The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1872-02-29
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Boston mas cnarlCy hospitai iVl ,' tno outo ''V
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The:favoriite sultaua Of his Majesty Of
Turkey istoniy eleven years old. II s
The oldest nrnn has died. California;
age d2s years.
Water costs 80 Cents barrel ii Spring.
field: Illinois. %sz4 8. s,''
Many persons are daily dying of starya.-
tion in Persia. So, 8. : IS ;''.' -
Il The Kentucky Legisfatare has passed !
bill to extend the corporate limits Of Paradise.
\ Horse thieves s.l ate & hung hum ia KANSAS, but
musderers got two years in the penitentiafy
Nine millions il two hundred and fifty thou.
sand bushels Of wheat are aaoat and id store
at Chicago tts2sr .'r
A Des Moines damsel having offended a
young man at leap-year ball;h threatened
to send his big sister to demand an apology.
Pomeroy's Democrat humorously says.
"Grant for President, and Tweed for Vice
President The one giveth and the other
taketh. Blessed be their names"
care these pure canaries ?" asked young
gentleman who was. negotiating for d gift
fo.. his fair. "Ycs, sir" said the dealer,
,onddentally; 81 ra sed them ere birds from
c,nary seed"
Fifty Indians recently attacked q stage
oach in Arzonia and killed two of the pas
SINGERS If you will capture those Indians,
and wash the war paint from their faces, yon
will find that nine tenths of them will say
"keow."- "-Courier-Journat.
At Long Island seancc, a pertur5ed sp:r-
itannounced thatit would be perfectly happy
if it did not owe Mr.. Wilcox 81 80 for gla.
The little account wass promptly liquidated
by the departed's friends. r.-
A young lady of our acquaintance who has
a pretty hand. wants to know whether peo-
pie are more liable than common to burn
their fingers if they happen to be taper ones.
We cannot say, but we have advised her not
to let spark get at them. : '8'..:
The Postmaster General requests that in
future, the county as we'll as the State be su-
prescribed upon all letters, circulars and
newspapers, &C., to be forwarded by the mail
in order-to facilitate the sorting and distri-
button of the mails.
"How heavy you walk!' exclaimed M 8.
Mackwhack, on hearing her husband tumb-
ling up stairs the other night: .Well, my
dear" was the gruff RESPONSE "f you can
get barrel of whiskey up stairs with. any
less noise, Ishould like to see you do it,"
An intoxicated man in New York aaw
two street cars passing him in the evening
with red and blue lights in the front and rear.
his fuddled brain comprehended the cplored
lights. and he was heard to mutter to him
self, 'Must be pretty-sickly in New York
now, they are running drug stores round on
whc-wheels.
A funny man in Lafayette, Indiana, play
ed funny joke on his landlady by marking
his face and prctending:he had the smallpox;
but when he was hustled out of the house
and narrowly escaped being knocked down
by his new trunk and other personal effects
as they descended to the sidewalk from the
second story window lis enjoyment of the
thing was not immoderate.
Cincinnati has retail trade protection
agency, the object Of which is to collect 'lit-
tie bills" for small tradesmen. In extreme
cases the agency "wagons" man, the pro-
cess being to send to the debtors residence,
or place of business, a gorgeously-palnted
wagon lettered "Protectivc Agency-Bad
Debts Collected" accompanied by two col.
lectors, big enough to deter the mortified
victim from attempting personal violence
It is said that few applications will fetch
the worst cases.
An irascible old gentleman, who formerly
had held the position of ustice OF the Peace
was one day accosted in the streets by .
youth in manner that did not come up
with his Honor's idea of the respect due
him, "Young man." said he, II fine you
five dollars for contempt of court" "Why,
Judge" said the offender, 'you are not in
session" "This court" said the Judge,
thoroughly irritattd, "is always in session,
and consequently, aiMays ail opJoo' VI WV"
tempt.
Tn discussing the financial affairs ofSouth
Carolina. the N. Y. Nation gives the case Of
the State Treasurer, Niles G.. Parker, who,
it says, kept bar in Naverhill, Mass, be,
fore the war. He entered the army; settled
as carpet-baggcr in Charleston; opened
another grocery; "went into politics." was was
made an alderman cultivated the colored
people; failed in business; paid thirty ,. cts:
on the collar; rose rapidly in politics; became
State Treasurer, and is now rcputee!d to bs
worth million, and hasplcnty OF diamonds!
A specimen
DR.. V. Pierce, of Buffalo, N. Y, in his
hook on Chronic Diseases, says in regard to
his Golden Medical Discovery, with which
orr readers are familiar: "From its wonder
full full power over Consumption, 4! of the Lungs, I
had thought strongly Of calling it my Con-
sumptive Cure; but from the fact that it is