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The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-05-07

List OF NRw ADVERTISEMENTS.
Fl. W. Purvis-Oqlcisl.
Q. B. Walker-Lecture.
y. Oantwell-F. E. Beef.
W. d. Loye 4 qai-Cheap Goods.
meeting Mchland Lodge. A. F. N.
j: 3. Yates-Straysd.
Nathan d Peixostp-Lempsu
u. Q. Cnnninsham-Fias Stock. .
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ExKCUTIvH DEPARTMENT.,
COLUMBIA, Nay q, 1873. :

To kse Hon. +. L.. Ca,xsozo. Treasurer of
tho STATE, Colansbfa. s. C-.Sm: Mr..
Gyles. OF the Arm OF, Hope & GyIes. of
this city, has this morning called UPON
me in regard to the settlement of the ac.
counts OF said .irm against the State on
behalf OF the Lunatio Asylum.
From the impression under which he
labors, it is evident to me that he has
been misinformed as to the aid you have
extended TO the asylum since the present
administration game into Office. Either
this is so, or you haze been greatly mis-
taken in the information on this subject
you have at various times given to me.
| am entirely unwilling 10 aosept this
latter view OF the case, and, thsfe.ore,
request that. in justice to all parties
concerned, both to the State aud its Gre.
ditors, in the premises, yon will at your
earliest convenience, furnish me with
suoh official data as will enable me fully
to understand the real position IN whicL
we stand towards the saids institntion.
Very respectfully, your obedient sarysnt.
f. J. MOSES. jR.s
Governor South Carolina.
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Fine Stock.

- 20 Fine Stock. @
I n am still 1t Charles Logan's Sta.
LTN bios, with some extra fne Saddle
fN NAnd Hsrness HORSES and MARES.
The animals will be sold on reason.
able terme. Parties wishing to buy arc.
therefore. invited to give me 4 cali
may 5- d. Q. CUNNINGHAM
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j.. M. BEEF.
npEN, this morning, ono barrol Fulton
~ Market BEEf-vory fine.
May II P. OANTWEIL.
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Strayed,

btfayed,
FROM my plantation, eight milea
below ColumbiA. on SUNDAY y last. two
AA mare MULES one mouse colored
were on the Camden Road. coming to.
wards Columbia. A suitable reward will bo
given for their return to mo-. ]. u. YATES. ;
May7 a
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left this morning foniH 81, ,Martinsyille.
TRENTON. LA. I, sMayt Ga fire broke
out in j. Mason's drug stoSc. and de-
stroyed nearly al. the business portion of
ae the town; loss $500. 600: insurance $780,
New iberia, May,8.--The Mstrcpoh.
tans took quiet pos5ession ot sc. Martina.
Vile on Sunday noon. !, That NIGHT. two.
OF the MetropoIitan SCOUTS were innger-
onsly wounded in the: suburbs of that
town, ono OF whom has since died.
Skirmishing has been constant since. A
conference bstween the leaders of the
contending forces was held Yesterday.
The Metropolitans wanted to know
which OF the officers they wore about TO
install were Objectionable to the people.
and what they wanted. The resisters
replied the mon were satisfactory. If
com missioned by Gov. McEoery; that
the citizens only wanted the Metropoli.
tans to leave the town, and not interfere
with their looai affairs. The women and
children are yet in the town. KellogR'o
Judge, in company with his District
Attorney and Congressman Darrell. have
gone to St. MartinsviIle, to open court
to-day. The citizens force is variously
estimated OF from 200 to 400. There is
q report this morning tha. tie Kellogg
ties are organizing the negroes; oonse.
quently the entire population are watch
tu', but no general engagement has yet
occurred. Business is generally sus-
pended.
WASHINGTON. May 6.-Captain F. M.
henry. a grandson OF Patrick Henry,
died here yesterday. He had been a
nan OF means, but had boen brought
INTO reduced circumstances by the war.
and at tho time OF his death was serving
- wAtohmap in the TreA.n,y Depart.
rnent. ~ :,
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-12-20
A SutiOcating DespOtism.

