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The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-05-31

AN UNFORTUNATE SHOOTING AFFAIR
On Tuesday morning last, our young
townsman, Mr.. Charlie Chase, shot and
wounded, fatally, negro man by the
name OF Jake Lindsay, better known,
however, as Jake Moss, who died on the
next day. Mr.. Chase lives with his
widowed grandmother, Mrs. Samuel
Brooks, conducting her farming interest
and affairs generally. Jake Lindsay was
hired by them, and was, under Mr..
Chase, sort of foreman of the crop.
That the farming operations were to DO
absolutely ordered and guided by Mr.
Chase, was, we are informed, part of
the contract or agreement.
On the morning of the difficulty, it
seems that Mr.. Chase ordered the hands
into certain field, but upon going to
look after things. found them, with Jake,
in another. Aud this by Jakes direc-
ton. Mr.. @. commanded them into the
other field. The negro objected, refused,
and exhibited much wrath and obstinacy
We would not really be, or appear in
the faintest degree prejudiced in this ac-
count, but from all we have been able to
learn, and from reliable sources, too, the
oolored man behaved on this occasion
with unbridled insolence and blind and
unreasoning obstinacy. The upshot was,
that Lindsay Quilted the field, hurried to
the house, returned with his loaded gun,
and resumed the alteration. And upon
this, Mr.. Chase, much excited and e3us-
perAted, shot him.
AS we go to press. an inquest is being
held upon the body of Lindsay. Mr..
Chase, having left his home, has not
been arrested. But he will, of his own
accord, we are assured, return after the
present excitement has somewhat sub
sided, and surrender himself to the pro-
per officers of the law.
Edgefeld Adpertiser.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-05-31

TERRIBLE REBUKE TO THE ADMINIsTRA-
T1oN.-The Savannah Republican is of
the opinion that the vote in the House
on the infamous Administration mea-
sure to extend the law authorizing the
President to suspend the ha5eas corpus
at will, is one of the most significant
events Of the times. It sounds the
death knell of despotism in these States.
It ends the rule of power against law,
and the reign OF terror that followed in
it's wake. It tells che adherents of Grant
that they have made fatal blunder in
supposing that they could keep up per-
petual war between the States and tho
Federal Government, and it strikes from
their grasp the only weapon that they
had intended to use in the coming strug.
gle-sectional hate. We record the vote
with real, unaffected satisfaction. It
is the Inauguration anew Of the era OF
law against usurpation and might, and
involves defeat Of the Administration
that ahon)d completely overwhelm it.
1t was the last desperate move to retain
abused power. and it has signally failed,
leaving the party with oil the sin of
despotism on its head, without the
power to carry out its wicked designs
against the people.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-05-31

SWALLOWING GREELEY.-The follow
ing is from o speech by Major VIM. e.
Nelson at tho Decatur, Illinois, Demo
cratic mass meeting:
It is truly refreshing to note the late
growth of respect of Grant purtissns for
the Democratic party as IL purity. 1t
amounts almost to veneration. Their
solicitude for its interests IL getting to
be Immense. They kindly propose its
course Of action for it. They say to us.
NOW is the time for the Democrats
If ever you had q chance, now is the
timei You ought to run straight
ticket. by oil means!" They ask us,
care you Democrats going to let fac
ton, few sore. hends- cnlling them.
selves Liberal Republicans-sw the
Democratic party?"
Now, gentlemen, want to answer
that question by putting one or two to
my interrogation. wont to ask him:
''Did you ever see sardine swallow u
whnle?" If he says he did, then I want
him to describe the process, and tell
where the sardine began on the whale
when he commenced swallowing; whe-
ther, like man, he commenced at the
head, or slipped around and commenced
ut the tail7 And. when he has told me
how it was done. then want to ask him
if the sardine, after it has swallowed the
whale, didn't have good deal of whale
in tiff it didn't, in fact, look a good
deal like whale itself?
They ask MS again: "Can You Demo
orats swallow Greeley?" I confess am
somewhat out of practice in this swal-
lowing business. I haven't swallowed
anything that tasted like President Of
the United States for nearly twenty four
years. I remember that, in l048. l
managed to get down a Major General Of
the United States army aud O horse; he
was a arhite horse, too-they called him
"Old White" Having been SO unnc-
customed to tho thing, am not alto
gether confident of my swallowing ca
pacity, and don't want to sny now that
can swallow Greeley, nor do 1 wnnt to
say that, with liberal share Of Demo.
cratic encouragement and assistance,
could not, in November next. swallow
an old editor and something schite-say
all old white hat.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-05-31

