The daily phoenix. (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, June 05, 1875, Image 2
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Saturday Morning, June 5,1875.
A London despatch throws some more
light upon the reoent meeting of;tho
Czar of Russia and the Emporor William
at Berlin. There is no doubt how 'that
Europe was seriously threatened with a
terrific struggle, on the ground of Prus?
sia's jealousy of France, resembling very
much the insane jealousy which ancient
Romo hiul for Carthage, and which, in
that cuso, ended in the destruction of
the latter power. Bismarck is perfectly
aware that in a few ? yearn France will
havo so strengthened herself that she
will bo in a measure impregnable, and,
therefore, he was desirous of throwing
her back to the situation of 1871, before
she had time to gather strength. The
French are perfectly well aware of his
views on this subject, and the Monitcur
(official paper) expressed itself thus not
long ago:
"The legitimate causes of war are:
Tho violation of the fundamental laws of
a ?iavo; lOiuiDtu uu|)u.>i.iua, ana, nnsuj,
an assault of the foundations on which
the order and right of humanity aro
known to rest. Every other war is an un?
righteous one. And where, indeed, wero
the law of nations, if the upprehension
simply of a' danger remote would suffice
to disturb the peace of the present? And
if Germany could bp persuaded that
Franco would commit an act of. hostiUty
because it had healed, say in ten, fifteen
or twenty years, the wounds it received
in 1870-71, what security would the other
powers have? Germany may Bay, to-mor?
row, that, by way of necessity, its own
defence calls for the incorporation of tho
Dutch harbors. and colonies. Again.it
may demand ? Trieste and the Italian
Quadrilateral, under the pretense that,
by uniting the North Sea with the Adri?
atic., it protects its frontiers against in?
convenient neighbors, and to recover the
historical boundary lines of the old Ro?
man empire, js this what they desire:"
As atatcd!ih the despatches, the Czar,
with an eye to his Asian.; ndvan^ suc?
ceeded in cooling the hot blood of'Prus?
sia, and war is stayed for the present in
Western Europe.
Another chance for Sheridan to im?
mortalize himself is now presented, this J
time among the banditti of New' Hamp?
shire. The Legislature met at Concord,
amidst the greatest excitement, growing
out of tho dispute over certain seats in
tho Senate which had been decided in
favor of the Democrats, giving them
seven out of twelve Senators. After all
had been sworn in, the Democrats elected
a President?the five Republicans refus?
ing to vote. The latter then withdrew
from the body, met in another room and
organized, with temporary officers, a Se- j
nate of their own, and then adjourned.
There was no trouble in the House.
The excitement in the Capitol reached a
high pitch, and all the entrances were
guarded by police. Th.bi state of things
ought not to be allowed. Let the army
proceed to Concord at once.
Tnx Cuban Win.?It is quite evident
that the patriot rebellion in Cuba is by
no means suppressed or in a promising
condition for the early occurrence of
such a result. Recent reports from Spa?
nish sources arc not such as to awaken
very great confidence in the success of
that Government, while it must be ad?
mitted that the Spanish authorities still
have a very tight grip upon the rebellion.
General Gomez, the commander of the
Cuban forces, who has gained marked
successes in one portion of the island,
has written a letter to the Secretary of
War of the patriot Government, in which
he states that sinoe the first of the pre-!
sent year there havo been captured from
the Spanish forces 750 rifles, 98,000 me
talic cartridges, 500 machetes, 500 cavalry
equipments and 1,000 horses. It is also
smtcd from Cuban sources, that there are
10,000 men in Cuba who are ready to join
the patriot army, if they could be sup-.
plied with arms and ammunition, the
want of which has been the main obsta?
cle in tho path of the patriots' success.
Ono significant fact is mentioned in con?
nection with the war, and it is that no
parts of Cuba taken by the patriots
within the past twelve months have
been recaptured by the Government
troops.
It is stated by the Brooklyn papers
that there are more than 4,000 houses va- j
cant in that city. Another significant
fact is the action of the Brooklyn Board
of Estimate last week, in making out the
budget of expenses for the next fiscal
year. The salary account of school
teachers was reduced $20,000; appropria?
tion for text-books was reduced $20,000;
they struck out $3,000 for repairing
pianos in the schools, and $20,000 for
public baths, and similar other Items
amounting to about $800,005. The fact
is, the Plymouth Churoh plague-spot is
driving people out of Brooklyn. There
may bo a few men who will be benefited
by the exodus, however; Bo wen, for in?
stance, who says he will be in Plymouth
Churoh after Beeoher leaves it He oan
use his extra funds in buying np the de
sorted Brooklyn homes.
