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The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-07-06
HN ALEXANDER. NIayo


COLUMBIA, S. c., July 2, 1873.
To Col. s.. 4. Pearcs I have
just had handed to me the resolution of
the meeting OF the citizens, held last
| evening, which is as follows:
Resolce3, That tho Mayor be, and lie
is hereby, instructed to take possession
OF the distributing reservoir and have it
cleaned out Immediately; aud then should
the water not prove good. he call mass
meeting of the citizens of Columbia, to
consider what can be done.
No one can respect more highly than
do the resolution of this meeting, but
am bound to respect the Injunction
order OF his Honor Judge Carpenter, and
cannot run the risk Of being held as for
contempt of that order
You, Sir, are laboring under no such
disability, and as it is deemed important
to have the distributing reservoir
clennsed. and inasmuch as you are in
possession of the keys Of the gates, and
by the order of the Court have control
of the pipes leading out the distributing
reservoir, it seems altogether proper, as
your hands are free, 20 clean the reser-
voir, in accordance with the resolution
of the meeting.
| Let this be your warrant. as far us the
city is concerned, to stop of the water
and cleanse the reservoir-the same not
to have influence whatever, directly or
indirectly, upon the questions before the
Court. In saying this much, the CITY
has done all it can to- comply with the
resolution OF the meeting, for which T
entertain tho most profound respect.
The rest remains with you. Very re-
(signeaj JOHN ALEXANDER,
Mayor.
Columbia. 8. c.. July 4, 1873.
Hon. John Alexander. Mayor city Of Co.
| lunbid
SIN: Your communication, dated on
tho I'd instant, did not cone 10 my
hands until late yesterday.
Being authorized by your warrant to
stop off tho water and cleanse the reser-
yoir. will, tomorrow night, cease to
force water into one of the sections OF
the reservoir. 80 that by Monday morn.
ing it may flow out sufficiently to permit
the cleaning OF it.
To do the work effectualiy will take
several days; and, in the meantime, but
one-half OF the reservoir can be used for
collecting water for all emergencies. /
would, therefore, respectfully ask that
you would give such public notice to the
citizens as will prevent the unnecessary
waste Of the supply during the time re-
quired in cleaning the reservoir. I will
give notice when tho work is done.
In the accepting Of your warrant for
the doing OF this work, do 80 with the
understanding that in so doing. and in
all that may be done by the Council, or
by myself in the present emergency, the
same shall be without prejudce to tile
rights of either party in the questions
now before the court. Very resp sctfully,
(Signed) s. "A. PEARCE, JR.,
Agent Columbia Water Power Company.
Union. Herald please copy.
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LIST OF NEW ADvRRr1sEMRNTs.
Jacob Levin-Gas Notice.
Obstacles to MarriaDe

OUptuCIco IO AHfIIHB6.
Meeting Board of Health.
Meeting Columbia Building and T.. A
s. d. DISQUALIFICATION Springs.
Joseph Goldsmith-Notice.
John Alexander-Notice.
Rev. D. F. Bittle-Roanoke College.
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hIAYOR's OFFICE.

COLUMBIA, s. c., July 5, 1873.
The following correspondence will cx.
plain itself.
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Athiduu, 1Ot2 n. III. uuQ . i III.
Washington Street Church-Rev. o.
A: Darby. 10h \. NJ. At 8 p. NJ, an
address will be delivered by Rev. Samuel
L. Jones.
TIE WILLIAMSON SPRINGS BoARD1SG
House. Our readers will notice The ad-
vertisement OF Mr.. Deal. proprietor OF o
nice and pleasant boarding house at Will
liamston Springs. We are enabled to
speak Of this house from a recent expo.
rience Of the comfort it affords. Mr..
and Mrs. Deal arc assilnous and kind in
their attention to the sick. Their cham,
bers arc spacious, airy and we'll cared for,
and one sleeps soundly on new mat.
tresses and clean linen. The fare is
abundant. generous and wholesome. The
water Of the springs is pleasant to the
taste, OF agreeable temperature, and de-
cidedly tonic and invigorating. It is
said to contain carbonate of iron, soda,
magnesia, and trace of iodine and sui.
phur. Williamson contains flourish.
ing female college, a male school, and
several physicians OF skill and experience
reside there. 1t is easily reached by the
Greenville and Columbia Railroad.
MAIL ARRANGKMENTs.- The Northern
mail opens.G.3 80 and 10. 30sA. NJ. closes
8 A. NJ. and 6.30sP. III. sCharleston
opens A. NJ. and 23OP. NJ; closes
g. Is and S 30 p. n. Western opens 6. 80
and 9.3O a. NJ; closes 0 and $50 P. NJ.
Wilmington opens 4.3O L. NJ: closes
6 a. NJ. Greenville opens Gas P. NJ. !;
closes 4. N. On Sunday he office il
open from ! to 7. NJ.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-09-19
A Word for the Oranges.