A correspondent of the Savannah
Neus says That there is q man living IN
Oolquitt County, Ga. who now has his
third wife and a family OF thirty chill
dren. He owns several thousand acres
Of land, about 1000 head OF cattle, and
about $500 head Of sheep.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-05-31

GREEN & RUssKLL's Boston Post Boy and
Adcerfsey. containing the freshest ad-
vices. foreign and domestic. Non
day, April II, 1760. No. 189-weeks
since this paper was hrst published.
A copy of the above newspaper lies
before us, and is as quaint specimen Of
the ''art preservative" as one would wish
to see. In it We find the Mississippi
River called "The great river of 81.
Louis" It is described as ''navigable
for 900 leagues from the sea-" aad it is
added: "The natives have always known
it by the name OF the Meact Oahssissipi,
which signifies grandfather of all rivers;
but tho French, naturally careless in
pronouncing foreign names, clipt it to
Mississippi" We admire the ingenuity
of the Frenohman who eliminated the
modern name of the aforesaid grand
parent out of Meact Oahssissipi. The
paper is great curiosity. Those inter-
ested may devour it's contents at the
Citizens Savings Bank, where it will be
''served up" by the obliging Capt. J. G.
B. Smith, Assistant Cashier.
MAIL ARRANGEMENTS. The Northern
mail opens at 2.30 P. NJ; closes 1O.45
A. M. Charleston day mail opens 4.30
P. H.; closes 600 A. NJ. Charleston
night mail opens 7.15 A. NJ; closes 6. 90
P. M. Greenville mail opens 6.45 p.
M. closes 600 A. M. Western mail
opens 1890 A. H.; closes 1890 p. n.
Wilmington mail opens 2.30 p. NJ:
closes 1890 A. NJ. On Sunday Office
open from 3 to P. M.
>~~-->-No~N-o~-----
HOTEL ARRIvALs, May 50, Nickerson
House--J Long, Ky; Pressley and wife.
Miss; T T Wright, Atlanta; 81 p Hammett,
Miss e Hammett, Miss Lester, W Ames,
Greenvile; O r Bartlett, III Kensheidt, n o;
Mrs NJ Orrel, Hillsboro; F D Bush, New
Market; T J Steers, 8 @; q III Leyey, Wash
ington; p Howard. Richmond; Brockin-
ton, Yorkville; W l. Wilson, Ala; PEim. Bal
timore: J Murdoch, 20.
Columbia Rotel-B W Lawton, W n Evans.
Augusta; James Stuart. y IA; W 8 Green,
Spartanburg; Henry @ Platt, Augusta; T
Hurley. J 8 Browning, Oharleeton; B
Brady, M NJ Kerald, Marion; E 8 Hayes,
LexinRtop; w A Jones, Thomasville; John
Carroll, Blackstock; Fred D Bush. G d O
r; Fillyan, Wimington; Dal Molen, II
NJ Burnley. New York; @ D Nathan. N O;
Miss E A Jones: Thomasville.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-05-31

A convict in the Michigan penitentiary
has just fallen heir to nearly 81 600. 600,
by the death of his father. His sentence
expires in August.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-05-31

An English girl, who was about to be
married, preferred to steal something
and be sent to Jail.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-05-31

LIST OF NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
O. Barnum-Notice.
P. Cantwell- Cider.
Hostetter's Bitters.
J. Naturalization.
Il. Carr-Telegraphic.
A. G. Squier-Established 1886.
Hopson & Sutphen-Seasonable.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-05-31

y
Attorney General Chamberlain has
given an unqualified opinion to County
Treasurer Gurney. of Charleston County,
that County Treasurers throughout the
State are compelled by law to receive
revenue bond script in payment of all
taxes and dues to the State, except
special tax levied to pay the public debt.
This decision will settle any doubts
which may exist in the minds of the
community on the subject.
PuGN1xIANA.-Voic of the night
cats.
The spendthrift's prayer-''Leave me
a-loan, will your"
Scratch Grant editor and you'll find
Government job.
A grocer is willing to admit that honest
tea is the best policy, but whom it comes
to coffee. he doesn't believe in running
the thing into the ground.
It is 30 pleasant to know that Agassiz
has found few species of gasteropods,
fourteen kinds of shinoderns. including
an euryale, fifty specimens OF ophinraus.
and, to crown the whole, large hell
uster.
Recently Baltimorean, lately mar
ricd, committed suicide, leaving letter
behind him warning young men against
matrimony. The telegraph said he was
insane, but, doubtless, the operator was
q lady.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-07-25
Poor PillicOddy.

ALONG came Poor Pillicoddy in par
oxysm of delight. His eyes danced and
twinkled, his round, dimpled cheeks were
all aglow. Even his ears were red with
excitement.
''Have you heard the news?" he shout
ed, clapping his hands in ecstacy
mot a word,"I said, wondering wheth-
er at last fortune had really smiled upon
Poor Pillicoddy.
"Why, what do you suppose? Little
Pimpton's wife's uncle has died in Jamai-
ca, and left all the Pimptons rich" and
two big tears, starting from the corner of
Poor Pillicoddy's eyes, carried the twin
kle all the way down his round, red
cheeks.
ooh, there goes little Pimpton him
self" he cried; and, running up to the
shoemaker, he gripped him by the shoul-
der and me by the arm, and dragged us
both across the street to "Pillicoddy's
Apothecary."
''It's my treat" said Poor Pillicoddy.
"Shall it be ginger-pop or lemon-soda? !?
Better say soda-with cream, on such a
day"-smacking his lips unctiously at
once over the lemon soda with cream, and
the golden happiness that had fallen upon
his friend Little Pimpton.
The little shoemaker took it all very
calmly-windfall, soda-water, and Pill
coddy. The West Indian legacy had been
altogether unexpected. But his joy seem
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-07-25
UPPER SANDUSKY, OHIO, THURSDAY, JULY 25, 1872.

ed tempered by his sense of having de-
served fortune from somebody, and why
should it not come from his wife's long
since-forgotten old uncle as well as from
any other quarter? He was very glad to get
it-but it was quite in henatural order of
things, you know. 1t was Poor Pillicod-
dy who flung UP his hat and shed tears,
and stood treat-len1on- soda, toih cream.
And that is always the way with Poor
Pillicoddy. / might have known that the
good news had nothing to do with him.
Poor he has always been, and poor he
will always remain. His best clothes are
threadbare, and shiny at the angles. His
best dinner would be very far from a
square meal " for most folks. He is al
ways running round with subscription
papers for other people, no worse off in
this worlds goods than himself. He
walks his pegged boots down to the welt
to win pair of patent-leathers for his
neighbor. He makes joke of what he
calls his own bad fortune, and is beside
himself with joy when anybody else is in
luck.
The only thing that grieves Poor Pilli-
coddy is the suggestion, from one who is
aware of his ways, that charity begins at
home; that even an old bachelor owes
something to himself; that he really ought
to devote more time to his own interests.
Then, indeed, he is wounded and cast
down.
''Oh, OH" the poor fellow sobs, and
the twinkle goes out of his eyes altogether
and follows the old wet paths down his
cheeks, till tear and twinkle are alike lost
in his frayed, white shirt collar. "Oh,
OH would you have me throw away my
only happiness? 1 am too selfish-I
can't do it, / can't do it,"-moans Poor
Pillicoddy.-From the sod Cabinet" in
ScT5jne1's far ,I1Illy
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-07-25
The Coolest Robbery ON Record.

POLICEMAN BADGER, of the Tenth Sta
ton, had bit of experience the other
night which he is not fond of talking
about. 1t was past midnight, as he was
leisurely pushing his beat through Jessup
street. and as he came opposite to Dray-
ton & Fogg's jewelry store he observed
CLEANS of light through the chinks of the
Shutters, and he raped at the door.
''Is that you, policeman" askeda voice
within.
eyes" answered Badger.
"Well, it's only me. It's all right. Kind
O. chilly out, isn't it?"
eyes"
Thought so. was just fixing the fire.
Good night"
Badger said good night" and pursued
his way.
An hour afterward Badger passed
through Jessup street again, and saw the
light in the jewelry store. 1t didn't look
right, and he banged the door loudly.
"Hallool" cried the voice within. ''Is it
you, policeman"
eyes"
Gall right. Won't you come in and
warm you? 1t won't hurt anything for
you to slip from your beat minute"
The door was opened and Policeman
Badger entered, and he found the inmate
to be very gentlemanly-looking man in
a linen-duster.
"Come right up to the stove, police
man. Excuse me moment"
The man took the ash-pan from the bot
tom of the stove, and carried it down
cellar and emptied it, and when he had
returned and wiped his hands, he said,
with a smile
"Chilly night, isn't it ?''
eyes"
"Chilly outside, and dull inside. (An-
other SMILEY New goods for the spring
trade, and have to keep our eyes open.
Lonesome work, this watching all night !;
but l manage to find some comfort in
this Won't you join me in tip !?
You'll find it the pure thing"
And the man in the duster produced a
black bottle and tumbler.
Policeman Badger partook, and having
wiped his lips, and given his fingers a
new warming, he left the store and re-
sumed his beat, satisfied that all was right
at Drayton & Fogg's.
But morning brought new revealment.
Drayton & Fogg's store had been robbed
during the night of six thousand dollars
worth of watches and jewelry and
though Policeman Badger carries in his
mind an exact daguerreotype of the rob-
Der, the adroit rascal has not yet been
found. (N ~ Journal.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-07-25
Popular FallacieS.

Two HUNDRED years ago, that quaint old
writer, Sir Thomas Browne, filled two
large volumes with an account of what
he conceived to be "Vulgar Errors
''Pseudodoxia Epidemica"-and although
modern science has done much to diffuse
sound knowledge in regard to the phs-
nomena around US, yet popular fallacies
have not, as yet, quite disappeared. Even
our textbooks of popular science, and
many of our socalled scientific papers,
continue to propagate and perpetuate
mistakes which may well be classed with
the ''vulgar errors" of DR.. Browne. Thus,
nothing is more commonthan to hear of
the tubular character of hair; indeed, al
most every one that we meet will, if
asked, tell US that the hairs of our head
are very fine tubes. And yet every hair
is good solid cylinder-a fact which has
been published hundreds of times, but
which seems to have no effect upon the
popular belief. 1t is true that a hair,
when examined under the microscope,
looks something like tube; but then so
does solid metallic wire-a fine needle,
for example. That which gives rise to
the tubular appearance is simply the
bright line which is always seen on every
cylinder stove-pipe, for example, or
even a common black-lead pencil. When
we TAKE lHe HdlT, uOWeNeT, anu HdNlHg
cut slice off of the end, examine this
slice, we find that it is not ring, as it
would be if cut from the end of tube,
but solid disk
Another singular idea, which has
gained very general ground, is, that the
moons of Jupiter can be seen in a look
ng-glass; and if, some bright night, we
try the experiment, we shall actually see
Jupiter in the looking glass, accompanied
by very faint star, which constantly
maintains the same distance from the
planet. Further examination will show
us that every bright star presents the
same appearance; and, if we reflect
little upon the phenomenon, we shall see
that the so-called moon is only the faint
image of the star or planet reflected from
the surface of the glass, while the bright
image reflected from the surface of the
mercury is what we call the star itself.
4 lamp or candle held before thick mir
ror will present precisely the same ap-
pearance. Simple though the explanation
be, however, there are few errors that
have taken deeper hold on the minds of
| the pseudo-scientiic than this.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-07-25
The Work of this Administration.

DURING this Administration all the
conquered States have been peacefully
brought back into Congress with full del
egations of their own choosing; The great
cotton crop of the South has regained its
former ascendency in the markets of the
world; the back of gold speculation has
been effectually broken stability given
to trade and commerce; railway con-
struction has gone on upon prodigious
scale; the Pacific Railroad protected
against the Indians, and new line at
the North partially built I; measures COM
pleted for the construction of the Southern
Pacific Railroad; regular line of mail
steamers from San Francisco to Japan
and China established and sustained, and
also one from New York to the Capital
of Brazil and the national census shows
the wealth of the Republic, notwithstand-
ing the devastations of the civil war, to
have risen to an equality with that of the
British Isles. Great progress has been
made toward permanent peace with the
Indians and their civilization and accept
aDce of our institutions
These things we take to be evidence of
substantial craftsmanship and as re-
CARDS the men who have led in public af-
fairs, the ability of Secretary Boutwell,
for the conduct of our finances, of Sec
retary Creswell for the management of
our postal service, and of Morton, Wilson,
Schenck, Dawes, Garfield, Schotield, and
Scott for the lead in legislation, is evil
dence by the results. Through all the
excitement of this Administration, Presi-
dent Grant has been calm, unruffied, pa
tient, attentive to business, always ac-
cessible to the public, ready lis Ell er and
a shrewd and discriminating critic and
Judge. From first to last his guidance
has been visible, and if this is not states
manship, let us ask what then is?-PtttG-
ieiDLid North AmericGn.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-07-25
Amongst p0pula- fallacies. prominent

Amongst popular fallacies, a prominent
place must be given to tho75 which arise
from the actual deception of the senses;
for neither our ey esight nor our sense of
touch is to be absolutely depended upon.
Thus, the beautiful phenomenon known as
'the sun drawing water" is caused simply
by the rays of the sun piercing rift in the
clouds, and rendered more intense by the
prevailing gloom. Few people would be-
lieve that actual measurement of the sun
and moon, when near the horizon at ris-
ing or setting, would fall to show that
they are then much larger than at other
times and yet, allowing for the differ
ence caused by retraction, and which is
too slight to be measured by any but the
finest instruments, actual measurement
does show that not only their real, but
their apparent, sizes are precisely the
same at all times.
Another fallacy which is very prevalent
is that every drop Of water contains mil.
lions of animalcules, and that every peb-
bic, indeed, every fragment of solid mat
ter on the face of the globe, is peopled
with myriads of these small creatures.
For this belief there is, however, no foun-
dation whatever. So far as animalcules
are concerned, most pebbles and frag-
ments of rocks are barren deserts, espe-
cially when dry; and good spring-water
is, so far as animal life is concerned, a
liquid waste. A few stray animalcules
may occasionally be found in the water
that we drink but if it is "filled" with
animalcules, it is certainly not fit for hu-
man use, either as drink or in the prepar-
alton of food.
But while most of the fallacies which
we have mentioned are due to simple
ignorance, there is another class which is
based upon sort of quasi-scientific in
formation, and which are far more
dangerous. A good example of these is
the opinion generally held by half-taught
chemists, that it is to the silicious coating
of the grasses and cereals that these
plants owe their power of standing up
right-in other words, that it is to this
that they owe their stiffness. This opin-
ion has been so firmly held by many,
that they have advised the addition of
silica to land for the purpose of giving
stiffness to the straw, and thus preventing
the lodging of the grain. Now, when
we learn that almost all soil consists of
at least one-half silica, we shall see the
absurdity of such advice. The truth is,
that the stiffness of straw is not due to
the silica at all; for chemists have dis
solved the silica by means of hydro
huoric acid, and removed it completely
from the vegetable stem, without i'm
pairing the stiffness of the latter.-Leslie's
WeeiZU
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-07-25
Make a Solid Foundation.

A farmers boy passed the whole morn
ing piling up wood under the shed, and
when evening came he called the farmer
to look at his work, expecting to hear
words of praise from the old mans lips.
But the farmer was silent, although the
logs were piled up so evenly that it seem
ed like one solid piece of wood.
The boy went sorrOwfully TO bed, for
he could not understand the farmers
silent and thoughtful face. At earliest
dawn he betook himself to the wood shed.
There stood the farmer, and al his feet
lay the wreck of the fine, even pile of
wood.
"My boy" said the old man, ''you
laid your heavy logs on the top; but
mind, in the future you will do better.
Above all things, if you expect to heap
up wealth and character in a beautiful
pile that will stand to the end, you must
lay the heavy legs of temperance,
honesty, industry, and frugality at the
bottom"
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-07-25
Poetry.
THE BRIDES STORY.


WHEN was but country lass, now fifteen years
lived where flows the overprock through meadows
There first when skies were bending blue and bios
SONS blowing free,
saw the ragged little boy who went to school with
His homespun coat was frayed and worn, with
patches covered o'er,
His hat-ah, sHch a hat as that was never seen De-
The bows and girls, when first he came, they
shouted in their sa g1ees; s;tt,e how who won't -
school with me.
His father was alaboring man, and mine was highly
Our people held both him and his in great con-
tempt and scorn-
They said should not stoop to own playmate
The brght..eyed, ragged little boy who went to
school with me.
Yet spite of all the sneers around from children
My heart went out-to meet the heart that beat
within his breast.
His look was fond, his voice was low, and strange
loved the ragged little boy who went to school
with me.
For years they had forgotten him, but when again
His looks his voice, his gentle ways remained in
They saw alone the man of mark, but could only
see
The brighteyed, ragged little boy who went to
school with me.
He had remembered me, it seemed, as remem-
Nor time, nor honors, in his mind the cherished
past could dim;
Young love had grown to older love, and 50 to-day
I lived the ragged little boy that went to school
with me.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-07-25

A WILD man, said to be entirely COW
cred with hair, and as untamed and fleet
as buck, is occasionally seen in the
vicinity of San Pedro Bay, Fla He
feeds on berries, but as soon as he be-
comes aware of the presence of any of
his own species he runs into the swamps.
He is supposed to be deserter during the
war, and the fear of capture seems to be
the governing principle of his wild life.