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, 1874-02-28

On the 18th Of fast month, a man who had long
been a counter 10 the National Bank of Copen-
hagen, was apprehended. He had contrived to
appropriate o SUM that has now been ascertain
ed to be notices. than 100000 Rixdollars. This
he had managed in the following manner: In
collecting the cashiered bills that were to be
burnt. he took some for himself, and in order to
make the number in the heaps agree, he manu-
featured other bills by tearing some pieces out
of the rest and pinning them together. He sue
ceeded very well in this lucrative operation, the
bills he had to do with being old, which made it
difficult to detect the trick. The handsome
sum he has made by his "industry" he has in
vested in various ways, principally In stock
which has all been afterward recovered
80 that the Bank will not suffer any loss. It
is said that the fraud was detected by its hav-
inp been noticed that the bills were invariably
pinned together by the same kind of pins as
those used in the Bank. When, at Christmas
last. he and wife counted their cash and took
stock, they found themselves possessed of the
handsome little sum of 10000 Rixdollars. and
resolved to retire when the annual burning
of the old bills had taken place in the month of
August. The prospect before them was a fair
one, but to be secure the bills must first be
burned whereby discovery would be Impossible.
Had he ceased operations at the last burning
of bills in August 1878, they would have had
some 10000 Rixdollars, without much fear of
their crime being discovered, as suspicion only
rose very lately from the great number OF pins
in his bundles of bills. The defrauder was
of course arrested and put under criminal
prosecution, and so was his wife who was
privy to the transactions.
As q good sign of the times it may be men
toned that a lady has been appointed IN the
place of the fraudulent counter.
, 1874-02-28
A COMFORTABLE SHOE.

A Swiss philosopher has taken up a subject
that concerns very closely the comfort Of the
human race. and especially the civilized por-
ton of it. They, indeed, suffer the most from
ill-ftting shoes. The Indian is not troubled by
his mooas8ius, nor the oriental by bis sandal it
is the tight-ftting shoe of the European and
American that claims o place amoung instFu-
ments of torture. Some advance has been
made in the art of shoemakiug, and pTominens
among the improvements Is one known IN THIS
c;tv as the "box.toed" shoe, which relieves the
toe from the pressure of q new pair of shoes.
The researches of the Swiss philosopher, DR..
Hermann Meyer, of Zurich, suggest some
valuable considerations, well worthy the atten-
ton Of the Intelligent. artifoers who make boots
and shoes. He asserts that a shoemaker ought
not only to produce a shoe, that does not pinch.
but a shoe so constructed that il will give to a
foot distorted by the pinching' it has borne al
, 1874-02-28
BALL AT H ELYSEE.

The Times correspondent takes the trouble
to telegraph three-fourths Of a column de-
scribing a ball at the Elys6e, which, however,
has q certain significance of its WI The in.
vitations, though strict, were numerous, and so
stern were the police regulations, the Gov
eminent being Marshalate, that the carriages
were hours in setting down the guests, and
hundreds of ladies, tired Of waiting, ran in satin
shoes and bare shoulders through the half-fro-
zen slush and amid the jeers Of the gamins to
reach the marquee at the entrance, where their
tickets we're closely scrutinized, and they de-
tanned, sometimes for hours, for while only ten
were allowed to pass in a minute, the rate of
arrival was sixty in the same time. Many left,
but it took hours to reach the carriages, and
many more never entered the reception-ro rooms
at all, while the majority probably caught cold.
The idea evidently was to unite exclusiveness
and military discipline, and the result was q
scene which if Paris were not in a state of
siege, would fill the print-shops with ridicule
more hard to survive than q defeat. Paris,
apparently, in exchange for liberty, has not yet
got a satisfactory Court. Charles Ks was ex-
elusive, Louis PhiIippe's bourgeois, NapoIean'a
too fast, NJ. Theirs too slow, and now the
Marshal's is too like a review, with ladies in
full dress waiting for orders.
, 1874-02-28

treme frontier the pressure brought to bear was
overcome with determination. In making my
programme your own, you have again Demon
strated by the irrefragable evidence of figures.
that the people of North Schleswig are Danish
and will remain so. The object aimed at by
our participation in the elections has thus been
attained in the most glorious manner, and you
have enabled me, with renewed energy and
weight to be the spokesman for our great cause
in The German Parliament. You have given
abundant satisfaction with respect to the
claims which our participation in the elections
have made. It Is not necessary that you
should take part in the reelection for although
l only meet as the representative for the first
electoral district, many thousand votes have
entitled me to speak in behalf Of the Dan
ish population ofthe whole ofNorth Schleswig.
l beg you to accept Of my warmest thanks
for the zeal and love you have shown for our
ommon great cause, and for the confidence
shown me.
, 1874-02-28

