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The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-08-27

A horse IN Talinferro Cunnty, Ga..
kicked n sewing .nacLiue ugoat uni
broke his jaw; and nowhere urs plenty
OF people who arc mean enough to cali
retributive Justice.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-08-27

a LADY IN TIE CAsE.-An oil, old
story. IS that of woman's devotion aud
self-forgctfulnesa III seasons of sorest
sorrow. The double railway disaster of
first frightful collision and then an cx-
ploslon Of locomotives, which occurred
ut midnight on the Chicago and Alton
Ntoad, was enough to para!yze the
strongest nerves, but the awful crash,
which sent some from the sleep of life
to that Of death, was to many Of the wo-
men, SO rudely aronsrd from repose. an
opportunity for work Of humanity.
The conductor Of the sleeping coach
tells straightforward story, which
needs no establishment of polished
phrases to ndorn the angelic work Of
these volunteer sisters of charity: "First
thing l knew. the ladies, God bless
them! were tearing up their under
clothing to bind up the sufferers. Why,
sir. in half minute. they had scarcely
anything left on them. There was
round one mans hand lace handker
chief that must have cost small for
tune. One lady thrust something into
my hand to tie round a mans arm,
which looked like-well, underolothing.
L could not stand that any longer.
did not care what the company said, 30
[ just gave orders to open the lockers
and tear up anything TINT came handy.
And they did. There were two or three
ladies tearing sheets into lengths to bind
up wounds, while half dozen others
were binding them around the bloody
arms and bodies of the wounded men. u
Earth has no medal nor tribute of honor
that can heighten the beauty of this
loving kindness, which sparkles up in
the full tide of womanly devotion and
sympathy in the arid waste of human
selishuess like fountain in burning
desert
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-08-27

TuE CHAMPION COTrON PRESS. A
few days since, we published al article
relative to the abilities and merits Of the
immense machine erected in New York
for comrressing cotton by the Standard
Cotton Press Company. a correspond
ent Of the Charleston Ne,oS and Courier,
in communication to that journal says
of press recently put up in that city:
No doubt you and the citizens of
Charleston will be greatly surprised and
pleased to learn that We have in our
own city a machine invented by O
Charleston man, built by Charleston
mechanics. and owned by Charleston
men, which in every respect and par.
tioular will excel the huge and costly
steam cotton press there described. The
Champion Cotton Press Company and
Association, composed entirely of
Charleston men, have recently erected
On the corner of Church and Cumber-
land streets ono of the most powerful Of
Taylor's direot-acting steam and by
drnulic cotton presses, the patent right
of which they have purchased. This
press not only will excel tho machine
described by the New York Jomnul Of
Commerce in speed, power and economy,
in fact in every particular, but as we'll
as any other cotton press now in exist
cnco in tho United States, and, we be-
iieve, in the world.
HoRRIDLE CRIME IN Iowa The Du-
buque Herald publishes lengthy ac-
count of horrible crime that has come
to light in Northern Iowa-Andrcw, the
County seat Of Jackson. y minister,
who claims to be Lutheran, in charge
OF IN orphan seminary in that town, was
detected in tho rapo or seduction Of o
young girl Of eight or nine years Of age
The victims of Schuellers perfidy, ms
far ns can bo ascertained Mt present, are
six little girls, ranging from eight to
fourteen years Of age. Schu.ller is d
man OF fine personal appearance, OF
scarcely medium height, heavy built,
and has dark complexion, with glossy
black hair, flowing beard, rivaling the
ravens wing in hue, clean sbayen up.
per lip. nose rather heavy, approach
ing the aquilino, and sharp, laughing,
black eyes. He is man of unususl ed
ucational requirements, and great natu-
raj ability. All regret that Schueller
has escaped the clutches of the law.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-08-27

