The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-07-25
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SOPAocSA VIC d'SSiA l5 I'VE c61LS.
Sympathetic ink is now the rage for
writing ou posta. cards.
Cnrb.s:one merchants ara plentiful
and, as.usual, DO thriving fruit busi-
ness.
The watermelon .ya,ie il growing dis
courag:ugly dull. Five cents is Tie price
OF fine one now.
III spite OF the inactivity Of trade anl
the scarcity OF moLey. building goes for
ward with considerable alacr;ty.
The Dad Fellows meet this evening.
We learn that Palmetto Lodge is recei,
ing quite large accession OF Oddities.
The Wheeler House presents an in
7iting. wa!k-into .my .paric:" appear.
ance during these summer mornings,
which is taken advantage Of.
AlLr. Mckenzie las small lot Of Dam.
son plums on l.anu. II you wish to get
chance at item, be quick. He also has
nice assortment oe all fruits OF the sea-
son.
Tic martins were .h:ck around the
Columbia Hotel last evening, but the
o!fds had no holes to go III; somebody
with long cane was trying to rout
them.
DICK 8lrry says tuas "a soon as they
stop the manufacture Of good liquor, he
will ioln The tcetotal society; but, until
then, his friends c,a 6nL him at the Pol
lock House.
new chnrca ed!ice is to be erected
for the Calvary Baptist CAurch OF the
site of the cid ore. or RicLlaud street,
between Marion and Bu.. Il vii. COS.
some SIS, 0C0 or $1,000.
The Grand Division G: tie Sous Of
Temperance met on We,. lesday, at Cam
den. Severa! delegates from Columbia
Division. No. {, left Tuesday to attend,
among them, Professor A. ". Cum.
mings, OF tue University.
Tie committee appointed uude. &C n
curren. resolution to investigate the dis
bursemen. Of SIT. eco appropriated for
tue completion OF the State Lunatic Asy-
lum, will meet in Columbia or the third
Tuesday il November, beng tie 18th
! day Of said mons,i
Trial Justice Richmond married co.
iored coup!o on the street. near the Mar
iiet, Thursday hight. The swail. had
Threatened to drown himself if she whom
he cast his love upon persisted in refusal,
and was proceeding with his corpus to
the river to make it corpse, when he
WAS ovestaken, informed tha. the ives"
hni come. and the two were mads one.
lady who lives i" the horse mail
country writes L. 10 know whether hoops
are worn yet, aud says that the ladies'
There are SO far CT from the fashion
world that they are nightly behind
Well, il that's the fix they're in, they
may rest assured that they are fully up
with the fashion, ii not Just little ahead
Of it.
We no:ics: on Upper Boundary street,
near the store house Of Messrs. Copeland
Il Bearden. quite puddle of stagnated
water, which is likely to engender chills
and fever. The city authorities should
at all times take steps to preserve the
good health Of Columbia; and we draw
these unhealthy spots to their attention
with the full belief that they need but be
pointed out to be remsd;ed.
DEATH. We learn. through private
source. that J. Perkins Hoyt, Esq, for
meriy of Laurens. but moro recently of
Anderson. died of congestiye chills, at
Tumbing Shoals. yesterday, while en-
route to Anderson. He was prominent
and h!ghly-eateemed resident Of Laurens
for the major portion Of life Of upwards
OF eighty years, aud had but lately re-.
moved to Anderson. He leaves a wife
ANA several sons ani daughters. WHO
have reached years OF maturity.
Cuspidores is the new Iame foS spit.
oons.-iu3uS:i CHronic...
Your ignorance OF tho word Is excusa.
be on the ground that you were not a
member OF the South Carolina I4egiela-
ture year or two ago, when J. 3.
Dennis, Of the furniture committee,