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The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1874-09-13

y. WILIINaToN, September IL Cotton
irm-middlipg 15k; low middiug Is;
good ordinary 13L; net receipts IL;
exports coustwise %.
NEW ORLEANS. September IL Cot
ton irregular and easier--middling 16;
low middling 15M; good ordinary
lsH; net receipts 3G6; gross 1852; ex-
ports coastwise 922; sales 250-iast
evening $50
MOBILE. September 12.-Ootton
irregular aud active-middling 15L;
low middling Az; good ordinary
1874; net receipts $50; exports coast
wise SO; sales 200.
BosroN, September 12-Cotton
qniet aud unchanged-middiin III;
gross receipts $50; sales 200; stock
8. 900.
GALVESTON. September IL Cotton
qniet and easier-middling 15@; low
middling l456; good ordinary 1882; re-.
ceipts SIS; sales SIS.
CHARLESTON. September 12.-Cot.
ton Quiet-middling 15I; low mid +.
ding 142z; good ordinary Az; net
receipts 357; sales 100
BALTIMORE. September l2-Cutton
firm -middIing l634; gross receipts
III; exports coastwise 25; sales 1877;
spinners 80.
PARIS, September ~ -Rentes G4f.
60c.
LIVERPOOL, September 1913 P. NJ.
Cotton quiet aud steady-uplauds
1905; Orleans 81s@S1; sales 49,
0UO, including $500 American, 1000
on export and speculation; cotton
to arrive 1-16 cheaper; sales busis
middling uplunds. nothing below
good ordinary, deliverable Seplem-
her. 734; sales shipments new crop,
basis middIing nplands nothing below
good ordinary, Z 1916; nothing below
low middling. 77s.
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Give a man the necessaries of life
him the conveniences and he Graves
for the luxuries. Grant him the lu1u-
ties and Ihe sighs for the elegapoies.
Let himihave the elegancfes' and he
yearns for the follies. Give him all to.
gether and he complains that he has
been cheated both in price and quality
Of the articles.
Henry Benjamin st. Marie died in
New York, yesterday, Of heart disease.
He was the person who captured John
81. Surratt, for whom the Government
offered reward OF 825. 900. st. Ms
rie. however, got bat $40, 1000, and q
suit in his behalf for the remainder is
now pending in the United States Su.
preme Court.
"Mrs. Grant is not to be called q
homely woman, of course; but it is
quite certain that she is not, either,
very handsome woman. A defect in
one of her eyes, which is commonly
known as cross-eyedness, iniures her
looks very muoh." So says an able
correspondent.
"What should man do?" asked q
gentleman OF q lady. when he has an
opportunity to correspond with
charming woman, but, being bache-
lor, is little afraid Of such busiuess?"
II. should say to him. do write" an
swered the lady.
Emigrants can't go West any more
by paying the ''cost of axle grease"
The competition between the trunk
lines is over and the fare from New
York to Chicago, which was Ave dol
lars few days ago, is now thirteen
dollars.
The Detroit Free Press says: 'John
Fork lent stranger q dollar at Rich
mond in 1866. and the other day the
stranger paid him back 100000"
Hereafter, then. when asked for a dol.
lar by stranger. We shall always see
John Fork over.
"a delicate lady who went to the
White Sulphur Springs on a mattress,
was so restored to. health that she
married man worth 100000" The
waters of those springs, then, are
wealth giving as well as health giving,
it would seem.
They say that if you want free
hight while travelling in the far West,
you must find granger whose fields
have been devasted by grass- hoppers,
and congratulate him on having dis.
posed of his crop without the inter-
vention of middle-man.
The Pork Packers Convention at
Louisville. Ky, yesterday, adopted the
Chicago system of making 100 pounds
green meat and 35 pounds salt meat
the legal barrel of pork.