Il PHILADELPHIA HoRNoR. The New
York Herald uses the following sensa-
tional headings, followed by three CO.
lumns of matter, to describe the finding
OF the body of q Mr.. Thomas Munco, of
Washington County, Pa:
"Found Drowned Horrible Rcye-
lations from the Philadelphia Moreue-
The Corpse of Wealthy Pittsburger
Fished from the Schuylkill-Robbing
the Dend-His Watch, Chain, Pocket,
book and Papers Gone-Sl, 600 Reward
Offered by Afflicted Friends s-Thc Time
piece Found at q wn-broker's-
Ghouls in Office-A Morgue Keeper and
Deputy Coroner InvoIved-AIunce'a
Body Taken from the Spirit Watts of
Pennsylvania Hospital-Alleged Burial
of the Deceased by the Coroner
The article concludes as follows:
It is all perfectly proper that for the
fulhllment of scientific purposes our
medical students should have their sub.
jeots for dissection, but for one without
the fraternity to suddenly confront a
multitude Of these subjects is sight to
appal the soul. In vat filed VITA
liquor, of the composition of which the
officers we're ignorant. they found TWEEN
ty-tive human beings, of every condi-
tion and Of both sexes. They were held
there in soak. The sight was revolving
and sickening in the extreme. I defy
any one other than physician to look
upon suoh spectacle unmoved. They
were arranged in no particular order.
Had they been tumbled in promiscuous-
ly, they could not have been more ire.
gular and confused. Men and women
we're floating there with intermingled
limbs and with faces horribly distorted
The starved, the butchered and the
suicidal in that immense vat together
waited the keen point Of the dissecting
knife. The officers sacrificed their feel
ings in this matter, smothered their
emotions and executed to the fullest ex-
tent their sworn and solemn duty. They
descendedEnto the vat
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-08-27

The cruelties of the Sandwich Island
ers, the tortures Of the prisoners of our
aborigines and the Hari-Kari Of the
Chinese sink into q soothing insignifi-
cance before the merciless persecution
OF twelve innocent men in England.
The telegraph informs us that Mr.. ke-
neatly. the leading counsel for the claim
ant, has been talking to the jury for
nearly II month. What these men Lad
done, we do not know; but in land of
constitutional rights, ana where the writ
OF hubedS corpus is recognized, some
thing should be done to save human
life, If for nothing else, for the sake of
their families. Sinking slowly day bt
day under pitilcss rain storm Of in
vective, sarcasm and wit, these poor
men are racked on the wheel Of Justice
The lawyer must he stcntor to keep
up his cxertions for such q length Of
time, and Tichborne must be very inno.
cent to require so much labor to work an
acquttal. One Juror has already sue
cumbed to the pressure.
Tie embczzlemenls of Bryce Nc
Lean, late Chief Postal Clerk between
New York and Washington, reach the
sum OF SiO. 900; and yet. after his robbie
rics bad been detected, he was permitted
by Postmaster General Creswcll to re.
sign, although forty letters purloined
from the mails were found in his pos.
session. Nearly all the money he had
stolen was taken, according to the Press,
in sInall sums Of not over two and three
dollars each, from letters sent by South.
ern subscribers to Northern publishers.
Who's next?
The Hon. james p. Holcombc, of
Virginia, died at Capon Springs on the
morning Of the 22d instant. He was
member of the Confederate Congress.
and was regarded by all rs the ablest
orator in that assemblago of Southern
talent. He was sent by President Davis
on secret mission to Canada, and nc.
complishcd all that could have been
done by any man under the most favor.
uble circumstances. Since tho war, he
has devoted himself to teaching.
The Liberal Republican State Exccu.
tive Committee Of New York, through
their Chairman, John Cochrano, have
sent m invitation to the Democratic
State Committee, to unite in calling o
State Convention of those opposed to
the present Administration.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-08-27

LIST OF New ADvnRrIsE2IlNTs
Meeting Columbia Lodge, NJ. lC9.
Money to Loan.
J, D. Bateman-Hay.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-08-27

empt manufacturing capital from taxa
tion for ten years, accompanied by q
general charter law. Under this i'm
pulse, our people would go to work with
will, and the mills and capital of
Northern manufacturers would come to
the cotton fields, where they can be
more proftably worked.
Tomorrow, we try the mountain air,
and for time shall make our headquar-
ters ut our old friend Diedrich Bic
mans, at Walhalle, who knows the re-
condite art of keeping hotel. His
place is the gateway to the cool delights
OF Jocassce, Tomassee, Cashiers Valley
and other mountainous retreats. We
shall let you know how the Walhalla
lager compares with Williamston water.
There are several 200-pounders here,
whose Hearty laugh is as "inextinguish-
able" as that OF Homer's gods. How
can we bear to leave them? It is great
pleasure to see them shake and hold
their sides. Happy fellowsl they have
found the true philosophers stone.
They make an oil stager feel young
again; they keep easy oonsciences, they
laugh, and they are fat and genial. They
have found more contenimeut in their
Happy Valley than ever did Rapelas in
his. We apostrophize them as Tittlebat
Titmouse did his lady love:
"Those can't meet again who never part"
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-08-27

