The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-01-29

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open from 3 to 4 P. NJ,
LOOK Our FOB TuIEyEs. Sneak thieves
are around. The residence OF Mr.. John
Agnow, on Geryais street, was entered
on Monday evening. about G o'clock, and
robbed of several articles. Mr.. 4. dis
covered. on his return from business,
that his front door was open and the gas
10 tho hall was not lighted. Lnying tho
bundle he carried down, he passed to o
room in tho rear for a moment for the
purpose OF procuring a light. Upon his
return the bnndln wus missing. It is
supposed that the thief intended further
ssenlage. but upon tic appearance OF MIR.
Agnew, he made of. The dwelling Of
Mr. Davant, on Blanding street, was
entered. the same evening, and an over
coat stolon. Asuspicious-looking pcrson
also attempted to effect an entrance into
the dwelling Of Mr.. Dicks, but was de-
tected. and, saying be had made mis-.
take, went off.
| HE Burns FESTIVAL L--President Hope,
on taking the chair, delivered the fol-
loving short and appropriate address:
GENTLEMEN: We have assembled to-
night, around this festive board, to COM
memorate the birthday of Scotland's
gifted son. The name and fame OF
Robert Burns belongs to the world,
wherever his soul-stirring strains are
sung. His own immediate countrymen
hold his nno1c most dear, while the lovers
OF trne and sterling poetry. the world
over, hold his namo in grateful remen-
brance, as one who, by tho rich aud
truthful carols of his mind, has given
JOY to many hearts,
We meet tonight, to pass few social
hours together, to drown dull care and,
ny the inspiration Of his gifted muse,
learn humanity better, aud overlook tho
faults and folIies OF onr kind. I vel.
come to our social board all lovers of the
poet, and trustwo may pdss h pleasant
hour Here's your good heulth and your
famly's. -
Gov Moses was unable to- bo present
Mt the Burns celebration, and sent the
following letter, which was read by the
Presidents:
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT,
COLUMBIA, January 27, 1873.
To The President and members of Le Burns
Club, Columbia, S. c.
GENTLEMEN: l have ths honor to &C.
knowledge the receipt of your card of
invitation to attend tho festival on the
1l4th anniversary of the birth Of Robert
Burns.
Permit mo to assure you Of my sincere
regret that important official engage
ments deny me tho pleasure of uniting
with you in paying appropriate festive
honors to the memory of the Ploughman
Bard of Ayrshire. You do well, gentle
men. thus to commemorate the birthday
OF Scotlnnd's sweetest poet, for he is in
decd worthy of most grateful remem-
brance. He WAS the FIRST 10 set the pulses
of the human heart 10 music, aud his
writings abound with tha. touch OF na-
ture" which "makes tho whole world
kin" Although he selected as the chief
vehicle OF his thoughts language essen
italy harsh and unpoetic in its forms Of
expression, he has poured through it the
melodies Of his own gerial spirit, and
made the rude Doric dear to Nil who can
appreciate grandeur in sentiment or
melody in song.
His great co!emporary, Wordsworth,
"a poet whose solemn muse looked with
reproving frown upon the apparently lax
piety OF Holy WiIis's Prayer" and saw
very loose morality in the "Address to
the Unco Guid," pays Burns but
Inerited tribute. in saying, twenty years
after his death
Through busies! street and lonelias. glen
| Are telt tho flashes Of his pen;
| lie rulos mid winter snowa, and when
Bcos ill their hivcs,
| Deep i'll the genial heart ct mon
| His power survives"
Ono OF the most striking features Of
his writings is the uEfaiing charit, they
breathe for MI created things. He an.
pcarcd to hate nothing save hypocrisy,
and with pitiless scoln he tore inside It's
sanctimonions robes. SO abounding and
universal was lis bcncvolence, that he
even had kind word for the Evil Ono
himself, which he utters with evident
sincerity in the closing stanza of his
address to the dell"