The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-08-31
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CRY MArrERs:-.The price of single


copies of the PHOENIX is Eve cents.
MIR. W. j. Duf1ie, bookseller. has just
issued, in pamphlet form, "a Tribute to
Hon. J. B. O'Neall, LID, being II sum-
mary of his Life and Labors. BY Maxi.
milan L1Borde, NJ. D." Copies can be
obtained by mail, at twenty Eve cents.
Immense bill-boards have been erected
corner of Richardson aud Taylor and
Richardson aud Lady streets. ON which
are portrayed attractive show-b bills, illus
trating the principal scenes enacted by
the Great Eastern Circus Company; also,
many Of the animals to be exhibited by
this monster six-tent concern. The
Bailey lot, on Lady street, near the
Greenville and Columbia Railroad, is the
only one in the city large enough to
allow the tents to be properly pitched.
Our German neighbor, John G. See
gers, Esq, sets out irst-ra.e lunch
every day, ut IL o'clock.
The Messrs. SwafIield are making ar
rangemenis to materially extend their
business. The rooms at present occu-
pied by Messrs. Wearn & Hix are to be
added to their already extensive estab-
lishment. Verify our business men be-
long to the go.ahead order.
Mr.. Il. NJ. Pollock departed for the
North, yesterday, to make the necessary
arrangements for furnishing his hotel
The work on the building is being
pushed forward, and it is pretty certain
that the hotel will be ready for occupa-
ton by the 1st OF November. We shall,
in few days, publish full description.
We heartily commend the Southern
1HusicM journal. (the only one in the
South to our readers. aud assure them
they will not regret the small sum, only
one dollar, needed to secure it for q
year. With the August number, just
OUT four more pages are added, making
it one of tho largest as we'll as the best
musical magazines now published. Each
number now contains twenty-four largo
quarto pages Of musical reading matter
and beautiful music. Sixty cents worth
of sheet music is also given each new
| subscriber as premium, so that the
Journal really costs but forty cents a
year. Ludden & Bates, Savannah, Ga,
are the publishers.
Messrs. Wearn g. Xix; the skillful and
artistic photographers, have just finished
q portrait of the beloved and highly
popular pastor OF the Presbyterian
Church in this city. Rev. Joseph r. Will
son. 1t is not only correct likeness,
but also beautiful piece of work Nu-
merous copies have been ordered by the
admirers of the learned disine.
A spiteful young highland moccasin
was caught in the basement of the PHG-
NIX office, yesterday, and properly bot
tied. It is supposed that his snakeship
was introduced into the building through
the medium Of u hollow log. A sharp
lookout is being kept for the old ones.
Col Black, Poet Commandant, return
ed to Columbia, yesterday. His West
ern trip was of little advantages; but our
delightful climate will soon bring him
out
BY Act of the Legislature, druggists
are required to have the antidote to each
poison or poisonous compound sold by
them printed upon the label on each bot
tie or package.
Hugh Wilson, Esq, of the Abbeville
Press, paid lis a short visit, last night.
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The DOUBLE EXECUTION, YESTERDAY.
The two colored murderers, William
Lucas and Edward Harris, who were
convicted at the last term of the Court
of General Sessions, and sentenced by
Judge Melton to be hung on the third
Friday in August, but who were re-
prieved by Gov. Scott until Friday, Au-
gust 80, expiated their offences and salts
fed the law, yesterday, at 2.20 O'Clock.
Lucas, it will be remembered. in COM
pany with two others-Haunch Bridges
and VIM. Dennis--took the life OF q
young white man, named John Simpson,
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