The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1879-05-22
TIMELY TOPICS.

Three years ago an Englishman named
Hebron was convicted Of murder, and
narrowly escaped the scaffold. The man
Place, who was hung recently, confessed
that he had committed the murder for
which Hebron was undergoing punish
ment; and now the British government
is taking steps to compensate Hebron for
the wrong done to him by the law.
When the Union forces were captured
at Plymouth, n. c., during the war, the
colors of the Sixteenth Connecticut reg
iment were torn up and distributed
among the officers and men to save them
from the Confederates. Many who had
these relics were taken to Southern
prisons, but they kept their trusts care
fully. 1t is now proposed to gather rs
many of these pieces as possible, arrange
them in suitable form and place them
among the other colors at the State
House.
The death of Nine. Bonaparte and the
story of her marriage that it naturally
revives brings to mind the French mar
riage laws. 1t will be remembered that
the nearest she could come to getting her
son legitimized was the official declara-
ton that he was ga legitimate son Of
France" This was rather more vague
than satisfactory; and the occasion is n
fit one to call to mind the perils of mar
rying q Frenchman. No Frenchman
can marry without the consent of his
parents, or, if they are dead, of his
grandparents. 1fhe is over twenty-five,
and they refuse, he may send them,
through public notary, three respect
fully-Written requests two weeks apart,
and then the mayor can authorize him
to proceed. If, however, he is person
of political prominence, this publicity of
family differences is tacitly forbidden by
custom, and the scandal of such pub
licity must be avoided by the abandon
ment of the proposed marriage. That is,
the greater man the son is, the greater
is the hold Of his parents upon him.
In memorial to Congress relative to
the coming census Of the United States,
the superintendent of the census of 1860,
Mr.. Kennedy, gives the following statis-
tics as ar illustration of the stupendous
results from = single hive of bees, trans
ported to the Pacific coast less than
thirty years ago. From the single county
of SAP Diego, California, in 1876 there
was shipped the astonishing figure Of
1850, 900 pounds. In 1877 there were in
that county $4,000 colories Of bees, and
in one day, September 6, 1873, there were
shipped from. that port 7S barrels, 1853
cases and l8 tons; and that from and in
Guiding July II to November 10, 1878,
less than four months, that one county
exported over 1000 barrels, 4,544 cases
and nearly 20 tons. He who would
strike out (from the census report) the
item of honey, could not have known,
so great has the interest in this product
become, that many people in California
have from 500 to 1000 hives, and that
over 100 people in one county have each
more than 100 colonies of bees. Accord
ng to the London NcUs of January lS,
there arrived in November at Liverpool
80 tons of honey. the product of the bees
of one individual, and that Mr.. Hodge.
in the first week of January last, landed
100 tons at a London wharf, the product
of California. The annual product of
honey has grown to 35,0O0,o0O pounds
annually.