The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1875-05-20

Gons, or correcting each other in
company, you may be assured they
have tied the matrimonial moose.
IF you see O silent pair in cor
or stage, lolling carelessly, one at
each window, without seeming to
know they have q companion, the
sign is infallible. '.'.
If yon see q lady drop her glove,
and gentleman by the side of her
kindly telling her to pick it up, you
need not hesitate in forming your
opinion.
If you meet couple in the
fields, the gentleman twenty yards
in advance of the lady, who, per-
haps, is getting over q stile with
great difficulty, or picking her way
through O muddy patch; or,
If you see lady whose beauty
and accomplishments attract the
attention of every lady and gentle
man In the room but one, you can
have no difficulty in determining
their relationship to each other
the one is her husband.
If you see o gentleman particu-
larly courteous, obliging and good
natured, relaxing into smiles, say
ing sharp things, and toying with
every pretty woman in the room,
excepting one, to whom he appears
particularly cold and formal, and is
unreasonably cross s-who' that one
is nobody can be at loss to dis
cover.
If you see an old couple jarring,
checking and thwarting each other,
differing in opinion before the OPT
,nion is expressed, eternally antici-
pating and breaking the thread of
each others discourse, yet using
kind words, Like honey bubbles
floating on vinegar, which are soon
overwhelmed by a preponderance
of the fluid; they are, to all intents,
man md wife it is impossible to
be mistaken. !,
The rules above quoted are laid
down as infalible ia just interpre-
tation-they may be resorted to
with confidence; they are upon I'M
eTring principles, and deducted
from every day experience.
The2tobacco crop of the States
South and West Of Pennsylvania is
set down as having been $4,000
hogsheads in the year 1873, and
LID, 600 hogsheads in 1874, in re-
spect TO which il is observed that
theprospect Of SO large reduction
in 1874 naturally, led to an active
speculation, and prices, in q very
short time, advanced fully 100 per
cent, which has been maintained
to the present time, the price of
Kentucky. leaf tobacco having been
IA to IS cents per pound April 80,
1875, as against u to IL cents per
pound May i, 1874, which extraor
dinary advance checked exports,
and reduced" purchases by home
manufacturers to the lowest limits.
This reduction in the crop was
caused by the prolonged drought.
In 1873, Kentucky produced ll8,-
600 'hogsheads, and in 1874, only
10000. In 1873. Virginia produced
62,300 hogsheads, and in 1874 only
$4,000. In 1873, Ohio produced
25,800 hogsheads, and in 1874 only
1000. Indiana and Illinois de-
clined from $4,000 to 10000, and
Missouri from 10000 to 10000.
Maryland suffered less than auy,
only declining from 31,5oO to 26,-
600. The, exports of leaf tobacco
thisiyear have been 29,O87 hogs
heads, as against 33, ,355 hogsheads
in thes same time lost year, The
foreign markets that depend on
thegAmerican supply are all short
Of stoek, $pd the high prices ruling
here atE home, emhaIrass them con,
sidarebly. The Icrop. of seed leaf
tobacco in The Northern and West!
ern States in The year 1873, vas
140.0g0, cases, and il 1874 it was VA
6e,000 cases, and the price of
Pennsylvanis iseed leaf tobacco in
May, 1876, ig set down ati16tt0 22A
cents, cent - as & agaailnlset allle 10 TO 20 cents in
June, 1874.,4 ! I,.s -. 'vtr
a New Yorker, who met an old