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The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1878-10-31
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Notice..

All persons having claims against the
estate of the late W. R. Withers are hereby
notified to prove and establish the same
before me on or before the first day OF
January next, 1879. 8. g. .CLYBURN,
oct3I-2m C.O.C.P. K. O.
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UNITED STATES SUPERVISORS OF
ELEcT1oN.-In the United States Cir.
cult Court held in Charleston on the
22nd instant. Mr.. S. T. Pointer, the
chief supervisor Of election, made the
following appointments for Kershaw
county:
Camden Market, W. M. Shannon,
Jr., (Dem.), R E Blair, (Rep.), Camden
Courthouse, John M Cantey, Oem },
j W johnson, (Rep.), Schrock's Mill,
Benz. T Mccoy, (Dem.), Simon Tiller,
(Rep.) Lyzenby, N Newman, (Dem. },
c Nj Thompson, (Rep.), Buffalo, John
C Horton, (Dem.), Burrell Newman,
(Rep.), Flat Rock. james T Cauthen,
(Dem), } J McKain. (Rep. }, Red Hill,
A D Jones, (Dem.),J A James, (Rcp.)
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LOCAL ITEMS.
Mnil ARRANGEMENTS.

PosT OFFICE HoCRS-Open at s a. m, close a.
ern. Western and Southern mail close at p. IN,
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House and Land for
Sale. ....

VIII, dispose of at private sale, my
dwe,slg on Broad Street in Camden, with
two lots attached, having front Of sixty
six feet by five hundred and twenty eight
in depth-A tract of land on the Camden
Ferry Lane, adjoining Camden, containing
one hundred and twenty two acres. in lots
to suit puchasers-Three fine milch cows;
For terms apply to A. J. FREITAa.
Oct31 I'm.
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Col. Cantey has ordered his regiment
to Camden on Saturday next to partlc!-
pate in the celebration,
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Cattle for Sale.
COWS, CALVES, BEEF CATTLE
(both old and young) for sale by
JAMES H. VAUGHAN.
SheriH's Sale.
9,ss:: ',ss !: :. e' ,'t,.a' v..'. Foreclosure.

luOWdS VI. Vest.
By virtue of an order of foreclosure
in the above stated case, dated Septem-
beI 11th, 1878, will sell within the le-
gal hours of sale, on the first Monday in
November next, before the Court House in
Camden, the following described property,
viz: All that piece, parcel or tract of land,
situated in the County of Kershaw and
State of South Carolina on the waters OF
Beaver Creek, containing two hundred and
forty one (24l) acres more or less, and
bounded on the north by lands Of J. J.
Horton, east by lands of J. J. Horton, and
Jesse Kirkland and @. Gibson, and west by
landS Of C. Gibson and H. Brewer.
Terms-Cash, purchaser to pay for pa
pers. JOHN DOBY, 8. X. c.
oct104t
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Every true man in our county is ex>
pected to do his utmost for the success
of the Democratic ticket on Tuesday
next.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1878-10-31

Democrats, go to the polls early on
Tuesday morning and work hard all day
in the cause Of justice and honesty.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1878-10-31

One and all, come to Camden on next
Saturday and swell the ranks. Let 1t
be the greatest day of the campaign.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1878-10-31

LET every Democrat in our county
turn out on Tuesday next and work for
the success Of the ticket.
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Let every Democrat keep wide awake
on Tuesday and allow no repeating,
The election of '76 was carried 10 that
way.
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Sale.

On the goth of November, 1873, will
sell on the plantation of the late Emanuel
Parker, on Western Wateree, all the per-
sonal property of deceased, consisting of
Horses, Mules, Cattle. Sheep, Hogs, Corn,
Peas, Fodder, wagons, carts, Farming
Utensils etc.,
Terms made known on day of sale,
80 E. W. PARKER, Admir-.
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way.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1878-12-03

