The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-04-18
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OT1 MArTnRs. prioe OF single
copies OF the PHOENIX 10 Eve cents.
Weather, yesterday, gusty.
Clam nhowder for lunch at the Pollock
House, to-day.
:: Paper containing many fne points
the paper'of needles.
A watohman has been placed upon the
bell tower. A good idea
Senator Sprague, OF Rhode Island, ar
rived yesterday, and is quartered with
O O,ionel Fearoe.
Ths :sses: Styles Wedding and visiting
cards and envelopes, lastly printed, can
be obtained at the PHGN1x Office.
Because a man has had chequcred
career It does not necessarily follow that
ho has always acted ION tho square,
Mr. j. N. Long has received lot OF
Ano Kentucky mules and horses. They
can be seen at Daly's stables.
A meeting of the Board OF Health is
to be held this afternoon. It is hoped
there will he full meeting.
All the leading papers in the country
are on file in the PHOENIX Office, for the
inspection OF the public.
Miss Partridge, teacher at the Me.
thodist Female College, in this city. died
Wednesday night. The body has been
carried to Florida-of which State she
was q native for interment.
Governor Noses has commuted the
sentence of Blanford Gaillard, (recently
sentenced in Charleston to lie hung,) to
FIVE years Imprisonment in the peniten-
| tiary.
4 meeting was held yesterday, between
i committee Of the citizens and Senator
Sprague, relative to the development Of
the Columbia Canal, but nothing definite
was agreed upon.
| We have been furnished by the Com
mittee with the premium list to be
awarded at the Floral Exhibition of the
Agricultural Society of South Carolina,
to be held in Charleston, next week
April % and 80 and May 1.
The Charleston Schuetzenfest opens
ON Monday next, 1t will be gala occa-
sion. It was believed that the South
Carolina Railroad Company would issue
round trip tickets for one fare, and q no.
sice OF the kind has been issued.
We are pleased to hear that as soon as
the stronghold of the Modocs shall hive
been captured, Governor Moses will be
at once accorded the privilege of run
ming up the gridiron over the lava beds,
in token of esteem foT his prowess on q
like occasion few years back.
In some of the streets OF the city, 30
great is the quantity Of egg shells thrown
from houses since the coming in of
Easter, that the streets look like shell
roads, and the local roosters, depressed
by the circumstance, have intermitted
growing and divestcd themselves of their
spurs.
By reference to our advertising CO.
lumns, it will be seen that excursion
tickets TO Charleston-good from the
10Th instant to tho 81 of May-will be
issued by the South Carolina Railroad
Company. The numerous attractions
| will, doubtless, attract an immense con-
course
Treasurer Eichelbereer, of Eigelieid,
was before Judge Carpenter. at cham
bers, yesterday. Mr.. Pope appeared fol-
the State, and Messrs. Dunbar and Ell
liott for the prisoner-who petitions for
the benefit of tho haJeus corpus The
Judge remarked that the points raised
by counsel were important, aud he would
meet thom again.
Captain Jackson, Chief of Police, has
removed the night watchman from the
Presbyterian Church tower to the city
bell tower, where moro commanding
view OF the city can bo had. Captain
Jackson will also cause the city bell to
strike at every hour during the day and
night. on and after 10 o'clock this morn
ing-thus giving us regular and correct
city time. Washington time will be re-
ceived and given every day at IL NJ,
through the Western Union Telegraph
, Office