DESPERATE AFFRAY.-A desperate and
disgraocful fight took place last evening,
ut one Of the principal saloons of this
city. Tho principals in the row wero
Capt. j. II. Ivy, q freight conductor on
the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta
Railroad, and Van Galloway, brick
mason of this place. Ia the engage
mcnt outside, Ivy Was thrown or fell
down pair of steps which led into d
basement underneath the house. The
fall was perhaps twelve feet, or greater.
He bad both Of his arms broken by the
fall, and also sustained injuries to his
back Charlotte Observer.
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a question which may have puzzled
scientists receives prompt solution in
the State Department. A seal is de-
cared to be not legally fish, according
to Secretary Fish, the most distin-
gnished member Of the piscatorial fami-
y. and consequently is denied tie right
of ''trial" which the .fnny denizens OF
the sea enjoy under tho clause of the
Washington treaty relative to fish oil.
An exchange says: "Politics is run
ming SO high among the civilized Chero-
keo Indians that soalping knives are
likely to be made use of as political ar
guments." Against the carpet.baggers
who are scheming to obtain political
foothold among those Indians, the
scalping knife is the only argument that
should be used.
Nattans' Crystal Discovery positively
restores gray and faded hair to its ma
tural color in threo to ten days. Re-
moves dandruff and imparts to the hair
an elegant and youthful appearance.
Warranted to contain no poison. It
produces pleasant and cooling effect
on the scalp. Give it trial. You will
not regretit. For sale at G. 81. Miot's.
A15f6
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-08-27

ne IOIlOWlDB aQVertlHementEc come from
his agency: L. D. Sine's gift enter
prise; Morgan's Sons Sapolio; Wages,
etc. Mr.. Sine, upon being communi-
Gated with, relative to his advertisement,
says he has paid Mcnet ir full, and there
is no excuse for the non. payment of the
claims; that he has received complaints
from many publishers, and advises the
discontiuuance Of the advertisement
until payment is made.
WANTED Active and reliable young
men, to canvass the city and surround.
ing country for the Singer Sewing Ma
chine. Liberal inducements offered.
Call ut the Singer Office, Main street.
The SINGER MANUrAcruR'a Co.
J. T. LIGoN, Agent.
COLUMBIA, August 26, 1873.
HOTEL ARR1vALs, August 26, 1873
Vheeler Rouse-T S Clarkson, Robt Fl
Hand, Charlotte; G A Seymour. II L
Wolfe, u Perry Butts, Charleston; B G
Yooum. Chester; T W Lang, T q Clark.
Camden; G Crosland, Dennettsville; 3
D Townsend, Mrs = d Townsend, So.
ciety Hill; J W Harrison, Anderson.
Hendrix RoMse-Gh.s NJ Mccoy, NO;
" A Thomas, Ga; D B NJ Lewis, s C;J
Gilfllin, q L Hawkins, Charleston; J r
Lowell. L Peterson, j D Cash and
wife, Newberry.
Columbia Hotel- J L Southern. Green.
vile; W Sprinkle. N CIV O'Brien,
G " McManus, G p Gardner, H @ Ma
zyck, S G; J Is Albert. Baltimore; Rev
S Connor, wife and five children. N
G; J FL Stelling. J NJ Seigler, q Il y /;
r; W NJ Tearyle, Newberry; W'B 5 .ecic,
Savannah; Thos Steen, city.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-08-21
Catching Squirrels on a Fish-HOOk

/ HAVE caught with hook and line
nearly all kinds Of fish, besides turtles,
frogs, ducks and other fowl; but yesterday,
while fishing for trout in the Wellingley
brook, in Plymouth, Massachusetts, dis
covered new field of sport. While |
had just taken out splendid trout from
under rock, and was about batting my
hook, l saw good-sized squirrel jump
upon the rock. My pole was of good
length, and improved the opportunity
by placing the hook near his head. At
first he brushed it away with his paw;
but after a while, either out of spite or
for love of the sport, made a jump and
took the hook in his mouth. At that
moment drew upon him. and soon
saw him dangling twenty feet in the air.
Such dancing and climbing up the line
and then down the pole, was lesson to
common fish. | finally laid the pole on
ground, and then came a series OF gyra-
tons and various antics. Not being &C
quainted with that kind of fish, and fear
ing that ali attempt to disengage the hook
would be bad for the fingers, Shout,
dered my fish pole and marched to the
blacksmith-shop near by, where, with the
aid of two assistants and pair OF black.
smiths tongs, the hook was detached and
the fellow set at liberty. Not three min
utes after, however, he was capering
along the fence as if nothing had hap
pened.-Cor. Boston Journal.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-08-21