That farmer understood human ma.
ture who said: III you want your
boy to stay at home, don't bear too
bard on the grind-stone when he turns
the crank"
Not ono of the many balloon ascen-
sions made this summer has produced
fact 10 confirm the notion of steady
Easterly current in the upper air.
Two white children in New York
were recently induced by unknown
men to accompany them. and have not
been heard of since.
steamer recently made the trip
from San Frencsco to Yokohoma,
Japan. in seventeen days and thirteen
hours. the fastest time on record.
DAsrARDLY-The Chicago Times. in
the same breath. denounces mob-iaw
in the South, and recommends lynch
ing in Chicaro. ,"-
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A DISASTROUS FIRE.-A fire broke
out last night, about q quarter before
IL o'clock, in the four-Story brick tene-
ment building on the West side of
Meeting street, three doors from the
corner Of Market street, occupied on
the North tenement by Mr.. T.. 8.
Nlpson as shoe store, and on the
south by DR.. Baer's drug establish
ment. Five minutes after the alarm
the whole of MIR. Nipson's store was
in flames, aud in few minutes more
the entire tenement was burning. At
! o'clock this morning both stores had
been completely gutted. and the fire
was still burning, but with less vic.
lence, in the rear. The building be-
longed to the estate of Hart; the owner
now residing in England. The stock
OF Dir. Nipson and DR.. Baer was in
sured. The origin Of the FIRE is un-
known, and it was first observed by a
passer.by, who observed the smoke is
suing from the doors and windows of
Mr.. Nipson's store. The stock of both
establishments was entirely consumed.
A sad casualty occurred between and
2 O'Clock. caused by the falling in of
one of the walls OF Mr. Nipson's store,
and burying number of firemen in
the ruins. The names Of those known
to have been covered up, as far as could
3e learned IN the confusion, are: Mike
Brown, Joe Johnson, Sam. Hutson
and Stephen Dean, all colored, and
members of the Prudence Fire Com
pany. Mike Brown was dug out in
jured, as were two others, names un-
known. Two others were still under
the ruins, and the firemen were using
Herculean efforts to get them ont. It
was supposed that at least one of them
was dead. It was reported that white
fireman had also been rescued from the
ruins.
Charleston Neus and Courier, 12Ah.
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The POPULATION OF CHINA. The
population of China, notwithstanding
the frightful ravages of the great re-
bellion, which in some parts has re-
daced it by one-half. is still marvellous
for the amazing figure to which it
renches. Baron Reichtofen has esti-
mated it at 100. 600. 900, but the Able
David, a well-known Chinese explorer,
in recent communication to the So
ciete de Geographic of Paris, declares
this to be much below tho real facts.
Raising his estimate upon his know
ledge of the province Of Kisngsi,
which he thinks below The average, Nj.
David teckons the population OF the
howery landat 800. 600. 600. But for in
fanticide aud small pox, he believes
the people would double themselves
every twenty years.
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New York letter Gays: 'It may be
Of Interest to know that three new
shades of color will be introduced this
season, and that two of these feu7' dc
Sonfre. (tipwor of snlphur,) u peculiar
yellow, and cardinal, handsome red,
will probably be very fashionable
The other color . IL called volcanic.
Also, that autnmn's bonnets will have
very low crowns, but the trim innings,
which will be in most cases placed in
trout, will add materially to their alti-
tnde. Flowers will not be worn SO
much as last season."
CHURCH DEDICATION The new
Methodist Church in this place will
ID. W be dedicated to the service of
God on Sunday, the 2Osh inst. The
Rev. Whitefoord Smith, d. D., of
Woiford College is expected to preach
the sermon, at II o'clock A. NJ The
public are iavited to attend. The va.
rious Sunday Of the place are
also invited to attend Sunday .scho 90!
muss meeting ut half past 3 o'clock, in
the afternoon. Addresses from Prof.
j. Ii. Carlisle and DR.. Smith are ex-
pected : Wmnsboro News.
