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The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1874-09-01

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The PHOENIX is the Oldest daily paper
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Chicora Tribe, No. 2. Improved
Order of Red Men.

A STATED COUNCIL FIRE of Chicora
IL Tribe will be kindled at their Wig
wan, tOdd Fellows HalI,) 9Th Run, 1st
sleep, Corn Moon, e. 8. d. $685. By order
OF the Sacham. A. II. HALLIDAY,
Sept Chief Of ltecnrtis
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Desirable Residence for Sale,
Ia BUILT in the most modern and sub
E%H stantial manner, containing seven
rooms, with improved gas aud water
conveniences throughout. One OF tho most
desirable and eligible situations in this
city. On the premises ID fine young
orchard. containing peach, apple, apricot,
nectarine, pear and fig trees.
ALSO,
A neat and desirable COTTAGE.
For terms and particulars. apply to
D. G. PEIXO l TO i SONS.
Sept 3 Commission Merchants.
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Medicines,
DOR PURIFYING THE BLOOD,
IL For Curing Rheumatlsm,
For Curing Chills aud fever,
For Curing Riugworm and letter,
For Curing Coughs and Consumption,
For Curing Dyspepsia,
Will he found at HEISITSH'S
Sept Drug Store.
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Some men are born to misfortune.
At q Fourth of July pic nio. Coying
ton chap got his eye punched for speak
ing to another fellows girl. and when
he. tearfully explained that he'd
''knowed her these thirty five years, >"
he got all his hair pulled ont.
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4 New Guinea Bird.

There is bird In New Guinea called
the Megapodius, which, in the size of
its eggs and its manner of Matching
them, must be considered extraordi-
nary. u is not lsrSea elsnSsa &C
inches long by two and halt in diam
eter, 1t does not attempt to sit on
them. A colony of birds lay their eggs
together in large mound in the hottest
part of the year, from September TO
March, and leave them to be Matched by
the sun. The mound is made of sand,
loose earth, and sticks and leaves,
which latter by their decay increase the
heat. The mounds are wonderfully
large, being ten feet high and about
sixty feet in circumference at the base.
The young birds come out at hole in
the top. The mother birds wait on the
trees around till their chicks are
Matched, and then each leads off her
own brood. How each knows its own
is mystery, The eggs are much rel
ished by the natives, but not at all by
Europeans A native of Cape York ven
tured one day into nest fot eggs, and
while he was exploring the hidden
riches of the large mound the upper
part fell in and he was smothered.
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senator Jones Points A Moral.

Dom Piatt has been interviewing
Senator Jones leisurely as they ex-
ton. and + Writes ID The " asnf6,s Va
tai as follows
"I cannot understand Morton" said
the Senator he is unquestionably an
able man, vet he houndered IN that
quagmire OF finance like a cart-hOrse
with his eyes blinded by the very mud
he flung mp"
81 think, said, - Morton struck on
that word 'dOctTindire;' it had such a
dreadful sound to m." g He remind
ed me-" responded the senator, " OF a
queer character we once had in Nevada
by the name of Pokebury. He was law
yer of some promise, but came to moth
ing through drink Losing all his
clients he went TO mining, and Joined q
rough miner by the name of Spokes.
At the end of a week Pokebury appear
ed in town with black eye, swollen
nose, and lacerated garments. OF course
we were anxious to know a about it.
Well you see" said he, Oily and l
were partners, and like Billy, for he's
a well-meaning man for an uneducated
cuss. But Billy and dissolved part
nership, we settled and struck-least-
wise we struck each other and Billy
settled. Our first little difference was
of an astronomical character. We di-
vided the day different. Billy divided
on SIX a. m. and / divided on ten a. M,
and Billy, instead of allowing for astro-
nomical difference, said was a lazy
dog. But didn't mind that, for Billy
was my partner, you see, and had right
to his views. Then we differed ON ablu-
ton. Billy abIuted before breakfast,
and said I was dirty dog, for you see
always ablute after breakfast. But
didn't mind that, for people will differ,
and so long as the difference don't affect
business what's the odds? But the
third difference was just a little toQ
much for me. We were sitting down Il
beans and slap jacks, and Billy blowing
about my being greedy dog, when
suddenly the fellow said to me, I'D |
thank You for those molasses." This |
was too much-no man can say thosed
molasses," to me and hve-and just
took him in the countenance with a
right handler that settled him and his
damned insulting bad grammar togeth-
er. That's the way we dissolved. I'm
in town, and I guess Bill will be here
in a couple of weeks.
="And So" continued the senator,
ssMorton struck on doctFi1laire.
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-ilsm rnD saama sex
-saaa
The Prince of Wales In Debt Over
$4,000, 0,OO0-Bankruptc on
$700,OOO a Year

