The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-04-30
The Northern

mati oPens D. .oU n. III. ana 0.UU L. ID. !;
closes 8 P. NJ. and l1.OO A. M: Charles
ton day mail opens 15 r. NJ; closes 6
A. NJ; night opens TOO A. NJ: closes
6.15 P. III. Greenville opens 6.45 P. NJ. {;
closes 6 A. NJ. Western opens 6. 80 A.
NJ. and 1890 P. NJ closes and P. II.
Wilmington opens $50 +. NJ: closes
1890 A. NJ. On Sunda! the Office ie
open from to 4P. III.
HEELs-LAD1Es' HEELS The heel,
| tho shoe heel, is hereafter to he made
upon the idea Of common sense and oom-
mon comfort. Paris makes the move,
and Of course the fashionable world will
follow. The heel will be low, aud made
as near as possible like The natural heel.
No more wabbliDg and ungracefnl move
ments-ease, comfort and grace will cha
racterizc tho Iadies who walk ia tie new
shoe. PhysiologculIy speaking, the
present shoe heel is all outrage.
DEATH OF AN EX. .CoSFEDERATE Capt.
John Waties departed this life. yester-
day, about II O'clock, at Lis residence in
this city. His nge WAS forty-five. He
was born in Statcsbnrg, S. c., in 1928.
Capt., Waties was grandson OF Chan
cellor Thomas Waties una nephew of
Bishop Rutledge. Of Florida. The de-
ceased was graduate Of Yale College,
and pvacticed law in Columbia for many
years. Upon the resignation of a.
Herbsmont. Esq he was chosen Clerk
OF tho Appeal Court of the State, which
position he held for period of ten years.
At the beginning Of the war, he volun-
teered nnd WAS elected First Lieutenant
i'll Green's battery Of artillery. He par
ticlpated in The capture Of Fort Sumter;
ct the first battle of Manassas, was on
tho staff Of Gen. Wade Hampton; after
wardz commanded light battery, and
served In South Carolina and in tho
West. He was severely wounded during
the terrible engagement at franklin,
Tennessee. where hc was serving as chief
of artillery iu cavalry service. At the
close Of the war. he successfully resumed
the practice Of law. Capt. Waties was
gentleman without reproacL. He leaves
wife, several children. many other rela.
tives and hosts Of friends to lament his
dcccase.
SUPREME CoURT. CoLCMD1A, April %.
The Court mot at 10 A. Nj. Present
Chief Justice Moses anti Associate Jus-
tices Wright and Willard.
Harvey Terry vs Receiver Ell al. of
Commercial Bank. Mr.. Carroll resumed
and concluded his argument for defend
ants; Mr.. Chamberlain in reply.
The State &C rel Gary, State Auditor,
os. Parker, State Treasurer, ct al. Sub.
mitted on printed brief and arguments.
Messrs. Magrath & Lowndes and Rion
for appellants; Messrs. Pope 4 Haskell
for respondents.
j. 8. Guignard ct al Is. VIM. Kinsler
ct al. Mr.. Pope for appellants; MIR.
Tradewell for respondents.
Columbia Water Power Company vs.
city OF Columbia, etc. Messrs. Pope
and Youmans for appellants.
The following decision was rendered:
Mary II. Means ct 0l ps. Trezevant D.
Feaster ct al Motion dismissed. Opi.
Mon by Wright. A. j.
The Court adjourned until Wednes.
day, Both, 10 A. NJ, when the Eighth
Circuit will be called.
DEATH OF Mr. JOHN SnoMAN.-The
Charleston NerS furnishes the following
brief autobiography Of an elderly gen
tleman, who formerly resided in Colum
bia-Mr. John Sloman;
"Thc accidental omission OF one letter
in our mention, yesterday morning, OF
the death OF Mr.. John Sloman, made the
item refer apparently to Mr.. John Sloan,
who was also ut ono time well known in
connection with dramatic affairs in
Charleston, but who died some years
ago, and whose widow has been married
for five or six yenrs to DR.. Richards, a
prominent journalist of New York. MIR.
Sloman, who was seventy mine ycars OF
nge at the time Of his death, was we'll
known to the theatre-goers of the last
generation rs favorito actor in comic
and pnthctic roles, and about twenty-f five
years ago he settled in this city and
assumed the management Of the Charles.
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