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The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-09-17

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at $50 a. T., Monday 18th inst: =
Leave Union Depot Wilmington. .5!50AM
Arrive fioIenceE: .................1! lily Al
Arrive .tqoiufnbia. ....... 4.45 PM
Leave Columbia. a....................G GAO AM
Arrive At Florence. .................11 IL 20 AM
Arrive 1t Union Depot, Wilmington, SIG PM
Leave Union Depot, Wilmington. 5.45 PM
Arrive Florence. IL "a PM
Arrive al Co!InSiE.. S.sS AZ
Arrive at Augusta. ...... $40 AM
Arrive Columbia. a....................10 .10.S5 PM
Arrive Florence. e.....................2 2.27 AN
Arrive at Union Depot, Wilmington, 500 AM
Passengers leaving Columbia on the 0.40A.
N. Train arrive In Richmond at 6.20 Am. the
York 1898 2. M.
The Train leaving Columbia at G 10 A. NJ,
connects with tho Camden Z rain at he cross
ing, and makes close connection at Flortp nee
for Charleston.
Those taking the 1895 z. nj. Train from
Columbia have choice Of routes at Weldon,
cithor 10y the Bay Line, arriving in Baltimore
at 800 M, or by the all rail line [uia Rich
mond, arriving in Baltimore GEO A. N.
JAMES ANDERSON, Gen. Supt.
The Short Line Schedule.
CHARLOTTE, COLUMBIA d AUGUSTA X. X. Co,
COLUMBIA, S. c.. June IS, 1873.
ES StTI ST ss&ssssN1,iaE$ juno 16, 1873, tho follow,
ing Schedule will be run over this read:
acISG NORTH.
Train No. 2. Train No. /.
Leave Augusta ...... 1852 AN $50 PM
Leave Crwniteyllc.. "A IS A NJ 1858 PM
arrive Columbia. 1920 NJ 10.47 PM
Leave Columbia. s. - A NJ .........
Arrive Charlotte. i2.27PlI .....
GOING SOUTH.
Train No. 1. Train No.
Leave Charlotte. .420AM ..
Arrive Columbia. 9 30 AN .......
Leave Columbia. 40 As NJ 3.15 All
Leave Granitcyille. III 10P NJ "7.44AM
Arrive Augusta. -. 10 l. M $40 All
'Breakfast. DINNER. tSnpper.
Standard time ten minutes slower than
Washington; six fastcr than Columbia time.
Both South bound trains make cosc con-
nection at Augusta for NIL points South and
West. Through Tickets eUd and baggage
che ckcd to all principal points North, South,
East ard WCst.
Passengers leaving Columbia on the ~
a. NJ. train are due i'll Richmond at G 20 M,
Washington 12.5 so p. NJ, BaltimoIc 2 40 PM,
Philadelphia TOO p. Nj, N.w York 10.GS T Al. !.
tho following tlay.
T.. Il. DORSEY, General Ticket Agent.
JAMES ANDERSON, General Superintendent.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-09-17
Change of Echednle.

South CAROLINA RAILROAD COMPANY,
COLUMBIA, S. c., June 2S. 1872.
EI@ III gais to elanES so Ia,o OF ssheaYIs sSaet u,
and after Sunday, Goth instant:
MAIL AND PASSENGER TRAIN.
Leave Columbia at. s 30 am
Arrive at Charleston at ..... .....l. 0 pm
Leave Charlestonat. ..... G0tam
arrive at Columbin at AS pn.
NIGHT EXPRESS, FREIGHT AND ACcoMMoDATIoN
TRAIN, [Sundays exceptcd.]
Leave Columbia .1.15 pm Arrive. .G.15 n:
Arrive Charleston 7.l0pm Leave &c 80 r.
Camden Train will run Monday, ,WcGncs day
and Saturday. as follows:
Leave Columbia aat..... at 10i0 4. NJ
Arrive at Camden at......... 1926 I. Nj
Leave Camden Observation-Disclosures 3 IS a. NJ
arrive at CoIumbia at.. S 10 4. 81
"A. J.. TYLER. Vict-Prcsidtnt
*. Is. PICRINS. General Ticket Agent.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-09-17


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Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-06-26
Extraordinary Attempt at Suicide.

