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The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1874-03-03
and Columbia Railroad

and Columbia Railroad
STe9 ~ ~rR.4Ns P4SsE tEl ENgER a.9;I
Sundays excepted, connecting With Night
down; with Trains going North and South on
Charlotte, Colu pbia and Augusta and Will
mington Columbia and Augusta Railroads.A-
Leave Columbia at..........,..... 7.15 q. m
Leave Alston.. y.s:......... 9.O5 q. m
Leave Newberry, u. ............. .10.40 3. m
leave Cokesbury .............. 2.00p. m
Leave Bslton... ..::................ $50 m
arr1Yeas Greenville. le............ $50 p. m
Leave Greenville eat............. at. 7.30 q. m
Leave Beton.. n..................... $50 a. m
Leave Cokesbury. ......1 11.15a, m
LoaYe fo Hse%oerry.... ............... 2.90 p. m
Leave aston; ...:::............. :. 4.20 p. m
asriye s ~ Columbia. ..:......... eco p. m
anderson Ordnch and Elue Ridge DiriSiCn
DOWN. CP.
Leave Walhalia 5.45 =. m. Arrive 7.15 p. m
Leave Perryvilie 6.25 a.Ha. $751; N
Leave Pcndleton 7.1O a. m. 55Op. nj
Leave Anderson $40 am. 45Op. m
Arrive at Delton 900 a. m. Leave 35Op. m
;, AccommodStion Trains run on Abbeville
Branch Mondays. Wednesdays anu Fridays.
On Anderson Branch between Bolton and An.
aerson, Inesdaye, Thuredays 4 and SATURDAYS.
THOMAS DODAMEAD, Gen, Sun.
JAErz NonToN. General Ticket Agent.
The Short Line Schedule.
CHARLOTTE, CoLrNEIA & AUGUSTA r. Il. Co.
CoLuMBIA, s. c.. February 90, 1874.
M a Is pa4 rHE seheaSs 5eISx1 s5;, Paseea- e. aes
rated Oh and after this date:
ooiSo NORTH. Train No. 2. Train No. 4
Leave aTasni,s1;iis aapsSit'Sii g 9ssan ss APP m
I iatesvil!o. ..o43am i7.00pm
Columbia. 50 m 9.37pm
Chester. ........ 44.24 pm 228 m
Arrive Charlotte. ..... iG.4Gp m 1915 m
No. Train makes close connection, ria
Richmond, to all points North, arriving, at
New York 6.eJ a. NJ. No. 4 Train makes close
connection uia Richmond to all points North,
arriving at New York Mt 5.15 p. NJ.
GOING SOUTH. Trsin No. 1. Train No. 3
Leave Charlotte IT 90 M 9.1Opm
Chester: ......... 9.54am 1l.3s p m
Columbia. t2.1G III $40 m
\ Batesyille. 49,. 457pm 543am
Grsniteyille,....i7.15p '7.4s m
Arrive Augusta. .S.t5 IN 845 q m
sBreakfast. +Dipner. tSupper.
for all points South and West. Through
tickets sold and baggage checked to all prin-
gipai points; % Sleeping cars on all Night
A. PORE. Gen. Passenger and Ticket Agent.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-12-17
A Fight Between a Man, Dog, and a
Deer.

We learn the following from Mr..
John F. Wright, of Scotia: On the
night of the Odd ult, Mr.. Robert Har-
rison, who lives on the Robert Elliott
farm, near Harrison's Mills, heard some
dogs chasing deer. He rose and went
to a point on the river where he sup
posed it would cross, but found he had
arrived too late, as the deer had already
crossed. He heard another coming,
however, and stepped behind tree to
get shot at it. 1t did not take the
water close enough for him to see it,
and he ran to where it had jumped in
and fired at its head, all the part WISH
BILE. He struck it, and little dog that
was with him swan to the game in the
middle of the river. A fierce contest
ensued, in which the dog was about to
be drowned, and Mr.. Harrison plunged
in to save his canine auxiliary. He
soon arrived on the scene of action. He
Immediately " gathered it by the tail
and tried to drown it, but found that
the probabilities were all in favor of
the deer. They all three-dog, deer and
man--foated down stream into shallow
water, where Mr.. Harrison got foothold
on the bottom, when he succeeded in
cutting its throat with a pocket-knife.
1t was found that the animal had only
been creased in the back of the neck, and
of course Mr.. Harrison had the honor of
coming off victor in a sanguinary strug-
gle with an unwounded DEER Cra,O-
ford County (MO.) Express.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-12-17
A Cool Railway Porter.

