The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-07-20
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copies OF the PHES1x is Gvecepts.
A firemen's tournament is spoken OF
for Columbia during the ial.
Senator M.Intyre's fire. eating weekly
the Collc:on Gazette has temporarily
suspended.
There were six deaths in Columbia for
the week ending the 19.h--w!i.cs Q,
colorc1 L.
old ProbAbilitics" uad lis associates
in Washington render to the country
signal service.
DR.. Samuel Reeves. If Salisbury, n.
c died Oh the 10Th instant. He was
very well known in Columbia, where he
gave lessons III counterfeit detecting.
The summer hegira is low at its full
height, and the trains are crowded daily
with persons on their way 20 the higher
country.
Ex-Probate Judge Thal. C. Andrews
is spoken of us o candidate for the Sc
nate from Orangeburg County, made
vacant by the death of Senator Jamison.
Comptroller Hoge and Treasurer Car
d"zo returned from New York, yestcr.
day. They report South Carolina bonds
down, down. down.
keep EN- alive, boy! keep 'em aliyc!"
said an old physician to his young brc-
ther practitioner; "dead men pny no
bills"
Mr. Robinson can be found at the
Hendrix House. where persons desirous
OF securing his improved shirt patterns
can consult him. He leaves on Tuesday
morning.
The old and well-known Collegiate
Institute ut Winnsboro opens on the lst
Monday IN August, under the superin
tcndcnce OF R. Il. Clark4on, Esq. Of
Richland.
According to the last market reports,
cheese is "strong and active" We feared
Us much. According to the same reports,
wIiskey is ''going down" We should
say it was.
Weare constantly receiving com plants
as to tho non reception Of money sent
by mail, and would again take occasion to
say. that where money order is obtaina-
bic, it should be sent; if not, registered
letter is considered safe. Il gentleman
from Greenville says that on the 9th or
10Th July, he sent 81 to the PHOENIX
office. which has never come to hand.
We present the PHu:SIx to it's renders.
this morning. with its fair proportions
somewhat curtailed; but the dim;rution
IN size does not, and will not, entail a
corresponding reduction in The quantity
Of rendipg matter. Tic present size
shall be only of temporary duration;
certain changes in the mechanical de-
partment Of our Office rendering it ne
cessary. We shall continue to furnish
our readers with the latest political and
commercial news from all parts OF the
globe. rs we'll rs cater to The tastes of
those who read the paper for other than
its Importance in the departments men
toned.
y knowing Radical paper out West re-
grets that the expiration OF the franking
privilege will deprive the poor freed men
OF the South Of the only means by which
they could obtain valuable political
documents free Of cost. That is de-
plorable deprivation indeed. How often
have we, in travelling through the
South. seen thousands of freedmen sit.
ting on the tops Of ten.rnil fences for
miles along the highway, their black
heads looking like the high notes in a
bar Of music. reuding the half-dozen
volumes Of the ku Klux report, with all
the intense eagerness displayed by Silas
Weggs. when he read the decline and
fall OF the Russsan empire to Mr.. Boilin.
pHu.SlIIASA A very Gnny diplomat
Fish
Train up child aud away he goes.
Imperfect cables. Of which We have an
, neutrality-suspicious..
4 man who brags Of his descent is not
apt to be decent man.
Miss construction WAailbpuc, wal-
ding, powder and paint.
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