Though it is but step from the sub
lime to the ridiculous, it is surprising
how few can take it, well-directed as
their efforts would seem to be. An I'M
happy Frenchman has lately made
very creditable attempt. This gentle
man, who is described as having " a
inely-sprung poetic sentiment, being
unfortunate in some literary ventures,
and in a certain afaire de c@ur, deter
mined to destroy himself. He had
already made during his short life four
unsuccessful attempts. Resolving to
succeed at last, he provided himself with
revolver, a rope, stake, bottle of
poison, and box of lucifer matches,
and proceeded to cliff which overhung
the sea. He there drove the stake INTO
the ground, fastened one end of the rope
to it, deliberately adjusted the other end
around his neck, took the revolver into
his hand, set fire to his clothes, swal-
lowed the poison, and, swinging himself
gently off-he was sensitive to pain
pulled the trigger. The instrument ex-
ploded, but the ball, only grazing his
ear, cut the rope, and the baffled suicide
was precipitated into the sea. The salt
water, combined with the violent shock,
not unnaturally destroyed the effects Of
the poison, and he was ANONYMOUSLY
saved from drowning by passing fish
ng-smack. He concluded that Provi
dence had intended him for something
great, but died three days after from in
hammation of the lungs contracted from
the exposure to cold and damp. Tha
this cline poetic character SHOULD
have mlscalculated the designs of Prov
idence is not so surprising, perhaps, a.
the fact that he could not manage IL
some way to live for effect when he hat
tried so hard to die for it.-Londo'
Globe.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-06-26
Gen. Jackson on Railroads.

While Gen. Jackson was President
of the United States, from 1929 to 1887,
he was accustomed to travel in his pri-
vate carriage from Washington to his
home at the Hermitage in Tennessee.
At all the stopping places on the route
the people of the vicinity assembled to
greet him and hold friendly intercourse
with him. In the summer of 1886,
while passing through the valley of Vir-
ginia, he stopped to pass the night in
small village in Rockbridge county. AS
was his custom, he had a friendly chat
with those who called to see him. Rail
roads at that day were few, and the pub
lie were talking and specializing upon
their success and usefulness. General
Jackson told his hearers that they would
succeed and become very popular, and
turning to several young men present,
he said: "Young gentlemen, you will
live to see the time when these roads
will become great monopolies, control
ling the State Legislatures, and even
Congress itself in fact, they will be
worse than the United States Bank.
One of the young men who heard Presi-
dent jackson make ,the above prediction
thinks he has lived to see all that &C Old
Hickory" then predicted. CharlotteS-
UilLe Jefersonian.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-06-26
How to Prevent Grasshopper Plaques.

Entomologists are familiar with the
fact that grasshoppers deposit their eggs
in very limited space seldom more
than an area of two or three acres. An
expert has no difficulty in proper sea-
son to discover the Matching bed, and
ascertain when the young insect is likely
to emerge from the egg. 1t is not many
years since Russia was infested by the
grasshopper plague, and its broad wheat
land devastated year after year as COM
pletely as Utah has been devastated by
them during late years. The Russian
Government has enlisted science to aid
in carrying on the war of determination
against the grasshopper, and has sue
ceeded SO well that the armies formerly
Matched in the plains have totally disap-
peared, and but few of those incubatedon
the great steppes of the Ural mountains
ever reach the valleys. The mode of
warfare is as simple as it is effective, the
insect being captured before leaving the
Matching grounds by small boys with
fy-nets. Experienced entomologists are
employed to ascertain the locality where
the grasshoppers' eggs are deposited,
and the time when incubation will take
place. If by these simple means the
grasshopper plague can be expelled
from the land, it would certainly seen
desirable that the experiment should bt
tried. 1t would be a yearly saving o
millions of dollars worth of produce
which is now devoured by this ravagins
insect.-Sdn Francisco Bulletin.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-06-26
A Monster i'm Crime.

A fearful story is told of the Indian
chief and robber of Topic, Mexico,
Lozada, which has but recently been
brought before the public, and which,
for cruelty, cannot find parallel. In
the small village of San Luis, near
Topic, there has been discovered sub
terranean apartment, constructed espe-
cially for the prosecution of horrible
crimes, and in this was found, not long
since, man who for fourteen years had
not seen the light of day. Unshaven,
unwashed, almost doubled by feeble
ness, and withal bereft of sense, when
discovered he is said to have had more
the appearance of a wild animal than of
humanity. From motives of revenge
Lozada had him incarcerated in the
sepulcher, and formerly would seem to
have taken especial pleasure in witness
ing the fortunes of this unhappy man,
visiting him daily for that purpose,
haunting him and mocking him i'll his
helpless misery. The wretched man
was placed in charge of physician,
who is obliged to use the utmost pru-
dence in bringing him forth from his
living tomb to enjoy once more the lib
critics of life, and, even with the greatest
care, it is thought his enfeebled system
will not sustain the shock such change
NAV bring
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-06-26
Wisdom of Billings.

