The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-07-28
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DR.. NJ. WE'LL. an eminent optician.
from Berlin, Prussia, is at the Columbia
Hotel, and will be pleased to see any of
our citizens who are troubled with any
affections of the eyes. His Brazilian
pebble glasses are highly commended.
A sand-spout of extreme proportions
was observable on Washington street,
near Gadsden, yesterday.
An attempt at robbery was made at
Mr.. Joyner's saloon, on Main street,
early yesterday morning. The would be
robber was disturbed aud made his
escape.
Mr.. J. T. Tarrar. in charge of Mr.. G.
r. Franklin's Nassau Island farm, pro-
sented us with an open boil of cotton,
yesterday-the 6rst in this vicinity, we
believe.
There was Radical barbecue at
Trenholm's farm, yesterday, at which
the principal office-seekers were present.
Addresses we're delivered by Gov. ScotS,
Treasurer Parker, Comptroller Neagle
and others.
The richest joke We have lately heard
was perpetrated in this city the other
day. A colored man, who had imbibed
the teachings of the GRANTEES, said he
was opposed to Greeley, ''because he
was not an honest man." Ye godsl what
next?
A mad dog was killed in Hurleyville,
Friday afternoon.
Yesterday was the hottest day of the
season; as to the night of that day, Ian.
guage fails.
The hegira for the up-country has
commenced. 1t has been suggested that
excursion tickets over the Greenville and
Columbia Railroad, good for month,
would prove paying proceeding. by in.
ducing increased travel.
The following is the programme of
music by the band of the 18th Infantry,
for tomorrow. July %:
Overture -Caliph De Bagdad. Baldien.
Quick-step. Faust.
Scene and Aria Nabuchodonosor.
Verdi.
Narcissus Waltz. Wade.
Finale Lucia de Lamermoor. Doni-
zetti.
Henry Sparniok, Esq, of the Aiken
Tribune, is at Roses Hotel.
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PHGN1xIANA.-No wonder time is often
murdered, when it is struck every hour.
Good intentions are like fainting
ladies-all they want is carrying out.
No one wishes to have bald head, but
no one wishes to lose it when he has.
1t is now said that orange is the pro-
per color for spectacles for persons with
weak eyes, instead of blue or green.
If civil word or two will render
man happy, he must be wretched in
deed who will not give them to him.
Such q disposition is like lighting an
other mans candle by ones own, which
loses none of its brilliancy by what the
other gains.
The land of Western farm is so wet
that the owner hoes his corn with dip.
per and digs his potatoes with hook
and line.
A new Spanish dictionary, intended to
be complete, devotes to the word ojo.
eye, fifteen royal octave pages, giving
citations from eighty-eight authors.
Who wouldn't write dictionary? :
One of the rarest and most pleasing OF
flowers is the pink of politeness.
If cause be good, the most violent
attacks of its enemies will not iniure it so
much as an injudicious defence OF it by
its friends.
The Chicago woman who married a
man in Jail, brags that she is ''the only
girl in town who knows where her fel-
low stays of nights"
100000 of paper collars and cuffs
are made annually in Troy. N. Y, and
1900 people are employed in doing it.
RELIGIOUS SERVICES THIS DAY.-Tri-
nifty Church P. J. Shand, D. D.,
Rector, II A. NJ. and 81 P. NJ.
Lunatic Asylum-Rev. DR.. J. L. Rey-
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