The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1871-10-04
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copies of the PHOENIX is FIVE cents.
The Palmetto Fire Company paraded,
yesterday afternoon, in winter uniform,
and ''played or several times showing
what their hand machine was capable of.
They were headed by the Firemen's
Band, which, as usual, discoursed most
acceptable music.
The rroprietors Of tho Exchange
House have built up costly screen to
separate the front room from the buck.
It is worth fully $1,4O0. and can be re.
moved nnd distributed ut pleasure
They iuauguruted the oyster season yes
terday.
Gardeners might not like to part with
their gardens, though they are always
ready to fork over their grounds.
Our merchants. mud others wishing to
prepare for the fall business, will please
take notice that the PHOENIX Office is
supplied with all necessary material for
as handsome cnrds, bill heads. posters,
circulars, aud other printing that may be
desired. as nny Office in the city. Give
us u call aud test our work
4 bad style of arithmetic Division
among families
scridncr's Illustrated Monthly has
articles entitled eva. Adam the First
AIan?" "The Philosophy of Good
Health, Water, its Ways and Uses"
"A Summer Trip to Newfoundland,
Topics Of the Time" and "Cultnre
and Progress ut Home and Abroad An
interesting number. New York: Serb
ner & Co.
General Law. of York, and N1ujor
Woodward, Of Fairfield, passed through
this city yesterdny-the former to de-
liver an address ut the Darlington Coun-
ty Fair. and the litter to perform the
Same Office Mt tho Bnrnwell County Fair.
These gentlemen will ench speak with
effect
The State Board of Education meets
in this city, to day, i'll the State House.
The new bonnets are cross between
round hat and au inverted coffee cup.
PELoTs COMMERCIAL SCuoo1.- in
yite attention to the card of Mr.. Pelot,
to be found in another column This
gentleman has established reputation
in his. line. All who desire to be in
structed in penmanship, bookkeeping
or commercial arithmetic would do we'll
to call on Mr.. Pelot Mr.. Pelot has had
class Of yonng men and boys for the
past month, and we have noticed the
progress made. Our young clerks and
young bankers will find his instructions
very valuable. Mr.. Pelot's rooms are
over the Citizens Savings Bank.
PATENT GAS MAcH1NE-A New York
contemporary publishes the following,
relative to gas machine, which has
been on exhibition at the American In
stitute Fair. New York:
I'm another column appears the card
of The Columbia Portable Gas Light
Company The Office of the company
will be found at 7OS Broadway, New
York, whilst the factory is located in the
city of Columbia. The automatic gas
generator. it is claimed, for simplicity,
durability, economy and mechanical per-
fection, is superior to all other inven-
tions of the kind An ordinary me.
chanio can disjoin and unite it in
short time. A servant of moderate in
telligence is perfectly competent to
manage and control the machine. The
light produced is soft and brilliant,
whilst the cost is fifty per cent cheaper
than coal gas. It is at once cheap,
economical and safe. It can be used IN
every dwelling, and il peculiarly adapted
for houses in the country, or where coal
gas cannot be obtained"
| This invention is the frnit of our
fellow citizen, e. G. Pumer's skill and
ingenuity, and it is earnestly hoped that
q liberal patronage will reward South
ern mechanics industry and inventive
genious, and that Mr.. Plumer may reap
the rich harvest both of honor and
profit, which he surely deserves.
| COURT OF GENERAL SESSIONS, October
Term, 1871. The Court met at 10 A.
NJ, Judge Melton presiding.
True bills were found by the grand
jury as to Hanson A. Bland and others.
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