house now, would know there's no women
about everything is so quiet and comfort
able and handy. If / want to do little
figuring don't have to hunt up a pencil,
or pen and ink. but just sit down to one
of the tables and do it with my finger,
and there's nobody to be eternally WELD
ing busting brush around my head and
telling me to oct out of the way until the
house is cleaned I'D. These are consider
atoms that every married man should pom
der over. But when we do ponder and
resolve, what good does it do9 That's
the question that is now agitating the
American people. What good does it do?
Not bit. If these women can't have
everything Just their own way, they swoon
off into mysteries. AS a consequence, we
have to pay a fifty-dollar doctors bill, and
stay in the house all day, tanning them,
and promising in the end that I'VE may
be happy YETI before they show any dis
position to compromise. Our wives are
petted too much. And this reminds me
that mine won't yield to any other treat
ment. l undertook to prescribe more
stringent remedy for her one day, but it
threw her into fit more like Jim, jams
than anything knew of. She broke every
plate in the house over my head and then
/ had to kiss her before she would prom
Use not to do it again. That's what makes
me say she is set in her ways
There, too, are the piano and guitar,
which she ke pit going from morning until
midnight, filling the whole neighborhood
with the discordant sounds which she
called music. Both are as mute as the
bird-ca which was vacated last week by
a strategic movement Of the cat.
The two hundred pots of flowers she left
me to cultivate don't think will produce
much of crop. They're nearly all ripe
now, and there's no sign of a flower yet.
| have watered them twice since she left,
but it did no good. | reckon they miss
her, and are pining away because she
amt here. In this respect they do not
resemble me to any alarming extent.
Our kitchen never looked better. The
stove and pipe have assumed a beautiful
red tint, and the pots are bringing forth a
fine crop of withholding vegetable mold,
which | haven't learned the name OF, but
she'll know it when she comes. The
dishes don't look quite as bright and clean
as they might, but the flies are bad this
year, and if | were to wash them ev W
two weeks they wouldn't present respec-
table appearance.
Notice to the Editor-Please suppress
that article | sent you about my ''Spell Of
Single Blessedness." The old woman has
got back.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-08-21
Single BlessedHess.

My wife has gone away for the summer,
and left me in full charge of the house.
| like it; hav'nt had such run of liberty
since we were married. | hope she's hav-
ing good time, for | can now exercise
my rights as the head of the family.
Can't do it when she's at home; she'll not
stand 1t. She has rules, and makes every
body about her toe the mark. But I've
got her now, and am having things nv
own way.
This morning l came home quite early.
1t was two a. m I'd been to the club and
got caught out in the rain For half an
hour | couldn't find the key-hole, which
must have got mislaid. | felt for it every
where, and even got down into the ward
and examined every brick, but couldn't
find it. | was in the act of calling one of
my neighbors, and asking him who had
carried off my front door, when | happened
to find it and got into the house.
In the dark | kicked over a spittoon,
but luckily didn't get any of the tobacco
juice on my boots. hung my overcoat
and umbrella on a prong of the chandelier,
let them drip on the parlor carpet, went
upstairs and turned in with my boots on.
| thought it wasn't worth while to pull
them off, as | would have to get up in
eight or ten hours anyhow. If my wife
had been at home she'd have had me
| looking an hour for the boot,iack, and
would have lost that amount of rest,
which my system so much needed. Be
sides, she'd have made me give full &C
count of myself, which don't like to do.
! ! never did believe in praising myself
It's better to let others speak of ones
virtues. l can now wear a shirt week
and it's nobody's business. l don't see
how l ever did get along with that woman.
| The idea of having to put on a
clean shirt, black my boots, and
crush up my clothes every morning, is
simply ridiculous. 1t is miracle to me
now | ever did it and attend to MY other
afiaics. | now read the morning paper
without being forced to see an impatient
woman standing with her dress in one
| hand, looking very miserable, and finally
telling me she is going down town and
wants that paper. Any one, to look at the
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-08-21
Water.

