The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-01-09
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OrFf mATTERs.--Ine price OF nEle
copies of the PHOENIX is Eve cents.
A complete outfit, with the exception
OF press. for country paper is offered
Tor sale at very low rate. Particulars
can be obtained at PHOENIX Office.
Inc PHGN1x Office is supplied with all
necessary msterialfor as handsome cards,
bill heads. posters, pamphlets, haud.bills,
circulars. and other printing that may be
desired. as any office in the South. Give
us call and test our work.
A supposed incendisry Are was disco.
vered in one OF the upper rooms OF the
new dwelling on Blandipg street, owned
by Messrs. Gary & Tappan. It was ex-
tinguished before any serious damage
was done.
Chris. Haynesworth. at the Columbia
Hotel tonsorial saloon, has every facility
for making plain mortal look interest
ing. He will also furnish warm or cold
bath, at short notice. Try him, ye lords
OF creation.
Vice President Patterson. OF the Green
vile and Columbia Railroad, will accept
our thanks for "pass" over his road for
the present year.
A card from Prof. VIM. H. Orchard
will be found in another column. He is
an efficient teacher.
4 meeting Of the stockholders Of the
Carolina National Bank will be held at
their hall. this day. at IL NJ.
PHGNIxANA.-A lady correspondent
writes to woman's convention that
while she sympathizes with "the move.
ment." she has been hindered by 'oon-
stantly recurring cares from taking an
active part" II she means twins, why
don't she say 80?
The study OF literature nourishes
youth. entertains old age, adorns prospe-
rity, solaces adversely. It is delightful
at home and unobstructive abroad.
An exchange says that the new style OF
collar, for gentlemen, is simply terrific.
Ihey are an eoonomicai article, however,
as with moderately long pantaloons they
do away with al necessity for shirt.
There is no path but will be easier
travelled, no load but will be lighter, no
shadow on heart or brain but will lift
sooner, in presence of determined cheer
fulness.
a welded couple shcn!d always study
each others dispositions, and mutually
make all the allowance possible for the
weak points in their respective charac-
ters.
The papers are having great deal to
say just now about the dangers of sell
ing prize candy" In our city all the
danger there is about it is in the eating
of it.
"What might be done if men were wise?
What glorious deed, my suffering bro
ther.
Would they unite
In love and right,
And cease their scorn Of one another?"
Great men should, if they do not, live
In the shadow of more terrible secret
than even the one just given to the world
by MIR. Forster-the reflection that some
fool will write their biographies after
they die. Every johnson has not his
Boswell. in spite Of that maxim; for By
ron had his Harriet Bescher Stowe. and
Dickens his Forster.
In recent interview. Andy Johnson
said he "never knew man who spelled
his name in the middle to turn ont any
account"
The workingman's Halleck:
Strike-for more food and better firesl
Strlke-at the men who work the wiresl
Strlke-till the last foul ring expires!
For higher wages-strikel
It is said Of Ethen Allen that he once
attended church where the minister
made an estimate, the result of which
was that out of the whole human race
not more than one in l 200 would be
saved. On the announcement of this
result. Allen took his hat and walked
out. saying as he went: "Gentlemen, if
any OF you want my chance. you are
welcome to it. It is not worth staying
for"
MIR. Sumner. In recent senatorial de-
bate, used the II" forty three times in
three minutes, as shown by the Globe.
A few minutes devotion at night will
not clear the conscience of a foul trick
done during the day, nor will going to
church on Sunday atone for the wilful
sins of q week
Clergymen, like brakemeu. do good
deal OF coupling.
Much of the unhappiness in this world
arises from giving ntterance to hasty,
unkind words.
"Ahl" mused Smith, as he contem-
plated his extensive collection of New