somewhere, General'-a name Tom had
unwittingly given him from the first
but could not recall the occasion. We
are indeed glad to see you and give you
q warm welcome to our table, -
There they sat on the piazza after din
ner, the same old western piazza, with
its climbing roses, where Nettie stood
in her youthful grief just twenty six
years before. And here, shaded by the
same old ivies and poplars, they talked
of the changes the years had wrought,
particularly for our country. General
Washington enjoyed his visit exceeding
ly. They all addressed him as General,
but their free and unconstrained re-
marks relating to the late war, and their
intense admiration for the great leader
of the American armies were evidence
enough that he was unknown.
When he rose to take leave, and was
giving each q warm pressure of the hand
in farewell. Capt. Lenard said General,
1 gave you this name because it seemed
to belong you, not that I thought you
were one then, and 1t is the only name
we have known you by. Were you
aware yon had never enlightened us p
Washington smiled. I supposed from
several remarks made to-day that was
unknown, and have enjoyed your free,
social intercourse too much to enlighten
you. Will you excuse what has seemed
like breach of politeness? and I will
rectify the error now as far as possible
Saying this he presented his card:
GEORGE WASHINGTON,
Mount Vernon.
Not word was spoken, and in the
silence of amazement their world-f famed
guest departed.
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ssIF.''

If, sitting with his little worn out shoe
And scarlet stocking on my knee,
knew the little feet had pattered through
The pearl set gates that lie 'twixt heaven and
could be rsconciled and happy too;
And look with glad eyes toward the jasper
sea.
II, In the morning. when the song of birds
reminds me of music far more sweet,
listen for his pretty. broken words,
And for the music of his dimpled feet,
would be almost happy; though heard <
No answer, and saw but his vacant seat
could bo glad, il, when the day is done, s,
And all Its cares and heart-aches laid away,
could look westward to the hidden sun,
And with a heart all full Of yearning say.
ITO night I'm neared to my little one,
BY just the travel of one earthly day.
II I could know those little feet were shod,
In sandals. wrought of light of better lands,
And that the footprints of q tender God
Ran side by side with his in golden sands,
could bow cheerfully, and kiss the rod;
Knowing he was in wiser, safer hands.
II he were dead, I would not sit to-day
And stain with tears the wet sock on my
knee;
would not kiss the tiny shoe, and say,
"Bring back my darling little one to me-"
would be patient, knowing twas Gods way
That, some time, l my little child may see.
But, oh! to know the feet once pure and white,
The haunts of vice had boldly entered in,
The hands that should have battled for the
right.
Had been wrung crimson in the clasp of sin.
And should he l9esk at heavens gate tonight,
To fear my boy could hardly enter in!
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3sl|ss
POETRY
AUTUANAL.


AUTUANAL
Upon the woodland avenues a balmy carpet
lies, ..s,.s,.... : ~
or dappled leaves, which glow and gieam like
wine-kissed butterflies;
Adown the walks, in reverie, Clarinda ioyous
goes. a-.J
And sentimental fingers DER the pale septem.
ber rose. ---Y,.
The breeses WOO the petals of the chaste forget.
me-nots; sI7 =
The flowers look dyspeptlc in the gardens's
lonely plots; E
The sombre wayside sumachs from the field,
will soon adjourn;
A dainty rime now glitters on the lily's milky
urn.
No longer on the sycamore doth coo the forest
dove; 3...e-r
No longer at the garden doth doth Phoebe
speak oflove;
Nolonger doth the robin blithc among the bios
SONS flute; -
No longer doth the sportive swell have on a
linen suit.
dreamy, mellow haze.
Which rests on hill and lakelet in the smelan-
choly daze,''
The lilac sky has here and there snowy aure-
ole,
The while the gay philosopher lays in his Win
ter coal. 1asf su
The orchard, full of luscious fruit, the youthful
breast elates; - =
The small boy soon win sell his gun, to buy a
pair Of skates;s
Full soon Fall's tender beauties on the wings Of
death will go,
And then look out for Winter, and its dash, in
fernal snow ~ ri
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me Mexican Government pays $50 a
nead ior European immigrants who will
settie permanently at Mesade Coroneles.
AS soon as the Immigrant is permanent
~ settled ne can draw on the custom
a house at Vera Cruz for $50 for himself,
eoo Ior MS wife, and $50 for each child
over Iour years of age, The arrange
menu Is 1or ten years from January last
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1878-12-03

To CURE HoARsENEss.-At this sea-
son of colds, it may be useful to know
that hoarseness is relieved by using the
white of an egg, thoroughly beaten.
mixed with lemon juice and sugar. A
teaspoonful taken occasionally is the
dose.
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Won Moltke.