President Welch, of the Iowa State
Agricultural College, one of the most
efficient institutions in the whole coun-
try, and located the State that has
had more experience with the oranges
than any other, addresses the Patrons
of Husbandry as follows
Our bond of union is the congeniality
of like pursuits. The leading purpose
of the Farmers College and Farmers
Grange, though gained through different
paths, are largely the same. The grange
seeks to aid the farmer by multiplying his
means of intelligence, by giving him
the mastery of all the better methods
and processes of the farm, by quicken
ing, intensifying, and elevating all the
better elements of his social life. The
grange would secure the farmer against
the torpidity of solitude and the extor-
tions of monopoly would kindle in his
breast reader zeal aud steadier cour-
age, would touch all the labOrs of his
hands with a glow of enthusiasm /; and,
in short, would do for him what skill
fully organized effort has already done
for every other great human industry
on the round earth. All this the grange
aims to do by means which are the most
immediate and direct. All this also the
Farmers College strives to do by an
other method; by giving knowledge
to such as seek it, of all those practical
sciences that underlie the processes of
agriculture by training and sending
forth men who may become, as the years
pass, the leaders in the great movement
which the grange has inaugurated. 1t
is in harmony with this noble purpose
that the college, instead of draining the
rural districts of their most promising
youths and graduating them to swell the
over-crowded ranks of law, or to wan
der in perpetual search of vacant pull
pit, sends back the farmers son to the
farm, SO educated that he revitalizes all
its operations and gives them n new and
enduring interest. Such are the benign
objects which these two great enter
prises are organized to further. And,
mark you, each seeks to accomplish its
aim by combined effort-the college, on
n closer and more concentrated plan !;
the grange on wider and grander scale.
And what effort of man for attainment
of good, or the defense against evil,
has ever reached its final t.iumph, since
the world began, without combined
effort? Combination is, in fact, the
great instrument of progress. Civiliza-
ton would relapse into barbarism with
out it.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-09-19
The Esthetics Of CObbiing.

DIR. Hermann Meyer, of Zurich,
asserts that a shoemaker ought not only
to produce n shoe that does not pinch,
but shoe so constructed that it will
give to foot distorted by the pinching
1t has borne already fair chance of a
return to its right shape, and full pos
session OF its power as a means of carry
ing the body onward. He says that in
measuring foot for shoe or boot, the
first thing to be considered is the place
OF the great toe. Upon this toe, in
walking, the weight of the whole body
turns at every step; in natural foot,
therefore, it is in straight line with
the heel. A central straight line drawn
from the point of the great toe to the
middle of its root, if continued, would
pass very exactly to the middle OF the
heel. But, by the misfitting boot usu-
ally worn, the point of the toe is pressed
inwards, the root outwards. No last or
model of foot already injured by
wearing ill-fitting boots or shoes should
ever be made of the exact size OF such
foot,
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-09-19

