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The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1874-04-14

I.
A PUNCTUATION PUzzLE.-The follow.
ing article forcibly illustrates the neces-
sity of punctuation. It can be read in
two ways, making very bad man or q
very good man, the result depending on
the manner in which it is punctuated.
It is we'll worthy the study of teachers
and pupils:
He is an old aud experienced man in
vice and wickedness he is never found in
opposing the works Of inignity he tukes
delight in the downfall of the neigbbors
he never rejoices in the posterity of any
OF his creatures he is Away ready
to assist in destroying the peace Of so.
ciety he takes no pleasure in serving the
Lord he is uncommon only diligcnt in SOW
ing discord among his friends and nc
quaintances he takes no pride in labor
ing to promote tho cause of Christianity
he has not been negligent in cndeavor-
ing to stigmatize all public teachers he
makes no exertions to subdue his evil
passions he strives hard to build up Sa-
tan's kingdom he lends no aid to the
support of the Gospel among the hea-
then he contributes largely to the evil
adversary he pays no attention to good
advice he gives great heed to tue devil
he will never 60 to heaven he must go
where be will receive the just recon-
pense of reward.
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Notice to Tax-Payers.

NUtICt LU 1UX.Eay6rB,
CITY TREASURER'S OFFICE,
COLUMBIA, z. c., April T. 1874.
A LII parties who have not paid CITY
N TANES arc hereby notified that they
must be paid on or bciore he 18th OF APRIL.
or penalties with executions will DO attachcd.
BY order Of Council. UHAS. BARNCM,
April City Clerk
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The Virginia Legislature seems to be
some ahead of that of this State in the
society business. We had the "Rsiug
Sons ol Benevolence." the young Sons
OF Honor" 10, hut Virginia has just
incorporated "The Rising Sons Of Lig-
numvitm." They must be hot lot.
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Look After Your Horses,
Venlson Hams.

4 NEW SJHri.Y JUS: received at
n FtO = HOPE & GYI.ES'.
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ORPHANS Homo.

4 MEETING Of the Ladioe of Columbia is
~ respectfully solicited at the Washington
1t. Methodist Chapel, THIS AFTERNOON,
at O'Clock. The object will be the organ
ization Of Society to aesiat in the manage
ment of the Palmetto Orphan Home. lie
ports from tho officers of the Home will ba
submitted to the meeting. Th. Trustees of
the Home are requested TO be present.
j. W. PARKER,
le President Board Of Trustees.
CHARLES I. JANNEY. Secretary Board of
Irneteee. April IA
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4 his new store Main street. Eearly cr,-
"a positc the Central National Pxnk. has
alarSe and beautiful riGck Of fine WATCHES
stem and key wnders, frtm the best Eu.
ropeah ana American manufacturers, ard of
his own importation, in gold and siIycrcs csses
Elegant JEWELRY! An unriyalcd as.ort
ment just received. and all the lates. styler.
Sterling Sl!.Ni E-WARE, in sets ana cnse..
Er'cAi Presents, and very :nt selection ct
Jackets. elegant Seal, Wedding aud Engage.
ment kinGs, large stock cf SI.c!ac!t. aid
Eyc-Glssses, Clocks, Musical Boxes, ard n
great variety Of Fancy Articles. My stock is
country, and will be sold as cheap rs The
same article can be bonght Az. where
Oct ~
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THE GOLDEN EGO

stamp for circular. r Allison lib Chambers t..N.Y
CoNsTANT EwPLoYMENl a, home. male
~ or female $50 to $50 @ week warranted. Ne
capital required. Full particulars and valuable
samp sent free. Adore with 6cent retufn stamp.
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pride and exacting jealously that caused
all the trouble. L"
"Hush I will not hear my white
rose slandered even by herself.
She attempted to rise, but he held
her fast.
ST am about to restore this ring to its
rightful place, unless, F" adding the words
mfschievously, "Mr. Berseford has a
prior claim" Aud he slipped the RUG
on her finger.
The moon had now risen, and as they
stepped out of the summer-house, Lilo
mel said
"Myrtle, it is an emblem of our lives
as the moon has just emerged from dark
clouds, 80 have we. Hereafter, it will
be all right"
As the happy pair approached the
house, they discovered Charlie sitting
on the porch.
"Whewl" said the latter, with a
prolonged whistle. Then, jumping up,
he clapped Lionel on the shoulder. "OId
fellow, L told you she would come to
terms"
He never discovered Ehe secret of
their reunion or he would certainly
have congratulated himself on being a
prophet.
Adele Latour was rather disappointed
when she found Lionel had slipped
through her fingers but she recovered
in time to accept the invitation to the
wedding with a good grace.
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Swarms of LocuSts,