General Won Moltke is now seventy
eight, and yet he does not look older
than he did 20 years ago, In more re-
spects than one he is an iron man, hav-
ing an iron will, an iron constitution
and an iron character. He deserves to
be called the Iron Count quite as much
as Wellington ever deserved to be called
the Iron Duke, for he is, if anything
more unyielding and of sterner disposi.
/ ton than the great ish-EngIishman.
He is member of an ancient family of
Mecklenburg, where he was horn, and
where his ancestors had had their seats
for centuries. Soon after his birth his
father, a military officer, a regular mar
tinet, left Mecklenburg and went to
Holstein, acquiring an estate in the
Duchy. The Younger Moltke, having
spent twelve years there, has been
thought by many to be a native. At
eighteen he was sent, with his brothers
to the military academy at Copenhagen,
where discipline, almost Spartan in
severity, laid the foundation of his in
flexible character. Four years later he
entered the Prussian army as corn ct. and
his father soon after losing all his pro-
perty, the young man had hard work
to retain his position, the pay of Prus-
sian officers of the lower grade being
very small. Having determined to get
on some how, he got on, for with him
to will was to succeed. He even saved
enough from his pittance to take lessons
in foreign languages, which have since
served him in excellent stead. He has
said that without such knowledge he
could not have been half so useful as he
has been in the feld He thinks the
knowledge of languages indispensable
to commanding officer in Europe. AS
a strategist he is without peer, most of
the battles of the wars of Prussian with
poor little Denmark Ia military opprea-
sion,) Austria and France having been
planned by him beforehand and fought
according to his plan. He has incurred
our displeasure by remark ascribed to
him, that he did not, alluding to our
civil contest, feel any interest in armed
mobs. 1t is altogether likely that he
said so. Our forces, both north and
south, must have seemed as mobs to a
thoroughly trained aud exclusive soldier
of his stamp. He could not conceive
that near two millions of men, taken
from every grade of civil life, could rem.
der efficient military service, and he
does not, in all probability, unaeTatana
it yet.
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Oh, if the day should eyer rise
1t could not and it cannot be-
Yet if the sun should ever see,
Looking upon us from his skies,
A day that took thy heart from me;
If loving thee still more and more,
And still so willing to be blind,
should the bitter knowledge find,
That time had eaten out the core
Oflove, and left the empty rind;
If the poor. lifeless words, at last,
(The soul gone that was once SO sweet,)
Should cease my eager heart to cheat,
And crumble back into the past,
And show the whole a vain deceit;
If should see thee turn away,
And know that prayer, and time, and pail
Could no more thy lost love regain,
Than bid the hours of dying day
Clean in their midday noon again;
If should lose thy hand, and know
That henceforth we must dwell apart,
Since had seen thy love depart,
And only count the hours flow
By the dull throbbing of my heart;
I'll should gaze, and gaze in vain,
Into thine eyes so deep and clear,
And read the truth Of all my fear,
Half mixed with pity for my pain
And sorrow for the vanished year;
Ifnot to grieve thee overmuch
1 strove to counterfeit disdain,
And weave me q new life again
Which.thy life could not mar nor touch,
And SO smile down my hitter pain;
Fhe ghost OF my dead past would rise
And mock me, and could not dare
Look to future of despair.
Or even to the eternal skies,
For should still be lonely there.
All Truth. all Honor, then would seem
Vain clouds, which the first wind blew by
All Trust folly doomed to die;
All Life useless. empty dream;
All Love-since thine had failed-a lie.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1878-12-03

WHO DISCOVERED AMERICA!-Why
Columbus of course, says every school
boy. Not so. He found the West India
Islands In touching the Westetn Con
tinent not knowing spything ofits exis-
tenee. Ae thought the islands he had
landed upon belonged to the eastern
coast of Asia. To John Cabot belongs
the honor Of discovering this continent.
Ae was a native of Genoa, like Colum-
bus, but was called to England in the
reign OF Henry VII, to undertake voy-
ages of discovery. In the month OF May,
1897, ne sailed from Bristol, England, in
the ship Matthew" accompanied by
his son Sebastian, discovered the con-
tinent somewhat in the latitude of Nova
scotia, on the second day of June, 1897.
| Sammy South.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1878-12-03

