The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-08-25

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Don't forget the strotting match
this afternoon: at &tE !, Congarss
Course. Time 5 o'cloc
W. j. Laval, Esq, who has been
connected with the comptrollership
of the State, for number of years,
has assumed charge of the Columbia
Male School-in the Odd Fellows
building, Lincoln street. .Ir. Laval
is fully competent to fill the posi-
ton.
The artillery companies which have
been on duty here for q length of
time. departed yesterday, for Atlanta,
Georgia. Several infantry companies
still remain. The morning and even
ing gun will be missed, but we sup
pose this will be considered rather
pleasant than otherwise.
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The INDUSTRIAL ASsoCIATIoN.-W
are informed that this indefatigable
society of ladies has been so fortunate
as to secure lecture for their benefit
by that eloquent divine, the Right
Reverend Bishop Persico, of the
Catholic Church. His great reputa-
tion will certainly draw a highly
intelligent audience to enjoy his
discourse. The evening on which
the lecture will be delivered, and all
further particulars, will be published
at an early day.
REPUBLICAN NOMINATIONS FOB
JUDGES. q caucus of the .Repub-
lican members of the reconstructed
Legislature, held at Janney's Hall,
last night, the following nominations
were made: First District, Maj. D.
T. Corbin; second, Zephaniah Plat;
third, Joseph T. Green, of Sumter;
fourth, James NJ. Rutland; fifth, Le-
muel Boozer; sixth, G. W. Williams,
of York. During the ballot for the
seventh District, the caucus ad-
iourned. j. L. Moore was the most
prominent spdidate for that Dis
trict. I'd of no candidate for
the eighS- Ks the Republicans con-
troll both branches of the Legisla-
ture, these nominations are virtually
elections.
LOOKING OUT FOR S1IGHTs. There
are some people always looking out
for sights. They cannot pay a visit,
they cannot even receive q friend,
they cannot carry on the daily inter-
course of the family, without sus-
pecting some offence is designed.
They are as touchy as hair-triggers.
II they meet an acquaintance on the
street who happens to be pre-occu-
pied with business, they attribute his
abstraction to some motive personal
to themselves, and take umbrage ac-
cordingly. They lay on others the
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of indigestion makes them see i'm
pertinence in everybody they come
in contact with. Innocent persons
who never dreamed of giving offence,
are astonished to find some unfor-
tunate word, or some momentary
taciturnity, mistaken for an insult.
To say the least, the habit is unfor-
tunate. It is far wiser to take the
more charitable view of our fellow
beings, and not suppose a slight is
intended, unless the neglect is open
and direct. After all, too, life takes
its hues in great degree from the
color of our own mind. If we are
frank and generous, the world treats
US kindly. IF, on the contrary, we
are suspicious, men learn to be cold
and cautious to us. Let q person get
the reputation Of being touchy, and
everybody is under more or less re-
straint; and in this way the chances
of an imaginary offence are vastly
increased. People who fire up easily,
miss deal of happiness. Their jaun-
diced temDers DESTROY their oyvn