The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1875-05-25


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Attend Perry e. Slawson's 9clearance
sales Of cigars. s
Straw hats can now step to: :the front
with impunity.
Attend Perry 4 Slawson's clearance
sales of cigars.
Lovers, like committees, nov invcsti-
gate. '"'s
Attend Perry & Slawson's clearance
sales of cigars.
Vegetables Of every kind are getting
moro abundant in market.
Attend Perry & Slnwson's clearance
sales of cigars.
There was n steady and penetrating
min on Sunday and yesterday, which
gladdened the hearts of the planters.
W. r. Cathcart, Esq, manager of the
Western Union Telegraph Company, has
returned from short visit to Charleston.
MIR. Mckenzie is in receipt of lot of
very pretty chromos-lnrge and small
suitable for scrnp-books. The prices are
very reasonable.
The grocery clerks are cndeavoring to
secure uniform closing of the stores
before dark. 1t will save gas and afford
the young men an opportunity for
needed recreation.
Walter >. NIonteith, Esq, intends seek
ing wider field; he leaves for New York,
in few days, where he expects to prac-
tice his profession. He is sharp,
shrewl lawyer
Judge Carpenter and Solicitor Runkle
left for Lexington, yesterday morning,
Mt o'clock, to open the May term of
Court for that County. The first case on
the docket will be that of Pool, for a
murder committed ut Saluda Factory, on
Christmas day.
We have been authorized to state that
no tickets to the Schuetzen-Verein pic
mic, on Thursday, will be sold ut the
gate; this is positive. Furthermore, that
no member who is not in uniform will
be allowed to participate in the target
firing.
A lodge Of Knights Templar is about
being organized in this city-or rather,
the old charter of Columbia" is to be
resumed. Messrs. G. A. Darling, r. A.
keenan,. G. W. Parker and e1-Gov. r.
X. Scott are the prime movers in the
matter. The regalia is very handsome.
The Stevens Light Infantry, Captain
John Ballard, went on a picnic and
tnrgct excursion, yesterday, and CON-
petcd for two prizes-a silver and q
handsome china cup. Burr Titus won
the first prize. The military spirit
appears to be oozing out, as there were
only about twenty rank and file.
Rev. j. H. Stringfellow, Snperintend-
ent of Trinity Church Sunday School,
requests us to say that the picnic of TINT
school will be held tomorrow, Wedncs-
day, at the grounds of tho Schuetzenfest
Club. The members of the congregation
are invited to attend. Persons sending
baskets will please have them ut the
church before 10 o'clock A. NJ.
The chicken disputes at Charlotte re-
suited lisastrously for the Columbia
boys, and they lost NIL their money
Nothing daunted, however, they pock-
eted their paper collars, took of their
boots and started for home, determined
ere the next centennial, to have lot of
iron-clad chickens that will completely
p1ooD ont tho I,ro,y f.,,rl. n +l,o oll N-o..l
State. ->t,
Old "Potter's Field" is rapidly disap-
pearing, and ina few years othing will be
left to designate the location. The brick
walls around several of the lots have
been spirited away and the balance are
following suit. Railroad trains hourly
thunder along over the graves of the old
C"lumbians. Prior to 1922, it was the
place of general sepulturc, and men,
bers of the first families were inferred
the re.
memphis is rapidly reaping the fruits
of bonds and taxes. The water works
were sold at auction last Thursday, for
the benefit of the holders of the first
mortgage bonds. They were purchased
for little more than half the amount OF
their cost. by parties who held most OF
the bonds"
Here Is warning for Columbia. Bonds,
| taxes. extravagance and bad contracts
will yield their bitter fruits. Is it not
provided in the contract with the Colum.
bia Water Power Company, that aftel