The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1874-01-14


The days are getting peroeptibly
longer.
CASH will be the rule at the PHGN1x
Office hereafter.
We are promised more simple fashions|
for spring.
Tho Com" apron is now the useful
and coquettish article of attire.
"Hats off," at places of Amusement,
now applies TO the ladies.
Good New Years resolutions are al
ready beginning to fall through.
@Weathcr. yesterday. cold, rainy and
terribly disasrceable.
A prccocious boy. yesterday, observed
that the sky had bad attack of the
dropsy.
1t keeps Uncle Toby's angel weeping
like California freshet to blot out the
oaths caused by letters dated 1878.
Tho Burns Club, OF this city, will ccle.
bratc the anniversary OF tho poets birth,
on Monday. the 26th-the 25th falling
on Sunday.
Sec what SoIomon's prices are, und
govern yourselves accordingly. All
kinds Of currency taken in exchange for
goods.
We are in receipt OF card of invita-
ton to the anniversary celebration OF
tho Ciceronian Literary Society of
Roanoke College. Virginia, on the 23d
Of February, 1874.
We find it necessary to repeat that
anonymous communications, whatever
be their nature, will receive no consider
alton at our hands. Correspondents
must sign their proper names.
a lot Of seventy. five Italian immi.
grants arrived in Charleston, by the
steamer South Carolina. They were
cared for by the Immigration Society
! and afterwards forwarded to the up
country.
Messrs. E. E. Davies g. Co. have just
received fine lot of shad and other
fresh fish. They are receiving daily
fresh supplies of Norfolk and Whining
oou oSSIS1 llCCS LcuuC6u. omatl
profits aud quick returns, c. 0. D.
An advertisement in another column
imparts the information that lot of
Italian immigrants have arrived in the
city and are in search of employment
A party of twenty have been engaged by
Maj or Morgan.
The Board of Directors of the Monu-
ment Association desire to announce
that there will be IN exhibition of tab
lenmc ricamts on Monday, January 49,
for the benefit OF the Monument Asso.
citation. The tableau1 will be followed
by refreshments. Full particulars will
be published Oh Thursday, 18th.
Some people are never satisfied We
observe n number of our exchanges in
dulging in dismal forebodings Of O
sweltcring summer, without any ice
wherewith to cool their parched tongues.
In short time. we shall probably have
.hcn chronicling. as usual. the coldest
weather in the memory OF the oldest in
| habitunt.
TIE CITY HALL AND OPERA HOUSE. =
The plans forthe interior of this new and
magnificent building have been changed,
and materially improved, at the
suggestion of Messrs. Eugene Cramcr,
Harry Watkins and other competent
jndgcs of what :. theatre or opera house
should be. The stage has been enlarged
and the space beneath leepened, so as
to furnish n suitable depth for traps,
dressing rooms, etc. A ''star" dressing
room adjo;ns tho stage. The galleries
have been depressed, and will form IA
lialf circle, So arranged that full view
OF the stage can be obtained. The
chairs in the parquctte will have nova
bic seats Of the latest style. The Mrge
room in the third story front will be
used as IL rcfcctory, and that on the
second floor US a Gcntleman's $ retirir e
room. The ticket Office will be ut Tie
head Of the broad MISUNDERSTANDING
ample room on the landing for at least
! fifty persons. The columns supporting
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