beautiful piece of poetry. IT was com
sad Years ago by Henry Stanton, OF Mayssiiie, ny
Afterward we heard All. p,rne,s 49, 1900
Caused our eyes TO moisten.-Ow F~es'de rT'e''d'l
"a sscrst ulace on the face of the earth,
IA On srity dweleth, whore virtue hath birthF
,vnsre boaoms In mercy and Kindness VIII heave,
IA the poor and the wretched shai ASK ana Ieoe.1
a. ,hsre no place earth where KNOCK from liz
uu ,r,ng a kind angel TO open the door?
All search the wide world wherever you can',
~, ara h. no open door for the moneyless man
a., ,ool nj vour hall where the chandeliers light
Drives of with its splendor the dArkness ot hlsn''
y,,srs the r;cn hanging velvet IN shadowy fold,
$500 Gracefully down with It's trimming OF goa,
ANA he mirrors Of silver take up aud renew
In long hghtened viras the "iosrins VIC"
60 there in your patches, and ma, II you can,
A welcoming smile for moneyless man.
Go look in your church OF the Commissioning sp,rd
Which gives back 10 the sun niS s~no i'0A " 49,
Where the arches aud columns are gorgeous within,
Aud the walls seem az pure as SOU without sln
81 ae,,r ,be long aise-see the rich and the great,
In the pomp and the pride OF their worldly estate
walk down in your patches, and md, II you cam
Who opens pew to a moneyless man
90 look 10 yon judge in dark flowing gown,
with the scales wherein law weigheth quietly down,
where he frowns on the weak and smiles on the
And Furnishes right, while he justides wrong;
Where Jurors their lips on the BLDG have laid,
To render verdict they've already made;
90 there in the courtroom and ind, II you can,
Anv law for the cause of moneyless man
% look in the banks where MammoG has told
His hundreds and thousands Of silver and gold,
Where safe from the hands Of the starving and
poor
Ties pile upon pile OF the glittering ORE
Walk up TO the counter-ah, there you may stay
Tin YOUR limbs grow old and your hairs turn gray
And you'll find at the bank not one OF the can
With money TO lend ts moneyless man
Then 90 to yon hovel--no raven has fed
The wife who has suffered so long for her bread
Kneel down by her pallet, and kiss the death frost
From the lips of the angel your poverty lost
Then turn your agony upward to God,
"A hless while h sntes you, the Christening rod
And you' find ut the end of our lifes little span,
There's a welcome above for the moneyless man
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-09-19
Women in Austria.

Mr.. G. G. Fulton, editor of the Balti-
more american, in letter from Vienna,
gives some incidents in regard to the
present condition of women in Ger
many, which will surprise many read
ers. For instance, he says that next to
his hotel, building occupying a whole
block is in process of erection, "on
which not less than four hundred per-
sons are employed, fully two hundred
of whom are women. All the hard,
laboring work is done by women, such
as making and carrying mortar in buck
cts on their heads to the workmen
handling the brick. They are not
allowed moments leisure, several
overseers being on guard to keep them
constantly in motion" He found the
same proportion of women at work on
all the new buildings, and there must be
many thousands of them doing this spe-
cies of work in Vienna. They are both
young, middle-aged and old, but al
seem strong and healthy. Mr.. Fulton
further says "At dinner time they
swarm into the shops to purchase a
piece of brown bread and fat bacon,
and mug of beer, and eat their dinner
sitting on the curb-stones. Their wages
are one florin, or forty-eight cents per
day and L am assured by gentleman
resident here that most of them sleep
about the buildings on shavings, or
in barns or sheds, having no homes"
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-09-19
Danbury News.ances.

-"That delight which knows no
bounds has finally been discovered.
It's an Essex street boys ball, which he
rescued from the creek, Saturday, and
threw in vain against the sidewalk.
The shrewish wifeof Monson street
man, while at the breakfast table, Sun
day morning, lost her temper over some
trifle, and declared in heat that he
was hog. $50 L am" he meekly con-
fessed-" by marriage"
Another blunder from Vienna. We
see by two unfortunately approximate
advertisements In contemporary that
the Exposition has awarded two rival
sewing machines each medal for being
the best. So we are going to have that
Paris humbug all over again. If that
comet had only struck the earth as it
was going to
"A Danbury carpenter who has been
reading about the great National Park
to be established in the Yellowstone
country, yesterday sent an application
to Washington for the job of making
the little boards which notify people
to keep off the grass. We like to see
promptness.
Jonathan Winthrop, an old gentle
man quite near-sighted, drove up to a
store on Liberty street, this morning,
and taking a small basket of eggs in
one hand and roll of butter in the
other, stepped briskly out on what he
supposed was stone block, aud in an
instant his legs flew straight up into the
air, and he fell with some violence under
the wagon, and on top of the butter and
eggs. The fall frightened the horse
into run. Mr.. Winthrop was at once
picked up and cleaned off, but had sus-
tanned no serious injury. The accident
was caused by cake of ice which Mr..
Winthrop had mistaken for stone block.
While Mr.. and Mrs. Edwin Pawling
were riding through Wooster street,
Friday afternoon, they were stopped by
"a stranger with book under his arm,
who came up to the wagon, and said he
had called at their house, but did not
find them at home, and took the liberty
Of addressing them now. He explained
that he was canvassing for a neat little
work entitled "Helps for the Home
Circle" being a collection of the
thoughts of the best minds of the age,
work that was adapted to larger
circle of readers than any other extant,
and one which must necessarily improve
the tone of domestic life, add to the re-
finement and intelligence of society,
and I'LL the hearts of all with longing
for the purer things of-just them Mr..
Rawlings horse stepped ahead, and
dragged one wheel of the wagon right
over the foot of the speaker. With a
howl of agony the miserable man
dropped to the ground and then imme-
diately sprang up again, and taking the
injured member up in both hands, and
still bowling dismally, hoped across to
the sidewalk. Mr.. Pawling waited a
reasonable length of time, but seeing
that the man showed no intention of re-
Stunning the topic, he drove on.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-09-19
An Efficient ScarecrOW.

