The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1870-07-30
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MAIL ARRANoEMENTs.-T Northern
mail is opened for delivery at q. m.
closed at S.30a m. Charleston, opened
at $50 p. No.; closed at $50 p. m.
Greenvillc, opened at $50 p. M; closed
at $50 p. m. Western, opened at $50
q. m.; closed at 4 p. m. Charlcsto..
(evening,) opened at q. m. closed Mt
4 80 p. m. On Sunday, the post Office is
open from 8 to 10 a. m.
SERIOUS SHOOTING AFFMR-A lad
named John Holloway, was shot through
the stomach, yesterday, by John Mooney,
o son of Alderman Mooney. AS fur as
we can learn, Mooney thought Holloway
was following him for tho purpose of
getting him into fight, and not being
prepared to take the chances, fired upon
him with q pistol. The hands of the
wounded lad are deformed-to such an
extent, that it is hardly probable he
could seriously injure any one. Tho
wounded lad was carried to the Office Of
DR.. r. W. Gibbes, where he was prompt
ly attended to by DR.. G.. S. Trezcvant.
The wound is of dangerous character,
but it is probable TINT Holloway will re-
cover. A prompt and heavy use of the
hickory by parents would plcvcnt such
unfortunate affairs.
The IIor SEAsoN.-If the season keeps
on in this way much longer, it bids fair
to rival those celebrated summers said to
be recorded Mt Nuremberg, when the
bed OF the river Rhine was dry, and the
sand exposed to the sun hot enough to
cook eggs; or that other memorable
heated term nearer home, recorded by
the scientific Professor of the Break
fast Table," when go therm ometcr blew
mp and killed tutor with its ball. -
Ever since juno came in, we have had
what might be called steady hot wea-
ther, day and night, with brilliant but
too infrequent intervals of comfortable
temperature. And yet, we are only but
a little past midsummer, when usually
our most trying weather is to come. It
occasionally happens, however, that
when June and July have ragged with
unusual severity, the stock of heat in
tended for August seems to bo exhausted,
and SO the cool nights and mornings of
fall have to do duty earlier than usual.
May it prove SO now. If it does not,
however, VIC must cultivate that admira-
bic disposition which, according to the
popular provcrb, belonged to the King
OF Spain-bcforo Spain dispensed With
those functionaries-whcn it rained, he
let it rain
TIE RURAL CARoL1NIAN FOR AUGUST.
The present number Of this sterling
agricultural monthly contains two
illustrated articles, either ono of which
is worth the whole years subscription.
The first to which we nllude is q sketch
of the life of the late William Gilmore
Simms, one of its earliest and ablest
contributors, accompanied by likeness
OF that great Southern author. Mr..
Simms was practical planter and de-
voted to country life, and it is singularly
appropriate that this tribute to his me-
mory should appear in the RurM Caro-
hninn. whose pages. in the last days of
his life, he had adorned and enriched
with tho ripest fruits of his varied
genius. The second article alluded to
is that on the cotton caterpillar, being
m exhaustive treatise on that subject
from tho pen OF DIR. Phares, of Wood