The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1870-07-10

Netos, OF the death Of this we'll known
citizen, on the 9th instant Mr.. McKewn
was ut one time Intendant of the town
Of Orangeburg, and was universally ad-
mired for his honesty and straight-for-
wardness. He had been connected with
the South Carolina Railroad for more
than thirty years.
The Policy holders Life Assurance
Company has hitherto been little heard
of by the general public, owing to q
clause in the charter, requiring that ap-
plication for insurance amounting to
81, 900, 600 should be received before the
company could issue policy. The Of
ficers and agents of the company have
been quietly but pcrseveringly applying
themselves to securing the required sum,
and now that more than the amount re-
quired has been applied for, active ope-
rations have commenced. The company
is no longer an experiment. It's popu-
larity has carried it to the goal of sue
cess, Notwithstanding the dead weight
March last, it fulfilled the requirement
OF the very important law of it's existence,
by depositing $50, 900 in the stocks and
bonds Of the State, in the hands of the
Comptroller General last month the
million condition referred to above, was
fulfilled, and now the company is fully
earned and equipped according to law" !"
for the business of life assurance. We
refer our readers to the advertisement
for some of the advantages this company
offers to the insuring public, and to its
charter and Jy-larS for others. We
will only add that it is purely mutual
company; oil its surplus belongs to aud
will be equally divided among its policy
holders annually. It is the only life
company chartered by the State, and it
commends itself to the patronage of the
insuring public, not only from this con-
sideration, but from its intrinsic merits,
and the security they will enjoy in the
integrity aud ability Of its board of trus-
tees, among whom will be recognized
the very best business ability of the
State. Mr.. G. E. Boggs is the Secreta-
ry of the company, and is arranging sub
agencies throughout the State.
SERIOUS DIFFICULTY AT GADsDEN-
GOVERNOR ScoTT's BAYoNETs CALLED
INTO REoUIsITIoN.- learn that very
serious difficulty, resulting in the death
of at least one person by bayonet
thrust, occurred ct Gadsden, yesterday.
1t seems that meeting was being held,
for the purpose of appointing delegates
to the Radical Nominating Convention,
which assemblies in this city on the 22d,
when the friends of the different parties
not satisfied with abusive language
came to blows. From the mass of ex-
citing reports in circulation, it would
seem that Philip Epstein (white) called
Senator Nash id liar, when the
latter knocked him off the platform.
Some of Nash's friends resented the in
sulting language and assaulted Epstein;
whereupon a colored man, named Wash
Bynum, drew his knife and used it indis-
criminately and effectively, wounding
not less than seven or eight persons.
Bynum was run through the body with
a bayonet and instantly killed. The
fight now became general; bayonets and
fence-rails being the weapons used.
One of Governor Scotts militia compa-
nies was on parade, which accounts. our
informants say, for the presence of the
death dealing implements. Probate
Judge Wigg, Senator Nash, Representa-
tive Thompson and other prominent
Republican office-holders and seekers
were present, but succeeded, by pro-
per use of their legs, in reaching the
railway train. A colored man, named
Sye Davis, says he thought he made the
best time on record, but found that the
individuals mentioned above were equally
as good on run.
It is impossible, owing to the excite
ment ana the contradictory statements,
| to learn how many persons wera sevara1v .