ready a fair chance of return to its right shape
and full possession of its power as a means Of
carrying the body onward, He says that in
measuring a foot for shoe or boot, the first
thing to be considered is the place of the great
toe. Upon this toe, in walking, the weight of
the whole body turns at every step in a natural
foot; therefore it ism a straight line with the heel.
Acentral straight line drawn from the point of the
great toe to the middle of it's root, if continued,
would pass very exactly to the middle Of the
heel. But by the misftting boot usually worn
the point of the toe is pressed inward, the root
outward. No last or model of a foot already
injured by wearing ill-ftting boots or shoes
should ever be made of the exact size of such
a foot-PAa1adapAia Age.
, 1874-02-28
BANK FRAUDS.

A man named Rodgers was till lately mana
ger Of the Cookstown Branch of the Belfast
Bank, and another named Smyth its principal
accountant. BY the confession of the latter,
they stole enormous sums, the account of which
varies from $4,000 to $780, 900, from the
Bank, to speculate with on the Stock Exchange.
The Bank elected to prosecute them before
quarter sessions, instead of the a%ssizes, and
for conspiracy only to defraud. The chairman
was therefore unable to give more THANH two
years hard labour, and actually gave Smyth
twenty-five months, and Rodgers only fifteen
months simple Imprisonment. The sentence
has excited some indignation, but it will be
observed that it was not the chairman, but
the Bank which pursued a policy of such unac-
countable lenity.
, 1874-02-28
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THE ELECTIONS IN SCHLESVIG-
HOLSTEIN.

According to the "Dannevirke," a Danish
paper in North Schleswig, the Danish Majority
in the first electoral district was as great as
that of 1867, viz: Sc IA, and but little small
Ter than at the two subsequent elections.
When it is taken into consideration that more
than $500 individuals live in the district,
who were then Prussian SUBJECTS, but have now
become Danish and consequently lost the fran
chise, it will be seen shat of the remaining
~electors more have voted for the Danish can
didate than before. Voting in the country dis
tricts for the German candidate was nearly con-
fined to Prussian officials. The Keller Zeitung
(Gertnan) reports that for the whole province
Of Schleswig- Holstein $4,000 votes have been
given for Government Candidates, $4,000 for
Social Democrats, (Sooialists) and 5000 by
the adherents of the Duke of Augustenborg.
The number of Danish votes is about 10000,
80 that the number of Danish Sohleswigers is
about ! of the population Of the whole pro.
vince, or, that being about one million, the
number of Danes will be about 100000, who
inhabit the Northern Districts, which, accord
ing to the 5th article of the Treaty of Progue,
oncht to be ceded to Denmark.
, 1874-02-28
MISCELLANEOUS
HOW THEY KEEP UP THE CHURCH IN
TIE UNITED STATES.

Mr.. BEBcHER's A~UCTIoN.-The annual sale of
pews was held on the 9th of January at Plymouth
Church, Brooklyn. Previous to the opening of
the sale, Mr.. Beecher said he had been invited to
visit England to preach the missionary sermon of
the London Missionary Society. He regarded
the invitation as an honour as we'll as a great cour-
t tos He had not yet sent a reply, but he was
greatly disinclined to go. He did not, indeed, ez-
Ppect to go, except tho pew-holdcrs actually forced
him to do so. lie then introduced the auctioneeT'
Mr.. Hoyt, of New York, who commenced the sale
of pews. The first was sold at a premium of
$500 to Mr., Obington. The total amount realized
was $3.50, 43O, $4,000 being for premiums alone.
The receipts exceeded those of last year by Sl29.
Mr.. Boecher expressed himself highly satisfied
and grateful at the result.
, 1874-02-28

A gentleman was riding 10 Scotland BY a
bleaching ground where a poor woman was at
work watering her webs oflinen cloth. He ask,
ed her where she went to church, what she had
heard on the preceding day, and how much she
remembered. She could not even tell the text
of the last sermon. "And what good can
preaching do you" said he, "f you forget it
aIl?''
"Ah, sir, replied the poor woman, eff you will
look at this web on the grass, you will see as
fast as ever I put the water on it the sun dries
it all up, and yet, sir, I see it gets winter and
winter
, 1874-02-28

