The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-11-05
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-,OT1 MArrsns. Tho price OF sipgle
copies of the P4gs1x is 6veeents.
sold newspaRsrs fol-, sale at P4gE1x
|:efHce, at fifty oepts q hundred.
The south Carolina. Monument. Res
tauFant will be open every day, at the
fair grounds, from II A NJ, to p. NJ i.
Lunches and dinners served a la carte.
Oysters, ices, coffee, fruit, Co., &c.
All letters and edmmunications intend
/ cd Tor this ,odacer should be directed to
*PHGF1x. 0olumbia,>S. Oh or to the
proprietor, JULIAN A. SELBf.
All the stoneoutters employed on the
Government Court House and Post
Office have been discharged. It is un-
derstood that the. completion off, the
work is to be given out by contract. The
workmen are much dissaeisfisd at the
turn things have taken, an many of them
came from distance to take situations
here.
Mrs. Jessie Roneke. an aged resident
OF Charleston, died at the Nickersou
House on Saturday last. She had been
confined to her room in the hotel ever
since her return from the springs about
two months ago. Her remains were seut
to Charleston for interment.
The valuable property known as the
Columbia Hotel is advertised for sale at
auction, on Tuesday, December 3. It is
the most desirable piece of property in
the oity, and centrally located.
Mr. James NJ. Dusebury. tho atten-
tive store-keeper for the Greenvile and
Columbia Railroad, returned to Colum-
bia, yesterday. after recruiting visit to
Virginia.
An aged co!ored man, Geo. Guieuard,
brick-layer and plasterer, who has
lahored in Columbia for moro than sixty
years. departed this life on Saturday,
and WAS buried in tho CathoIic church
yard on Sunday. The remains were
escorted to the graveyard by the Ran
doiph Rifles. Captain Cooper. "Uncle
George" was an honest man and had
been faithful slave. His age run into
the seventies.
The Neagle Rifles, Captain Thompson,
went on target excursion, yesterday,
and pretty effectuaIly riddled the bulls
eye.
Commissioner Wutts has furnished us
with copy of the Monthly Report OF
the Department OF Agriculture, for Octo-
! ber. 1872" Much valuable information
is contained in its pages.
There has been general mending of
ways during the past few weeks. We
would suggest to the proprietors of the
| Wheeler House and the adjacent furni-
turery thu; al improvement in theirs
We mean the side walks-would be ap-
psec;atea By the community.
There is leaky gas pipe in front OF
the Columbia Hotel. 1t, has been com
planned OF before.
To accommodate visitors to the State
Fair, Ool.i iDodamead will run sround
trains' between Columbia and Newberry
on Wednesday and Thursday, the 9th
and 7th.
The New York papers, not cohtaii;
with such appellations for tho horse dis.
ease ss ''equine epidemic, ''horse ma.
laria," "eqaine iufuenza. ''horse ca.
tarrh," "horse bronchitis" "equine
scourge," "horse distemper" and "horse
plague" further ring tho changes in
such compounds as "spizootic. "epi
hippic," ''hippozy and "hippo
malaria" The New York Herald is loud
upon what it calls the typhoid laryn
gite," reports "the epozootic extending
to human beings" snys ga Thousand
horses are drawing near the door o.
death, and franticaliy asks, Where ar.
the philozooists?"
Tie concert in aid of the South Caro-
lima Monumental Association comes OF
this evening, in NIckerson House Hall
It will be under the direction Of Prof
Koepper, who will be assisted by severa
amateurs whose musical powers are vel
known throughout the State.
The thorough and universally > admired
comedians, Rose and Harry Watkins