The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-09-07
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pected in the Baptist church Tomorrow.
We have received from Messrs. E. w.
Harrison Co., Al and 43 Warren street,
New York, specimen OF their "Old
White Hat" badge. It is particularly
neat, and is recommended by the Ma
tional Liberal Republican and Demo
cratic Committees. Go-ahead agents
could do we'll by selling these badges.
Yesterday we had another installment
of the cheated term
The Congaree River is lower at the
present time than it has been for manv
years. 1t is possible to walk across on
the stones and sand bars.
The Rev. E. A. Bolles, General Agent
American Bible Society, will visit Pick
ems Court House, to preach. to o.morrow,
September 8. on which OCCASION he will
organize Bible society.
The NEW BR1DGE.-Mr. Mercer, tie.
superintendent Of DR.. Neagle's bridge
over the Congaree River, is pushing his
work along-near]y two-thirde of the
structure bsing up. As the 18th is the
day. according to the contract, when the
job is to be completed, it is absolutely
necessary to 'rush." The bridge will be
substantial structure-built on a plan
somewhat novel, at least for this part of
the world.
PHGN1x1ANA.-The easiest OF all work
is the making Of other people uncom-
Portable. You can realize more from
smaller Investments in that line than in
any other.
correspondent says that the Swiss
Einsedelu lives by it's religion. A good
deal of the religion now a days is better
to live than to die by.
We hear great deal about labor re-
form. but there seems to be greater
need of reforming some of those fellows
who don't labor.
man that marries a widow is bound
to give up smoking and chewing. If
she gives up her weeds for him, he
should give up his weed for her.
Mr.. Jones being asked by Mrs. Jones
to buy thermometer, said he would
wait until they were lower.
A Mrs. Klock is the candidate for
school uperntendency in Kansas If
she keeps going and don't strike, she'll
do.
Young ladies' conundrum-Wh two
noblemen are mentioned in the New
TestamentP Baron Fig Tree and Lord
How Long.
The pleasantest things in the world
are pleasant thoughts, and the greatest
art in life is to have as many of them as
possible
II have q great love for old hymns"
said pretty girl to her masculine friend.
Il am much fonder," he replied, ''of
the hers.'''
The persons who live on the failings of
their neighbors will never die of starva-
tion.
Impolite-for persons to whisper and
write Eotes in company.
SEPTEMBER month of Septem-
ber was dedicated by the Romans to Vul-
can. Now, one of the names of Vulcan
was Mulciber, from Mulceo, to delight,
to soften, enervate, &c. "Voluptas ami
mum mulcet," says Ovid-lu1ury softens
or enervates the mind. The wife Of Vul-
can was Venus. who rules over the sign
OF Libra, which the sun passes through
this month. The name of Mulciber, ap-
piled to Vulcan. and the character of the
sign, which, according to astrology,
causes mild, quiet, even turn of mind
but voiuptuous, tend to show the origi-
nal allusion to the power of Venus, the
Goddess of Luxury, over the sun while
in this sign. One of the feasts held in
this month was jointly sacred to Venus
and Saturn; now the astrologers teach
that Libra is the house of Venus and the
exaltation of Saturn. This feast, there
fore, alluded originally to tho power of
these two planets in that sign.
HOTEL ANIMALS, September 6.-Coun6id