The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1878-05-07
NEWS ITEMS.

The House has passed the Senate
bill repeating the bankrupt law, with
a few unimportant amendments.
THE Washington Artillery Of Char
lesion recently visited Savannah as the
guests of the Chatham Artillery of the
latter city. Everything passed off pleas
uutly, and all bands had good time.
THE law regulating the election OF
president and vice president Of the Uni
ted States shoull be amended 80 az
never again to require an 6 to conf
mission to prevent civil war.
WILLIAM ORION, the president of
the Western Union Telegraph Company,
died the other day in New York ofapo-
p!exy, aged about fifty years. His dis
ease was brought ON by overwork.
The European war news is as badly
muddled as ever. The prevailing opin-
ion is that, since nobody has much
to gain and everybody hns much to lose
by war, diplomacy will doubtless settle
all ofthe difficulties.
JOHN MoRRIssEY. the ex.prize fighter.
e1.congressman, and life>loug gambler
and ring politician, died at Troy, N. T.,
on the lst instant. At the time of his
death, he was member of the State
Senate Of New York.
McLIN, Chairman Of the Florida
Returning Board in the Presidential
clectioc of 1876, has been moved by
his consci rnce to publicly confess that
Tildeu and Hendricks carried that State
BY majority Of several hundred.
JEFFERSON DAVID. coIored. was con-
victed at the late term Of the Circuit
Court of Abbeville County Of the mur-
der OF the Frauklins in December last.
He was sentenced BY Judge Mackey to
be hung on Friday the l7th, Of this
month.
THE State Democratic Executive
Committee meets in Columbia on the
18th Of May. Tho several County
Chairmcn have been invited to meet
and confer with the Committee in refer
cnce to matters affecting the interests of
the party throughout the State.
THE Democratic House of Rewcsen-
tatives is not dealing with the contested
election cases from the first and third
congressional districts in manner sat-
isfactory to the Democratic contestants,
Messrs. Richardson and Tillman, or
their constituents. There were fraud
and intimidation enough to vitiate the
election, but yet the committee on pri7i-
lcges and elections seem reluctant to take
apy definite action in the matter.
The death Of DR.. Artemus T. Durby
took place at his residence near Fort
Motto on last Monday. The event has
been expected for several we'ks past
and resulted mainly from extreme cid
age. Genial, useful. and given to
+sociability. DR.. Darby has left large
circle of friends, both in and out of
this County, besides large and in
furDilal family TO mourn his death.-
OrangeJurg Taxpayer.
"BY special telegram IN the Viii.
mingtoa STR, from Lnmberton, Robe.
son County. it is learned that Sheriff
Mcmillan came upon John Locklear,
the ontlawed Scuffietonian, on Sunday
night. about 1 o'clock in Cumberland
County, aud ordered him to surrender.
lie refused to do so, whercupon the
Sheriff shot BIN with pistol four times
wounding him, it is thought fatally,
but it being dark at the time, he man
aged to crawl under a house, and finslly |
made his escape. He was tracked half
a mile or more yesterday morning by
the blood from his wounds, but he was
not ovcrtaken. Lncklear had been
working on Farm for about six weeks,
where hc was shot; taking an active
part in Sunday schools and other relis-
ious exercises, but was not known BY
his right naue."
Old EdgeGell forever Edgcfeld
has enjoyed proud pre-eminence in
many fields, but We award her the palm
in a new department. There appeared
on our streets on Saturday team the
like Of which for variety, condition and
general diIapiiation WAS never seen
since the days Of BALKAN. The aforc.
said team was "spiked." led by horse
once black, now guiltlsss ofilesh or color
save the tan of the sun and rain-blind,
spawned aud sprung in the knees.
"Of" the saddle was mule who chad
no eyes for to see" and so Door that