The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-05-01

OIT1 MATTERS.-Ine price OF single
oopies Of the PHGs1x is Eve cents.
The latest version-the Modoo evening
song, "Put me in my Lava Bed"
Governor Moses has appointed Thos.
N. Lake. Esq, OF Eewberry County, q
Notary Public.
President Magrath, Of the South Caro-
lima and Greenville and Columbia Rail-
roads, is ut the Columbia Hotel.
The new water piping is being extend
ed Eastward from Min street through
Senate.
This evening, the school sof Miss Nc
Gowan and the Misses Elmore have their
annual May celebrations.
Messrs. John Agnew & Son have
adopted the cash system relative to gro
ceries. See their card.
The Msnsard roof Of tho new bank
building, at the corner OF Main and
Plain streets, is in process of erection.
The drain on Plain street, East OF
Aain, is being cleaned and repaired.
The city fathers arc waking up to their
duty.
The showers Of the past few days lave
given the vegetables that survived the
recent heavy frost renewed and rapid
growth.
Rerue Gle III Mode, for May, IS at hand.
It is one Of the most complete fashion
publications now issued. Address S. T.
Taylor, SIG Broadway, New York.
The Ereaing Herald nun, it appears,
has not interpreted the cot story pro-
perly. He must, therefore, let down bis
figures just 495 with reference to Dr..
Jsckson's horned frogs.
A number Of persons arrived in Go.
lumbia. yesterday, to be present at tho
meeting Of the stockholders of the
Greenville and Columbia Railroad Com.
pany, to-day.
The stockholders of the Greenyille
and Columbia Railroad Company assem-
BILE in annual meeting, this day, at
II o'clock, in their hall. over the South
Carolina Banking and Trust Company.
Col. Fitz. ". Mc3Iaster, of Columbia,
S. c., will deliver the anniversary ora
ton before the literary societies OF
Erskine College, at their nextcommence-
ment in June. The Colonel is one of
our most prominent lawyers.
Are you in search of the latest style of
head-wear for the summer? Get one OF
the seer-sucker hats, which Messrs. ri.
nard & Wiley have for sale. They are
light, cool, wellventilated and protected
from the sun.
Mr.. Bateman. agent of the ice COM
pany, authorizes US to state TINT the
figures of the Union are incorrect as re-
CARDS his price for ice. lie does not sell
at 2ila cents per pound, but hos sold at
2 cents ever since the close of the war.
Persons in need of anything in the
line Of crockery, glassware, cutlery and
fancy goods, can be supplied at very low
prices by the firm OF Nathan g. Peixotto,
on Main street, opposite the Wheeler
House.
1t has been suggested. that as Colonel
Lewis Merrill was so successful in over
hauling and capturing suspected Ku
Klu1. it would be good idea for Uncle
Sam to send him after the blood-thirsty
Mcdocs.
We have TO thank Mr.. Rose, OF hotel
notoricty, for quill from the wing of
the emblcmatic bird Of America, which
has been in his possession for a length of
time. The bird is to be presented to the
Eagle Fire Company OF Charleston, We
are informed.
The Erening Herald was evidently try
ing to perpetrate an April fool on the
last day OF the month, by announcing,
yesterday, that persons were passing
through Columbia, on their way to the
meeting of the Greenvillo and Columbia
Railroad stockholders in GreenrH'e, to-
day.
Dr.. \. n. Talley, Associate Justice j.
J. Wright and State Treasurer L. L.
Cardozo, have been designated by Con-
gressman-at. Largo r. II. Cain as COM
m;tteo 10 examine applicants. for ap-
pointment TO the West Point Military