The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1870-12-20
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To day is the tenth anniversary Of the
secession of South Carolina-December
20, 1860.
There will be four eclipses in the year
| 1871-two of the sun and two of the
moon. The first will be partial eclipse
of the moon, January G; the second an
annular eclipse of the sun, June II; the
third a partial eclipse of the moon; the
fourth total eclipse of the sun.
Christmas is almost here. -Four days
from to-day, and we shall be in the
midst of this joyous season to old and
young, and i'll anticipation of it our
merchants are laying in their supplies
appropriate to the occasion. Send in
your advertisements, gentlemen, and let
the people know what they can get and
where they can get it.
The Lincoln Guards, Il colored COM
pany from Charleston, numbering twen-
ty-nine men, under command Of Captain
Green, arrived in Columbia Sunday, OH
q short pleasure trip. They ore quar-
tered at Janney's Hall Escorted by the
Elliott Guards and the Neagle Rifles, tho
Lincoln Guards paraded through the
streets, yesterday They return 10
Charleston tomorrow.
Mckenzic's confectionery and toy
mporium-recogniZed as the head
quarters of Santa Claus and all the good
saints in the Christmas calendar-is now
o sight worth beholding, by married. rs
we'll rs single, folks. There are Christ
mas greens, toys and fancy articles in
such variety aud extent as to almost be-
wilder one; while the orhamented cakes,
confections, sweetmeats, etc, loom down
on m individual in such persuasive
manner, as to force the greenbacks nolcns
rolens from his pockets. But as Christ
mas is considered the disbursing season,
nobody is materially incommoded.
Among the prominent arrivals in town
is Prof. Jas. H. Carlisle, who is here to
deliver the annual address before the
Teachers Association of this State, to-
morrow Wednesday, evening.
The ladies of Trinity Church give q
Christmas festival this and tomorrow
evenings, in Irving's store, opposite
Columbia Hotel. For particulars, see
advertisement.
The following appointments have been
announced at the Executive Department:
Isaac Epps, School Commissioner for
Williamsburg County; G.. Ehrhardt,
Isaac Smith and W. J. Z. Fripp were
appointed Notaries Public for the Coun-
ties of Barnwell, Spartanburg aud
Charleston, respectively.
Lorick & Lowrance have 100 dozen
fresh eggs just received-thc one thing
needfnl for egg-nog.
From the notice in our columns, it will
be seen that meeting will be held this
day, to organize the Central National
Bank, of Columbia. Subscribers will
take notice. 4
The auction sale of Messrs. D. G.
Peixotto & Son, advertised for to-day,
will take place indoors. No postpone
ment on account of the weather.
DEATH OF AN UNKNOWN CoLoRED Man.
Coroner Coleman held an inquest, on
Saturday, over the remains of an un-
known colored man. who had been run
over by freight train on the Grecnville
Railroad, the day previous. The fol-
lowing was the verdict:
1.-THE death of the deceased, whose
name is unknown to the jury, and who
was found dead on the line of the Green
vile and Columbia Railroad, on Thurs
day, December Is, 1870, was occasioned
by being run over by q freight train, No.
8, of said Greenville and Columbia Rail
road, on the day and date above stated.