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The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-05-18

INGENUITY OF BURGLARS was
q burglary in an Albany jewelry store on
the night of the I'd instant, and one OF
several skiliful devices to which the bur.
glars resorted to prevent detection while
operating upon the safe was the follow
ing: On work bench on the South side
OF the shop a small looking glass is
placed, in front OF which is gas-burner.
This small glass reflects the back OF the
sale on the large glass, and those who
pass the store have full view of it.
Inc burglars, to conceal their opera
uons' had prepared curtain made Of
dark green muslin, across which black
muslin stripes were sewed, to represent
the bars on the back Of the safe. This
muslin was tackled on small wooden
strips after the burglars entered the pre-
misses. and was hung over the large mir
ror. 1t was we'll calculated to deceive
the patroling watchman, and but for his
suspicious being aroused early in the
evening by observing two or three
strange characters in the vicinity, they
might have operated successfully. On
passing the store he noticed that the re-
Election OF the back Of the safe in the
glass was darker than usual, and he
shook the door three or four times. Re-
ceiving no response from the inside
watchman, his suspicion that something
was wrong was strengthened, and, break
ing open the doors, found that his infer
ence had been too long delayed. for the
robbers had retreated.- Worcester Spy.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-05-18

On the 9th instant. Daniel Dover, J.
=. Fulton, L. 81. McSwain, Andrew
Huskie, M. L. Ross and j. E. Good
were released from prison on bond.
The following, who had been sent to
Charleston for trial, but whose cases
were not reached. were returned to the
prison here on the 1ltb: ". Fl. White.
Samuel Randall, H. nj. Moore. r. H.
Moss. j. W. Gaffney, E A. Turner, r.
L: Harmon, Albert Francis, Jerome P.
Moss, Columbia Ramsey, Marion Harris,
John L. Moss. OF these, the three last
named we're released on bond on the
18th.
The following arrests have been made:
William B. Leech. May II, and J. ".
Pursely and J. L. Pursely, on the 14th.
There are now seventeen in confinement
here porIciHe Enquirer.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-05-18

MORE OFFICIAL VIs1roRs. DEPUTY
Marshals Maloney and Canton arrived in
our town. just after dark, on last Wednes-
day evening, having in charge, as a pri-
soner, Thomas Paysinger, ex-SheriG OF
Newberry. He was arrested at Martin g
Depot, IN this County, for some offence
against the United States; but it seems
that the aforesaid marshals we're not on
the hunt OF Paysinger, as they had no
warrant for him. He unfortunately,
however, crossed their path, and thsy
took him in" hand. cuffed him. and
brought. him along for company sake.
promising to produce the warrant when
they reached Newberry. Making mill.
tary arrests have grown old-its now of
common occurrence in South Carolina
so this little matter of giving each vic
tim q pair OF bracelets seems to be re-
garded, by Government satraps, as indis-
pensable In giving new interest to such
procedures. Its very long lane that
has no turn.
We learn, also, that James n. lrby,
formerly OF this District, was arrested in
Newberry recently, and carried to the
County Jail hand.cuffed.
Our visitors left us on yesterday morn.
ing, carrying Abe Simmons, colored.
with them as o prisoner. Abe is the
negro whom the Witness" spoken of
elsewhere. had the quarrel with. The
witness" has doubtless carried his point
in part. 'Let us have peace"
Since the above was put in type, we
learn that the aforesaid marshals went
to the house OF DR.. Thos. Mccoy early
yesterday morning, called for the Doctor,
and being informed by Mrs. Mccoy that
he was absent, having been called away
at late hour the previous night, tho
rough search OF the house was made.
but the Doctor was not found. The
shack!ed prisoner, Paysinger, was drag
ged along by these humane (?) officers
on the search mentioned. DR.. Mccoy,
it will be remembered, had just returned
home on bail, after five weeks imprison-
ment. The cauldron still boils.
lLdurensriAe Herald.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-05-18
State of South Oarolina-.Newberrv Co
COURT OF COMMON PLEAa

