The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1871-07-06
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The Greenyille .and Columbia tele-'
graph line was opened to Helena yester-
day, and dispatches passed to nnd fro.
We move.
Our merchants. and others wishing TO
prepare for the fnll business. will please
tako notice that the PHOENIX Office is
supplied with nlI necessary material for
al handsome cards. bill heads. posters,
circulars. aud other printing that may be
desired, as any Office in the city. Giyo
US call and test our work.
Old type-superior to Babbit metal
for sale at PHOENIX Office. at twenty two
and twenty live cents per pound accord
ing to quantity.
Our wide-awake and enterprising fell
low-citizen, DR.. e. W. Wheeler, adver-
tises for teams in this mornings paper.
We want just such men as the doctor to
emigrate here from the North. Colum-
bia will soon not only be rebuilt. but the
habitable portion materially extended.
Our readers will observe from u notice
which appears in our columns this morn
ing, the appointment OF delegates, by
President Hagood, TO the Goorgia Agri-
cultural Convention. From RichIand,
Capt. r. O'Neale is appointed.
Tho rates OF tolegraphing over the
Western Union line have been reduced
to tho following scale: To New York,
Philadelphia, Baltimore, 81 so; Washing
ton, D. c.. Sl.25; Boston, 50; Richmond
and Petersburg, W., 81; Wilmington.
N. c., TOO; Charleston, S. c., SOC. F;
Charlotte, N. c., 50c. for ten words.
Mr.. Rose has finished the extension of
his hotel. and now goes to work on in
ternal improvements. Bath rooms for
ladies and gentlemen are being con-
structed, and other matters Of benef-
cial character are being looked after.
The Ku Klu1 Committee departed for
Spartanburg yesterday.
The people of Charlotte, N. c. true
to the Mecklenburg Declaration-pa
no attention whatever to the 4th of july.
Send the Ku Klux Committee there, by
all means.
The st. Louis Times exhibits keen
appreciation Of the "carpet- baggers, ("
when it 80 truthfully and pertineuty
describes them as Radical vagrants who
have squatted like vultures upon the
leayings OF the war, croaking of loyalty
between every swallow"
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SUPPOSED MURDER-The body Of n
colored man, named Aaron Boston, was
discovered, Tuesday morning, in an out
building on the premises of Mr.. r. c..
Lawson, at Frost's Mill. Upon investi-
cation, it was found that he had been
shot in the head. andit appeared that
he had been removed from the ecene of
the occurrence and laid down, with his
coat folded under his head. The de-
ceased was, VIC believe. employed by the
Greenvil!e and Columbia Railroad Com
pnny. Coroner Coleman held m in
quest. yesterday. mud the jury returned
q verdict that the deceased came to his
death by gunshot wound, ut the hands
OF parties to the jury unknown. Through
tho kindness OF President Bush, spe-
cial train was despatched to bring the
jury homo. Tie Coroner intends to
pursue further investigation as soon as
certain parties can be brought before
him.
SPECIAL TERM Court OF GENERAL
SESSIONS, COLUMBIA, July 5. 1871
Court opened at o'clock a. NJ, Judge
Melton presiding.
Court was occupied up to the hour Of
recess in hearing the evidence in the
cnso of John. alias Jack Lee, for the
homicide OF BurrelI Munson, colored, in
the fall Of 1867. Upon re-assembling,
Mr.. Barnwell opened the argument, on
the part of the State, and was followed
by Mr.. Sloan, Jr., for the defence up to
| 81 O'Clock, when the Court adjourned
to tomorrow morning. when Mr.. Trade-
we'll will be heard for the defence, and
Mr.. Chamberlain for the State.
The GREENv1LLE AND COLUMBIA TEIE-
GRAPH LINE. The following correspon-
denco passed, yesterday, between Presi.
dent Bush, Of the Greenville and
Columbia Railroad, and Intendant Pay
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