The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1874-07-16
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The prevalent expression now is,
mo, you can't comet"
Freights are exceedingly light just
now on all the railroads.
Newspapers are better than chests
to keep moths Mt bay.
Pleasant showers, during the past
few days. have kept the weather de.
IiGhifulIy cool und hearable.
The Stnte Executive Committee of
the Republican party will meet i'll Co.
lumbia on the 2lst inst.
Don't fail to buy ticket to the con
cert, next Wednesday evening, to
benefit the Palmetto Orphan Home.
Spartanburg is to have street cars.
What has become CT The Columbia
Street Railway Company?
\ detachment OF soldiers has ar.
rivei in Greenville. Wonder if the
mountain city needs pro,eotion7
There il French Doctor Chomet
who has discovered that fiddling will
cure nervous illness. though we have
heard some fiddling which prod uced it.
Fruit is becoming cheap and plenty,
aud Mr.. John G. Dial has the neces.
sary articles to prepare it for winter
use-self-sealing jars.
The opening ball of the season ut
Glenn's Springs is said TO have been a
very enjoyable affair. a number Of
Columbians were present.
Mr.. James 4. Wright. formerly con-
nected with the AbbeviIle Medium, has
retired. aud the firm now is Hemphill
g. Hemphil.
Chicaso is doomed city. Our de-
spatches of the past two DAYS have
furnished details of another conflagrA-
ti"n in that great Western metropolis.
1t Is said that mass meeting of the
colored Mechanics Union Association
will be held ou Monday ue1t, in The
State House yard.
A Columbia correspondent of tile
Greenville News revumps the story
that ex-senator Sawyer is to be the
Administration candidate ior Govern
or. Doubtful.
The Governor has appointed A. B.
Connor. OF Aslendale, Notary Public,
aud T S. Arthur, of Richmond, Va,
Commissioner Of Deeds for this State.
Job printing of every kind, from u
miniature visiting card to flourish eet
poster, turned out, at short notice,
from PHOENIX Office. Try US.
Those paper collars down at both
ends are again affected by nobby
youths. They give fellow with a
short neck the appearance OF sick
chipmunk trying to swallow whole
hickory mt at once.
A man who promised his wife on her
death-bed never 20 marry again, offers
a reward to some one who will con-
vince him that a lie is justi6able when
it is told to soothe The last moments of
the departed.
1t is understood that the Governor
has decided to issue an order, at an
early day. prohibiting officers Of mi
litia, whether Captains. Colonels or
Generals. from parading their COM
mands ut political meetings.
We have been requested to state
that the Rev. ". A. Pearson breaches
to the Second Baptist Church, at the
Chapel Oh Bull street, this evening, ut
SIa o'clock. The public are in yited to
attend
The time has come when the wearer
of the starched linen coat rises from
his chair and goes forth, unconscious
of the faot that the lower portion of
his garment retains the position which
it acquired while he was seated.
The election law requiring new set
Of Election Commissioners to be ap.
pointed sixty days previous to each
election, the Governor has issned an
order removing the present Com mis-.
sioners OF Election for the severul
Counties.
The automatic telegraph is about to
be brought into general use-a new
company having been formed in New