The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1874-11-04

..OITX MATr.Rs.--Subsoribe for the
PHGN1x-don't borrow.
Suffering from vet groceries" is
prevalent Of late. H.
4. Difference OF q vowel: Murrell and
Merrill, +,
J. RI CLARK has been commissioned
. Trial Justice for Richiand. =
Transient advertisements and ne
tices must be paid for in advance.
This rule will be adhered 10 hereafter.
Thanksgiving only three weeks off.
and turkeys are shaking in their boots
like mad.
Job printing of every kind, from q
miniature visiting card to four-sheet
poster, turned oat. at short notice,
from PHOENIX Office. Try us.
SUPREME COURT DECISIONS
DAY. November 3, 1874.-John r.
Welsh. respondent, vs. Andrew J.
Kibler, appellant. Motion dismissed.
Opinion by Wright, A. J.
&c parte Hewitt Ell al, respondents,
IN re Haw ct nc. os. Nelson et ai., ap-
pellants. Motion granted. Opinion
by Wright, A. J.
'ilIL AERANaEMENTs.- --Nortiiern
mal, opens $50 a. NJ, 8 P. NJ. closes
IL \. NJ. 6 p. N. Charleston opens 8
A. NJ, $50 2. NJ. closes A. H., ,6P.
NJ. Western opens a. NJ, l p.
NJ. closes 6. l.30 P. Al. Greenville
opens AS P. M.; closes A. III. Will
mington opens 4 2. NJ; closes 10. 80
4. NJ. On Sunday open from 2. 80 to
$50 p. Nj.
THE ELECTION. The election passed
off very quietly in this city yesterday,
aud, III far az we have been able to
learn, was equally peaceful throughout
the County. We have not received
any returns from any OF the precincts
up to the hour of going te press, and
as there can be nothing gained by pub
fishing snppositions or opinions of the
result. we for bear to draw conclusions,
and will await the returns of the
managers. There were several rumors
i'll tho city yesterday Of difficulties.
and even homicides, in two or three
Counties in the State, but as We have
no positive information in regard to
them, we are not disposed to credit
the rumors.
CARELEssNEss WITH FIRE-As the
season has arrived when fires become
necessary in dwellings and places Of
business, the danger of conaagrations
increases. In all the essays which
have ever been written upon the un.
deniable truth that "grent effects pro-
ceed from little canses," one of the
most familiar and universal illustra-
tions employed is fire. We are always
pointed to the fact that the most de-
struotive fires Me- small beginnings.
A spark whicK u tumblcr of water
might have oluenehed. left to itself.
destroys Who'll sqases, involving the
less OF millions. A,ocw kicks o7sr G
lantern in sf3 3ble, add the most valu-
able part of IA large city is destroyed .
A burning cigar or match carelessly
cast aside. or CRATE fire left un-
watched. often cause immense confla-
gratlons. During the year ending
December 81, 1872. there were, in New
York city alone, 439 fires caused by
want of cire with matches; 1913 by de-
fects in fues and heating and cooking
apparatus; 146 by foul chimneys; II by
hot ashes and couls. Thus, among
1896 fires, the total number in that
city during the year named, S00-a
fraction over 81 per cent.-might have
been prevented by ordinary care.
During the year ending 3lst Ma .ch.
1874, there were in Chicago ITO fires
caused by ''carelessness." and tc
matches, defective and foul ohimn eys,
stoves and gas-pipes were attributable
l0l. The inspector of buildings ir
Boston, in 1873, reported 529 danger
ons chimneys and defective fues
| These same mischieyouy matches anc