The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-08-27
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Cry MArrERs.--The price of single

ESQ.,, Secretary of the Cotton States Me-
chanical and Agricultural Association,
for complimentary admission ticket
and catalogue of the third grand annual
fair of that association, to be held in
Augusta, Ga, commencing on Tuesday,
October %, 1872, and continuing five
days. Besides a liberal premium list,
So, 900 has been set apart by the associa-
tion for objects Of merit not provided
for in the list.
We furnish our triwcckly subscribers
with ten-column supplement, this
morning.
Mr.. r. Neale has exhibited to us
stalk Of cotton brought from the Dutch
Fork. which is almost entirely eaten up
by caterpillars.
1t will be seen by card in this morn
ing's PHOENIX that Leroy +. Youmans,
ESD, prominent member of tho Edge
field bar, has located in Columbia, and
will attend to professional business here.
Mayor John Alexander will accept our
thanks for copy of the Sydney (Aus-
tralia) To,0m and Country Journal, of
June 30. 1872.
Yesterday was another scorcher, as
Pollock's thermometer will evidence: 7
a. NJ, 80; IL NJ, 90; . P. NJ, 90; 7 p.
NJ, 30.
Prof. Buchar's 18th Regiment Band
performs tho following programme this
afternoon, ut o'clock:
Fort Sedgwick March-Smith.
Finale Lucia de Lammermoor-Do
zett.
Good Night Quadrilles.
Dream on the Ocean-Waltz -Gungl.
New Years Galop.
PHGNIxIANA.-A correspondent in
quires: "If bread is the staff of life,
what is butter?" The last we got was
forty cents a pound.
An old lady is collecting all the polti-
cal journals she can get to make soap of.
She says they contain 69lS per cent. of
pure 'lie."
The army of Dents. Caseys and bro.
Tiers in-law generally, who fatten on the
peoples Treasury through tho favor of
their enlightened and august cousin at
Long Branch, is becoming too largo for
classification. The whole subject will,
when Congress meets, be referred to the
Committee on Federal Relations.
A lazy dyspeptio was bewailing his
own misfortunes, and speaking with q
friend on the latter's hearty appearance.
"What do you do to make yourself so
strong and healthy?" inquired the dys-
peptic. "Live on fruit alone" an
swered the friend. "What kind OF fruit?"
"The fruit Of industry; and am never
troubled with Indigestion"
man with very large feet cannot be
said to ''stand on trifes.''
Beware Of the boarding house where
Tyou ere to be created as one of the
family"
The man who on his wedding day
starts as lieutenant in the family, will
never get promoted.
A shoddy matron told gentleman
friend that one of her lovely daughters
was ''bluene" and the other "bronze."
Life is like o theatre. During the
play, we take higher and lower seats; but
when it is over, we mingle in the COM
mon stream and go home.
A conceited young parson once said
''This morning preached to copgre-
cation of assesl' "I thought of that. -
retorted lady, "when you called them
your beloved brethren"
One word Of warning to our fellow
citizens. When you talk politics and
you will talk politics keep in the shade.
1t is very difficult to think calmly and
argue dispassionately with blood boiling
through the veins like molten lava, and
50 hasty word," that most fatal author
Of oil mankind's misfortunes, will often
drop ont hot and scalding to wound, in
weather such as we are enjoying-sav
the mark. we take it that it was very
hot day in Eden when Adam committed
his first indiscretion, which commenced,
as every one knows, with matrimonial
"tif." The ardent climate OF the Eu-
pirates had, no doubt, much to do with
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