The English clergyman at Seaton, England,
refused to bury a little boy who was aoci-
dentalIy drowned, the other day, because be
was not properly baptized, although named
and registered. The man who risked his life
in attempting to save the child, did not, it APP
pears, inquire whether the child had been bsp.
tized or not before he plunged into the river
and the opinion is freely expressed in that
neighborbood that the religion Of the man who,
did his best to save the lost boy is of a great
deal better sort than that of the parson.
, 1874-02-28

In the Danish papers in sOhleswig, Mr.. Kry-
oar WHIT, was elected in the first electoral district,
has inserted the following address to his cleo
tors ..You have again, by. the last elections,
nrovad that the boundary of the Danish ma.
tHionality is firmly maintained even at the ex-
, 1874-02-28

The Earl of Surrey, afterward eleventh
Duke of Norfolk, who was q notorious g%ourmand
and bard drinker, and a leading member of the
Beef-steak Club, was SO far from cleanly In
his person that his servants used to avail them
selves ofhis fits of drunkenness-which where
pretty frequent blythe, way-for the purpose Of
washing him. On these occasions they stripped
him as they would a corpse, and performed the
needful additions. He was equally notorious
for his horror of clean linen. One day., on hla
complaining to Dudley North at his club th's
he had become a perfect martyr to rheumatism
and had tried every possible remedy without
success the latter wittily replied
pray, my lord, did you ever try a clean shirtF'
, 1874-02-28
HUMORISTICAL.
:: ::

Think of the Save-aIl. A dog lying on the
hearth-rug with his nose to his tail is the en-
blem of Economy. He makes both ends meet.
Alady wrote with a diamond on a pane Of
glass
God did at first make man upright but he
To which a gentleman added
Most surely had continued so but she
, 1874-02-28

Gen. Alfred @Iverson, late Of the Confederate
army, has obtained letters patent for a machine
for the manufacture Of ice, which is intended
for Introduction into every household. 1t is
about the size Of an Ice cream freezer, and is SO
constructed that it will freeze water into solid
blocks of ice in ten or fifteen minutes.-One of
these machines will cost $50 or S25 after the
Obtaining Of which the round expense of max
ing all the ice a family would use in a year
would Dot perhaps sum up So gross. The
world moves, most oertainly.-Adanto Comsti-
tuition.
, 1874-02-28

