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The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-12-21

We learn that the Clubhouse of Mrs.
NJ. Long near Jonesville, Union County,
together wsth twenty bales of cotton,
was destroyed by an accidental fire on
the 9th inst. a negro man smoking a
pipe dropped q spark in his basket of
cotton and then emptied it into the
house. Total loss about $4,000.
[Chester Reporter.
The New Orleans Picayune remarks !:
I'll we are not living under the reign of
Inv, we can at least be assured of living
under the reigu OF proclamations tenn.
pcrcd with the bnyonet, and seasoned
with an infusion OF Gatling guns"
DEATH OF PHILEMON HUFF, ESQ. Tie
many friends Of this gentleman will re.
gret to learn Of lis death, which oc.
Cured at his residence, somo twelve or
fourteen miles from Greonville. on Mon.
day last, 10th inst.
Mr.. J. p. i. Camp has become tho
editor Of the Ne,o Era, Republican
newspaper, published in Spartanbnro.
a now Republican paper is about to be
started in Greenvillc.
Miss Margaret Barklcy, an :stimable
resident of Fairfield, died on Sunday
last, ut the age of sevcnty.scven.
The National Bank OF Greenvills is in
full operation.
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\ TERRE HAurE HoRnoR.-

\ TERRE HAurE HoRnoR.-Laat nipht
gentleman @ant into barber. shop.
and, being in great hurry, took a seat
IL the first chair that was vacant without
noticing who the barber was. The
slouchy and uncertain way in which the
lather was applied caused him to take a
more careful look at the operator. The
look was not assuring. There was o
wildness about his eyes and heayiness
in his breathing that was not pleasant to
contemplate. The lathering process CO.
oupied an nnreasonably long time. Then
the barber sharpened his razor nervously
and IN winding up cut his hand, drawing
blood, which he endeavored to conceal.
Then he took one swipe at the anxious
face before him. The gentleman in the
chair cast his eyes upward when the
razor was raised again. The barber held
the razor in his clinched hand, about
foot above his head; his eyes were fixed
aud CLASSY, and there was n sickening
kind of foam on his blue lips. One leap,
and the gentleman WAS ten feet from that
chair, and at the gerry instant he moved
the glittering razor came down savagely
on the very spot where bis head had
been, and the barber fell down in fit.
The frightened gentleman will indulge in
no more shaving ut q barber-shop after
this.-1e,re Haute Express, Dec. 8.
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Great fears are entertained for tho
safety Of Swedish expedition, sent out
under the direction Of Professor Nor
denskiold, the well.known Arctic ex-
plorer, with the view OF spending the
winter at Spitzbergen, and discovering
from that starting point the open Polar
ACCIDENTAL Observation-Disclosures
afternoon, tho dead body Of negro man.
supposed to be John Walton, was found
in the Savannah River, above Mill street.
The body was recovered and an inquest
held by the coroner, the jury returning
verdict OF accidental drowning.
augusta Chronicle.
On DIr.--It was rumored Yesterday
that the Central Railroad Company was
buying up large amount of the stock
OF the South Carolina Railroad, with n
view to obtaining controlling interest
in the latter road.
augusta Conshtulionulist.
Men blush less for their crimes than
for their weakness and vanity.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-12-21

A MELANCHOLY CONFESSION. The New
York Herald says: "Murder is the
fashion of the day in Now York. Hu.
initiating as the confession is. truth oom-
pels it, Life is held cheaper here to-
day than it has ever before been, even in
the most lawless localities of the West or
South. Jack Reynolds was prophet.
Ills execution only gave the seeming lie
to his assertion. 'Hanging.is played out,
which las, since his death. become lite.
raj truth. Our city prison is thronged
with murderers. Thoir lives are safer
than those of the average citizen in tie
streets. Were it once again established
that speedy and sure hanging would be
the fate Of every murderer, from that
moment murder would become a rare
crime. Tc bring back this assurance is
the sacred duty, as it is tho urgent inte-
rest, of e:ery citizen"
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-12-21
Sundays Smoking.
Male Teacher Wanted,