The following historical facts will
give an idea of the enormous magni-
tude sometimes attained by migrating
swarms of insects. After the defeat of
Poitava, while retreating through Bes-
sarabia, Charles Kills army was march
ing through defile' when suddenly the
men and horses were brought 10 halt,
q swarm of locusts being precipitated
from thick cloud which intercepted
the light of the sun. The coming of
the locusts was heralded by whizzing
sound like that which precedes a storm
of wind, and the noise of their wings
and their bodies as they clashed to-
gether was greater than the roar of
breakers on the sea shore. Gen. Leval-
liam saw at Phillippeville, Algeria, a
cloud of loousts twenty to twenty five
miles in length, which, when it descen-
ded to the earth, formed a layer over an
inch in thickness. Toward the close of
the year 1864, the cotton plantations of
Senegal were destroyed, and a living
cloud was seen to pass over the coun-
try from morning till night ; the rate at
which it moved showed that it was about
fifty miles long and this was only the
vanguard, for when the sun went down
a still denser cloud was moving on. The
English traveller, Barrow, states that in
Southern Africa, in the year 1897, these
insects covered the ground to the ex-
tent of two square miles, and that, hav-
ing been driven by the wind toward the
sea, they formed drift near the coast
nearly four feet in depth and fifty miles
long. After the wind changed, the
stencil of their putrefying carcasses were
recognized at the distance of one hun
bred and fifty miles.
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About Thumbs,

We suppose that all our readers know
that man would not be what he is with
out the thumb. This little fact has
been so impressed upon US from our
school days that we are not likely to for
get it. Without the thumb for a lever,
we would be unable to hold anything
tightly, and most of the inventions of
our era would be useless, not to speak
of the enormous general power that
would be lost. Let US accept the fact
of having thumbs, then, and be thank
full and rejoice over our Darwinian
friends, the apes. We did not know,
however, until we saw it in print, that
the thumb represented intelligence and
affection. Born idiots frequently come
into the world without thumbs. In
FAINT, until they arrive at an age when
intellect dawns, constantly keep their
fingers folded above their thum' g, but
they soon know better, and, as the
mind develops, recognize the dignity
and usefulness of the despised digit.
At the approach of death the thumbs of
the dying, as if impelled by some vague
fear, seek refuge under the fingers, and
when thus found are an almost certain
announcement of the end. So, in leav-
ing this world, it would seem that our
hands in their la desire for movement
assume, with our growing unconscious
ness, the same suggo sstive position IN
which the hands of the new born babe,
with faculties all dormant, first shape
themselves. Small thumbs denote an
affectionate disposition; long thumbs
go with long heads; short, thick,
stumpy thumbs mark cruel man, and
much more is told us of the same kind.
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A Leper in Detroit,

There is at present in one of the pub
lie Institutions of Detroit genuine,
well-defned case of leprosy. The vic
tim is John Mccarthy, native of Buff
falo, aged twenty-one years. He has
been afflicted with it eyer since his ear
lest recollection, and has led vagrant
life, wandering, a hopeless out-cast,
from city to city, occasionally dropping
into alms-houscs and frequently finding
refuge in penal institutions as avagrant.
Mccarthy is covered with white scales
which fall off constantly, and are as con-
stantly''renewed. These are on the scalp,
face, and hands, and also over some por-
tions of the body half an inch in thick
ness, having the appearance of dried
Goldfish skin.
Physicians, accustomed as they are to
sad sights, have turned away from the
contemplation of McCarthy's horrible
case, sick in body and il spirit. The
patient is rapidly becoming imbecile
from disturbed nutrition and want of
rest, for unit, recently he has scarce been
known to sleep. The entire affec-
ted region is a mass of leprous irri-
tation, and shower of scales flies off
with the least motion, the bed present
ing the appearance sometimes of hav
ing been literally strewn with coarse
bran. Medicines thus fan have had but
little effect, owing in part no doubt to
bad hygiene, poor food and insufficient
clothing. Now, even should he improve
for time, the disease would probably
return with all its original virulence.
Mccarthy long since reached con-
dition of mind where he regards the
prospect of death as blessing infinitely
to be preferred to longer endurance of
his present pitiable condition. Such is
leprosy.
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An Affair of the Heart in Ohio

