The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-05-14
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CRY MATTERS. The price Of single
copies of the PHOENIX is five cents.
Col. I. G. McKissick arrived in Co.
lcmbio, Sunday morning, on his return
from Washington.
James M. Swank, Esq, Chief Clerk
of the Department OF Agriculture, Wash
ington, will accept our thanks for copy
of the monthly report of the Depart
ment of Agriculture, for March and
April. 1879.
The sale of city OF Columbia bonds
comes off tomorrow. Look out, capital
lists.
The Messrs. Agnew-fath and son
are the standby" OF the heads of fami-
lies. They keep everything in the pro-
vision line-for man and beast. And
thriving trade they drive, too-requiring
two stores.
There was another large turnout OF
citizens at the garrison grounds. yester-
day, to listen to tho ezccllen. music by
Mr.. Buchar's band, and witness The
movements of the soldiers. The follow
ing is the programme for this afternoon:
Brigade Quickstep, by Maske.
Overture, Dame De Blanche, by Boul-
dien.
Flying Trapeze Waltzes. by F. Miller.
Prayer Andante, by Balfe.
Heart and Hand Galop, by W. Lewis.
Drs. A. N. Talley and r. W. Gibbcs
returned, yesterday. from Philadelphia,
where they have been as delegates from
this State to the Medical Convention,
lately held iu the Quaker City.
The May number OF Die ModenweN--
an illustrated magazine for fashions and
fancy works to hand Each number
contains hundreds of wood cuts, with
descriptive matter; besides paper pat
terms. S. T. Taylor. BIG Broadway,
New York, is the American publisher.
Messrs. Lorick & Lowrance have a
6ne lot of Timothy hay, which they
offer very low.
The Methodist Church, corner Of
Washington and Marion streets, is being
pushed forward rapidly by the contract
or. Clark Waring, Esq. When COM
pleted it will be on ornament to the city,
as we'll as monument to the skill Of
the architects, Messrs. Parkins & Allen.
Mr.. r. Wearn's new building on Main
street, near Plain, will complete the
gap on that square-making the first
complete block on our principal tho.
roughfure.
A majority Of the State Financial
Board arc reported to be on their way to
New York. What's in the wind?
At the annual meeting of the corpora.
tion Of the First Presbyterian Church,
held May l3, the following officers were
elected to serve for the ensuing year:
Henry Muller, President; W. J. Dufie,
Secretary and Treasurer; F. W. Wing,
A. CT. Brenizer, Jos. A. Hendrix, Geo.
Symmers, W. A. Clark. Temporal Com
mittee.
A man calling himself Nj. r. Keon, is
travelling through the South. land is now
in Columbia who claims to be travelling
agent of the Celtic Weekly, of New York.
But that paper denounces him as q
swindler, and says: ''We have taken
measures to put period to his fraudu.
lent career, but in the meantime let
parties be on their guard against him. -
The apparatus OF the Ph@nix Hook
and Ladder Company was beautifully
decorated. yesterday. through respect to
the memory OF q deceased member
Mr.. John Wemholtz, native OF Ger
many, who, at the early ege of twenty,
departed this life, after an illness Of six
days. The poor fellow received every
attention from the family of Mr.. T. M.
Pollock. with whom he had been en-
ployed for more than year, He was
an honest man, and leaves many friends
to mourn his sudden death.
The attention of the Engineer OF
Water Works is called to the leaky con-
dition of the hydrant at the corner of
Richardson and Taylor streets.
We are pleased to state that Mre.
Darling, vino was go severely injured on