The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1871-08-13
at Item.a.


Our merchants. and others wishing to
prepare for the fall business, will please
take notice that the PHGN1x Office is
supplied with all necessary material for
as handsome cards, bill heads posters,
circulars. and other printing that may be
desired, as any Office in the city. Give
US call and test our work.
To suit the wants Of invalids and
pleasure- seekers, the Charlotte, Coium-
bin and Augusta Road have placed on
sale, at their ticket Offices ut Columbia
and Augusta. excursion tickets to the
White Sulphur and other Virginia
Springs. Sparkling Catawba, IN. C.,)
and also to Niagara, Saratoga, Newport,
Lake George, sc. These tickets ure
sold at greatly reduced rates.
The work is being pushed forward
rapidly on the Wilmington. Columbia
and Augusta Railroad. The iron is
down Us fur rs Hopkins'-ab twelve
miles below Columbia. The road will
be open to this city by the 1st of Octo-
Der.
Secrotnry of the Senate Woodruff will
accept our thanks for copy Of the IRE.
ports and Resolutions of the General
Assembly Of South Carolina for 1870
H."
Tie Southern Atlantic Telegraph
| Company are dcpositing their posts in
the streets of Columbia, preparatory to
opening an Office.
The thermometer STOOL as follows, at
the Pollock House. yesterday z A. NJ,
II; IL NJ. 81; 2 P. NJ. Sc; 7 P. NJ. 70.
Judge Wigg is preparing for the next
fair. He has number Of yearlings and
| milch cows which will make ON excellent
"show." a three-year old miloh COW
and ak weeks Brahmin are hard to
beat.
Ballet girls and geese are the animals
that can stand the longest on one leg.
A schoolboy's aspiration -"Oh. how
I wish was fountain. for then I
could always be playing"
A rumor comes from the North that O
new political movement is on foot in
Georgia and other Southern States, look
ing to tho formation of third party.
This mny account for the recent visit OF
Senntor Cameron to Georgia and the
Democratic tendencies of Governor Bull
lock. Of that State. A correspondent Of
tho New York Herald suggests that in
stead of going to the Democracy, its
leaders design the formation Of party
whose object may be to choice Of Pre-
sident by the people next year and thus
to throw the election into Congress.
At q Sunday school in Ripon, teacher
asked little boy if he knew what the
expression ''sowing tares" meant.
"Courth does, said he, pulling the seat
of his little trowsers around in front.
There's tear my MA sewed; feared
it sliding down hill
a California paper, having accused
the Memphis appeal OF telling false
hood, the Louisville Courier-Journal re-
marks. ut is comparatively safe, when
there is half q continent between you
and q Memphis editor, to tell him that
he lies, but it is death under any other
circumstances"
John Ditto ia tho name Of the Buffalo
city engineer. His wifes name is Ditto,
and the children are all Ditto. When he
signs his name under that Of somebody
else, it is said to create some confusion
at times.
Senator Sumner declines the medal
which the IInytiens offered him, on the
ground that lie is not permitted, by the
strict letter of the Constitution, to re-
ceivo presents from foreign powers.
Heavy on Grant.
Hero aro some newspaper verses be-
ginning. "Last night drew from off
my sleeve lock of golden hair. I"
Lucky for yon," says the Mobile Regis
Ter. that your wife didn't find it before
you did"
Somebody told Jerrold TINT Geo. Rob
bins, the auctioneer, was dead; ''and Of
course" added the gentlemans "his bu-
siness will go to the devil" "Oh, then,
hell get it again" said the wit.
A new perfume has been invented
called "The breath OF charming wo-