The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1878-01-08
The Chesareake and Ohio Railroad,

UOO bonds outstanding auu Sl',ooo;'0'
stock. The company owns fo1r Hmm
dred miles Of read, seventy-scven loco
motives, and more than two thousand
cars.
Hon. F. W. NJ. HOLIDAY was IN
auguratcd Governor of Virginia, In
Richmond, on New Years day. In his
inaugural address he took strong ground
in favor Of paying every dollar Of the
State debt.
REMARKABLE.-Out of a population
of seven hundred. inhabitants Lancaster
Village has not a person in ID by the
name of Smith. We venture there Is
not another town Ct the size in the State
but what has family Of Smiths. Send
Us a few Smiths.-Lancaster y. ~
Ls@gNr
4 SHOOTING AFFRAY occurred at
the corn,r of Broad and Meeting stc' is
in Charleston, on Friday morning
Messrs. G.. w. Rouse and i. r. Whi'e
were the principals of the affair but
Messrs. G. Levy and J. P. Deveaux
also participated. Mcssrs. Rouse ard
Deveaux were severely but not danger
ously woundcd.
THE Senate Committec, consisting ol
Senators Lipscomt, Cr;t,epden, Wyll',
Fraser and Johnson, aul APPOINT d to
investigate the manner in which Corbn
secured his so-called election to the
United States Senate, 1T the hands o.
the Chamberlain Legislature, Is at work
10 Columbia, and it is said trail lead
ing directly 10 the penitentlary has
been discovered. So Corbin may get
what he deserves, after all.
\ correspondent Of the Charleston
/, Journal Of Commerce. writing from
Cheraw, says that the repeal Of the lien
law. though desired by some and r.
: earded as wise by oil thinking men, is
likely Just now to bring more distress
than relief to farmers generally. 1t is
TO be hoped that the Legislature viii
|, speedily devise some means by which
agricultural supplies for the present.
year may be procured.
REDrIELD writes; alexander II
Stephens once told me that Andrew
Johnson was the weight that decided
the contest; that, had he thrown hii
immense power upon the side Of the
South, the result would have been
Southern independence; and further
that the Uniun speech of Johnson's in
the Senate, at the beginning Of the war
was the most masterly effort ever made
by man ON earth.
A WHITE man named Bergen Con-
GER, n resident of Rock Hill, and 9
Lrick-mason by trade, was assaulted by
negro one day last week in Chester
county, on tho line IF the Charlotte,
Columbia and Augusta Railroad, and
so severely beaten that he died Of hi'
injuries in few days. The negro gives
his name as John Smith, aud says lie is
native Of Wake county. n c.; that
he left there eight sears ago and won;
to Georgin, aud subsequently lived in
several couuties in South Carolina. He
is in Chester jnil. aud his prospects Tor
death On the callowi ale promi; u
a BRIGHT story is told Of tic accot"-
pli,hrd wife.-nOw dead--of Genera
Hooker. When she was tie admired
Mss Gro, sbcck, o. Cincinnati, she was
once at IN evening parry when FASH
ionablc yoaD2 diniy Was asked if he
would Ike 20 be presented to her
"Oh. yes said lie, laughingly, 'tro,
her out The laly overheard tie re-
mark, aud when she was presented She
adjusted her eye glasses Deliberately,
and slowly scanned Lis clothing frunl
boo, 10 collar. The survcy finished
slc waved her hand and rarclos,ly sad,
'Troi HIM back; | have scca all there is
Of him.
TIE Blue Ride (N. c. Bitdc says
We were shown. last wees, by DR.. j.
NJ IIarpoldr, of this place, quilt un-
der which General Washington slept.
This quilt was made by Mrs. Sarah
Reid, wife Of Capt Reid, of Garden,
S. G., in the year l775, ana Mrs. j.
NJ. Happoldt is n granddaughter Of
Mrs. Reid, into whose possession the