The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1877-07-26
NEWS IN BRIEF.

JEFFERSON DAVIS has a son-in law
named Hayes:
Texas is larger than France by 4O,-
900 square miles.
RAIN much needed in Fairfield. The
crops are backward.
TnE GOTTEN crop of Aiken county will
fall Tar short Of that Of last year.
Peaches are plentiful in Wilson, N.
C.,'and are selling at 10 cents per peck.
TIE Mississippi penitentiary has
l,00G conricls, says the Columbus Dem-
ccrdt. I... I.
TIE Western penitentiary at Pitts
burg, Pa, turns out 900 pair of shoes
daily.
Tx -PREsI6Eyr GRANT has finished
up England and is now travelling in Ger
many. ........
JAMES r. AIKEN, ESQ, of Wins
boro, died at his residence in that t"wn
on Tuesday, the 10th inst.
\ WOMAN in New Hampshire, 104
years old, is suffering from whooping-
cough for the first time in her life ..
THE Nichols government has already
traced up tho dcfalcations Of Packard S
subordinatcs to the tune of Sl55. 600.
\ PARTY of young gentlemen spent
Friday night in Newberry. They were
on their way to the mountains, travelling
III wagons.
THE New Hcrmony Register Of In.
diana has n,minated Hendrix and Hemp
ton for President and Vice President in
1880.
HONEST JoHN PATTERSON has the
car of tile President, 80 far as to retain
Worthington as collector Of the port OF
!! Charleston o.. ..,....
!, IT Is said that Secretary Sherman
will shortly retire from President Hayes
cabinet and will bo appointed Minister
to England.
r" MERIT has its reward President
III ycs has appointed one Of the Florida
+, Roturning Board TO be Marshal for the
Territory Of Idaho. .: . .-
!. TUE United States troops arc about
| to cvacuate the citadel in Charleston, and
the building will be returned to the
charge Of the State officials.
ThE Louisiana papers advise the farm
! ers of that State to diversity their agri-
culture. Result: About 1900 more
acres of cotton than last year.
!, JUDGE r. B. CARPENTER bows to
Tho iirrevitubie. Fl HIS adaressed.a let
ter to Governor Hampton resigning the
office of Judge OF the Fifth Circuit.
Tun New York HtraH thinks it not
at all improbable that New York. Penn
sylvania, New Jersey and even Ohio,
will give Demo .r;.tic majoriries this fall.
THE Iiberian Commission at Charles
ton report ii, 900 South Carolina negroes
ready to go to Africa ready aud just
waiting for someb 'ly to furnish the
money.
THE cxilci Modocs arc living peace
lnlly on their reservation in Kansas. ald
occasionally turn y peaNy BY selling
bow&, ARROWS ard Indian notions to the
whites.
TUE advantage of mainiiang credit Is
illustrated hy The City Of nastou. Her
own citizens are Kidding | IL for five
PER cent, gold bond. aud all she has to
offer will be i.laccd at that figure. 3D.
AND now cx.Comptrollcr L. c. Dunn
joins honest John Pa,t. rson in thinking
that Chamberlain Woodstock speech
was "iniudicious Damn !! Poor
Chamberlain, they are all kicking 1t MIN.
4 Man in n.lnhi, lad, iiicl to kill
hi@>a'l, ;hc other day, by filling his
mouth with euupowdrr and touching it
of. lie succeeded in blowing out four
teeth and burning his tongue, but he
still liyc@.
\ GRAND gathering ofthe Governors
Of all the States, as well as many promi-
ncnt Democratic politicians Of the cum.
try at White Sulphur Springs tie ialtcr
part of July, C; ea'ly IN August IS spo-
Ken Of.
Ir is rumored that the position Of min.
istcr toliussia has becn offered to Judge
John Il. bacon of Columbia-a position
occupied in President Ruchanans ud-
glinistrati n by Tx Governor Pickcns,
the iather,ip law Of Judge bacon.
TnE Turkish commander Of the Dan
! uhc army, Ab'iuI kcrim. has the most
eiea appetite in Europe. Ills din
II o,iirarily consists of an entire roast
Kill, twenty fve or thirty boiled cG.,s.
AMI waer III good t.ss:Nr ,,e tql@ oil With
i ,o2e o. & chicken.
QroriI the ,Nat~rm E,pnLlicou, of
WL,hin.ro.: The course of General
Iiamp;o,, while in he North, is worthy
Of ali q,.,nncndn,ion; for he sail nothing
wh;oh was no; calculated 10 promntc u
friendly lc"lipg between the the North
au.l SoVlh. Woall thar all our pnblic
men wcfo Nv wise aud patyioiic,'
NEWS comes from Columbia, by way
Of 4 special dispatch to the Cincinnati
Enquircr that evidence has been taken
before the Investigating Committee
showing that Corbn used the Phosphate
Royalty to buy votes Of tho MackcY