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COLUMBIA, S. C.
Friiey Morning, June 27,1873.
gTSio Wster Goranlalnt.
Eeally it is too touch, this eternal
pother about the water supplied to the
oity. It looks as if everything in this
era of freedom, and of the predominance
of the party of moral ideas, must be
soiled. The prevalent and all-abound?
ing filth, it is oharged, is not kept out of
the streams which are sent up to slake
the thirst and supply the kitchens of our
citizens. In Columbia, before the dawn
of this delectable era, we always had
good, wholesome water, of delightful
temperature in witter, but requiring ice
or some cooling process in summer. In
all seasons, it was pure and agreeable.
The public drank it without apprehen?
sion of .cholera, or cholerine, or the fear
of entozoa. And while it was good, it
was cheap. It was furnished at a cost of
about 86,000. The pretext that the sup?
ply was likely to prove insufficient, *>r
that the machinery was getting old, wqb
seized upon by the new City Counoil of
1870-71, and the job of supplying water
was let out for twenty years to the Co?
lumbia Water Vottsr Company for
816,000 a year.
Then commonoed this water trouble,
and now all who can gain access to a
well, deoline to risk drinking the water
furnished by this company. The Mayor
of the oity gave it as his opinion to the
Gity Oonncil that it was impure, un?
wholesome and dangerouB. The Board
of Health pointed out specifically the
causes and souroes ot this impurity.
The oontraotor answered these charges
and imputations, and made a fair showing
Of certificates from the heads of large
piblio institutions, in favor of the good
quality of the,water supplied to them.
Again, the Counoil and Board of Health
have had the matter before them, and in
course of debate before tho former body,
an eminent practitioner of medicine is
quoted as saying that ho would not even
use the water for bathing purposes, as ho
feared ill effects from it, The City
Physician stated that upon examination
he had found the water impure and
oharged with organio ma'tter. It might
cause disease to break out at any mo?
ment. Tho action of Council culmi?
nated in the adoption of a motion that
the Mayor call a mass meeting of the
citizens to take aot.:on upon the subject.
Thus the matter stands. There is,
beyond question, a general nneasiness
about drinking the water. The citizens
are afraid to use it, and as we urged (wo
weeks ago, it is of the last importance
that the question of the culpability of
the contractor be settled, and of more
importance still, that a supply of whole?
some, palatable water be furnished by
him. If he is faithfully discharging his
dnty, agreeably to contract, he should
be promptly exonerated of all blame.
If he is not, and the public are daily
drinking in the seeds of disease and dis?
order, a remedy should be summarily
applied. The mode of doing this, or
the agencies by which it is to be done,
are, perhaps, nnimportant. We cannot
say that we favor the soheme of a public
meeting, into which prejudice and haste
are likely to enter. A competent com?
mittee of each meeting, however, might
very well co-operate with the Board of
Health, to whom the duty properly be?
longs, in an investigation ot all the faots
pertinent to the question. We write
without bias, except in favor of trood
water and fair dealing all round. Let
, those who may he appointed to make
such investigation go at their work with
judicial strictness and candor us to
parties and their rights aud feelings,
but with unswerving purpose to probe
the evil thoroughly, if ods exists, and to
effect the desirable and all-important
object of securing once again a supply of
water that shall be healthy, agreeable,
and, in every respect, satisfactory. An
old poet Bings of water as "tho best
thing." It is, when good, It may bo
the worst, when foul.
Oar "Natural Allies," says the Mobile
Register, are moving strongly in the
right direction. You may call their
movement "Farmers' Club," "Oranges
of Industry," or whatever else you
please, hot they oortstinty set forth the
rights of tho people who live by tho
sweat of their brow to a fair chance and
a just equality with tho3e who live by
their witB iu the raoe of life, without fa?
voritism, monopoly or robbery on the;
part of the Government. This is what
we have always understood to be Demo?
cracy, and aa a rose by any other name
would smell as sweet, wo bid tho farmers
"God speed!" and shall rejoice heartily
in their triumph.
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A freight train smashed np lust Friday,
abont one and a half miles from Marion,
by whioh two or three Mrs became a
total wreck.
New Hampshire cleared 320,000 on
her State prison last year. The indus?
try should bo enlarged.
City AVater?
