The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1878-05-28


IT is said that Gen. Beauregard ex.
oects to leave Louisiana soon, to lise in
,ome northern State.
SUBSCRIPTIONS have begun in New
Orleans for monument to Gen. X. f.
Ice, which is to be one hundred and
six feet high.
In a quarter of Rome known as
''Pescheris," during the excavations
made on the 18th of April, there was
discovered tie duly inscribed base upon
which stood the famous statue of Cor
nelia, daughter of Scipio Afric'nns, and
mother ofthe Gracchi.
Edison is. now at work upon an ap-
paratus to enable the deaf to hear, and
says: II feel sure that will produce
a practical apparatus within six month";"
The wish may be father to the thonght
with the inventor Of the phonograph,
for he is measureably deaf himself.
THE Washington Past quotes a men,
Der of Congress as saying that Mr. Til
den's failure to take tho oath Of Office
on the 4,h of March, II, forfeited his
right to the Presidency. He was ear
nestly eutreated by his friends to take
the oath, and intended to do so, "till he
learned of Grants determination to ar
"rest him on the charge of treason and
"tbrow him into Fortress Monroe as an
aipstigator of sedition and rebellion,
"upon his appearance at the capital for
"that purpose. That Grant was pre-
"pared for such action, and would have
"seized Mr.. Tilden's person, is we'll
"known to many persons Of both par
"ties, and that Mr.. Tilden was restrained
aby his knowledge Of such peril, is
aequally notorious in private circles"
Mrs. LYDIA SHERMAN, who died in
the Connecticut State prison on Thurs
day afternoon, by her own confession,
made in 1873, poisoned three husbands,
and four children, as follows: E. s.
Struck, Yorkville policeman, and two
children by her marriage with him;
Dennis Hurlburt, Of Litch6eld, Conn.,,
and Il. N. Sherman, and his two chill
dren, Ada and frankie Sherman. She
met her first husband at a Methodist
lovefeast, being at the time q member
of the church nt New Brunswick. The
poisoning Of Sherman, she alleged In
her confession, was not Intentional, but
it was her purpose to poison the two
children. She was sentenced to i'm
prisonmcnt for life for numbering her
last husband. A few months ago, al
though about SO years old, she managed
to escape, and it was some time before
she was recaptured.
BEN TAYLOR, colorcd man living
in this place, has lately returned from
Washington, whittier he has been to Sc
cure patent for now steam engine
which he had invented, and which, il
the judgment of many experienced and
scientific men to whom he has shown
his model is correct, is calculated to rc>
volutionize the present application Of
steam. The engine is rotary, having
the steam applied at the circumference
of wheel, giving thus treble the force
ofordinary engines, with no distinguish
ing of power at the various stages of the
revolution Of the wheel. This invention
dispenses with all the machinery except
the one wheel, which answers at once
the purpose Of cylinder and driving
wheel, and the two steam>boxes through
which the steam is applied. 1t is esti-
mated that engines on this plan can be
manufactured at one-fourth. or less, the
cost of those now in use, and their SIM
plicity. and the possibility Of making
them of extremely ligh. weight, will ex-
tend the use Of steam engines beyond
the present limit: Ben. Taylor, the in
ventor, is q sort of mechanical genius,
having before manifested an insight into
mechanics of no ordinary degree. His
invention, if nothing fails-and the
probabilities are in his tavor-wlll rank
him among the first inventors Of tho
Objectionable { (lMiss.) Journal,
Primary Elections.
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