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The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-06-19
The Bond-holdors' Meeting.
AUGUSTA, GA, June Is, 1872


printed notice Of meeting of the hold
ers OF the non-mortgaged, State gua-
ranteel, and second mortgage bonds of
the Greenville and Columbia Railroad
Company, called to be held in Columbia
on the 10Th inst. But am without any
intimution, in the notice, of what is pro
posed to be done; nor Can very easily
see what can be done nt such meeting,
where interests dissimilar, perhaps anita
gon:stic, are to be represented. AS.
suredly there oan be no common basis
established for NIL.
have before mo tho report of the
President and Directors at present in
charge OF the railroad. 1 observe in the
financial statement recognized issue of
second mortgage bonds, to the extent
only Of $4,000 But the entire amount
Of that class, viz: $500, ,OOO or nearly
thc entire dnaount, is represented out IF Me
hands Of Me company. aud of course in
the hands of somebody. Now, ut the
meeting to which am invited, arc these
securities to be clnssed with mine? to be
recognized as of equal obligation on the
part Of the railroad company? and cnti-
tied in the proceedings of that meeting
to voice of equal, perhaps superior,
potency? Most unquestionably no! and
II not, what common ground is it poss-
bio to establish?
l have read the report, AIR. Editor,
with much attention. would odd sur
prise, if anything could surprise one in
these times. 1 comprehend perfectly
how tho present directors found, and
may for some time find, it Impossible to
continue pnyments of interest. An ex-
haustcd treasury and small business
do not readily furnish means to meet
immense pressing cash obligations. l
believe the resolution not to attempt to
pay interest, not only absolutely necessary,
but cmincntly judicious. Tho Green
vile Railroad is not tho first or only
railroad which has passed its interest for
one or two or more terms. 1T would
have been greatly moro to our benefit if
MIR. Hammett's administration had never
attempted it. What has been the re-
suit? We have it nowD It is not an
exhibition Of insolvency to suspend pay
ment OF interest, particularly in such a
case as this, when the finances are mud
died up, and time is needed to tell what
the Company's lawful debts are. lam
satisfied, Mr.. Editor, with my bonds.
L am satisfied with the present manage
ment, and what / infer to be their policy
and will wait on them as long as I can
be in reason asked, aud not risk, per.
haps, large per centage Of my property,
by rushing into hasty measures, with
allies whose claims are, in all probabili-
ty, unequal to mine.
A STATE GUARANTY BOND HOLDER.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-06-19

HoRsE MURDEn.--On Sunday otter
noon, at pump on Market street, Au-
gusta, two horses met to elake their
thirst, indulging for a brief period in a
little by-play OF biting each other.
Finally. one of them kicked up his heels
and threw them with such force against
the head OF the other as to cause death
in few minutes.
Baron Aufess, the founder of the Nu-
remburg museum, was recently kicked
to death by two German professors, at
the opening of the University of Stras-
burg. The German savans mistook him
for Frenohman.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-06-19
Special Meeting OF city Council.
COUNCIL CHAMBER,
CorIINruJA s. q lima ~ 1870


COLUMBIA. s. O.. June IL, 1872.
Council mot at 5. 80 p. NJ.
Present-His Honor Mayor Alexander; !;
Aldermen Mitchell, Hoge, Lowndes,
Carroll, Wilder, Carr, Williams and
Cooper Absont-Carpenter, Young and
Griffin.
The Mayor st tied that he had called
this meeting for the purpose of hearing
tho report Of the special committee ap-
pointed on tho communication of ". X.
Bachmun, in behalf Of the Indies Monu-
mental Association.
Alderman Hoge, Chairman Of tho
Committee, reported as follows:
ReS0lccti, Thnt his Honor the Mayor
be authorized to sell to tho Indies
Monumental Association the lot or parcel
OF land specified i'll thopetition Of w. *.
Bachman for tho sum OF 5000. provided
that tho city has the right to sell suid lui i;
aud thnt the City Attorney be instructed
to mako an examination, and report 10
tho City Council ut its next regular
meeting.
BY Alderman Carroll:
kcsolucoi. That report of Committee
be adopted.
Carried.
