The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1874-08-21
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| I aNSN1A,
Mr.. Rosenberg expects to arrange q
moonlight picnic excursion next week.
Old John Robiuson's big show is
heading this way, and may bo looked
for next month.
The Indian Girl nominates q new
candidate for the Gubernatorial chair.
See the card.
Gulp your savory succotash now,
for tho sacculent roastiug-e ear is gc.-
ting hard.
Transient advertisements and no.
tices must be paid for in advance.
This rule will be adhered 10 hereafter.
Job printing of every kind, from u
miniature visiting card to q four sheet
poster, turned ont, at short notice,
from PHOENIX Office. Try us.
Congressman Elliott has published
O counter -opinion to that of james d.
Tradewcil, Esq. relative to the cleo
ton laws.
Old type metal-superior to Bubhitt
for some purposes can be obtained at
PHOENIX Office at low figures -25 cents
q pound for fifty pounds or less; 20
cents for larger quantities.
| Gov. Moses is not to be euchred.
At meeting Of Republicans ut Priva-
teer, (six miles from Sumter,) yestcr-
day, he was unanimously elected n
delegate to tho Republican Nomluat-
ing Convention.
The New York Herald has n two
column letter from Columb cores
ponaent. giving IL faithful account of
the condition of things in the State.
The writer knows what he is talking
about, and does not miuce matters;
furthermore, he is not Democrat.
! DR.. Girardenu has retired from
Zion Colored Presbyterian Church, in
Charleston, and it is hereafter to be
served by colorcl minister. This
was done done ut the suggestion of the
Presby terian General Assembly. Other
churches will likoly follow.
! The sale of the Laurnns Railroad TO
the South Carolina Railroad Company
WAS confirmed, on the 10th lust, by
the Bankrupt Court ut Greenville. An
appeal Was taken, which will bring the
matter up before Judge Bond, in this
CITY, in November next.
BY "a private letter from Union, last
night, we learn that j. p. Knuckles, :.
delegate from Union to the Numinat-
ing Convention, was severely and per-
haps mortally wounded. the day be-
fore, by nn officer. who attempted to
arrest him for violating town ordi-
nance.
Col. TLos. G. Bacon, of Edeefeld,
who has just returned from an exten-
sive trip through the Northern States,
thinks that there is too great truth in
the report thut it is the fixed determi-
nation OF the extreme Radical party to
colonize the negroes in South CARROLL
na. Mississippi and Louisiana.
81 Nicholas Is-Scribner' most excel
lent illustrated magazine for boys and
girs-for September, has been re-
ceived. We can only say for it, that it
is one of the best publications of the
kind that We know Of. 1t delights the
little folks. The subscription price is
S3 per annum. Address Scribner 4
Co., 654 Broadway, New York, who
are the publishers.
We learn that u difficulty occurred,
yesterday, in what is known as the
Light House, corner of Lincoln and
Gervais streets, during which soldier
was seriously injured. It seems that
the soldier procured n drink, refused
to pay for it, and went SO far ns to at
tempt to strike the bartender, when
the latter knocked him down with o
beer glass.
In few days, the summer ends and
autumn commences. However "me-
lancholy" the days may then be, senti-
mentally considered, it is quite certain
that from business point of view
they will be moro lively and product
i've OF JOY to many than those through