The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-02-14

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The CODE. The Acts passed by the
Legislature relative to the freedmen. FOR
sale at this Office. Price 20 cents: by mai,
Is cents.
We are indebted to Pete, p. Glass, ESQ.
for copies of Hdpe''s Weekly, OF the 10th
and 18th. Mr.. G. receives the principal
New York papers every day.
REMovAL.-The Office OF tho National
Express Company has been removed to
tho one-story brick building, on Gervais
street, near Richardson, adjoining DR..
Berry's.
The proprietor OF the Merchants Hotel.
Charleston, advertises the sseheapest and
best hotel in the State" Whether this is
80 or not, remains for the guests to deter
mine. The rates are So day.
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IHE BURNING OF CoLUMBIA.-An inter-
csting account OF the ''Sack and Destruc-
ton of the City of Columbia, s. C.,"has
just been issued, in pamphlet form, from
the Pttenir steam power press. Orders
can be filled to any extent
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WEEKLY FAMILY PAPER.--We have COM
menced the publication Of a family paper,
entitled "The Weekly Gleane,.-A Home
Companion" It is double the size OF the
Fh9nar, and contains the cream OF the
news, miscellaneous matter, editorials.
stories, ETC., in the daily and tri-weekly
publications. Subscription price "a per
annum. Specimen copies sent on appli-
cation. There will be an interval of two
weeks before the publication Of our second
number, in order to allow those wishing to
subscribe ample time to procure the first
number and establish themselves on our
NAH books.
VALENTINES DAY.-To-day is the day sa-
cred to st. Valentine, u presbyter, who,
according to the legend, was beheaded at
Rome, under Glaudius. Mr.. Brande says
that he cannot find, in the life of the
saint, any circumstances likely to have
given origin to the peculiar ceremonies of
the day. 1t appears to have been very
old notion, however, for it l., alluded to bv
Chaucer, as well as by Shakespeare, in the
"Two Gentlemen of Verona that on this
day birds begin to couple.
The custom of Choosing Valentines" is
OF great antiquity, both in France and
England. In the former country, it has
been long disused. Lydgate mentions it in
1916. Grose explains Valentine to mean
''the first woman seen by a man, OF man
by woman" on that day. But it does not
appear where he picked up this explana-
ton.
1t appears that the reformers attacked
this, as we'll as other legendary customs Of
their time, and that the Romanists them
selves were so scandalized Mt it, that de-
vices were invented to turn the day to pro-
fitable use. st. Francis De Sales intro
duced the practice Of drawing lots for
patron saints on it, by way Of substitute.
According to others, this latter practice
was OF. much older date, and substituted
for pagan custom, by which boys and
girls drew each others names on the 14th
OF February. However this may be, it is
day that will be remembered by our young
folk, as our friend Janney's Office will tes-
tify to this morning.
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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS is call
cd to the following advertisements, which
are published this morning for the first
time:
Schedule on Charlotte Railroad.
Kenneth & Gibson-Nails, Potware, &c
&C Bacon, &c.
g Axes, Shovels, &c.
" -Currapts, Sci
&c Saddles. &c.
VIM. Glaze Il CO.-Palmetto Iron Works
Robert Bryce-Powder, Groceries, &c.
Lieut.. Col. Haughton--Orde No l.
G. H. Baldwin--Groceries, &c.
Oils, &c.
Apply at this Office-Room to Rent.
Hanahan 4 Warley-Batesvine Goods.
Richard O'Brien-Hay, Lard, Butter.
Gregg Co.-Peruvian Guano.
Abeles, Myers & Co.-Reduc'n in Prices.
John G. Minor & Co.-Attractive Sale
A SPEcK OF DANaER.-The minutest black
spot on the enamel of tooth is an evil
dence that decays efacing finger has
touched it. Quickly interpose the Sozodont
as safeguard, or the tooth is gone-and.
only that one, bnS perm