The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1871-02-02
The Hon. j. P. Reed is now lying
yery i'll at his home in Anderson.

The Hon. y. +. Reed Is now lying
very ill at his home in Anderson.
The palmer the dress, with greater
lustre does beauty appear. Virtue is
the greatest ornament, and good aense
the best equipage.
A meteor, "the size Of a mans, hat.
was recently seen by the local Of the
Sumter News as he was vending his
way homeward. The night was cloudy.
The microscope reveals the fact that
speak of potatoe rot the size of PIN
head contains two hundred ferorious lib.
tie animals, biting and, clawing each
other savagsly.
A minister once prayed: "0h Lofdl
we thank Thee for the goodly number
here tonight, and that Thou, also, art
here, Notwithstanding the inclemenog
of the weather !"
1t must have been consoling fof sick
soldiers on low diet. in the military hos:
pitals, during the late war to sing;
1'When this cruel war is over we shall
meat again."
An exchange says: A Southernef
and Virginian at that, is publishing
what he calls "humorous" history of
the war of the rebellion. Perhaps
when that is ended he win try to wrest
little fun from the burning ofthe
Spotswood Hotel. -,
A, young married woman, apparently
in good health, fell dead in Coatesville;
Chester Co., Penn, a few days ago;
while preparing dinner, and her aged
mother Fastening down stairs on being
summoned, fell and was killed instantly:
When the cold wind blows, take care
of your nose that it dosen't get frose;
and wrap up your toes in warm wollei
hose: The above, we suppose, was writ
ten in prose, by some one who knows
the effect of cold SHOWS.
If you want to have good gardens id
the spring, manure heavily now-four
or five inches thick with wells otted
manure. Spade up deeply, and losseh
the ground still deeper with a pick
Leave the surface rough until the next
spring.
A fellow, on settling his bill, the
landlord charged him seven dollars q,
day for FIVE days. Didn't you make a.
mistaken" ono" You did, You
thought you got all the money / had,
but you are mistaken I hays whole
purse full in another pocket"
"Why," asks an exchange, adid
Grant sent Fred. Duglass and his son
with the San Domingo Commission?"
The fact grew out of his extreme an1.
iety, we presume, to see the whole
thing in black and white.
Louisville Courier.
Treasurer Spinner is preparing a cir
cular to be addressed to banks and
bankers, calling upon them to send in
all government greenbacks Of issues
previous to 1869 and have them re.
deemed by issues of the series Of 1859,
as he desires to retire old issues, there.
by facilitating trade and battling coun,
terfeiters.
A good story is told ola man Who
having, after long struggle, worked
himself into good society by meanssof
the aristocratic alliance of his daughter,
gave gra I'd dinner party to his newly
acquired circle. He didn't invite his
own brother, for the reason that "society
is getting SO mixed onemust draw a line
somewhere"
Here is coumdrum for the consid-
Grafton of the next Teachers Institute:
"The verb lis being singular and 'are'
its plural, does it follow that Arabella is
the plural of Isabella, and must the lat
ter necessarily be as singular in dispo-
sition as in number, and if so, must
Arabella always bea married woman,
Isabella being singlep
A ventriloquist in aHudson river rail.
road train cackled like q rooster, and
the conductor went around looking IN
der all the seats for . rooster. All tho
passengers "passed" and tho conductor
had to treat The crowd and 20 without
his rooster. One old lady, when he
moved her around in her seat, said 10
was only an excuse, she didn't believe
he had lost any rooster.
A young woman, delegate in the re-
cent Ohio Convention of Woman Suff.
ragists said: "For my part l love man,
individually, collectively, better than
woman; and so, I am sure, does every
one of nv sex, if they, like me, would
utter their real sentiment. I am more
anxious for mans elevation and i'm
provement than for woman's, and so is
every true woman"
SOUND SENsE.-A pleasant anecdote
is told of DR.. Franklin. The town of
Franklin was named after him. While
in France, a gentleman of Boston wrote
to him of the fact, and added, that as
the town was building q Westinghouse,
perhaps he would give them BELL.
Franklin wrote the sarcastic reply that,
he presumed the good people of Frank
lin preferred sense to sound, and there
fore he would give them town library
An onfornrioino aoftlor in Nobr,oL,