The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1871-08-25
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fHGN1xIANA.- The price OF single
copies OF the PHGN1x is Eve cents.
a drowning man plucked from The
jaws of death is happier with three feet
of bare rock than others with thousands
OF broad acres; 80 is the humble Chris
tian happier with the hope OF Heaven
than the men of the world are when their
corn and wine do most abound, and all
things go we'll with them.
II the young would remember that
they may be old. and the old would re-
member that they hive been young, the
world would be happier.
Make people think you consider them
clever and agreeable, aud they will be
pretty apt to have pleasant impression
OF yourself
The whole machinery of social inter
course is very dclicato and intricate, and
LIS our business to keep all places Of
possible friction we'll supplied with the
oil Of politeness.
Have enough regard for yourself to
treat your greatest enemy with quiet po-
liteness. All petty sights are merely
meanncsscs and hurt yourself more than
any one else.
1t is much easier to lose tue good OPT
Mon of people than TO regain it; and
when any one does not care for the good
opinion of others hc or sho is not worthy
of respect.
Our merchants. and others wishing to
prepare for the fall business will please
take notice that the PnGNIx Office is
supplied with all necessary material for
US handsome cnrds, bill heads, posters,
circulars, and other printing that may be
desired, as any Office in the city. Give
us call and test our work.
The Southern gas generator, now in
use Mt the PHOENIX Office, is much ad-
mired. It is just the thing for large es-
tabiishments; and in country towns is
invaluable.
Since the first empire it has been a
law OF the French army that no defeated
or captured soldier or officer could as
sumo his place without first having been
tried by court martial. They hardly
think it worth while to enforce this
regulation under present circumstances,
since the court martial, if an effective
one, would last into the next century.
The thermometer stood as follows, at
the Pollock House. yesterday: 7 A. NJ,
70; IL NJ, Sc; p. NJ, II.
Slight of hand Refusing an ''offer."
The most steadfast followers of our
fortunes Our creditors.
II time should repair the breeches,
would there be any vestiges?
J Flowers teach us the tenderness of
Gods character. II He had made no.
thing of this kind, if His works had
been for bare utility, and had consisted
OF coarse aud more substantial creations
only, the tender side of the Divine
character would have failed of the reye.
lation it now has in nature.
It is the fashion to come in late to
breakfast at the sea-sidc-and every.
where else.
The New York Herald calls the recent
disaster in Japan tycoon" A tycoon
is military ruler, like Grant.
Wheels go best when they nre tho.
roughly tired.
; Boys. remember you grow old every
day; aud if you have had habits, they
grow old, too; and the older both get,
tho harder you are to separate.
II is not until the flower has fallen Off
That the frnit begins to ripen. So in life
it is when the romance is past that the
practical usefulness begins,
MAIL ARRANGEMENTS. Tho Northern
mail opens at 800 P. NJ; closes 7.15
a. M. Charleston day mail opens 400
P. NJ; closes GOO a. NJ. Charleston
night mil opens 6. 80 A. NJ. closes 6. 90
z. M. Greenville mail opens Gas P.
NJ; closes 600 A. NJ. Western mail
opens 900 A. NJ; closes 1.3O P. NJ. On
Sunday Office open from to 4P. Nj.
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