Achilles D: LoYelace, Plaintiff. against Abram
Demand. Complaint not Serued.1
70 ABRAM HARRIS, Defendant In this sction:
VOU are summoned and required to An.
= sTes the complaint in this sction, which
was hled In the office Of the Clerk of the
Court OF Common Pleas for Newberry County.
on the 10th day Of April, A. D. 1879, and TO
serve copy OF your answer on tho sub.
%, s%eribers, At their office, at Nevberry Court
after the service Of this summons on you. ex.
elusive Of the day Of service.
II You fail to answer this complaint within
the time aforesaid, the plaintiff will take
hundred and thirty-nine 6.IO0 dollar. and
costs. SUBER & CALDWELL,
PLAINTIFF ATTORNEYS.
Newberry G. e., May IS. 1871. Nav IS s6
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-05-18

CoNaREssMAN ELL1oTT's WIFE. Mr..
Elliott has his wife here, very hand
some, stylish woman, with little negro
blood III her veins, hardly enough to
distinguish her from our own race. One
day, she entered the diplomatic gallery,
where there were several wives Of Con
gressmen. and futter was the conse-
Quence. Some left, and others informed
the gentlemanly usher that he must
never again subject them to the crushing
lndignity. Those who made the most
fuss about it were the wives of the mos
Radical Congressman.
Washington Letter.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-05-18

The bridge across Twelve Mile Greek,
on the old State Road, near Lexington.
and the bridge across the same stream at
Leapheart's old mill, on the old Cam.
bridge Road. have been thoroughly re-
paired and put in good order.
The ex-Confedeiate Mosby hos told
Grant that he prefers him to Greeley.
A chance to collect some internal reve-
nue. under the present administration ia
what Mosby wants.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-05-18

After following. with considerable I'D
miration and interest, the wanderines
and adventures of that democratic des-
pot, Don Pedro. Of Brazil, from his in
cognito visitations ut European watering
places to innocent hirtations with Yam.
kee girls amid the Pyramids of Egypt,
1t is pleasure to know that he has ac-
compllshed "6on rovage," and is safe
upon his native heath again. His peo-
pie, In expectation of his return with
his family, were in fever OF excitement,
and the Rio Janeiro batteries quite star
tied an inoffensive Antwerp packet by
mlstaking it for the Emperor's barge,
and firing their heaviest salute. The
military, too, were thrown into confu-
sion by the premature announcement,
and the Emperor spoiled his reception
at home, Us he has so often done in other
places, by stealing into the capital before
the desired fuss and feather" could be
organized; consequently he got few
cheers, except from Anglo Saxon throats,
which are always equal to an emergency.
The tired soldiers were dismissed for
their dinners, and only levee or hand
KISS with the Imperial family, all united,
was lndulged III ut the palace. The EN-
peror assumed once more the reins of
government on the lst of April; the pre-.
sent cabinet is expected to resign, and
wonderful transformations nre looked
for from the enlarged practical ideas OF
this second Peter the Great
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-05-18

BAND OF DEsPRRADoRs-SHER
OFFICE RoBBED.-Last week we gave an
account OF an attempt to arrest two
notorious robbers. Bill and Bob Sartor.
who turned on the officers, beat them,
threatened to kill them, and then made
their escape. These fellows are still at
large, and continue their bold depreda.
tlons. Warrants have been Issued for
them for horse stealing. as il can be
proven that they are the parties who
stole the horses we spoke of two weeks
ago. One of them, Bill Sartor, is one OF
Governor SCOTS pet penitentiary birds.
ne was sentenced at the last court OF
shls County to two years. Imprisonment
for stealing, but says he was '.turned
out OF the penitentiary soon after, by
Governor Scott, we suppose, to continue
nis acts OF iawlessness. This is another
evidence OF the utter uselessness of the
people to attempt to punish colored
scoundrels through proper course OF
law. The Governors pardon puts at de.
nance the sentence of the court, and
turns loose upon the people the most
desperate thieves and robbers, after they
have been tried and convicted by dis.
Interested and legally constituted Jury.
!hese Sartors, IL seems, are initiating
the example of the Lowreys, of North
Carolina, and it is believed are oroaniz-
ing gang similar to those outlaws.
Warrants for their arrest were placed
IN the hands of Special Deputy Sheriff
Mr. w. l.. Palmer, who WAS actively en-.
gaged In trying to arrest them, and we
believe would have had them in the iai]
IN a short time; but just as his plans fo1
their capture were completed, he WIS ar
rested by United States Marshal under
the charge of conspiracy. It's said thu,
the warrant for Mr.. Palmer had been
issued some months before, but it looks
very strange that its service should have
been delayed until just at the time when
he was about to arrest gang OF despe.
rate thieving negroes. From this we
may infer that it will be dangerous fo,
any citizen Of this County to make an1
effort to arrest these scoundrels.
MIR. Palmer. before his arrest. had nm.
earthed large quantity of dry goods,
ready-made clothes, &C.. which had beer
stolen by the gang, and deposited them
in the Sherih's Office at this place. Mr.
Cal. Hunter had identified most of the
articles as belonging to him, but nun.
Der OF tine coats and other goods were
detained in the Sheriff's Office AWAITING
their owner, until Wednesday night last,
when the Office was broken into, through
the window, and oil the goods taken out
There is no Glue to the perpetrators ol
the last burglary, but there is little doubt
that the Sartor gang were at the head OF
it.
We learn that six or eight stores in this
County have been robbed during the past
six months. Will the authorities. State
or Federal, tell us where the people car
find protection from the depredations Of
these convicted burglars and thieves?
Cnion Times.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-05-18

