliot atrocities,
which will, if enforced, greatly increase
Europuau sympathy for tho Repub?
lican cause. Mankind iu general cure
very little about quarrels of parties for
the possession of power; but wo live
in a merciful uge, and the sentiment
of hnmanity oanuot bo outraged by
any party with impuuity. The mis?
fortune is that this healthy sentiment
is sometimes mudu a pretext to cover a
sinister policy. Germany .has lately
ordered her fleet to cruise iu Spauisn
waters, and to remind Fruuce of the
constant violations of her border, by
which tho Curlists are supplied with
men, money aud munitions of, war.
Whether this is from a higher motive
than usually enters into her policy, or
to plaoe a Hobenzollern on the throne,
remains to be seen.
"The American Ttahborne ease," as
the $40,000.000 coal land law-suit of
Turnbull os. Purdeo, in Pennsylvania, is
termed, has at last been settled in favor
of the defendants. The question at
stake was the title to several thousand
acres of rieb coal lands in Luzerne
County. The last Turnbull in whom
the title rested was James, father of
the claimant; bat he, ignorant, of the
value of the land, neglected to pay his
tax98, and the property was sold at
Treasurer's sale. Subsequently, it
passed into the bands of Otis Pardee
and other great capitalists. The father
of the plaintiff died while the latter
was a child and left him in oharge of a
divorced mother. Yonng Turnbo.ll
soon went to sea and traces of him
were lost, tboogh his mother made
efforts, in 1852, to have his claim as
rightful owner of this land substan?
tiated. For twenty years she and
others diligently sought for him, but
not until 1372 did he reach Philadel
phia. His life had been full of adven?
ture. He was the only survivor of
eight in a nine days' float upon the
sea in iin opea boat. He then went to
Central America, and afterward to
California. Leaving California, he
went to Mexico, engaging in the con?
struction of a canal at Mozitlan.
While there ho was robbed several
times, aud was onoo left for dead, with
tweivo daggors sticking iu him, by a
gang of Mexicans, who robbed him.
On tho way from California to Mexico,
ho was the victim of a steamboat ex?
plosion, in which over a hundred wore
killed, ho being one of a very few who
escaped. Ho was several times ship?
wrecked, but lived to answer thu sum
mooH to come homo and provu his
claim to immense wealth. Ho worked
faithfully in his cause, but takes his
groat defeat philosophically.
Charming is that faculty of tho hu?
man mind which ouables ouo to drop
into poetry, like Mr. Wegg, upon any
occasion, no matter how prosaic, which
throws a soft light jDf romance around
broad and oheese, and irradiates the
common-place soal with bounty. Such
is the faculty possessed by a nobio
poet of Chicago, who was recently
informed that Madame Nilsson had
thoughtfully bulit a shelter for her
cows on hor land at Peoria. Miudlu'
of the catastrophe which led to the de?
struction of his native city, he imme?
diately burst into this wild and beau?
tiful frenzy of verse: "Christine,
Christine, thy milking do the morn
and eve betweou, and not by tho dim,
religions light of the fitful kerosene.
For tho cow may plnuge, and the
lamp explode, and the firu fiend ride
the gale, and shriek tho knell of the
burning town in the glow of tho mol?
ten pail!" _
The Walworth parricido has been
seizod upon by Dumas, Jr., and worked
into a play for the entertainment of
tho people of Paris.
The sewers of Paris deserve to rack
among the wonders of the world. They
are traversed through a great portion
of their extent by railways, aud are as
free from nnpleasunt odor an tho streets
above them. Passage throngh the re?
maining portion is effected by means
of boats. Along theso maguificeut
sewers aro carried the wires of the
telegraph, as well us the pneumatio
tubes fur tho transmission of packages
by atmospheric pressure. The stream
of water passing throngh tho main
sewer is so swift that not u hit of any?
thing is soon floating along. They uro
kept free from any largo amount of
sewage deposit by moans of peculiarly
constructed barges, oaoh of which dot n
the work of 100 men. Tho smaller
ones are kept clean by baud, 630 mou
being employed for tho purpose, whoso
tenure of life, after they Huter the
sewers, rarely exceeds fifteen years. It
in by Mich a perfect system of sewage
(hat PnriB has earned tho envmbm title
of txung the cleanest city in tbo world.
All the solid matter is utilized aud
made to pay a revenue lo the city,
largely exceeding the interest on the
original cost of the sewers.
