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The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1878-03-12
A Love Letter.

The following precious billie. :doux
was picked up in Canal street last even
ins 1t was without address, and lest
its contents should be lost to the back
ward swain for whom it was intended,
we take the liberty Of publishing it:
Ny decris street ducky:
am 50 happy to here from you SO
often it affords me sich great plesher.
You always was so deer to me | hope
will sune be decrer.
You know | never limited nothing
about marriage and | never mean to-
take your own time for that. | shall
always remember the old sayin procras-
tinashun is the thccf Of time, but muth
er sez nothing should b. dun in 4 hurry
but xetching faes.
The fondest wish of my heart is that
we may sune become one. Do YOU ever
read Franklin's Extracts-his remarks
concerning marriage is delightful. Our
hearts he says ought to be assemble one
another in every expect-they ought to
be heterogeneous so that our union
NAV be mixin as well as uniting NOT
like oil and water but like water and
shugar.
Truly I can feel for the immortal
Watts, when he seq:
The roses red the vilets blew
Shugar is swete and so are YOU.
Mother seq matrimony is better to
think of than the reality-l believe 1t
is not
remain tel death or marriage,
Your own sweets shugar candy.
MARY ANN.
NIB. | had kussin married last
month who sez there amt no true en-
ioymcnt but in the married state.
Your sweets dove.
MARY ANN.
P.S. hope you will let me know
what you mean to do. as there's some
body else wants 10 mary me every day
and shall be quite uneasy TILL L hear
Your loving sweet;
MARY ANN.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1878-03-12
The Telephone For Love-Making.

"The King" writes a correspondent
from Madrid, spends with his bride all
the time allowed him by etiquette and
rublic affairs. lie hastcns to AranJues,
where she is staying, and during the
Journey the royal Lcander will at times
look out at the carriage windows to see
ON the horizon the bare trees under
which Philip II conspircd against the
conscience Of the world. When he re-
turns from Aranjucs his impa'lence leads
him to part of the palace where modern
science has placed its latest discovery at
the service of the royal lover, and anni-
hilates the space which for two days
longer separates him from his bride. a
telcponc, in fact, has been lifted up
connecting one of the Kings rooms
with that of the Princess Mercedes, and
enabling them to converse together free
from indiscreet eyes and ears. Strange
to think that the telephone should thus
get the better of the traditional and i'm
placable etiquette OF court where the
King cannot get an egg boiled without
xi successive messengers and sixteen
pair of hands. Yet more strange is
love So rarely found in the loltiest sta
,ions, and which could only spring NJ
aud gain strength because two hearts
met in the solitude of exile far from th'
| fastisas ponp Of eourtly a0us.raint.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1878-03-12
Truth Stranger than Fiction.

Among those who. enlisted in the
ranks of the Confederates and went
forth to the battle of the "Lost Cause. "
at the commencement of the hostilitics
between tie two sections, was young
Mr.. Marrow, living in the upper part
Of this county.
A short while before his regiment re-
ceived marching orders. he was united
in marriage to Miss Cox, daughter Of
q highly respectable widow in the same
vicinity. For some time after the hus-
band left. his young wife received let
tcrs from him regularly but after one
of those fierce and bloody battles
around Richmond, he was reported
missing. communications ceased, and
the wife mourned him as dead.
Weeks, months, years, passed away
and still no tidings came of the missing
husband.
In vain the papers were scanned. and
every returning soldier beseiged to
know of the missing one. Nothing
could be learned-nothing only "miss-
ing" aud those enured to war know full
we'll it's significant meaping-dead on
the field Of battle, unrecognized among
the heaps of slain.
On last Saturday as the shades of
evening cast their sombre shadows over
the earth. and that peculiar hush and
stiffness of the Southern twilight had
settled upon hill and valley, traveller,
worn and weary, bent his tagging steps
toward the home Of the soldiers wife
With faltering footsteps, on he came,
toward figure sitting upon the rustic
doorstep. For one moment he paused
before the reclining figure, when her
head was raised look of recognition
flashed from eye to eye, joyful cry
broke the stiffness. and husband and
wife were clasped in each others arms
after separation Of fourteen years
He who had been mourned as dead
was confined in Northern prison, and
though oftentimes he had written, moth
ing reached the sorrowing wife.
What hopes and fears must have
crowded his bosom as he approached
the place where fourteen years before
he had left his young wife. How his
heart must have stood still at the
thought /!
ais she dead ?" or worse, is she mar
Rcd to another ?" And how happy,
deeply grateful he must have been to
fnd that in his long, dreary absence the
faithful wife had watched and waited.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1878-03-12
The Desperate Fighter.

