The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1871-10-20
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copies OF the PHREIx ls i've cents.
Secretary Parker will accept our
thanks for card of admission to the
Abbeville Agricultural Fair, on the 25th,
28th and 9th.
Yesterday was particularly pleasant
autumn day. The record of tho ther-
mometer ut the Pollock House was ts
follows: A. NJ. ST; IL M, G3; 2P.
NJ, GG; Z P. NJ, G5.
The Palace of Truth is having run
in Boston, ut the museum. Cau't tln y
give Ben Butler season ticket? BE
may learn something that he never
know-how to tell the truth.
The PHOENIX office is supplied with all
necessary material for as handsome cards,
bill heads. posters, pamphlcts. hand-h,l'e,
circulars. aud other printing that may be
desired, rs any Office III the Sou,h. Give
us II call and test our work
Merchants and other business men
who intend having cards, circulars, bill
heads, posters or other work printed, in
contemplation Of thu Fair, sLonld send
IN their orders ut once, aud not wait
until the last momcut, when u press Of
work mny prevent tEeir being filled sat
isfuctoriy. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
The New York Herald says that Bout
well, ''ns n finnnce minister, is incaEa-
bile and u failure But it is not true.
Boutwell, can come nearer paying ma
ti"nal debt and leaving it bigger thun
when he started, tllnn man now living.
Tli" newest word out is itzccuinte-
rolzutl, and it means i'll English man
who cant tukc IL joke, ''anu gets his
back UP" ut the mrrcst tritlr. In Mexi-
can definition it is IL hnncb buck dog.
MAIL AEHASGEslENTs.- The Northern
mail opens at 800 p. NJ; closes IT'S
\. NJ. Charleston day mail opens 400
2. NJ; closes 90 a. NJ. Charleston
night mail opens G.3O a. NJ. closes 6. 90
p. NJ. Grcenvilie mail opens Gas p.
~. closes GOO A. Al. Western mail
opens .. 90 a. NJ: closes /. 80 p. Al. On
Sunday Office open from to 1 p. NJ.
The ROUTE OF OLD JouS RoBrSsoN's
MAMMOTH T1REE TENT SHOW TuRouaH
THE STATE or SOUTH CARoLINAAN AND PART
OF GEORGIA. exhibit ut Chester,
Friday, October 81; Winnsboro, Satur-
day. 2s; Columbia, Monday. 80; Angus
Ia. Ga, Tuesday, 81. and Wednesday
aud Thurs ley, November aud 2;
Thompson, Friday, 3; Warrenton, Su.
tnr,lny. T. The price OF admission will
be seventy. Eve cents for adults and fifty
cents for children under ten years Of
age.
The HOME FIRE Insurance COMPANY.
The New York Commercial Path. .futie,.
thus refors to this popular company,
whose principal Office is at No 1876
Broadway, New York. Capt. S. L.
Leaphart is the agent in this city:
We arc gratiied to learn that this
popular insurance company. which, for
nearly twenty years, has received the
we'll merited confidence of the public,
will suffer no interruption to it's business
from losses incurred by the late severe
calamity at Chicago. BY it's semi annual
statement, of july last, its capital and
assets are shown to exceed 81, 900, 600.
placing its entire solvency beyond ali
question. The Home" possesses an
element of unusual strength in the en-
tire confidence reposed in its manage
mont, and, if requisite, it's capital stock
could be- increased to any desirea.
amount.
1t il amusing to note the engerness
with which the smnll companies ull over
the country, who probably never held
risk in Chicago, and could not have OBJ
tainod one, hasten to ASSURE the public
that their standing is not impaired by
the recent disaster
Notwithstanding the fuct that the
Home Insurance Company held large
amount on Chicago, there will be no
change or interruption whatever in its
customary opernt.ons; policies being
issued as usual and the even tenor Of its
way preserved without the slightest alte-
ration in the programme. Nothing
more fully demonstrates the substantial
foundation upon which the Home Insnr-
nuce Company is based than the suits
factory muuner in which it emergts from