A young man who was lucky enough
to clean up in Ophir, Consolidated Vir-
GINA, and other stocks, the sung little
sum of $4,000, with which he fastened
home to his native Buckeye state, writes
to friend in this city to say that for
tune still smiles upon him. He has
achieved handsome young bride, and
with her farm of 300 acres, not two
miles from his own old roof-tree. His
bride is the only daughter of a rich old
granger-an oily man of the sod, worth
bushels of money. As our young friend
went home "well heeled," and, more
over, is as fine a lad as ever stepped in
shoe leather, there was, of course, no
"cruel parent" to distract the course
o. true love in this instance-every-
thing was lovely with the old man.
Our child of fortune sends a funny &C
count of his interview with the old gent
when he came to ask the hand of his
daughter in marriage. When the words
were spoken the affair progressed as
follows:
Farmer Hodge-Tak'r, my boy
tak'r. She'll make you a good wife
lower medder'1 cut three and half
GOub W Iuo dCT6 year WIFI .yCdIs l. u0
old orchard don't bear as it used to do,
but the new one is in full bearing. The
fences are all in good
Young Washoe-I shall never cease
to love and cherish your daugh-
Farmer Hodge-Fences all in splen-
did order all around the farm, and I be-
lieve there is not a more convenient
barn in the
Young Washoe-And 1 believe she
loves me. God bless her as she loves
her
Farmer Hodge-The ten COWS, the
eight calves, and the
Young Washoe- If she is not made
the happiest wife in all the state Of
Farmer Hodge-Will all have calves
in the spring, and the $50 sheep you
will find
Young Washoe-Shc is perfect an
gel.
Farmer Hodge-Of the best breed.
Young WashOe-That ever lived
Farmer Hodge-And will shear more
wool
Young Washoe-Say no more say
no more. (And here Farmer Hodge and
Young Washoe rushed into each others
arms and embraced for the space of five
minutes. } Virginia City Enterprise.
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A +" Morganatic =" Wife.

The King of Italy is married morgan
atically to the Countess of Mirahori.
and would raise her to the throne did
not reasons of state interfere. The
lady has proved good and faithful
wife, and has borne to the king several
children. Of the epithet morganatic, u
London paper says /:
"The derivation of this epithet is q
matter of controversy. However, the
common theory is that it is derived from
the Fata Morgana, the strange mirage
which is witnessed at times on the 81
Gillian waters. Islands covered with pal
aces are seen by mariners rising from
the sea, and then fade away as rapidly
as they appeared. The Interpretation is
ominous of the feeting character OF
royal unions not ratified by law. But
experience shows that whatever the sig
MITIGATION of their name may be, these
morganatic marriages are of very last
ing character.
"The custom of these half-recog-
nized, half-disavowed marriages between
royal personages and ladies not of the
kngly caste, has, believe, its origin In
Germany. In the old days, when prin-
ces were regarded in the fatherland as
belonging to caste set by heaven it
self above the rest of mankind a n1eSGL-
lance between sovereign and pri-
vate citizen was an absolute impossi-
bility, not so much by law as an unwrit-
ten code. Love, everybody knows, can
work miracles, but to make lady, in
whose veins no royal blood runs, a
crowned sovereign was a miracle utterly
beyond the power of the maddest Teu-
tonic passion. On the other hand, the
German princes were of an uxorious and
domestic disposition, and very often
gave their hearts where the hand could
not be given. So the practice sprang
up of these left hand marriages, where
the lady was supposed to have all the
privileges of marriage except that OF
sharing the rank and title of her royal
husband. The tolerant Lutheran church
made no difficulty about comforting the
sanction of some sort of religious cere-
mony upon these unions and probably
these irregular VOWS were not more Of
ten broken than those contracted with
the sanction of the law"
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Propagation of Tubercle by Milk.