Filter, filter, filter?it certainly re?
quires it. The citizens hear almost daily
that a now filterer is to be used or pat
in, eo that the city water will resume its
pristine parity. Filtering oar pare
Bpriag water is something new to all, bat
more especially to our old inhabitants;
and why it has become necessary to sub?
ject the city water to a process of purifi?
cation, is something novel and ntartling.
There is something rotten in Denmark,
before it is fit to drink. Have the
springs failed, that recourse mast be
made to the river? If eo, it mast be de?
trimental to health add a dangerous ex?
periment. A change of water to men
and animals always throws the system
oat of gear. Does the contract give the
right to the Colombia Water Power
Company to famish river water for the
ase of the inhabitants? This matter
should be looked into by tbo proper au?
thorities. Pare water is indispensable
to the health of the people; and pure
spring water, clear and sparkling, is
what oar people have been accus?
tomed to ase. Do not the same springs
exist? Does not the same pure
water still ooze from its natural bed,
the sources from whence the city has de?
rived its supply for many, many years
past? The head spring that gashes
forth its waters in Sidney Park is still at
work. This was the first water nsed in
the city. Tbo steam engine then nsed
for the purpose of throwing this water
ap into the old reservoir was in tho park;
the basin on the hill in front of Colonel
Alexander Taylor's residence. In after
years it was deemed necessary to enlarge
the works. At this time the present
distributing and receiving reservoirs were
built; also,.a mach larger engine par
chased. This was the first fatal mistake
of oar city fathers. For at that timo they
ought to have erected water power in?
stead of steam, and it would havo been
famished to the city for that purpose
for a trifle by the State in 1354. The
engine party oarried the day, and tho
works were placed in the steam mill lot,
where they have always done good work,
by supplying the oity with pure wator
and plenty of it. The water in Sidney
Park was economised and ran down to
the basin in iron pipes; besides whioh
the waters from several springs were
conveyed to the same spot. Among
them Rogers' spring, situated ia
the ravine near Messrs. Kind &
Goldsmith's City Foundry, a bold
gashing spring, if carefully hoarded,
would supply half of tho city itself. With
this bountiful supply, water was abun?
dant for all city purposes at all seasons
of the year. Tho hardest trial the works
were ever subjected to,-was during the
war. The city at that time was com?
puted to contain about 20,000 inhabit?
ants, eighteen stationary engines, large
manufactories for the making of money,
&o.? one in particular, with two large
fountains constantly playing night and
day, in order to havo a moist atmos?
phere; a Government distillery and la?
boratory?all of which were supplied
from the City Water Works with pure
spring water, and plenty of it. To use
water power instead of steam, would be
well, if it was a matter of economy. It
was understood that tho same spring
water was to bo used for drinking pur?
poses, the only difference being in the
motive power. The people are begin?
ning to think they are paying dear for
the whistle. The old works, with a plen?
tiful supply of good, wholesome water,
cost from $6,000 to S7.000 per annum;
tho low works, supplying the city with
dirty-looking water, from tbo river, it is
said, oosting 316,000 per annum. Look
upon that pioture and then upon this,
and set; what the citizens make
by this splendid operation of our City
Council, with Mayor Alexander at the
head. The making of the contract was
wrong; tho prioe too ranch by $6,000 a
year, and the terms too long by ton
years. Wrong, altogether wrong, that a
people should be so imposed upon, and
if the fault lays with the Columbia Wator
Power Company, they should be sum?
marily dealt with. Any man or set of
men who would tamper with the health
of a community in a oaso like this, to .say
the least, are criminals. It would bo far
preferable to abrogate tho ooutract, go
back tc first principles, and havo pure
water to drink that requires no filtering.
"There shall be wars und rumors oi
wars." The talk in Europe now is, that
Bismarck is exceedingly uneasy regard?
ing the future intentions of France, and
has placed heavy masses of reserve troops
under arms. Austria is also said to bo
arming and preparing for war, with a
view of assisting the French, in case of a
conflict. Should the Prussians ro-ocoupy
the evacuated provinces of France, ur is
said to be contemplated, a general rup?
ture would bo likely to ensue. The day
when "nations 6hall learn war no more"
wiil, evidently, not be seen in this age.
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Tho Pope, who has got through cero
bro-spiual exhaustion, the result of a
life-long liability to cpileptoid seizures,
acute and bronchitis and locomotor
ataxy, will probably live a hundred years
or more. It is peculiarly distressing to
bo compelled to admit cerebro-spinul ex?
haustion, opileptoid seizures, acute
bronchitis and locomotor ataxy, aro com?
patible with infallibility. Certainly dis?
ease is no respecter of personj.
