The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-07-16
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teresting one that we have had for many
years. We are determined to furnish
our readers with the fullest and freshest
information from oil quarters of the
Union, as the campaign progresses, ard
to this end will increase the number of
our news columns, SO that the PHOENIX
will contain for the campaign moro read
ing matter than any daily paper at the
capital, and as much as either of our
Charleston contemporaries. To the citi-
zens Of the upper Counties of tue State,
the PHOENIX, AS furnishing news twenty.
four hours ahead of the Charleston news
papers, particularly addresses itself. All
ye who feel an interest in the election of
Greeley aud Gratz Brown, and desire to
know the correct status Of the campaign
as each new development is made, send
in your subscriptions to the PHOENIX,
either daily or tri-weekly. We promise
you lively, readable and reliable paper.
Send for specimen copies.
CRY MATTERS. price of single
SOPAOS Va VIC l. 1SCN1A 40 ht0 C0utos
A.large and varied lot of cards, suita-
bile for weddings. invitations. visiting
and business purposes. have just been re-
ceived Mt this Office, which, owing to the
dull season. will be printed at very low
| rates.
The first fight of the campaign oc-
CURED near Columbia, on Sunday last,
between Grant man and a Greeleyite.
The advocate of "Oid White Hat" was
the victor.
The Industrious Fleas" hold levees
every day over the Western Union Tele.
graph Office.
Mr.. John G. Dial has patent porta-
BILE fire extinguisher and garden pump,
which is invaluable for city and country
use. It can be put ir operation in half
u minute.
Considerable amusement was created,
yesterday, by the efforts of "Good
Samaritan" to conduct an intoxicated
man home. He finally succeeded by
bundling him into wagon, and holding
Mr.. Intoxication down.
MIR. S. j. Hook, of Lexington. has
presented US with an open cotton boil =
q fair specimen of a field, nearly oppo-
site Columbia.
The contract for rain every day is
being faithfully carried out.
If time is money there are a great
many in this town in very easy circum-
stances. They seem to have great deal
of time on their hands that they don't
know what to do with.
Colonel VIM. Johnson, of the Char
lotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad
Company, has been elected President of
the Western North Carolina.
A mad dog was killed in the upper
portion of the city on Sunday morning
last.
Those of our friends who are addicted
to smoking, and who wish their meer-
schaums repaired or colored, would do
we'll to call on Mr.. Treager, at the
lower end of Richardson street. From
specimens of his work which we have
seen, we can safely commend him. He
is evidently "a skilled workman in any
thing that pertains to 'meerschaum. z"
Some destructive urchins have been
prscticing with rocks at the handsome
stained glass window in the gallery of
the Lutheran Church, breaking several
of the panes. Such conduct deserves
severe punishment.
Policemen Bynum and Carter killed o
mad dog in the upper portion of the city
on Sunday afternoon last.
We learn that it is in contemplation
to remove the Wilmington, Columbia
and Augusta Railroad workshops from
Wilmington to this city at an early day.
W. F. Swavinger has been appointed
by the Governor County Auditor of Lam
caster County, uice W. g. Billings, re-
moved.
The thermometer at the Pollock House
recorded as follows yesterday: A. NJ,
II; IL H., 86; 7P. NJ, 80.