A London letter says a report has
| suddenly gained currency that the long
expected crisis had occurred in tbe
financial affairs of the Prince of Wales.
and that the ministry have made up
their minds to propose to the house of
commons next session to pay his debts.
The sum named is $40, 600 pounds ster-
ling, four times the sum voted in 1887
D. appease creditors of that pattern of
royalty who afterwards became George
the Fourth. About paying the bills
there are certain to be two powerful and
contradictory sentiments, one that the
honor OF the nation is concerned in pro-
yldlng for the debts of its future king
the other that these debts are of char
acter which ought to be paid out of the
accumulated fortune of the Queen.
The latter view rests Oh. the well known.
TACT that the Queen has been receiving
ever since the death of Prince Albert
S,tS 6ss1 wlcote a. OF her income ealculated at
/ of ,.r,,,.-s = - 10 support tba axDanaaa
fbat IN the usual decree 81 s,,1en5o-.
? $500; ,=.e-.esIy has, however, lived.
retirement, and that The cost OF drew
lng-room levees and other royal pa
geantries have in fact fallen upon the
Prince and Princess of Wales, whose
income has been unequal to such bur
den. The existing debts, or consider
able part of them, have, according to
this theory, been incurred in the dis
charge of these duties. Hence it is
urged that the Queen, who has had and
kept the money given her by the state
for such purposes, ought to pay them.
The Prince of Wales has e40, 900 year
plus the revenue of the Duchy of Corn
wall, which now amount to over el00,- |
900 per annnm
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Turkish Beds.


A correspondent, writing of Turk
ish harem, says: Each lady had three
rooms to herself, and the furnishing of
them was generally left to her taste or
caprice. They were arranged very well,
and the furniture was very handsome,
but curious in form. A regular Turk
ish bed is something quite different
from ours. There is no bedstead or
mattress, but about thirty very thickly
padded quilts, covered with silk or sat
in, laid one on top of the other on the
floor, until they are about two feet
deep. The sheets are invariably of silk,
embroidered, and the coverlid is a mar
vel of gold and silver embroidery on
satin or velvet. The pillows are of pink,
blue or yellow satin, covered with beau
tiful lace. From the ceiling hangs a
large jeweled and gilded hoop, and
from this rich lace curtains, which en-
circle the bed. To hold their robes they
have innumerable brass-nailed camphor-
wood trunks, and as one of these alter
another was turned out for me to see
the contents, began almost to lose my
head in the confusion of colOrs and
beauty of materials.
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Breeding Camels in Nevada.

On a ranch ON the Carson river, eight
miles below the mouth of Six-mile can
on. is to be seen herd of twenty-six
camels. all but two of which was born
and raised in Nevada. But two OF the
old herd of nine or ten brought here
some years ago are now living. 1t
would seem that the original lot fell IN
TO the hands of Mexicans. who treated
them very badly, overlooking and abus-
ing them. The men who now have
them are Frenchmen, who had formerly
some experience with canels in Europe
They find no difficulty in rearing thenS
and can now show twenty-five tine
healthy animals, all of Washoe growth.
The camel may now be said to be thor
ouphly acclimated in the state. The
owners of the herd find it no more diff
ficnlt to breed and rear them than would
he experienced with the same number
of coats or donkeys. The ranch upon
which they are kept is sandy and sterile
in the extreme yet the animals feast
and grow fat on such prickly shrubs ana
hitter weeds as no other animal would
touch. When left to themselves their
great delight, after filling themselves
With the coarse herbage of the desert,
;s TO lie and roll in the hot &nd. They
ire used in packing salt to the mills on
he river. from the marshes lying In the
desert some sixty miles to the eastward,
thev have animals that easily pack
seven hundred pounds.
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HydrOphObia.

