The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-05-07

for his appearance at the next Court of
Common Pleas and General Sessions, for
Edgefeid County.
Ine Committee-consisting of Senators
and Representatives Crews, Smalls, Bryant
Mcintyre, Elliott, Wright and Buck-ap-
pointed under q joint resolution of the
General Assembly, ''to investigate" the
condition OF affairs in the Third Congress
slonal District, have been in session in this
city since Monday evening last. They con-
template visiting each County in the Dis.
trict, for the purpose of taking testimony.
SUPREME COURT, May G.-M. r. Nichols,
Tor another rs. Wriley Eolin and Robert
Whitesides; L. S. Boleyn ct al. ais. Jane
Boleyn; James Stewart as Jane S. Sherer
Continued by consent
Laura e. Nance cS. r. ID. Nance, 7. X.
G. Nance, Executors, ct al, and Mary W.
Nance, 10y next friend Is. same, were r.
sumed. Mr.. Fair for motion; Mr.. Jones
contra; Mr.. Simpson on the same side; Mr..
Fair in reply.
MAY.-Ever fresh in its original beauty
comes back the May. Not to be worshirped
with supersttious rites, nor invested with
supernatural powers, but with the power of
her own lovelincss compelling nll hearts to
do her certain homage. Is there any beau-
ty IN animate or inanimnte life which does
not strike us with the force Of novelty AS
we watch the recurring seasons we are struck
with the variety of combinations which
make every month differ from it's anniversa-
ry. Perhaps we see through the different
mediums of different feelings; eyes bright
with JOY or dim with grief paint diverse
pictures, but yet, giving due weight to all
things, there is wonderful variety in every
May which gladdens the earth. Whilst
there is certain variety in May herself,
there Is none in the poetcal goslings who
be-rhyme the "fair Lady of the Land
They are repandu with their theme. They
spread it out Ikea great shallow green pool,
without depth enough for ripple. They
borrow and filch from eyes that have seen,
and tongues that have told all the won
drous sweetness of the month of love, and
since Spencer and Edwards, they have given
US not single new conceit But all the
evil rhymes in the world cannot mako May
any other than she is-a month in which to
love; month in which to hope; month
where dreams of beauty take visible forms
on earth, and traasfgure the poorest life
into borrowed brightness. In fact,
month for nvorvthtp E,,tp
we should like to know, should people not
marry in this fairest month of all tho year :?
TO wed in May, is to wed with poverty"
is we]l-known proverb. According to
Ovid, the Romans, under no circumstances,
could be induced to take wife in May.
Had the unbounded licentiousness OF the
festival Of the Floralia, which the ancients
instituted in this month, anything to do
with the ante-matrm onial edicts which also
marked it? It would be interesting to trace
the connection between the present vague
superstition and its remote origin. Not the
faintest shadow but has its substance, if we
look far enough, and it has always puzzled
us to know why lovely, fresh May, month
specially adapted to love making, should lay
her interdict upon the natural sequence of
matrimony.
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