The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1871-08-03
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Cary ssthe Sir Walter Raleigh Of South.
Carolina. a 3. = =, =: So: 49,.
darlington affords only picnic pleasant
weather, but dry, new drug store and
literary club, in the line for news this week,
TIE Baptist Sunday School Cohsentfon
met in Sumter on July 10th. The atteRa-sI
ance a @ was large, and feeling jealous. Much
good srlhoped fer from the meeting.s.2=sss=
The CROP @eropsin q samterareSA in a desperate.
coudition, and the Watehman says, that in
thresReeks;the prospect generally, has been
sadly changed. - - s'-,> - ~ u
The dwelling and several contiguous houses, ouss
the property of Mr.. j. Pgshswuwere, con-
sumet by fire: in williamsburg, ION last
Monday evening. -: ss',s' = - t'f's. 's
The spartanburg sRepablsieann sn g evidently ID
has Ku-Klux on the BRAIN judging, from
the quantity;of space devoted to:the terrible
monsters. I'M its last issue. The. equity is
completely ignored. 1"aS ,Ga l7,s.1,a '3 ~ -
Last week some negroes drove from the
plantation of dWmSSmith, near ChappePs
Depot;ih; Newberry, a handwriting colored
man. The negroes We're we're ! disguised as 4. Ku-
Klnnx, and had no apparent reason for acting
as they. did. ..s2 7alaa IN bi}iJtt ,.G,iz $50
7fsIf. Hollingsyw0rth's horse ran ran q away Y with
Mr.. ana Mrs. H. and their child, in. Edge
field, last week. The buggy was thrown
against large oak and the three occupants
thrown out underneath'it, but all escaped
without injury. y 60 :; :, - - !, s. 81
Charleston is in an awful stew, both ON
account Of the heat of the weather and the
municipal election. Gen: Wagner and
Mayor. Pillsbury are the respective candi-
dates +for the MaJy0ralttyy, we hope to ehron1
iclei, "a victory for the citizens party next
week. l.,.. ,.sg. 3
Mr.. Solomon & Harmon, Of Lexington
county, lost a promising son agedten years, on
last MogdaySst The boy: had been paying
in some cotton seed, and was found smother.
ed lead downward, in hole which he had
made during his play: .st
John R.. McQuage stabbed Robert Bree.
den, on the 22d ult., at Clio, Marlborough
County, through the right lung, killing him
in a few minutes. Mcouage made his es-
cape, but was captured on Sunday morning:
and lodged in Jail He is q recent peniten-
1tiarian,y and esteemed to be 9 lawless eharac-
.a:,IiIi 30 ...sG riif.I ~. Li'''
oer. 49,. 6iie. cd ..e;if f.g. ~: ..ss4s1 -.
Two Lancaster gents went over into North
Carolina, last week, to settle an affair of
honor, according to the code After arriving
upon thhee. ground, the challenger and his
friends having chewed the. cud of bitter
fancy, Withdrew the challenge. The Ledger.
does not say that any Invigorator was i'm
bibed. on the occasion. .. -
Shadrack Webster was hung in knder-
son, last week, for the murder Of. Adeline
AgnSw, whom he stabbed with huge dirk
knife. Between three and four thousand
persons, witnessed tho horrid spectacle
Much bad wbiskcy was .imbibed. upon the
occasion and many 6ghtsi embryo were
checked by the vigilance Of the police.
= Mr.. Rufus NJ. Thames, of Clarendon, had
his dwelling and adjacent houses burned on
the 10Th ult. Not even tho, clothing of the
family was saved. The barn was consumed
also Mrs. Thames was so much shocked
by the occurrence, that she died in a few
minutes after getting out of the burning
house. ~E -
The Bennettsvillians are becoming aroused
to the Importance of having railroad, and
the Times publishes letter from the Will
mington, Charlotte and Rutherford railroad
company, submitting a proposition consider
ed reasonable by that paper. The propo-
sition is to construct q narrow guage, (thEee
feet Bennettsville to grade the road, fur
nish cross ties and iron, and the company
will lease it, pay six per cent per annnr on
the stock and furnish locomotives and cars.
Orangeburg came very near having a first
class sensation ON last Saturday night week.
Cause, kerosene left on the outside of lamp
at Nleroney's hotel, which upon the lighting
6;ts the lamp blazed up to the great fright. OF
the editor e the Ncvs, who skedaddled, at
ter an abortive attemrr.t to fan the blaze out
George Meredith, however, seizea Oiank0. :.
and smothered the blaze. 1t is not stated
how fast or far the editor ran, but as soon as
he left the room ian alarm Of fire was
given" which brought out the fremen.
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