ITO take charge Of the Bonnettsville Male
Il and Female Academy, situated in Ben.
The, ,sohoi.stic year 10 divided into two SEQ.
sions or twenty weeks eAcf-the firatAcom-
meEcing on the second Monday OF January
and the second on the second Monday OF July
in each year. The terms per session are AZ
follows:
Lower Branches Of an English Educa.
;t1n. n.'n......I:..-.:.s.',;..; s12 90
tion. Languages and Higher Mathe.
The school generally pays from 81. 900 to
81. 500 per annum; Is situated In pleasant
and healthy locality, and is Convenient to
churches. Board can be obtained at sI5 to
$40 per month.
Suitable references REQUIRED. Apply to
either OF the undersigned, Acting Board OF
Trustees. ]. q. HUDSON,
P. L. BREEpEN,
D. ". MOORE,
J. L. BREEDEN,
Dec FL II K. LIVINGSTON.
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A wonld-be author was advised to try
tho effect of one of his COMPOSITIONS on
the folks at home without confcssipg its
authorship. His mother fell asleep, his
sister groaned, his brother asked him to
smut up, as they had had quite enough
OF shower OF words without wit, and ut
last his wife tapped him upon the shoul.
dor, with the sweetest possible "Won't
that doT. lie has seen how it was him.
sell, bnrlod his portfolio, recovered his
ol8estion, and has been happy man
ever since.
The race of patriarchs is not yet OK.
tinct, if New York paper can be relied
on. It is said that William Edwards of
Jay, having lived alone in the world for
nlnety-hve years, has concluded to try
matrimony, and took vito the other
day, young lady OF seventy. Mr.. Ed.
wards las quito remarkable history.
He was ono OF Washington's soldiers.
and was twico wounded at Waterloo. vet
lie is very hearty and apparently we'll.
a New Trick. OF P1cKpocKErs.-R
Gently at o trial of considerable interest
ID tome, where the court room was
crowded, tho pickpocket let loose d
trained bird. which sailed around the
heads OF the audience, attracting their
attention, giving ample time for the
picipockets to relieve the pockets of the
audience.
A negro, ut tho risk of his own life.
laid rail on q Georgia railroad RECENTLY.
just in time to save from destruction q
train OF Masonic excursionists. a wcll-
filled purse rewarded him.
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a young gentleman Of twenty Gyo re-
Gently married lady Of forty.two in
Minnesota, and now SUITS for O divorce,
because she "chastiscs" him.
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A VOLUNTEER FOR VIv1sEcr1oS.-AIr.
Carlyle and other pessimists have Ia-
mented the fate Of the well-born and
wealthy youth of Our time doomed to
go mainly to the devil for absolute want
of q career" Such want is felt by a
young man in Cincinnati, who is neither
wealthy nor well-born. and who pro-
poses to meet it by going-possibly to
the devil ultimately, but immediately
TO tho doctors. 70 them he thus ap.
pcals:
"fEhsoNAL,-. WANTED. The under.
signed, healthy young man, unable to
procure other employment ut Which he
can mako an honest living, desires to in
form professors OF medicine and surgery
that he will sumbit himself to expert.
mental operations OF almost any descrip-
tlon ior reasonable compensation. Ad.
dress Vivisectiop, box 2,845."
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2cetry.
TIE ANGELUS,
By Luc1s.

Wide down on the rivers bosom
The shadows of eventide,
The sumner shadows are coming
just down where the day has died.
And faint moon-rise is looking
So dimly out from afar,
And DER us cleaving the shadows,
Is shining the evening star.
Up to the star and moon rise,
Across the shadows that lie
Over the plain and the river,
The Ahgelus rises high. LIZ
Hail to each leaf in the forest,
Be still at sound of the bell,
And river! o, tireless river!
The angel story we tell.
A band of children arrested
just in the midst of our plav.
Low down on the unshaved grasses
We fall on our knees to pray.
Do angels cluster around us,
In that gloom of eventide?
A~OSo AsA1A , Viz SUI luOGUcT,
Come down and stand at our side?
As echoed over the river,
The broad, bright river, doth swell
The chorus of childish voices.
The strokes Of the Convent bell.
The children have broken asunder,
And scattered afar, apart,
And still is the Ange1us hour +e#}
Graved deep in each childish heart.
Deep into the fragrant forest
The summer shadows are joined.
And high in the blue-gray heavens
The golden planets are coined.
And the cedar's waveless darkness
Is starred by the fireflies' glow,
And the moonsline faint and silyerv
Falls on the earth below.
O Mary! o mystic mother!
l sit in the hush of eve, "a.
And only the whip-poor-will's singings
Sharply the solitudes cleaye.
A grave, grieved woman, o Mary!
come not now as Of old;
Alone and foot-sore l seek you,
The hearts great cares to unfold.
0 Mary! Omystic mother!
l kneel in the dark alone, j.
And never a bowed head cometh
10 join in prayer with mine own.
New Orleans Times.
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M A N HI GOD
How Lost, How Restored.


