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

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THE steamship City of Houston was
lost on Frying Pan Shoals during the
storm Of last week. No lives we're lost.
THE field army of the Ameer is be-
lievea to number $4,000 infantry, l2,.
600 cavalry and 200 guns, including a
battery of Armstrong guns.
THE Fairfield Radicals have as yet
made no public nominations. Their
failure to trot ont ticket has been en-
tirely due to the unanimity of the Dem
ocrats.
KING ALFONSO, of spain has requested
that Moncase, the man who attempted
to assassinatc him rerently, be not exc
cuted, but that he be placed in prison
for term of years.
LORD BEAcoNsFIELD experienced q
severe cpilcptic fit on the 2sth. 1t
was thought that it was very serious,
but at last accounts he was recovering
very fast.
JUDAH P. BENJAMIN, formerly of
Louisiana, once Jeff Davis Secretary of
State, and now one of the Queens
counsel, London, has contributed $500
to the relief of the yellow fever suffer-
ers.
A Berlin dispatch to the London
Post says that the Emperor William
seems determined to resume the man.
agement, Of tho government in
stead of spending the winter in Italy as
his physicians advise.
The unwilling of the Confederate
monument at Augusta. Ca, to-day is
to be grand affair. 1t is expected that
thousands Of people will take advantage
of the low excursion rates, and visit the
city on the occasion.
THE strike Of the Clyde iron workers
has commenced. The Engineers So
ciety numbering three thousand men,
has also resolved to strike if reduction
Of wages is forced. The firm of John
Efurr & Gu, have decided to discharge
twelve hundred of their workmcn.
ENGLAND is about to go into another
piece of bulldozing. She succeeded so
well in the last affair between Turkey
and Russia that she wants TO make
another big haul by thrashing out
Afghanistan and bringing it under the
British crown.
THE Masters and Cotton Spinners'
Association Of Oldham, England, have
resolved to reduce the wages Of their
operatives ten per cent. The Clyde
iron workers have resolved to strike
against u per cent. reduction in their
wages. The iron workers number
10000. The masters have determined
to enforce the reduction.
Gov. HAMPTON will be in Augusta
to-day as an invited guest at the un-
yelling ceremonies Of the Confederate
monument. He will have a special
escort of a regiment Of cavalry during
the ceremonies. Edgefeld sends four
of ber red shirts companies, and mill
tary organizations from many sections
will participate in the display.
INTELLIGENCE has been received
from Wydah, on the west coast of
Africa, under date of September 26th,
that the Portuguese commandant and
seven soldiers are held captive by the
King of Dahomey, who makes them
parade before him daily. The King
has recommended the custom of human
sacrifices, and 500 persons have been
in one month.
SENATOR HILL of Georgia has writ.
zen letter in which he severely coz
lemns the course of President Hayes in
to Office those who were in
7olved in the Presidential frauds Of
1876. Everything the Senator says is
rue; but somehow, the distinguished
Georgian is not exactly the one to lead
IF in criticism ofauy one-because of
lis unstableDess.
A daring bank robbery occurred in
New York on Sunday morning last by
'urglers entering the Manhattan savings
'auk. They handcuffed the janitor and
lis wife, and, placing pistol at his
lead extorted from him the keys and
combination of the vault. The
'ank lost securities, money and other
7aluablcs to the amount Of s2,75S,7O0
No clue as to who the robbers are has
Jet been obtained
THE Indian bureau is in receipt of
elegram from Col. Obeirne conGrmatory
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