The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-10-23

copies OF the PHOENIX is five cents.
Old newspapers for sale at PHOENIX
Office, at fifty cents hundred.
The annual session Of the Grand Divi-
sion of the Sons Of Temperance oon-
venes this evening. in Temperance Hall,
few doors below the PHOENIX Office. By
the way, weare informed that the Colum-
bia Sons contemplate the erection OF
temple in this city.
The Governor has pardoned John
McCord. OF Abbeville, convicted of as
sault and battery with intent to kill, at
the February (ls72) term of the court,
and sentenced by Judge Orr to twelve
months imprisonment at hard labor.
Also, Georgia.. Berry, of Richland. con-
vioted Of grand larceny in two cases, at
the October (1S7O) term of the court,
and sentenced by Judge Melton to three
and half years imprisonment at hard
labor. The pardon of Thomas DELAY,
of Fairfield, who was convicted of aid
ing prisoner to escape, OF the March
term Of the court, 1872, and sentenced
to ten years imprisonment in the peni-
tentiary, has been cancelled by the Go.
vernon.
Several dissatisfied individuals, as we
are informed. contemplate the formation
OF new gas company in this city.
Prof. Anderson, the wizard and illu-
sionist, assisted by Leona and Columbia
Anderson, Young America and Prof.
Schubert, after brilliant European
tour, appear before Columbia audience
on the 4th and 5th November, in Irwin's
Hall. This is, we believe, Prof. A. 3 first
tour of America in sixteen or eighteen
years.
We recently noted an error in assign
ing the invention of champagne to the
reign of Louis XVI, (1778) and here we
find an old memorandum referring to the
Spectator. No. ego, July 19, 17l4, where
We read Of champaign" as it is there
spelled, as drink known for at least
twenty years.
The artistic reporter sees items in
orange stands. and paragraphs, in every
thing. The embryo banker in the Sun
day-school books attracts the attention
Of generous patron by shopping to pick
up pin. But the reporter whose ma
ture is permeated by sense of the re-
sponsibilities OF his calling. sees bana-
ma peel on the church steps, and tarries
patiently by it till the congregation
comes out.
John Thompson says the reason why
the GRANTEES do not want to ''clasp
hands across the bloody chasm" Is. their
hands are too full-they would have to
drop something.
The "Eustace Diamonds" is the latest
production of Anthony Trollope. author
of "The Golden Lion of Granpere, ("
''Barchester Towers" etc. The reputa-
ton Of this talented author is so we'll
established that Newspaper commepda-
ton is really unnecessary. His charao-
ters are drawn with an outline firm, bold
and strong. His broad and vigorous
portraiture, keen insight into character,
and subtle and penetrating observation,
embrace too widely and pierce too deep
ly into the society around him, not to
give to all he writes tho strength and
consistency OF purpose. The price Of
this volume is $1.25. Mr.. W. j. Duffie
has furnished us with copy.
The scaifolding has been removed from
the front of Mr.. Stieglitz's building, ION
Main street, three doors below the PHG-
nix office,) and it now looms up in all its
beauty monument to the skill of
Messrs. Berg & Hewetson, the architects,
and Mr.. Jacobs, the builder.
Not what it was, but what it should
have been-the play at Twins Hall.
Tuesday night. The secret on the stage
was Lady Audley's, but the secret OF the
local notice was the non-attendance of
the local. Elizabeth was not produced
on the stage. though previously an
nounced by programme and advertise