The medicine-powdered human skulls
which Charles the Seconds physicians com
monded to his lips on his death-bed is surpas-
Sed in oddly by a New England remedy for
consumption This is the heart of a rattlesnake
just killed. This strange dose is said to have
been administered to a young constructive who
had been previously " given up" He recover
ed instantly.
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spoke of the urgeLt necessity that our
people should tako holdof it, and wait NO
longer for capital to come to us from
abroad for the purpose. He was per.
fectly willing to have condition insert.
ed, which will compel tho new company
to go to work without delay. He had
come to the conclusion that we shall
never hear the hum of the manufactur-
ing wheels, until we set them agoing
ourselves. We trust sincerely that this
frarchiso and charter will be granted,
and that we shall indeed, before great
while, witness tho improvement so
much needed, and so.long looked for in
vain.
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NERVOUS DED1IrTY.-A DEPRESSED,
IRRITABLE STATE OF MIND; WEAK, NER.
voUs, EXHAUSTED FEELING; NO ENERGY
OR ANIMATION; CONFUSED HEAD, WEAK
MEMORY, OFTEN WITH DRBILITATINa, IN.
VOLUNTARY DISCHARGES.-The conse-
quence of excesses, mental over-work or
indiscretions. THIS NERVOUS DKB11ITY
finds SOVEREIGN CURE in HUMPHREYS
HoMGPATuIo SPECIFIC, No. %. It
tones up tho system, arrests discharges,
dispels the mental gloom and despond-
enoy, and rejrvenates the entire system;
it is perfectly harmless and always ef-
fioient. Price SIS for package Of Ave
boxes and large 80 vial OF powder,
which is important in old serious cases;
or 81 per single box. Sold by ALL
druggists, or sent by mail on receipt of
price. Address Humphreys SpRCIF1o
HoMGHATHIo MEDICINE COMPANY, No.
562 Broadway. N. Y. For sale by
GEIaRR + MoGREooR, Columbia, 8. @.
Dec17 Him
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HOTEL ARRIVALS, February "a, 1874
Wheeler House-H Haupt and wife,
Piedmont Airline: John 81 Mode
witt, F Belanger, Edge6eld; Mrs F 81
Cowperthwait, Mrs Sarah Hogg. Miss
Vredenburgh. New York; A N Freeland.
N G; G A Seymour, Charleston; A b
VanBokkelcn, W II Motz, N @; Mrs
Milett, Miss Childs, Port Royal; TT
Frilinger, Camden; B P Ohatfield,
Aiken; A p Bouknight, Leesville; J B
Maomurdo, Va; J D McCarley, r G
Timmons, Winnsboro; 7 T Moore. city;
8 L Frank, Il Lawson, Jr, Md, J Good
row, Hartford; . 5 Townsend, Society
Hill; j Nj Maokey, s q; B F Bryan, F S
Bryan, N c.; Lamar Stark, city; B F
Whitner, Anderson; W 81 Macy, Conn;
q W Clothworthy, Baltimore.
Rendric House-W Q Chalk, Chester;
r Willis, Augusta; s Cathcart, Mrs J
W Shaw, Winnsboro; George E Bogge,
Charleston; Miss Maggie Shaw, Winns-
boro: Joseph Strouse and wife, Orange
burg; Philip Dunn, Union; w r Davis,
Ocones; Il w Ball, J b CLARK, Balti-
more; A G Cudworth, New York.
Columbia Hotel-E Nj Brayton, Aiken;
8 J Come, Il Lyons, b D Traotel, D Nj
Morungo, New York; w j Sprinkle, N
@; E w nj Mackey, w J Gayer, John A
Moroso, w O'Brien, Charleston; Wm
Versey, Tennessee; s P Hamilton, Ches-
ter; S T Poinier, Spartanburg; L
Bratton. York; w D Kennedy. Augusta !;
II @ Mazyok, Oharles.on;T r s Olarkson,
Charlotte; J NJ Seegler, G Sc @ r r.
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CASH will be the rule at the PHOENIX
Office hereafter.
Persons indebted to the PHGNIx Office
are earnestly requested to call and settle
at once. There isa large amount due
the greater portion in small sums. The
indebtedness must be liquidated, or we
shall be forced to resort to extreme mea-
eures.
MAIL Northern
mail opens $50 A. NJ, P. NJ; closes
IL a. NJ, 6 P. M. Charleston opens
A. NJ, g. 30 p. NJ; closes 2 i. NJ, 6 P.
nj. Western opens A. NJ, 1890 P. NJ;
closes 6, 1.30 P. M.. Greenville opens
GAS P. NJ; closes A. NJ. Wilmington
opens 4 2. NJ; closes 1880 4. nj. On
Sunday open from 2. 30 to 8 80 P. M.
To SUBSCRIBERS AND ADVERTISERS ~
Orders for advertisements, job work,
etc., must be accompanied with the
CASH No exceptions can be made.
Ordinary advertisements 81 per square
Of nine printed lines for first insertion;
fifty cents each subsequent insertion;
weekly, monthly and yearly rates fur
nished on application. Advertisements
Inserted once a week, 81 each insertion.
Marriages and funeral invitations, 81.
Notices in local column fifteen cents o
linn oocl, ipeorf;oo
II is generally understood that pr.
vate conference was held on Monday, at
which Governor Moses. Comptroller
Hoge. Treasurer Cardozo, Congressman
Elliott and Gain and other Radicals
we're present. Elliott repeated the
warnings to ''the party" given in his re-
cent speech. It is believed the rings
are stunned by the result OF the Tax
Payers Convention, and it is proposed
to send emorial to Congress
Those who are in favor of ''unloading"
despair OF any real reform. The eau
cusing was continued last night until o
late hour. There is screw loose and
the leaders are doing their utmost tc
tighten it.
PHGNIxANA.-All things are cheap
which are bought with another > money.
II you want to ascend in the world tie
yourself to somebody.
Each of US may do something for
Others. and true sympathy and loving
ministry are never lost.
Familiarity without love, without con.
fidence, without regard, is destructive
