The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1871-10-19
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The carrier on the upper route being
sick. subscribers will please call at this
Office for their papers.
We issue supplement- with our daily
OF this morning, to which the attention
OF readers is invited.
You can gain knowledge by reading
but you must separate the ohaf from the
wheat by thinking.
The PHRNIx Office is supplied with all
necessary materialior ss handsome cards,
bill heads, posters, pamphlets. hand.bills.
circulars. and other printing that may be
desired. as any Office in the South. Give
us call and test our work.
Col. Thos. Dodamead has recovered
from his recent severe and lingering i'll
ness, and is once more at his post. His
trip to the Virginia Springs was very
beneficial.
Value the friendship OF him who
stands by you in the storm; swarms OF
insects will surround you in the sun
shine.
The Augusta passenger train over the
Charlotte. Columbia and Augusta Rail-
road was detained over an hour, yester-
day morning. by q broken rail.
The West Point (Miss.) Inder fur
nishes rough sketch Of Southern
darkey aud Southern white man pull
ing in opposite directions. while car
pet Dagger has hand in the pocket Of
each.
Merchants and other business men
who intend having cards, circulars, bill
heads, posters or other work printed, in
contemplation of the Fair, should send
in their orders at once, and not wait
until the last moment, when press Of
work may prevent their being filed sat-
isfactoriIy.
VIM. G.. Tyson. Esq, editor Of the
Charleston Nationalist. paid us visit,
yesterday.
The following was the range of the
thermometer at the Pollock House yes
terday: 7 A. H., go; IL NJ, 65; P. NJ,
65: P. NJ, &c.
Supposing man to be in serious
frame OF mind, is it necessary he should
be picture OF despair?
A maa is !. no danger as long as he
talks love. but when he writes it. he is
impaling himself on his own pot-hook
most effectually.
Onr city is very we'll supplied with
fruit at present. Messrs. Mckenzie and
Brookbanks & 90. have fine Northern
pears, apples and grapes; while Mr..
Diercks displays oranberries-ar reminder
that the turkey season has arrived.
Messrs. D. @. Peixottn & Son are aleo
in the grape line.
General G. L. Anderson's horse ran
off. yesterday. throwing the owner ont
and smashing the buggy into smisher-
eens. Measrs. Carroll & Spellman must
live, you know. Therefore. an occasional
smash-up is essentially necessary.
Mr.. Symmers advertises the ''Arst Of
the season" on"-buok-wheat. Think Of
it-buck- wheat cakes and molasses.
Why. its almost enough to make one
wish cold weather would hurry mp.
Sheriff Damn, Of Union County,
arrived in this oity, Tuesday evening,
having in charge three lunatics, who
were assigned quarters in the Asylum.
A Nut FOR THE CITY COUNCIL. Yes
terday, we overheard conversation be-
tween several delegates to the colored
convention, while in the vicinity of the
excavation at the corner of Main aud
Washington streets. in the course Of
which, delegate asked "What is this
place?" referring to the hills o6 clay and
the work going on at the corner men
toned; when response was promptly
made. probably by delegate from Ar.
kansas, "rhis is Council Bluffs"
SOUTHERN STATES CoLoRRp CoNvEN-
TON. This Convention met yesterday.
aud was called to order by n. NJ. Turner,
President of the late Georgia Colored