Execution or a Your arm, Muedsbxb.
At Carrollton, Ga., on Friday last, Elisha
Yarbrough, a youth less than sixteen
years of age, was hung for the murder of
W. H. Smith, in Ootober last Yar-'
brough taUed on Smith, who kept a
country trtore, and asked for work. He
was taken into the house, was asked to
join in/ prayer with his host, and then
retired with him, both going to one bed.
In the middle of thealght the boy arose,
and. procuring an axe, split Mr. Smith's
skull, and leaving him stunned and
dying on the floor, coolly plundered the
store, and then locking the door on the
outside, put the key In his pookct and
left He was pursued And arrested, and
for a while implicated two innocent peo?
ple in his erime/btit 'finally confessed
t'iat he was alone to blame.
*" tSi" ,pBraiDisttTysA' C?Nressi?if! ?Tb!e
Louisville Courier-Journal thus speaks
of the President's letter:
Allowing that every word in the Presi?
dent's letter to Gen. Harry White is con?
clusive and sincere, and attaching no
other meaning to what ho says than ap?
pears upon the surface, those who sought j
to prepare the country against the ap?
proach of the third term issuo need go
no farther for complete justification of
all they have suid on tho subject. Gen.
Grant says ho wants a third term no
more than he wanted a first term; whiob,
fairly interpreted, means that ho would
be glad to have u third term if the peo?
ple, who, as he argues, have the right
and the power to-offer it, should do so.
It is too much to nak us to believe that
tho original prospect of being elevated
to Oho Chief Magistracy, was unwelcome
t6 liira, or that his actual elevution cost
him any painful sacrifice. When a man
deqlarea that ho does not seek a great
place, but adds that if elected he will
serve in it, the inference is sufficiently
plain.. In tho present instance an actual
argument favoring a third term is mado,
and as this was put forward by tho Pre?
sident's immediato friends before and
after the South Carolina expression, and
accompanied by tho utterance or quali?
fication from the President himself,
until after the reverse action of the
Pennsylvania Convention, we are hot
permitted to doubt that he has had the
thought in his mind, that ho has con?
ceived its realization possible, and that
he would have accented it, just as he ac?
cepted his second election, as a personal
vindication. "I cannot say," he ob?
serves, "that I was not pleased ut this,"
his second election. Nor can anybody
wonder that he was, or that, by the same
token, a third election would he less
pleasing, provided he could be made
believe that' the public service called
him "to make the sacrifice," the deci?
sion as to whether it made the demand
resting with himself.
All this talk about "sacrifices" is sheer
nonsense. Gen. Grant gave up a life
office, it is true, to take the Presidency;
but, in a republic like ours, and in time
of peace, tho command of the army is of
subordinate importance and influence.
Gen. Scott nought to exchange it for the
Presidency during twenty years. Gen.
Sherman would be glad to make tho ex?
change next year. As to personal com?
fort, a man may be quite as uncomforta?
ble in the war office as in the Whito
House. As to final retirement, the Chief
Magistracy affords the better opportunity
along with an increase of dignity. Pe?
rusing the slip-shod sentences in the
President's plaint about his "sacrifices,"
one can ill resist un impression that ho
is somewhat disingenuous. He cer?
tainly departs from his characteristic
good sense when he supposes that the
American people will credit him with
genuine weariness of the cares of a sta?
tion the highest in tho land?of a station
whose duties ho has worn so loosely?of
a station whose opportunities he has not
slighted?of n station, in short, which
has seen his rise from poverty to com?
parative wealth, and from which at the
end of eight years ho may withdraw, yet
young enough to enjov the fruits of
about twice, that period of well-paid,
and ? by no means exhaustive, public
service. It is worso than policy for a
man, just turned of fifty, who, fourteen
years ago, was taken by the gods out of
the depths of n degradation, whose only
blessing was its obscurity and rapidly
advanced; to tho command of great
armies ahef to the head of a great nation
! ?it is preposterous for a man who, in
I every situation of life, has taken his for?
tune, good as well as bad, with compla?
cent coolness, all the while enjoying his
creature comforts, his pipe, his horses
and his dogs?it is unworthy of Gen.