A man came into the Chronicle office
this morning, and announced that his
name was Sandy S,iggius. from Phoebe.
He was six feet high. had a revolver
strapped to his hip, and carried for
Misunderstanding rife. After introduc.
ing himself, he inquired where the
Justice mine could he found.
"You see, I've walked all the way
from Phoebe to git sit as fighter, and
if I cant fit the bill. there amt no man
in Nevada that can."
He was informed that the chances of
getting a job as fighter at the Justice
were rather slim, as the miners union
had discharged the entire gang of both
mines. This information seemed to
strike him like the news of the sudden
death Of bosom friend.
"You don't mean to sey that they
amt goin to fight? You don't tell me
chat they have drawed off? If they
have, it's mighty rough on man that's
walked all the way from Pioche to take
a hand"
"You might not have got job even
if they did fight" suggested reporter.
"What, Sandy Stiggins not get job
as a fighter p The minute they'd hear
my name mentioned they'd begin bid
din for my services. The crowd that
had Inc with 'em would feel safe. I'm
a daisy in fight of that description.
I'm old Death on apalo horse. A Cat.
ling battery amt no comparison to
Sandy Stiggins climbin' into gang of
fighters. | kin load and fire revolver
so fast that it gifts red hot and"
Just then Flpabite. a small cur, that
belongs to the office, came in, and recog
nizing the stranger as suspicious
character, sprang at his legs with a series
of savage ytlps.
Mr.. S,iggins Jumped about three feet
in the air, yelling;
"Take him off Oh. ! ain't a dog
fighter. Take him off," and finally
rushing through the door like wild
Indian, the Phoebe fighter disappeared
down Taylor street, leaving Fleabite
barking at the Virginia (Ner.)
Chronicle
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1878-03-12
HOW BEAUTIFUL Is EARTH

Oh God how beautiful is earth,
In sunlight or in shade,
Her forests with their waving arch,
Her flowers that gem the glade.
Her hillocks white with feecy focks,
Her fields with grain that glow,
Her sparkling rivers, deep and broad.
That through the valley flow.
Her crested waves that clash the shore,
And lift their anthem loud,
Her mountains with their solemn brows,
That WOO the yielding cloud.
Oh God how beautiful is life
Tha. thouSdost lend us here,
With tinted hopos that line the cloud,
And joys that gem the tear.
With cradle hymns of mothers young,
And tread of youthful feet.
That scarce, in their elastic bound,
Bow down the grass flowers sweet,
With brightness round the pilgrims staff,
Who. at the set Of sun,
Beholds the golden gates thrown wide,
And all his work is done;
But if this earth which changes mar,
This life, to death that leads,
Are made 20 beautiful by Him
From whom all good proceeds,
How glorious must that region be
Where all the pure are blest
From chance. and fear, and SORROW free,
Attain eternal rest.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1878-03-12
The Horrors of War.

What the Pail Mall Gazette ironically
calls "incidcnts of the holy war of the
century" are vividly de-
scribcd by correspondent of the Daly
Ne,rs who accompanied the Russian
army from Philippopolis to Hermann.
He saw the bodies of Bulgarian peas.
ants with terrible wounds in the head
and neck, somtimcs mulilatcd and dis
Toured; women and infants, children and
old men, both Turkish and Bulgarian:
fallen in the fields by the roadside, half
buried in the snow, or lying in the pools
of water. 1t seemed to have been one
long battle between the peasants OF both
races, in which the dead were counted
equally for each; but while many OF the
bodies bore marks Of violence and
showed gastly wounds, the great proper
tion of tue women and children were
evidently frozen to death, for they lay
on the snow as if asleep, with the flush
of life still on their faces, and the pink
skin of their feet and hands still un-
bianchcd. Side by side with these many
corpses of old men, full of dignity even
in death, lay stark by the roadside their
white boards clotted with blood, and
their helpless hands fallen upon then !
breasts. From the muddy water OF the
ditchcs tiny hands and feet stretched
out, and baby faces half covered with
snow looked out innocently and peace
fully. with scarcely sign.of suffering
on their features. Frozen at thei
mothers breasts, they were thrown dowI
into the snow to Tighten the burdel
Of the poor creatures who were strug
Cling along in mortal terror.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1878-03-12
DeKalb House,
BY A. S. RODGERS.
Most Centrally Located Hotel
in Town.
Terms 50 Per Day.

