The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-11-25
MAIL ARRANGEMENTS. The Northern

MAIL hARRANaEMENTs.- The Northern
mail opens $50 A. NJ, 8 P. NJ; closes
III A. NJ, 6 P. NJ. Charleston opens 8
A. NJ, $50 P. A.; closes A. NJ, 6 P.
Nj. Western opens 6 A. NJ, 12.3OP. NJ. ::
closes 6, 1.30 P. N. Greenville opens
6.46 P. NJ; closes 8 A. M. Wilmington
opened P. H.; closes 1890 A. Nj. On
Sunday open from $50 to 3.3OP. III.
THE CITIZENS SAVINGS BASK.-We
are credibly informed tha. Mr.. John
l.. Watson, of York County, has com
menced proceedings against the Citi.
zens' Savings Bank, and that Judge
Carpenter has granted temporary in
junction order. with notice to the bank
to show cause, en- Wednesday, the Sd of
December, or on some convenient day
thereafter. We are assured that the
bank will be quite able to take care of
itself md its creditors. In the mean
time' the bank is preparing to meet the
occasion calmly aud without the least
fear of the result. BY ill-advised &C
ton, the creditors may ipiure them-
selves and hamper the bank needlessly.
1t ls said these Efforts are made by n
"ripg," which has sent it's agents
throughout the State to obtain control
of the institution for their own per.
sonal ends; which, before long, will be
shown up in their true light. We do
not say amiss that the entire sympathy
OF the community is with the bank.
ARTIFICIAL PArEMEHrs Capt. John
G. Braine, who was the last Confederate
prisoner, and made for himself quite a
name during the late war, is in this city.
engaged in the sale of artificial stone
pavements, etc. The price of the pre-
paration is twenty five cents per foot for
over LOCO feet. and twenty eight for
less. The improved pavement is highly
spoken OF. The Raleigh IN. C.) Sentinel
says:
NOTHING NEW USDER THE SUM-
For hundreds of years. the master
minds OF the earth have striven to solve
the mystery of the creation of the won
derful Egyptian Pyramids. No salts
factory conclusion has ever been
reached. How the huge blocks of
stone, OF which they are constructed,
could nave been conveyed from quarry
to the valley of the Nile and if con.
veyed, what manner of machinery was
used In hosting them to their present
elevated positions, still puzzle the
world. A scientific gentleman of this
city, who has given the matter conside-
| rable thought, gives us his opinion.
which seems the most reasonable of anv
we have yet heard. He says it is con-
trary to reason to suppose that race of
men ever existed that could handle such
mountains of stone by hand or BY ma
chlnery. That the stones are there,
piled one upon another, is sels.evident
to all who ever visited the pyramids.
There remains but one theory, and that
is, the pyramids are made of artificial
stone, material similar to that used in
the construction of an artificial stone
pavement. If this theory be the correct
one-and does it not have some SEM
blance OF plausibility Mr.. Sohil-
linger, OF New York, has the honor of
having restored one OF the lost arts; and
further. ii il is correct, does il not, to
some extent, silence the objections of
gentlemen who claim that artificial
stone pavements will not last, but must
succumb to the faction OF the atmos-
phere?"
We noticed in the paper, the other
day, that certain cyprians gave ball at
their own house for the benefit of the
Memphis sufferers. from which they
realized 5000, which were promptly
forwarded to that stricken city. We
don't exactly know what cyprian means.
but we venture the assertion that when
the last day comes some of these cy.
prians will be found standing much
nearer the Great White Throne than
many man who now stands on the
very pinacle OF respectability, and no
doubt looks down with supreme con.
tempt upon the poor creatures.