Grant, solid and stolid, hale, hearty and
j Well-to-do, having thriftily provided for
his family and himself, to set up a
j demagogic :cry'about "sacrifices." He
i had hotter announce himself out-and
out as an aspirant for a third term, or
declare that but for the not-to-be-mis?
taken popular demonstrations which
have come to him, he should bo glad to
hold fast to so good a thing to the end of
his days.
The President's direct reference to the
third term discussion is unfortunate. In
the first place, though he opens his let?
ter by extolling the dignity of his office
i as a reason for his prolonged silence,
his tardy utterances are less dignified
than his taciturnity. He speaks of a
third term much as he might speak of n
horse race. It is n thing conceivable
and possible. It might be a necessary
thing. For example, if the sohemo of
organizing '{another rebellion" in the
South hod' succeeded; if the elections
last fall had gone Radical; if the bayonet
legislation of the subsequent session of
Congress had passed, investing the Pre?
sident with martial jurisdiction over the
insurrectionary country, and then if the
"down-trodden loyal people of the
South" had demanded a third term for
the only man who could protect them in
their property and lives, we supposo
that Gen. Grant would have considered
the case as one justifying his candidacy,
and rendering his election a department
of tho public safety and peace. As mat
tors stand, with a Democratic House
yawning before him, with the whole
South at rest behind him, with Williams
out of the Cabinet, with his own party
clamoring against the thought of a third
term, with only*a single State committed
thereto, and that South Carolina, the
President can afford to remark, "and his
language is plain," that he "would not
aooept a nomination if it were tendered,
unless it should come under such cir?
cumstances as to make it an' imperative
duty?circumstances not likely to arise."
His suggestion that "any man con de?
stroy his oneness for the office," may be
a side thrust at Gen. Sherman's recent
literary performance. But his notion,
that "no man oan force his election or
even nomination," needs qualifying. In
time of war, furnished a specious pre?
text and equipped with military power
and resources, it is by no means sure
that an ambitious President might not,
through his array of civil office-holders
and his troops and provost-marshals,
command the forms of a re nomination,
and, thence, by the force of partisan pas?
sion and discipline, well supported by
bayonets, an election. Tho people,
North and South, had four years' expe?
rience of the force of Executive pressure,
acting upon the unorganized masses of
society. Gen. Grants failure to dis?
courage the idea of a third term, and his
evident leaning to the military view of
tho caso, is t? be" regretted. He writes
like a soldier, not like a..patriot. His
self-consciousness is intense and breaks
through all restraint, bo that, instead of
such farewell utterances an fell from the
lips of Washington and Jackson, we have
an egotistic compound of splocn and
pride. .
A DjtscnirTioN or the Grand Edifice.
The new Masonic Temple which "was
dedicated in New York on Wednesday,
fronte 141 feet on Twenty-third street
and extends 91 feet 9 inches on Sixth
avenue. The first story in Tuscnn, the
second Ionic, the third Corinthian and
the fourth composite, above which is
uproared a very high mansard for the
fifth. The lower Btory is relieved In
bands of dark Quincy syenito, the rest
of the building being fuoed witTi light
blue granite. A central cOlnmniatod
pavilion on the Twenty-third street
hicade 50 feet in width rises to a.quad?
rangular dome above the mansard roof.
At ench angle are heavily rusticated pa?
vilions 20 feet in width, anil between
these retired curtains each 18i feet wide.
The Sixth avenue facade is in harmony
with this design in reduced proportions.
The main cornice is 94 feet above the
side-walk, the mansard 30 feet higher,
and the apex of the dome is at an alti?
tude of 165 feet from the curb level.