An English paper says A remark
able example of presence of mind in
railway porter is afforded by an incident
which occurred as the down train from
Perth to Aberdeen was leaving Guthrie
station. A newsboy who accompanied
this train while in the act of stepping
into carriage missed his footing, and
fell down between the platform and the
wheels of the carriages. AS the train
was by this time in motion, any attempt
on the part of the boy to get up would
have infallibly resulted in his instant
death. Nine persons ont of ten wit
Messing this accident would have turned
pale, and either shrieked out at the top
of their voices advice of various kinds,
or remained awe-struck and motionless,
abiding the issue. Fortunately, howev-
er, one OF the station porters was mas
ter of the moment and of the situation,
and, rushing forward, lay down on the
platform then seizing the boy with his
hands, held him fiat on the ground till
all the footboards of the train had
passed over him. and the danger had
ceased. This combination of GOODNESS
and common-sense is an acquisition
that may we'll be envied by many per-
son who, Notwithstanding all the gifts
of an elaborate education, is less tit to
battle with the difficulties and emergen-
cies of life than the humble station
porter at Guthrie, who thus saved the
newsboy from a horrible death"
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-12-17
A Mixed Report.

We told our local to write up "
Richards & Co.'S pork house and also
the election returns, and this is the way
he did it
Richards & Co. IS pork house is in full
operation the majority is about 800
hogs day, with good deal of scratch
ing on the sides and backs. 1t was
supposed it would reach 1000, but,
owing to late returns and several coun-
ties to hear from, not more than five or
six counties are received day, princi-
pally by the T., w. and w. and l., b.
and W. railroads.
They have every facility for unload
ing, and are weighed at the polls in
droves of fifteen or twenty. They are
driven to the pen and allowed to remain
over night, when about 3 o'clock the re-
turns come in. They are then driven
up the shute, and behind the gate sits
Wildhack, as Judge, to see if each one
Is registered.
The second gate is then closed, and
two men prod them with long Demo
cratic and Republican tickets to keep
them from boiling the convention and
running Independent. An iron band is
put around one of their hind legs, a
ballot folded and put in their hands and
thea hoisted to the second story, where
they are stuck and roll down into little
tin box, whence they are taken and
counted. After remaining In the boil
ing water for a few minutes, they are
then hoisted out by steam-fork and all
the bogus votes thrown out. Then all
the hair is scratched of, and they are
passed over to men who remove the en-
trails, then washed and hung in the
drying-room. The next evening jolli-
fcation meeting is held and speeches
are made. After the heads are cut off,
they are dividedup into shoulders, sides,
hams, lard, etc. They are removed to
the first floor, where all conventions are
packed and sailed, giving our ticket a
clear majority, and giving indications
of a return to peace and prosperity to
our land fifteen days out of salt.-Peki
Times
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-12-17
Fatal Forest Fight-FOund Dead.

The particulars of terrible tragedy
have just reached us from Rice lake, by
which woodsman quite well known in
this city and Wausau, as well as to the
settlers further north, lost his life. The
woodsman alluded to is Fred Duffy. He
accompanied VIM. johnson last sum-
mer to Tomahawk lake, and from there
to Lac de Flambeau, and after return
ing, went back to Rice lake, near the
head waters of the Wolf, where he
makes his home with an Indian trader.
A short time ago Duffy had slight al
tercation with one of the Indians, but
the difficulty appeared to be of trivial
nature, and little was thought of it by
the friends OF either. A few days after
the difficulty, however, Duffy and the
Indian were missed. Several days
passed by, but they did not return.
That both of the parties to the difficulty
should simultaneously disappear was
considered singular coincidence, but
not until an entire week had elapsed
did the friends of Duffy become suffi-
GENTLY alarmed to institute search.
At this time vague suspicious of foul
play began to fiit acrose the magma
ton of his friends, and finally it was re-
solved to look for him in the woods.
For this purpose party started out,
but their search was of short duration.
The mysterious disappearance was soon
solved. In the woods, short distance
from the settlement, they found the
bodies of both Duffy and the Indian
lying stiff and cold in death. Duffy
had one deep stab in his back and two
in his left breast, while all the mark of
violence that could be found on the In
dian was a deep indenture in the left
breast, over the heart. How these two
men happened to meet in fatal combat,
surrounded only by the forest, is of
course, a matter of conjecture only.
All that is positively known is that the,
had personal difficulty, that both
soon afterward disappeared, and that
their bodies were found as above
stated. The theory, however, is that
the Indian stole stealthily up on Duffy,
inflicted a severe wound in his back,
and, as he turned around, dealt him two
blows in the breast. Duffy was pow
erful man, with the arm of a vulcan,
and it is thought that when he found
himself attacked, he turned upon his
antagonist, and, striking out with the
strength begot of desperation, he dealt
him a fatal blow, as above indicated.
Both men must have gone down to-
gether, as the body of Duffy was found
lying partially ocross that of the In
dian.-yeueas Point Wis., Journal
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-12-17