1t Is a base ball where one lady mo-
nopolizes partners enough to have nine
on side. Any other woman present
will say so.-N. o. Picay,sae.
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SpNsH Or INSTINCT? T?-The power of
judging of actual danger, and the free
and easy boldness which result from it,
are by no means uncommon. Many
birds seem to have a most correct notion
of gums range, and while sounuious-
ly careful to Eeep beyond it, conflne
their care to this caution, though the
most obvious resource would be to fiy
right away out of sight and hearing.
which they do not choose to do. And
they sometimes appear to make syen an
ostentatious use of their power, fairly
putting thpir wits and cleverness in an
tagonism to that of man for the benefit
OF their fellows. We lately read an ac-
count, by naturalistin Brazil of an ex.
peditiOn be made to one of the islands
of the Amazon to shoot spoonbills, ihisea
and others ofthe magnificent srallatorial
birds which were most abundant there.
His design was completely baffled, how
ever, by wretched little sand pipe1
that preceded him, continually utterine
his tell tale cry, which at once aroused
all the birds within hearing. Through
out the day did this individual bird
continNe his self imposed duty of SEN
tinel to others, effectually preventing
the approach of the fowler tc the game.
and yet managing ia keep out Of the
range Of Eis gym.
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EUROPEAN LANGUAaEs.-Aw writer in
the Boston CArlstjan Register says; The
wonder Of wonders which Europe offers
to the eye of the American traveller is
its Babel of languages. France alone has
eighty-slx well-defined dialects, Swift
zerland has twenty eight. The list ip
Germany has never been made out, but
must amount to at least 100. AS modern
enforced popular education takes effect,
all these will gradually disappear, and
be replaced by few-French, German,
Dutch, Basque, Bretonnais (Armori-
can, Polish, Bohemian, Moravian,
Danish, etc. Walloon and Flemish are
both dying out (vsYy slow1y) in Bel.
GUM. In ali the open countries com
mon lang guage will take possession of the
whole ground during the course OF the
next three or four generations; but in
the moTnsain districts the old dialects
may may survive for many centuries. is i
to this diversity Of language we must
ascribe the stubborn Vitality of priest.
craft and the military system. Nations
who cannot comprehend each other hate
and fear each other, and keep their har
ness ready for war. We must put ou1
trust in the railroad, the post offica anC
the primary school. Sooner oor latel
these irresistible powers will emancipatt
Europe from standing armies and th,
issai,
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- For the SPECTATOR.
CLOUDY DAYS.
BY U. W. V.

T .s d. I--r
o cloudy, dark. autumnal days,
o gloomy, sunless skies
For one Of pleasures joyous rays, N
My aching bosom sighs. =, ri lL IRE
These cloudy days incarcerate -f..i.t.
My soul in mystic gloom,
And, with sardonic smiles, Eate
Would drag me to the tomb.
The skies with clouds are overcast
And every vale and hill
Is wearing shadows of the past,
That make me sadder STILL
Oh, cloudy days are darker still,
Than e'er they were before,
And leave an impress on my brow,
And in "my bosom's core"
o. cloudy days! o, cloudy days!
For one faint beam yearn.-
oh, where are all those shining rays?
Will they no more return?
Return bright beams my heart to cheer,
My pathway to illume,
And pleasures that hold so dear,
Divest them of their gloom.
The cruel rains have washed away
The footprints that knew
The footprints that hoped would stay,
To designate the true;
But not one vestige can find,
All. no! I've searched in vain,
And friend SO noble and SO kinds
VIII never come again.
The grass will grow In paths they made,
But never will it tell
How many hopes began to fade
When they had said Farewell"
And cloudy days may come and co.
But shall not forget
The footsteps had learned to know
TILL many suns have set.
The thorns in life hedge up the flowers,
We must hare cloudy days,
For oh, Goods thoughts are not as ours,
And neither are His ways"
There are no dark and rainy days rs.....
Up In that world of light,
NO need of sun or lunar rays,
No clouds there and no night.
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Stauntoil Spectator.


