The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-11-26

t.39rhsi Hebrew Burial Association was
organized on Sunday, andPMr A. L.
Solomon elected President; g. Visanska,
Vice-President; Jacob Sulzbacher, Sec.
retery. The society intend to procure
suitable lot for burial ground.
The Legislature oonyenes to- day, ut
I'm.
Our 1sraelite friends nre making pre-
parations to commence the erection OF a
house of worship at no distant day.
Wo regret To- learn that tho terrible
throat affection known as diphtheria is
on the increase in this city. The family
of Mr.. David B. Clayton has been sorely
afflicted iu the loss OF two children-one
OF them q young lady Of fifteen. The
entire community sympathise with them
in their bereavement.
Mr.. ". ]. Vereen, OF this State, (who
is connected with the well-known cloth
ing house of Anderson, Starr & Co., 5O2
and 504 Broadway, New York, } is paying
his semi-anuusE visit to South Carolina,
and will extend his pilgrimage to all
parts of the State.
We learn that Sol Smith Russell will
visit Columbia about the 2Oth OF Deoem-
ber.
There's man in town who won't have
anything unless it ie exactly what he
wants. He wouldn't vote for Greeley
because he wanted ''straight" Demo-
crat; and now he refuses to haul Lis
goods with oxen because he wants horses
to do the work-and the horses are too
sick to run, just as O'Conor was.
A young lady of this city has just sent
to Europe nm order for fifty yards OF
Brussels carpet, twenty-five feet wide.
She is going to work a pair of slippers
for an outgoing State official, who was
80 unfortunate as to lose his boots
short time ago.
George Symmers is in receipt of
Swiss cheese, weighing 160 pounds-suf-
ficiently large to make a respectable
cart wheel. He is considerably worried
as to how the monster is to be reduced
in size.
To advertise is to make known facts
that people will not take the time and
trouble to search out for themselves A.
advertises; B. does not. All know that
A. hos certain goods. Few people know
(aud they have an Indifferent knowledge)
as to whether B. has these goods or not.
With A. 8 advertisement before them, it
is doubtful il they bestow thought
upon B. So much the better for the
advertising man.
The one dollar gold piece is to be
Withdrawn from circulation.
I'VE thought it had been done long,
long ago; we never see any gold dollars.
The city is filed to overfowing, and
tho streets present lively appearance.
A Greenville correspondent says we
were mistaken as to the arst portrait OF
General Lee having Deen puintei by niliI.
Query for the Town Council Of Spar
tanburg. He says it was painted for the
Greenville City Council, and was al
lowed to be exhibited at Wofford Col
lege. Spartanburg.
Ill. ouoAnH AuIdIbucd VIC IOtlOWlUR
programme of music at the garrison
grounds this afternoon:
Martha Quickstep-Flotow.
Crazy Musicians-Samuels.
Quadrille, without title-Strauss.
Overture Tancredi-Rossini
Oafar Atout Polka-Zikoff.
Gov. Scott has been nnwell for the
past two days, and was unable to be out
yesterday.
It is rumored that the programme Of
the new Administration is to have new
tax bill, properly framed, introduced
very early in the session. and it is ex-
pected that the legal tax levy therein
provided for will be ordered about the
middle Of December.
We arc informed that the inferno.
diate orator of the Euphradian Society
is Mr.. B. o. Townsend, of Society Hill.
He will speak in the College Chapel, on
Thursday night. the 28th. Mr.. Town
send has been student at the Univer.
sity for several years, and is favorably