Take all the pride out of this world,
and mankind would be like bob-tailed
peacock, anxious to hide under some
body's barn.
All fights, tew produce emmy moral
advantage, should end in victory few
one side or the other You will alwus
see dorgs renew drawn battle every
time they meet.
If man is full ov himself, don't tap
him, but rather plug him up, and let
him choke tew death or bust.
1 don't think that Fortune haz got
emmy favorites she was born blind, and
I motifs them who win the oftenest go it
blind too.
1t IL a safer thing emmy time tew fol-
low mans advice than his example.
[ konsider weak man more danger
GUS than malishious one. Malishous
men have sum karacter, but weak ones
don't have emmy.
I hav notised one thing, that the
most virtuous aud diskrete folks we
have among us are thoze who hav either
no pashuns at all, or very tame ones-it
is a great deal eazier tew be good dove
than decent serpent.
It IL fakt-known to us dokters-
that you can katch the small pox of a
man before it breaks out easier than you
kan after it has broke out. IT'S thus
with wickedness the openly SO are less
dangerous than those who have it under
the skin.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-06-26
Light and the Complexion.

5 The action of the light on the human
skin is manifest. 1t browns and tans
the teguments by calling out the pro-
auctions of the coloring matter they
contain. The parts Of the body usually
bare, as the skin of the face and hands,
are darker than others. In the same
region, country people are more tanned
than down town residents. In latitudes
not far apart the inhabitants of the same
country vary in complexion in a measure
solar light. In Europe, three varieties
narked-ohve brown with black hair,
beard, and eyes chestnut, with tawny
beard and blush eyes blonde, with fair
beard and sky-blue eyes. White skins
show more readily alterations occasioned
by light and heat; but, though less
striking, facts of variation in color are
observable in others. The Scytho
Arabic race has but half it's representa-
tives in Europe and Central Asia, while
the remainder passes down to the Indian
ocean, continuing to show the gradual
raising of climate by deepening brown
compilations. The Himalayan Hindoos
are almost white those of the Decean,
of Coromandel, Malabar, and Ceylon,
are darker than some negro tribes. The
Arabs, olive and almost fair in Armenia
and Syria, are deep brown in Yaman and
Muscat
The Egyptians, as we go from the
mouth of the Nile up stream toward its
source, present an ascending chromatic
scale, from white to black, and the same
is true of the Tuariks, on the southern
side of the Atlas, who are only light
olive, while their brethren in the interior
of Africa are black The ancient monu-
ments of Egypt show us a fact equally
significant. The men are always de-
picted of reddish brown-they live in
the open air, while the women, kept
shut up, have pale yellow complexion.
Barrow asserts that the Mantchoo Tar
tars have grown winter during then
abode in China Remusat, Pallas and
Gutzlaff speak of the Chinese women as
remarkable for a European fairness
The Jewesses of Cairo or Syria, always
hidden under wells in their houses, have
pallid color. In the yellow races O
the Sumatra Sound and the Maldives
the women, always covered up, are pale
like wax We know, too, that the Els
quimaux bleach during their long winter
These phenomena, no doubt, are the re
suits of several influences arising a
once, and light does not play the sol
part in them. Heat and other condi
tons of the medium probably have
share in these operations of color. Still
the peculiar and powerful effect o
luminous radiation as part of them /
beyond dispute. : Popular Scienc
E Monthly.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-06-26
A Little Sum in Arithmetic.

The Hebrew Educational Society
School of New Orleans has been the
scene of very rare, if not wholly unex-
ampled, performance in arithmetic.
The problem was to multiply 9by 9, and
81 by 81, and so, using each succeeding
product as it's own ,multiplier until the
the operation should be performed nine
times. How stupendous and discourage
ing the work becomes after few steps
are taken ia the process, any one will
find who makes the trial. For several
years a handsome premium had been
offered the patron of the school just
named for the pupil who should first
succeed in accomplishing this feat OF
multiplication. At last the task was
completed, and the prize, a splendid
silk dress, won by Miss Sallie E. Salo-
mon. sister of Mrs. A. Dalsheimer, after
patient labor of three months. The
work comprises 263 mineral compounds
and 90, 900 figures, and the whole covers
four or five square yards of paper. 1t Is
deserving of remark, in this connection,
that boys have made less progress and
shown less perseverance in working at
this problem than the girls.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-06-26
An Enormous Engine.

