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COLUMBIA? S. C.
Saturday Morning, Jone 19, 1875.
There is something' new in Spanish
affairs. A London despatch states that
Don Carlos has* given his son the title of
Prince of Astnrias, which is a rather
bold piece of business on his part, and
suggestive of the confidence he has in
his own ultimate success. The title of
Prince of Astnrias was created for the
Spanish heir-apparent to the throne by
John I, in the year 1388, at the request
of the Duke of Lancaster, whose daugh?
ter the Prinoo was about to marry. The
Crown Princo was thereafter 'called
Prince of Asturias until the expulsion of
the Bourbons from Spain in 1808. Don
Carlos is evidently, by giving his son the
title, arranging for the future. Ho has
also convoked the Assembly, as a sort of
challenge to Alfonso to call the Cortes.
Alfonso is evidently afraid to call the
Cortes. If he does, he knows there will
be trouble between the Liberals and Re?
actionists and the Clericals or Con?
servatives. Ho is afraid of alienating
the Liberals from his support, and afraid
of offending the clergy, who have him
in their grasp. Don Carlos' opportunity
will be when the two hostile parties of
Madrid come to open blows, as they will
sooner or later.
"On May 20 there was issued at Berlin
another volume of Von Moltke's big his?
tory of the war of 1870, giving an ac?
count of the battle of Sedan and a fac
simile of Napoleon Ill's letter accompa?
nying the surrender of his sword to King
William. The Germans lost in the bat?
tle 8,960 killed and wounded, and the
French 17,000 ditto."- fir.
This reminds us of Gen. Clingman's
remark about the fighting of soldiers of
a monarchial government and those of a
republic. The battle above referred to
decided a war between two of the most
powerful and warlike nations of the
world?Germany and France. Nearly
1,000,000 of men were engaged, yet the
loss in killed and wounded was only
25,000?not three per cent. In the late
war between the States there was scarcely
a battle of any magnitude where the ag?
gregate loss of both sides, in killed and
wounded, did not amount to at least ten
per cent, of the forces engaged. In the
battle of Gettysburg alone the loss of the
Confederates and Federals wub much
?greater than that of the Germans and
French at Sedan, yet the forces ol both
sides at Gettysburg did not amount to
"200,000 men. Europeans can probably
teach Americans some things, but they
cannot teach us anything about fighting.
After the Tilton-Beecher trial will
come a Congregational council. It is said
that Dr. Storra and other ministers who
are not satisfied with the stigma which
Plymouth Church gives to that denomi?
nation, will proceed to get at these
?"bottom facts," concerning which so
much has been said, and will, in the
light of a church council, unawed by
Plymouth, oust Beeoher and his adhe?
rents from the Congregational fold.
Beecher's recent remarks about Ply?
mouth standing alone, Ac, are supposed
1 to have been prompted by a knowledge
of what was coming from this direction.
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Presidential ? 'Sacuu'ices."?Refer?
ring to the "sacrifices" which the Presi?
dent alludes to in a bite letter, and to the
comments of the Louisville Courier-Jour'
nal, the Baltimore .s'?? says:
"On the other hand, the Courier-Jour
nal .might have added that real Sacri?
fices' have been made by multitudes on
both sides in the civil war, not only of
comforts and f property, but of lifo,
who never received any requital but the
consciousness of having performed what
they considered their duty. There is
scarcely one ot tho humblest of the sol?
diers on either side whose prospects of
the future were not as good as those of
Gen. Grant when the war began. Con?
sidering bow these multitudes have re?
ceived no return, unless the good fortune
that spared their lives through the war
cun be considered such, and how tho
President has reaped from the war only
the most wonderful advance in personal
fortune which the world has seen since
tho days of the first Napoleon, it must
be admitted that the less he has to say
of Sacrifices' the better. There have
been Presidents who might have talked
of 'sacrifices,' both of ease, health and
emoluments in tho public service. But
these officials gave themselves, with civil
experience ana training fitting them for
the position, wholly to their public
duties, taking little time for recreation
and being rarely absent from Washing?
ton. Our present Chief Magistrate,
whose departure to tho watering places
is one of the earliest signs of summer,
does not belong to this class."