SOFT water is in all cases better for hor-
ses than hard water. If, therefore, soft
water can be easily procured, it should in
all cases be given, but we do not think it
answers well to allow the horse to Stake
his thirst at the pond or brook at all sea-
sons. Boiling gets rid Of great proper
ton of the lime, and where it exists in
great quantities it is advisable to give all
boiled water The temperature of the wa
ter given should in all cases be that of the
stable, or very little below it; and so in
the warm one the water must be raised to
at least 70 degrees of Fahrenheit by mix
ing little hot with the cold, or by leav-
ing the bucket full of water constantly in
the stable, and only using it when it has
acquired the temperature of the stable.
If cold water is given to a horse used to
it chilled, and 10 warm stables, it sets the
coat the wrong way directly, and often
produces collie, Or shivering, followed by
rheumatism and this is especially likely
when he has undergone any violent exer-
ton, and is becoming cool from it. 1t
does not do nearly the harm while the
horse is reeking with heat and perspira-
ton that it does when given to the tired
horse, just cooling down from his exer-
tons. If, however, chilled water is gen
orally given, it should be rigidly adhered to
when the horse is travelling, for an animal
used to it is far more likely to be injured
by cold water given when in asweat, than
the one which habitually swallows it at a
low temperature with his ordinary food
The quantity Of water proper for the
horse varies very much, depending upon
his tendency to purge, upon the amount
of sweat which he loses in his work, and
upon the nature of his work About one
and a-half to two ordinary buckets full
per day is the average, depending upon
the size Of the horse and the severity of
his work and if water is allowed regular
ly, few healthy horses will drink more
than two buckets full per day More than
couple of quarts should never be given
on the road, or while working, even on
the hottest day; but this quantity may be
repeated every few hours with advantage,
If the weather is very sultry, with or with
out a little oatmeal. 1t is seldom advisa-
bic to give the full quantity of water i'm
mediately before or after the feed of oats,
but rather to let the horse drink about two
quarts, and half an hour after his feed to
let him have the remainder. And if the
oats are not given for half an hour, the
water will not hurt if all is given at once.
-Prdtrie Farmer.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-08-21
Selected Miscellany.
MY FATHER.
RY John PATTI.

BY JOHN PAUL.
VINO hailed me first with rapturous Joy,
And did not fret and feel annoy
When the nurse said: Whyl she's boyI
My father
Who gave that nurse half q crown,
To let him hold me-awkward clown,
OF course he held me upside DOWN
My father.
Who ne'er TO cut my hair did try
Jabbing the scissors in my eye,
And cutting every hair aWayS
Ny father.
Who set me in the BARRIERS chair
Instead. and had him cut my hair
Like my big brothers, good and squares
Ny father.
Who when had little fight
Because Tom tore my paper kite
And bit me, said l did just righty
My father.
Who when Tom licked me black and blue
Did not turn in and lick me, too
Saying, Its my duty so to dor"
My father.
Who told me pluck and luck must win
And taught me to put up tin,''
Till could trounce that Tom like SIM
My father.
Who pennies ue'er refused to plank,
Nor dropped them in that mimic bank
Where | could only hear them clanky
My father.
Who when wished TO buy toy
Neer thought 'twould give me much more joy,
To send tracts 10 some heather boy9
My father.
Who bought me ponies, guns, and SIGH,
And gave ME leave to fork and pitch,
While he raked up to make me richr
My father.
And who at last, when all was done,
Passed in his checks, and, noble one,
Left all he had to me, his son?
My father.
~ Y. Tribune.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-08-21
Wanted.

THE NATIONAL LIFE INSURANCE Con-
PANY Of the United States of America
wants an agent in every town in the
country, and will pay literally for bust
ness secured. The principal features Of
the Company are its great financial
strength, its low premiums, and its lib
eral policies. Its plans are easily under
stood, and those devoting only a portion
of their time to insurance are often enabled
often times to accomplish gratifying re
suits. We do not know of a company bette,
deserving of patronage by those wanting
insurance, nor one with which an agent
could more advantageously connect him
self. Z. 4. Rollins is President, and Jay
Cooke is Chairman Of the Finance Com
mittee. Address branch office of Com
pany, at Philadelphia.
The Springfield Republican, says that
Susan 3. Anthony wants the name of the
Pullman cars altered either to Pullman
and-woman or Pull-irrespective-of-seX
cars.