The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1870-08-06
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THENIX.
MAIL ARRANGEMENTS Northern
mail is opened for delivery at 8 a. m. :;
closed ut $50 q. m. Charleston, opened
ut $50 p. m.; closed at $50 D. m.
Greenville, opened at $50 p. M. closed
ut $50 p. M. Western, opened at $50
n. NJ; closed ut p. m. Chnrlestc..,
(evcning,) opened at a. m.; closed at
4.30 p. m. On Sunday, the post Office is
open from 8 to 10 a. m.
SOUTH CAROLINA USIvERsITY.-An ad-
vertisement announcing the sixty-fourth
annual session of this old anl cherished
institution of learning, appears in to-
days PHOENIX. A student has every fa-
cility for obtaining thorough education.
Every school has competent professors.
Special attention is also directed to the
expenses Which will compare fayorably
with any university in the country. Co.
lumbia is remarkable for its healthful-
ness and its accessibility from all pe-.s
Of the State.
CRUMBS. Mr.. Thompson Earle has
presented us with q dydra- headed cab
bage, grown on Arsenal Hill. It con-
talns twenty separate aud distinct heads.
This vegetable curiosity can be seen at
the PHOENIX Office
August is generally reckoned the most
sickly month i'll the year. 1t would be
well, then, for lis to be ready to meet it.
See that your byways and back-ways
and sideways are kept properly cleaned,
that all poisonous weeds are cut down
and that whitewash is plcntifully distri-
buted around your premises
gentleman who is ashamed of his
intensely bald head explains the absence
Of his hair by saying that he was born
poor, and was compelled to scratch his
way through life.
The PHGS1X Office is supplied with
every style of material from the small
metal letter to the largest wood type,
together with plain and fancy cards,
paper, colored ink, bronze, etc. It is
the only establishment in the interior of
the State where two and three sheet
posters can be printed All kinds of
printing attended to promptly, at lowest
prices. Sec the indestructible tag.
Whittier, the Quaker poet, gets off the
following confagration of passion at
Louis Napoleon:
"Base gambler for Napoleon's crown,
Barnacle on his dead renown,
Thou Bourbon -Neapolitan,
Crowned scandal. loathed of God and
man."
To all of which we would respectfully
suggest:
Dear Whittier, you should never let
Your angry passions rise;
Your peaceful pen was never made
To tell such fiery liesl
"WHAT TO WEAR AND How TO MAKE
Ir'-Is the title of book of Instructions
on Dress and Dress making, published
by Nine. Demorcst, at fifteen cents.
Dress makers and ladies generally will
find in this manual much useful infor-
nation, and complete instruction in every
department Of ladies' and childrcn's
dress. It is issued scnli-annually. and
sent free of postage. Address NImc.
Demorest, S3S Broadway, New York.
The Chicago ladies, in search Of "a
mission," have happily hit upon one that
will suit the boys to charm. With q
wealth of love which passeth human
understanding, and laudable zeal in
the cause of regeneration, they have
formed themselves into rcligio-social
societies, ami, going out into tho high
ways at night, invite all young men
found lying around loose to walk into
their parlors. Here they are supplied
with ice cream and good counsel music
and chicken salad. The warnings of
the sinners fate are lsped to them in
sympathizing numbers, and their depra-
witty is rebuked with speaking eyes, ris-
Ing on sen Of affiectionate compassion.
They are lured from further evil ways,
not with ghastly threats of the worm
that never dies, but by the winning soft