TUST PUBLISHED, a now edition of
y Din. CULvERwELL's CELEBEATED Els.
SAY on the radiant cure Of certain weak
nesses, the effects of Errors and Abuses in
early life. a,
The celebrated author, in this admirable
essay, clearly demonstrates from thirty
years successful practice, that the alarm
ing consequences of such errors and abuses
mag be radically cured without the dan
gerons use of internal medicine or the APP
plication of the knife; pointing ont mode
of cure at once simple, certain, and effec.
tnal, by means of which every sufferer, no
matter what his condition may be, may
cure himself cheaply, privately and rad
ically. - ~ $50 2.@57A 3.}H 2'7i''''ta
w This Lecture should be in the hands
of every. youth and every man in the land.
Sent, under seal, in plain envelope, to
any address, postpaid, on receipt Of six
cents, or two post stamps.
Also, DR.. CulverweH's Marriage Guide"
price Is cents. t,a. s.m
Address the Publishers,
=" CHAS. &C. KLINE g. CO.,
III Broadway, New York.
Jan. Silly. P. o. Box, 1856.
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Ia A wag was requested by an
old lady to read the newspaper for
her. He took it up and read as
follows: :Last night. yesterday
morning, about one o'clock in the
afternoon, before breakfast, a hun
cry boy. about forty years old, pur.
chased a custard for levy. and
threw it through brick wall nine
feet thick, and jumped over it.
broke his right ankle off above bis
lett knee and fell into a dry mill
pond and was drowned. About
forty years after that, on the same
day, an old cat had nine turkey
gobblers; a high wind blew Yankee
Dootle on a frying pan, and killed
a SOW and two dead pigs in Boston,
where a deaf and dumb man was
talking to his amt Peter" Where.
upon the old lady, taking a. long
breath exclaimed, "Du tell"
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A kentucky Anecdote.

She's the finest lady n the Blu
Grass Region, but she lacks taste, strip
1t was customary in former days for
all the ladies of the best families to at
tend the prominent barbecues, and this
was especially the case in the contest
between Mr.. Breckenridge and General
Coombs, in 1870. Out of these affairs
grew the authentic story of the incest
widow.in the Blue Grass Region. Not
far from the forks of Elkhorn lived the
pretty little widow Fauntleroy, and
one of her nearest neighbors was Gen.
eral Peyton. The General had looked
upon the little widow very much as he
looked upon his blooded horse Powhat-
tan, "the finest horse in the Blue Grass
Region"
The pretty Mrs. Fauntleroy had been
a widow more than a year, while the
General, having great regard for eti-
quette, had waited patiently for that
time to elapse, in order to declare him
self. But the widow, with her wo-
mans art, kept her lover at bay, and
kept him in her train.
He had escorted her to this barbecue.
and, when returning, had expressed
his satisfaction at the prospects Of Gem
eral Coombs aud the success of the
Wing party.
The widow took sides with the De-
moctacy, and offered to wager her
blooded saddle horse Gipsey, or any
thing else on her place against Powhat-
tan, or anything else she might fancy
on the Generals place.
The Generals gallantry would not
allow him to refuse the wager, which
he promptly accepted.
By this time they had reached the
north fork of the Elkhorp, and were
about to ford it, bridges were not
plenty in those days,) when John Pey-
ton, the Generals only son and heir
came up ut a sharp gate behind them.
The widow turned and bowed to
John, and rode into the stream, but a
little behind her companion. The east
bank was very steep, and required the
horses to put forth all their strength to
reach the top with their loads.
AS luck would have it, good or i'll, |
the Widows girth broke when just at
the commencement of the steep part. |
The lady, still seated on her saddle, |
slid swiftly back into the water, while
her horse went up the bank like an
arrow.
John Peyton leaped from his horse, |
and in an instant caught the floating |
lady and saddle, and before the Gene
raj had recovered from his astonish-
ment was atthe top Of the bank with |
bis burden. The little widow was
equal to the occasion, for she begged
the General to ride on and stop her
horse, which had now begun to under
stand his part in the mishap, and was
beginning to increase his gait toward
home. a6h8
The General did as he was bid, and
soon returned with the horse. In the
meantime John Peyton had secured his
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1872-10-09
MISCELLANEOUS,
.REGISTRATION

DOLLS FOR THE REGISTRATION
i of voters for the Parish of Rapides
will be opened at the following places
and on the following dates:
Point Maigre-3 DAYS, at Berlin's. Sen.
TENDER, Monday 9th, Tuesday 10th, Wed.
nesday II.
Holloway's Prairie Precinct--at John
Newel's, Thursday 18th, Friday 18th, Sat-
urday l4th.
On Flaggon-at Asa Bells, Monday is,
Tuesday 18th. Wednesday 18th.
Pineville Precinct-Thursday 10th, Fri.
day Goth, Saturday 2lst.
Cotile-at James Store, Monday 23d,
Tuesday Oath, Wednesday 25th.
Hemp HIll-at Nichols, Thursday 18th,
Friday 9th, Saturday 2Sth.
Spring Creek-Paul's Store, Monday 80.
Tuesday, October LIST, Wednesday I'd,
Thursday 3d..
Calhoun's Stcre-Friday 4th, Satur.
day 5th.
Spring Hill-Randolph's, Monday It'll,
Tuesday 8tb, Wednesday 9th.
Overwhelmingly 10th, Friday II,
Saturday 18th.
LatanDier-Dennis Smiths. Monday IA.
Tuesday 18th. =
JIG. P. HOOE,
Supervisor Registration, Rapides Parish.
September 4th. 1872.
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Sisters of Mercy!

WYE ARE HAPPY TO INFORM OUR
w friends and the public that the
Good Sisters of Mercy will open school
for Girls, and Boys not exceeding 10 years
old, on the FIRST MONDAY IN SEP
TEMPER, at the former residence of the
Rev. ]. B. Avenard.
Their course Of instruction comprises
Reading, Writing, Geography. Grammar,
Composition, History. Arithmetic. Alge-
bra. Bookkeeping, g., with Music. French,
Drawing, Plain and Fancy Needle Work.
Parents aud Guardians can ascertain the
terms Nv hich will be very reasonably by
calling on the Rev. Mother.
August eth.
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THE subscription price of the AME-
RICAN AGRICULTURIsT, which
is we'll known as one of the Oldest and
best magazines in the world, for the
Farm, Garden and Household, is sI.5O
q year. One copy each of Hearth and
Home, weekly, and American Agricul-
turist, monthly, will be sent one year
for 81, to which 80 cents should be adj
ded when the papers are sent to Brit
ish America. Address, ssE
ORANGE, JUDD & CO., Publishers,
245 BROADWAY, N. Y.
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Greeley and the Black Men.

TIL following correspondence
has passed between Honest Horace
Greeley and many leading colored
citizens:
The Hon. Horace Greeley:
SIR-As citizens of the Republic
whose rights have been secured
through the instrumentality of as
sociations with which you have
been prominently and intimately
identified in the past. religiously
respecting the rights Of all other
citizens while zealously guarding
our own, and desiring to manifest
our appreciation of that reconcile
alton of which you are the living
representative, and which must
precetle the lasting peace ane pros.
perity OF the country, we take the
liberty to request that you inform
US what will be the policy of your
administration toward the colored
people Of the country, in the event
of your election to the Presiden..
cy Of the United States.
We have the honor. to be, very
respectfully, W. U. Saunders, I. Fl.
Hunter. A. W. A. DeLeon, Geo. Ii.
Siddons, and many others.
HORACE GREELEY's REPLY.
NEW YORK, Sept 9th, 1872.
GENTLEMEN-I have yours of
the 9TH inst,s to which [ make
prompt and brief reply. Should I
be chosen President I should Of
course take Q solemn oath to res
pect and obey the Constitution Of
the United States. That noble in
strnment recognizes no distinction
between citizens of the United
States based on color, and l should
be governed thereby. I should not
especially favor one race or an
other, but Ishould use all the pow
or of my Office to uphold and EN-
force the equal rights of allcitizens,
whether white or black.
Very respectfully;
HORACE GREELEY.
To Messrs. w. u. Saunders and
others, Committee.
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n ri came for the saw sir.a "What
saucerf" 'sWhy, the saw sir, that you
narrowed" ~ borrowed no saucer
''Sure you did, air; yon borrowed a
saw, sir" II never saw your SANGER Z"
"But you did; there's the saw now,
sir" "Oh, you want the saw; why
didn't you say so.'
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ALEXANDRIA,, LA. ..-

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