The Sumter watchman. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1855-1881, 1871-06-28
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

-On the Goth of June Queer
Victoria completed the thirty-fourtt
year of der reign.
-English capitalists are finding
their investments in East India cottor
planting anything but capital.
a Chinese Young Mems Chris
tian Association has been organized il
San Francisco. 1t starts with mem
bership of forty Celestials.
The papers left by President
Lincoln are to be published. Judge
David Davis, Of Illinois, is now revising
them.
Among the Catholic Church
choirs of England quite an excitement
has been created by a mandate excluding
female singers.
Count Moltke, it is understood,
will visit England in order to be present
at the great military gathering which is
to take place on the Berkshire Downs,
next September.
IN portions of Louisiana white
laborers are said to be cultivatiug cotton
and sugar with no sickness beyond the
average among the negroes.
a novel Illustrating the leading
characteristics, official aud social, of the
men and morals Of the Second Empire
in France is now in press in LoDdon.
"A San Francisco editor thus ad-
DIRE. ses an Oakland brother: "You
wallapus, you ichthvo-dorulite, you
bogus hammo-chrysos, you, you-Oak-
lander.
IN rash moment an Ohio far
mer offered his children ten cents a
quart for potato bugs. He has his choice
now to suspend payments or mortgage
his. farm.
1t is the Louisville Courier
Journal that says, nov that California
has sent Grauta magnificent palace car,
he will never be happy until somebody
makes him present Of railroad.
-IIon. S S. Cox said 10 recent
public speech that Mr.. Vallandigham
showed those characteristics which
cane, he thought, from his early, rigid
Presbyterian discipline.
There is young lady in Camden
studying Latin. She has beau. He
asked her what sic transit gloria mundt
meant. She translated it, "Come and
see me on Monday"
-5lr. Vallaudigham's support of q
theory in defence Of client has cost
him his life. 1t would be curious if the
demonstration Of the possible correct
ness OF that theory should save the life
Of she clieat, whose interests he so
faithfully served.
The Emperor William remarked
to the Mayor Hedcmen. who attempted
to kiss the royal right hand at the
opening Of the German Parliament:
'.This is not German state custom, and
it is ouly fit for the ladies'
The St. Louis Dispatch is shock
ed at the bad manners Of some Of the
boarders it knows Of, and proceeds to
read them the following little lecture
Don't say pass the krout, or shove
along that hash; well-conducted board
ers always say, VIII you be SO kind as
to escort the obseouse hitherward."
"A young countrymau shopping
in Lawrence, Mass, stole ride on the
sprinkler Of the watering cart, evidently |
rot knowing how the old thing worked
The driver pulled the valve lever and |
the eountrynan rose about three feet
into the air, coming down wetter but
wiser.
Mr.. J. n. Cardozo, Of Savannah,
his eighty fifth year on Satur
lay .ast. lie has Been connected with
prominent Southern papers Tor the last
iffy FIVE years, and was, during the war,
/ writer on the Syuihern Conieleracy,
! journal published in Atlanta.
The New York WiorM gives the
Radicals to understand that though it
recognizes the new amendments as
oar.s Of the Federal Constitution, it
locs not acknowledge the Radical con-
truction Of them TO be admissible. 1t
proceeds to show that neither one Of
bcm jusi;Ges, much less authorizes,
uch law as the ku-kl1x act.
1t is said that Mr.. Tooubs, of
Georgia, is to testify before the Xuklu1
Committee. The scene will be rich.
'oombs is exactly fitted for il. He
cemed to have been invented for inter-
Jews and ku-kiux committees. II the
Examination could be conducted in u
lrge hall, it would be crammed at any
rice for admission. How Bdruuw
;ould glory in managing it
lion. John Van Lear McMahon,
ho was from 1927 to 1860 the leader
The Baltimore bar, died at Cumber-
md in that State on thursday. He
'as President CT the National Wing
which nominated General
and was one ell the orioina-