The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1871-08-24
NEWS ITEMS
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NEWS ITEMS
A green grocer one who trusts
:, One of the Japanese princes is dying OF
consumption in New York. ,,55g
Kazan is the only city Of Russia which
has volunteer fire company. IN
New York has thirty-seven steam fire en-.
gines and fifteen hook and ladder trucks.
A Burlington young lady says the armless
woman Of. Barnunl's show "writes avery
good foot" .s..ay,, ~ ,,mg9f
Printers consider every letter which corr
tains remittance a capital one.
Street cars to be used in Bombay and
Java are being manufactured in this coun-
try. iiat..4a ~
The Communist prisoners. are said to be
very much depressed as the time for their
trial approaches. e.-.,;is.u
TIE Fejee islands are said to raise ve-y
cd Sea Island cotton, and to export about
5000 bales a year. -,
At Claremont, N. H., recently the light
ming scattered d box Of matches over the
floor without setting any of them on fire.
The Robeson county On. C, } outlaws have
committed fifteen murders in cold blood
since the first of January: z,siss
A French doctor has written a life of the
devil, including his subjects essays on po.
litical economy and what he knows about
warming. ss!, 50 - ~
The pupils ina Western school are
taught to apply the feminine gender to all
vessels except "men-of.war and mail steam
Eers." 81, ~. ~
B indianapolis has merchant who has been
in business over fifty years and never adyer-
tised line. His profits average about fifty
cents day. 81 stts.. ~
A new treatise on precious stones declares
that q ter all, mankind, if. wise, will say of
precious stones, the most valuable as well as
the most useful stone in the world is the
grindstone. - Is.
The custom of wearing cadet buttons has
been given up by the indignant bellies at
West Point, since Cadet Smith presented
some of his to q lady color. - 5zj2e
The Louisville ledger says. Mrs. Pick
ct, of Jefferson, recently gave birth toftripy
lets, all girls" That woman has had her
share of picket duty, and they ought to put
put her on detached service for a year or
two. ~ si4G-. @ts .,lilj5
Smother, send for the doctor" why,
my son % "'Cause that man in the parlor
is going to die-hc said he would if sister
Jane would not marry him, and Jane said
she wouldn't" 9 -. &: T5'sssBa.i'sz Z
Mr.. Donaldson, of Cincinnati, has SO tho;
70 ghly.. ..domesticated. a humming- bird that
upon g,ilg into his garden the bird will m-;s
medlately alight upon shell in his hand
and sip the sugar-water within it, no matter.
how many persons may be standing around
him at the time. :. j ;.s;r .,i;s,. lsttI itt vi
There must be something in o name, for,
the very polite Boston papers call their the
Founding Asylum a g Refuge for Anony-
nous Infants,% while Chicago, with the most
finished etiquette, announces o Ranche tor
babies born On the European plan ,s.f
The Times, of India, gives the following
interesting but jaw-trying intelligence:
l"We are very glad to learn that the mar
riagc of Mr.. Rughoonathdas Madhowdas,
Kupola Buna merchant of Bombay, with
Dhuncoorbai, the daughter of Shet Gudbur-
das Mohundas. and the widow Of Luchmic-
hand Dhurunsey, was celebrated at Chinsh-
googly." = '."t #rzNs .S'S
The Berlin Correspondent, in an account
of the German navy, says: Every ship in
the German service, even the smallest gun
boat is provided with detailed drawings and
sections of every foreign war ship. It's
weak points arc specially stated, and details
givcn as to the spots to be aimed: at with
most likelihood of disabling the machinery,
Tn one of the mounds of the Miami Val
lev patient antiquarian has come upon evi-
, dcuce of buried civilizations in the shape
of the image of arm about four inches
:. long. of blue stone. 1t bears a petrifc. ri
:. f,le suggestive of fleece, and is believed to
he the same little lamb which Mary had on
!, one occasion when she was endeayoring to
obtain the rudiments Of her education. i.,-,.
} .s,.A, religious paper prints the following
t |sspsssragraph: 1T is asked Of all newspapers
! Desiring the spread of truth and the destruc-
> tion of error that they publish this request
: and prayer to Almighty Power that on. the
g three first Sunday nights in October, 1871,
there shall appear in the heavens a distinct
light in the shape of a great cross" and
s furthermore all good people are urged to pray
earnestly for this miraculous sign.