ssJohn Paul" who has had diversi-
fed experiences with dogs, writes from
his home to the Tribune. He mentions
that he was once bitten on the ear by
canine. since which tine he appears to
have suffered much, not from the bite,
but from Mrs. Paul. He says, "She
begged that would send for the doctor
at once, and have my ear cut off, de-
claring that if did not she should not
have q moments peace. Arbitrarily,
perhaps brutally, I declined to crafty
her In consequence I heye not yet
had the bliss of knowing what it is to
bound rayly through life with leather
ear If NAV be that the experience is
still destined to be mine, however, for
since this mad dog excitement reached
its present height Mrs. Paul frequently
asks me if I feel no symphonic. 1 can
NOT scratch the back of my head without
her placing bucket of water before
me to see II I show any signs OF "boil-
ing"
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The Piutes.

The Territorial Enterprise thus de-
scribes the Piutes of Nevada What
ever may be the case with other tribes,
the Piute has no notion of passing away.
They are remarkably healthy people.
They are seldom sick, and there appears
to be about 100 births, to one death:
Hardly squaw that is over sixteen and
and under sixty years of age can be
seen who has not pappoose slung on
her back. What shall be done with
these people will one of these days be
a question that must be answered III
some way. as ther, seems to be no like
hhood of their dying off. Among the
Piutes to work is considered no dis
grace, and their biggest brave is not
ashamed to be seen handling an axe or
saw. The women are quite industrious
and the men are always ready to work
when coin is shown them. Their great
est vice and their ruling passion is
gambling. They play among them
Selves. and when they have money cards
are never ont of their hands.
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MISCELLANEOUS.

The redemption division of the treas
ury department has now seventy clerks en-
pIoyed in the business of counting and assort-
ing the notes sent by the banks for redemp-
ton. In few days, banks will regularly re-
ceiye returns from their remittances to the
treasury for redemption
Capt. Beall, just from Fort Worth,
brings information that the Indians have cap
tured two mail stages. one going and one
coming between Fort Hill and Wichita There
were only three passengers, all of whom with
the drivers, were killed and scalped-
The secretary of the treasury, The
postmaster-general and the secretary Of the
interior have approved of the plans for the new
postofice and custom-house at Cincinnati,
and have directed supervising architect Null
let to proceed with the work. The cost of the
building is limited to 80, 500 600.
Capt. Jas. B. Eads, chief engineer of
the Illinois and st. Louis bridge, has gone to
Europe to thoroughly examine the jettiesy at
the mouth OF the Danube, Rhine and other
rivers having deltas also the different canals
on the continent, SO that he may have addi-
tional and accurate information respecting
their practical workings, to lay before congress
next winter in favor of his plan for jetting the
mouth of the Mississippi
The secretary of the treasury is pre-
paring formal demand on the several Pacific
railroads embraced in the act Of last June,
requiring the payment of five per cent. Of the
net earnings of the companies to the govern
ment, imposed by act of July LIST, 1862 If
the demand is not complied with within sixty
days, the secretary viii notify the attorney
general who will institute legal proceed
ings against the roads for the delinquent
taxes 1aaaf ~
The secretary of the treasury has no
titled inspectors General Smith, Of the bureau
of steamboat inspection service, that his res
ignation would be accepted. The cause Of
this step was on account of expenditures for
experiments Of boilers, ETC., at Sandy Hook,
N. Y, and Pittsburg, Pa, the secretary hold
ing that Nd good has been accomplished by
such experiments, and besides, four other
members of the board to examine into the
causes of boiler explosions disagreed with
Gen. Smith as to the manner Of making these
experiments. The appropriation for expert
ments was over one hundred thousand dol
lars, of which sixty Thousand have been ex-
pended. fa9e
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Indian Tree-climbing.

