The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1870-12-31
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Posr OFFIoE HoURs. Northern mall
opens 4,3Q P. NJ. :closes ii A. NJ.
Charleston and Greenville. open 43O
P. NJ. close s. 30 Il. nj.
Western. opens 1890 P. NJ; closes
2.45P. NJ.
Charleston. evening, opens A. NJ;
closes 6 p. M.
Office open Sundays from hnlf-past
O'Clock to half-past s.
PHGN1xIANA. Tho price of single
copies OF the PHGN1x is Eve cents. II
carriers charge more il is swindle. They
can be obtained at that price OF the Office.
The Christmas number of Old and
Ne,o-published by Roberts Brothers,
lab Washington street, Boston-is out,
nnae: the title @! :hs Christmas LocS5s.
It has not been the habit of American
magazines to issue Christmas numbers,
but certainly none O: the English pub.
fishers who have tried it so many years,
have excellcd this year this first expert
ment-unless, indeed, illustrations be
taken into account, this Locke, having
none.
Capt. Leaphart has furnished US o
handsomely illuminated calendsr-cach
month on separate sheet. It is gotten
up by tho Homo Insurance Company, of
New York-of which the Captain is
agent.
We have received from the publisher
copy of 1hNer's Planters and Mer-
chants' Almanac for 1S71-.the fifty
fourth year of its publication.
Remember the rnffle of magnificent
jewclry to come off this evening, at Mr..
Diercks' saloon. A number of cakes
and fancy articles are also to be disposed
OF at Capt. Heises.
The mails want looking after in this
part Of the world, and we ask the ntten-
tion of the proper officials to it. Mails
arc left over at stations, or carried in
wrong directions constantly. Tho Au-
gusta and Western mails failed yester-
day.
! The year 1870 will be buried to night,
at II o'clock.
Book and job printing of every kind
attended to promptly at the PHOENIX Of
fee. Every variety Of material on hand.
B. M. Rhodes, Esq, the well-known
"super- phosphate man." paid us short
visit yesterday. He is on his annual
t,ur through the South.
The Nickerson House, as will be seen
by an advertisement, is to be continued
by Mrs. Wright and her son. We are
confident the old patrons Of the hotel
will continue to make the "Nickerson"
their stopping place.
The rattle for the ''big cake" will come
off Mt Messrs. Duhme g. Co. g bakery, on
Plain street, this evening, at O'Clock.
Several small cakes will also be raf1ed
for.
The best way to secure legacy is to
go Mt it with will.
Husbands are now realizing that their
wives are dear creatures, aud that the
more they 60 q shopping the dearer they
get.
Beauty is great thing; but beauty of
garments, house and furniture, is very
tawdry ornament compared with domes-
tic love. All the elegance in the world
will not make home. spoonful of
real hearty love is worth more than
whole shiploads of furniture, and all the
gorgeousness that all the upholsterers OF
the world could gather together.
Col. G.. II. Smith, of Ohio, who has
been engaged in farming during the past
few years in the South, arrived in Colum-
bia, on Sunday last, on q visit to his re-
lntivcs, and stopped at the Exchange
Hotel. He was taken i'll, and yesterday
died suddenly from q hemmorrhage
Els body will be forwarded to Ohio this
morning.
HOTEL ARRIVALS, December 30
Coiumbiu Hotei-A. ?. Mott, $. c.; G.
=. Harley, Burnwell; A. McMoreland,
w. II. Evans, H. G. Mazyck, Charles
ton; J. S. Mitchell, Greene Co.; w.
Wilkins, New York; W. d. Kirkland,
Spartanburg: II. II. Schumpert, W. G.