On either sido of the main entrance on
Twenty-third street is a massive pillar of
fine bronze, 14 feet in height. Each
rests upon a base of polished Scotch
granite. Above the "cushion" each
fdllar is ornamented with semi-incised
otus flowers. Higher up appear the
three encircling bands, and nt the top of
the reeded column is a cap, in the form
of an inverted bell, decorated with
papyrus leaves and pomegranates in
high relief. In tho basket rusting upon
this cap is placed a largo globe. That
on tho Easterly pillar is terrestrial, the
other celestial. Over the main entrance,
rising behind tho pillar just described,
is a portico formed of four Tuscan co?
lumns supporting an entablature. The
only other exterior ornamentation re?
quiring remark is the coat of arms of
the Grand Lodge, in bronze, which is
placed on tho fifth Btory, beneath the
dome. The temple under ground is as
perfect in all its appliances of necessity
and comfort as science, ingenutity and
liberality could moke it. The Grand
Lodge room is a handsome hall 85 by
92, and capable of seating 1,000 persons.
Tho Egyptian and Comiuandory halls
are also largo and beautifnlly decorated.
An elevator runs through the building
and it is fitted with every imaginable
convenience that will tend to increase
the comfort of the craftsmen.
A ItoTAXi Amekicak.?The Emperor!
Francis Joseph, of Austria, has become a
property-holder on Broadway, New York,
under peculiar circumstances. About
thirty years ago, Marcus Wiese, of Aus?
tria, came to this country and engaged
in the fancy goods business in New
York, and suooeeded so well that he soon
amassed a fortune variously estimated at
from $300,000 to $400,000, consisting of
real estate on Broadway and United
States bonds. He was married in early
life, and two daughters was the result of
the union. Their home was a happy one
until, in an evil hour, the husband and
father listened to the song of tho syren.
Then the wife and mother sought and
obtained a divorce. With her daughters,
she returned to Austria in 18C4. The
daughters died the same year of their re?
turn, and the mother only survived them
until 1870. In the meantime, Wiese,
? with his mistress, returned, leaving his
property in New York, and resumed his
allegiance to the royal family of his na?
tive country, in 1874. A few Vpionths
afterwards, he was killed by an Austrian
soldier on a train of the Moravian Bail
road. The soldier was court niartialed
and shot Then the Crown set up a claim
to the property ho had acquired. Tho
mistress of the murdered man contested
the claim, but as she could not establish
a legitimate marriage, the court decided
in favor of Francis Joseph, who is thus
elevated to the proud position of an Ame?
rican tax-payer. He is now liable to as?
sessments for the benefit of the American
eaglo, and if he is not prompt in making
payments, will get a little insight into
the mysteries of pnecipes ugain.st his
property. But if at any time Bismarck
shall feel it incumbent upon him to de?
pose him, Francis Joseph can come to
this country and live a free man in a
free country, and at the same time have
enough property to keep the wolf from
the door.
The Springfield Union, speaking of
the Holyokc disaster, refers to a catas?
trophe at Santiago de Chili. South Ame?
rica, December 8, 18G2, when, by the
sudden conflagration of the cathedral
during a crowded service, 2,000 women,
maids and matrons, including the very
flower of the city, perished horribly, it
was at an evening service, when the
church was densely crowded. A cuni
phono lamp, used in a transparency on
the altar, set fire to the hangings,whence
the flames spread instantaneously along
the olaborato festoons of gauzo and
drapery that covered the walls and ceil?
ings, among which 20,000 candles and
camphene lamps were burning. In a
moment, the whole interior was a bon?
fire, and a rain of blazing oil and burn?
ing cloth fell upon the crowd bolow.
Tbo one door of the church opened in?
wards and was soon ohoked. In less
than a quarter of an hour, 2,000 persons,
including very few men, had perished.
The Chilian Legislature forbade church
illuminations for the future, and ordered
a sufficient number of doors to be put
into all churches.
Napoleon met ono day an old soldier
with one arm; he stopped and said to
him: *'Whore did you lose your arm?"
'?Sire, at Austerlftz," was tho roply.
"And .you wero not decorated?" asked
the Emperor. "No, siro; I was forgot?
ten." "Then," rejoined Napole*n, "hero
is my cross for you; I mako you Cheva?
lier." "Ah, sire," exclaimed the soldier.
"Your Majesty names mo Chevalier be?
cause I huve lost one of my arms; what
would your Majesty have done if I had
lost them both?" "I should have created
you officer of the Legion," nnswerod
I Napoleon. Thereupon the soldier in?
stantly drew his sword and cut off his
I remaining arm.
