The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-08-12
Refreshing rains


Sunday and yesterday.
''Soda with fly" is said to be a
temperance drink. !
Cool morningsand evenings in August
presage what betel Adam-an early fall.
There wero seven deaths in Columbia
for the week ending the 9th-whites
two; colored five.
Gold is said to be Stat" for loans.
This is proper. II it were spherical, it
would be moro difficult of control.
Pulverized charcoal sprinkled over
dressed poultry, after the animal heat is
expelled, will preserve it from spelling
for some time in hot weather.
The gas smells horribly. It manages
to escape through every little crevico.
return to the rosin would be bene.
fetal.
The mosquitoes were late in putting
in an appearance, this year, but they
are making up for lost time by pertina-
ciously presenting their bills day and
night.
James Brown. colored employee Of
the Union-Heratd, while attempting to
interview burglar, on Saturday night,
shot himself in the leg.
Money sold at the Farmers and Me-
chanics' Building and Loan Association,
last night, as follows: 3.091a, BIG,
3.33M, $50, $40.
Several milch cows have recently been
shot and severely injured by malicious
individuals. The shootists should be
dealt with promptly.
Captain James Canton, Of this city,
claims to have invented an improvement
for counting billiards. He will apply
for patent
Senator Sanders Ford, (colored.) of
Fairfield, died on Sunday last. Ho was
about sixty years of age, and native of
the County.
Stars are said to maize men dizzy
aud their greatest effect is during the
early morning hours. at leaat. so say
tue wives.
Speaking Of the cholera morbus; We
heard man say, yesterday, he was not
ut all afraid of the cholera, but the NOR
bns scared him like hi.
James Hemphill, youth of seven
years, son OF Lawyer Hemphill, of
Chester, died in that town on Thursday
last.
Major B. B. McCrccry. of the firm of
". d. Love s. Co., dropped in on us
yesterday. He is bird Of passage, and
expects to return to New York in few
days.
It is rumorcd that the decision in the
Supreme Court in the Morton, Bliss &
Co. mandamus case is to be rendered
this week, aud that it will be in favor OF
the bond-holdcrs.
The Charleston Nsps and Courier re.
Gently occupied new quarters, and now
it has donned an entire new suit OF type.
It is n newspaper in every sense of the
term.
The following is the range of tho ther.
mometer at the Wheeler House, yester.
day: 6 A. NJ, II; 10 A. NJ, 7S; IL NJ,
so; p. NJ, 50; 5 P. NJ, 7S; Up. NJ,
|771a.
q The Presby terian Church in Yorkville
was struck by lightning, on Sunday
afternoon last, and considerably do.
mnged-the lightning rods were com
pletely demolished.
The building on the Southwest
corner of Richardson and Taylor streets
is being thoroughly overhauled, added
to and rc-plastered, and in few weeks
Mr.. John G. Dial will occupy it as Q
hardware establishment.
a very tasty-looking iron drinking
fountain for stock has been erected by
the city authorities on the corner OF
Washington and Assembly streets. An
other is to be erected on the corner of
Plain and Assembly streets. A capital
idea.
That Was a remarkable feat on the
part Of the hen that, in consequence OF
being near-sighted. ate saw dust for corn
meal ana then laid n nest frIl of Inroau