Imagine what a complicated and i'm
practicable machinery the Government
would be if the desires of these people,
who are always calling upon Hercules for
aid, instead of applying their own Shout
ders to the wheels of their difficulties,
were granted. 1t already undertakes
every judicial and police function; it
maintains armies on the land and ships
on the sea; it cheats and fights the Indian
tribes; it regulates manufactures; it deals
in gold, and buys and sells stocks; it is a
partner of the banking institutions, for
whose notes it is responsible; ii is an ex-
tensive builder; and most difficult, ard
least defensible of all, perhaps, it manages
the politics and politicians of the several
States, and even of the wards of towns and
and cities. 1t has its hands so full, in
fact, and the services expected of it are so
complicated and cumbersome, that it does
not half do what it is expected to do, and
what it does Is done in so bungling,
inefficient, dilatory and ignorant ii way,
that most of it had much better be left UNI
done, if for no other reason than because
it had been badly done. Nevertheless,
the Government mongers, as we might
call them, insist upon imposing on it still
more oncrous and intricate duties, and du-
ties so many in number that if they all
succeed, every man, woman and child
must become an oflicc-holdcr, or be in
some way dependent on the central civic
authority A more consolidated and sui
locating despotism could not be conceiv-
| ed.-N \. Eoe,sing Post.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-12-20
In Onion is Strength.

/ am quite ashamed to take people
into my garden and have them notice the
absence of onions. 1t is very marked.
In onion is strength and garden with
out it lacks flavor. The onion in its satin
wrappings is among the most beautiful of
vegetables, and it is the only one that rep
resents the essence of things. 1t can al
mos: be said to have a soul. You take
off coat after coat, and the onion is still
there; and, when the last one is removed,
who dare say that the onion itself is de
stroyed, though you can weep over its de-
parted spirit? l know that there is sup
posed to be a prejudice against the onion,
but think there is rather a cowardice in
regard to it.
| doubt not that all men and women
love the onion: but few confess their love.
Affection for it is concealed. Good New
Englanders are as shy of owning it as
| they are of talking about religion. Some
people have days on which they eat onion
what you might call retreats or their
Thursdays" The act is in the nature of
a religious ceremony, and Eleusinian
mystery; not breath of it must get
abroad. On that day they see no com
pany; they deny the kiss of greeting to
the dearest friend; they retire within
themselves and hold communion with
one of the most pungent and penetrating
manifestations of the moral vegetable
world. Happy is said to be the family
which can eat onions together. They are
for the time being separate from the
world, and have a harmony of aspiration.
| There is a hint here for reformers. Let
them become apostles of the onion; let
them eat and preach it to their fellows,
and circulate tracts of it in the form of
| seeds.
In the onion is the hope of universal
| brotherhood If all men will eat onions
at all times they will come into univer-
sal sympathy. Look at Italy. l hope
am not mistaken as to the cause of her
unity. 1t was the Reds who preached the
gospel which made it possible. All the
Reds of Europe, all the sworn devotees of
the mystic Mary Ann eat of the common
vegetable. Their oaths are strong with it.
1t is the food also of the common people
of Italy. All the social atmosphere of
that delicious land is laden with it. Its
odor is practical democracy In the
churches all are alike; there is one faith,
one smell. The entrance of Victor Eman-
uel into Rome is only the pompous pro-
clamation of a unity which garlic had al
ready accomplished; and yet we, who
boast of our democracy, eat onions in
secret.-Charles Dudley Warner.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-12-20
SYMPTOMS OF CATARRH.

Obstruction of nasal passages, discharge
falling into throat, sometimes profuse, watery,
acrid, or thick and tenacious, mucous, puru-
lent, bloody, putrid, offensive, etc. In Others
Il dryness, weak or infamed eyes, ringing in
ears, deafness, alterations, scalps from ulcers,
voice altered, nasal twang, offensive breath,
impaired smell and taste, etc. Few only of
above symptoms likely to be present in any
case at one time.
To cure-take DR.. Pierae's Golden Medical
Discovery earnestly, to correct the blood and
specifically, it does, upon the diseased
glands and lining membrane of the nose and
its communicating chambers. The more l see
of this odious disease, the more positive is
my belief that if we would make treatment
perfectly successful in curing it, we must u.s.
| constitutional treatment to act through the
blood, as well as a soothing and healing local
application. DR.. Sage's Catarrh Remedy
when used warm and applied with DR.. Pierce:
Nasal Douche, effects cures upon ''commor
sense" rational and scientific principles, by its
mild, soothing and healing properties, tt
which the disease gradually yields, when the
system has been put in perfect order by tn,
use of the Golden Medical Discovery. This i:
the only perfectly safe, scientific and success
full mode of acting upon and healing it.
So successful has the above course of treat
ment proven that the proprietor offers $500 re
| ward for a case he cannot cure. All thu
means sold by druggists. r: V. PIERCE
NJ. D., Proprietor, Buffalo, n. Y.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-12-20
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