Possibly South Carolina is still for the
,third term. If so there need be no weep?
ing or wailing in tho region of tha White
House,?St. Louis Republican, Dem.
Gm? Back fromthb Dead?A Stbaxoe
Stobt.?O. B. Baum writes from Harris
burg, I1L, on Hay 10, to the Chicago
Inttr-Octan: "You porhapu have not for?
gotten tho 'loss of the ill-fated steamer
Genoral Lyon and the brave men who
perished with her at sea, March 30, 1806.
Many soldiers lost their lives in 'the
burning vessel, while others sought re
rage, in the relentless waves and there
found a watery grave. Of the many
hundreds who were aboard the General
Lyon, but twenty-eight wore known to
have been saved. They were picked up
by the steamer General Sedgwlck, four
hours alter the burning of the Lyon.
The non-veterans of tho Fifty-sixth Illi?
nois Volunteers, 205 in number, were
passengers aboard of the General Lyon.
Five of those men were saved by the
Sedgwlck, and they reported the balance
of their comrades as lost. After the
lapse of more than ten years, however,
one more of the passengers of that ill
starred vessel turns up at Guy's Hos
Itital, London, England, and writes to
iis father near Gnlconda, 111., giving an
account of himself. The name of this
man of misfortune is Hanson E. Rains.
He belonged to Company K, Fifty-sixth
Illinois Volunteers. Alter Iiis term of
service expired, ho and his comrades
were started home for muster out, and
were furnished transportation on the
steamer General Lyon. Very soon after/
sailing, the vessel encountered a storm
oft*Cape Hatten??, and in tho midst of it
took tire and was totally destroyed.
Hains leaped into the sea, and with
Lieut. Butler clung to a cabin door.
They drifted upon the billows four days
without food or drink, and more dead
than alive were picked up by a schooner
and left onfnn island, where Butler died
anil Bains remained ten years. In
March last, he escaped aboard the Bri?
tish man-of-war \eugennee, und was
taken to London, and, being sick, was
[ilaced in Guy's Hospital. Application
ias been made to the Secretary of War to
have our Minister at London requested
by cable to have Rains cared for and
funds furni.'.hed him for his return
home. The stories of Robinson Crusoe
and the hero of '-Foul Play" are probably
excelled in interest by the adventures of
this gallant soldier, who, after serving
his country for more than throe years,
and participating in the victories of the
army of the West at Corinth, Vieksburg,
Mission Ridge, the Atlanta, Savannah
and South Carolina campaigns, tied from
the deck of a burning ship in mid-ocean
to find refuge on the raging sea, and
with an endurance scarcely to be credit?
ed, resisted death from cold, hunger and
thirst, and is at last about to bo restored
to his friends, after a captivity of ten
years on an island. Surely, truth is
stranger than fiction."
Recent Memorial Addresses.?The
addresses delivered on the occasion of
I the late decoration days in the North and
portions of the South, exhibited a most
fraternal and conciliatory spirit?one
1 worthy to characterize like commemora?
tions hereafter, and indicate a rapid ob?
literation of those merely offensive issues
which partisan newspapers and rabid
Eoliticians generally have struggled so
ard to perpetuate. Genend Burnside,
in his address at Antietam National
Cemetery, referred charitably to those
whose system of political instruction
had led them into opposition to the Go?
vernment in the late war, and pertinently
asked, "Might we not have been led in
the same direction, under like circum?
stances?" At the memorial meeting in
the Academy of Music, New York, to
complete the services of decoration day,
General Woodford said: "Does any one
seek to recall old prejudices of class and
race? He is no friend of the Union.
Does any one seek, for sell* or partisan
success, to set white against black, or
black against white? He is no friend of
the Union. Does any one seek to deny
to loyal comers in any part of the South
full citizenship, complete protection and
hearty welcome because such comers
wore the Federal blue in other days? He
is no friend to tho Union. Does any one
seek to taunt loyal subjects of the law
nnd keepers of the peaee, because such
wore the gray in days of battle? He is
no friend of the Union. The land is
one."
At the Brooklpn decoration day. Rev.