to all that makes women exalting opd
eunobling.
The devious aud winding ways of the
drunkard of the future, if the woman
crusades continue, are likely to take
the shape of private bottle and cork
screw.
LIST OF New ADVERTISEMENTS.
d. F. Fleming & Co. = Boots & Shoes
Dr. r. II. dreeno-tree.
Port Royal Banking Company.
Meet Columbia Ledge.
Book Notice.
Meeting Riohland Lodge.
Seibels & Ezell-Auction.
Money to Loan.
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At a meeting of the stockholders Of
the Kings Mountain Bailroad, held re.
Gently, q committee OF five we're ap.
pointed to report plan for the consoii-
'dation of the stock of the Kings Noun.
tain Railroad Company into the stock of
the Chester and Lenoir Narrow Gauge
Railroad Company. The committee are
to report at meeting to be held on the
l25th of March.
Thomas Grant, the ferryman of jack
sonboro Ferry. was drowned, on Satur-
day last, while crossing the ferry.
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The Lenten penitents of old enjoyed
the benefits Of singular superstition
that prevailed in Northern Europe. A
species of wild goose visited the more
Southern latitudes in the fall and re-
mained until late in the spring, and as
no adventurers had ever seen them
breeding in the higher attitudes, they
we're popularly supposed to be de.
veloped from barnacles. Turner, IN old
writer, says the barnaoles were de-
veloped from the sea, that they grew iut to
the form Of birds, and fnall Y feathered
and flew. The church took no alarm at
this early outbreak OF Darwinism, and
as the barnaole goose was at least half
fish. their flesh was permissible dish
during Lent.
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There was tournament at Ridgeway,
Fairfield County, several days ago,
which proved complete success. The
festivities included q ball.
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LIST OF New ADVERTISEMENTS.
D. F. Fleming & Co. = Boots & Shoes
Dr. r. II. Greene-tree.
Port Royal Banking Company.
Meet Gclnmhia Ledge.
Book Notice.
Meeting Riohland Lodge.
Seibels & Ezell- Auction.
Money to Loan.
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tne same place, tnis evening, Commenc-
ing at quarter before s o'clock.
40 advertisement from the we'll
known shoe house of u. +. Fleming &
Co., Charleston, appears in another CO.
lumn. This establishment is ono of the
oldest in tho "City by the Sea," and is
known to be perfectly reliable.
The Palmettoes exercised their steam
er. last night. She is good machine,
and worked satisfactorily. Our citizens
have just cause for pride in the effi-
cheney OF the Gre department. There
was false alarm OF fire, which gave the
Palmettoes short run.
s. G. Millet, Esq formerly Superin.
tendent OF the Port Royal Railroad. and
| who has resided in Beaufort for several
years, died at an early hour, yesterday
morning, at the Wheeler House, OF ty-
phoid fever. Tie remains wore carried
to Port Royal for interment.
| DR.. Z. H.. Greene. physician in chief
to the celebrated Cancer Infirmary, ut
Charlotte, N. c., and who has accom-
plished mary wonderful cures of all
forms Of chronic diseases, proposes to
give his services free, for few days, at
tho Columbia Hotel. See his ndvertise
mont in another column.
Transfer printing inks are invaluable
to railroad companies, banks. mer.
chants, manufacturers and others. They
are enduring and changeless. and will
copy sharp and clear for an indefinite
period of time. Having just received 6
fresh supply of inks, We are prepared tc
execute orders at moderate prices.
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S25, 600 is made for the Executive con-
tingent fund. when one. half that sum
would be sufficient TO meet every possi-
bio contingency! Must there not be
come other reason why the business OF
my office is thus to bo embarrassed aud
thwarted, aud that, too, Mt such hazard
to the best interests Of the State?
1t is with profound regrc. that find
myself compelled 10 disclose the trans
actions OF my department, which should
rnther be kept secret. Since the date OF
my communication, the General Assem-
bly, has, by joint resolution, directed me
to take proceedings to recover the pro.
goods OF sales OF property made by the
Sinking Fund Commission. This will
require three separate suits, indepen-
dently of proceedings by indictment.
One of these, involving, as / have al.
ready stated. moro than $4,000, must
be instituted in Now York city. In the
more commencement of this suit, the
entire fund set apart to my use will be
exhausted at the outset. Two other
suits Of far greater moment against the
Financial Agent in New York-one in
volving the recovery of the Agricultural
College Land Scrip, amounting in value
to about $150,000, and the other q gone.
raj settlement with the Agent, involving
several millions Of dollars, should be ut
once commenced and rigidly prosecuted.
In comparison to them, the affairs of the
Sinking Fund Commission are O mere
bagatelle. And yet, am I to be required
to disohsrge these Offices without dol
lar?
Resolutions may be passed directing
the Attorney General to take measures
to the end that the State shall receive
no detriment; but if you deny the
means, what more onn he do than fold
his arms, and, il need be, bear the re-
proaoh? This have been, during the