The Camden weekly journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1853-1861, 1856-04-29
NEWS ITEMS.


three miles Of any location proposed for retailing spir'
ituous liquor shall sanction tile application and then
the license tax is to be $3.50; the applicant being re-
quired. moreover to give bond In $1,000 to keep an
orderly house and prohibit gambling on the premises
The result will probably be, ga little" less grape
juice.
George S. Chase, of Waltham presented Rebecca
Cook. his sweetheart, up in Vermont, with o. gold
watch and clain and afterwards when she refused to
have him. wanted to get them back which PROPOSE
ton she rejected He then intimated that she was
thief and the lady then brought him to justice. 1t
was let out, and the referees gave her $500 damages
and costs Take care how you make presents toyour
rsweethearts.
U On Tuesday last says the Fayetteville Observer, in
tbeslower end Of Moore county, near Grains Creek
Post Office, young married woman named Elizabeth
jackson daughter Of Burgess jackson, of very re-
spectacle family committed suicide by hanging her.
SELF
a lady while seated with her husband and chill.
tren fishing I'll the edge Of pond near Columbus
;a on the 4th instant, becoming faint, fell over OF
her side. She removed to house in the neigh
borhood and died Immediately. Her death was caused
BY What is Familiarity called sunstroke.
The New Orleans Crescent says it has lost fifteen
hundred dollars in actuacost to say nothing OF an
uoyaee and extra labor, by their contract for the
City printing We have no doubtthey fought manful:
ly last year ior the privilege of doing the work. and
now they would sell out cheap.
Tie jury in the case of Samuel sly widow Wake
u,a, and Thankful Hersey, trial in New Haven for
the mnrdS of Justus W. Matthews, returned Q yer.
dicr Oh Thursday OF not guilty. the sole ground Of
insanity The parties were all tried indict
ment..
The police department Of the city Of Savannah is
Ne; FoFelgneTs forty eight. Arranged according
to their patty connections they stand as follows:-.
Democrats fortr.nne; Americans forty.two
The editor Of the Phladelpfia Chronicle Baptist,
has been fined $4,000 for libel on Rev. Mr. Newell
agent ior the Baptist Bible Union, in reporting him as
having sad that he had no coLtidence in the common
edition Of the Bible.'
It was said that Gen Lane the bogus Free Soil
Senator from Kansas had challenged Senator Douglas
account of alleged er,onalties brit it is now stated
that the challenge is withheld in anticipation Of re.
traction by Douglas
The death Of The notorious G. g. Foster, author of
q New York by Gas Light" New York in Slices,r
ard many similar works Las been published He
dici on Thursday, in Philadelphia of congestion of
the brain
An American, Mr. VIM G. Stewart, is about con-
sTiIa,ic Telegraph inc from Leon to Matamoras in
Mayi;o the government Of that country subscribing
sos 1000 TO the stock
The General Assembly of Canada has decided that
iIe permanent scat Of governm hit shall be at Quebec
The cost Of the public buildings is set down at sl7s
as5.
The Mayor and corporation OF Halifax, N s., have
decided adversely to application of the Bar to con-
duct cases in the City Court without their gowns
They must be set Of incorrigibe old foges
We are happy to state that the price of four corn
bacon, &c is declining in al the principal markets.
The producers have had their day, and now we hope
The consumers will have chance to live
a despatch from Nashville, Tenn, state that on
Sunday last the Court House. Nashville Inn and sew
eral other buildings entirely destroyed by FIRE.
Loss S2OOOOO
Accounts from Illinois represent the coming wheat
harvest as likely to be good rs the last and much
larger than ever before harvested in the country.
The cotton factory ct Milton, ~ c., was destroyed
by fire Wednesday night last. The factory was in.
sured for $4,000 Tie ruins will be sold at auction