dwelling rooms is recommended by Mr..
Hinton, in his Physiology for Practi-
cal Use = "a piece of wood, three
inches high, and exactly as long as the
breadth of the window, is to be pre-
pared. Let the sash be now raised, the
slip of wood placed on the sill, and
the sash drawn closely upon it. If the
slip has been we'll fitted, there will be
no draught In consequence of this dis
placement of the sash at its lower part /;
but the top of the lower sash will over
lap the bottom of the upper one, and
between the two bars, perpendicular
currents of air, not felt as draught,
will enter and leave the room.
The white of an egg has proved of
late the most efficacious remedy for
burns. Seven or eight successive APP
p1icatiCns of this substance soothe the
pain and effectually exclude the burn
from the air. This simple remedy
seems preferable to collodion or even
cotton. Extraordinary stories are told
of the healing properties of new oil
which is made from the yelks of hens
eggs. The eggs are first boiled hard,
the yelks are then removed, crushed,
and placed over fire, where they are
carefully stirred until the whole sub
stance is just on the point of catching
fire, when the oil separates and may be
poured off. 1t is in general use among
the colonists of Southern Russia as a
means of curing cuts, bruises and
scratches.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-12-17
important Decision.

The Supreme Court of the United
States has just rendered decision in
which, for the fifth time, the question
of the power of the so-called Confeder-
ate government to make valid contract
has been adjudicated. The plaintiff
had, knowingly, purchased cotton of
an agent of the Confederate States. The
cotton was subsequently seized by the
United States, and the proceeds con-
verted into the Treasury. Plaintiff
brought suit in the Court of Claims to
recover. The court rejected the claim.
The Supreme Court affirms the de-
cision of the Court of Claims on two
grounds First, because the purchase
of the cotton and the payment of the
consideration necessarily tended to give
aid to the rebellion, and all such con-
tracts are void as contrary to public
policy. This was concurred in by the
whole court. Second, because the So
called government of the Confederate
States had no existence except as con-
spiracy to overthrow lawful authority.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-12-17
Pure Water.

The Journal of Chemistry warns the
drinkers OF the water of wells that are
near dwellings to beware of the typhoid
poison sure to be found, sooner or later,
in those reservoirs, if any of the house
DRAWINGS can percolate them. The
gelatinous matter often found upon the
stones of a well is poison to the hui
man system, probably causing, by its
spores, fermentation of the blood,
with abnormal heat or fever. Whole
some, untainted water is always free
from all color and odor. To test it
thoroughly, place half pint in clear
bottle with few grains of lump sugar,
and expose it, stoppered, to sunlightina
window. If even after an exposure of
eight or ten days the water becomes
turbid, be sure that it has been con-
taminated by sewage of some kind.
If it remains perfectly clear, it is pure
and safe.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-12-17
Swift Retributi0n.

A Memphis telegram says: Last
Saturday night Isaac Ruffin (colored)
met Melissa Adams (also colored) in
the woods near Marion, Ark, and, after
outraging her, attempted to kill her
with q knife. In the scuffie which en-
sued she knocked the knife out of his
hand, and he was unable to find it in
the dark. after beating her until he
thought she was dead, he went to the
house of her father near by, and told
him that Melissa was waiting at the
gate for Maggie, her young sister, to
help her carry her basket. He then
left, and Maggie, going to the gate,
found Ruffin there, when, seizing her,
he violated her person, and fled. Mon
day he was arrested in Memphis, Tenn.
and agreed to go back to Marion with
out requisition, and was taken back.
After preliminary examination, he
was committed to Jail to answer. The
proof against him being positive, on
Monday night fifty or sixty armed
negroes went to the jailer and forced
him to bring out Rnfin. They then
took the negro a short distance from
town and shot him to death, his body
being literally riddled with bullets.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-12-17
Indemnity Arising Out Of the Yr.
giniuS Affair.

The interest recently manifested re-
garding our diplomatic relations with
Spain, says Washington dispatch, Is
constantly increasing. 1t is known that
the Spanish government has sought to
traverse the complaint of the United
States, as set forth in the fourth para
graph of the Fish-Polo protocol, which
reads as follows
"Other reciprocal reclamations to be
the subject of consideration and ar
rangement between the two govern
ments, and in case of no agreement, to
be the subject of arbitration, if the con-
stitutional assent of the Senate of the
United States be given thereto"
1t is known that Secretary Fish is
not averse to this movement, but if
Spain advances claims against the
United States, based upon damages
alleged to have occurred as the result
of aid given to the Cubsn insurgents
by our citizens, as she undoubtedly
has, he will insist that such CLAIMS
must be settled or adjudicated as ques-
tons entirely independent of the Vir-
ginius controversy.
The decision of Attorney General
Williams regarding the right OF the
Virginius to carry the American flag is
quoted to sustain the distinction of the
claims between the two governments.
We have carried out conscientiously all
the agreements on our part of the pro-
tocol that could be carried out, and now
demand that Spain shall carry out her
part, regardless of the reciprocal recla-
nations alluded in theforegoingq quota
ton from that document. Our position
is simply that damages have occurred
to American citizens by the illegal in
reference with a vessel on the high
seas carrying our flag, that interference
having been committed by the Spanish
government, and resulting Ia the massa-
ere at Santiago de Cuba. We demand
that these damages shall be settled first,
and then offer to consider the question
of reciprocal reclamation by arbitration
or otherwise. As before stated, we are
somewhat embarrassed by the result Of
the British demand against Spain for
reclamation, but will insist on a settle
ment upon a basis of our own making,
regardless of the sums awarded to Great
Britain.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-12-17
DOath of Trees i'm Cities.

At a recent meeting of the Scientific
Committee OF the Royal Horticultu raj
Society, DIR. Voelker stated the results
of his investigation of the soil of Lon
don square in which Messrs. Veitch had
twice planted trees, which in each case
had died. On examining the clear
watery solution from treating the soil
with distilled water, he found that the
soil contains one-tenth per cent. of
common salt and two-tenths per cent.
of nitrates. Whenever the amount of
chlorine in soil reaches anything like an
appreciable quantity it exercises an ia
furious influence. Land, for example,
which has been inundated by the sea
will not grow wheat for the next two
years, though in the first year cabbage
msy be grown. The quantity of nitrates
in the soil sent to him was remarkable.
Usually in a soil it did not reach pro-
portion which could be expressed other
wise than by third place of decimals.
He could not doubt that the two saline
ingredients mentioned did the mischief.
builder.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-12-17
The recent wedding at San Francis

The recent wedding at San Francis
co of the daughter of Sharon, who ex.
poets to be United States Senator
some day, as he is worth over $50, 900,
600, exceeded in magnifcence any of
the great weddings of the season. One
of the gifts to the bride was a check
from her father for one million dollars.
The papers of the Slope are loaded
down with accounts of the grand affair
One paper occupying ten columns
with its reports. The house of the
Sharons is palace-costing $500, 600,
the furniture $3.50, 600 more. The fur
niture OF the bridal chamber is de.
scribed in all the raptures of Jenkins.
said furniture being maze of white
holly, finished with mahogany and
zebra wood. Among the articles of
this chamber enumerated are ga
$4,000 gas fixture, $1,000 mirror, a
S125 coal scuttle, and a S240 pair of
pillow slips" This is simply sugges-
ton of the whole. The ceremonies of
the marriage were celebrated like the
nuptials of royalty.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-12-17
Household Helps.

If cloth wrung out in hot water is
Immediately applied to the skin or a
"black eye" it will prevent discolora-
ton.
THIRTY or forty grains of quicklime
dissolved In water is a thorough cure
for the stings of insects, and far supe-
rior to ammonia or any other alkali.
A WRITER on the subject of sleep
says: If there is undue sleeplessness,
the head should lie low on the pillow,
and if undue sleepiness, it should be
kept high"
To ExTNGUIsH chimney on fire, shut
the doors and windows. throw water on
the fire In the CRATE, and then stop up
the bottom of the chimney. Another
method is to throw handful of flowers
of sulphur on the burning coal. The
flames viii be Immediately extinguished.
ALUM and plaster of Paris, well mixed
with water, and used in liquid state,
will form very us sful cement. It will
be found quite handy fcT many pur-
poses. 1t forms a very hard compost
ton, and for fixing Inc brasses, etc., on
lamps, nothing could be better.
To MAKE good coffee, says a CORE
spondent, use shout one tablespoonful
for each person, and one egg mixed
with it. Place this in coffee-pet, put
In little cold water, then the desired
amount of boiling water place upon
the stove and let it come to boil. If
no egg is used, it should never boil
over half minute. If an egg is used,
it may boil two minutes, when it will be
ready for use. The coHee-pot should
be as close as possible, so as to retain
the flavor. The object of using little
cold water is to give a little time for hot
water to extract its virtues before il
boils.
THE following simple method for
ventilating ordinary sleeping and
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-12-17
Enormous Slaughter OF Buffalses FOL
Hides

The hide-hunters are even
more numerous than the bone pickers,
and their trade is much more exciting
and hazardous. They usually follow in
the wake of buffalo-hunting expeditions
and rowing bands of Indian "meat-
jerkers." The Indians who kill buffalo
take only a small portion of the ANNA
and the white men who Stay them for
sport rarely touch them with knife;
so that the hide-hunter who goes after
is usually sure of his spoil, as the hide
remains in good order for removal
nearly a week after the killing, if the
wolves keep away. When hides are not
to be had fast enough or with personal
safety in this way, the hide-hunters
project little raids of their own out into
the buffalo ranges, killing the animals
simply for the hides, and leaving the
meat to decay, or selling it at nominal
rate to accompanying parties of dealers.
much more rapid, but less perfect and
effective, process than that followed by
the Indians, and only the hides of ami
mails killed in cold weather make really
valuable robes. In little more than
three months over 80, 900 of these hides
were shipped from the stations on the
western division of the Atchison, To
peka and Santa Fe railroad and it is
estimated that the shipments for this
year over that road and the Kansas Pa
ciic will aggregate 1850 As each
hide represents a slain buffalo, these
figures convey a fair, though not a full
idea of the magnificent butchery which
has been going on among these "mon-
archs of the plains" The hides, after
being dressed, are rolled up in as small
a compass as possible, and shipped to
the large Eastern cities, where they are
subjected to a process of recleansing
and drying, and put into the market for
sale. The original purveyors of the
hides gets about as much for them as
the New England or New York farmer
receives for the hides of his cattle; but
the profit to the Eastern dealer, as can
be seen at a glance, is considerable.
Attempts have been made from time to
time to convert the buffalo hides into
leather, but without much success and
it probably has no very great value ex-
cept for use as robe. A robe prepared
by Indians is now SO scarce thing as
to be real curiosity, the frontier white
men having monopolized the business
Topeka Kansas Cor. Ne,D York
Tribune.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-12-17
Rats on Board of Shin.

Rats greatly infest ships, and are by
them carried to every part of the world.
So industriously do they make homes
for themselves in the numerous cram
MES and corners in the hull of ship
that it is almost impossible to get rid
of them. Ships take out rats as well as
passengers and cargo every voyage !;
whether the former remain in the ship
when in port is best known to them
selves. When the East India Company
had ships of their own they employed a
rat-catcher, who sometimes captured
five hundred rats in one ship just re-
turned from Calcutta. The ship rat is
often the black species. Sometimes
black and brown inhabit the same YES
sci, and, unless they carry on perpetual
hostilities, the one part will keep to the
head of the vessel and the other to the
stern. The ship-rat is very anxious that
his supply of fresh water shall not fail !;
he will come on deck when it rains, and
climb up the wet sails to suck them.
Sometimes he mistakes a spirit cask for
a water cask, and gets drunk. A cap
tain of an American merchant ship is
credited Cor discredited) with an ingen-
ious bit of sharp practice of means of
clearing his ship from rats. Having
discharged cargo at a port in Holland,
he found his ship in juxtaposition to
another which had just taken in a cargo
of Dutch cheeses. He laid plank at
night from one vessel to the other the
rats, tempted by the odor, trooped
along the plank, and began their feast.
He took care that the plank should not
be there to serve them as a pathway
back again and so the cheese-laden
ship had cruel addition to its outward
cargo.-AU the Year Round.