The Mayor stated that ho WIS in
formed by tho Chief OF Police that nc
had received verbal Instructions from
the Board of Health to remove from
Davis alley tho filling that had been
placed there by order Of City Council.
Alderman Cooper, Chnirman OF Com
mit.ce OF Streets, stated that he waa i'll
formed TINT propertyholdcrs would lay
u piro i'll Davis alley. for the purpose oi
carrying oil the water there, and recon-
mcnded that no action bo taken by th,.
Council III the case ut present. Adopted.
On motion Of Alderman Hogc, Conn.
Gil adjourned. CuAS. BAKNUM,
City Clerk.
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When Fred. Douglass made his speech
to the negro convention in New Orleans,
he was very severe upon the persecution
he met with in travelling at the South.
BY this term he characterized his exclu-
aion from hotel tables, sleeping cars,
etc., seeing in it the "old links of slave-
ry." It would now appear that many of
these old links exist in his old home, and
We are consequently justified in recon.
mending him to wash little of his soiled
linen in that locality. A few nights since
his house burned down OF Rochester,
New York, and we are told by local
paper that he vainly applied to ten hotels
for nights lodging, and was finally OBJ
liged to rouse the family of personal
friend to find resting place It would,
therefore, appear that the South is by
no means exceptional in its ideas of
caste, although he labored hard while
here to instill contrary impression.
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LABOR STRIKE.-.The STRIKES" OF
laborers which have recently occurred so
frequently North and East, appear to be
spreading toward the South. Yesterday,
the hands employed on the Port Royal
Railroad. between Augusta and the Sa-
yannah River, struck for higher wages,
and marched into Augusta. The labor
ers give as their reason for striking, not
because an increase Of wages was de-
manded or refused, but because Captain
Herndon was removed and ca aptain put
in his place who required of them a
larger day work than they had been in
the habit of performing.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-06-19

A RICH COFFIN. S.-The burial caskct in
which the remains of the late james
Gordon Bennett were cncased was made
in Rochester, New York, and was nearly
square in shape, and constructed of a
peculiar wood. which lasts for many
years. The side panels were covered
with costly Lyons silk velvet, and the
eight handles were of now design,
made expressly for tho occasion. The
lid, which consisted of two panels of
French crystal plate glass, covered. when
required, by two blacl silk velvet caps,
was hung on silver hinges and fastened
with two silver locks. The entire cssket
was mounted in O massive framework of
silver moulding of chaste design, bolted
and made fast in such manner that it
cannot fall apart. The inside was mp
holstered and decorated in whito silk,
satin and Venetian lace.
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The LABOR STRIKE IN New YonK.-A
correspondent Of the Charleston Neus
writes from Gotham as follows:
The labor strikers are not going to
achieve the great triumph they antici-
pated. The ''eight hours demonstra-
ton" on Monday was failure. Instead
of 10000 men in line, there were less
than 5000. Many trades refused to Join
the procession at the last moment. Yes
terday the cause was still further demo-
ralized by the caving in of the employees
OF Singers sewing machine factory, over
l,500 in number. These men returned
to ten hours labor. their old hours, and
abandoned the exaction of twenty per
cent. advance in wages, after having
stayed away from work one week. They
adopted set of resolutions humiliating
themselves in the dust, which, doubt
less, was the price of their employers
forgiveness. The present strike will
tho strikers have succeeded; others still
hold out; but many have returned to
work minus couple Of weeks wages.
The sympathy of the community is usu-
ally with the working-men, but the vio-
lence which has characterized the pre-
sent movement has deprived it of much
OF the outside moral support which is
necessary to it's SUCCESS. Still the great
question is by no means settled. The
working. men surrender because their
ammunition has given out, but they sur
render sullenly, and with q determina-
ton to renew the war ut the earliest op.
portunity.
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Walter, o fvo-year.old, WINS surprised
at breakfast by the presence of diminu-
two egg, served for his special delcctn-
ton. He thus accounted for the eggs
smallness: "Mamma, 1 think the chicken
was learning to lay.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-06-19

A young man by the name of Gill,
killed young lady, Miss Hutchings, in
Leak County. Miss, the other day. The
cause OF this act was said to be the
young lady's refusal to marry Gill, who
was devoted suitor to her hand. Gill
made his escape and has not yet been
apprehended.
