The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1872-03-28
PARAGRAPHS.

Aldellna Pattl Is coming 10 Amerlca neA'
year.
Mr.. James r. Doolittle and Judge K. b.
Carpenter will canvass Connecticut tor the
Democrats.
Chicago taxes one cent on dollar.
AS soon as his health will permit, Wilkle
Collins is coming to America.
An asylum for Presbyterian widows is to
be established in Philadelphia.
Miss Nellie Grant is still too young for ap-
pearance in Washington society.
A man in Boston has found two gold watch
es in the streets within year.
England is ripening for great political
chance, which must come sooner or later.
A German writer defines woman as being
something between flower and an angel
Swiss emigrant families are congregatine
together for farming purposes in Tennessee
The Boston GloJe says that there is more
"Rhine wine" made in this country than
imported.
Jefferson Davis was one of the committee
of reception at Memphis to welcome th'
Grand Duke.
The corporal on of London has contribut-
ed 100 guineas toward the expenses OF tho
expedition in search of DR.. Livingston.
A poet calls Schurz ''the sword OF thu
truth" the 'poignard to cant" the "rap'c!l
to fraud" and ''foil to the sword OF power
Quite pointed compliments
Professor Hibbard, Connecticut elocu
Zionist while delivering lecture at Montre
al. was suddenly deprived of memory. III
can not tell his own name or recognize hls
family.
A letter directed to sThe Belle of Albany.
Ga.," is claimed by every young lady IN tha'
town. and the postmaster can see no 0thcr
way out of the difficulty but to resigu.. .,-
A Minnesota sheriff kindly allowed
convict to step outside of the penltentla1ry
for a few moments to kiss his wife, and the
family tie proved so strong that ne has mol
since returned.
A chambermaid in Bangor, while shaking
q rug out of a second story window, lost her
balance, turned a complete somersau!t, and
came down to the ground with rush. AS
tonishine to all who witnessed the fall, she
jumped up and ran into the house and re-
sumed her work as though nothing had hap
pened.
The Chinese manufacture dwarfs by stunt
ing the growth of their children. A heavy
peculiar vase is placed over them, so as to
leave only their heads free. 1t is removed
at night, but replaced daily until the body
ceases to grow.
The more shrewd and crafty of the Grant
Republicans are studying how they may cap
ture the Cincinnati Convention, on the 9th
of June, and turn it over to Philadelphia
and General Grant at later day IN the
month. The "little game" is to defeat a
nomination, and resolve the meeting into
words, ssreform" resolutions, &c.
The pistol with which the imbecile youth,
O'Conner was going to shoot the Queen, it
is now understood, was an old weapon. pur-
chased of pawn broker, and which gave
a dollar for, and then inquired how to load
it. 1t had a flint lock, but no flint, and the
clerk told him to get flint on the road
and vet commission appointed for this
parpose, has declared that O'Conner was
not insane.
"Phairest of the phair," sighed the lover
"phancy my pheelings when | phorsee, the
pheerful consequences of our phleeingphrop
your phatbers phamily. Phew phel'ows could
have placed the music with the phortitude |
have; and as phickle phortune phailsto smile
upon our love, 1 phind myself phorsed to
phorgoe the pleasure of becoming your hus-
band. Phsre Phrances, pharewell phorev-
er." "Hold, Pharnklin, hold" screamed
Phrancis, II will phollow you phorever. -
But Phranklir phled and Phrancis phairly
phainted.
James Parton says that when in early life
he was paragraphist on weekly paper in
New York, he conceived that it would be a
good idea to start separate department de-
voted exclusively to virtue. He attempted
to get column of good deeds, but in all the
world he could find but four short pars-
graphs. The second week he could find ab-
solately nothing-not good deed in who'e
week. The department died in its second
week.