The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1879-02-20
A NEW bill has been introduced into

serious off.use, including even libel.
The bill is likely to become law.
TIE great strike of laborers at Liv-
erpool has ended. Capital beat labor.
Tie strikers numbered about thirty
thousand, but uorkmen were brought
from other places, and that caused the
others to give in without farther resist
ance
Dr.. GEO. GRAY, of Dsnnison, Texas,
who distinguished ~hiuself by profess
sional services rendered at Holly Springs
during the late epidemic, committed
suicide on the 18th inst. by shooting
himself through tho head. No reason
is assigned.
There is one Office 10 Taylor county,
Kentucky, that no one seems to de-
.ire--that Of receiver Of the railroad
tax. The present Official, after being
hunted for several days with shot guns,
has resigned the place and it is likely to
remain vacant.
THERE is a. Italian ia the Georgia
peni,eusiary who is starving himself to
death. lie will no: eat or work, a.
though be has been whipped three
times to make him do SO. He says he
has no, had fair trial and that he will
not eat until he has another. Hs is in
On ten years sentence for an attempt at
murder.
In the inscriptions to be placed on
the pedestal Of CleoPatra's needle, it
has been resolved, at the personal
suggestion Of the Queen, to add the
names of the men who lost their lives
in the attempt to rescue the crew Of
the Cleopatra during the storm iu the
Bay of Bisoay, in October,..lS77.
Dom PEDRO, of Brazil. has contribu-
ted to the Washington Monument =
stone weighing nearly eight tons to
perpetuate the memory of the ilIustriOua
father Of the American Republic, for
whom be cherishos the warnest sdmi-
ration. The stone, which is engraved
and inscribed, IS now in New York.
A FIRE broke out 10 Newberry on
the 18th inst, in the npper story of
the building between Oash's and
Keen's stores, and in consequence of
not having FIRE department, spread
rapidly through one block before it could
he got under control. The town ap-
piled to Columbia for the assistance Of
one engine and l 500 feet of hose.
AN exchange says: IF Alexander
H, Stephens was to step into one side
Of large pair of scales, and all the
medicine he has swallowed in the last
6fssen-years wero to be suddenly dump.
ed into the other side, the shadowy
statesman would shoot up like balloon.
Ee has taken eight hundred and sew
enty-nine kinds of medicines, and that
he should now weigh sixty-6ve pounds
instead of sleeping with his fathers, is
little short of miracle.
The prowess of the zulus is account
cd for. Old Cetywayo, the king, does
not allow his soldiers to marry until
leave is given to the whole regiment to
do so, and this is not generally given
until the age Of the men averages forty
years. AS leave 10 given to special
regiments which have distinguished
themselves in war, to marry under the
usual age, the system in force tends 10
make the whole Of the active men of
the nation anxious for war, and renders
them extremely dangerous aud quarrel
some neighbors.
A LETTER from Brazil gives fright.
full account of drouth, famine and pesti-
lence raging in the Northern portisn Of
that country for year past. 1t is said
to be the greatest calamity in two hum
drea years. Half million Of people
have been swept away by starvation and
disease. Smallpox aad black plague
have carried off their victims in appall-
ing numbers, and thousands Of bodies
are rottiug in open trenches. At Lagea
Fuuda thousands Of other corpsss hsva
been torn by wild animals. The starry
ing peasants ate their own offspring.
In some places, including the city Of
Cerea, the country has been depopulated.
There havs'been terrible struggles for
life by children abandoned and young
souls sold for bread. Thousands Of lir.
ing skeletons were to be seen. Gov
ernment aid has been tardy.