The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-08-15

affairs. And yot persons who have since
the late war lived on rascality and pub
lio plumber, and stepped their arms to
the elbows in tho most disgraceful trans
actions, hayo the effrontery to uphold
Radical rule in the oppressed and impo-
verished State of Louisiana!
The DEAF, DUMB AND BLIND. The
following circular, now being distributed
throughout the State, must be OF inte-
rest to our citizens:
The South Carolina Institution for the
Education Of the Deaf and Dumb and
the Blind is located ut Cedar Springs,
Spartanburg County, four miles South
OF Spartanburg Court House and one
mile West of Cedar Spring Station, on
the line OF the Spartanburg and Union
Railroad. and occupies healthful and
pleasant site. 1t is strictly an educa-
tional institution, having for it's object
the moral. intellectual and physical
training of tho young deaf and dumb
and the blind, of both sexes, residing in
the State, and is, therefore, neither q
house Of refuge for the aged and help
less, nor hospital for the treatment of
disease. No discrimination on account
of color will be made or allowed. For
the benefit of applicants and other inte-
rested parties, the following Information
is presented:
1. The school year commences on the
first Wednesday in October of each
year, md closes on the last Wednesday
in June following, making continuous
session OF nine months, and leaving O
vacation Of three months during the
warm season.
2. AS rule, applicants who are under
ten or over twenty ono years of ase are
not admitted; but exceptions are some
times made in peculiar cases, at the dis
oretion of the Board of Commissioners
of the Deaf and Dumb and the Blind.
3. No person of imbecile or unsound
mind, OF confirmed immoral character
or incapacitated by physical infirmity
for useful instruction., will be knowingly
received into the institution; and in
case any pupil shall, after fair trial,
prove incompetent for useful instruc-
ton, or wilfully and persistently disc.
bedient to the Regulations of the insti-
tuition, such pupil will be thercupon
discharged.
4. No charge is made for the boarding
and instruction of pupils from the State
of South Carolina; but those from with
out tho State are charged at the rate oi
5000 per session of nine months, paya-
BILE in advance-that is to say, one-bali
at the beginning and the other half OF
the middle of the session.
5. All are required to come provided
with an adequate supply of good COM
Portable clothing, embracing suitable
articles for both summer and winter
wear, in such quantity as to admit OF
the necessary changes for washing and
repairing, the whole to be neatly packed
in good trunk, with a good lock aud
key.
&. Each article Of clothing should be
distinctly marked with the owners
name, in order to prevent confusion or
loss, and must be sent in good order
and condition, not only upon the en-.
trance Of the pupil, but also OF each
subsequent return from home after the
vacation.
z. 1t is positively required that every
pupil shall be removed from the institu.
ton during the annual vacation OF the
school, as we'll as at any other timo,
when such removal may be deemed No.
cessary by the proper officers thereof.
s. Persons bringing pupils to The in
| 5titution, or visiting them while there,
cannot be accommodated with boarding
and lodging at the institution.
3. all letters to pupils should be ad-
dressed to the care Of the institution in
order to insure their prompt delivery.
10. Persons desiring to procure the
admission of pupils should apply by
letter or otherwise to the superintendent
of the institution for instructions as tc
the manner Of procedure, and no pupil
should be sent to the institution until
such instruction shall have been fully
complied with.
Z. J. MOSES, Js., President,
S. l.. HOGE,
j. L. JILLSON, Secretary
Board Of Com mmissioners Deaf and
Dumb md the Blind.
COLUMBIA, s. g., July %, 1873.