The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-07-23

NEWSPApER FAILURES --IHE ltEASON
WAY THERE ARE So MANY OF THEM =
In Nhis recent excellent address b.Iore
the,Press Association ofTennessee, Gen.
Ira p. Jones, Of the Nashville +UAion ind
American, gave the following truthful
account OF newspaper mortality:
1--WE do too much work without com
pensation. We pay too much money
without nuy return whatever. We csta-
blish an elem osynary Institution ct our
o~a expense. We keep charity school
on our owu hook. We conduct business
AS il we owe everything to The public,
and the public is not Indebted to us a
farthing. We arc prcyed upon by the
sharpers and innocents alike. We nd
vertise gratuitousiy every week, when we
should have the money for it. The gem
eral public ore entirely ignorant-proba-
bly ourselves arc not fully aware of the
extent TO which newspapers arc burden
ed by this insiduous drain upon it's re-
sources. It insinuates itself in ever,
conceivable FORM. It does it through re-
porters, through agents, through cores
pondcnts, through editors, through bu.
mess managers. through proprietors,
and generally, too, with as much disad-
vantage to the public as to the press.
There il not business. from the dis
pcnser OF ginger cakes and cider to tho
largest manufactory, which will not ad-
vertisc. with you graiis-which will, if
you listen to it, cndcavor to convince
you that it is your duty to the public to
Go SO. There is not an aspirant for
public station-and when I contemplate
the number Of these, T experience an
| overwhelming sense of commingled
anazemont and disgust-from constable
to the Senate Of the Union, who does
not conscientiously' believe it TO be the
Imperative duty of the press, daily and
weekly, to speak with pen OF telo-
scopic power, Of his microscopic deserv-
Jugs Even that army of strollers which
lnfest the country and the people as q
sort Of visitation Of Providence for our
lniqni!ies, from the street corner Heller
OF prize candy or magic oil to the opera
tic empreSsnrio. will expect you to write
an indefinite number of editorials on q
three square advertisement, inserted for
i've days, changeable daily, without
charge. We are required to write up,
to urge up. and put through every en-
terprlse. great or small, thut seems to
have possible connection with the pub
llc. But we never hear Of share Of
stock, or Of dividend. The church,
INC State. com merce, Industry, art, in
vention and humbug alike. seem to re-
to be run and sustained for their all
ynntige.
The destruction OF human lives in
ludia, by wild animals, has become so
appalling that at last the English Par
Lament is seriously debating different
plans to remedy tue evil. The state
ments made by Lord Ettrick. who has
spent much of ha time in India, almost
transcend belief. and read like romanoes
If the jungle and wilderness. In Lower
E.pgnl alone, no less than l3, 400 per
sons are known to have been killed by
Wild beasts in the six years Immediately
preceding 1870, and for the entire pom
insula it Is estimated that TO- 500 persons
are killed annually. Captain Rogers, of
The Bengal service, recently read u paper
before the English Social Science Associ-
alton, III which lie stated that, in 1860,
one tigress stopped the traffic on public
road for many weeks, and was known to
have killed l27 people; and, in Nay
dnnka, tiger, in 1867, 1865 aud 1863,
KILLED. respectively. twenty-seven, thirty
four and forty-seven people 1t would
attack pnrty and kill four or so at q
time. Once it killed father, mother
and three children. and the week before
1T was shot it killed seven people. 1t is
stated that there are shikafries, or hun.
ters. whose business it is to kill these
animals, and who receive rewards for do
ing so. but they lave no desire to kill off
Nil Of them and thus cut off their source
of living. The English Government
now proposes to enroll body Of men
for this purpose, and to make syste-
matte slaughter of the tigers, wolves,
pantliers, lcopards and hyeuas, until
they are cXterminatcd.
Cure FOR NOSE BLEED Pat piece
OF paper III your mouth, chew it rupi,lly,
aud 1t will stop the bleeding. Doubtless
any substance would answer the same
purpose as pnper, the stoppago Of the
flow oi blood being caused doubtless by
tho rapid action of tho jaws and the
counter action Of muscles aud arteries
connecting the jaws and nose. Physi-
ciaLs state TINT placing Il small roll Of
papcr or muslin above the front teeth,
under the upper lip. and pressing hard
Eu will AL