The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-01-09
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OrY MArTERs.--TIs pstcs Of single
loopies of the PHGN1x is dye cents.
The latest styles wedding and visiting
cards and envelopes. tastily printed. can
be obtained at the PH@N1x Office.
The Laurensville Female College, as
will be seen by card in another CO.
lumn, opens on the nth February next.
There is q full corps 81 efficient teachers.
We are indebted to freaaurer F. E.
Spinner, for copy OF his annual report
to the Secretary Of the Treasury for the
fiscal year ending June 80, 1872.
Cider-lovers are referred to the card
of Mr.. A. Stork. He is in receipt Of an
other supply.
See what Messrs. Strans g. Bro. have
to say about clothing. They are espe-
cially interested in that peculiar line,
and. consequently, are posted.
President Melton has kindly presented
us with ''pass" over tho Kings Noun
| tain Railroad for 1873.
We are forced again to complain of
the gas. The smoke and smell is in
tolerable and really injurious. The
officials should remedy the evil, by ali
means.
Mr.. Sterne, Esq, President of the
Hebrew Benevolent Society of New
York, was in this city yesterday.
Mr. A. Stork is in receipt of another
lot Of that peculiarly fine cider.
Governor Moses has appointed Levi
Meetze, w. II. Witt, J. E. Dooley and
G. P. Quattlebaum Notaries Public for
Lexington County, and David Garvin
for Colleton County. D. S. Beau
champ, Commissioner OF Deeds for
South Carolina, resident in the State of
Louisiana.
Attention is called to the sale of car
riages and buggies advertised for this
morning, by Messrs. D. G. Peixotto &
Sons. at 10 o'clock.
The following is the programme of the
18th Infantry band. for this afternoon:
Martha Quickstep Flotow.
Selection from Diavola-Auber.
Ascension Waltz-Faust.
Pottpourri, from Hugenotts-Meyer-
beer.
Pretcioca-Bauldien.
New Year Galop-Faust.
Gross IMPosIrIoN.-Our readers will
bring to mind that we have published
extrncts from Charleston, Abbeville, An
derson, Fairfield and other papers, dur
ing the past year, recording high handed
outrages perpetrated upon dealers in
tobacco, which. in most instances, was
regarded Us blackmailing scheme. In
CharlestonS the outrage was met by
| organized resistance on the part of the
tobacco merchants, and, to tho best of
our recollection, the hireling spies were
defeated in their nefarious schemes.
Similar impositions have occurred in
this city within the last few days
Several impecunious parties have called
upon our tobacco merchants, with the
ostensibe purpose of purchasing, but in
fact for the purpose of finding the
slightest flaw in their manner of selling
tobacco. in order to report them as vio-
lators of the internal revenue laws.
Messrs. T. j. & II. NJ. Gibson, II. Muller,
u. 81. Kelly, Cooper & Taylor, and
other merchants. whose names have not
been furnished US, have been made the
innocent victims OF these searches after
Government fees and rewards. The case
If the Messrs. Gibson, who had a pre-
liminnry hearing before Commissioners
Boozer, yesterday, will serve as on illus
tration of how the spies ply their voca-
tion. It seems that they were reported
as retailing tobacco from the outside of
the stamped box. When a merchant
sells piece of tobacco, he generally
places the remainder of the plug on the
top or at the front of the box from
which the plug was originally taken; it
being impossible for him to otherwise
arrange it; especially in the case of q
box newly opened. It is for selling
these fragments from the top or front Of
the box that our merchants have been
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