reported that the steamship Tripoli was
totally wrecked on the Irish coast. The
passengers wero saved.
The Irish strikers and German Isborera
had an extensive fight at the works Of
the Metropolitan Gas COMPANY. The
strikers were driven of. The police are
now guarding the works.
The Methodist Conference adontad an
order paying bishops by congregational
contribution.
Port an Prince advices state that busi.
ness is dull. The coffee crop is about
ended. Cotton comes in more freelv.
but prices are very high. Logwood is
scarce and in good demand. The reyo.
lutionary movement at Cape Haytien is
not regarded of much consequences. and
political affairs throughout HsyM are
generally quiet. Quotations Of coffee g.:
cotton IL; logwood ~; gold 316.
CHAR1BsroN, May 1.-THE State au
thortties, acting under recent stringent
enactments, are advertising very large
amounts OF real estate, ir every County,
to be sold absolutely in tie first week OF
June, for unpaid arrears Of taxes for
1858, 1859 and 1870. As the State qua.
fantees the titles obtained at these sales.
great enorts will be made by delinquents
so save tneie property, and 1t is expected
IN. INA. ~ ,ooo, 600 OF arrears will be received
an sne State Treasury before the day OF
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1872-09-27
Ventilation.

OPPORTUNITY for the ingress of pure
air, and the egress of that which is i'm
pure, is absolutely requisite in the con-
struction of every house Previous to
the introduction Of stoves as warming
apparatus for houses, these were moder-
ately well ventilated by the open CRATES
and fre-places which they contained
The pure air, because cold, rushed down
the chimney, and, becoming warmed by
passing the fire, spread through the
house, furnishing life to its inmates.
Through the same opening the rarified
air, being lightened, assembled, and thus
constant renewal was had. In those days
ventilation was not studied, because adj
ditional means for it were not needed.
Necessity being the mother of invention,
where no necessity existed, means were
not considered. Hence, in those days
ventilation was not discussed and yet
men, and especially women, maintained
degree of health and vigor and hardi-
ness of constitution, which are both the
marvel and envy Of modern times
Grandmothers' vigor and personal endow-
ments are still the desired, but despaired-
of prize of modern ambition.
Wherein consists the remarkable
change since then Whence the dyspep-
sias, nervous arrangements, female weak
nesses, consumptions, ETC., of our time :?
Through the closing of fire-places by the
invention of stoves. By this change in
household arrangements the inmates of
our houses have been largely deprived of
the hf6-gi0jng Oxygen, the cttaI air of the
atmosphere. Every breath we draw,
every lamp that burns, every fire that
warns us, consumes this air in large
quantities and if it is not replenished by
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1872-09-27
Easy Lesson in Physiology.