ADvKRTIsEMENTs will be inserted at the rata
of&r00 per square Of eight lines or less, for the
nrst insertion, and so cents for each subsequent
insertion. e. sr-.,--,,,.-.-
~ A liberal discount will be made ON adveT.
tsements published for 9, 8, or u months.
A6 SPECIAL NOTICES win be inserted at dou.
BILE the advertising rates.
~ Obituaries, Announcements Of Candidates
for office, and all communications Of personal
OF private character, will be charged for as adj
vertisements.
: Address ''stanton Spectator" Stsunton, VI.
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OLD FoIks.-Do the young people
ever think that they will be old, that
they will soon feel that the grasshopper
is burden and fear Is in the way? Only
q few short years ago that aged man
and feeble woman were young, strong
and full of life their loving hearts were
gushing with tenderness and care for
the little ones, who now stand in their
places. Dc not jostle that aged couple
out of your pathway, but rather lift
them with tender care ever the rough
declining road. You may have forgotten
how carefully they kept your tender
feet from stumbling. and with what
care they watched your advancings. But
/ they have not forgotten, and the time
will come when you will be forcibly re-
minded of it, by the love you have for
your little ones. Will they sver hand
you the same bitter cup to drink that
you pour out for that aged father and
strickea mother? Verify, "with what
measure We meet, it shalt be measured
| to you again. Think of the anxious
days aad nights your mother has watch
| ed by your sick bed :; remember her Low.
ing care; her patience and lonI sutfer-
Ing with your fretfulness. and then lei
the blush of shame dye your brow, that
you should be impatient or unkind te
her, now that she is old. Old folks ars
such trial; Yes, they know it they
feel it; and so you will be such s
trial to your children in the days tha
shall surely come; aye, and you wi!
remember, too!
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1878-12-03

Alligators must have singular habits,
Judging from one recently killed in
one of the rivers of Florida. Having
been dissected, there was found in his
stomach two gar fish, each three feet
long, six flint stones worn smooth as
glass, two cypress knees, four pine
knots, two fragments of bricks, several
yards of cotton cloth. two volumes of
public documents and small hand
saw. We can understand why he might
have been hungry for 1int-stones, hand
Jaws, cypress knees, and pine knots, but
how he could have bolted the public doc
uments passes comprehension. A whale,
lately on exhibition In Cincinnati,
proved to have swallowed a broken beer
bottle, the bottoms of two glass tum-
blers, an old boot, screw-driver, a dis
carded waistcoast, and three or four
jack-knives. But these are presumed
to have iAterferered so seriously with
his digestion as to cause his premature
demise. An autopsy was held to de-
termine the cause of his death, which
is no longer mystery. 1t is though,
that a number of Cincinnatians, ignor-
ant Of natural history, fed him with shs
articles mentioned, under tho inipres
sion that the huge fish regarded them
as delicacies. Thsy should remembel
hereafter that beth Cuvier and Buftoon
say that, much as whales In their nat
Nral state enjoy glass tumblers anG
screw-dfivers occasionally, they do no,
thrive on them when given as regular
diet. The alligator, on the contrary
flourishes on everything.-N. Y. Yimes
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NEWS ITEMS.

TIE "honorable" callinss are repre-
sentei too. In Auburn state prison
there are ~ lawyers 81 preachers and 13
doctors.
THE volcanic activity of Vesuvius
continues TO increase. The crest Of the
cone has given way, and q new cone is
forming.
TIE Italian newspapers publish a
letter flom Gariballi to the young men
Of Genoa, calling on them to prepare
for war with Austria.
THoUGH BRIGHAM Young is dead
it must be admitted that the Norman
leaders are yet working with energy.
Their agents arc securing the countries
of Europe for converts, and with sue
cess, too, as is attested by the hundreds
that arrive every month. Six hundred
stalwart immigrants have just gone to
Utah, and many more are on the way.
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Refreshing.

The quietness Of our little town was
somewhat stirred last week when the
news was spread that the South Caro-.
Ina Railroad would no longer receive
its own bills in payment Of freight, or
in any other way. This was literal
diSowning Of the child by its parent,
and loud and deep were the impreca-
tons that went up from many Of the
Ups Of our merchants. As chron:c'er
cf events, however, it is our pleasing
duty to state this week (authorltativcly)
that the Treasurer of the "Green Gate
Social and Financial Party will redeem
each and every dollar, in simon pure
green backs presented to him between
this and election day. Call at his office.
No. 9 Pennsylvania Avenue, Curcton's
Mill.