Mrs. Murray, who stabbed and killed
Capt. Joseph Green, in Newark, N. J.,
Monday night, with a pair of scissors,
has surrendered herself to the police.
Green and her husband were drinking
together at n saloon, when' she entered
and told her husband to leave the
drunk* n loafer, when Green retorted
?vith vile epithets, and she stabbed him.
Mb. Eorob: The communication of
Major W. B. Gulick, published in the
Phojntx, of the 16th, as well as the state?
ment of the city finances, published
heretofore in the Ilerald and Phosnxx, by
the Committee of Twenty, are, us stated
by Major Gulick, matters of business,
and conducted by business men, to show
the citizens our present financial condi?
tion, with a view of promoting retrench?
ment and reform in the future. There
is not one word in the report of the Com?
mittee, or in the communication of Maj.
Gulick, which are partisan in their na?
ture. The posting of the city books was
done by Capt. J. L. Little, (Republican,)
clerk in the Comptroller-General's office,
and Mr. G. M. Walker, Cashier of the
Union Savings Rank, and have, no
doubt, been done impartially and occn
rately. The books are open for the in?
spection of the public, and will verify
the result as summed up by the Citizen's
Committee. The bonded debt, bills
payable and city currency outstanding
arc on record, and no misrepresentation
by mixing up figures by General Stol
brand or 'lion. Ii. Cass Carpenter, will
change the facts. Major Gulick has
Bhown that the actual amount paid on
the City Hall is $61,428.94, and not $87,
822.34, as stated by the Hon. Mr. Car?
penter, and that $66,000 was diverted to
other purposes by Council.
The honorable ex-member of Congress
claims payment of interest for thr. year
ending March 3L, 1870, amounting to
$31,656, paid prior to the first term of
Mayor Alexander's administration, as an
amount paid by him, when the books
and the report of tho Citizens' Commit?
tee show to tho contrary. These two
items alone show that tho figures of the
honorable gentleman are incorrect to the
amount of $58,049.40. I shall not at?
tempt to follow up the arithmetic of the
Hon. Mr. Carpenter and Gen. Stoibrand,
but will take from the records of Coun?
cil the reports of tho Citizens' Committee
and the admissions of Messrs. Carpenter
and Stolbrand, so far as they agree with
the facts, and place the same before the
public in a different shape from the
statements of either, which will show
the result of the past five years' admi?
nistration of the city government In
making this statement, I do not desire
to be understood as reflecting upon the
| present City Council. It is well under?
stood that the extravagance and misma?
nagement . of their predecessors have
been a source of great embarrassment to
them, and that they have reduced ex?
penses in many particulars. The actual
result, however, has to be stated to date,
and the amount of actual debt outstand?
ing has to be taken into consideration, to
show our condition as compared with the {
past administration of city officers.
Mr. Walter R. Jones, late City Clerk
and Treasurer, and at present Private
Secretary to Gov. Chamberlain, stated
the entire indebtedness on April 1, 1874,
as amounting to from $725,000 to $750,
000. This statement was made at the
citizens' meeting, held at Irwins Hall,
for the purpose of investigating the
financial condition of the city. ? I shall
assume that tho debt was at that time
$725,000, nnd proceed to place the pre?
sent condition of the city before the
public:
Debt, as stated by Major Gulick May
31, 1870, $390,324.10, (at which time
Mayor Alexander went into office;) five
years interest on indebtedness of city,
from March 31, 1865, to March 31, 1870,
at $22,096 per annum, $110,480; less
interest paid year ending March 31,
1866, $5,459; less interest paid vear
ending March 31, 1867, $5,260.26; less,
interest paid year ending March 31,1
1868, $3,585.13; less interest paid vear
ending March 31, 1869, $19,425.40; less
interest paid vear ending March 31,
1870, $31,656.57?$65,386.36; coupons
outstanding, acknowledged by Hon.
Mr. Carpenter, viz: $45,093.64; mis?
cellaneous accounts outstanding, esti?
mated by old Council May31, 1870,
$1,000; account of Joseph Crows,
as certified by Mayen- Gibbes, $1,50(1.