W. J. Parkinson, head of a colored
school, who had ret-ided eighteen u.onths
in the South, said:
"If I had the time to-nigh( I could
bring to your notice incidents from
personal observation that would satisfy
even' man, and beyond pemdventure,
that they are being healed of their
wounds and the scars left by the lute
war as rapidly under any .similar cir?
cumstances as any on the luce of the
earth could be healed. I am able to say
that I believe, as a general thing, the
people of the Soinli not only want peace
und prosperity for themselves, but they
really want in their midst the black?he
who was their serf for so many years ?
to be raised up, as the light of a pure
Gospel and a liberal education is bound
to raise him."
It is to be hoped that the better appre?
ciation and understanding of Southern
sentiment thus indicated may continue
to increase until it becomes universal.
A New York letter, of Monday, says:
"A groat stir has been made among the
foreign importers by the seizure of the
store and goods of Philip Schuloff A Co.,
by the Custom House officers, on account
of alleged under-valuation of invoices of
crape, ribbons and silks. The ware?
houses in Laight street were kept open
to-day for the purpose of facilitating the
examination of the seized goods and
bringing the matter to a conclusion as
quickly as possible. This extraordinary
haste, it would seem, is not without rea?
son. There are several other prominent
firms supposed to be implicated, nnd it
is tho desire of the customs authorities
that they should be proceeded against at
once, before opportunity is given tho
guilty parties to make way with their
goods. All these cases arc understood to
be directly or indirectly part of the Law
renco operations."
"He put it by," said honest Casca,
making his report of the scene in the
market-place, "but, to my thinking, he
was very loath to lay his fingers oft" it."
That is what is the matter with President
Grant. He is very loath to lay his fingers
off it?so loath, indeed, that even tho
suggestive rap across the knuckles ad
ministerted by tho Pennsylvania Repub?
lican Convention doesn't work convic?
tion.
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Umbrellas have always been property,
but few who borrow them have ever
seemed to think of that faut. That the
law had any practical application to their
return when borrowed, is a something
which never found its way into'the mind
of any of those poachers upon, the um?
brella rack. An English court, in the
interests of long-suffering humanity, has
recently stopped in and judicially de?
clared that the owner of an umbrella has
some rights which the borrower is bound
to respect. In the case in point, the |
loan of an umbrella to the defendant on
a rainy day was proven. Tho borrower |
paid about one-third of its alleged value
on account. Ia his answer to plaintiff's
petition, he admitted borrowing the um?
brella ami losing it, but averred that
when he bud told plaintiff of the loss,
he said: "Oh, never mind; it was not '
up to much, anyway." Hut the plaintiff |
was up to a good deal, as the sequel
proved, for he pushed the matter until
the court announced a decision in which
it recognized property in an umbrella,
but entered a non-suit ngainHt the plain?
tiff, because he was represented by his I
father-indaw, A long.Huffcring public
can never cease to regret that he did not
call in the assistance of his mother-in
law, as the suit would then doubtless
have been pressed to a successful issue,
and the rights of the people fully guar?
anteed under the law. Who steals1
Round-About':, purse steals trash; 1
lin borrows his umbrella and does not j
t in it, goes to court.
A Dkau Delusion.?The theory that]
human beings whose strength has been |
exhausted by pain and sickness can b<
restored by depleting medicines and
water gruel, if not absolutely a dead de-1
lusion, is in the last agonies of dissolu?
tion. At length it is understood that I
strength cannot be purged into a debili?
tated frame, though life may easily be
purged out of it, and that it is about as I
wise to withhold a healthful stimulant
from the weak, in the expectation that
they will rally without one, as it would
be to deprive a lump of oil and expect it
to burn the brighter for it. The immense
and uniform success which has attended
the use of that wonderful combination
of a pure stimulant with the finest me?
dicinal herbs, known us Hostetter's Sto?
mach Bitters, has largely assisted in dis?
pelling tho absurd chimera. Frantic at?
tempts nre made to revive it, but in vain.
When the sick feel that their strength is
departing, ami that unless invigorated
they must utterly break down, it is in I
vain to tender thein feculent slops in the
place of genuine restoratives. They
may be imposed upon in this way once,
but the imposition cannot be repeated.
