The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1869-02-11
VARIETY.

| \ VETERAN lfHO!TIhe NdSuNhio
(Tennesse) Union, Of the 7th nlt., says:
"We had the pleasure Of meeting in
the city yesterday, W. L: Barry, Esq,
the oldest printer in the United States.
He is looking just as young as when we
first knew him, over thirty years ago.-
He is now in his eighty-ninth year, and
if put to the test, could set up his ten
thousand ems a day. .9s:1r
Messrs. Mason and SlidelI will short
ly return to this country in company
with Jefferson Davis. -. q :a.i
George Peabody is intending to
make the tour of the Southern States
next fall. ' ""'
A Connecticut court has decided that
man who will not support his family
is pauper..
DR.. Mcbride has been found guilty
of dealing faro in Kentucky, and fined
$500. In default ofpayment, he was
sent to the work .house to work out the
fine at fifty cents per day: -,~5
A Berkshire (Mass:) girl walked IA
miles through the snow the other day
to marry young mah who could not
come to her house for fear Of d SIX
shooter which the sterp parent carried:
A man in St. Louis recently got mar
ried on Tuesday, got the chills on We'd:
nesday, wrote his will on Thursday,
went mad on Friday, and died on Sat:
u-day and was buried on Sunday.
The 43O churches in New York will
seat about 800. 900 persons. The fro-
testant churches number 356. The 3S1
Sunday Schools are attended by ILL.,
450 children:
LARGE SALE OF SourH CARoI1NA
LANDs.-The New York Herald says:
"Thomas R. Agnew, of this city, has
recently purchased $500 acres of land
in Edge6eld County, South Carolina;
near Aiken"
SOME Hoes.-The Marion Crescses
says Mr.. Charles Haselden Of that coun:
ty, last week killed two Of his hogs,
which when dressed and hung up,
weighed ono thousand and twenty-five
pounds. One of them weighed six hun.
dred and one poundsi -
Take small piece IF raw beef; steep
it all night in vinegar, cut as much
from it as will cover the wart, tie it on
it; or if the excresence is on the fore.
head, fasten it on with strips of stick
ing plaster 1t may be removed in the
day and put on every night. In ons
fortnight the wart will die and peel of.
The same prescription will cure corps:
So says the Goldsboro Messenger.
"And you have been married, Pat;
rick, three times, haven't you 7"
eyes, indade, sir" - ..
"And what do you say ofit7 Which
wife did you like the best ?" ,t'
"Well, Becky O'Brien; that I mar:
ried the first time, was good woman-
too good for me; so she got sick aid
died, and the Lord took her. r.
"Thch I got married to Bridget
Flanagan. She was bad woman
and she got sick and died too, and the
devil took her. ......'. -.
"Then, fool that I was, got married
to Margret Haggerty. She was worse.
very bad-so bad that neither the Lord
nor the devil would have her, SO l have
to keep her myself" --
7 "Oh yes, Joe; my fathers On old ma
: riner-a regular salt" "Wby, 1 never
knew that. What service was he in =
"The whaling service. He goes cruising
around all night, and in the morning,
; when he comes home, he goes whal-
, ing the whole family, from the old
oman down, and boxes the compass
about the hired girls ears"
A young man at Couhetsville, Giles
County, Tennessee, on Thursday eve:
ming, while standing on the floor in the
act of being married, was shot down by
the brother of his bride. he fell in the
arms of the devoted girl, who assisted
f by friends, conveyed him to bed, when
her request, the marriage ceremony wa,
f finished, she exclaimiug that she would
f rather mourn q dead husband than a
Y dead lover. In few minutes the new