From which is to be deducted ('., C. &
A. R. R. stock sold vear ending March
31, 1JS71, ?10,187.50; do. do., March 31,
1872, $s,H88.88- $49,076.38. Actual debt
of city of Columbia, May 31, 1870, in
eluding bonds, city money, bills paya?
ble, coupons anil * floating debt, $397,
841.36 Estimated debt citv of Colum?
bia March 31, 1874, $725,060. Deduct
amount paid on City Hall contract, $01,
428.91; deduct amount paid, water pipes
and expenses of laying the same, $21,
184.80?$82,613.80. Amount of debt,
less improvements, March 31, 1874,
$6-12,386.20. Deduct therefrom debt
May 31, 1870, as stated above, $397,
841.36, shows increased city indebted?
ness from May 31, 1?70, to* March 31,
1874. $244,544.84.
I shall next compare the receipts from
taxes, licenses, city market an J guard
house for the years commencing March
31, 1870, and ending March 31,1875, and
compare the amounts reulized for the
preceding fivo years from same sources
by their predecessors, and leave the pub?
lic to decide as to the effect such onerous
taxation must have on our citizens, ami
which Councils are responsible therefor:
Taxes, including licenses, market and
police receipts, for year ending March
31, 1871, $44,383.36; March 31, 1872,
$110,841.02; March 31, 1873, $96,081.56;
March 31, 1874, $99,746.28; March 31,
1875, $110,000. Total fivo years, $461,
052.22.
Memoratulum.?The taxes of 1875 are
estimated at $110,000, as the tax has
been increased three mills and no state?
ment published by Council.
Taxes, including licenses, market and
police receipts, for year ending March 31,
1866, $13.994.60; March 31, 1867, $33,
596.94; March 31,1868, $37,34411; March
31, 1869, $46,852,81; March 31, 1870,
$57,911.98? $189,700.44. Increased taxa?
tion during past five years, $271,351.78;
add increased debt during past five
years, $244,544.84.?total increased in?
debtedness und taxation, $515,896.62.
This shows conclusively that the peo
pie arc upward of $500,000 worse off to?
day, financially, than they were on the
3l8t of May, 1870, which amount con?
sists in increased taxes paid and in?
creased debt incurred, aftor allowing for
permanent improvement of City Hall
and water pipe. I commend these
figures to Gen. Stoibrand and Hon. Mr.
Carpenter, and leave the public to decide
on the subject of extravagance and re?
sponsibility for our present condition.
At a future time, I will pursue the sub?
ject further in its various aspects.
Ljinch Law in New York.?The village
ofVbncordia, in Jefferson County. New
York, has recently been mystified by a
succession of robberies. Finally, it was
determined that every house in the town
should be searched by n self-constituted
vigilance committee. The work had not
well begun before it was ascertained that
an old resident, Dr. ltusch, had drawn
liia money out of the bank and left sud?
denly on horseback. He was soon over?
taken by a baud of mounted pursuers,
and, on being brought back, confessed
to eight robberies, whereupon he was
seized by un infuriated mob, who placed
a rope round his neck and led him to a
neighboring road. The following ac?
count of the closing scenes is given by
the Watertown Dispatch: "The noose was
fastened around his neck and the end of
the rope thrown over a limb of a tree
and grasped by the eager and excited
crowd, who in an instant had the body
of the doctor dangling in the air.
Thrice he was let down and asked
if he bad accomplices. The un?
fortunate man persisted that he had
none, and seqing he had no chance of
mercy, ho asked at the last time the
benefit of olergy. Strange to say, the
crowd granted this reasonable request,
and a Methodist minister offered a long
and impressive prayer for the doomed
man's sou?. Kusch also began praying,
1 but his auditors were not impressed, and
I told him to 'cut it short.' He begged
for more time to pray, but hia impatient
I hearers swung him up with the words
on his lips. The majority of the mob
stayed until the last spark of life had
fled, when they returned to their homes.
Some others, heavily under the influence
of whiskey, stayed behind and perpe?
trated a more dastardly act than did the
man they hanged. They cut the corpse
down and robbed it of the money be had
drawn from the bank and his gold watch
and chain, leaving his body where it
fell, with the rope still round his neck,
in which condition it was found and
taken charge of by the officers of the law.
A jury was summoned by 'Squire Tic
mann and an inquest held. The verdict
was in accordance with the foregoing
facts. Ho had previously borne a good
character, and was unsuspected of crimes
so heinous."