They desire to be refreshed, comforted,
braced up, and decline to be griped a
second time. Under the operation of
the Bitters, on the other hand, all the
processes nec< ssary to physical restora?
tion go on simultaneously. The system
is stimulated and toned, the bowels re
gulated. the appetite cultivated, the
nerves composed and the condition of
the blood improved at one and the same
time by a single medicine. Common
sense tells us that such a preparation
must ho invaluable. June 4 +3'1
Thk Cost of B< iebowed 1'l?mes. ? Jas.
Malony and Jas. Wr. Hayward, who were
tried and convicted at the late term of
the United States District Court, were
brought up before JuJge Bryan for sen?
tence. James Maloncy, who was con?
victed of conspiracy to defraud the
United States and for falsely represent?
ing a revenue officer, was sentenced to
paj- a fine of $500 and to imprisonment
in tho Newberry County Jail for eleven
months, on the first chnrge; and $1,000
fine and eleven months' imprisonment
on the second charge?the latter sen?
tence to take effect at the expiration of
the fanner. James W. Havward, con
[victed of conspiracy to defraud tho
United State?, \vns "fined $1,000 and
eleven months' imprisonment in the
Anderson County Jail.
Sheridan has been robbed at his homo,
in Chicago, of a diamond vaiued ar
$1,000. He suspects a man who entered
his house ostensibly to sketch its newly
renovated rooms to be the "buinmer"
who got the diamond. He finds how
hard it is to escape the ??bummer." Ho
lost nothing amongst the Southern "ban?
dits." but his own character, and that by
his own folly and brutality. It was a
trifling '.loss. Sheridan is about to be
Imarried, but what docs a "bummer"
I caro about that? The opportunity to
! steal from him is all the better. It is the
j witching time of confidence in every?
body and respect for ??bummers." How
excessively cruel at .such a time to rob
tho man who commanded the greatest
lot of thieves and "bummers" that ever
lived!?Richmut <l Dispatch.
Gambling for enormous stakes is jubt
now ut its height at Monaco, and three
suicides are said to have taken plane
there in as many weeks. At the leading
gambling saloon, owned by M. Le Plane,
"an American" recently lost ?30,000,
while a Russian princess, who is reported
to have lost ten times that amount, wont
raving mad. Great interest is also at?
tached to n Scotch duke, who is repre?
sented to have won ?15,000 in something
less than half on hour, and as having
lost all that and a great deal more before
the end of the same day. Some surprise
is expressed that tho gambling should be
allowed, but if the Prince of Monaco re?
ceive^ ?30,000 a year rent for the place,
he will think twico before ho disestab?
lishes M. Le Blanc.
1% is truly wonderful, the variety and
ingenuity of tho conveniences for the
desk and* office?pens of varied patterns,
inkstands possessing unmberless ad?
vantages, letter files, each ono the best,
envelopes of size and qualities infinite.
It is almost bewildering to enter the
large Broad street store of Walker,
Evans A Cogswell, in Charleston, and
seo the number of these attractions.
Here you find tho largest stationery
stock South of Baltimore, and you only
have two troubles?first, sufficient cash;
and, second, tho difficulty in deciding
among the many things offered, each
equally suitable to your wants. M7t
"Dar are," said a sable orator, "two
rotuls through thin would. De one am a
j broad and a narrow road dat leads to
' perdition, and de udder am a narrow
' and a broad road dat leads to sure de
\ struction." "If dat am de case," said a
sable hearer, "dis cullard individual
takes to de woods."
Crrr Mattem.?If you are asked to
lond yonr Fhcsitcc, "oi?g**t to the would -
be borrower that he had better subscribe.
Reading matter oatevery page.
Spotted TaiLis now vulgarized into a
?'Variegated Narrative."
Young men and maidens fair, use tho
?Queen's Delight. " 8
Tho best blood purifier is Heinitsh's
Queen's Delight. 8
Man respires, perspires, aspires, con -
spires and expires.
The only suits that last longer thau
you want are law suits.
Creamy white French nainsook will bo
used for summer costume.
The Queen's Delight, although abused,
Is one by ull the sick most used. 8
The pin und cross matter is still veiled
in obscurity, "When will the mystery be
unraveled?
"Unmanned by the loss of her hus?
band," is the latest style of indicating a
widow's grief.
Old typo metal, suitable for many pur?
poses about mills, can bo obtained at
Piio'Nix office at 25 cents a pound, or 30
cents by the 100 pounds.
