The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1875-03-17

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tax Of three mills on the dollar; an
thorizing County Commissioners Of
Orangeburg to levy . special tax.
House bill was laid on table to take
up Senate bill to amend an Act to re-
duoe all Acts and parts OF Acts provid-
ing for assessment and taxation OF pro-
perty into one Act, and to amend same,
which was put upon its second read
ing, amended and ordered engrossed.
Bill to repeal On ACT to regulate the
labor OF persons confined in peniten-
tiary, was laid on table.
Bills to incorporate Charleston
Water Company; to amend Sections
So and Sc of Chapter CXX, of Revised
Statutes, relative to liens on crops,
were indefinitely postponed.
Bills to amend Gan Act for proteo-
tion and preservation of useful ani-
mals;" to amend Section Z, Chupter
XCI, Part II. Title v. of Revised
Statutes, relating to sales under execu-
tion; to limit charge for advertising
certain notices; to repeal part OF
Section % Of an ACT amending San
Act to establish and maintain systen
of free common schools for the State
and to amend same;" to amend IAN
Act concerning school funds;" to
amend IAN ACT to provide for publica.
ton OF Acts. reports. resolutions,
journals and other papers of the Gene
raj Assembly," joint resolutions to
provide for payment of claims held by
Wm. Ladder, one Of the late pro-
prietors OF the Charleston Daily
Courier; authorizing State Treasurer
to re.iesuo to Richard l.. North, NJ.
D., executor for Eliza e. North, de.
ceased, a certain certificate of State
stock; bills to repeal all Acts and parts
of Acts requiring deposits by insur.
ance companies of stocks or bonds
of this State or OF the United
States for protection of policy holders
within the Stste, were read third time
and ordered to the Senate.
Joint resolution directing and re-
quiring the County Commissioners of
Charleston to devote one mill Of tax
levied for fiscal year 1874-75 to the
payment of past due indebtedness of
said County; to charter Greenville and
Cumberland Gap Railroad Company;
to incorporate Railroad Rolling Stock
Manufacturing Company, of Port
Royal; authorizing County Commis-
sioners of Riohland to levy and collect
O special tax to pay past due indebted.
ness OF said County; to establish by
law voting precincts in various Coun-
ties; to declare certain legal holidays,
were read third time and ordered to
Senate.
Bills to amend IN Act to constitute
the County Commissioners of Ander-
| (nr, of aon1kI,
Drainage; to amend Sections aud
of an Act to regulate number and pay
of officers. attaohees. clerks and labor.
ers of General Assembly, and to pro.
vide for manner of electing, appoint
ing and paying same, were indefinitely
postponed.
The Sergeant-at.Arms announced the
Senate, when President Gleaves took
the chair. and announced that the two
Houses were met in joint assembly for
the purpose of hearing Hon. F. l..
Cardozo in his defence, prior to vote
upon an address for HE removal from
Office Of State Treasurer. A proposi-
tion to postpone being here made by
counsel, Senate returned.
Bill to protect and encourage stock
raising was read third time and ordered
enrolled.
Ben. Butler will doubtless never be
heard from in reference to the pillag-
ing of the wrecked Italian bark Clio
vanni on the Massachusetts, coast, a
few days ago. The vessel was loaded
with wine and other valuable merchan-
disc. She went to pieces, and gang
of banditti-real banditti, mind you
rushed upon the dismantled vessel aud
took everything they could fnd. while
sixteen dead victims of the disaster
were tossing in the surf beside them.
Breaking into the wine casks, they in
serted their hoads and drank them.
selves into frenzy, which resulted in
q wild and bloody conflict, fatal to
many Of them. This occurred on the
soil Of pioas Massachusetts. and if
Sheridan or Butler has discovered auy.
thing approaching to it in bandittism
in Louisiana, they have not mentioned
it.
The annual meeting of the German
Society OF South Carolina was held on
last Friday evening, when the Trea.
surer made his annual statement.
During the year. the society collected
$557.51. OF this amount, all bu.
$l5 Al was spent in providing for the
1,200 immigrants who arrived here
during the year, The sOciety was or.