The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-05-20

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I. o. G. IA lodge Of Good Tenn
plars was instituted in Newberry. on the
evening Of the l7sh Instant with sixteen
charter members,iby Actina Deputy Geo.
W.slrwin, assisted by Messrs. John F.
Sutphen and O.J. Harris all oh Excel
bior, No. Z. OolumbiaSs. @. TIE name
OF the lodge is Kosoinsko, No. 80 After
the conclusion OF the interesting cere,
monies, the following officers were elect.
cd and installed to serve the balance ef
this quarter:
81. P. Tarrant. W. G. T.; Mre. 2. l..
White, ". V. T.; A. A. Nathan, ". s.;
james Kinard, W. F. .;P. a. Duokett.
W. T.; 2. Il. White, ". O.; T. a. Thomp.
son, w. NJ; Miss Lizzie White, W. I.
g.; Geo. W. Hayes, W. o. G.; ". Ii.
Feagle, Lodge Deputy; Miss Lizzie
Reeves, r. 81. s.; Miss Brantley Level,
L.~H g.; Miss Mary Shuford, D. al.
The POSTAL CARDS. The great objec-
ton to the postal card has been the
facility with which they can be used for
purposes Of insult and for the sending OF
improper messages. The Postmaster
General has answered this objection in an
official communication, in which he says:
Efforts haye been made to prejudice the
public mind against an open card, by
alleging that it may be used for convey
ing improper and Obscene messages.
This objection is mythical. The law
already excludes from the mails all
obscene matter when it's character Gun
be known without breaking a seal.
Obscene communications may be written
or printed oa the outside of a sealed
card or envelope with the same facility
that they may be OH an open postal card /;
but in either case it would be the duty
OF postmasters to refuse to deliver such
communications and send them 10 the
Dead Letter Office to be destroyed"
Among the striking features of Serb.
ner's for juno are N. P. Langford's s
illustrated account of "The Ascent Of
Mount Hayden" new picture and bio
graphy OF Bret Harte; illustrated papers
on Cornell University and "Onr Postal
Car Service;" curious paper by Gen.
| Walker, on the relative increase. by
birth. of the American Irish and Ameri-
can Germans;" "a Seance with Foster,
the Spiritualist;;" and an article by Prof.
Wise, the we'll known nronaut. in oppo-
sition to the received theory OF the tides
An account of visit to. the Pope is
given. and two shott stories. "Capt
Luce's Enemy by, James T.. Mckay;
and i't4n Old! Fashioned Story" by
Marian Stockton; besides the continua-
ton of DR.. Hollands "Arthur Bonni-
CASTLE Topics OF the Times;" there
ara hall q dozen sonnets; ssHoma and
Society,"" and Etchings are more than
usually full. The s'Great South" series
will be commenced in the July number
of Scri5ner's.
THH CoLoRED F1REMEN. Sunday
afternoon the frolic OF the colored fire.
men actually commenced. About half
past 4, the Vigilants. Captain John Den
niaon, assembled at their engine house,
ION the South. eastern corner of Sidney
Park. and forming in procession, headed
by the Chicora Bfass Band, marched to
the South Carolina Railroad depot,
where they received the Union Star,
Captain N. S. Robeson, of Charleston,
with their serviceable double-brake
engine, accompanied by Arthur Mitchell's
Brass Band. The Union Star had
seventy-three 6ne.looking men. III full
uniform. The Vigilants manned the
ropes and hauled the apparatus of their
Charleston guests to the engine house;
where they me. the Yellow Jackets,
Captain Greg Tue, Of Charlotte, N. c.,
numbering about fifty men. A detach-
ment of the Vigilants met tho Charlotte
boys at the depot and escorted them
down After the npnnratns was honsa1