It has been generally bolieved that
shad coald not be taken with tho hook
and line. Mr. Thomas Chalmers, of
Holyoke, Mass., has demonstrated to
the oontrary. Discovering that captured
shad contained in their maws a peculiar
kind of miller, ho made an artificial fly
like it, and caught, in 1861, not less
than 1,100 shad in this way. His seoret
leaked out, and fly-fishing for shad is
now usual at Holyoke.
?urifying
HEALTH.
The Spartanlmrg and Ailxevllle Rail
road.
Railroads have beoome a necessity for
the prosperity of the country. The pub?
lic mind is being thoronghly aroused
to the necessity of a' passage across the
mountains leading to the great grain and
provision country of the West. . I have
lately visited tho Counties of Henderson,
Buncombe, Polk and Transylvania, in
North Carolina, where they have one of
the finest climates in the world, and a
soil that produces corn, wheat, rye, oats
and hay in great abnndanoo; also, apples,
Irish potatoes, cabbage, &o. Tnoy also
raise fine beef cattle, sheep and hogs, all
of wbich the South needs. I find the
people of those Counties alive to the im?
portance of railroad facilities, and will?
ing* to aid liberally according to thoir
means. Sonth Carolina is deeply inte?
rested in this extension. Millions of
dollars have been spent in trying to
make tho connection by other routes,
which have only been so much money
wasted. The praotioability of the Butt
Mountain and French Broad route ha3
been established beyond all question,
more than one-third of a oentnry ago,
ander the administration of the lamented
Uayne. The whole mountain range
from Virginia to Georgia having been
carefully examined, and reports made of
such gaps as were thought practicable,
Gen. Hayne, in his report to the stock?
holders at Flat Rock, in 1837, said:
"We rest our claims upon the country
and our hopes of success ohiefly upon the
fact that this wouderfal pissage through
tho mountains is to be found within
the limits of our charter, lying almost in
a direot lino between Charleston and
Lexington, and affording unquestionably
the cheapest and easiest and most direct
communication between the Atlantis
Ocean and the Ohio River." He says
again: "We have dwelt on thiB most strik?
ing feature in the oharacter of our line,
because'we believe it to be without a
parallel. It has been well observed that
it is greatly to be doubted, if the topo?
graphy of the world affords so singular
and striking a feature as the valley and
river of the French Broad." Bot I need
not dwell on this point. I will only re?
mark that the convention hold at Knox
ville, in 183C, was represented by 380
delegates from nine different States, and
after many days spent investigating the
various lines, the Butt Mountain and
French Broad was unanimously adopted.
The route from Asheville, N. O, to
Spartanburg, S. C, was again surveyed
in 1859, following nearly the same
route that had been before adopted,
which reports no grade between Aahe
ville and Spartanburg coming into South
Carolina exceeding 10 feet to the mile,
and only miles going to Asheville
over 40 feet to the mile, and that section
only 63 feet to the mile. Well may it
be said to be withoot a parallel.
Now we Will compare distanoes, tak?
ing Cincinnati, Ohio, as a central
point. From Cincinnati to Philadel?
phia, via Pittsbnrg, is 836 miles;
from Cincinnati to Baltimore, via Wheel?
ing, is 7G3 miles; from Cincinnati- to
Norfolk, over Oovington and Ohio Rail?
road, is 683 miles; from Cincinnati to
Charleston, through Frenoh Broad Val?
ley and Butt Mountain Gap, is 659 miles
?giving Charleston tho advantage in
distance of 24 miles over Ndrfolk, 104
miles over Baltimore, and 177 miles over
Philadelphia. From Morristown, on the
East Tennessee and Virginia Railroad,
to Richmond, is 417 miles; from Morris
town to Norfolk, is 517 miies; from Mor?
ristown to Charleston, is 384 miles?dis?
tance in favor of Charleston over Rich?
mond of 33 miles, and over Norfolk, 133
miles; also, a grade of 40 feet per mile,
against 63 feet per mile on the other
routes. Then, take Asheville as a oen
tre. From Asheville to Portsmouth, via
North Carolina Central Railroad, (not
1 yet finished,) is 449 miles; from Ashe?
ville to Beaufort, N. C, by same route,
is 416 miles; from Asheville to Wilming?