AT the last meeting of the French asso-
citation for the advancement of science,
NJ. Chauveau gave TO the section what
he termed a demonstration of the trans
mission of tuberculosis by the digestive
organs. He observed that his numer
GUS observations enabled him to state
that if the healthy young of animals
susceptible of tuberculosis we're fed
with food with which the matter of
tubercle was mixed, they would all ex-
hibit tuberculosis in various organs. In
anticipation of this meeting, he had
purchased some healthy calves and,
having had them fed as described, on
slaughtering them the sixtieth day after
the first ingestion, the Emphatic sys-
tenn was found extensively tuberculized,
while Gaseous deposits existed in the
lungs. This thesis he demonstrates
most conclusively, and he is supported
in his differences by an apparently
wholly independent series of expert
ments carried on by DR.. Klebs, in Ger
many, which he has recorded in one of
the ArchiU far Erperina. PathoIogie
(HefG 2, 1879. DIR. Klebs asserts that
the milk of tuberculous COWS brings on
tuberculosis in various animals. The
affection generally commences with in
testinal catarrh, followed by tuberculi-
cation of the mesentarie ganglia, the
liver and spleen, and ending in extern
sive military tuberculosis of the thor
acic organs. Infection by means of the
milk may be without result in vigorous
organisms; and the author has even
seen full-formed tubercles resorb ana
disappear through cicatrization. 1t is
likely, adds DR.. Klebs, that the tuber
cular virus is contained in varying pro-
portions in the milk of COWS which are
more or less diseased, AMI the scroful-
osis may occur in children born without
tubercle, through the milk of an I'M
healthy mother or wet nurse. In con-
clusion, the author expresses the view
that the virus is contained in the serum
of milk, in a dissolved state, and that
it is not destroyed by boiling, which is
ordinarily insufficient. If these facts
are not overstated, and they do. not
seem to be so, what dangerous article
must be that which is measured out in
thousands of gallons daily in all large
cities, the product of phtbisical COWS,
fed on distiIlery Stops, and choked with
foul odors The milk of one tubercu-
lous COW will contaminate that of the
whole dairy when mixed in the cans.
The propagation of typhoid fever by
milk has only been too clearly shown
in London this year and now have we
not to lay to the charge of the same
fluid the maintenance of a part of the
terrible prevalence of phthisis among
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Running Footmen.

In former days, when coaches did not
go above five miles an hour, and roads
were not macadamized, footmen used to
run before their masters. They were
considered indispensable attendants up
on the carriage of a great map, and
doubtless their services were often in
reQuisition. They cleared the way,
paid the turnpike, helped to pull the
carriage out of the ruts, or to support
it on one side, to prevent it being over
turned; and they bore torches, which,
in London, they put out on their return
home by means of the iron extinguish-
ers attached to the lamp-railings, such
as may yet be seen in front of the old
houses in May Fair. The dress of the
running footman was often gaudy, and
he carried in his hand a long pole, six
or seven feet long, with silver ball at
the end, made hollow, which was to
hold an egg or some wine. The pole
was also used for leaping bitches or
hard parts of the road and great feats
in this way are recorded of some foot
men.
The powers of endurance of these
men were wonderful. It is asserted
that in a bad road they could easily
keep ahead of a coach and-six, but on
level ground the pace of the horses
would be somewhat slackened on their
account. 1t was not unusual for them
to go sixty miles in the day. A duke of
Marlborough drove a ph@ton -and-four
from London to Winchester against one
Of them, and only just beat him but
the man did not long survive this I'M
natural strain upon his strength. The
Duke of Queensbury, who died in 1910,
was the last to keep up the custom. A
trace of it fingers among us in the at
tendance of grooms who walk by state
carriages, and that of mutes at funerals
who precede the hearse. The long pole
was the origin of the silver-headed
canes now borne by foOtmen standing
behind a carriage.
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Asking Papa"

1t is said that Sir Walter Campbell,
who was lately in a mercantile firm in
New York, wished to marry an Ameri-
can young lady, of good position in the
empire state. Upon his applying to the
young lady's faith r, the parent stated
that he al rays referred all those ques-
tions to his wife. The mother in her
turn stated that she must refer it to the
Duke of Argyll. The duke pleaded
that, considering his connection with
royalty, he must consult his eldest son.
The marquis could do nothing without
{! queens consent. Her majesty felt
that the issue must be referred to the
Duke OF SAKE Coburg- Gotha, as head of
the family. The duke reioiued that,
since the recent changes in Germany,
he looked upon the Emperor William as
his sovereign, and must bow to his ad-
vice. The emperor said he could do
nothing without Prince Bismarck's
opinion and Prince Bismarck declared
he had no opinion at all, one way or tie
ether; and 80 the question-to marry
or not marry-was brought to a dead
lock.
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PATENT MEDICINES. there are
some good patent medicines no intelli-
gent man dare for a moment deny; and
pre-eminent is the great California hero
medicine, Vinegar Bitters, discovered
by DR.. J. Walker, prominent physi.
clan of San Francisco. This medicine,
although called Bitters. is not to be
classed among the vile "fancy drinks !"
recommended and sold over the bar by
rum-venders, but is a combination of
pure herbalistic extracts, known to pos
sess sterling medicinal qualities, and is
compounded without the use in any
shape of spirits. Its action upon the
internal system is not stimulating to the
extent that alcoholic poison is, but it at
once attacks blood impurities, and by
removing the original cause destroys the
germs of disease and invites returning
health. Its action upon the stomach
and liver render it an almost certain
specific in the most stubborn cases of
dyspepsia, and in truth imparts new
life and vigor to the whole system. It
is one of the best medicines ever in
vented
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THE SURPRISE.
BY the brook sitting.