Kerosene is the best article ever dis
covered to cleanse rust from CRATES and
fire-ironS.
Powdered borax is sovereign rem
edy for water bugs. 1t never fails when
sifted literally about their haunts.
There is not myrrh, or aloes, or
chloride of lime enough in the world to
disinfect house of such nuisance as
person of sour, sullen temper.
-Pomade to Prevent Baldness.-Lard,
four ounces; spermaceti, one drachm;
Lemon juice, six drachms: tincture can
tharides, Z. drachm. Perfume to taste.
To Render Castor Oil Tasteless.-It
is recommended to first put the dose of
oil in glass, and place upon its surface
quarter of a teaspoonful of chloroform,
and swallow the whole. The chloroform
will not harm.
Light in the Room for the Sick.-The
late physician to the Emperor of Russia
made careful study of the effect of light
as a curative agent in the hospital OF St.
Petersburg. He discovered that the num-
Der of patients who were cured in rooms
properly lighted was four times as large
as it was when they were confined in
dark rooms.
Dried Meat for Medicinal Purposes.
The american Journal Of Pharmacy
says: 1t is prepared by Daneucy, of Bor-
deaux, by cutting fresh meat finely,
spreading upon muslin, drying rapidly in
a current of air and rubbing into a brown
powder, which is almost inodorous, and
has slightly saline taste. 1t is really
taken by patients, spread upon bread, or
teaspoonful of it mixed with a
cupful of broth or soup, or by children,
If baked into biscuits.
Danger from Wet Clothes.-Few per-
sons understand fully the reason why wet
| clothes exert such chilling influence.
1t is simply this: Water, when it evap-
| CRATES, carries off an immense amount of
| heat, in what is called the latent form.
| One pound of water in vapor contains as
| much heat as nine or ten pounds of liquid
| water, and all this heat must, of course,
be taken from the body. If our clothes
are moistened with three pounds of water,
that is, if by wetting they are three
| pounds heavier, these three pounds will,
in drying, carry off as much heat as
would raise three gallons of ice-cold
water to the boiling point. No wonder
that damp clothes chill us.-Handicratt.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-12-20

red cotton loosely round the wrists; an
other is to fasten some ancient copper on
the wrists for several days by means OF
red cotton. In some families this is not
finally removed from the infants wrists
for several months, though it is more
usual to take it off after fourteen days.
The idea is that this binding OF the
wrists together will prevent the baby
from becoming wicked and disobcdient,
not only in childhood, but also in after
life. In allusion to this singular custom,
when children are troublesome or naugh-
ty, they are asked if their mothers neg
lected to bind their wrists.
When the baby is "a month old the head
is shaved for the first time, and in the
case of boy this ceremony is performed
before the ancestral tablets.
After the shaving of the head at the end
of the first month, it is common prac-
tice to allow a patch of hair to grow on
the top, if the child be boy, and on both
sides, if a girl; the hair is braided into
tight little queues, which stick out, and
give the children a very comical look in
their earlier years. When girl, however,
reaches womanhCod, she ceases to wear
these queues which have latterly hung
down her back in glossy braids, and her
hair is done up ON her head in the pc
culiar Chinese style, which, we believe,
varies but little all over the Empire, and
report says-though we cannot vouch for
the accuracy of the story-that the singu
lar edifice is rarely taken to pieces, and
that the women use a curious little cane
pillow to prevent the disarrangemento OF
their hair at night.
Children of both sexes are said to & go
out of childhood when they are about six
teen years of age" as in China they are
then considered to have become adults.
and the event is usually celebrated by
certain family observances. 1t must
however. be borne in mind that, though a
child in China becomes of age at sixteen,
he is not thereby emancipated from the
control of his parents; for during theil
lifetime he is bound by law and custom
to obey them implicitly, be he ever so old
or ever so wealthy. The only exception
that is made to this rule swhen the child
has attained to some Office under govern
ment, and then he is obliged to render
obedience to the Emperor, who, while he
is in the public service, stands to him an
loco parentis-AN the Year Round.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-12-20

