The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1871-01-26
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P. M. Charleston day mail opens 4.3O
P. NJ; closes 11.3O A. M. Charleston
night mail opens $50 A. NJ; closes {. 100
L. M. Greenvillo muil opens i.30 p.
NJ; closes $50 p M. Western mail
opens l. 30 P. NJ. closes l. 80 P. Al. On
Sunday the Office is open from 3 to 4
p. M.
PHGNIXIANA.---The price of single
copies of the PHOENIX is Eve cents. If
carriers charge more it is II swindle. They
can be obtained at that price Mt the Office.
Book and job printing of every kind
attended to promptly at the PHOENIX Of
fec. Every variety of material on hand
The 6remen were called out twice un.
necessarily, yesterday evening. The
first was caused by the burning of lot
of brush wood in the outskirts of the
city, and the second by the unnatural
yells OF an industrious oyster vender.
The Governor hns made the following
appointments: r. W. Boyd, of Darling
ton County; John A. Breden, Henry
Mannheim and Thomas L. Stackhouse, of
Marion County; d. l.. Donald, Geo. w.
McGee, John Harper, FL. r. Vandiver,
John Long, A. NJ. Holland and E. G..
Roberts, of Anderson County, to be No
taries Public.
| THE BURNS CLUn-112rn ANN1vERsA-
KY OF THE PoEr's BInru.-The Burns
Club Of this city celebrated, last night,
the 1l2th anniversary of the birth of
Scotland's fuvorite bard, by supper at
MIR. McKenzie's saloon. A number of
citizens were epresent-merchants, manu-
fncturerA and working men. at little
after 8, President Melton took the chair
with Rev. j. l.. Reynolds on his right
and Gov. Scott on his left. After prayer
a general attack was made upon the good
things. with which tho tables were we'll
supplied, and the incessant rattle of
knives and forks, enlivened by occasion
al poppings Of champagne corks, for
near $ au honr, proved conclusively that
the participants fully appreciated tho
fare placed before them. Oysters. tur-
keys, salads, celery, fruit. cakes, jelies,
aud other innumerable gratificrs Of the
inncr man, disappeared in n manner that
would have excited the envy OF dyspep-
tic. About 8 o'clock the business of the
evening actually commenced, when, rs
is recorded in Tam O'Shanter, "the
mlrth and fun grew fast and furious"
Huge bowls of slnokiug-hbt and smoky
favored whiskey punch were placed upon
the tables, glasses were filled, toasts pro-
posed and responded to, songs sung and
anecdotes related. The regular toaste,
etc., will be published in our next.
REMovAL-MEssRs. DuFrIE & CHAR.
MAN SOUTHERN ENTERpRIsE-W OBJ
serve that AIessra. Dullie & Chapman
have moved over to their new and hand.
some store, just opposite the Columbia
Hotel. Standing now upon their own
ground, they are prepared, more conve-
nicEtly and more successfully than ever,
to carry on their business, which is to
publish and sell books. In this conncc-
ton, it gives us pleasure to commend
the enterprise and public spirit Of this
firm in undertaking to furnish school
books by Southern authors. They have
published series oi New PICTORIAL
READERS AND SpELLERs, consisting of six
volumes These books. prepared by
Prof Reynolds, Of the South Carolina
University, have met with mnch favor
Mcssrs. Duffie & Chapman have also pub
lished SCHOOL HISTORY OF SOUTH Ca
RoLINA, n series of WHITING Books, a
SCHOOL REGISTER and TABLE Book, all
of which are being adopted in North
Carolina and Georgia, as well aa this
State. They have also in preparation
SCHOOL HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES,
by lion. A. H. Stephens, Of Georgia,
designed for schools and colleges. We
are glad to learn that these gentlemen
nro working and building mp their busi-
/ uers We need in the State q publish