Commercial Travellers will have every
attention paid to their con fort, and be fur
nished with SAMPLE ROOMS at this
House; and persons visiting Camden will
find it a quiet and pleasant home.
Special rates made for parties travelling
together, and for those who wish to stay a
week or more.
eoy- In connection with the house is a
frst-class LIVERY STABLE, where horses
and vehicles can be had at all times for
town or country use. at the most reasona-
BILE rates. Conveyances TO and from the
depot Mt every train. declsti
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1878-03-12
BE Sure to stop at the
latham House,
CAMDEN, s. G..
TRANSMIT BOARD, $500 PER DAY

@Ample accommodations. Tables sup
nj ed with the best the Markets afford. Eve
nv attention paid to The comfort of Guests
Ra- Persons stopping at the Latham
House will be conveyed 10 and from the
d pot free of charge. Passengers, withou.
heavy baggage, will be conveyed to and
from any part Of the town, not above De-
balb stree, at % cents.
gGy-Connected with the house is first
c'ass Bar, which is located separately from
the house, and orderly kept.
@y"Conveyances supplied to guests on
liberal terms, either for city or country use.
ianS-ly S. Il. LATHAM, Proprietor.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1878-03-12

Daniel Leach, an old ras-pickcr aud
miser who lived in Jersey City for forty
years, died suddenly few days since.
lie lived upon food given him where
ever he could get it, and made his home
in an old dilapidated building. lie was
seventy years of age, and had to rcla-
tions in this country, and to the amaze
ment of his neishbors left property to
the value of $4,000 or $4,000.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1878-03-12
The Last Dollar.

An American writer says 81 saw
Yesterday at the Police Court one dol
lar bill on the Bank of Montreal, which
had been taken from som" one unknown
in payment for Gnc, and upon the back
of which was written the following, in
n neat hand:
"Thc last dollar of an ill-spent for
tune, and while you ore reading these
lines the writer lies at the bottom OF tho
Detroit river Farewell. Touch not the
cup, it ruined me. IL;
What time warning does this short
postscript give to every young man.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1878-03-12

Two years ago drovrr started from
California with 1000 sheep. lie has
lust arrived in Texas, having driven
the flock the whole way, assisted by two
we'll trained dogs. The sheep have in-
creased in numbers, and frequent stops
for pasturage have kept them in good
condition. They are to be slaughtered
in the Eastern market.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1878-03-12

Paul du Chaillu says he has been ir-
tensely amused in watching ship load
ing up for Africa. with cargo OF mis-
sioneries on deck and cargo Of rum be-
low, both going to the same place.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1878-03-12

Don't tell married man a joke on the
bovs fo- he'll tell his wife, his vile "'ll
tell her sister, and the sister will tell the
res, of the girls. IfyOu don't believe
it, try Il.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1878-03-12
ADVERTISING RATES.
Indian Archery.

:S Transient advertisements must he accon
anied with the cash to insure insertion.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1878-11-22