SURPRISING your age to be fifteen, or
thereabout: You have 100 bones and 500
muscles; your blood weighs twenty-five
pounds, your heart is five inches in length
and three inches in diameter, it beats
seventy times per minute, 1900 times
per hour, 1O0,6 800 times per day, and
SO, 722, 200 per year. At each beat little
over two ounces of blood is thrown out
of it; and each day it receives and dis
charges about seven tons of that wonder
full fluid. Your lungs will contain gal
lon of air, and you inhale 1000 gallons
per day. The aggregate surface of the
air-cells of your lungs, supposing them
to be spread out, exceeds 10000 square
inches. The weight of your brain is
three pounds; when you are a man it will
weigh about eight ounces more. Your
nerves exceed 100000 in number.
Your skin is composed of three layers,
and varies from one-fourth to one-eighth
of an inch in thickness. The area of
your skin is about roo square inches.
Each square inch contains $500 sweating
tubes or respiratory pores, each of which
may be likened to a little drain-tile one
fourth of an inch long, making an aggre-
gate length of the entire surface of your
body of 2O1, 1876 feet, or tile ditch for
draining the body almost forty miles
Ong.-L0ncet
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1872-09-27
GravitatiOn, Light and Heat.

THE law of gravitation enunciated by
Newton is that every particle of matter
in the universe attracts every other parti-
Gle with force which diminishes as the
square of the distance increases. Thus
the sun and the earth mutually pull each
other; thus the earth and the moon are
kept in company; the force which holds
every respective pair of masses together
being the integrated force of their COM
ponent parts. Under the operation of this
force, stone falls to the ground and is
warmed by the shock; under its operation,
meteors plunge into our atmosphere and
rise to incandescence. Showers of such
doubtless fall necessarily upon the sun.
Acted on by this force, were it stopped
IN its orbit tomorrow, the earth would
rush toward and finally combine with
the sun. Heat would also be developed
byth1s collision, and Mayer, Helmholtz, and
Thomson have calculated its amount. 1t
would equal that produced by the combus-
ton gilmore than 8, 1000 worlds of solid coal,
all this heat being generated at the instant
of collision. In the attraction of gravity,
therefore, acting upon non-luminous
matter, we have a source of heat more
powerful than could be derived from any
terrestrial combustion. And were the
matter of the universe cast in cold detach-
ed fragments into space, and there aban-
doned to the mutual gravitation of its
own parts, the collision of the fragments
would in the end produce the fires of the
stars.
The action of gravity upon matter
originally cold may in fact be the origin
of all light and heat, and the proximate
source of such other powers as are gene
rated by light and heat. But we have
now to inquire what is the light and what
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1872-09-27
An Indian on Raising Peaches.

On the reservation in Western New
York, is Tuscarora Indian, whom cor
respondent of the Chatauqua Farmer
states reasons thus in relation to having
healthy peach trees, and proves it by his
fruit. At all events it is an original idea,
If not altogether sound. He says:
John Mount Pleasant, who has a
farm of 200 acres in the southwest cor
ner of the reservation, about five miles
from Suspension bridge, told me that he
cleared $4,000 last year from the proceeds
of his fruit orchard and mentioned, in
cidentally, that the chief reason why his
peach trees were loaded with fruit while
others apparently on the same kind of
soil bore nothing, was that in setting his
trees he always made deep hole with a
cavity into which ne inserted the tap root
as deep as possible. He said the nursery
men in pulling their trees for market,
very often cut off this tap-root. He
would never set out tree thus mutilated
unless compelled to do so and in that
case he would take the longest lateral
root he could find and thrust it down into
the hole as substitute for the original
tap-root. By pursuing this course he al
most uniformly has a liberal crop of
peaches. His peach trees are set in al
ternate rows with his apple trees"
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1872-09-27
Cooking Vegetables.

WHY should vegetables be washed in
warm water first, then cold, to clease
them from sand and insects? The hot
water, which must be hotter than tepid,
causes the insects and sand to fall out at
once Insects do not always dislike cold
water and salt, but hot water kills them.
It must be understood that only small
handful of green's or one head of cab
bage at time must be washed, and then
instantly thrown into cold water, which
crisps and thoroughly cleanses them.
Spinach, leeks, celery and seakale, are
thus rendered very clean, and, moreover,
are very rapidly cleansed. 1t is worse
than useless to attempt to cleanse vege-
tables in salt and water. The hardness
which salt creates in the water prevents
all cleansing properties, The salt may
kill the insects Git does not always do this),
but they stick on so hard and fast; the
hot water makes them fall out at once,
and the cold water crisps and also blanches
them.-MTs. Warren.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1872-09-27

