The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1875-04-23

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The South Carolina Dental Association
meets III Columbia, on Tuesday. 18th Of
May.
The weather is gradually getting
straight again, and yesterday was re-
markably pleasant.
DIR. George Howe hns returned to his
old home, and can he consulted profess
sionally Mt his Office, over DR.. Fishers
drug store.
The Spartanburg, Greenville and Wal
halla papers complain of the destruction
OF fruit and vegetables by the recent cold
snap.
The children who are to take part in
the Tablenux Vivants. arc requested to
meet at the Opera House, tomorrow, ut
IL o'clock-bringine portion of their
costumes with them.
| The price of admission to the Tableaux
WANTS has been reduced to fifty cents.
Refreshments will he offered during the
evening.
Mayor Alexander, of this city, has re-
ceived the contract for the iron fronts to
be used in the construction of several
new buildings now in course of erection
in Greenville.
The dull times force IT'S to half sheet
occasionally. rather thnn publish fill
up" natter. Readers lose nothing. as
the full amount of reading ,latter is
made good.
The tnbleanx vivants, in which fifty
children take part and which come off
on Monday evening next, in the City
Hall, will be well worth seeing. The
participants are practicing energeticalIv.
Persons dcsirous of contributing to
the refreshment table ut the tablenux
will please inform Mrs. Coleman Walker
or Mrs. Bachman. Contributions of
milk, Ice cream or cnkc will be- accepta-
bic.
The world-renowned comedian, John
f.. Owens, gives two performances at the
Opera House. in this city, on Tuesday
and Wednesday. May and >. lie is
entitled II and will llnv. a crowded
house
Robert Lee. nn employee of Dir.
Diercks, stirred up the hny in the stable
loft, yesterday. after stopping up the
holes below. and in less than five
minutes. aided by two dogs, killed
twenty-five OF the corn-stenlrrs. One
weighed over pound.
The annual meeting of Washington
Street Church Sewing Society will be
held in the chapel this tFridny) after
noon, Mt 5 o'clock. All the members of
the society and the ladies of the conere-
CATION generally are requested to be pre-
sent. Business will he brought forward
Of great interest to the church.
At meeting of the survivors of the
Hampton Legion, held in Charleston, re-
Gently, General James Connor presiding,
it was unanimously resolved that n re-
union of the Legion be held in Columbia
on the 2lst of July next the fourteenth
anniversary of the first battle of Ma
nassas.
Fnther Patrick Quilter, young priest,
vino belongs tn the Diocese of Pittsbnrg,
Pa, and who. on account OF delicate
health. Is visiting the South, by permis-
sion of his bishop, having kindly con-
sented IL take charge of st. Peters
Church and Parish. in Columbia during
the temporary absence in Europe Of
Father Fullerton, the regulnr pastor
thereof, has been sent by Bishop Lynch
to assume the duties of the position.
"FoK Your Own SAKE" An audience.
comprising. i'll part, the culture and
fashion of Columbia, greeted Miss Anna
+. Dickinson's second lecture in this
city Inst evening" The lecture itself is n
plea for the best and highest, the noblest
and most generous life to be lived by
individuals and 10y us as people for our
own sake.
Miss Dickinson went on to speak of
the thirst for wealth which seems TO
possess the average American, and to
which so many men sacrifice nll that
makes life worth living, starving brain
and heart. losing the JOY of home,
scarcely acquainted with his own chill
drcn. missing the glory and the beauty
of spiritual life, of generous aims, of
noble impulses worthily and per
sistently carried out She deplored
this love OF gain as national charac-
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