Pittsburgh claims to have in process
of construction pair of engines which
will be the most powerful in the world.
Reducing the capacity of some of the
largest pumping engines to a uniform
lift of one foot in twenty-four hours, it
is found that the one at the Lehigh
zinc mines will lift 3, 456, 900, 900 million
gallons the pair at the Chicago water
works, $500, 900, 900 gallons; the pair
at HARLEM, Holland, 10000, 900, 900,
while the new Pittsburgh engines will
lift IA, 240, 100000 gallons. The pair
will weigh 1000 tons, and will cost
1923, $50. The following dimensions
will serve to give some idea of its mag
nitude; Cranks, nine tons shaft,
twenty-four tons four sections of the
two valve chambers, one hundred and
twenty tons; fy-wheel, seventy tons.
The four plungers will weigh upward of
four hundred tons. Cylinder, sixty
four inches diameter stroke, fourteen
feet. Plungers forty inches diameter
eleven foot stroke. This ponderous
piece of machinery will be used to raise
water into the. Highland avenue reser-
voir in Pittsburgh, a height of three
hundred and fifty-six feet. 1t is esti
mated it will raise seventy millior
pounds of water for each hundred
pounds of coal consumed, the cost be
ing at the rate of one cent for every
800 gallons.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-06-26
How the KickapOos Were Surprised.

A San Antonio, Texas, letter says !:
Col. McKenzie's raid over the border
upon the cattle-stealing Kickapoos was
carried out with 100 men of the Tenth
Cavalry. Each man was armed with a
Spencer rifle and pair of cavalry re-
volvers. No sabers were taken by the
men. On the night of May II, at about
ten o'clock, the command crossed the
Rio Grande en- route for Santa Rosa,
distant about sixty miles from the river,
and situated in the district where the
Kickapoo and Lipan Indians, with their
Mexican accomplices, reside. Cautious
~ proceeding, the party reached Santa
the 10Th. The detachment rushed at full
speed through the old Mexican town,
arousing the sleepers, and passed on to
the other side, where, about a mile of,
they fell upon the Kickapoo camp
There were probably a couple of dozen
Indians stirring in the camp as the
cavalry came up, but the surprise, for
tunately for the soldiers, was so COM
plete that the 1edoubtable warriors, who
had not awakened, were unable to make
more than feeble resistance. The
fight, such as it was, lasted about ten OF
fifteen minutes. In that time two Of
the attacking party were killed and two
mortally wounded. Of the Kickapoos
twenty-eight were killed and forty-twc
were captured, among them women an6
children. Many of the Indians escaped
to the mountains which were near by
and the cavalry retreated, taking theil
prisoners with them. The Kickapoo
were in war-paint and feathers. One o
the warriors shot was man OF gigantic
stature, measuring seven feet high
Heavy silver ornaments were anoticeabl
feature of his attire.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-06-26
A Western Farmer.

The farmers of New England who
blast holes in the ground to plant a few
acres of beans and corn-hops, doubtless
have imperfect notions of the area of
some of our Western farms. Here, In
Vermilion county, single individual
owns and manages seven thousand acres,
while other farms Of still greater mag
nitude may be found in adjoining coun-
ties. Mr. John Sidell, of the township
bearing his name, has a domain of seven
thousand acres The tract is six miles
long, and varies from one to two miles
in width. Running through its entire
length is the Little Vermilion river,
skirted for two miles with beautiful
groves and clusters of thickets. Three
thousand acres are in meadow, and as
much more in blue grass and pasture,
and the remaining thousand is devoted
to corn. Roaming over the great pas
ture are fifteen hundred cattle, a thou
sand of which will shortly be shipped to
New York city. Mr.. Siden has also
about thousand hogs on his place. The
corn he raises, together with thousands
of bushels that he buys annually, is
consumed on his farm. He employs
about forty teams and fifty men, and has
niue comfortable tenement houses upon
the plantation. There are no public
roads through his premises, but Mr..
Slidell says that it is a highway of it
self. Wagon roads run through the
pasture from one end of the domain to
the other, with gates at the fence cross
ings. The farm abounds in springs
and is well drained throughout. The
proprietor of this miniature dominion
dwells in brick mansion of size and
surroundings corresponding with the
magnitude of his comprehensive under
taking.
Mr. Slidell has thirty miles of hedge
and he expects to plant much more
His business involves more capital thai
is employed by any mining company
banking house, or mercantile establish
ment in Vermilion county. and its sue
cessful management demands capacit
and energy of the first grade. Dan
Uitle (IU.) Times.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-06-26
Interesting Legal Decision.

