The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1874-04-15


This is the last day for the payment
OF taxes without the penalties.
CASH will be the rule at the PHOENIX
Office hereafter.
Our Augusta contemporaries regard
the movement OF the taxpayers upon
Congress as unfortunate.
strawberries, fresh from the bush.
md vegetables, with the dew on them,
for sale ut E. E. Davies, Plain street.
The handsome portable engine which
passed up Richardson street, yesterday
afternoon, was from the machine shcps
OF NJ. r. Tczer, and is to be- shipped 10
E'slcy Station, on the Airline Rail-
road,
There was great rush Mt Jackson 8
dry goods store. yesterday, which was
due, III part. to the low prices at Which
goods were offered, and to the fact that
tho many friends of Mr. Stark ". Porter
found him behind The counter. He lie.
sires ns to say that he will be found at
this establishment for awhile, and in
vites his friends to give him call.
Mr. J. W. Gall, u printer, who resi-, ID
i'll Columbia for many years, bnt wno
removed to AnSnsta IL :he latter part
Of 1867. where he occupied. Ut different
times, PROMINENT positions on the
several Journals of that city, died on
Sunday night, the 18th instnn: L.. had
been suffering with consumption for q
great length Of time, a::d was confined
to his bed from Novem Der las. 10 his
death. His friends in this city Will re-
ccive this anIonnccm"nt with sorrow,
though not unexpected. Mr.. Call leaves
q wife and several children
IHE South CAROLINA MEDICAL Asso.
cIATIoS.-The South Carolina Medical
Association met yesterday, in Tempe.
rance Hall, DR.. S. Barnc!,, Of Camden,
President. and DR.. Fraser. Of Charles
ton, Secretary. About thirty members
Of the association were present. After
some routine business and the report Of
tho Com nittee on Credentials DR.. Ba
rnch proceeded to deliver the annual
address. on methods Of fostering the
interests of medical science and its vo-
taries. in which the advantages OF me.
dical societies and tie necessity Of more
certain remuneration to physicians for
medical services were strongly presented.
lie urged the close and inviolable OBJ
servance of the requirement. Of profess
sionnl ethics as the peremptory demand
OF duty. by an easy gradation, he
passed on to consider the benefits de-
rivable from medical journals. 1t was
duty to contribute TO them, in order that
the widest range may he given to the
knowledge obtained by individual ply
sicans. 1t was great qualification to
the daily discouraged and hard ploddipg
physician to feel and know thBt he was
abreast of the times. In reviewing the
past five years of the regenerated exist.
encc OF the association, he found encou-
ragement in the establishment and ad.
vancement of medical sciencc, and in
tins connection, he compIlmented the
bard labor and nnrewnrded sacrifices of
tho faculty OF the medical SCHOOLS of
Charleston.
Dr.. E..ruc!i advocated Il wide range of
Investigation and study 10 ii. the me,i-
cal piactitiunlr !or his responsible call
Ing. III order to practice the art OF
medlcins, ns wed rs TO advance the
science, ali exp:rimcnts and obseryu.
tons oi health md disease, by whomso.
ever nirie, all facts and pheuomcna Of
life. Likely to shed light upon the one,
or add to SIX Ii II the other, should BE-
accorded a calm investigation from the
profession. "A trno md broad catl,o-
iicis!n," he "l :, should pcrvade our en-.
Irarori 10 render du:iful service tu
scie,:cc and humanity; its benign inliu-
cree vii! amrliCra!r the severity Of pre-
conceived notions and tone dawn Tie
aspc.!;i,a Of bitter prejudice. i, be-
hoovcs rs to call in al tirlds-not alone
trcm tHc Deauti(l; aud well arranged
rarteirn. OF systematic aud orthodox
medicine, bat even from amidst the
tangled wilderness anl roxious weeds
ot empirical systems, III which truth is
hidden, under mysticism and charlatan-
lSni. E,isc the dark envelope Of absurd
i;ies aud incougruous doSmas from
the writings and practice Of the latter,
and even here truth vii! sometimes bs
found Standing resi,lenlent amidst the
debris and rubbish Of churlntani>m.