The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1874-08-14
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The storP. yesterday morning, tan
is!ed'zho telegraph wi!ss considerably.
TIE Taxpniont1evsr is contagious.
New Unions are formed every, daya
Msssrs.iR / W. o. swafiad SHer
extraordinary inducements to cash
buyers. See the advertisement.
Transient advertisements and no.
tices must be paid for in advance.
This rule will be adhered 10 hereafter.
Job printing. Of. every kind, from a
miniature visiting card to q four.sheet
poster, turned out, ut short notice.
from PHOENIX Office. Try US.
The nowly. hedged Charleston Sun
pitches into the Ne,0s and Courier, and
charses that paper With working in
the interest OF Gov Moses.
Old type metal-superior to Babbitt
for some purposes s-can he obtained at
PHOENIX Office at low fgures-25 cents
pound for fifty pounds or less; 90
cents for larger quantities.
Major J. M. Morgan is endea voring
to organize gymnasium in this city.
He has secured the necessary build
ing, and thirty days afrer sixty sub.
scrihers ore obtained, lat 50 month.
it will 60 into operation.
Charges Of carclessness are made
against immigration Agent Tilman
4. Gaines, in not paying attention to
money orders. He has been hauled
over the Goals in Grcenville, aud other
Counties yet to hear from.
Complaint is mnde by persons from
the country of the terrible condition
OF the roads in the vicinity of Colum-
bia; nlso. that plank is missing from
the bridge on the Monticello road-a
trap for animals.
Star gazers will have something in
teresting to look at this month, as ae-
tronomers tell Us that tue earth is now
nearing the margin of the great Au-
gust meteor stream, which exceed in
number aud splendor those of the NJ :
vember period.
Tho Aiken Tribune says Congress
man Elliott, who, it seems wis hes to
descend from Congress to the lower
House Of the South Carolina Legi sla-
ture, will bs elected. and that he q g.
signs Wrestling tho speakership from
Sam. Lee.
The Governor has appointed Lau-
renee Cain, John n. McDevitt and
r. a. Bclanger, as Commissioners ol
Election for Edgefeld; R. M. Thomp-
son, Trial Justice for Clarendon, uice
". II. Burgess. resigned; and has &C.
cepted the resignation of james a.
Henderson, Us Coroner of Newberry.
MIR. Symmers appears before the
readers Of the PHOENIX, this morning.
in one of his characteristic advertise
ments. He knows what the people re-
quire either to eat, drink or bura, and
keeps just the right kind of stuff.
As Treasurer Cardozo has appealed
to the Supreme Court OF the United
States, in the matter OF the certificates
of indebtedness, and o great many
months will elapse before it can be
reached. it WILL. doubtless, :devolve
upon the Legislature to settle the mat
ter.
Rev. L. A. Bolles is supplying the
passenger cars throughout the State
with Bibles. A so.called reverend
gentleman, travelling over the Char
lotte. Columbia and Augusta Railroad,
a short timo ago, attempted to purloin
one OF them. and looked sheepish when
detected.
The rifle clubs are exciting tho ire
OF suspicious colored men. The new
sign of the Sohuetzen-V Verein, which
displays a bull's-eye target, attracted
the curiosity OF some of these idlers,
yesterday, and they went off growing
"The white folks boen Citing up rifle
clubs, and now de Dutch got one dey
call shoot fast" A shake of tho
head and muttered make it mighty
hot for 'em" followed.
TERRIDLE E.-Columbia