In South America even the weakest
may be, not uncommonly, seen pluck
ing the fruit at the tree tops. If the
bark is SO smooth and slippery that
&hey cannot go climbing, they use other
means. They make hoop of wild
vines, and putting their feet inside
they use it as a support In climbing.
The negro of the west coast of Africa
makes a larger hoop round the trees,
and gets inside of it and jerks it mp the
trunk with his hands, little at time.
drawing his legs up after it. The Tahl-
tian boys tie their feet together, four or
five inches apart, with piece of palm
bark. and with the aid of this fetter go
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the ground, as she expressed it. that ashes tell

Col. Richard Ten Brock, the we'll
known horse owner, was shot at Gillman's
station, KY, last week by Gen. Walter Whit
taker, lawyer. Whitakert had already killed
two men and is regarded as a desperate char
acter. It win be remembered that Ten Broeck
took a number of American horses to Eng
land some years since and matched them
against English runners. Ten Broeck is not
dangerously wounded. Whitaker fred four
shots, the last shot hitting him in the center
of the forehead, and fortunately glaneing up
wards, cutting through the skiR and hair, but
not fracturing the skull Ten Broeck's es-
cape i regarded as very extraordinary. Whit
taker had an examining trial and was admit
ted to -, 500 bail His attack seems to have
bean unnroYokod
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AUGUST LILIES.
Holding q lily in his hand
For Deaths aununciatio-l -

Holding lily in his hand
For Deaths annunciation,"
What time the white day lilies lift their faces
Serenely splendid to the August sun,
Aud er1mson-streaked petunias overrun
with lavish color all the garden-spaces;
When pHrpling grapes upon the frelis cluster
And bloomy plums drop ripely from their hold,
And peaches turn to globes Of hOneyed gold,
ana pears grow sleek with mellow gloss and lusteri
when translucent haze the sunshine follows b.
And wells the fervent sky in dreamy light
1Svolyes in mist the luminous mountain-heigbt, I,
AZ tllls with violet shade the mountain hoilews;
When the still nights their cevy sweets surrender,
when stars recede, and on her throne serene
Ihe full moon sits a solitary queen,
Aud floods the land and sea with silver spiendo.-
Then comes again, in shadowy completeness,
A face that faded once when lilies came; Z
face the whftest niies could not shame
For lack OF any lovely grace or sweetness.
Nine years ago, in silent desolation,
watched the fading Of that perfect face
OnKll knew His presence in the place
The awful Angel Of Annunciation.
The August sun had set in all its glory.
And when the pomp of clouds had trailed away,
And gold and hatnes hsd melted into gray,
1 read the eading OF loves sweetest story
WIN Light \ hds fre7a5fnE over beds q 6ibob:
Above the silence and the sce1ted gloom
felt the waving o. the mystic lily.
And oh saw, aS one secs in a vision,
Where, spell-boUnd, one may neither cry nor
It's dreary shadow Stealing over her,
And darkening lips and eyes with slow precision.
Nine years ago. But slill the memory thrills me;
And the wild sorrow and ths yearning pain
Come back TO wiring my quickened soul again,
And the same sense Of desclatlon fills me,
through the summer darkness sighine
Some wandering wind has Brought me suddenly
The scent Of lilies. as II came to me
That night in August when my love lay dying.
Scribner's.
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What an Italian Brigand's Head is
Worth.

In the northern provinces and IN Sici-
ly brigandage is as hourishing as In
the olden times the police are either
partisans of malefactorrs or are impo-
tent against their organized forces, and
the poor find it their interest to protect
the brigands who never modest them
and frighten away the proprietors and
farmers from inspecting too closely
their crops and stables. Rarely is
murderer or brigand captured. Forty
five escaped from Casenga last month,
and the ringleaders are still at large.
Botta, the chief of police at Parma
Fiana, mayor of Orviete the inspector
of the 8tacindto in Sardinia, have been
assassinated, and the assassins are un-
discovered. The government sends the
military, who find themselves isolated
in the midst of a hostile or timid popu-
lation without aid or information from
the civil functionaries. A large reward
has Just been offered for the most noted
Sicilian brigands by the new Prefect of
Palermo-Jos Vicenzo Capraro, Pin
cenzo Rocca, Angelo Rinaldi, Gloachi
no di Pasquale, Antonio Leone, $1,000
per head for Antonio Lombard, 81, COO
for Lorenzo Lampiasi, surnamed the
Ming; for Salvatore Vellorina and
Siseppe Lomonte, $400 per head. But
IS to betray the 1aw-defying chief
s5ains, still less to venture into their
domains, well knowing that spy's life
would not be worth an hours purchase.
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Caution to Ladies Going Abroad.