TN enterlnga railway carriage, kick
ANY parcels YOU may hnd III Your way.
and, II possible; seat yourself upon Il
bonne;-hox.
II ladies are present, insist upon
lighting n short pipe, and close or open
the windows nj your own sweet will.
and with regard to no ones comfort
but your own.
0n board the steamboat make your
self u nuisance to your fellow travellers
hv mdulgng in silly practical Jokes and
smoking bad tobacco.
On arriving II hotel, force YOUR
way out Of tho omnibus hoiuro any one
else, and i'll your selection Of Il room lie
Us unohhgng to your fellow travellers as
possible.
Lounge about the hail. smoking your
tavonte pipe, and stare Mt every lady
who enters or leaves the place If YOU
find lady away frem her father, hus-
band or brother, grin at her.
Bully the walters ut tho table d'hote.
and il you find n kindred spirit, indulge
freely III conversation Of strongly
seasoned character.
On Your return 70 tho hotel Mto 1T
night, shout at the top If your voice 10
Your companions, % tho great disturb.
anco of those who have retired to rest
before You.
IL you are fond of fun, alter all the
boots mt the doors and change tho mum.
hers and hours of tho waking.up
slate.
1t you have to catch an early train i'll
the morning, bo careful to arouse, Ivy
your NOISY conduct, all the other inmates
of tho hotel.
Touch everything in tho museums
and picture galleries, and declare i'll
broken French, bad German or imita.
tion ltalinn (according to the country
that the South Kcnsington treasures
beat all the foreign collections hollow.
In fnct, behave Ikea selfish. under.
bred, ill-conditionod cad for month or
six weeks, and then return to England
To lose your individuality in some small
city office, or post Of moninl charac
ter, until the time arrives for your M.
nual outing next year.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1878-11-22
A MUSHROOM OF THE MINES.
The Wonderful Rise Of City Two
Miles Up in the Air.

Leadville, Lake county, Col, is the
highest, newest and, for its size, the
noisiest city on the continent It is
what miners call rattling camp. 1t is
close UP to the snowy range, overlook
ing California Gulch, the scene of the
gold-hunting furore of 1859. At an
altitude of about 5000 feet, or, to put it
more forcibly, nearly two miles higher
than New York, it may be considered
as well up in the world. There is no
place like it in the whole Rocky Noun
talns. 1t is larger city than Deadwood
on the north, or Silverton or Lake city
on the south. The 20-year-old towns of
Black Hawk, Central and Georgetown
are nothing to it in population, trade,
fast money-making and fast everything.
Where Leadville now stands was year
ago almost a bowling wilderness. There
were few prospectors busying them
selves with turning up the rocks here
and there, but there was hardly what
could be called q camp. No town had
been staked out 1t was not until last
spring that the place was organized and
nam ed From that time until now
people have poured in from all the sur
rounding country, from the far east
and from the Pacific states and terri
tories, until there is now busting city
of 5000 inhabitants. 1t has mayor,
city council, police and fire depart
ments, churches, schools, telegraph
line, daily mails, money-order post
office, two newspapers, three banks and
hundreds of stores, shops, saloons and
other features of a fast new city. The
streets have sort of struggling regu-
larity. The principal thoroughfares
are named Chestnut, Pine, State and
Harrison avenues. Almost everything
is cheaply built, the stores which carry
the largest stocks being mere cabins.
There are few story-and-a-half and two
story buildings. Lumber is in great
demand, and the three or four saw
mills III the vicinity are not adequate
to supply the need. Lately business
mon have begun to plan larger and
better structures, brick-yards have been
started, and some fine blocks are under
way The prevailing spirit is that of
rampant speculation People stake out
claims, tear up the rocks little, some
times salt them, get some plausible
do-nothing to talk up the discovery,
and it is but few days before an
ayaricious tender-foot" catches the
bait at high figure. Lot-brokers, who
have the refusal Of most all the de-
sirable property in town, lot jumpers
and city addition platters drive big
business. Everything partakes of the
nature of grand debauch. Men seem
to be carried away with the excitement,
and no longer satisfied with the plod-
ding and sure-footed business ways,
seem lost in mad, furious chase for
fortunes. OF course, saloons, dance
houses, theaters and keno dens flourish
in such place as this.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1878-11-22
Rules for Spelling u Child.