The boys tell good joke Oh the
Rome. GA, Railroad. which is just six
teen miles long. to This effect: That
IL man left n horse to be shipped to
Kingston. for which they charged ten
dollars. When they tried to get the
hurse in the car he wouldn't 80 in.
SO the agent gave negro q dollar to
ride him over, and then made him pay
the dollar to ride on tho cars back to
Rome. They also collected the ten
dollars from the owner of the horse.
GIA1N.-The New York Bulletin re.
marks on the grain subject: Putting
together the result Of the worlds ,r-
ve>ts, there can be no doubt that it is
one Of Very remarkable abundance,
perhaps we may say one of the most
liberal ever known; but, in estimating
its bearing ON the prospective value OF
grain, proper weight must he attached
to the exceptionally low condition of
stocks the world over.
The bullding in Washington for the
British embassy, said to be the hand.
soonest and costliest residence in tho
ci;y. has been finished, aud will be
r'ndy for the occupancy Of Sir Ed
ward Thornton on the lst Of October.
lfs cost has been about $3.50, 600, and
tho furniture will cost half thut sum.
has evenly rooms. and covers about
lO,0O0 square feet Of ground.
:. youth asked permission of his
c:":i;"r to go to bali. She told him
It was bad place fer little boys.
"Why. mother, didn't you and father
K" 10 balls when you were youpe7"
'Yes, but we have seen the folly of it. {"
saId the mother. "WelI, mother. ex.
claimed the son, "I want to SEQ the
folly oi 1t, too"
An exchange, ri1iculiug County
f"irs. Which make no effort ut good
shows. says that the Clear field Fair con.
,'stcd Of calf, II goose aud pump.
kiu. 1t ralncd 80 hard the first night
That the goose swan of. the calf broke
l"o4r aud ate the pumpkin, and thief
prowl,ng around stole the Calf, and
ii'"' ended the fair.
Fhcre is said to be, pretty sixteen
y-nt old girl in Arizona who owns
lO.tO0 head Of cattle. We shnuld hate
so marry that girls The idea OF hav-
ing to support,a wife. end children aud
10 N)(l haad nf Cattla IN friohkfN1
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The Miles Alarm Til Company, of
this cI'y. is one oi the institntinn> that
does not complain ut hard limos T.
~ tho largest till compnn, III lil. eoild.
and demands for their gui d. cunio
from China, Japan, Russia. aud u.
fact all parts of tue GLOBE. Although
August Is usually the dull mouth with
thrm, the company has sold nearly
1000 drawers.
Propidence Press. 29h uh.
Mrs,rs. Fnirhunks Il Co., the
celebrnted scale manufacturers, are
agents for these drawers.
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A company OF artillery from Charles
ton went to Barnwell, yesterday.
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MFhPHIs. September 12.-The per.
son charged with implication in the
Trenton affair has been brought here
Dy the FedeIal guard, to be examined
by the U aited States Commissioner.
NEW YORK. September 12-Ply-
mouth Church prayer meeting was
largely attended. Nearly all the
speakers, in their prayers or addresses,
referred to the absent pastor with un.
altered affection and confidence. Bio.
ther Cleveland, who bad recently seen
MIR. Beecher in the country, informed
he congregation that their pastor was
cheerful and nnmoved by the slanders.
and was coming back on the 1st Oc:o.
Der to assume his duties with greater
efficacy than ever. One gentleman
prayed that Beecher's enemies might
be put to shame.
A ting fouled the hawser of the
steamer Cuba. as she was entering the
dooks, forcing q lady and her son
against the cabin Of a canal boat,
nearly killing both.
All the papers comment unfnvorably
on Monlton's late statement, except the
Herald. which thinks Moulton's new
charges require an answer. The Times
and Herald say the charges Of black.
mail against Monlton are overthrow.
The Sun cannot see that the statement
adds any conclusive testimony to what
vas in the case before. The Tribune,
WorM and Times expreso similar OPT
mons.