conrea the ,lffbdnefael IA 's5sthe, FnsRak
that marriages solemnized at the resi-
dence of a foreign minister, resident In
France, are not marriages at all. BY a
fiction of international law, the resi-
dence of an ambassador or minister is
considered for certain purposes part OF
the territory of the country he repre-
sents, but this applies only to diplomatic
acts. 1t does not extend to civil acts
affecting the citizens of the country to
whom the ambassador is accredited.
marriage contract at minister's resi-
dence between French subject and a
foreigner has no existence, ON account
of the incompetency of the foreign Off
cial who solemnized it. This decision
will naturally cause some uneasiness to
our American friends that have married
French wives or husbands at our minis
ter's residence in Paris, and who wish
for many reasons to have the contract
legal in both countries.
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Making in the aggregate 19, 492 sub
ordinate oranges on the first day of
June. Oranges are being organized at
the average rate of twenty-five per day,
which, up to the present, would swell
the number to 10000. These oranges,
On an average, number fifty voters, and
it requires no figuring to show that to-
day there are in the United States
1000, 900 voters who are patrons of hus-
bandry
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WEST.

Omaha reports u cars of Japan tea
enroute east. -falaso
st. Louis wants another big bridge
down at Carondelet
Michael Reese, of San Francisco, sues
the, California Pacific road for seventeen
million dollars. ite -
Gen Howard has left Washington
for Oregon to take command of the depart
mant recently under Gen. Davis.
The auditor of Illinois pronounces
the Atlantic and Pacific insurance company
bankrspt -Assetss$20 900, liabilities s447, 999.
Ohio convicts,naustr resume the zebra
90 sssssfb sa;i ss6SssSfssesss:s7s
biain clothes.
The executive committee of the state
grange has issued an address to the grangers
of Wisconsin. 1t warns them that an attempt
viii be made in the next Legislature to secure
therepealof the railroad law, and urs es them
to resist the effort.
Adlutant General Baker, of Iowa,
writes to commissioner Burdett OF the general
land ofice, representing there is great suffer
ing among homestead settlers in the north
western counties of the state, owing to the
visitation of erasshoppers.
The grasshoppers have literally de-
voured every thing in northern and south
western Kansas and Nebraska. The damage
inflicted on vegetation is far greater than in
1862 The corn crop through all this region
is totally destroyed A M
Aspecial from Seneca, Kansas saws
During a heavy thunder storm fifteen miles
west of this city, two men named John o.
lightning. Mre Huddleson was severely
burned Five others in the wagon escaped
unhurt- They had abandoned their homes on
account Of the grasshoppers.
Informrtion from Fort Iaromier saws
the Sioux Indians report that the Arapahoes
and Cheyennes are getting ready for war
Many Sioux win go with them, should this be
true The military are very active, but the |
movements are quiet as possible that the |
Indians may not be informed thereof through |
renegade whites and half-breeds.
Reports from various portions of |
Minnesota, represent the wheat harvest /
nearly completed. The wheat has been saved |
in good condition, and although the yield ia |
not quite equal to that of last year, it is bet
ter than expected The quality is generally |
No l, in many portions of the grasshopper
districts the yield OF wheat is fair Oats and
barley are. good Corn and potatoes promise
excellently.
Col. Stanton, just arrived at Laromie
from the agencies, reports that numbers Of
Indians are coming from the north, who say
that Stabber, prominent Indian in the dis
turbances of last spring at the agencies, and
several others, are killed by Custar's men who
are returning There seems to be much feel
ing in consequence among the Indians coming
in, and at the agencies. The Indians report
the death Of twenty-one Indians, wounded in
he lste fight