The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-06-06

copies OF the PHGNIx Is i've cents,5
The argument in the bond scrip case
comes off on Tuesday next, Juno 10.
Old newspapers for sale at PHOENIX
Office, at fifty cents hundred.
Daddy Cain has resumed the editorial
control Of the Missionary Record, Major
Delany having retired.
Rev. @. W. Warren's lecture on "Snobs
and Snobbery" has been postponed until
next Monday evening.
Charleston is to have her mail matter
distributed free by carriers on and after
the 1st July.
Postal cards have come into great IA
vor, and are extensively used by business
men. They answer capitally for ''duns. y
Persons in arrears to the PHGS1x for
subscriptions are notified that prompt
payment must be made. Il is either
money or no paper.
A black silk umbrella, with crook. d
handle, has been spirited away. The
article is much needed at the PuGS1x
Office.
We have received catalogues Of the
Davidson IN. C) and Roanoke IVA J
Colleges. Both OF them are in fiou-
rishing condition.
We have received from Mr. julius y.
Dreher n card OF invitation to the COM
mencement exercises Of Roanoke Col
Iege, Va on Wednesday, June is.
A genius has invented shirt collar to
which braces are attached for holding up
the trousers. This may be looked upon
as tho biggest choke Of the season.
Mra. Henrietta Patterson, wife of Mr..
Jas. Patterson, and eldest daughter of
Mr. John Dent. Of Riohland. departed
this life rather suddenly. on Wednesday
night.
The New Hampshire Legislature met
in Concord Thursday. They have an.
other name for the places of meeting OF
the Legislatures in Arkansas and Louisi-
ana. 1t is anything bat Concord.
An almost incredible paragraph is
circulating to the effect that Sergeant
Bates is actually-aiter all that he has
done for HE nngrateful country-re-
duced 60 the humliating necessity of
working for living, just like any ordi-
nary private citizen.
United States Marshal Wallace will!
leave Charleston for Now York, this
week, with three prisoners convicted of
violations of the Enforcement Acts and
one post Office robber, sentenced to be
imprisoned for various terms, ranging
from one to three years, in the Albany
Penitentiary.
The least desirable kind OF persons for
picnic excursions are those who have o
taste for natural history, and persist in
taking home snakes and poisonous fungi
in their lunch baskets. As the season
has just commenced, it is proper to put
people on their guard agains. such dan
gerops imbecies
An observant man accounts for the
STOPPING gait 30 common among oity
people, generally, by saying that they
contract it from cautious habit of look
ing down to avoid orange. .poel thrown
upon the sidewalk. He says that Indians
and other back woodsmen walk with pre-
cisely such stoop in districts where rat
tlesnakcs abound
THE SALE OF UNCLAIMED EXPRESS
PACKAGES Mr.. Jacob Levin disposed
OF large quantity Of unclaimed stuff.
yesterday, which had accumulated in the
Office Of the Southern Express Company
in this city. Several bargains were OBJ
tained, but in majority Of cases, the
buyers were poorly repaid for their dis
bursemente. A bill-poster, for seventy
FIVE cents, received a package containing
the shells of several biyalyes, which
would likely have bean quite toothsome
six months ago; while the m manager of the
Western Union Telegraph Company, for
Il similar amount. obtained twelve yards
Of broad white satin ribbon. A Plain
street druggist secured several bottles Of
warranted sure-cure patent medicine for
50; whilo on eminent physician, for a
small sum, obtained set Of valuable in.
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