A farmer in Washington county, KY,
recently challenged visitor to find in
his crib single grain of corn bitten by
a rat or mouse. The visitor, having
given it up after protracted search, in
auired the reason, and was shown a
large COW snake resposing quietly in a
corner of the crib. The snake, the
farmer says, has lived in his crib for the
past two years, and has destroyed or
frightened away all the rats and mice
that once infested the locality. Such
snakes ought to be encouraged.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-09-19
Pith and Point.
SMALL talk-Nearly all talk.

SMALL talk-Nearly all talk.
THE sweetest kind of lasses-Molas-
ses.
A GAMBLER, like carpenter, is known
by his chips.
The most patient people in the world
Taxpayers.
No PERSON who works regularly can
be very unhappy.
THE people who have the most small
vices--Machinists.
WHAT an old wag said to new bal
loon-You be blowed
NEVER trust man who wears his hat
on the back of his head.
WHY is q solar eclipse like a woman
whipping her boy? Because it's hiding
of the son.
THERE are no more thieves in the
world now Except among small people,,
but only defalcators.
A CONNECTICUT paper-not the Dan
bury NeaOS-says the lobster Is still
popular, Notwithstanding its retroac-
tive claws.
A CINCINNATI man, on his dying bed,
remembered that his wife was smoking
some hams, and he said " Now, Henri
eta, don't go to snuffing around and
forget them hams.
A CINcINNATI editor, who has INDUCED
in heavy life insurance, is said to be
followed whenever he goes a-fishing 10y
several insurance agents, affectionately
bearing hfe-preservers and sun UNI
brellas.
"WELL, neighbor, what is the most
Christian news this morning?" said
gentleman to friend. 81 have just
bowght barrel of flour for poor
woman" "Just like you who is it
that you have made happy by your
charity this time ?" "My wife p
A Gypsy woman promised to show to
two young ladies their future husbands
face in a pail of water. They looked
and exclaimed, "why we only see our
own faces % Well, said the gipsey,
those faces will be your husbands,
when you are married"
SAID tipsy husband to his wife,
"you need needn't blame me 4!
Twas woman that first tempted man to
eat forbidden things" Woman may
have tempted man to eat forbidden
things" said his wife, "but he took to
drinking of his own accord"
A CLARK county Qowa) young lady's
corset was the means of saving her life
when shot recently by her beau. The
Farmer says that she wore it in the
prevailing fashion-tight as the bark on
a saphng, and tighter, her waist being
considerably contracted, or 'squoze in.'
The bullet, therefore, instead of going
through vital parts of the body, sort of
over-shot, which it would not have done
If the young lady haG been full-chested,
or words to that effect"
The latest joke at Brigham Young's
expense is perpetrated by Pennsyl-
vania paper, which says " Some chap
thought he: would play joke on Brig
ham Young, so he gained access to the
list of his wives. and added twenty
seven names thereto Mary Jane Young,
Josephine Ann Young, Sare Melinda
Young, and so forth. The next time
Brigham called the roll, twenty-seven
didn't answer to their names, so he con-
cluded that they had died since last roll
call, and putting few more inches of
Grape on his hat, he looked as sad as
possible, but has not yet detected the
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-09-19

from $685. to $1,000, Mr.. Duncan, of
Illinois, taking one at the latter figure,
and Mr.. Mix one at lower price.
The Blooms ranged from 1926 to
So, 500, Mr.. Cougar, of New York, taking
the highest priced ones.
The sale is the most remarkable one
ever made, and it is probable that 8
herd embracing 80 much valuable blood
will never again be brought under the
hammer.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-09-19
HEART-siCk.

