The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1872-08-15
OUR CHIP BASKET.

Doing still businesss-Starch manutac.
turers.
A tax no one likes-Attack on ones pock.
OF.
Don't cram the children at school--nos at
the table.
Judy says that headache is frequently b
pain ofglass.
A druggist is not inappropriately. termed
the chief pill-er Of society.
Light is most successful burglar, it is
always breaking in upon some one.
Jeems inquipes if the notes of a gas com.
pany are all set to the same metre.
Why is an umbrella in wet weather like
a worn-out horse? Because it is used up.
Grant says there is one of his shirts that
makes him uneasy. We presume he means
Carl.
An English Countess has lent her giant
intellect to the prodution of "a work on tha
diseases of cats
Why are hens immortal2 Because in ad.
dition to having their nscks twirld in this
ife, their sons never set.
A Georgia Justice is said to swear wit.
nesses on Patent Office Reports. Ifreport,s
true, lisa patent way.
What would a.pig do who wished to build
himself and habitation? Tie knot in his
tail, and call it pigs tie!
Aphysician has discovered that the night
| mare, in nine cases ont of ten, is produced
from owing a bill to the printer.
1t was an Irishman who wanted to find o
place where there was no death, that he
might 60 apd end his days there.
An item ina lawyers bill to his client ran
thus: To fyingawake at night thinking
over yourNcase, forty dollars.
The United States Marshal for New Jer.
sey impanelled Grand Jury Of fat men
from 200 to $50 pounds each.
A sublime thought Odd Fellows and :
Masons, like masons and 'hod Fellows as
cending ladder, get up by degrees.
= "I wish was dead" is the heading to-
quack advertisement. The wish can be espee
Oily gratifed by taking the medicine.
x Juuge sentencing prisoner TO be nung
SAID he hoped it would be warning to him.
It did-the fellow has not committed crime
since. .
A bear broke up campmeeting at Charles
ton Maine, a few days ago. 1t is not remar-
kable perhaps, chat beasts ofpry should WIS.,
ita campmeeting.
The funeral expenses of dog in Monroe;
La. as regulated by the Council, amounts to
25 cents; for COW two dollars, and ofa man
eleven dellars.
The matrons of Leavenworth Kansas have
erected an Illuminated clock, in order that
their husbands may have no excuse for "not
thinking it was 80 late" -
Virginia has determined upol erecting Q
to John Smith. If all the. John
Smiths who are not dead, were to subscribe
one cent each towards this object enough
money might be raised to erect 100000
to John.
Mr.. Speakerer," said member Of the ia
maica Legislature, discussinga bill for the
regulation of the timber trade. "I know
;heso timber merchants to be most egregious
in the timber line II yearsmy-
,elf."
An English miner after being apparent.
y hopelessly buried for ten. hours, was dug
,ut safe and sound, but he will never call
Jonah's experience a "fsh story" after this.
A St. Louis grocer, named Edward Bo.
and has been arrested for outraging the
persons of little girls who are sent to his
tore on errands.
700 gallons of whiskey were destroyed by
lightning, in an Indiana town, the other
lay, but is. was pretty even tussel tesWeen
lie two.
A party of ladies have started from Port
and for a 200 mile tramp around tho White
Mountains. Verify, the women are moving
lS Wcll Us tIie HOIlu
An elderly millionaire, being pestered
With all manner of applications for money, i.
says: "Iwas good .natured once; but l beg
% state, in the most positive terms, that |
I'm now old, tired, very ill-natured, and
want that fact generally knowp."
A good story is told of a clergyman in
Massachusetts, town who forgot his notes on
4 Sabbath morning. and as it was too late to
send for them, he said to his audience By
way of apology, that this morning heshould
have to depend upon the Lord for what he
might say, but that in tho afternoon he
would come better prepared.
SOUTH CAROLINA TO ELECT CALDWELL.
An influential citizen of Sumter, South
Carolina, writes a private letter 10 the ed
tor Of the Wilmington Star, in which he
states that numbers of negroes will be trans
ported into North Carolina from the
Palmetto State by Caldwell and his friends
o carry the election. We make an extract: