The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-05-18

the next loW DAYS. BI06 sUnl0n .SsaSSQkl
Chirleston. sand the Yellow Iscket. of
Charlotte. will arrive Till fncan,s
and Monday and Tuesday viii 30 skspt Up;
as regular jolliicatio The Yiigilshts
will receive them at the depots. 4
SUDDEN DEATH--A private !etser from
Greenville states that Mr.. Alexan der
Paine died suddenly in that town, on
Thursday last, while seated at the din
ner table. Heart disease is believed to
have been the cause. He WAS q native
Of Greenville.
Tie GALAXY, for June. contains several
articles OF striking interest. Among
them q spirited sketch OF Leon Gam
beta, the ardent French Republican;
'.Dr. Coan' Essay on the Value OF Life;"
Mr. Burrough's light and entertaining
article upon the pleasures aud benefits
OF walking out; "Gasoon Stories:". "."The
Sweetheart of Monsieur Briseux;" "a
Fourfold Alibi." "The Man with the
Iron Mask" reviews the immense array
OF books and essays written upon this
subject within century aud half. and
patiently lahors to provo that none of
them are correct. The poetry OF the
number is as good as usual. The sci.
entiAo and literary departments are full
Of interest.
The WAsHISGroN AND LEE UNIVERSITY.
General r. D. Lilley, the agent of this
| celebrated and truly venerable institute,
is now in this State, for the purpose Of
receiving subscriptions to an endowment
for South Carolina Chair. It was sng-
gested by General Lee, in his lifetime,
that the generous disposition manifested
to permanently endow this institotion
could be most graciously accomplished
by the people of each State contributing
to endow therein special chair to bear
tho State name. Kentucky at once re-
Eponded aud established the "kentucky
Chair of History and Political Economy, {"
now filled by Colonel William Preston
Johnston. son OF General Albert Sidney
Johnston. Missouri followed and has
secured the missouri Chair Of Applied
Chemistry Louisiana is rapidly pro-
viding on endowment for the "Louisiann
Chair Of Modern Languages" and Texas
for the "Texas Chair of Applied Mathe-
matios." Tennessee. Georgia. Florida
and other States are engaged in the same
gracious work. General Lilley met with
great success In Charleston, as the list of
subscriptions published several days ago,
gives svidenos. The following has been
pledged in Columbia:
General NJ. G. Butler, $3.50; Edward
Hope, $3.50; W. @. swafield. $3.50;
Colonel F. W. MoMsster, $3.50; Captain
R. 0'Neale. $3.50; J: P. Southern, $3.50;
O. II. Mot. $3.50; Geo. Symmers. $3.50;
Colonel W. II. Wallace. $3.50; B. F.
Whitner, $3.50; General j. D. Kennedy,
$3.50; Captain W. x. Bachman, $3.50;
DR.. J, W. Parker, $50; Capt Hugh s..
Thompson. $50; DR.. B. W. Taylor, $50;
E. Stenhouse, annually, $40.
| The following are additional subscrip-
tions from Charleston: Major G.. s.
Cameron, $3.50; Colonel II. 81. Raymond,
$3.50; W. B. Shaw. annually, $40.
Dr.. W. F. Barton, Orangeburg, o25O.
The circular on this subject states:
Washington College. (Virginia,) en-.
dowed by George Washington and the
Officers and soldiers of the Revolution,
has, under its late President, Gen. r. E
Lee, expanded into full university; aud
in token thereof, the Virginia Legisla-
lure, by recent enactment, changed it's
corporate title to Washington and Lee
University," thus fitly blending for all
time the name OF its greatest beneiactors
The university is located in beautiful
country and healthful climate; has moro
than twenty professors and instructors,
men of high character and attainments.
and patronage of nearly 350-all the
Southern and d number of the Northern
States being representsd. It is not sub.
iect TO- political Influences. having its
own board of trustees. which is sslf-per.
petuating; is not under tho control of
auy religious denomination, though great
Importance is attached TO the moral and
religious training Of the students. Its
endowment fund OF $3.50, 900, and it's
buildings, Libraries, apparatus and real
estate, make an aggregate capital Of
nearly half million dollars. It is upon
this solid basis that the people of each
State are invited in endowing q pro fes-