Mendelssohn. who was convicted of
forgery, yesterday. took arsenic last
night, and died this morning.
Lewis q. FIench, Secretary of the
Paltsads Insurance Company, was ar
rested Yesterday, on charge of fraud
committed in Jersey City, in default of
$4,000 bail.
Owing to the pressure of the times,
n,asons. brickfayers, hod.oarriers and
helpers in jersey City, Bergen, Hud.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1874-04-11
st Large.

MEssRs DAWES AND HoAR have both prac-
tically abandoned their hopes of an election
for United States Senator. The indications
point to new man.
The Massachusetts legislature balloted on
March 80, for Senator as follows; Whole
number of votes cast, 256 necessary to a
choice, 129 Dawes received So; Hoar, 70 /;
Curtis, 70; Adams, Is; Banks, 7; Amasa
Walker, Pierce, Washburn and Whittier each
GEN. BEAUREGARD has written a letter to the
Washington Republican in answer to Gov.
Herbert's letter on the Louisiana question.
accompanied by two communications, signed
by prominent citizens, showing that when Gen.
Beauregard was candidate, the office sought
him, not Beauregard the Office.
THE Erie strike, Susquehanna depot Pa, is
held by the military. The strikers protested
to the governor by telegraph against being dis
possessed of the railroad by the state troops
The governor answered that he regretted the
necessity, but the unlawful proceedings must
end. The company has commenced payment
of the men, and they Che company have suf-
ficient force to sustain them, and the strikers
must ultimately yield
THE night express going west ON the Grand
Trunk Railroad, ran into special locomotive
preceding it two miles from Gananoque on
March 2Sth. The engineer fireman and
brakeman of the express train were slightly
injured, also several passengers.
Col. W, G. FERRELL, the correspondent of
the Cincinnati Commercial. shot and killed
Hon. Harvey Meyers, in Covington. KY Both
are very prominent men IN Kentucky politics
The shooting was the result of long standing
grudge.
The counsel for Hayes, the alleged informer
II the Woodruff & Robinson case has begun a
suit against Special Agent Jayne to recover
S12, 900 Illegally drawn by him as informer
a DISPATCH from Portland says the Indians
on the Malpear reservation have grown insolent
and serious trouble is feared. A detachment
Of troops has been sent from Fort Harvey to
protect Agent Linville and his men. LipyiIle
has knowledge of conspiracy amongst the
Indians, who in considerable numbers have
left the reservation.
Cooks tannery, at Lowell, Mass was burned
on Wednesday. Loss $4,000
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Foreign.

The rumor of great financial panic in Lon
don Is unfounded. One or two stock specula-
tors only failed. Beyond extreme duIlnese
everything appears sound.
HE financial panic in Havana, due to the
imitation Of the currency, is increasing. The
premium on gold and exchange is advancing
hourly. The latest known gold quotation was
$50
HE remains of DR.. Livingstone left Alden
on the 23d inst, III the mail steamer Maleya
for England. They are encased in lead coffin
and preserved in salt The body was fully
recognized at Zanzibar.
IHE Great Eastern viii start in August TO
lay the Portuguese cable from st. Vincent
cape Verde Islands, to Pernambuco Brazil.
The returning Highlanders from the Asian
tee expedition were greeted by delegation of
10000 people on their arrival at Portsmouth
England
HE Carllsts are throwing incendiary shells
into Bllboa with terrible effect Whole streets
are reported to be in flames. recent engage
me mt before the city resulted in the occupation
by the besisgers of Abba, a suburb on the left
bank of tho Nervione.
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Rhode Island Election.
The st.

The eighth ballot for a United States Sena-
tor. % succeed Chas. Sumner, was taken on
Tie Isl INST, with the following result Whole
number Of votes cast, 270; necessary to a
cIolee 1855 Dawes, 90 Hoar, "a Curtis. Is
Adams, 10; Banks, 6; Pierce. 2; Washburp.
