The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-06-07

closes 1870 A. M. On Sunday Office
open from 3 to 4 P. M.
CITY MATTERS. THE price of single
copies of the PHOENIX is Eve cents.
Mr.. Steiglitz broke ground, yesterday.
on his lot n few doors below the PHOENIX
office. A handsome two.story brick
building is to be erected.
Main street will be kept free of dust.
A watering cart has been put in service.
The panorama OF the United States.
painted by citizen Of Charleston, and
which has been on exhibition there for
several days, will open in this city on
Monday evening. June 10.
The genuine Horace Greeley hat con-
tanning portrait of the Chappnqua
! farmer-has been received at Swafisld's.
1t will soon be all the rage.
The Marion Street Sunday School has
been materially enlarged. The immense
increase in the number OF scholars made
this enlargement necessary. Superin-
tendent Elkins has just cause for pride
in the success of his school.
At the seventeenth annual meeting of
the stockholders of EImwood Cemetery
Company. the following officers were
elected to serve for the ensuing year:
President-Dr. J. w. Parker; Vice Pre-
sident-Wm. Glaze; Directors Orlando
q. Bates, John Mckenzie. F. W. Nc
Master, r. l.. Bryan, Edward Hope, G..
g. Newton, Thos. Boyne. VIM. Wallace,
Jas. L. Reynolds; Secretary and Trea-
surer-Orlando q. Bates.
The following is the programme of
music by the band d the 18th United
States lnfantry-Joseph Buchar. Band
Master-fo, this afternoon:
Pretty Jane Quicketep, by Eckart.
Concert Medley, by Dawning.
Ascension Waltz. by @. Faust.
Robert De Diavolo. by Meyerbeer.
New Year Galop. by GungL
Our Catholic friends, with o number
OF Protestant guests. enjoyed picnic
at the grounds adjoining Seegers'
brewery. yesterday. The weather was
pleasant, and everything passed off ad-
mirably.
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PHGN1xIANA.-Man are very odd
old-fashioned creatures. One-half CEN
sure what they practice. and the other
half practice what they censnre.
When young lady offers to hem
cambria handkerchief for rich bache.
lor, she means to sew in order that she
may reap.
"The palpitating, respiratory bumper"
is the latest novelty in women's things.
A long, cold winter has passed by the
time some people have learned to shnt
the door after them, and long. hot
summer passes before they learn to keep
from shutting the door when it ought to
be open. Such persons are the remote
cause of half the profanity there is in tho
world.
Fred. Douglass has never made any
response to his nomination on the
Woodruff ticket. 1t looks as if ne in
tends to treat the thing with silent con-
tempt. If he does, and he should hear
that Woodruff or OlaAin has bought q
oow-hide and started towards Rochester,
we would advise him TO lay in months
rations md take to the woods.
We presume there is enough human
nature left among us to enable us to bear
with great equanimity the news OF the
sinking OF Spanish gun-boat which
was pursuing the Edgar Stewart, through
collision with another on the same
errand. AS our Administration allows
Spain its own sweet will in the West
Indian waters. the only redress we can
have against the Spanish navy is that
afforded by accident and the element
The mosquito, as public singer,
draws well, but never gives satisfaction.
A Baltimore jeweler has invented an
engagement bracelet. which the gentle
man looks on the wrist Of the lady when
they are engaged, and keeps the key.
Academy OF Billiards" is the latest.