A. T. Stewart thinks-heigh.ho that
he will retire. Let him look ont now
that he is in earnest. Saying that cost
Colfax something.
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To DRIVE RATS AWAY WITHOUT Po1.
soN.-This is followed chiefly in Paris
by men who make it special business.
They take deep tub with water on the
bottom, and little elevation in the
middle like an island, on which is only
place for just one rat to sit on. The top
is covered ana has large balanced
valve, opening downward; on the mid
die OF this valve piece of fried pork or
cheese is fixed, and when rat walks on
it to get the cheese, the valve goes down,
drops the rat in tho water, and moves
back in position. A road is made from
a rat hole to tho top Of the tub, by
means of piece of boa,d rubbed with
cheese, SO as to mske tho walk attrac-
tive for the rats. In the course of O
single night, some ten or twenty, or
even more rats may 60 down. aud if the
island was not there they would be found
most all alive in the morning quietly
swimming round; but the provision of
the little island. saves the trouble of
killing them, because their egotistic in
stinct of self-preservation causes them
to fight for the exclusive possession of
the ,land, on which. in the morning,
the strongest rat is found in solitary pos
session; all the others being killed and
drowned around him.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-06-19

j Moses, Augusta; r Green. Pondlet0n; J L
simpson, Anderson; Crawford, Jr John T
Sloan, Jr. NJ l. kinard, city.
How AMERICANS TRAVEL. The follow
ing is taken from the private letter of
Cincinnatian abroad: We left Monday
morning by the Mt. Gents Tunnel, with
watches all in hand. There was dis
patio whether it took twenty-scven or
twcnty-eight minutes. It was lighted
every mile; but just as we entered we
had begun conversation with q party
from B. They amused me 80 much that
[ forgot to think how long tho tunnel
was going to be. This party sailed in
ship by way of Fayal to Lisbon. but did
not go ashore. Some one said there was
nothing to see. Stopped at Gibraltar,
but did not land there, for an English
man who had spent three months there
told them it wns dull place. Came to
Leghorn. Did not go to Rome for fear
OF a fever The picture galleries in Flo
renee were in suth muddle that they
could not tell one picture from another
Indeed. travelling was bore There
was no country like America, and the
lady had but one pleasant idea connect
ed with Europe, and that was shopping.
She was going to buy "lots of things" in
Paris, and her mind was taken up with
the size of the trunks required for the
purchases.
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The CANADA OUrRAaE.-The outrage
committed by Jos. G. Hester and another
United Suites detective, in kidnapping
DR.. Bratton in Canada, is exciting much
interest in England, and the matter will
be brought to the attention of the
United States authorities. The Canada
pspers say that Dr.. Bratton was con-
veyed, while under the influence of
chloroform administered by Hester, to
Detroit, Michigan, where a warrant was
procured for his arrest. DR.. Bratton
was formerly from Charlotte, N. c.,
where he has relatives now residing.
The offence committed by Hester and
his colleague is heinous one, and the
English Government, it is said, will not
only demand the surrender Of DR.. Brat
ton, but also of the two detectives who
committed the outrage on English soil.
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SHOCKING RApE-A horrid crime was
committed in Pulaski County, Georgia.
last Thursday morning. on the person Of
HRS. Charlton Lovett, ny negro man
about twenty-onc years old, formerly
owned by Mr.. joe Philips, residing ten
miles below Hawkinsville. On Thurs
day morning, this villain went to the
house of Mr.. Lovett, and finding Mrs
L. there alone, her husband being on a
distant part of the plantation. produced
n huge knife, which he had just sharp
ened for the purpose, and seizing Mrs.
l.. with great violence, swore he would
cut her throat if she made the least noise
or resistance. Having accomplished his
purpose, he fed, but the alarm being
given, he was pursued by some thirty
men during the day. and captured and
lodged i'll Pulaski County jail. There
was great excitement over the ntflir
throughout the County-the victim be-
ing of II highly esteemed and influential
family.