This is certainly one of the most
brutal cases of lynch law that ever oc?
curred in a civilized community. The
popular frenzy that summarily punishes
rape, or killB the murderer when courts
have fallen into bad repute, or even
newly settled sections, is, at least, coni
ftrehensible. But here is a criminal
ynched for ordinary theft, when the
stolen articles were recovered at his
dwelling; his dying prayers are brutally
cut short, and the dead body is rifled by
vandals?all this in an old settled sec?
tion dotted with churches, schools, rail?
roads and telegraph poles. Perhaps
tho strangest feature of it, from a news?
paper stand-point, is that such an out?
rage could be perpetrated in a State like
New York, and almost passed unnoticed,
the telegraphic despatches making no
allusion to it whatever, notwithstanding
the extra facilities existing there. Tin
news comes now only by the old fash?
ioned mails.
A Baked Biiti.e.?There is a Bible in
Lucas County, Ohio, which, at one time,
contained some very warm scriptural
texts. It belongs to a Mr. Scheboldt. a
native of Bohemia. It was formerly the
property of his grand-mother, who was a
very devout Protestant. During one of
those unfortunate periods when religious
persecutions were common in Austria, a
law was passed at the instance of the
Catholics, that every Bible in the hands
of the people should be surrendered to
the priests, to bo burned. Mrs. Sche?
boldt determined to save hers, and when
the party came to search her house, she
had just prepared a huge batch of dough
for the oven, and, taking her precious
Bible, she wrapped the yielding dough
around it and quickly deposited it in the
oven. Here it was most thoroughly
baked, but was saved uninjured from
tho fiery furnace of the priests. It may
be said to have been saved from the tire
by fire, and has passed down through
several generations as a memorial of the
days when men were not allowed to wor?
ship God in accordance with the dictates
of their own consciences. It ought to
go to tho centennial as a mute witness of
tho light of other days?a light raised by
a bon-fire of burning Bibles.
A yellow cat had been making his
home in tho Methodist Church at Austin.
Last Sunday ho took a position on the
big pedal bass of the church organ. He
was enjoying a comfortablo nap when
the services opened, and when tho or?
ganist came down on the pedal bass, that
eat went up into tho body of tho church
like a rocket. He lit on the back of a
pew in tho centre of tho church, and,
with an unearthly yell, bumped herself
and proceeded to claw the stnftW out of
an adjacent waterfall. With frantic reck?
lessness the lady, thinking no doubt the
devil was after her, turned a complete
summersault out of the pew and landed
on tho other side of the aisle. A general
stampede was only prevented by the es?
cape of the cat out of a door near tho
pulpit. ? Nevada Enterprise.
Old Mr. Henry Belk died suddenly
in Lancaster, last Sunday.
TRUTH.
City Itkks.?Subscribe for (don't bor?
row) the Phos nix.
The corn in tho country is looking par?
ticularly fine just now. .
Rev. Lovick Pieree arrived in this city
yesterday.
The sas took a freak, la.st night, and
for a short time refused to burn.
Good manners are always admired by
all persons; bad manners are, on the
contrary, always despised.
The thermometer ran way up into the
nineties, yesterday. It was considered
the warmest day of the season.
The ladies on our streets, yesterday,
made quite a show; never mind the wea?
ther, so the wind don't blow.
A great deal of money is sure to go
where the woodbine twineth this Hum?
mer?because the woodbine twineth on
the new bonnets.
The storm-king had another short
reign, about 2 o'clock, yesterday morn?
ing, and for a while things were lively.
No material damage, so far as known.
Mr. Seegcrs' ice machine is slightly
out of order, but his customers will not
be disappointed, as he has supplied him?
self with the frozen article from the
Northern lakes.
The silver set. ordered two years ago,
for then Speaker Lee, is still at Mr.
Glaze's jewelry store. Mr. G. is puz?
zled, and wants to know "what will he do
with it."
The untiring activity of the itinerant
strawberry vender no longer agitates the
dix>r-bclls of our good citizens, but has
given place to the not more acceptable
interrogation: "Don't you want to buy
some blackberries?"