An important decision was rendered
recently in the Council Bluffs Qowa)
District Court, which will be of interest
to the order of Odd Fellows The case
was substantially as follows: Margaret
Holloway and r. Holloway, her husband,
were members of the Odd Fellows Pro-
tective Association of Council Bluffs.
In April last the wife died. One Kip
pie, of Keokuk, held Judgment against
both husband and W ife, and garnisheed
the Association to which they belonged.
The Association made answer that it
was indebted to Holloway in the sum of
81 900, but moved to discharge the gar.
nishee on the ground that it was life
insurance company, and, therefore, that
it came within the statute exempting
policies of life insurance from liability
for the debts of the insured. The suit
was finally carried up to the District
Court, and the Court sustained this view
of the case. In the language OF the
decision, ga wife dying whose life was
insured, the creditor of the husband, il
the policy was in favor of the husband
could not reach the proceeds of the pol
ICY" The case viii be carried to ths
Supreme Court of the State. $500,
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-06-26
C0lOred Dresses-An Important Inven-
fiOn

The Scientific american says it Is not
often that we find scientific items of any
especial degree of interest to the mem
bers of the fair sex who may, perchance,
glance over our pages; but now we be-
heye we have got one which is simply
absorbing. Probably, Madame or Miss,
made from some white diaphanous ma
terial and it may also be imagined that
during your shopping you have inspect
ed goods of similar nature, only of vary
ing colors, from which you have pur-
chased sufficient materials to construct
a number of those bewildering garments
in comparison with the intricacies of
which the most elaborate works Of
modern engineering furnish no parallel.
Now, learned German professor has
invented plan whereby your single
white dress may be changed as often as
you desire to any color you may fancy,
and this in your own laundry, SO that
hereafter the money which you would
devote to several robes of varying hues
may be entirely saved, while you may
appear daily, if you choose, in toilets of
totally different complexion. The pro-
cess is very simple, and consists in
merely coloring the starch used in the
"doing up" Suppose a white dress is
to be tinted beautiful crimson Three
parts Of fuchsin, an .analine color which
any chemist can readily procure for you,
are dissolved in twenty parts of glyce-
rine, and mixed in a mortar with little
water. Then ordinary starch, finely
pulverized, is stirred in, and the thick
mass obtained is poured out and dried
on blotting paper. The powder thus
obtained is used just the same as COM
mon starch, and so applied to the fabric.
When the latter is dry it is slightly
sprinkled and pressed with moderately
warm iron. By means of other eoloring
materials, mixed as above described,
any desired tint may be obtained We
should counsel, however, an avoidance
of damp localities, and strongly depre-
cate going out in the rain, as we donbt
the "fastness of the dye, and would
not be at all surprised to behold the
garment shortly assume rather streakeo
and zebra-like appearance.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-06-26
To Prevent Hens from Eating Their
Eggs.

The Country Gentleman suggests a
way to prevent hens from eating their
eggs. It is to fill an egg with a solution
of pepper, and put the egg back in the
nest. A Danbury man has tried this
and says it works like charm. He put
pretty good dose Of pepper in the egg,
and placed it in the nest of the criminal.
Pretty soon the hen came round and
took hold. 1t was brindle animal,
with long legs and somewhat conceited
It dipped in it's bill and inhaled the deli
cacy. Then it came out doors. It
didn't gallop, we don't mean, but it
came out-came out to look at the
scenery, and see if it was going to rain.
Its mouth was wide open, and thefeath-
ers on the top of its head stood straie bit
up. Then it commenced to go around
the yard like circus horse. Once in a
while it would stop and push out one
leg in tone of establishment, and then
boiler " fire" and start on again. The
other hen came out to look on. Soon
the hens from the neighbors came over
the fence and took up position of OBJ
servation. 1t was evident the perform.
ance was something entirely new and
unique to them. There is good !deal
of human nature in hens. When they
saw this hen dance around and have al
the fun to itself and heard it shout
fire." and couldn't see the confagra
ton themselves, they filled up witt
wrath, and with one accord sprang upo1
it, and before the Danbury man coul(
interfere, the brindle hen with the long
legs was among the things that were
He says the recipe is effectual. Dan
bury NeaOs.