The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1874-12-04

as if they were snrer when told.
There close at her eide,
''Do you lovo nle?" cried;
She lifted her golden-crowned head;
A puzzled surprise
Shone in her gray eyes,
Why. that's why kiss you! ste sail.
LoUIsvILLE-CoURIK j JoURNAIIsMs.
An Ohio paper declares that Beecher
ia guilty Of plagiarism. It rofers, we
presume, to the peace he stole from
the life OF Theodore Tilton.
It is said that in Due West, S. c., is
Jail. tho only entrance to which is
hole ut the top, and some of the news
papers mention the fact with surprise,
inst as If such wore not the case with
oil 'jugs."
The Brooklyn Eagle tells us that the
President and the people are not on
good terms. They wonld be on better
terms if the President were content
with fewer Of them.
Mrs. Edward Stokes has at last
obtained a divorce from her husband,
and though Edward still languishes in
Sing Sing, with no one to love him,
not less heartily than his wife that he
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tangling matrimonial alliances are con.
Cerned.
A Western paper tells us that "a
female book agent at La Crosse knock
cd lawyer down with $40 Bible,
and then knocked his teeth out with o
$6 hymn-book. Arm that woman
with an ordinary library of costly re-
ligious books. and she would whip her
weight in wild cats.
Nobody can blame Brother Talmage
for preaching against the theatre, if he
really thinks it wicked institution,
but he ought not to talk about plowinR
it up in defiance of earth and hell.
Such language is impolito. Indeed, it
10 worse-it ID rnagricultural.
"Proi. Tyndall says he would like
to meet Satan and have talk with
him." Well. why doesn't he go down
nnd do it? He would doubtless find
the old gentleman very entertaining,
though Tyndall might possibly object
to the heat OF the room.
1t has been many day since the
people OF the South felt themselves to
be in possession Of cause for thanks
giving. Meaning no disrespect to Old
Master. and begging His pardon for a
really well-meant aud pious observa.
ton, We must say that-doubtless for
some good purpose-He has used us
with hard hand these last twelve
or fourteen years. We have been af-
hicted with every conceivable vista
ton of Providence. by battle, famine
and sudden death; by water aud by
fire; In our property and in our pride.
A dismal catalogue we might write OF
it; but. as it seems to have come to an
end, let it go. It is virtue to forget;
it is wise to hope. and a streak OF light
does Certainly CLEAN all along the ho-
rlson. So the day was celebrated yes.
eerday with genuine thanksgiving.
There were overfowing churches.
There were happy family parties.
There was o pleDteous outpouripg of
good will and great slaughter of tur-
keys. The worm that covereth mul-
titude OF Gins and gathereth the early
bird manifested its presence in q mos.
matter.of-fact, melancholio and frac.
tious way. The short answer that
tnrneth away wrath put in his bill to
the credit Of the Constitution, the
Union end the enforcement Of the
Lays, to say nothing OF the flag and the
protection OF slavery in the territories.
Cotton looked up q bit. The tobacco
men and the pork people had jubilee,
and there were sundry displays of pc
onliar liveliness and charity. Indeed,
the goose swung uncommon high.
Amid the prayerfnl mirtL, however.
the suffering poor were not forgotten.
There was not table-not church
table-not dinner table-not a
kitchen table-not sven card table
around which the word Of sy mpathy-
and promised snccor for Tuscumbia-
did not pass. The day was more than
bright, clear aud suspicious. The SER
nous above the average. Little folks
md big were aglow, exclaiming each,
"Pralse to God. the Most Hight" TO
which we may add, in conclusion,
"God bless us, every one."
Notwithstanding it's almost universal
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