Ken en ok'a Sea Wbei> Tonic.?In the
atmosphere experienced here during
the summer mouths, the lethargy pro?
duced by the heat takes away tbe de?
sire for wholesome food, and frequent
perspirations reduce bodily energy,
particularly those suffering from the
effeuts of debilitating diseases. In
order to keep a natural healthful ac?
tivity of the system, we muot resort to
artificial means. For this- purpose,
Suhunck'ti Sea Weed Tonic is very
effectual. A few doses will srt ate an
appetite i:?*j<1 givo fresh vigor to tbe
euervated body. For dyspepsia, it is
in valuable. Matty emineut physietan
havn doubted whether dyspepsia can
be permanently cured by the drugs
which are generally employed for that
purpose. The Sen Weed Tonte, iu its
nature, in totally difVereut from such
drugs. It eon tains no corrosiv.* mine
rala or acids?ia fact, it us.sists the re?
gular operations of nature, and sup?
plies h?r der&ienoies. Tbe Touiu, in
its nature, so ran eh resembles tbe gus
tric juice, (hut it ia utmost identical
with that fluid. The gastric voice is
the natural solvent which, in a healthy
condition of the body, causes the
food to be digested; aud when this
juice is not excreted iu sufficient) quan?
tities, indigestion, with all its distress?
ing symptoms, follows. Tbe Sea Weed
Tonic performs tho doty of tho gaHtric
iiiici* when the latter ia dokoient.
Sohenok's Sea Weed Tonio is nold by
all druggiatB. July SM13
A few days ago, mention was made
of tbe discovery in Arizona of remains
of ancient towns apparently destroyed
by fire, and evidently onoe occupied
by a race of people mach more ad?
vanced in civilization than Indians or
Mexicans. A similar discovery baa
be.on made in 2iew Mexico by Captain
W. C. Manning, an officer in General
Cook's command, during the campaign
against the Apaches, last year. lie
found not only the ruins of ancient
cities, but a race of men which holds
itself aloof from the Indian and Mexi?
can races. One of the inhabited towns
haa dwellings for 4,000 people,
although the population has dwindled
to 1,800. In langnage, dress, customs
and appearanoe, the people resemble
the Chinese. They were visited 840
years ago by a Jesuit priest, and there
seems to have been no change in their
habits, language or dresa since that
time. The women are held in high
respect, and thoir duties are confined
to the household. The government is
a conservative republic, and the mora?
lity of the people is irreproachable, so
far as is known to foreigner?.
What wonld a great portion of the
nations of tbe earth do without par?
ticular plants and fruits? Take away
the potato from the Irish cabin, and
starvation oomes. Famine already has
its bold on Bengal, on account of a
failure of the rice crop. The bread
fruit is to West Iudia both food and
olothiog; Heaven sends it and causes
it to grow, and the lazy natives ask
nothing further. And yot all these
yield to the despised bamboo. We go
fishing with these poles; the Chinese
eat them. The uses to which it is put
render it a national benefaction.
Houses, boats, screens and water
wheels aro made of it, together with
fences, ropos, furniture, huts, umbrel?
las, all varieties of weapons, lamp
wicks, pencils, brushos, pens, aque?
ducts, aud a thousand other things of
daily use. We might almost say that
were tho bamboo to perish suddenly
from off tho earth, the wholo Chineso
empiro would collapse.
An amusing iucident occurred on a
train iu New York State recently. A
nowly-married couple entered tho car
and took a sent. Tho hnsband, want?
ing to snioko, left his wife and wont
into tho smoking car. Tho brido be?
gan to doze, and while she slept, a
stranger entered the oar, and as it was
crowded, quietly took a neat beside tho
young wife. Shortly eho begau to
nod, and doubtless imagining that her
husband was still in the seat, gently
reolined toward the stranger, and soon
her head loudly nested on his breast.
At this juncture, the husband retnrued.
Ho stood in mute astonishment iu tho
juialo until tho lady awoke, aud, realiz?
ing tho situation, drew baok in aroazo
tnent, sn tinned with blushes. Stranger
explained, hnsband was satisfied, aud
wifo tried hard to appear nuoonoornod.
A political moeting, consisting of
about 20 whites and 125 colored, was
hold iu Spartauburg, on tho 21st.
j Leading Uadic.il officials were present
and discussed tho situation. All pro
^ fussed themselves iu favor of "unload
!ing."
City Matters.?Snbsoribe for the
Pekekix. .
The weather was a little more sea
sonable, yesterday?that is, warm,
j Pleasant raius, however.
There is bot one way to obtain busi?
ness?publicity; but one way of guin
iug pnblicity?advertising.
The sixty duys' grucu will soou be
out, so we may reasonably expect a
J decision from the Judges in a few days.
"Have courage enough to own that
you are poor," says an exchuoge. We
haven't got cheek enough to deny it.