WHY do the feet become so cold and be-
numbed? For answer we may say that
among the causes of cold feet are: tight
carriers, tight stockings, and tight shoes,
with, as the basis, q sluggish circulation
of the blood and low tone of vitality.
Tight carriers and tight shoes impede the
circulation of the blood, preventing the
warm life currents from keeping up the
natural temperature of the extremities
Tight lacing and corsets, also, have some
thing to do with causing cold feet and a
hot head.
Wear good-siZed lambs wool stockings,
or cotton if you prefer; and, instead OF
using garters, fasten the stockings to your
drawers with a loop and a button; wear
easy shoes or boots; dress the person
properly-never tightly-and exercise the
body vigorously by a brisk walk or a
lively run for ten or fifteen minutes, and
your feet will soon come into a comforta-
BILE condition.
OF course they should be washed on
rising in the morning, when the hands,
face, and person receive their quick and
tonic ablution. Simply wet the skin and
wipe dry with soft towel, and then rub
vigorously for five minutes with the naked
hands. Do this regularly and you will
have no more trouble with cold feet.
On retiring at night, should the feet not
be warm, they snoulu be Wrung, squeezed
and rubbed, till ''all-aglow" with currents
of living blood, and the feet Will be
warm.
Invalids may use a bottle of hot water
to their feet, rather than lie awake in the
semi-torture of cold feet.
Some put cayenne in their shoes to ex-
cite circulation; some dance few mo-
ments before retiring at night; Others
battle their cold feet in hot water But
we have given the cause and the remedy
above, and neither pepper nor medicines
need be used for the purpose. Never &C
to bed with cold feet-iScience Of Health
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-12-20
CURRENT ITEMS.

QUEBEC has put on ten feet of snow.
Down in Florida they are picking
oranges.
HENDERSON, N. c., has had snow
storm.
APPREHENsIoNs of a return of the cpl
zootic are felt
Now Georgia bankers for Constitu-
tional Convention
MINNEAPOLIS has street vender of pan
cakes. So has St. Louis.
POTATOES in Minnesota are quoted
higher per hushel than wheat.
VERr good aiu gloves cap'be bought in
New York for so eex1Ba pair.
PETERSBURG, Ind, has woman six
feet high, with an upward tendency.
FUR will be as generally and proiusely
used for trimming this winter as last
There is no opening for measles in
Dyersburg, Tenn. They've all had it.
RozENzwIG wept upon his being re-
leased. So did good many other folks.
AT East St. Louis, the last pile of the
Mississippi bridge sP1roach has been
driven.
BROOKLYN is said to have more breach
of-promise suits than all other cities put
tO0ethar
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-12-20
Pooling n Coon.

WHILE hunting on Banana river, one
day, says correspondent of Forest and
Stream, l was a witness to one of those
episodes in animal life that seem to war
rant the belief that many birds are pos
sessed of higher attributes than are gen
orally accorded them, and something
more than instinct.
My guide had waded long way ahead
in the shallow water and was cautiously
approaching a "drove' of spoon-bills,
leaving me to follow with the boat.
Not relishing the idea of wading about
in the muddy water with stingrays and
sawtish, pushing the heavy craft before
me, l concluded that such proceedings
were not in my line of duty, and so sat
upon the rail, idly splashing the water
with my feet.
My attention was called to a disturb
ance among the mangroves of little
islet near, and soon there Tapped into
view black duck, female, evidently
wounded. Close in her wake followed a
sly looking coon, his attention so occu-
pied with the duck as not to notice me
till fairly in view Then he hesitated,
but the duck brushed so near his nose
that he again took up the pursuit, throw
ing a glance occasionally at me. 1t was
interesting to watch them; keeping just
ahead of her pursuer, the duck would
beat the water quickly oil the time In evi-
dent pain, and would so elude the old
fellow that he finally seemed to think of
nothing else but catching her. What a
puzzled expression his shrewd face wore,
when, after nearly placing his paw upon
her, she would escape. Then he would
stop, look at me as if to say "what the
deuce does all this mean?' and arching
his back, would again pursue with long
leaps. For over quarter of an hour did
the duck play with him, till having en-
ticed him a sufficient distance from her
nest, she flew away. If ever the face of a
sharp-nosed coon wore a sheepish look,
it was the face of that same coon. L ac
celebrated his sneaking trot by a charge OF
duck shot
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-12-20
Report of the Department Of AgricuI-
ture.

