The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-07-13

our usual night dispatches.
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CHOICE BEEF.-We have been re-
quested to inform the public that the
best beef which has been in this mar
ket since the Shermanization, can be
found at Stall No. 3, this morning.
In LUcK.-We yester9 W received
the following pleasing NJ ee from DR..
M. M. Cohen, accompanied by q
monster cabbage and several rousing
tomatoes:
FRIEND SELBY: I trust you will not
take this esculent offering as a per-
sonal implication Of propensities pc
culiar to the tailoring (caJ6aginy)
business, Gf even you do indulge a
free use of the scissors nor as an
intended reflection on your obstinaoy,
(hard- head)
May its unfolding leaves prove lite
rally type of the opening of n new
volume in your future life, and its
dimensions fore-runner of the cor
poreal development and mammoth
expansion of both the editor and tho
PhRnic.
You extol eleven-inch tomatoes-I
send you thirteen inches. Make good
use of same.
Some of the cabbage leaves have
been cut off before sending. Yours,
very truly, MELVIN M. c.
The Doctor will please accept our
cordial thanks for his substantial
remembrance, and also for the kind
wishes expressed; but our punning
friend will have to "try, try again."
in the tomato line. as Major w. H.
Gibbes, about the same time, favored
us with basket of tomatoes, one of
which measured l31a inches in cir
cumference and another ia green
one at that. The basket also con-
tained two immense beets. With
reference to the latter, we can only
say, in the language of another,
"Neighbor, beat these beets."
FOR HoUsE-KEEpERs. comply
with the request of lady correspond
ent in publishing the following COM
munication; whether or not her ideas
are feasible, can only be ascertained
by actual trial:
MEssRs. EDITORS: Through your
medium, allow me to make one or
two suggestions to house wives in re-
gard to servants. In our new,
changed relations to orr servants, we
should change our old manner OF
dealing with them, and adopt the
plan of the European and Northern
ladies'. TO secure ourselves against
imposition, and as check upon the
irequent changes we are compelled to
make, we should require the new ap-
plicant to bring certificate of good
character and industry-in fair Chi
Biography. And, to save our China,
hold them accountable for the broken
and missing pieces-make them pay
or lose, according to the value; also,
in regard to other articles. By the
adoption Of these rules, much of our
N'i'hOuibJ mOulll D0 ODFldGCu, una
house-keepers saved much worry and
anxiety of mind. MENACE.
DnLoN's UNIVERSAL CorroN TIE.
The following letter, addressed to the
agents of the maker, at Savannah,
Ga, by the manager of the Central
Cotton Press, who has used over
10000, is sufficient evidence of the
estimation in which these Ties are
held there:
OFFICE CENTRAL CorroN PRESS,
SAVANNAH, May 27, 1867.
MessrS. f. ". Sims G Co., Agents fo,.
DiNon's Uniuersal Tie, .SavannaI.
DEAR SIRs: In my business of COM
pressing cotton, 1 have had occasion
to examine closely all the various Ties
for iron bands used in baling cotton,
and take pleasure in testifying to the
superiority, over all others, of the
Universal Tie. It is as easily adjust
cd, and is much stronger than any
other Tie.
A Tie that is not good at the press
is not good at the plantation, as
nearly oil the cotton is compressed at
the ports, and weak Tie must then
be replaced by good one, at the
expense of the planter. I have never
seen one of your Ties break, though