The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1866-10-05
SHORT ITEMS.

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Brownlow,.in. his sspeeeh at Trenton,
boasted that 40, 900 Radicals in Ten
nessee disfranchise the other 81, 600.
voters, and by SO ,deing acquired, and
meant to keep power.,: What, signif4
cantly asks the St. Louis Times, if
the 10000 should turn round ana dis
franchise the disfranchisers., ;Wauld
they thank them for teaching them
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CIVIL R1GHTsfAr THE, NoRTH.--
Wesee negro hung by aimob at
Delhi, in the State: Of Michigan. It
is curious to observe how ealmrour
Radical: cotemporaries are over, this
outrage. IF it had only: happened
South Of Mason land Dixon's line, We
should have; heard an extensive; howl
on the subject o,.rai; IL. I.i5 t::rf
Rev. Peter Cartwright ID: D., in a.
letter to the Central Christian Adyo.
cate, says: "I have spent sixty-two
years as irregular itinerant preacher,s
and havenever lost six months of that
time by sickness, and have never re. /.
ceived the small sum or salary allow
ed but two years out Of that sixty-two
years. When I entered the travel
ling ranks in 1904. there were but
seven annual conferences, now there
are sixty. What a commentary
During August: II, ,438' immigrants INN
arrived at New York from, Europe ION
fifty-three different vessels. 3,488,
came from Liverpool whilst Hamburg
sent 1875, Bremen, I, ,916 Glasgow,
1,164, HaYre,: 1,074, London 989,
Antwerp, .106,, Genoa, 80, aid Rot
terdam, &C.. More thah two thirds of
these came a 3;51 tsteamsrs S.; ~ ,,J,a
Gen. Grant has moi, nlys5giyefi
arms,to the cadets of the Virginia Mil-
itary Institute, bat has also gegpored
to- them the old "Cadet Battery. he
remarked in SO doing that sstthe rising
generation must be educated, and the !
means for this purpose must not be
withheld. r,.,tIf. - ]. q, =
= A young lady, now employed as
.compositor on the Montgomery .Ad-
vertiser, mad 300 bales Of cotton
burned during The war: Instead sofs
repining overSher misfortune, she now
goes to work at; a business most. com
genial to her intellectual taste3 ~
An experiment was recently made
at Glen Haven, New York, on nitro:
glycerine as a blasting compound
-Four different trials were made, with
the greatest success. Sixteen ounces
of the oil detached fifty tons Of lime
stone rock from:its bed and piled it in
fragments all around. >, =
Mr.. VIM. Cameron, Of Petersburg,
just returned from abroad, brought
home pair of ostriches, which he
turned loose upon the luwn. The IN
der says, ''tWo interesting colored
children and several pigs, are missing
since, and adds "Ihe inference is
painful. + but as public journalists we
are bound to state facts as they aqe.
cur, or at least as they SEEM"
Private letters from prominent
North Caroinians state attherea are
forty thousand voters in that State IN
favor Gof the constitutional amend
ment,i and that an effort will beymade
by the Union members Of the Legisla-
ture to secure itsIatifoation. oc -
The Kingston N Jaannaioa) Jam :Invo'icein
a review Of the, situation Of affairs
on the island says: cat present, pub
Lie matters are carried along ikewaifs
by the torrent, and the community
live under a cloud, scarcely daring to
look the future in the face. We have
had some heavy failures, throwing
confusion and embarrassment in com
mercial circles throughout thecountry.
Altogether nggs have indeed come
to crisis. a.
A lady made her husband a pres
ent of a silver cup with an angel at
the bottom; and when she filled it for
him he used to drink it to the bottom, :
when she asked him why he drank eye-
cry drop? Because ducky, he said
4 long to see the dear little angel.
Upon which she had the devil engraved
at the bottom, and he drank off the
same, and she again asked him the
question. 'Why,he replied, because
1 won't leave the devil drop.
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