ton, by samo route, is 404 miles; from
Asheville to Charleston, is 300 miles
giving advantage to Charleston over Nor?
folk of 149 miles; over Beaufort, 11C
miles; over Wilmington, 104 miles, with
Advuntago of grade of 40 over 63 feot
per mile. Thus it will be seen, that the
Spartanburg and Asheville route has the
advantage of distance, grade and direct
1 ness over any route that can bo found to
connect the Stute- with the West, and by
far tho cheapest of construction, with
, the further advautago that it runs di?
rectly through tho centre of the State,
and cannot be tapped nnywhere so as tc
divert trade from tho Statu. It is a mat?
ter of the utmost importance, that means
be procured nt onoo to build this link
before other roads are completed, which
will divert trade and travel to other cities.
The Wilmington and Rutherford Road
is now being built. A largo force is at
work between Wilmington and Charlotte.
Tho road is in operation from Charlotte,
via Lincolnton, to within a fow miles oi
Shelby, and most of the grading done to
Rutherfordton. They intend extending
it to Asheville. I see, ulso, efforts are
being made to build a railroad from Au?
gusta to Anderson. When these ruade
I shall be oompleted, where stands Colum?
bia and Charleston? Isolated. Build the
Spartanburg and Asheville Road, and,
as shown above, no other lino can com?
pete for the business. Take a map and
draw a line, touching the various points
to Cincinnati, and on to Chiongo. You
will seo at once the importance of this
connection. This line will put Columbia
aud Charleston in direct connection with
tho inexhaustible coal fields in the Cum?
berland Mountains. It would also open
up n largo trade with that extensive re
giou beyond the mountains. Charles?
ton then would beoome a shipping port
for the products of the West, and, in
return, furnish them with merchan?
dise. Columbia has facilities for
manufacturing .unsurpassed by any city
in tho South. By this route, the
finest market in tho Unitod States would
open to the capitalists engaged in that
businoss. A constant supply of all the
produce of the West, brought direct at
the cheapest rate of freight, would eua
ble them to operate at the smallest cost,
and send their goods to that vast sec?
tion to be consumed, where no cotton is
raised, and the teeming millions mu6t be
clothed. And Charleston, being the
nearest port on the Atlantic, and conse?
quently to the trade of the West India
Islands, would draw a very large busi?
ness for export, and build up the City by
the Sea, which would 6oon become not
only the queen city of South Carolina,
but of the whole South. 1 cannot
think, where so large an interest is in?
volved, our people will permit the pre?
sent opportunity to be neglected.' The
South Carolina Railroad is vitally inte?
rested in this great enterprise; passing
direotly through the centre of the State,
it must pass the whole way from Colom?
bia to Charleston over that road. The
corporators of the Greenville and French
liroad Road (Greenville, Tennessee?not
Greenville, South Carolina,) will meet at
Hondorsonville, N. C, on the 1th of
Jnly, preparatory for organization,
ready to uuite with any road that may
cross the mountains. Now is the time
to clasp hands across the Blue Ridgo,
and seud the iron horse to gather up the
vast surplus of that fertile couutry, to
the mutual benefit of both sections.
G. CANNON.
At a meeting of the Board of Com
njisEioncrs of the Company, Leid in
Charleston recently, Archibald Cameron,
Esq., waB made permaueut Chairman
and A. C. Kaufman, E?q., elected Secre?
tary and Treasurer.
Mr. A. C. Kaufman statod to the meet?
ing that he bud written to Major D. R.
Duncan, Secretary of the Company, for
a fall description of the couutry through
which this road will pass, and the ad?
vantages in point of distance, tucueliug,
bridging, trestliug, gruding, Arc, thut
this lino possesses. Uo also said that he
had the assurance that if Charleston and
points along the connecting road would
subscribe for their quota of stock, there
were capitalists ready to take hold of
this road and build it. The distance to
be built, he bclievod, was but ninety
miles. This company does not ask for
untold millions. Less than $500,000,
raised between Charleston and the
mountains, will secure its completion.
Tho leading spirits in the enterprise are
gentlemen of high honor, undoubted in?
tegrity and large experience. Their
names are enough to inspire confidence
aid satisfy the pablio of an economical
administration of affairs.
Captain John S. Farley moved that a
committee be appointed to prepare an
address to tho people, setting forth the
advantages to bo derived from the
building of this road, not only to
?Charleston, but the whole Stute, which
was, on motion, adopted.
