The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1878-10-03

well educated, shs as pretty, amIable
and accomplished.
THE British fleet left Princes Island,
Saturday morning last. after appearing
for q short SINE off the entrance of the
Rosphorous to salute the Turkish flag.
It proceeded 10 Artaki.
THE mortgage debt Of .he South
Carolina Railroad, according to Judge
Bonds decision rendered at Baltimore,
is SG,OO0,O00, and its floating indebted
ness nearly $1,000, ,0G0.
BUSINESS IS so brisk in New York
that "teamstcrs cart by the hour, not by
the load. One of the steamboats, had a
line of teams leading to it six miles long
with goods waiting to be shipped
THE second Adventists, who are not
without hope Of seeing their peculiar
ideas relied in the sweet by-and>by,
meet to compare notes next month. A
large delegation (ror, abroad is ex-
pected.
Senator 6. J.. Duncan. colnrcd, and
T.. A. Webster, acting postmaster, were
arrested on Monday in Orangeburg on
charges Of bribery to procure office
They gave bond. The case will be
pushed.
Two Of the Mexicans who recently
murdered cx-Shcriff Adams and ex-
County Clerk Finley. of Santa Clara
County, near Tuckson, Arizona. have
been captured in Sonora, and shot by
order of Governor Mariscal.
A VERDICT of $4,000 has been given
in the case of J. G.. Steele against the
Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Rail-
road. Mr.. Steele was injured for life,
and the verdict is considered just one.
The case was tried before Jud ge Al
drich.
AMONGST the donations received in
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New York for the yellow fever suffer
ers, was one Of fifty pounds sterling
from Sir Moses MouteGore, baronet, of
East Cliff lodge. Ramsgate, England,
who never roreets the suffering in any
part Of the globe.
Dispatches from India leave little
room for hope that the AT CHAN difficulty
will he arranged peaceably. The
government is fastening military prepa-
rations. Troops are being collected
from all sides and sent 10 various points
on the northwest frontier of India.
POTTER, the man who has been wheel
ing barrow across The Continent, has
reached California lie has deal-
headed at saloons and hotels on the
way, has travelled leisurcly, and is
satisfied with the enterprise but he
says it vas long time between drinks
in the mountain region.
y LONG WALKING MATCH ls being
decided now at Gilmore's Garden, New
York, between O'Leary and Hughes,
two Of the champion walkers Of the
world. They are to walk six days,
ending at - o'clock on Saturday night.
Both men are confident of winning the
champion belt and $1,000 in money, the
prize offered.
DIR. LANGpoN A. CnEvEs, of Savan-
nah, Ca, VINO wen t ont to Memphis to
attend the yellow fever patienst there,
died last week. He was in Savannah |
during the epidemic of 1876 and rem.
dered efficient and jealous service
during that terrible period, being him.
self stricken down in the midst of his
good work.
THE treasure coach of the Cheyenne
and Black Hills Stage Line, which left
Dcadwood on the Goth, was stopped by
five armed men at Canova Springs,
miles south Of here, at 5 P.
NJ. Two messengers, Capt. Smith and
Gate Hill, we're seriously wounded, and
cno passenger, H. O. Campbell, 4 tclo-
graph operator, killed. The treasure
taken is between $4,000 and $4,000.
Ten armed men started from there in
pursuit Of the robbers.
a CoNsrANT1NoPLE dispatch states
that Schir Ali Khan, a secret envoy of
the Ameer Of Afgbanistan, has been
instructed to claim the Sultan's inter-
venton in the pending difficulty, in
order that England shall not declare
war against Afghanistan. Tic is further
to convince the Sultan that an alliance
with Russia is advisable for tho Mussul.