The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-08-15

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Fav1ts AND FnSwraas.-Aou,iosi.y 4, in !
the shape Of braneh from an apple trse,
with several blossoms and two or three
lwell-deaeloped applesi has been shown
us by Mr. Joseph Newman. We have
heard of such things in the West Indies;
but we believe it is q rare occurrence in
this part of the globe.
Godey's Lady's Book, for September,
has been received by Messrs Bryan &
McCarter. It is beautiful work, re-
plete with interest, and tastefully orna-
mented
The Illustrated Annual Of PArenoloqv
and Physiognomy, for 1870, is now ready
contains fifty engravings of leading
editors, with portraits. The Male and
Female Form; Science of Conjugal So
lection, Happy Marriages, Temperament
in Wedlock; Royal Ladies of the French
Empire, with portraits; How to Choose
Helpmeet; and much moro in this rich
and racy annual, which sells for IS cents.
S. R. Wells, Publisher, New York.
"Stories of the Crescent City" is the
title of q closely-printed pamphlet, con-
tanning 100 pages, published by Steel &
Co., of New Orleans. Price 25 cents.
The work purports to be collection of
newspaper stories. published during the
past year. Many of them are very in
teresting. The author is Napier Bart
lit.
SETTLERS, NOT CARPET-BAaaERs.- DIR.
P. W. Wheeler, of Ohio, who has resid-
ed in Columbia for several months,
disposed OF his property, corner of As
sembly and Green streets, yesterday, for
$4,000. He paid $500 for it five
months ago, but has improved it consi-
derably. Samuel Culbertson, ESQ.,, of
Cincinnati, was the purchaser. These
gentlemen, together with Capt. J. T.
Fisher, are the pioneers of what. we
have reason to believe, will be regiment
and perhaps brigade-of actual set
tiers from the North and the South
west. They have purchased considerable
city property, as we'll as large tracts oi
woodland in Lexington, and intend
erecting extensive saw-mills on the canal
We welcome the advent of such cyan.
KEGS. and hope they will flock here by
the ten thousand. We have quantities
of good land, delightful climate, and
the very best water power. One of the
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ed us with the following extract from the
Lancaster (Ohio) Gazete-a Republican
sheet of the darkest dye. The PHGN1z
is the paper referred to by the GazeNe
We wish the Ohio editor to distinctly
understand that the people of the Stat,
. will gladly Welcome the honest mechanic
laborer or capitalist, who desires to bet
ter his condition, while, at the sam,
time, he is assisting to build up his new
home. The ofice-hunting carpet-bag
ger is regarded in different light. Sen
sible and fair-minded tourists and settler
J from the North are dissipating such un
just and one-sided ideas as are expressed
in the mis-statement appended:
"SoUTHERN PApERs.-Our fellow
townsman Gilbert Devol has placed il
our hands q file of late Columbia rs. c..
papers, which had been sent him by hi
son-in-iaw, Capt. Fisher. The contents
are not such as to show cordial co-ope
ration on their part in the work of recon
struction. They devote good portion
of their energies to the endeavor to kee1
alive the flame of hatred against the
Yankee and everything Northern"
"We learn from the Greensboro Pa
hiot, that, on Monday night last, ne
gro boy was shot and Instantly killed
whilst attempting to effect an entranc,
into the store of Mr.. King, on Davi'
street,