Waiter and Wendell Phillips received each
one vote
lie committee OF the grain receivers of the
Produce Exchange and the representatives of
tie different railroads terminating in New
York. have agreed that the former should an
point an lnspector-il-chlef and deputy for
the terminus OF each road who will grade
wheat on ITS arrival and accept certificate of
me inspector at any lake port as evidence of
grade The railroad companies pay the in
spectors.
The Galleon Treasure Company is ORGAN
ling IN New York city for the purpose of ac-
quirine and operating concession granted by
the Spanish government. giving the right 10
recover vast amomt OF treasure known to
have been sunk III tine fleet Of Spanish galleops
~ the harbor of Vigo, in Spain, IN 1902
The different trades unions of New York
have united in an appeal to labor organizations
throughout the country to insist upon eight
hours constituting days labor, and to hold
mass meetings on the 18th of May to express
opposition to the contract system on govern
ment buildings.
bold plan 70 rob aud perhaps murder Alva
Simmons, cashier CT the Mechanics bank
South Boston. has been discovered. George
Z. Eagles, painter, endeavored to induce |
Geo. Holden, IN his employ to assist him in |
the robbery of Simmons who WAS in the habit |
ot visiting a wooden ware establishment. in |
the city proper, every Monday afternoon, for
The purpose of receiving deposits from en-
oloyes- Eagles plan was to induce Hol9en to
strike Simmons with bludgeou after he had
-eceived the deposits, and afterwards rob him
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1874-04-11
COntentment.

WILL. S. HAYS, the distinguished
song-writer of Louisville, KY, is re-
sponsible for many good things. The
following pen-picture of contentment
was suggested to him on seeing little
picture of an aged couple seated in a
log-cabin before a wood fire at bed
time. 1t will bring tears to eyes un-
used to weep
The banks is all Dustin, Nance, an things is goin'
ter smash,
The people sold FUR credit Wnaf they q oughter sen
fur cash,
An winters bringin' poverty to everybodys door,
The rich kin stand it pretty wel-ht's orful on the
poor.
The workin' mans the sufferer, Nance; he's got no
work to do.
An folks goin to suffer whar they sun rim
never knew.
An them that's always "shown' off +" to poor folks
what they've got,
You1 find perhaps, that they'll turn ont the poorest
of the lot.
I've just been thinkin' Nancy Jane about the awful
How folks had better live an raise thar children
jist like us;
For, as told old Deacon Smith, he sed 1t all WAS
He never in his life had seed two folks like me an
you.
Our homes an old log cabin, Nance, half hidden in
the woods:
Our family's rich in life and health, but poor in
worldly goods"
We haint no fine lace curtains, carpet on the
floor,
But the sun Is always smilin through the window
an the door.
Our farm small--we've set d sprug, ain horses
hogs an COWS;
We've gals TO milk, an cook, an sew and boys c
We've got no gold in banks thot bust, nor owe nc
man cent;
1 tell you, Nance, the Lord is good, an we should
feel content.
We're plain an honest country folks, an know DC
''city airs :"
We read the Bible every night before we kneel in
prayers.
We 60 to church on Sundays, Nance, an walk jist
like the re It,
An live like Christian people ought-we try to dc
what's best.
Our boys don't do like city boys,s who from thai
duty shirk,
Whose parents raise 'em up TO think It's disgrace
to work.
Our gals amt them city gals you viii so often meet
Who ought to help thar mothers more an run less
on the street.
night,
Or loahn' bout the tavern gittn treated till he's
tight.
You don't find him a runnin' round to catch some
damsels eye
Or courtn' of some gal that's ricn, whose daddy's
bout to die.
