The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1878-03-05
Editorial Items.

The Lancaster Lc0yeF SPEAKS III hiSh
terms Of Judge Hudson.
NILES G. PARKG CIR has BEEN released
from Jail " on his own rtcognizance.
THE debate on the deb, question by
the House of Representatives last week
was Intensely interesting.
HIRscH. Radical Solicitor Of tho
Tnird G circuit, is about to be iemanded
to private life. His bond is INSULT
cient.
Hon. T. ". FERRY, Senator frcm
Michigan, has bcen elected President
pro tcmperc of the United States Sem
ate.
IT is understood that Governor
Hampton fayors the settlement of the
State Debt as adjusted under the Col :
soldation Act.
THE Adrc,ti>cr says that several
murder cases are to be tried at the ap-
preaching term Of the Court of Grncr
Ses sons for Edg fed CO unty.
! Gen. y G. GAREIyGToY. lavins re-
turned to South Carolina since the elec.
ton Of Hampton. has a,'nmed ed.t'rlaI
control OF tfe Crccuyiiie UuiIJ .Ec'rs
OK account Of the Railroad c,mpcti-
ton from New YORK s,n'h, ii great r"-
duction Of freight has taken place on all
he roads leading iroul New York III thi-
direction.
A NEW weekly and ni-weckly paper
TO be known as the ".Straigat.m Dem,
ocrat," and to be edited by Maj Henry
5. Farley, is soou to be started in Co'
lrmbia.
Mn. EDWARD D. HARLEE. Son oi
| Gen. W. w. Harlee, and for several
wears mast one OF The editors Of The New
! Orleans Picdyuae, died At ll.u residence
( IF his father in Marion, 8. G., on the
BIRD Of February, after i p1iutul aud
| prttrac;ed illness
Deputy United States Mar-hal Gary
s;th a force Of FIVE or six United States
detectives, brlongin. to tic force OF
Mai. Wagner and Collector Brayton
made a raid in the mountuins last week.
They returned on Saturday last with
ronr prisoners.-Pickcas Sentinel
NOBODY seems able to tell just what
will be done by the European powers
tha; arc now making such warlike de-
mons!rations. A war seems inevitable,
but it is hoped and believed that diplo-
macy will give to each, all that could be
gained by an appeal to arms. at all events.
Or al the gentlemen proposed for
Commissioners to codify the laws Of the
State, and their nama is legion, we
know of no one so we'll qualified for
the position as Col. James II. Rion,
of Winnsboro', whose namp has been
mentioned in shat conne ction by the
Mars and HcraM. AS II lawyer o.
vast aud thorough learning, Col. Rion,
has hardly an equal in the STATE.
TIE Elgclield .ilecrtiST, Abbeville
.Ndicm. Carolina ,Spartoa, aud Ander-
son AhNiGcnccr are stout ad'ocato' OF
tie adoption by the General Assembly
Of tho report Of the Bond Commission.
and tie consequent rcopenin- Of the
debt question. ALL izias upon the
State of several millions Of drl!ars more
than size is bound by the Consolidation
Act to pay.
Ok Monday afternoon very serious
boiler explosion cccurrcl III theslw and
rris, mill of Connor 4 /! d-es. at llod-
CESS Depot. The door Of the furnace
attached to the engine was thrown two
hundred yards by the force Of the esplo-
sion, and the heavy iron end of'he boiler
was carried more than hundred yards.
Five men standing near were severely
shocked, aud one Of the party, MIR.
Gaines, seriously cut about the head.
The irl,oaing persons were convicted
at the recent term of tha Court of Sea
sons: henderson l.owrey, c'lorcd, grand
larceny; Wade Fraser and Geo ". Gin
ton, both co!orej, forgery; Thos. Brown,
c.,!orel, grand larceny; .!ohn Patterson,
roorcd murder. The cpng:c,S were sem
,eneed us fellows: Thomas Brown, to
,wo years at hard labor i'll Pcnitcnt'ary;
Henderson l.owrey, four years at hari
labor in Pcnitcntiary; Bully jackson,
three wears 4, hard labor in Penilcn-
tary; Wade Fraser, twelve months in