Some months since, young man Of East Dc
Moinee went westward, and before he left he ca
changed VOWS with damsel. OW OF sight, out {
mind, was his fortune aud the first intelligence
ceiyed from his Eliza Jane was that she ha
a. played OF" ON him and married that other is
low" Thereupon no sends us for publication III
following rhyme Of woe, addressed
TO DAs AND MAN.
Do you remember, dear Dad and Nam,
That little girl OF mine
That used to take to all the balls
Nm And parties Of that kind?
The one used 10 love 40 well,
And tried so hard to please
She Is went and gone square back on me,
With the coolest kind OF ease.
That night before went away,
My fortune for 20 make,
She promised me by all that's good,
Her vow she'd never break.
She then gave me little curl,
Tied with 4 ribbon blue,
And promised me right then and there
She always would be true.
And in return gave to her
A little ruby ring,
And told her, when she was my wife,
I'd buy her everything.
kissed her them and said goodbye,
While the tears rolled down my cheek,
And took the train for foreign parts,
Our fortune for to seek.
just four short months had been gone
From that dear girl left behind,
When n registered letter received
Completely changed my mind.
fortune ii must be- said,
For what else could IL bring?
so hurriedly broke the SEAL
When 10 out rolled that ruby ring
Oh how wept and how mourned,
III swear l nearly died;
/ thought I'd make short work Of II
BY committing suicide.
Before do So Dad and Nam,
l want you both to see
How that little ilirt in Iowa
Has kept her word with me.
No explanation for the cause
Is what l can consider,
1t must have been the oily tongue
OF her mann, the grass wilder.
so then TO you, dear Dad and Nam,
I'll make this wicked banter,
That when I'm dead and get chance,
Darn me if don't haunt her.
Dies Moines Register.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-09-19

As AN illustration of the widespread
use of certain popular title, it is re-
lated that gentleman recently stepped
into saloon in Denver, and cried ont in
loud, CHEEKY tone, Hello come,
Professor, take drink" Six men
sitting in the saloon at once arose and
came forward, while bootback, whose
stand was just outside the door, and n
passing corn doctor smilingly accepted
the invitation, and stepped in.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1873-07-17

Tinware
OF all kinds, of the best make, Cheap, at
jylO-4t RoLFs & MoRroN's.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1873-07-17
The NIississinnI Valley.

The July number of the Mississippi
Valley is out, and it presents a list of
unusually attractive and interesting ar
ticles. 1t contains, among other able
articles, two valuable contributions
from the pen of Col. A. ;. COlyer, one
on Cotton Culture" by Hon. n. i.
Cloud, of Alabama, and an interesting
article on ''Cotton Seed-its Value and
USE" by Thos. ). Hays, of Nashville.
The editor, Mr.. Jere Baxter, is GER
tainly not laboring in vain, so long as
he keeps his monthly up to the standard
Of all its issues up TO date, and the vast
amount of valuable information so at
tractively furnished by the Mississippi
Valley ought to guarantee a wide cir
culation.-BaHRer.
We fully endorse the above. The
Mississippi Valley is a very valuable
publication, and its brilliant young edi-
tor a vigorous writer. We wish him
and his enterprise unbounded success.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1873-07-17
Culinary.

G. B. ALTERNATELY was born in Giles
county May 80, 1899, and died near Gull
leoka, Maury county, July 9TH, 1873, in
full hope of immortality, leaving a wife
and one sweet babe, with u large circle
of friends and relatives to mourn his
loss.
1t is truly consoling to reflect upon a
life so pure and consistent. speak but
the sentiment of all who knew him
when / say that the ruling trait Of his
character was prudence. | knew him
intimately and yet / never knew him to
utter an imprudent word or to be guilty
of an imprudent act. He never spoke
unkindly of any one. Brother Aber-
nathy prOfessed religion when youn 9
and consecrated the first fruits of his
life to God by joining the NJ. Z. Church
South, in which he lived a faithful
christian, loved by all who knew him.
Those who knew him best loved him
most. When it was apparent that he
must die, he was not at all excited by
the announcement, but called his rela-
tions and friends to his bed and gave
them his dying blessing, eXhorting
them to meet him in heaven. When
asked inst before hedied if he was pray
ing, Ike the sainted Bishop Soule, he
replied ''NOt now; my time of pray
ing is over and | am now awaiting my
Masters command to come up higher
Thus having FINISHED his course with
joy", he was prepared to say,
My latest sun is sinking fast,
My race Is nearly run.
NV greatest trials are now passed.
My triumph has begun.
w. II. HUGHES.