All Nance, the time has come at last when pride
must have its fall;
The folks II find the workin mans the life and prom
of all;
The farmers independent, Nance his trade viii
never spoil
So long he is able with his to till the soil
The proud aristocratio folks, who sot in Fortune
door,
Who thought they'd never come to want are
:" busted up" an poor
Their servants gone, their horses sold their houses
an their lands.
An everything except their lives are in the sheris
hands
Old woman, put yer knittin up, it's gittin' purity
ate;
I'll read about two chapters IN the R:ole if youu
watt
Wen pray to God before sleep, as every Christian
ought;
An thank him, not for what we want. but what
we've had and got.
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An Old Town.
BY T. B. ALDRICH,

Rlvermouth IS a town where almost
literally nothing happens. Sometimes
somebody IS married, and sometimes
somebody dies,-with surprising alb
ruptness, as the old parson did, for
example, and sometimes a vessed is
blown on the rocks at the mouth of the
harbor. But Of those salient tragedies
and comedies which make up the sum
of life IN cities, Rivermouth knows next
to nothing. Since the hanging Of witch
or two IN the pre-revolutionary days,
the office of sheriff there has been virtu-
ally a sinecure. The police court
where now and then a thoughtless,
llght-tingered person is admonished of
the error Of his ways, and the one habit
ual drunkard is periodically dispatched
to the TOwn-Farn-seem almost like a
branch of the Sunday School. The
community may be said to have lived
for thirty years on single divorce case.
growing out of the elopement of Major
Tom Deering with Mrs. Honoria Mad
dox,-to this day perilous story
THAT matrons tell, with sharpened tongue,
To maids with downcast eyes
In default of great events, small mat
leTS rise TO the HfSt magnitude IN Xiv
ermouth. There are people who can
give you, if you chance to be to the
manner born, the most minute particu-
lars of the career of your great-grand-
father, and to whom what you have for
dinner is far from beingan rninterosting
item.
81 see Capen Chris Bell at Seth
Wlggins this morning." saws Mr..
Uriah Stebbins to Mr.. Caleb Stokels;
"he bought that great turkey ofSeths,
and six poun's of steak-right off the
tenderline. Guess he expects his brother
in-law's family down from Bostin. Capen
Chris Bell always was good provider."
This piece of information lies like
live coal upon the brain of Mr.. Stokes
until, with becoming gravity. he turns
1t over to some other inquiring neigh
Dor. At moderate estimate not less
than two-thirds of the entire population
of Rivermouth sit down in imagination
at Captain Bells dinner-table the next
day.-FrOna " Prudence Poltrey," in
Apr3t dtia1atic.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1874-04-11
The Decay of the Tuileries.

The fidelity of the fashionable world
to Hyde Park, remarks the Pail Mall
Gazette, Is very touching. The five
lines of carriages already beginning to
form III that region during the afternoon
appear annually within its precincts.
only evincing the sublunary necessity
for change by choosing for a lustrum at
a time one of three drives, the road up
to knightsbridge Barracks, the drive
along the Serpentine, or the long stretch
between Hyde Park rand the Mar
BILE Arch. The public of Paris are more
caprlclous than this. They have de-
serted the Tuileries Gardens to such an
extent that the proposal now before the
Municipal Council of Paris, for cutting
a street through the parterres from the
hue Castiglione to the Pont Solferino,
raises but faint cutlery. The Tuileries
Gardens We're never as much appreciated
as those Of the Palais Royal aud those
of the Palais de Richelieu, having at
most success dc potitiQuc. Thus, in
the days of the revolution, they formed
a sort of annexe to the Convention, and
were as ill-adapted for quiet peacock
ing as the vicinity of the Reform Oak
when the spoutlng season commences.
During the restoration, indeed, it was
considered correct to saunter up and
down their stately avenues, rich in row
allst associations, butof late years I'M
political pleasure-seekers have gravi-
tated with increasing determination
toward the Champs EIysees. and the
dissection of the forsaken Tuileries Gar
den Will soon be a fat dcc0mpH.