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PorULAR EnRons.-To think that the
more man cats the futter and stronger
he will become. To believe that the
moro hours children study the faster
they learn. To conclude that, if oxer-
else is good. the moro violent it is, the
more good is done. To imagine that
every hour taken from sleep is an hour
gained. To act on the presumption
that the smallest room in the house is
large enough to sleep in. To imagine
that whatever remedy cnuscs one to feel
Immediately better is good for tho sys-
tenn, without regard to more ulterior ef-
fects. TO eat without an appetite; or to
continue after it has been satisfied, mere
y to crafty the taste. TO ent hearty
supper for the pleasure experienced dur
ing tho brief time it is passing down the
throat. at the expense of whole night
OF disturbed sleep, and weary waking in
tho morning.
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Pride has many victims in all ranks of
human society. A colored woman died
recently in Allegheny City, Pa. from
the effects of white lead with which she
was in the habit of painting herself in
an attempt to abolish the distinction Of
race. Sho poisoned herself in the same
cause with the Louisville lady who ru-
ined her health by having her face ena-
meled. Neither attained her object, and
both "died ns the fool dieth."
Two aged citizens of ST. Louis, Mo-.
have never missed paying an afternoon
visit to beer garden in that city for
twenty.nine years. They always ap-
pear at about the same hour, sit at the
same table, drink the same quantity of
beer, and play the same number of
games at dominoes without variation,
day after day throughout the year.
A wealthy banker in one of the West
side avenues has gone to some expense
in having coat-of.arms invented and
emblazoned for him. He has adopted q
loaf for his crest, which some of his
neighbors are wicked enough to call his
crust. This is probably to show thai he
has risen and is woll bred.
A man out West, who was lately struck
dumb by lightning, likenod his sensa-
tions to those produced by his father. in
laws boot. The striking was in the
same place.
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TIE ROLL OF HONoR.-The Radicals,
when Greeley was first nominated, com-
mcnced q furious war upon him for sign
ing MIR. Davis boud. But this little
game was suddenly blocked by making
Gerret Smith another one of Mr.. Davis
boudsmen, n delegate to the Grant Con-
vention at Philadelphia. Mr.. Greeley,
and MI who signed the bond. deserve
great credit, for it wus IL manly, and ut
the same time All unpopular act. Mr..
Davis had been kept i'll prison without
trial, contrary to tho principles of civi
lized justice. For any passing abuse,
the bondsmcu are now compensated.
The people talk Of making Horace Gree
ley President of the United States, and
Gerret Smith received quite an ovation
from tho Radical Convention in Phila-
delphia. It may be interesting to SEQ
who joined them in their now fumons
bail-bond. These are the names of all
the sureties: Horace Greeley, New York E;
Gerret Smith, New York; Augustus
Schcll, New York; Aristides Welch, Phi
ladelphia; Cornelius Vanderbilt, New
York; w. FL. Mcfarland, Richmond; r.
Barton Haxall Richmond; Isaac Daven-
port. Richrnond; Abraham Warwick,
Richmond; Gustavus A. Myers, Rich
mond; VIM. NJ. Crump, Richmond; JAS.
Lyons, Richmond; John A. Meredith,
Richmond; VIM. II. Lyons, Richmond;
John Minor Bolts. Virginia; Thomas ".
boswell, Virginia; James Thomas. Jr. +,
Richmond; Horace T. Clark, New York (;
Benjamin Wood, New York.
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Two practical jokers in Virginia
town, who were left in charge of numer-
Gus babies on social occasion, while
the mammns enjoyed dance, changed
the clothes of the little darlings. and ar
rayed each one in strange habiliments.
The mothers, after IN hour or SO of de-
votion to Terpischorean delights. took
their baby vestments and the dear little
forms therein contained, and retired to
their respective and once happy homes.
On preparing the little ones for the crib,
sexes had changed-girls were boys and
boys were girls-and with one universal
baby hunt. At last account almost all
had succeeded in recovering the lost
heirs; but the wags keep out of the way
of those matrons as much as possible.
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.
