The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-06-23

By reference to our advertising CO.
lumns. it will be seen that the Green
vile and Columbia Railroad Company,
with characteristic liborality, will issue
excursion tickets to Columbia, Walhalla
and Donnald's during tho approaching
examinations.
A trestle on the Charlotte, Columbia
and Augusta Railroad, two miles this
side Of Graniteville, between Vaucluse
Factory and Heard's Mill, was burned on
Thursday. Trains are unable to pass,
but passengers and freight are transfer
red at the break, and there is no inter
ruption of travel. The fire is supposed
to have been the work of an incendiary.
It is thought that the damage will be re-
paired in short time.
The cypress shingle roof of the State
Capitol has been completed.
A white dog, who. it is supposed, was
afflicted with hydrophobia, was killed
yesterday morning, in Taylor street,
near Sumter. A large crowd was
around the animal before and after death.
Governor Scott has appointed Capt.
John Wigg a Pilot Commissioner for
Beaufort harbor; and accepted the
resignation of A. W. Smith, Trial JUS
:ice for Colleton County.
The Indian Girl, yesterday, donned q
new and handsome costume. She is
even brighter than she was before, and
more charming to her customers, for
whom she has just opened varied
assortment Of the finest Havana segars
nt living prices.
Maj. Simons, white school-teacher,
from Williamsburg, who was sentenced
to tho penitentiary for one year, for
forgery, made his escape from that insti-
tuition on Friday night last.
Maj. VIM. s. Green has been appoint
ed Chief Engineer of the Savannah and
Memphis Railroad. This road, when
completed. will be one of the most i'm
portant connections with the West, and
is emphatically ''short line"
KNIGHTS OF PYrH1As. the infor-
nation of members of tho order of
Knights of Pythias in this city and State,
we extract the following from press re-
port of the proceedings of the Supreme
Lodge. Among the many changes made
and laws passed at the recent session. the
following are appended as the most i'm
portant:
The matter of procuring uniforms is
not compulsory upon the members
Each lodge has the right to uniform or
not.
A drill manual has been adopted,
which can be procured from the Supreme
Scribe.
The Grand Chancellor or Grand Lodge
has the right to grant dispensations for
or admit manned person or one under
twenty-one years of age.
The "kneeling" is stricken from the
ritual and standing" substituted.
A lodge may meet, but cannot perform
work unless their dispensation or chart
is in the room.
The order of last session requiring
lodges to meet weekly was rescinded, and
one adopted giving Grand Chancellors
tne power TO grant dlspen6atlOns to hold
semi-monthly meetings.
No appeal can be entertained by the
Supreme Lodge from subordinate
lodge without the consent of the Grand
Lodge from whom the appeal is made.
All laws and enactments of the Su-
preme Lodge go into effect Immediately
after thcis PRONUNCIATION by the Grand
Chancellor or Grand Lodge, and not
until then.
From the report of the growth of the
order, it would appear that no order
over inetituted in America has grown 80
rapidly as the Knights of Pythias:
On December 81, 1864, this order
numbered only three lodges and seventy
eight members. One year later. another
lodge and fifty-two members wore added
to the roll The order then shot forth
like blazing meteor, end to-day it
adorns thirty-five States, two Territories,
two provinces in Canada, and the Sand.
wich Islands, numbering 1.06O lodges
and 1l7.000 members. within period
Of only eight years. The Supreme Scribe,
in his report, truthfhlly says:
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