The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1871-01-19
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DEAD. Hix's little girl, who was
90 severely scalded On Tuesday, died
Yesterday.

yesterday.
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PUBLICATIoNs.-iScrib Monthly, for
February, is q most excellent number
containing moro than thirty excellent
illustrations. But the merit is by no
means confined to the engravings-it
abounds to an equal extent in the print
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The Galaxy, for February, is before
us-as bright and fresh as ever. Mark
Twain, the great humoriss. is d regular
contributor to its pages. new story,
by Mrs. Edwards. "Ought we to Visit
Her?" is attracting considerable atten-
ton. The subscription price is 81 per
annum. Sheldon & Co., GIT Broadway.
New York. are the publishers.
Messrs. Dufiie IL Chapman have fur
nished us copy of new work by Il.
Adolphus Trollope, author of 'Lindis-
farm Chase" etc. It is No. 353 of Har-
per's Library of Select Novels" and is
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His Exccllency President Grant is a
person Of consummato ability-as n
smoker. He went into the Presidential
chair from the smoke of the battle field
smoking. He has not ceased smoking
He will leave the chair, not only smoll-
ing, but smoked out. So much for smoke.
A noble man is he who can die patient
ly, but still nobler is he who can live pa
tiently.
a passage curiously apropos to present
experiences in Paris came across us the
other day on turning over the leaves of
Alexander Dumas Thousand and One
Phantoms, written many years ago.
One of the characters tells another that
the Prussians will one day scourge Paris,
and that tho rats ought to be encouraged
and kept well fed, for the Parisians will
certainly havo to cat them. Dumas lit
tie expected to live to see his jocular re-
mark n sad reality.
To-day-January lois the anniver-
sary of the birth of Gen. r. e. Lee.
Grady's old fashioned American circus
performs again in this city, on Saturday
afternoon and evening. See advertise
ment.
All persons indebted to the PuENIX
Office must make immediate settlement,
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Much of the unsightly granite in the
State House yard, which was damaged
by Sherman's incendinrism, is being re-
moved to the Edisto, on the South Caro-
lima Railroad, for the purpose of build
ing q culvert.
The introduction Of Frank p. Blair to
the Senate of the United States, in place
of Drake, who waddles out, will greatly
strengthen the Democratic clement in
that body. Blair belongs to tho aggress-
i've order of statesmen, who will not sit
still under oppression or injustice. With
a clear, comprehensive grasp OF intellect
and wonderful powers of invectivc, his