i the heat thus produced? This question
has already been answered IN general
way. Both light and heat are modes of
motion. Two planets clash and come to
rest: their motion, considered as masses,
is destroyed, but it is really continued
as a motion of their ultimate particles 1t
is this motion, taken up by the ether, and
propagated through it with velocity of
1876, 900 miles second that comes to us
as the light and heat of suns and stars.
The atoms of a hot body swing with in
conceivable rapidity, but this power OF
vibration necessarily implies the opera
ton of forces between the atoms them
selves. 1t reveals to us that while they
are held together by one force, they are
kept asunder by another, their position at
any moment depending on the equilibrium
of attraction and repulsion. The atoms
are virtually connected by elastic springs
which oppose at the same their approach
and their retreat, but which tolerate the
drawn together by the force of gravity
strike each other, the intensity of the Ill
innate vibration, or in other words, the
able to the us 0g0d destroyed by the col
49,
up is instantly shared with the ether, and
diffused by it thr oughCut spac
We on the earth's surface live night and
day in the midst of ethereal commotion
The medium is never still; the cloud can
opy above us may be thick enough to
shut out the light of the stars, but this
canopy is itself warm body, which ra-
dates motion through ether. The earth
Il 11 stc 1aoof ~,
cessantly forth. 1t is the waste Of its
molecular motion in space that chills the
earth upon clear night; it is the return
of it's motion from the clouds which pre-
vents the earth's temperature on cloudy
night from falling so low. To the cOncep.
ton of space being filled, we must, there
fore, add the conception of its being in a
state of incessant tremor. The sources of
the universe. Let us take a sample of
these and examine it in detail. When we
look to our planet we find it to be an ag-
gregate of solids, liquids and gases.
When we look at any one of these, we
generally find 1t composed of still
more elementary parts. We learn,
for example, that the water of our
rivers is formed by the union, in definite
proportions of two gases, oxygen and
hydrogen. Weknow how to bring these
constituents together, and to cause them
to form alter we also know how to an
alyse the water, and recover from it its
two constituents. So, likewise, as re-
CARDS the solid portions of the earth.
Our chalk hills, for example, are formed
by combination of carbon, oxygen and
calcium. These are elements, the union
of which, in definite proportions, has re-
suited in the formation of chalk. The
fints within the chalk we know to be a
compound of oxygen and silicium, called
silica; and our ordinary clay is, for the
most part, formed by the union of sill
cum, oxygen, and the well-known light
metal, aluminium. By far the greater
portion of the earth's crust is compound
ed of the elementary substances mentioned
in these few lines.-1yndGW.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1872-09-27

constant ingress from the stores of ma
ture, we must grow dull, pale, weak,
inert, and finally succumb to disease and
death. And ye; rly millions go down to
untimely graves, ard the groans of the
dying are constantly heard, as the result
of want of ventilation. 1t has taken a
long time for us to learn the fact; and
even now it is imperfectly understood.
Men who argue for ventilation are still
considered fanatics, and the idea re-
mains new-fangled to many.
Houses, then, should be properly ven
tilated. If no other means have been
provided, every window should be ar
ranged with pulleys and fastenings, so as
to be readily lowered from the top and
raised from the bottom. An opening is
necessary, part of the time at least, in all
weathers, if the room is inhabited. There
must be constant change of air, and this
cannot be effected through closed win
dows or impervious doors.-Scse,.ce OF
Health
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1872-09-27

THE SCIENCE OF HEALTH for October,
contains an illustrated article on Popular Physiol-
ogy, showing the effects Of improper dressing,
and improper positions in sitting, standing and
sleeping, and the evil effects which come from
transgressions in this direction the Different Med
ical Systems are discussed Diseases of the Eye,
illustrated: an article on Hygienc Dwellings gives
directions for ventilation, light, location, etc. !;
What is Hygenic Agriculture? 1t discusses the
Theory and Practice of Medicine; Fresh Fruits
and Vegetables Hopefulness as Remedial Agent;
Women Physicians; and the Health of Editors
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