The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-08-31
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TARN14-0ons depend on DOrr0WlDR.
No rain, yesterday, aud a bright pros
pect for to-dsy--the last Of summer.
White egg plants are among the
novelties in the vegetable line.
There were eight deaths in Columbia
for the week ending August 3O-whites
6; colored g..
DR.. T. T. Moore has returned to Co.
lumbia, and can be consulted at his den.
tai Office.
The city bell is about to be recast.
iIr. r. McDougal, who did the job be-
fore so successfully. will carry it through
again. He is fully competent.
Trial Justice II. Lee, of Marion, has
been removed from Office. Governor
Moses has appointed Tilman Watson
Trial Justice.
Mr.. s. ". Irwin has exhibited to us
several stalks of rice, grown on his farm
in this city, which measure more than
! four feet in height It is fair sample
Of his crop of eight acres.
3The following is the range of the ther-
mometer at tho Wheeler House, yester.
day: 5 A. NJ, r.; IA. NJ. 70; 10 A.
NJ, Il; - NJ. II; Q p. NJ. 7s; s P.
NJ. 81; 7P. NJ, so.
A case involving an immense amount
OF money, which has been in the Eng
lish Chanccry Court for more than fifty
years, and in which several of our
Scotch fellow-citizens arc interested as
heirs. is about to be decided.
Look not upon the cucumber when it
is wilted, nor green apples, nor other
nnwholeson,e truck. for though pleasant
to the eye and agreeable to tho taste, at
the last it biteth like the stomach ache
and stiDgeth like the cholera morbus.
Miss NJ. A. Buie, we are Informed, is
about to recover Il large amount from
the United States Government for cot
ton destroyed during the war. She will,
doubtless, do great deal OF good with
the money. if ii should come into her
possession.
The Union Herald, which doubtless
speaks advisedly, states that the extra
session Of the Legislature will com
mcncc on the 2lst of October, and
thinks that there will be business enough
on hand to engross the attention of the
members up to the time appointed for
the beginning Of the regular session.
We learn that terrific hail storm
passed over portion of the Dutch
Fork, on Friday last, which destroyed
great portion of the standing crops.
Large pine trees even were pros.rated.
a mule belonging to Mr.. VIM. Lowrey,
Of this city, was killed by falling tree.
Fortunately, however, no human beings
were sacrificed.
Walter Murray Gibson, Esq, OF An
derson, in this State, is publishing o
semi-weekly paper in Honolulu, Sand
wich Islands, called Nuhou-Me Hu,caiian
Ne~s. The object of tho publication is
to advocate. the continued independence
OF the islands, as the English and United
States Governments are endeavoring to
obtain possession. Mr.. Gibson has re-
sided in Honolulu for many years. The
Nuhou is published in the English as
we'll as the native language.
The fret bale of new cotton from
Fairfield was received yesterday morn
ing, from the plantation of Mr.. Stephen
Gibson. and was sold to Messrs. r.
O'Nsale Il Son, at lGl5. 1t weighed ass
pounds, and clnssed low middling. The
second bale OF the new crop from Lex
ington, was forwarded by Mr.. J. N.
Caughman, and was sold 10 Mcssrs.
Copeland Y Bearden, at lGls. 1t.
weighed 4!3 pounds, and Chased low
middling.
Mr.. Il. Wcnrn, of the firm of Wearn
~ lliz, returned to our city, on Friday
last, from tour through the upper por-
tion OF this State and Western North
Carolina, where he has been engaged in
collecting views, &c, for his art gallery.
Lie Las secured several hundred views
from the most beautiful and picturesque
| portions Of this section Of the country,
embracing Crsar's Head, tho falls at
Grccnville, the falls Of Little l;iver, N.
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