After a lengthy and pleasant inter?
change of opinion on this vital question,
the meeting adjourned subject to the call
of the chairman.
Tue Atlanta. Sun.?The mortality
among Southern journals during the
past six months has been unusually
great. The last victim to the ravages of
the epidemic is tho Atlanta Sun, which
suspended publication on Monday. This
is the third Georgia daily which has
i died within tho past month. Two of
them?the Augnsta Constitutionalist and
: the Savannah Republican?were among
' the oldest papors in the South and in the
i United States, and for many years in tho
past exercised a controlling influence in
' the political affairs of their section.
? The third?the Sun?was a new paper,
that commenced journalistic lifo uuder
auspices the most brilliant irtod encou
> raging. It had for i?s editor and pro?
prietor a vigorous, graceful and popular
' writer, a statesman with a national repu?
tation?the Hou. Alexander H. Stephens.
' In a few months the circulation of the
> paper was enormous?something almost
? unprecedented in tho hiBtory of the
Southern press. But the colipso soon
' followed the culmination. Political
i article?, no matter how well written, can
- not mako a newspaper, and the Sun was
; destined to furnish a forcible illustration
> of tho correctness of this observation.
? A paper must have a field and it must
i have something beuidea "leaders," even
i though they bo from the pen of so able
i a publicist as Mr. Stephens. A city ol
? tho size of Atlanta cannot support three
? daily papers. With all its cucrgy and
' vim, with nil the enterprise and progres
i siveness of its people, it is beyond its
? power to sustain throe good daily papers.
If two prosper and do well, their pro
? prietors will have causa for congratula?
tion. It was manifestly impossible for
i more than that number to succeed, and
the Sun was another victim to the pro
i cess of over-crowding. The revolutiou
in journulism at the South, to which we
1 have before alluded, is not yet complet
'< ed; all the dead are not yet uumbered.
Papers are ceasing to be political ma?
chines. Journalism is becoming as
' legitimate a business as that of the
? dealers in drugs or dry goods, and re
; quires, first, n field, and then capital,
i energy and industry to make it a success.
Without the employment of these re
l tpaieitus, all efforts v.*ill be futile, success
bo an impossibility. Attempts may be
! made to establish papers where the field
is fully occupied, but though they may
struggle along for a while and eke out a
1 precarious existence, they must evontu
> ally succumb to the inevitable, and cu
i tail loss upon those who make the dan
i gerous experiment.
i \ Augusta Chronicle and Sentinel,
Slang is bad enough in the mouths of
i boys nud duily papers, but when preach?
ers and religious papors use it, it is far
worse. "Soul Liberty" is a new slang
, phrase that we have repeatedly notiood
lately. It means religious freedom. It
is unnecessary, for religious froedom ex?
presses the whole idea, and also un?
meaning. Souls are always free, they
? oan't bo confined in jail, nor beuten, nor
killed. We advise those who coined the
word, to seud it back to the mint, to be
melted.?Chester Reporter,
XZi o o a 1 Ite tr^ <&.
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Oity Matters.?The price ui single
copies of the Phcexxx is flveoente.
Old newspapers for sale at Phoenix
office, at fifty cents a hundred.
A genius is popularly supposed to be
one who can do anything except mike a
living.
Turtle soup for lunch, to-day, again at
the Pollock House. Families will be
supplied u ith soup and 2teaks.
A trip to Snmter on the 4th of July is
in contemplation by the Sons of Tempe?
rance of Columbia, wo are informed.
The report that there is a case of
oholera at tho garrison is emphatically
denied by the surgeon and the officers.
Persons in arrears to the Phoenix {for
subscriptions are notified that prompt
payment- must be made. It is either
money or no paper.
We are pleased to see that Mr. Richard
Davis has so far recovered from his re?
cent attack of sickness as to be again
ablo to enter upon the active duties of
I life.
At the Colombia Hotel family grocery
[ can be found everything ' requisite for
! family use. The stock is carefully kept
up. Mr. Ja3. MacFie?a veteran in that
Hue?is Mr. Solomon's right bower.
Mr. E. G. Fleming, agent of the Wil?
mington, Columbia and Augusta Riil
road, has furnished us with a copy of the
condensed Time Card No. 4, to New
York, etc. The rates are low.
A quantity of type metal?equal to
Babbitt, for many purposes?for aale at
the Phoenix office, at twenty-five cents
per pound for small quantities?less
figures for large lots.
