The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-04-25
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An extra meeting OF the City Council
will be held this evening.
General Sherman captured by the
Modocs, says the Indian Girl.
Old newspapers for sale at PaGN1x
Office, at fifty oents hundred.
Our friends and neighhors, Gottleib
Eilhardt and his family. took their de-
parture. yesterday, for the Fatherland.
The amount Of money that cannot be
borrowed, collected or found, is asto-
nishing.
An argumentatively soeptical member
of the - Club has earned the soubri-
quet of the "howro ing machine"
The latest styles wedding ana visiting
cards and envelopes, tastily printed, can
be obtained at the PHOENIX Office.
The Graad Lodge Of Good Templa,s
will hold their next session in Columbia,
in April. 1874.
The extension OF the water pipe below
the State House. on Main street, is again
progressing.
The city authorities are cleaning the
drain, on Main street, just below the
PHOENIX Office, OF its filth. Garry on the
good work.
The country will never recover it's
original mettle until it has metallic
currency ag,in. This paper currency is
altogether too thin.
The Governor has appointed George
Med. Stoll, of Florence, Notary Pub
lilo, and q. P. Fullmore, Commissioner
OF Deeds, resident at Austin, Texas.
A large troupe OF actors have left Bal
timore for Charleston, where they are to
appear in the Black Crook. Maybe Co.
lumbia will have spell Of them.
Gardening is vigorously progressing
in Columbia and vicinity, and the signs
of abundant crops generally present
themselves. All that is needed is q good
rain.
The 10th of May has been set apart
throughout the South, by unanimous
consent, as memorial day." and we OBJ
serve that the ladies in many places are
already making arrangements for it's pro-
per observance.
The excursion train on the Richmc1d
and Air Line Railroad, from Charlotte to
Greenvilie, hos been fixed for Wednes.
day next, the 9th inst. The ball at
Greenville will be given on the Monday
night following.
The hippopotamus, like the turtle, is
said to purify the water in which il
habitually resides. In view of the
muddy condition OF tho city water, il
might be good idea to'import some oi
these creatures for the reservoirs.
Tho novelty in straw bonnets is the
"Viotoris"-R scoop.shaped bonnet,
which resembles somo thirty or thirty
Ave years ago. In France. they are
known as the Cabrio!et bonnets, from the
resemblance Of tho brim to the hood OF
carriage.
"Say, My Heart, Can This Be Love?'
is to be the title of General Gary's forth.
coming novel, and is to portray the e1
periences of youthful soul in the dead
ly breach of love-a chapter, it is whis-
pered, from the real life OF the gifted
author.
Messrs. w. Fl. LyBrand & Son have
sold another of the great Southern pi-
amos. manufactured by VIM. Knabe &
Co.. of Baltimore. The style of piano
is the Grasd Square, agraffe throughout.
Mr. James E. Black purchased this in.
strument for the hotel at the Cherokee
Springs, in Spartanburg County, ut
$500. Those pianos are rapidly increas-
ing in public favor, and are considered
superior to any instrument Of the kind
manufactured in the world. Messrs.
LyBrand & Son are the agents in this
city, at whose establishment the instru.
ment can always be found on exhibition
A RELIC OF THE PAsr.-In the State
House yard. near Assembly street, is tho
grave OF Captain g. Lunford. Vir-