On and after to-morrow, the Columbia
day train on the South Carolina Railroad,
which has heretofore left Charleston at
6.45 A. M., will leave at 5.45 A. M., and 1
will arrive in this city at 12.55 P. M.,
making close connections with the Char?
lotte Road.
It is rumored that a reliable party offers
to deliver the stolen diamonds for $200.
This matter is being whittled down to a
very sharp point, and it is full time that
some arrests had been made. This pro?
position is sufficient evidence to cause
the arrest of the party making it. The
first thief is now being tried in Augusta.
Richard's patent dining table and fly
exterminator is a great curiosity, and will
prove a valuable addition to nny dining
room. Servants as well as flies are dis?
pensed with. The machine is neat and
booty-looking. It can be seen at Mr.
McKenzie's saloon, where chances can
ho secured, as it is to be raffled.
The following changes will be made in
the schedule of the Ch-.rlotte, Columbia
and Augusta Railroad to-morrow, June
2ft:
Train No. 2 will leave Augusta at 8.22
A. M.; Granitovillo 9.13 A. M.: Columbia
Junction 12.58 P. M.; Columbia 1.18 P.
M.; Chester 5.10 P. M.; arrive at Char?
lotte 7.32 P. M. No. 3 leaves Columbia
3.40 A. M.: arrives at Augusta 8.20 A. M.
Mr. Cramer has been engaged for seve?
ral weeks in preparing additional sets of
scenery for the Opera House. He is ar?
ranging for an exhibition next week, to
assist in procuring new and convenient
chairs. The pieces selected are "Lost in
Lon Ion," and the Shakspearean comedy
of 'Taming the Shrew." There are
s"veral sensational scenes, which will be
well worth seeing.
WM* .1 "->//?<? is the name of the new
illustrated magazine for girls and boys,
which I). Lothrop A Co., the enterpris?
ing Boston publishers, have started.
The fir->t number is a gem. In typogra?
phical beauty, in illustrations and in
literary matter, it is near perfection:
while its price, $2.00 per annum, will
make it a favorite in these hard times.
Convenient in form, with a showy cover
and fine plates, with stories and poems
ami instructive articles from well-known
authors, with pages of music and puzzles
and familiar talk, it cannot fail to win
public iavor. Miss Ella Farman, author
of "A White Hand," "A Little Woman,"
etc., is the editor, and Mrs. Louise
Chandler Moniton, Miss Julia A. East?
man, George Maedonald, Dr. Tourjee
and other well-known names are contri?
butor--. It will be a welcome visitor in
any family circle.
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Tiles.?The season has now arrived
when all classes of human beings are in?
terested about tiles?not for the house,
but the head; opinions vary, too?some
preferring a thin felt; while others ad?
here to the famous plug; still others,
again, want a lighter covering; and just
here is where the variety coiues in.
Messrs. Kinard A Wiley have adapted
their selection to these varied desires,
and have laid in a heavy stock of all
styles. Jimmy Kennedy says?and he
knows - that the collection is the best
and largest which is to be seen in this
city.
Luit of New Advertisements.
Hardy Solomon?Mountain Butter.
B. B. Miller?Extra Court.
Richard Jones?Notice. ?
H. & S. Beard?Furniture.
J. C. Seegers?Notiee.
St-piiEME Court Decision - Juke 18.?
J. M. Sullivan, respondent, vs. W. H.
Thomas, appellant. Appeal dismissed.
Opinion by Willurd, A. J.
Hotel Arrivals, June 10. ? Mansion
House- -A. Crawford, city, Miss L. Jones,
Marion; N. A. Peay and wife. Fairfield;
D. J. Griffith, Summit; Miss M. Black,
city: B. F. Mauldin, G. A C. B. Ii.; J.
G. Lvkes, Kicbland: L. M. Dodamend.
city.
A Remarkable Case.?The New York
i World gives a brief history of one of the
most remarkable cases of protracted liti?
gation ever recorded, which dwarfs into
insignificance such wrangles as those
concerning the Jnmel will, Mrs. Myra
Clark Gain eg' claim or Bentloy's Master?
ship of Trinity, is still pending in the
Court of Common Fleas of Clark Countv,
Ky. In December, 1815, Joseph Blacl'
well sued in the Bath Circuit Court, to
recover from nearly 100 defendants, some
20,000 acres of land, chiefly in Bath
County. He clnimed title by* virtue of
an entry under a trensury warrant of
1784, und a subsequent survey and
patent, alleging that the defendants'
titles, all of which were older than bis,
were void for want of certainty. It was
18:11 before the caso reached a hearing,
and in 1833 the plaintiff got judgment.