Mr. Batemau has redueed the sost of
bis natural ice. The oontest will be
between Mother Nature and Madame
Art.
Job printing of every kind, from a
miuiaturo visiting oard to a four-sheet
poster, turned out, at short notice,
: from Phcbnix oflioe. Try us.
Mr. A. O. Langeion, of the Ander?
son Conservator, is in the city, and
will cull on our merchants to-day, with
referenoe to advertising in that paper.
Mr. R. O'Neale, Jr., has exhibited to
im a genuine cotton caterpillar?not
the boll-worm, but the regular de?
stroyer of the fleecy article. Look out
for them, planters.
We learn that Mr. C. F. Jackson
opened, yesterday, a fine assortment of
extra largo faus, blank aud fancy; also,
fau chains, ?ud a most beautiful stock
of belie. ?
The etriker of the City Hall bell
must h-vvo been on a "strike," Wednes?
day uight, or rather Thursday morn?
ing, us that hour-recorder did not
strike oace from 12 until 6.
A special passenger train will be run
over the Greenville aud Columbia Bail
road,' from Columbia to Alstou, on
Suuduy, the 1st of August, to uccoui
modute vieitors to tho camp meeting
at White Hull Fare SI.
The foliowiug additional officials
have beou elected for the Bichland
Rifle Club: Surgeon, A. N. Talley, M.
D.; Solicitor, Col. A. C. Ha&kell; Chap?
lain, Rev. J. H. Brysou; Steward, T.
M. Pollock.
Mr. N. W. Trump, agent of the
Wheeler ,St Wilson Sewing Machine
Company, is deairone of employing
four good men. Referenaes will be
required. The office is in the Colum?
bia Hotel building.
An np-countfy subscriber, in for?
warding his subscription, says:
"Find enclosed, unless grabbed by
some of the thieving party in power,
82 50, to renew my subscription."
The money, fortunately, came
through safely.
BultsAi Muhdeh.?The following
despatch was received at tbe Executive
Oftlco, last night:
Andeuhon C. H., July 29, 1874.
Gov. F. J. Mosnsc A German immi?
grant, named Heury Ziger, murdered
a yonng lady, named Mary C. Tucker,
in this Connty, last night, by shooting
her in the head with a pistol. Use
your utmost endeavors to have him
oaplnred, as he has escaped. The
murder occurred near Savannah River,
and near the Abbeville line. Oiler a
large reward lor hie arresL He is
about flvo feet four inches high;
twenty-four years old; sandy hair;
light-oolored moustache; fair com?
plexion, considerably tanned; soar
over right or left eye; bow-legged;
quick spoken; feminine voice; speaks
broken English; weighs about 110
pounds; had on light suit, black stripe
down seam of prate. It was a cold?
blooded and most brutal mnrder.
JOHN R. GOCH RAN.
Thb Mattison Cabs.?A. Mattison,
the Deputy United States Marshal who
killed John Davis, several days ago,
was brought to Colombia, yesterday,
and lodged in jail. It is understood
that there is to bo a change of juris?
diction, (as provided by United States
revenue laws,) and ho will be carried
before Unised States Judge George S.
Bryan. Col. Baxter, of Newberry,
represents tho prisoner. He was to
have been carried to Charleston, but as
Judge Bryan expects to be in Green?
ville shortly, Mattison may go before
I him there. Judge Montgomery Moses
put his bail at 815,000.
Tue Sroim.?Tho heavy storm and
extensive rain-full, yesterday after?
noon, did a considerable amount of
damage in this city, and it is feared
I that it was disastrous in tho country,
Sovurul streot bridges were washed up;
j tho excavation for the now insurance
bnilding looked like a miniature pond;
tho extra wall to support tho iron grat
[ iug in front of tho new City Hall gave
way from the exoeesive wash; cellars
I in various parts of the city were filled
with water, while any number of leaks
were discovered iu what wore supposed
to he tight roofs. The locomotive of
tho Greenville passenger train was
thrown from the track, by the accu?
mulation of sand at the crossing of
Blauding street; no serious injury,
fortunately. From appearances, tbe
j storm extended ? good many miles.
The German Scr?etzbn-Verein.?
Our Scotch fellow citizens have their
BaruB Club; the sous of old Eriu cele?
brate the birth-day of St. Patrick;
while John Bull must keep up English
custom by partaking of roast beef and
pinm-pudding on tbe natal day of bis
widowed Queen. Our German resi?
dents keep up the festivities of the
fatherland with great zest and earnest?
ness, and Schuetzan-VereinB are highly
popular among them. A society of
this nature was formed in this city,
several weeks ago, and John C. See?
gers, E-tcj , elected President, and Mr.
