The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-06-01

eopisr of the PHnN1xsis Ave cents
T Marshal Wallaoe is ip Oolumbis.
Old newspapers for sale at PHOENIX
office, at fifty cents hundred.
Yesterday. We had spell of October
weather. little too cool to be pleusn u t.
There were eleven deaths in Columbia
for the week ending the 3lst-whites,
elk; colored, five.
Gen. A. Q. Garliugton passed through
Columbia, yesterday, on his way 10 his
Atlanta home.
The attention of members of Palmetto
Lodge, I. o. o. f., is called to notice
in another column.
General Hampton is to be invited to
deliver the address at the fair of the Ca.
rolinas. in Charlotte, next October.
A.special term Of tire United States
Circuit Court will be held in Charleston,
commencing on Monday next, Judge
Bond presiding.
A card from Col. Coward, relative to
the opening Of Kings Mountain Military
School, will be found in this morning. 8
PHOENIX. The location is healthy, while
the instruction is thorough
A cololed man, named VIM. Foust,
employed by tho Charlotte, Columbia
aud Augusta Railroad. died very sudden
ly, yesterday, at his homo on Taylor
street. Foul play is suspected.
The question is often asked as to
"where to spend the summer Mr..
Fowler answers, ''Glenn's Spring." The
hotel at that celebrated watering place
will be opened on the 10th inst.
The Independents, being the oldest
organized company connected with the
fire department. Captain Dorsey will be
recognized as the chief Of the depart
ment. The company dates back to 1887.
The attention Of the travelling public is
directed to change in the schedule OF
the Wilmington, Columbia and Augusta
Railroad, which goes into effect to NOR
row.
Messrs. Seibels e Ezell received, yes.
tefday. despatch from tho managers OF
the London Assurance Corporation, that
their losses in the Boston fire OF Friday
falls short OF $4,000.
The Governor has appointed John L.
Little Notary Public for Riciilsnd; James
E. Schofield, Trial Justice for Greenville
B. G. Yocom aud Cullen Lark, Honorary
Commissioners to the Yienaa Exposi
tion.
Mr. George E. Pritchett contradiots
the statement made in the Sumter Ne1s
and copied in many State papers, rela
tive to the tragedy in that County, BY
which several colored persons were killed
by Major Land.
The PHOENIX insists that it's statemen
relative to the amount OF reading matter
it furnishes daily, is correct-the Union
Rsrald's assertion to the contrary not
withstanding. Display headings, dsst
lines. etc., to two and three line para
graphs, is not reading matter. If thu
Herald chooses to ,Oaste space in tha
manner, we have nothing to say.
4 convention of all the County Audit
ors in this State, is to be held in Colum
bio, on the 18th proximo, for the pur
pose of considering the assessment oi
property in tho State, equalizing il. and
making the application of the tax Ac
moro uniform than it now is. The be-
lief is, that real property, in many in
stances, is assessed beyond its market
value, the lawful standard of its taxable
worth.
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A NEW FAMILY BIDLE.-Mr. w. T.
McClelion, Of this State. has been ap
pointed the agent for this State for the
sale of the Pictorial Home Bible, ,
which is really complete library o.
biblical knowledge. There are 1,1OC
engravings, besides vast amount OF de-
scriptive matter. Rev. Josephus Auder
son. OF Tallahassee, Fla, thus speaks Of
this magnificent work:
"The Home Bible is an edition of the
Holy Scriptures of very great value AMI
beauty. 1t possesses the inestimable
advantage OF placing before the eyes ol
the reader such explanatory matter Ct
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