The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1879-02-06
NEWS ITEMS.

new county of Hampton was commence
ed there last week Judge Kershaw pre-
siding. q
PRESIDENT MCMAHON of the French
has resigned his position as
ruler of France, and NJ. Grevy has been
elected as bis successor.
GREAT distress prevails amoug the
s,iking miners in the county of Durham,
England. It has not been equaled
before since the great strike of 1874.
IDA LEWIS has been appointed to
succeed her mother as keeper of Lime
Rock Light and the salary for the position
has been increased from $3.50 to 81, 600.
A LETTER dated Rio Janeiro, Jan.
13, says: at is reported that the black
plague has appeared in the province of
Cora. Five doctors have been dis
patched there" ...#'
IT is stated that Stanley has keen en-
gagged to start on new exploring expe-
dition through Africa, and that
steamer has been chartered to convey
him and his party to Zanzibar.
DR.. SAMUEL WALKER, Of New Or
leans, has sued the Howard Association
of that city, to recover $4,000 which
sum he claims for service at Greenrille,
Mississippi, during the epidemic.
A BILL has been introduced into the
House of Representatives Of Pennsylva-
MIA for the abolition Of capital punish
meut, substituting therefor solitary
confinement for life at hard labor.
Mas. JOHN JACOB AsToR wore dia-
monds worth s250,0OO at the ball in
New York, few evenings ago. They
were the family diamonds and consisted
of necklace, earrings, combs, four Brace
let's and tiara, and were remarkable for
their purity and beauty.
IT is said that the terrible plague,
which is now depopulatipg portion of
Russia, originated from captured Turk.
ish shawl brought back as part of a
Cossack's spoils of war aud given to his
lady.love. She soon sickeued and died,
and the pestilence hes been spreading
ever since that time.
The Gear has approved the summary
measures resolved upon by the COM
mittee of ministers for stopping the
plague, and has empowered the Minister
of the Interior to burn Wetlianka and
other villages where it is necessary, the
inhabitants to be removed elsewhere
within quarantine distance.
IT is announced that after two years
of careful search, the successor of the
Grand Lama Of Thibet has been discov-
ereS and crowned. It was believed
that the soul Of the late Lama had en-
tered child, and it has taken q long
time to fed hiRi. How he was select
ed out of the four hundred millions now
his subjects, is not stated.
The Chinese immigration bill, as
passed in the House, makes it misde-
meanor punishable with fine and i'm
priscnment for the masters Of any vessel
to take on board at any Chinese or other
foreign port more than fifteen Chinese
passengers, with intent to bring them
to the United States. The act is to
take effect from and af.er the 1st of
July, 1879.
BEN BUTLER claims that at the
Presidential nominating convention in
Charleston, in 1860, he voted ffty-sev-
en- times for Jefferson Davis to be
nominated as a candidate for the Presi-
dency of the United States. 1t is too late
day for you to be showing up your
hand, Benjamin. The cloven foot has
been in sight too long. The South has
no further use for you.
TIE New York Tribune states, in the
most positive terms, that the remains IF
A. T. Stewart have not been recovered
by his widow or Judge Hilton. Reports
to the contrary grew out of exaggerated
repe,isions of hopes expressed by Mrs.
Stewart to her friends in Decembr last
that negotiations then pending would
result in the return of the body before
the end of the year.
A CITIZEN of Perry, Ga, lately had
a most remarkable dream. He dream
ed he was dead. but that he could get
no one to dig his grave for him. He
then borrowed a spade and went to
work at it himself, but to his great
modification looked up end saw the
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