The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1871-03-02
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Colonel Buford, President Of the
Richmond and Danville and Air Line
Railroads, will accept our thanks for
complimentary ticket over the former
An important change has been mado
In the schedule of the Grccnvile and
Columbia Railroad. See advertisement
There is something the matter with
the planet Saturn. The Ger .nan astro-
homer Strieve says that it's inner ring
has fallen on its body.
Q. L. jackson. Esq, has introduced
another novelty, which tho ladies' will
fully understand and appreciate. 1t is
called tho Excelsior Needle Quvor,"
manufactured by Wm. Crowley & Sons.
The mechanism is 80 arranged that,
although the needles arc hidden from
sight, by turning n small crank. any de-
sired No. is obtained.
The High Commission, it is said,
wishes to "awap' Canada for tho Ala
bama Claims, and the "ILanucks'' are
very indignant oyer tho proposition.
! Swecten!ng ones coffee is generally the
first stirring event of the day
y good housewives affair. are like u
motion to adjourn-alwnys in order.
An Exchange" thinks the Israelites
were tho legitimate bankers, aud the
Egyp:ians otherwise. Hence. "Pha-
raoh" banks. Considering that cards
were invented 4. d. 1891, this is not a
bad guess
Dean Swift said: 1t is with narrow
soulcd people as it is with narl ow-
necked bottles-the less they have in
them, the more noise they make in pour
ing it out
Good resolutions are like Indies who
faint in IL lecture room-they should be
carried out.
Mr.. j. Wesley Smith, having pur-
chased the Bennettsville Journal, comes
before the public in neat and we'll
gotten-up paper, bearing the name of
the Marlboro Times.
An attached couple-A pair of oyster
shells.
BIsuor ANDREw.--A despatch 10 Rev.
VIM. w. Mood, dated Mobile, Alabc ma,
March l, says: "Bishop James @. An
drew is dying"
Tie Bishop was in New Orleans on the
18th February, wishing his many friends
there, and was thought to be in better
health. On his way to his homo in Sum
merfcld, Alabama, ho had reached the
residence OF his son law, Rev. John
". Bush, Of that city. Tho Bishop was
born in Georgia, in 1894; entered the
South Carolina Conference in 1912; was
ordained deacon in 1914, and elder in
1916; was elected or ordained Bishop in
Philadelphia, in 1882. In all these years
he was in the active itinerunt service.
He dies in his seventy eighth year, cecs-
ing at once 10 work and live.
Tho annual meeting Of the "Femalo
Benevolent Society" was held on the
3lst of January. Members who have
not paid in their subscriptions are re-
qucsted to do 50. Others who are not
members are respectfully solicited tc,
join. The subscription is 81 per year,
aud thereby aid those who, from ill health
and poverty. are often in state Of want
The Treasurer, Mrs. G. MacFie, will re-
ceive contributions or donations, and
disburse to the ward committees.
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