We can speak of the weather on
Wednesday night and Thursday us sim?
ply delightful?just the kind which con?
duces to pleasant slumber. A Bteady
rain fell during the greater part of yes?
terday.
A devotee of Bacchus was overheard,
the other night, thus addressing his hat,
which had fallen from his head: "If I
pick you up, I fall; if I fall, you will not
pick me up. Then I leave you," and he
Etaggered proudly away.
Those who are fond of good cofi'ee,
can be supplied by calling on Messrs. J.
A. Hendrix A: Brother. They are in re?
ceipt of a fresh lot of properly roasted
Bio ooffee, which is peculiarly pleasant
to the taste and smell.
The following young ladieB compose
tho graduating class of tho Methodist
Female College: Mis9 Anna A. Browne,
Miss Ida S. Wells, Miss Florence B.
Sims, Columbia; Miss Anna M. Kilgo,
Fairfield; Miss Plume L. Harris, Chester,
Two colored men by the name of
Smith ?Reuben and Henry?got into a
difficulty, yesterday, on the premises ol
Mr. George Davis, near the city, when
the former had an ear cut completely off
by tho latter. Sheep stealing was the
alleged cause.
The Chester Reporter is'after Treasurer
Curdozo with a sharp stick?is anxious
to know what has beoome of the im
menss sums of money collected for taxes,
a3 an acoount for six dollars cannot be
paid, owing to want of funds.
A meeting of the citizens of Riohland
has been called for Saturday next, in the
Court House, for the purpose of consi?
dering the necessity of levying a special
tax for school purposes. A fall attend?
ance is desirable, as it is a matter of in?
terest to all.
The Union-Hiratd learns that negotia?
tions are pending for tho sale of the va?
luable lot on the corner of Lady and
Waskingtou streets, to Eastern gentle?
men, who contemplate the manufacture
of furniture. Sachau enterprise would
probably meet with success. Tho mate?
rial in this Stale is abundant, and the
demand large.
Unitod States District Attorney D.
T. Corbiu, has been engaged for some
time in looking up the records rela?
tive to old Fort Littleton, situated a
short way below Beaufort. The land,
which was duly ceded to the United
States, having beon occupied by private
individuals, the authorities arc looking
into the grounds of their title to it.
A card in tho Sumter News, signe'? E.
H. Batemon, charges that the aforesaid
B. was discharged from his position in
tho Sheriff's olfioe, because he levied on
a roan horse belonging to Gov. Moses,
for non-payment of taxes. Tho card
charges Treosuror Gardner with being at
the bottom ofthe affair; bat that tho real
causo of his removal was the testimony
of Mr. Bateman rolativo to the jury-box
fraud.
Dr. E. E. Jackson preserved speoimens
of the puro spring water, formerly ob?
tainable in Columbia, and now compares
it with a jar of tho vilo fluid which passes
through the pipes. He also exhibits
sketches of the horrid looking insects
which freely sport in it. It is to be hoped
that tho City Council and Board of
Health will do their duty in the premises,
and that promptly. The citizens will
back them up to any extent.
Public Library of Kentucky.?The
drawing of this enterprise commences on
July 8, and we are informed that tickets
can be procured here, of Mr. D. Garn
brill, np to the 30th June?bet not after
that date. f
cholerine, Cuolein, Cholepyrrhin,
is a peculiar disturbed condition of the
"bile," owing to a torpid and sluggish
notion of the liver, brought on by ex?
cessive beat nnd impaired digestion. A
box of Heiniteh's Blood Purifying Liver
Pills and a bottle of Rose Cordial for
bowel complaint will cure the disease. *
i Patbons of Husbandry.?The follow?
ing granges have been recently organ?
ized in this State, by* John A. Barksdale,
Lecturer of the State Grange: Gowdys
ville and GoahenHill, in Union; Wallace*,
in Liurens; Bethel, in Spartanburg;
Washington, White Cane and Eureka, in
Orangeburg; Graham's and Black River,
in Williamsburg.
Sons of Temperance.?At the regu?
lar meeting of Columbia Division, last
evening, the following officers were
elected to serve for the ensuing quarter:
H. Bascom Brown, W. P.; J. D. Ro?
berts, W. A.; A. H. Monteith, R. A.