At the twentieth annual meeting of tho
stockholders of Elmwood Cemetery Com,
I puny, held yesterday, the following of?
ficers were elected for the ensuing year:
Those who dread tornadoes?and there
are many in this vicinity?had a fright,
yesterday, as the strange-colored clouds
were blown about considerably in the
afternoon.
The Hendrix House is well kept; is
located conveniently to Main street; and
is, altogether, a home-like establishment.
Mrs. Wyatt will be pleased to see and
accommodate her many friends.
The warm weather draws crowds to
Mr. McKenzie'? confectioner}* and ice
cream establishment, where delicacies
nnd cooling beverages of various kinds
are obtainable. His freezers are worked
by steam.
The following is the business done at
the money order office of the post office
in this city for the month of May, 1875:
Orders issned, 425; amount received on
same, $7,115.05; fees, $44.75; orders paid,.
635; amount paid, $9,478.35.
Cnpt W. H. Casson has raised the
premium cabbage?the out-spread leavea
arc about five feet in ciroumference,
while the hard head in the centre would
fill an 8J hat; the weight over eight
pounds. One a size smaller furnished a
dinner for a family of nine, which the
Phoenix claims.
The old Richland Volunteer Rifle
Club will celebrate, tho 8th of August as
their anniversary. This is as it should
be. Everybody remembers with plea?
sure the old-time celebrations of the
8th?barbecue, target-firing and a high
time generally. Many of tho members
of the old corps are in the ranks of this
club.
The report of the Citizens' Committee,
published in the Phosnix, yesterday,
was the universal subject of comment
during the day. Some of the statements
show that gross frauds have been com?
mitted. A meeting-of citizens of all
classes, to take into consideration the
whole subject, has been called for Mon?
day afternoon next, in Irwin's Hall. Let
all attend. "The coin is spurious?nail
it down." 1
-?? ?
SVPUKMK Cotjbt, Friday, June 4, 1875.
The Court met at 10.} A. M. Present
Chief Justice Moses and Associate Jus?
tices "Wright and Willard.
Andrew Winter, respondent, vs. John
Alexander et at., appellants. Motion
dismissed. Judgment announced orally
by Moses, C. J.
Mrs. Ann Creighton ct ai, respond?
ents, vs. Loftus C. Clifford ct at., appel?
lants. Deere? modified and case re?
manded to Circuit Court. Opinion read
by Moses, C. J.
The State, respondent, vs. Jerry Cole
man, appellant. New trial ordered.
Opinion read by Willard, A. J.
G. W. Sullivan, respondent, vs. Wil?
liam Heliums, appellant. Motion
granted. Order filed yesterday. Opi?
nion read by Wright, A J.
The State ex rel. Phineas F. Frazee vs.
F. L. Cardozo, Stato Treasurer. Rule to
show cause, &c. Mr. Elliott was heard
for relator. Mr. Pope on tho same side.
Mr. Dunbar on the same side. Mr. At?
torney-General Melton for respondent
At 3 P. M, the Court adjourned until
Thursday, July 15, 10 A M.
List or New Advebttseicemts .
Jones, Davis ABonknights?Dry Goods.
Meeting Board of Health.
E. J. Scott?Citizens' Meeting.
Hotel Arrivals, June 4, 1875.?Hen?
drix House?G. M. Harm an, Lexington;
W. H Raid, Charleston; A E. Davis,
W. J. Horn, Fairfield; T. B. Aughtry, J.
W. Lyles, city; J. H. Kaughman, Chester.
Mansion House?W. L. Grier, J. W.
Riohburg, Doko; W. H. Cater, Charles?
ton; T. Watson, Ridge Spring; T. M.
Emerson, oity; J. Hafta, Pa.; D. Walker,
Wilmington; J. G. Niooll, Baltimore; J.
G. Lvkes, Richland; J. P. Boswell, Cam
den ;*H. H. Smith; city; L. B. Lee, Wal?
halla; J. S. Bowers, Newberry.
The following stanza, which we found
going the rounds of our exchanges,
strikes us as having the true ring about
it:
' 'It never pays to fret and growl .
j When fortune seems our foe;
The better bred will push ahead
And strike a braver blow.
For luck is work,
And those who shirk
Should not lament there doom,
But yield the play,
And clear the way;
I That better men have room."