The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1874-07-10

Death OF MRS. NJ. L. K1NAnD.
are truly panied 70 record the death,
yesterday afternoon. somewhat sud-
denly, Of Mrs. Cornelia. wife of NJ. L.
Kiuard, Esq, of this city. She had
been in feeble health for more than q
year, but had only been confined to
her room for the past few days. She
was unconscious from IL o'clock, yes
terday morning, until her death, at 6
o'clock, in the afternoon. Mrs. Kinard
had been wife but little more than
two years. and was in the bloom of
yonth-to-day, should she have lived
to soc it. being her twenty first birth.
day. She was daughter of Mr. d. J.
Williams. of Laurens, (where she was
born,) and granddaughter of the late
Judge Baylis Earle. She leaves no
children. The tenderest sympathies
of his friends and the whole commu-
nifty are with the afflicted husband
and the family Of the deceased in this
sad bereavement.
A Miraculous DRAuGHr OF F1sH-
WHAT THE BUTCHERS Several Of
our prominent butchers barbecued
and fished, on Wednesday, on Mr..
kohler's farm: four miles from Acton,
and, from their statements, they not
only had delightful time-a good
barbecne dinner, first and foremost
but afterwards they succeeded, with
forty.foot seine, III securing over 600
OF the finny tribe from an adjacent
pond III the course OF forty minutes.
This exceeds anything OF the kind We
have ever known in this quarter OF the
globe. Remember. this is what the
butchers say, but they assert that it is
not butchers story. They further.
more state thns the crops in that
vicinity are ruined-corn aud cotton
beat to the ground by the terrible
hail-storm OF Sunday evening. This
is terrible blow to the planters.
At tho meeting in the Court House,
on the 9Th, relative to school taz,
Trustee G. J. Carroll submitted the
following report of the receipts and
expenditures up to date of the school
fund thnt came into the hands OF the
trustees from the last levy:
Received from the State, through
School Commissioner D. n. Simouds,
81, 727.6 65: special school tax. District
No. l, 3.956.34; poll tux. through D.
N. Simonds, 5U0--total received,
1888. 90.
Paid 10 teachers for seven months
services, S4.56l; orders, including
school building. I, 632. 81; balance due
on school building, 475-total received,
So, ,668.G G2; balance in hands of trus-
tees. S5l5.37.
MIR. Carroll further reported that
there were school facilities for seven
teen teachers the ensuing year, and
that to carry the schools on for nine
months. Which makes the full scholas-
tic year, it would require the amount
OF SS.O5O, and recommended the levy
Of one mill on the taxable property
Of said district for that purpose.
Capt. ". K. Bachman made q mo.
ton, which was adopted, that tax OF
one mill be levied on all of the taxable
property Of School District No. /, to
be devoted to educational purposes in
said school district.
Mr.. Janney made motion, which
was adopted, that the Board of Trus-
tees for the said School District No. l
be requested to locate school in the
Eastern part OF said School District.
MAIL ESTs.--Northerr
mai opens $50 A. NJ, 8 P. NJ. closes
Ii y. NJ, 6 P. NJ. Charleston opens s
A. NJ, $50 p. NJ. CLOSES 8 A. NJ, 6 P.
VI. Western opens A. NJ, 1890 P.
~; closes 6, 100 P. III. Greenville
opens 6.45 P. NJ: closes 6 A. nj. Viii.
mington opens 4 P. NJ: closes 10. 80
A. NJ. On Sunday open from 2. 80 to
3.3O.P. Nj.
PHGNIXIASA He that pelts every
barking dog must pick up great
many stones.
We think very few people sensible,
except those who are of our opinion.
Regard this world as though thou