An appeal was taken, and in 1835 the de?
fendants obtained a reversal on technical
grounds. The caso was remanded to the
Bath Court, where it dragged along till
1846, when a change of venue to Clark
County was prayed and gladly granted.
Then for four years the defendants were
unmolested, while the plaintiffs fought
among themselves. Blackwell had been
dead for thirty years, and his heirs now
attempted to make themselves plaintiffs,
instead of Wo, Marshall and John Fowler,
who bad conducted the suit, claiming
to have purchased from BlackwelL The
heirs denied the fact of such a purchase
and its validity in any case, but after
four years of litigation, were defeated in
all the courts, and the case in 1850 was
precisely as it was in 1815. In the suc?
ceeding twenty-five years it has made
two visits to the Court of Appeals and
returned with unimpaired vivacity. A
year ago it was transferred to the Court
of Common Tleas, and there it is now
pending just as near a decision as it was
sixty years ago, and conducted with
just as much energy. All the original
parties to it are dead. Three generations
of lawyers have drawn fees from it,
among others Thomas Fletcher, Robert
M. Bradley, James Simpson, Kenas
Farrow, R. Apperson, Robert Wick
liffe, John B. Huston, B. J. Peters
nnd Thomas Turner. Simon Kenton's
autograph appears on a deposition
taken in 1810 end Garrett Davis"
on a deed certified by him as Deputy
Clerk of the Bath Court in the
same remote year; it has been brought
before successions of Judges long since
dead, in court houses that dropped to
pieces long ago. but the caso remains,
defying time like Miss Anthony. Age
cannot wither it, nor custom stale the
infinite variety of its phases, and as the
lands arc increasing in value more ra?
pidly than the fees can possibly increase
in amount, and the mass of papers in
which fatal technical errors are found
alternately by plaintiff and defendant
yearly grows in volume, there appears
no reason why the case should not see
the downfall of Kentnckian civilization
as it behold its rise, and s-urvive long
after blue grass has c eased to grow and
Bourbon whiskey to run; nay, even as?
sist the last sad rites of its infant brother
of Brooklyn.
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"Tickets, Sin."?This is the way it
happened in a town not far from Elmira:
< >n?' of the regular attendants at Central
Church is a railroad conductor. He is
regular, not so much from any personal
inclination for Calvinism, as from the
fact that he has a first rate Presbyterian
wife, who keeps him in the way be
should go. A few Sundays since, one of
the deacons was absent, and our con?
ductor was requested to pass the plate.
Of course he consented. For the first
dozen pews, everything passed oft' well.
There was a regular financial shower of
nii-klesmnd dimes, and the railroad man
watched sharp, bnt couldn't see that
anybody "got away" without responding.
Finally, he came to a seat where the oc?
cupant was either busted or disinclined,
for he shook his head, but made no at?
tempt on his pocket. The conductor
looked at him sharply, but no cash ap?
peared. Then he nudged his shoulder
and softly called: "Tickets, sir!" Again
the man's head wagged horizontally, but
the stamps didn't come. "Pass, then,"
whispered tho conductor. Still no re?
sponse. Just as tho railroad chap was
about to call up the fireman and brake
man to help pitch the impecunious wor?
shipper out of doors, the regular deacon
came in and relieved bis proxy. Tho
conductor says ho believes in running a
church tho same way you would a rail?
road train?if a man won't pay or hasn't
a pass, let him git.
Maud Oswald had to stand behind a
counter in a fancy-sore at Troy, N. Y.,
twelve hours a day. She asked permis?
sion to sit down, and, being refused,
resigned her $0 a-wcek salary, and ap?
plied to Barnuui for a situation. She
now drives the most gorgeous chariot,
does n bare-back act, and, on a salary of
$75 a week, comfortably supports her?
self and mother.
The young man that broke his tooth
sometime ago with a rock that was in
his food, said his tooth was not founded
on a rock; but a rock was found-ed
I (.found) on his tooth.