!. Begin young by giving him what
ever he cries for
2. Talk freely before tho child about
his smartness M incompatible.
\. Tell him that hc il too much for
YOU, Int you can do nothing with
him.
4. Have divided counsels, as between
father and mother,
5. Let him learn TO regard his father
as II creature Of unlimited power, ca
PRECIOUS and tyrannical; or M n mere
whipping-machine,
6. Let him learn tfrom his fathers
example) to dospisc his mother.
z. DO not know or care who his com.
panions may be-
4. Let him read whatever he likes
.. Let tho child, whether boy or girl,
rove the streets in the evening good
school for both sexes.
TO- Devote yourselfto making money,
remembering always that wealth is
better legacy for your child than prin-
ciples III tho heart ana habits in the
life; and let him have plenty of money
to spend.
H. BE not with him in the hours of
recreation.
L. Strain ut 4 gnnt and swallow i
camel; chastise severely for Il foiblc.
and laugh Mt Il vice.
13. Let him run about from church
70 church. Eclccticsm III religion is the
order Of the day.
II. Whatever burdens Of vlrtuous
requirements you lay on his shoulders,
touch not one with one Of your fingers.
Preach gold, and practice irredoem.
able greenbacks.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1878-11-22

A reporter of the Etening Post had a
very agreeable interview a day or two
ago with General Mcneil at his resi-
dence on Compton Hill in regard to In
dians and the Indian country. General
Mcneil returned from the Indian
country last Tuesday and is therefore
entirely posted in regard to all the late
occurrences among the Indians.
You seem to have Il kind feeling for
the Indian. We are accustomed to
hear Of him as snothing but cruel, low,
scalping savage"
"The Indian, if you give him chance,
is just as good and rs tractable as the
average white man. Of course. he
wants to wear blanket. and
| don't mean to say that
he is readily transformable into
Il first class Christian, but he is naturally
rs kind and peaceable and honest as
about every other white man you
meet"
Why, we constantly hear of the
theiving Indian; we are told that he is
III incorriglble theft.
That arises from this fact. The In
uldH IldS lCdIIlcu dll llldl lit hilOMs
about trading from the white man, and
he has inferred that in trading or
swapping, as they call it, is perfectly
legitimate to take all the advantage he
can. While an Indian is engaged in
trading in store he will steal every
thing he can lay his hands on, but he
will not come into store to steal, and
if the proprietor should go out, and
give the Indian to understand that he
left his store in his charge he would
guard il with perfect honor.
You seem to insinuate that the
white mans influence on the Indian
has been demoralizing R"
Most assuredly it has. The Indians
know of tie whites chiefly from rascal
III, swindling adventures, who have
deceived and cheated them without
mercy"
But the Quakers z"
aOh the Quakers are good people,
and among them are to be found the
best and most Just and honest Indian
agents We have. There have been Of
ate years many honest Indian agents.
Do you think that the Indians can
ia civilized
Most assnredly do The Indian i
ttan convinced that .rbsistlng hg hunt
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1878-11-22

acres Of land, having i nch rod sub
soil, and from which hoohtaincd forty
bushels pcracre The total actual cost
of cultivation and manure was $lS5,
and the rent Of the land was worth SS
per acre, making the 1000 bushels OF
corn cost SS01, or n little over 10 cents
per bushel
Cabbage has II superior valuc for feed
ing PURPOSES. English cattle feeders
assert that their beasts progress faster
on cabbage mixed with plenty of fine
cut wheat straw and cotton cake than
any other vegetable, Cabbage contains
one part flesh -forming'suhstance to three
" hcat-producing, while III potatoes
the tlcSh-iormlng Is only one "a twenty.
Cabbage is also rich III mineral matter.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1878-11-22
One Of Natures Freaks.

During the past four years number
of small oysters had been noticed ad-
hearing to the rocks in and about the
coves and shores of Buzzard's Bay,
where none were ever known before to
exist. This has been more especially
marked at the mouths of fresh water
streams, between this harbor and
Wareham in some of which the increase
has been such that now peck or more
ofthem are as easily obtained as the
same number Of CLAIMS. Where the
oysters came from, or what has caused
them to appear here and propagate, il a
mystery that cannot be satisfactorily
accounted Tor by fishermen, market
men or any one supposed to know the
habits and nature Of the biyalye. Some
are inclinaa to the beliefthat during the
season the plant is brought down the
bay from Wareham and vicinity by the
action of the tides and landed upon the
shores hereabouts, while others are IN
clined to the belief that large bed Of
native oysters exists somewhere within
or near to the bay, and will ultimately
make the flats hereabout9 productive
with its superfluous seed. d.-New Bedtord
Standdrd.