The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-03-02
LEGISLATIVE PnocEEDINGs.

R1DAf, MARCH l, 1917.
SENATE.
The Senate met Mt IL NJ, President
Ransier in the Clair.
The House amendment 10 the bill to
provide for the construction of new
Court House in and for the County of
Fiohland was oonourred in, aud ordered
to be enrolled as an Act.
The following bills were passed: To
incorporate the Sumter Academical So
ciety: to declare North aud South VIM
bee Greeks navigable streams.
The Committee on Engrossed Bills
reported number OF bills as ready for
third reading. which were laid over.
The report of the special committee
on bill to authorize the construction
OF dam across the Congaree, with the
House concurrent resolution, appointing
a committee to examine into and report
upon the work on the Columbia Canal,
was taken up and discussed up to 445
p. NJ, when the Senate adjourned until
to morrow, at IL nj.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVE
The House met at IL NJ, Speaker
Moses in the Chair.
The following bills and joint resolu-
tions were read the third time, titles
changed to Acts and ordered to be en-
rolled for ratification: To incorporate
the Beaufort Manufacturing and I'm
provement Company; to provide for the
appointment Of an inspector of phos-
pilates and define his duties; to incorpo-
rate the Grand Lodge OF Free and Ac.
cepted Ancient York Masons, of the
State OF South Carolina, and the subor-
dinate lodges under its jurisdiction; to
provide for the payment of certain debts
by the County of Aiken; to reopen a
public highway in Rchlnnd County; to
amend an Act entitled can Act to renew
and amend tho charter of the town of
Mount Pleasant; to incorporate tho town
of .TOwnville, in tho County Of Anderson; !;
joint resolution authorizing tho purchase
of q suitable building, at Hamburg, to
be used and occupied Us an armory for
the 9th Regiment n. G. S. c.; bill to
make appropriations and raise supplies
for the fiscal year commencing Novem-
Der l, 1871, WAS taken up and, after va
riOus amendments, was passed to n third
reading.
at half past o'clock, the House took
II recess until =. NJ.
SKIppER-BAcoN- Union Times
records the following joke on two resi-
dents of Columbia:
In that city there is jolly good
Englisllman by the name OF Skipper,
who will occasionally take little too
much "alf and alf," and while under it's
jolly influence is anxious to make every
body around him in as happy a CON
dition as himself, by making them
drink with him. Well. Skipper got
'on breeze" and sauntered into the
Columbia Hotel. OF course he had to
drink before leaving, SO walking up to
the bar he called for drinks for aii III
tho room. 1t happened that one Of
Pharoah's lean Kind was there, who was
reluctant to respond to Shippers call.
Skipper, however, would take no ex-
cuse, and the little lean man was forci-
bly, placed ut tho bar. Skipper leaned
upon the counter. and after cycling the
little Heshless individual from toe to
head, said: (Hic) what (hic) is your (hic)
name, stranger? My name, said tho
stranger, is Bacon. Skipper stared at
him in apparent astonsh ment, and said
(Hic) we'll, sir, (hic) my namo is (hic)
Skipper, but (hic) I'll bo id If don't
(hic) want flafer meat than you are to work
on. We did not learn whether Bacon
stood the next treat.
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A Dutchmau who was elected to his
State Legislature, thus gives his opinion
Of it: Ven vent to dc Legislature, l
fought would find dem all Solomons
dere. but soon found dcrc vas somo as
pick fools doro rs was.