The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1874-06-18

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business is as dull us the back of
cheese knife.
Few men know how to raise boil
scientifically.
How to get rich-Live on air and
sleep on u clothes line.
Only the stamps are necessary now
to enjoy good living here.
The Choral Union meets tonight.
The weather. Tuesday evening. pre-
vented u meeting.
One of the heaviest storms Of the
season passed over this city, Tuesday
night, accompanied by rain, thunder
aud lightning.
Visitors to the commencement at
Wofford College will go and return
over the Spartanbnrg and Union Rail-
rad for one fare, from the goth to the
2Gth Of June.
The return in the manlamus case re-.
lAtlve to the certificates of indebted
ness WAS read yesterday. The arsu-
ment will be heard in the Supreme
Court Tomorrow.
To advertise in any guise is very
Wise; and be who buys discreetly hies
where lies the suYest prize. He who
deties this rule relies on empty guys;
his business dies, nor can it rise to any
size onti! he plies bis skill aud vies
with others wise wbo advertise.
Maj. Wm. Sinons, Notwithstanding
his political and military proclivities.
has not forgotten business. He is
engaged in flooring tss first story of
She State House, and capital job it
Is. too. Tue round columns we're
socaewhs! of an obstruction, but the
wood has been neatly fitted around
them.
The Columbia Watsg Power Com
pany folks complain Of the waste of
water by the citizens. 10 the reason for
the pumping up of the dirty river
water. During the war. there we're
double the number Of persons resi-
dens in Columbia that there are now,
and the water supply was sufficient.
HuEs up better excuse, gentlemen.
There will be meeting OF the
Southern Life Insurance Company. in
the Central National Bank building,
to-day, at ii o'clock. General Col.
quit. and Col. Miller are in the city,
and will be on hand. Arrangements
have been made for putting up their
new building, ut an early day. The
friends and patrons Of the insurance
company are invited to be present at
to-day's meeting.
LOOK TO THE WAFER YoU USE. We
have in Columbia, as in ether cities
aud towns. what is familiarly known
as municipal government. This
municipal government has entered
into contract with q company known
as the Columbia Water Company"
to supply the city with spring water,
a. the rate OF SIG. 900 year for twenty
years. It used to cost between S6, 900
and s., 1000. and was then good. What
ever the difficulties and delays the
company has been subjected to in re-.
ceiving tue enormous compensation n
| agreed upon, it is in no measure re-
leased by them from its obligation to
furnish certain defined quantity of
good water every day. Does it do it2
We cannot speak of the unantity fur
nished, but every ono knows the
quality 10 be inferior. It never came
from springs, unless the springs had
first been the recipients of mud or
filth. II is unwholesome as it is un-
pleasant to use it. What is worse,
there seems no certainty that this
nuisance will ever ba abated. The
Town Council finds it easier to make
contracts thun to enforce their condi-
tions. II they are doing their duty
towards the citizens in this extremity,
there is no evidence seen of it in anv
Of their published proceedings, and
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