The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-10-17
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MAS & Co., PRoPRmToRs. We are glad
to observe that Messrs. Thomas & Co.
are seeking to develop this branch of
| Southern, or home industry. We learn
that they contemplate developing their
business to meet the wants of the State
in their department of manufactures.
We have the water, the climate, the bark
and the hides and skins. and such being
the case, there is no reason why South
ern tannery and leather mandatory
should not successfully compete with the
same business in the North. At any
rate, we feel sure that the public will
give this enterprise trial. It is willing
to stand upon its merits.
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| OF INTEREST TO THE LADIEs.-NIrs. A.
Mccormick, becoming possessed with the
idea that she was hiding her light under
bushel, has removed her stock of goods
to the store on Main street. formerly oc-
cupied by Mr.. Smythe, Opposite her old
stand,) and having thoroughly fitted up
the same, is prepared to. dazzle the eyes
of tho ladies with display of articles in
the millinery line, which in beauty and
variety it would be difficult to surpass.
She has tiny bonnets, intended for full
sized heads, but they appear scarcely
large enough for dolls; flowers of such
delicate and natural hues as almost to be
mistaken for the genuine; feathers of
every grade, from partridge to pea
fowl; besides innumerable other articles
of IN indescribable nature-at least, to
one of the male persuasion. More we
cannot say. See for yourselves, ladies'
CRUMBS. was quite q heavy
frost in Columbia and vicinity, yesterday
morning.
We are indebted to Messrs J. & T. r.
Agnew for bag of choice buckwheat-
the first of the season.
Governor Scott has appointed Hugh
Craig Judge of Probate for Chesterfield
County, to fill the vacancy occasioned by
the resignation of B. F. Miller, Esq
and julius J. Flaum Magistrate for
Charleston County, in place of L. Bunch,
removed.
Hugh Wilson, Esq, of the Abbeville
Press, is on q flying visit to Columbia.
The brothers-T. J. & II. M.-Gibson
have taken up quarters in the more
thickly settled portion of Main street
in the vicinity of the PHOENIX office-the
old Exchange Bank. corner. They are
prepared to supply customers with any
and everything in the grocery line. and
at fair prices.
Messrs. II. E. Nichols & Co. are the
agents for the Georgia Home Insurance
Company" of Columbus It is said to
be reliable Southern institution.
Our Book TAD1E.-We have received
from the publishers, Harper & Brothers.
New York, through Messrs. Dufie &
Chapman, copies of two novels, which
have just been issued--"In Silk Attire, {"
and ''Found Dead"
In "Silk Attire" Mr.. Wm. Black, an
English writer, renews the pleasing i'm
preston we formed Of him in his book,
"Love or Marriage" This story is very
attractively told. The words flow after
one another with grace and ease, and
there is not a single attempt at the nbo-
mination conventionally called fine writ
ing. The story has an aim, which is.
that society is too hard on the dramatic
profession, and to overturn the prejudice,
as he esteems it, tells how lord married
and cast off an actress, who repudiated
his property given to her as sop, return
ed to her profession under another name,
brought up her child to the stage, and
died; the child became great artistic,
but was ut last driven off the boards by
a combination of cruel critics, and then
came into her mothers property, which
had been left her in a dying remorse by
her husband, but which the widow had
refused to take. AS an exhibition of the
actual good in many actresses, the book
is successful. The novel is skillfully
and even powerfully put together. There
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