The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-11-05
Major B. B MoOreery, Of tho firm Of

w -. Love U 20, arrived IN Oolumbla,
yesterday, after An abseuoe OF several
moHths at the Moth, where he has been
making e1teneive purchases for his
house.
As many OF our patrons will visit the
city during tho week, We would respect
fully suggest to those who may be in
debted, that it will be good time to pay
mp old SCORES and renew.
Messrs. Porter & Steele come down to
the practical business idea and call for
.'go9d bgyers. with now store and
new, gooJt they are prepared to offer
their patrons +'new" Inducements.
.1Messra:' Goldsn,ith & Kind, Of this
city, we're awarded the first premium for
castings at the Abbeyille Fair.
There was something of stir in tho
barber shop connected with the Colum.
bia Hotel, last night, caused by the fall
ing Of portion OF tho plastering. Mr..
Henry NJ. Gibson. who Was underneath.
was ont in the face and on tue head and
shoulder. The broak was caused by a
leak from the boiler in tho kitchen
above.
Maj. A1eiehao ao.;fss Tho public tiias
he is about. The Major is an old. hand
at the bellows. aud what he says about
boots and shoes may he,relied on. =
Mr.. Brookhapks. as we anticipated,
appears in a card, this morning, impart.
ing information which visitors to the
Fair should bear in mind.
Advertise i'll : paper of universal cir.
culation; paper which maintains right
principles iu all things; paper acceptn-
BILE alike to good mon OF oil parties; and
such paper the PHOENIX ia conceded to
be by oil men whose opinion is worth
having.
Capt. Stanley, OF the original slChina
Hall, is ont with notice to his friends,
this morning. This is really unneces-
sary, as his old.established ''hall" is too
we'll known to need touching up. Still,
as this is gala week, the Captain, We
presume, thinks it advisable to let it be
known that he is still "np and doing"
Mrs. S. A. Smith. as will be eoen by a
card in another column. has slightly
changed her husiness, but is still pre-
pared to welcome her lady friends
The plant of the bachelor will be
heard no moro in the land. An ingeni-
oos mechanical as invented buttons which
can be sewed on with screw.driver.
Messrs. King, Moroso and Brennan,
of the Charleston plsss, are in this city.
That the Anderson slight of-hand ex-
hibition, last night, was q mystiAcation
none of those preseL' would pretend to
deny. The tricks wsle Of nature to
puzzle the closest observer The gun
feat. by which the plate in the hands oil
Mrs. a. was enashed, surprised every
one. To-nieht's performance will be
particularly oJ-tifying.
Mr. E. +. Stokes, the unterrified De-
uocrat, stirred up things last night, but
only excited ieers and laughter.
General Wade Hampton vii! deliver q
lecture in Alexandria, Virginia, within
the next fortnight, on the life and cha.
racter of General Lee.
FATAL ACCIDENT Daniels, q
colored child. had both legs cut off, yes.
terday morning, from the effects Of which
she died in few honrs, by falling untle,
the wheels OF the passenger train of the
Greenvillo aud Columbia Railroad. She
had carried breakfast to one of tho trnir
hands, and while waiting, tho cars moved
off and she fell under tho wheels, will
the result above stated.
!. PHGNlxIANA.-"Boy. how did vor
managed to get snch a big string o
fish," II hooked them. SIR"
Some ladies have their pet dogs ayet
Of color to correspond with their owl
toilet.
Did Byron refer to waspish yonnl
ladies when ho wrote "Oar young affeo
tiops run to 'waist?'"
No person. says writer in tho PhiIa
delphia Age, appears to have noticed th'
pathological fact that the tenn "carpet
baooarn 10 a litara1 tranaIotion NJ III.