The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-07-19
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copies OF the PHas11 is fiye cents.
A Amuch-neededr rainfall. yesterday, de.
iIghtfuily cooled the atmosphere.
Mr.. Mckenzie will furnish peach
short'cake again, today. Try it.
DO you want to keep cool? Go 70
"earn & Hi1 and procure nice carte.
Agassiz says that the evening hours
are the best for sleep.
Yesterday was the hottest OF the sea.
son. The thermometer was up among
the high-hyels.
We are under obligations to our liberal
friend. Mr.. George Summers, for Lii.
pntlan lunch. 1t was heartily enjoyed.
We have been furnished with several
open bolls of cotton. grown by Mr.. Hugh
Edwards, on DR.. Parker's farm. It was
planted on the Both April
The more people who know what YOU
have got to sell, the more customers voa
Wall have. Therefore. it always pays to
advert'se-in the right papers.
The summer sols!ice has made many
grass widowers in our midst Poor fe;-
lows, they now have no one to ask them
where they have been, when they come
home late at night.
The lunatics of the State Asylnm ;n
Alabama" says an exchange "publish a
paper" There are some lunatics out
side OF the State Asylum who do the
same thing.
Gen. Worthington, the newly y-appoint-
cd Collector of Charleston, was sere.
naded by the Post Band, last night. He
expects to take possession of his Office
next week. tf-1
But that has nothing to do with the
mammoth Wheeler & Wilson Sewino
Machine Factory Oh the confines of
bridgeport. where they turn out over
800 machines per day. Only call at
their Office, in Columbia. and get the
best sewing silks. cotton. oil. SC.
SEE THEM AND TRY THEM. Mr.. J. M.
lsobinson, agent for Halwick's patent
improved curved yoke shirt patterns, is
in Columbia, and has furnished mum.
Der OF our citizens with these useful ar.
tlcles They are said to be the easiest
and best fitting shirts ever offered; they
require no stays to keep the bosom in its
right position; besides which, the sleeves
always remain in the proper place, re.
gardless OF any movement of the arm.
Within three or four weeks past, there
has been mn extraordinary series OF mur-
ders committed by ''loyers.' Our CO.
lumns have contained reports OF at least
dozen In different sections of the coun-
try. Does the published account OF the
doing OF one such idiotio act put the in
sane idea into the head of another, and
so pass the morbid influence until the
crime RACES like an epidemic? It is a
most surprising kind of love which finds
its final expression in numbering the OBJ
ject of the lovers affection.
We present the PHOENIX to its readers,
this morning. with it's fair proportions
somewhat curtailed; but the diminution
IN size does not, and will not, entail
corresponding reduction in the quantity
OF reading matter. The 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, as we'll as cater to the tastes of
those who read the paper for other than
its importance in the departments mer.
toned
PHGSIxIASA -Watcring.p!ace ;4o:es-
Greenbacks.
Western farmers feed potato bugs ca
Paris green, and tl,uk i. does them
good.
70 make q tall man short-Bo.rcw
seven dollars Of him.
Why didn't dog want place in the
ark? Because he had q bark Of his own.