B. Koenig, Secretary. Last night,
their hall (on Maiu street, two doors
above the Phoenix office,) was dedi?
cated. The inclement weather pre?
vented many from attending; bot, not?
withstanding, there was a very fair
turn-out of the aotive and passive
members. At 8 o'olock, there was a
business meeting, at which about forty
members were initiated?making 1?7
in alii The hall was tastily trimmed
with evergreens, while several .monster
flags were suspended against tbe walla.
In the centre of the hall, was a beauti?
ful red Bilk banner, inscribed "Co?
lumbia Schuetzeh-Verein?Einigkeit
macht Stark 1" a present from Mr. S-.
Rosenberg, of the Charleston society;
while another banner, bearing tbe
well-kn wn inscription, "Wellkom
meu, Sjhuetzeu Broedder," adorned
the North side of the room. Prof.
Buchar, with bis skillful musician?,
discoursed appropriate airs?"The
Watch on tho Rhine," etc A cold
collation, with liberal quantities of
beer, (no liquors.) kept the crowd
occupied until a late hour. A num?
ber of the members, after the repast,
gave vent to their joyous spirits in
a display of tbeir vocal powers.
Somebody told us the other day that
if yon will put a little syrup and water
in a bowl and set the bowl on your
table, with a small piece of wood ex?
tending from the table to the rim of
the bowl, to serve as a sort of bridge,
you can catch all the roaches in the
neighborhood in a single night. We
tried it The roaches went to the
syrup und water by companies, bat- -
talion8 and brigades, bat when you,
gave them a small scare they, shot up
the side of I their b?wl faste* than a
lightning express train can travel^ an.
up-grade of three feet to a m\le. A
more diabolical fraud upon a confiding^
and unprotected orphan was never
perpetrated.
Pbcsntxian*.?Triala era moral bal?
last that often prevent onr capsizing.
Nothing comes home sa much to a
man as an unsettled bill.
Shadows are like false friends. They
follow yon only in sunshine.
A perfeotly natural man is generally,
a perfeotly honeBt one.
Two sorts of men do not reflect?the
terrified and the rash man.
Great places are great burdens; dis?
tinguished conditions in life exact
great servitude.
' Lost op Nirw Advertisements. I
J. D. Bateman?Ice.
Meeting Riohland Rifle Club.
Meeting Chicora Tribe.
Hotel. Arrivals, July 29, 1874.?
Hendrix House?8 ? Oorley, Lexing?
ton; T F Wesson, N Y; T W Ball,
Md; M Cooper, St. Louis; JH Brown,
Charleston; H P Tarrant, Ga; ESpen?
cer, Miss Annie Spencer, Ly nob burg;
D M Hauokel, Charleston; W H
Haynas, Md.
Wheeler House?H M Cottingham,
Ga; J H MoDevitt, F A Belanger,
Edgefleld; B P Barron, Manning; P
H Ellis, JE Matthews, Ey; P Duffle,
Charleston; A Pope, N C; H H Adams,
P R Paul, USA; JL Little, city.
Columbia Hotel?L Jacobs, Kinge
tree; E H Brooks, oity; J F Newman,
J D Stoney, T D Gillespie, S C; Wm
Munro, Union; J Stuart Land, Green?
ville; J N Smith, 8 O; J M Seigier, G
& 0 R R; D Muloy, Cheraw; F Mur?
phy, Rev O F Gregory, Charleston; J
C Bedell, W H Evans, J E Thames,
Charleston; A O L?ngsten, Anderson;
j J H Baxter, Newberry; J H MoCon
nell, Andorson; A L Roumillettt
Charleston.
There are in France cities of 15,000
inhabitants which have not one single
physician; there are cities of 20,000
inhabitants which have not but one
physician, and he is not a graduate of
a medical school. There are always
posted in the arcade of the Pari a medi?
cal school the names of fifteen or twen?
ty towns or villages whioh have no
physician and wish {one. Lille is a
city with n population of 200,000 souls;
it contains only forty-three pbysioians.
Roubaix is a oity of 76,000 souls; it
contains only eight physicians.
The Riohmond Whig is defining its
position on the subjeot of settlers. It
Bays: "If they come to rear their chil?
dren and bury their dead here, then
they become Virginians, and we have a
right at all times to oall upon them as
such to guard what is left of Virginia.
Adopted citizens like those aro as dis?
tinct from the carpet-baggers and more
political udventure? as the musbroon
is unlike tho toadstool, or the salt?
water terrapin differs from tho mill
pond 'skill-pot' "