The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1874-08-27
CRY MATTERS. for th.

PHOENIX.
jolly good weather, yesterday.
s Good crop news from ail seotions:
Moonlight nights, young people
happy. 4 s.
D. L. Hill, Esq, of the Greenville
Daily News. is in the city.
Munro @. Long. Trial Justice for
Union. has been removed by Governor
Moses.
Advertising is to business what steam
's to machinery-the grand propelling
power.
Transient advertisements and no.
'icrs must be paid for in advance.
This rule will be adhered 10 hereafter.
The new schedule over the Green
vile and Columbia Railroad goes into
effect tomorrow. The train will arrive
at S o'clock P. NJ
By request of many ladies. the Dra-
matte Musicnl Club of the Schuetzen.
Verciu will give grand calico ball
after the performance on Wednesda
evening. September 8.
Last night was gloriously beautiful.
The moon shoDe out in all her repul
splendor, and seemed to bathe every
object in an unusually rich and mellow
flood of light.
Old type meta!-3uperior TO Babbitt
for some purposes be obtained at
PHGNIx office ut low fgnres-25 cents
pound for fifty pounds or less; 20
cents for larger quantities.
Murder in the Choir Loft, is what
they now call the monopoly Of church
music by the half score of young
ladies aud gentlemen who volunteer to
DO the singing.
Treasurer Jones statement OF the
debt of the city OF Columbia, furnished
at the last meeting Of the City Coun-
Gil. in au important document, and
should be perused by every taxpayer.
The ladies' como cted with the sewing
society of Trinity Church are 30 much
encouraged by the success of their
moonlight entertainment on Captain
Thompson's green. last night, that
they propose to repeat it this evening,
at the same place and hour.
Sic Davis aud Powell Boatwright,
two dusky politicians. got into dis
pute. yesterday. and wound up with
tisticuffs after the most approved style.
Boatwright Was carried to the guard
house, leaving Davis busily engaged
in washing 'badly y-chawed" ear.
1t has come to be recognized as an
established fact that no person he.
comes pre-eminently successful in any
branch OF business without systematic
and persistent advertising. Very large
fortunes arc made rapidly only by ad
vertisiug largely. Advertisements are
as essential to the development of busi-
ness as rain ia to the growing crop.
The Young Mems (colored) State
Convention, composed of delegates
from different sections Of the State.
held two days session in Parker
Hall, and adjourned yesterday, after
the adoption OF the inevitable pream-
BILE and resolutions. The following
officers were elected: President-Sa
mnel Lee, Sumter; Vice. President
L. W. Gadsden. Darlington; Secre.
tary-Waltcr +. Jones, Richland; AS.
sistant Secretaly-James M. June,
Fairfield.
The Governor has committed the
punishment OF John Benjamin, (co
lored.) OF Laurens. (who was convicted
of murder and sentenced to be hung
on the l1th September.) to imprison
ment nt hard labor for life in the peni
tentiary. The jury and the family o.
the murdered man made the request.
It was reported, last night, that She
riff Carr. OF Georgetown, has rendered
his resignation to the Governor. He
is white man, and the recent dusky
disturbances have, doubtless, disturbed
his equilibrium.
The Richland Republican Nominal
ing Convention assembled in the Court
House, yesterday, and elected the fol
lowing delegates to the State Republi
can ConvantioD which oooachio. !; -