THE report of the Department of Agri-
culture for November and December
shows that the average of the tobacco
crop, in comparison with last year, is "a.
The returns make the yield above that of
1872: In West Virginia, 1879; Kansas, ia !;
Arkansas, 10S; Virginia, 1902; Illinois,
101; New Hampshire, New York, Texas
and Oregon, 100. The other States ranged
between 20 in Pennsylvania and 90 in
South Carolina and Florida. In condi-
ton, Connecticut reported an average of
1888; Massachusetts, 100; New Hampshire,
11S; Vermont, 10; Maryland, Louisiana
and Oregon, 1O6; Kansas, 1902; Virginia,
Georgia and Alabama, 101. Other States
range between 100 in Illinois and 81 in
Missouri. In all the Gulf States there are
counties reporting the cultivation OF sugar
cane to some extent; but outside of Lou
siana it is evident that the production is
small. The returns make the average
product of potatoes throughout the coun-
try 10 per cent, less than last year. As
the crop was then estimated at 13,516,0O0
bushels, a falling off of about 100000
bushels is indicated. The sweet potato
crop is fair one, both in yield and quail
ity. The quantity of hay produced this
year is about 500,0 900 tons less than last
year, when it was not far from "a ,000,0CO
tons. The report says, under the head of
"Foreign Demand for Wheat in Great
Britain" that many suppose that Russia
is the heaviest contributor to these sup
plies; but the official figures show, when
subjected to analysis. that the United
States furnishes the largest proportion,
the total for 10 years being 143, SIT $50
cwt., or p per cent. of all, while the pro-
portion for Russia is 24 per cent, or 126,-
756, Al cwt. Germany, inclusive of the
Duchies, up to 1860, contributed II per
cent, or 93,437,S41 cwt.; France, 8 per
cent, or 81 ,342, G3S cwt., and British Amer
lea ) per cent. The prominent contrbu-
tions, with fractions of percentages omit
ed, make 81 per cent, leaving but 1G per
cent to all other sources of supplies.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-12-20

ONE of the charges for which an artil-
lery officer was recently cashiered, speci-
fled that on certain occasion he entered
a store in Sitka, Alaska, and seating him
self on the floor beside an Indian squaw,
took her pipe and smoked it. Such con
duct was considered unbecoming an
officer and a gentleman.
A MAN entered grocery store in q
town near Boston, recently, and called fol-
a halfgallon of molasses. He said he for
got jug, but suggested that his hat would
answer every purpose. The dealer depos
tied it in the tile, whicl was soon depos
tied on his own head, while a bareheaded
man departed with the contents of the
money drawer.
In FCnd du Lac County, Wis, there
seems to be no encouragement held out to
husbands to see that their wives do not
lose their appetites, and if a woman don't
want to eat, it appears to be dangerous fol
the husband to try to keep her from starv.
ing. Only few days since, Mrs. Stuart
of that region, lost her appetite and re.
fused to eat, whereupon Mr.. Stuart, to
prevent her suffering from an empty stom
ach, sought to crowd a turnip down heI
throat; and his philanthropic motives
were misunderstood, and now he languish
es in Jail, and there is no one to keep
Mrs. S. from starving herself to death il
she chooses.
ave sometimes thought that there
ring in the ownership of real es
h makes men hard and sharp
it is the taxes, or the insurance
$, or the tenants, who commit
waste or do not pay up prompt.
when we hear of a softhearted
we feel that his name should be
in these columns. Only in this
10 not know his name. But he
'hicopee, Mass, and they know il
When he heard of the reduction
in the manufactures, he at once
the rent of his tenants one-half
minated that he is insane; and
Wiling to believe that he is pre-
one of the many mansions
e more desirable than the choicest
is or brown-stone fronts in this
V world.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-12-20

The attention of our many readers is called
to the attractive advertisement of J. n. Harris
& Co., advertising their great and valuable
lung remedy, "Allen's Lung Balsam." This
Balsam has been before the public for ten
years Notwithstanding this long period, 1t
shown the least sign of becoming unpopular,
but, on the contrary, the call for it has been
constantly increasing, and at no previous time
has the demand been so great, or the quantity
made been SO large, at this day. We earn
estly recommend its trial by any one who may
be afflicted with cough or cold, and we warrant
il to cure il directions are followed. 1t is
sold by all our city druggists.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-12-20
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