The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-09-05


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minute! e!'-DetroH Free Press
This is no intoxicating beverage or
| doctored liquor, to lead the tippler on
to drunkenness and ruin, but strictly
| medical preparation made from roots
aud herbs, suitable to any age or con
dition. AS family remedy, Simmons
Liver Regulator is equal to an entire
medicine chest. A30+3Tl
AS an illustration of the widespread
use Of certain popular title, it is re.
lated that gentleman recently stepped
into saloon in Denver, and cried out
in o loud, CHEEKY tone, '.Hello come,
professor, take drink" Six mep sit.
ting in the saloon at once arose md
came forward. while boot. black, whose
stand was just outside the door, and q
passing corn doctor smilingly accepted
the invitation, aud stepped in.
There is man in Brown County, In
diana, who is most portentously pater-
nal. Thrice has he led blushing bride
to the altar. No. l brought him ten
pledges; No. 2 brought him also ten; tho
present Incumbent eight. The grand
total, up to August 7, 1878, is, therefore,
twenty eight. Still this patriarch is
ambitious. He sighs for thirty.
A philosophical Kentuckian who had
but one shirt, and was lying in bed
while the garment was drying on the
clothes.line in the yard, was startled by
an exclamation from his wife to the
effect that "the calf had eaten it. f"
"Well," said the Ksntuckian, with o
spirit worthy of better cause, "well,
them who has must lose."
Edward MCPHERSON, Clerk of the
United States House Of Representatives,
is represented as having expressed the
opinion that the back salary grab will
reyolutionize the personnel of the next
Congress; that the feeling against it in
every direction is intense and unrelent-
ing.
COTTON MANUFACrURING.- "A meeting
has been called for next Saturday, to be
held at High Shoals, Anderson County,
the object of which is to consider the
propriety of building first class factory
ut that plnce. with capital stock OF
$50, 900, one-third of which amount is
already received.
Commodore Vanderbilt, although not
Il standard authority on naval matters
is thoroughly at home in draw-poker.
In speaking of Casabianca, he says the
boy played "brash' when lie STOOD u
knowing that his antagonist hal n "cold
deck"
Miss Arabclla L. Lewis, of Anderson,
died ut the residence of her uncle, Mr..
}. aCrawford Keys, on Sunday night,
3lst Of August. She was tho youngest
daughter Of Robert L. and Juliet 4.
Lewis, both deceased, formerly of Dali
lonega, Gu.
CosT OF THE AIRLINE RAILROAD
we sec it announced that this stipend.
Gus and magnificent railway has cost
near SIS, 900, 900, or on average Of $50,
00O per mile. Particular sections of the
road have cost full 800, 900 per mile.
It is related that on Irishman once
visited Lynohburg, and after having in
speotel the humorous hills and noun.
tain ranges, exclaimed: "Bedadi I niver
was IN q country before where they had
SO much land that they had to stack it. u
The demand for ready-maAe sermons
has become 30 great in England that
they are to be had neatly Autographed
for the small prico OF two shillngs pc,
dozen.
There are 1000 slaves at Quiloa. EAT
Africa, offered at from half u dollar 10
three dollars each, without fndinc a
purchaser.
A drug clerk who put up poisc for
quininc took the matter very ry5lly,
saying tho victim was old and kould
have died in few years any way.
Rev. L. Ker, who resided ia the
vicinity OF Rock Hill, died on Saturday
last.