P. Post, A. R. S.; J. A. Moody, F. S.;
Samuel Beard, T.; TV E. Plumer, c,; H.
c. Fowler, A. C; W. E. Stratton, L S.;
A. D. CumpBty, O. S.
Mail Arrangements.?The Northern
mail opens 6.30 A. M. and 3.00 P. M-;
closes S P. M. and 11.00 A. M. Charles?
ton day mail opens 6.15 P. M.; closes 6
A. M.; night opens 7.00 A. M.; closes
6.15 P. M. Greenville opens 6.45 P. M.;
closes 6 A. M. Western opens 6.30 A.
M. and 12.30 P. M.; closes 8 and 1 P. M.
Wilmington opens 3.80 P. M.: closes
10.80 A. M. On Snnday the office is
open from 3 to 4 P. M.
Phcentxiana.?The close of a college
coarse should be but the commence?
ment of one's education.
In case Captain Jack should Buffer on
the scaffold, it has been asked would it
be called tho "High, Lol (the poor In?
dian,) Jack, game?"
A French artist has succeeded in pho?
tographing a kis*. There isn't mach
difficulty in getting a negative in this
country.
June is a good month to marry?if the
wife gets a good husband, and the hus
baud a good wife.
ClariosofHic Society?Distribution
of Diplomas.?The inclement weather,
last night, prevented a full attendance of
the friends of this time-honored society
in Clariosophic Hall, to listen to an ad?
dress from J. Qaitman Marshall, E: q., of
, Abbeville, on "Popular Education."
! Rev. J. L. Reynolds invoked the Divine
, blessing on the proceedings. The young
: orator .handled his subject well, and his
: eloquence drew forth rounds of applause
from the appreciative audience. Presi
' dent Evans addressed the members of
i the society?those who were leaving as
. well as those who were to remain, and
confirmed diplomas apon Messrs. J.
i Qaitman Marshall, W. McBeo Sloan and
others. An amateur string band added
to the pleasures of the evening.
Hotel Arrivals. Juue 26.?Handri.c
House?Mrs Benjamin, J Frankifn and
wife, Lexington; J J McNolly, N Y; B
c Spranels, Barn well; J B Patrick,
Yorkville; O J Harris, Anderson; W D
Jones, Winnsboro.
Columbia Hotel?S c Gilbert, Charles?
ton; J H Miller, Augusta; c S Darby,
. Fort Motte; John Agncw, Jr, city; G E
Davis, Washington; W L Skelton, Ga;
c T Perrie, Philadelphia; Mrs Howe and
daughter, Wilmington; J W Sprinkle, N
i ?; c P Gardner, S c; J L Clarke, Balti?
more; W c Griffin, Ninety-Six; J H
Hauser, J H Stelling, 8 c; H B Fant,
Anderson; F D Bush, G <fc O'R R.
1 Wheeler House?F Simmons, M k L R
R R S; H E- Dmmmond, Spartanburg;
W J Whaling, Ga; N Ryland, T Snow,
, N Y; W Cox, Fla; W S Green, wife,
nurse and child, Mies Green, Miss E D
Green, Va; R H Hand, Ga; Mrs M
? Brooks, Ninety-Six; M H Sraim, Fla;
Miss A Mooro, N c; E B Smith, Edge
field; M Triest, Charleston; W D Cator,
' T J Grupy, Md; Mr and Mrs c E
1 Spencer, Yorkville; W W Pegrom, N c;
: W A Gibb, Ga; A c Spain and son, Dar?
lington; E M Johnston, N Y; D D Car?
lisle, Jr, A L R R; J S Ligoa, Ga; Mrs
McGowan, child and servant, Abbeville;
Mrs L J Patterson, MisB Wardlaw, Lan?
caster; Miss J Jenkins, S c; J S Bowers,
T. P. Walker?Notioe.
The Grand Pacific Hotel.
Tho Emerson Method.
C. Bouknight?Railroad Bonds.
You who lead sedentary lives?Print?
ers, tailors, shoemakers, etc., will find a
great relief for tbo constipation from
which you so often suffer, by taking Sim?
mons' Liver Regulator. It is a simple,
harmless vegetable compound, sure to
relievo you,*and cau do no injury.
If your hair is falling out, use ISattans'
Crystal Discovery, whioh supplies that
nourishment from the loss or insufficient
supply of which the hair falls out. It
gives new life. A trial will convinoe.
Sold by druggists generally. Prioe 81
per bottle. For sale by C. H. Miot.
N H; A Fisehesser, Walhalla.