By the brook sitting,
Young Norah ts knitting
A bright cOlored scarf for her lover to wear
Deity her fingers
Round the thread Ii lgers-
Lsbor's light web when love is the snare.
In and out,
Round about
Needles and thimble,
Over there,
Under here,
Dexter and nimble-
Trolling love-song with never q care.
High up above her
The spreading trees cover
Her form reflected below in the stream;
Tender AMI mellow,
Its rays amber yellow.
The spring-sun is peeping like the lights of a dream
Bright her eye,
Sweet her sigh
Dreaming and thinking,
Light and gay,
Through the day,
While the threads linking:
Her heart is q furnace, and love is the steam.
Through the grove stealing,
Half-standing, Matchmaking,
Watching the maid with tender delight,
Stole gently her lover,
Afraid she'd discover
He glided along like rogue in the night.
Not breath
Stirred the heath,
Not leaf rustled
When awhile,
With smile,
Laughing they tusseled,
And, bending, he gave her kiss for the fright.
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The Lightning-Rod Man.

Up in Blossburg, the other day, q
lightning rod man drove up in front of
handsome edifice standing in the midst
of trees and shrubs and spoke to Mr..
Summers, who was sitting on the steps in
front. He accosted Summers as the own
er of the residence and said:
II see you have no lightning-rods on
this house."
"No," said Summers.
"Are you going to put any on?
"Well, I hadn't thought of it." re-
piled Summers.
"You ought to. A tall building like
this is very much exposed. I'd like to
run you up one of my rods; twisted
steel glass tenders, nickle plated tips
everything complete. May put one up
to show you? I'll do the job cheap"
Certainly, if you want to. I haven't
the slightest objection" said Summers.
During the next half hour the man
had his ladders up and his assistant at
work, and at the end of that time the
Job was completed. He called Summers
out into the yard to admire it. He said
to Summers
CHOW this is all well enough, but il
it was my house, I'd have another rod
put on the other side. = There'sDothine
like being thoroughly protected"
"That's true" said Summers, sit
would be better"
"I'n put up another, shall I ?" asked
the man.
"Why, of course, if you think it's
best" said Summers.
Accordingly the man went to work
again and soon had the rod in its place.
"That's first rate job" he said to
Summers, as they both stood cycling it.
"I like such man as you are. Big
hearted, liberal, not afraid to put dol
lar down for a good thing. There's
some pleasure in dealing with you. ]
like you so much that I'd put couple
more rods on that house, one on the
most nothing"
"It would make things safer, I sup
pose," said Summers.
Certainly it would. I'd better do it,
hadn't I-hey?"
"Just as you think proper" said
Summers.
So the man ran up two rods, and
then came down to Summers, "There,
that's done. Now let's settle up"
"Do what %
why, tuo JoD uulSntus anu HOW Ii
take my money"
"You don't expect me to pay you,
hope?"
"Of course do. Didn't you tell me
to put those rods on your house?"
"My house !" shouted Summers.
Thunder and lightning! I never or
deredyou to put those rods up. 1t would
have been ridiculous. Why, man, this
is the court house, and I'm here waiting
for the court to assemble. Tn on the
jury. You seemed to be anxious to rush
up your rods, and as it was none of my
business, let you go Oh. Pay for it
Come, row, that's pretty good
The Blossburg people say that the
manner in which the lightning-rod man
tore around town and swore was fearful.
But when he got his rods off the court
house he left permanently. He don't
fancy the place.-Mar Adeler.