The Paducah Kemtuchian tells this:
In one Of our neighboring towns, one
evening recently. some Good Templar
posted up u notice chilling for meeting
ut one of the churches in the place, for
tho purpose of organizing lodge OF
Good Templars. In few minutes after
tho notice had been put up. tho saloon
keeper stuck up, Immediately under it.
the following Offset notice: Attention H.!
Free drinks tonight at ull the saloons in
town. No lodge was formed there that
night"
Fancy q constructive debate going on
all summer in the official record of Con-
gressl Yet it turns out that three pro-
life debaters in the House have actually
obtained leave to write and print their
unborn speeches in The Globe Messrs.
Beck, Dawes and Kerr are the gladiators
who are to monsure strength on the
finances, and they are to do their best in
the ponderous columns of The Globe.
This sort of replication is novel; but,
once open to faoile penmen, it may be
projected infinitely over space.
James Parker, one of the victims of
the recent explosion OF railroad engine
boiler at Ssnderson, Fla, had been kid.
mapped in his infancy and carried to
Lake City, where he fell into tho hands
of an old lady who reared him. He was
preparing to visit his supposed home in
New Jersey, and his trip on the road
when he was killed, was to have been his
last previous to his departure.
1t will only take $l.019.94 to keep
tho streets of New York in proper con-
dition the coming year.
Bacchus sells beer and Mr.. Plugg is
tobacconist on Pennsylvania avenue, in
Washington.
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OUR AGENTS IN CHARLESTON. The
advertising agency of Messrs. Walker,
Evans & Cogswell, represented by Ros-
well L. Logan, Esq, is the only author
lied agency for this paper in Charleston.
MAIL ARRANGEMENTS Tho Northern
mail opens at 2.30 Z. NJ; closes 1900
A. NJ. Charleston day mail opens 4.3O
p. NJ; closes 600 a. Nj. Charleston
night mail opens 100 A. M; closes 6. IS
p. IL. Greenville mail opens 6.45 P.
NJ; closes 600 A. NJ. Western opens
and closes 1.30P At. Wilmington opens
2.30 +. NJ: closes 11.3O a. M. On
Sunday Office open from to4P. Al.
LIST OF New ADVERTISEMENTS.
Meeting Richland Lodge
Parade Independent Fire Company.
Part of House to Rent.
Cantwell's-Goshcn Butter.
HOTEL ANIMALS, June IS, 1S72-Nickerso,.
No"Se-J NJ Jones, Charlotte; Is W Eeynolds.
Wis; W " Ciough, baltimore; J Z Reed
Townsend. w @ Wardaw wfo and two chill
dren, Abhrville; J w Shack!eford, Ga.
Cotrn.tia Hota-E G Francis, w L Gary.
Edgciield; . QuiGley, 9 L Northrop, " ii
Evans. + Bnrdell. + T Burdoll. j, Il L
w III Fuick, N Y; Z Rion, winnsboro; + A
Connnr, Ookesbury; NJ Baxter. Hcwberry: i
j Moses, Augusta; j + Green, Pondlcton: y
Simpson, Anderson; A Crawford, Jr John r
Sloan, Jr. NJ l. kinard. city.
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81, 200 made the ancient 'talent." It
tukes some talent to make 81, $50 nova.
days.
Beecher says sermon, like q probe,
must follow the wound into all its intri-
cate passages. Nothing is too minute
for the surgeon or for the physician; no.
thing should be too common or too fami-
liar for the preacher.
The best counter sign-"No trust"
Do your business promptly, and bore
not business man with long visits.
TO make thin man look fat, call after
him, and he will then look round.
What requires more philosophy than
taking things as they come? Parting
with things as they 30.
''Never be critical upon the ladies'"
was the maxim of an Irish peer, remark
able for his homage to the sex; 'the
only way that true gentleman ever at
tempts to look at the faults of pretty
woman, is to shut his eyes,"
Mrs. Kane, of Baltimore, set ont to
write list OF the wrongs of women, but
found 80 many Of them that she was
driven to the conclusion that women
suffer wrong in being born at all. This
disposes of the whole question in nut.
shell.
The Marquis Of Camden, who has just
died poor man in England, voluntarily
surrendered 100000 yearly sinecure,
because he considered it fraud upon
the nation. Grants family came from
Scotland, and were in no way related to
the Marquis.