The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1871-08-10
NEWS ITEMS.

Fifteen thousand pounds has BEEN allowed
Prince Arthur. .a'. sf..f
: The Spaniards have been defeated m Co,
ba by Quesada, with considerable loss
The Persian Minister in England denies
the reports Of famine and plague. ri .. ri,
A New Orleans washerwoman invested
rs cents in lottery and drew 81 900.
Elders painting of Gen. Lee has been
placed in the State Library at Richmond.
The lightning last week. at Cambridge
struck the house Of lightning rod maker:
A Sacramento bride has commenced her
honeymoon with 100000 check from
:sthe old man" ts.l FBf IN -gijur
The Hon. Tobinskitawa Chippewa Chief,
was in Chicago lately, and punouncea the
weather "big hot" =, 81
Baltimore brags over an horn from Pat.
agonia. 1t is sixty five inches long, and
seventeen in circumference. s-Ss7
The Paris Council is composed Of thirty.
eight Conservatives, nine Republicans, and
ten Ultras .,.i <.,y: \. l.i .ss.,s}.f,1 '.-
One hundred and twenty y-seyen car loads
of peaches we're shipped to New York from from
Baltimoresin one day
2 Richmond papersthink they have granite
enough in that vicinity to supply the wants
of the continent.
It was in 1920 that the first examination
Eof young lady in geometry was witnessed
in this country. ~
A French .barber's sign reads thus: ITO
morrow the public will be shaved gratuit-
oudy." Of course to:morrow never comes.
It is stated that tho wedding ring used
at the marriage of Miss Swan, the Novs
Scotia giantess, was about the size Of q mufr
fiji ring. %.zIi
One hundred bales of japanese silk; re-
ceived overland from California, were sent
TO Europe Saturday, forty-two days from
Japan. -. .,iztia
A man in Davenport, Iowa, offers through
the columns of local paper to give $50 to
any man who will elope with his wife. -
Squibob suggests that the cause of the
potato rot is the rotary motion Of the earth,
in which view the best commentators COIN
cide.1 . :la
he aggregate cost Of the five largest hc i
tells in San Francisco was 81 800, 600
Their annual receipts are reported at $3,-
.O00, 600.
The latest revised tables Of the census
Office make the aggregate population Of the
United States to BE- as follows White 3D.
581, $50; colored, 4,779,323; Indian, 25,-
1888; japanese, 55; Chinese, 63,196. Total
39,549,9S6.
A CHI Stamp is clerk in the post office.
Mr.. Plant buries folks. Mr.. Plugg sells
tobacco, and Bacchus dispenses beer. All
in Washington. And Mr.. Mugg sells
lager in Brooklyn. ,.....-.... ..., .....,.
The government printing Office at Wash
ington, already the largest printing estab-
lishn,ent in the world, is now being added
to by additional buildings that will increase
its capacity one-third. - ,"
Queen Victoria has given orders that the
pulpit sand. glass which indicates the length
of time allowed for the sermon in the Royal
Chapel, shall be measured for twenty minutes i
only, instead Of an hour, as formerly. y ~
A country editors sole editorial in one
weeks issue Of his paper was to the effect
that if anything will make a man feel juicy
about the heart, it is to talk velvet to pair
of sky-colored eyes, by moonlight, in
clover-feld.
John Ditto is the name of the Buffalo
city engineer. His wife's name is Ditto,
and the children are all Ditto. When he
signs his name under that of somebody else,
it is said to create some confusion at times.
Speaker Blaine, who is at his home in
Maine, thinks it strange that the newspapers
should report him out IN the Rocky Noun
tains, and at San Francisco, beside being on,
a tour in Europe. He says he has not been
away from Maine this summer.
The Kickapoo Indians kick both ways
Part of them live in Mexico and part in the
United States, and it seems that those in
the United States maraud into Mexico and
those in Mexico maraud into the United
States, the two divisions doubtless sharing
the profits after the manner Of civilized
men.
The London Echo has been authorized to
cmphatcally deny the Times statement that
the Empress Eugene ever contemplated
divorce from Napoleon. The statement that
she did so grew out of the developments Of
the Emperor's.' relations with Marguerite
Bellanger.
A man in Jersey City, who had forcibly
kissed school girl, was fined by magis-
trate, horse-whipped by the girls big bro
ther, and snatched bald-headed by his own
wife. And it was not much ola kiss after
all, he says.
Scenes of very grotesque- nature are
constantly occurring in Paris before the
special tribunals appointed to decide between
landlord and tenant. "What is your trade I"
said justice of the peace to tenant in
the 18th arrondissement, who pleaded in