The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1879-12-04

ate soldier. Is 90.
There are thirteen thousand volumes
belonging to the North Carolina State
Library, more than the library building
affords room for.
The New Orleans papers call upon the
police of that city to abate the nuisance
caused by the illegal sale of lottery tick
cts on the streets. -
The courthouse at Opelika, Georgia,
was fired by incendiarics Tuesday night,
but the flames were discovered in time
to prevent any damage.
The progressive towns in Georgia are
striving to secure the location of the
State Normal College provided fdr by
the last legislature.
|, A number of influential newspa16 VS. in
the south are advocating smalle arms
and better cultivation rs the sur way
to success and prosperity.
Handsboro, Miss, is furnishing louis
lana stock-raisers with bloodcd hecp.
The town is also making prepar ms to
start a cotton and woolen factor
Between 600 and 800 laborers j Tnow
engaged in the construction of thq wen-
boro and Nashville railroad $wcen
Adairsville and Russelville, KY.
The hemp factories at Lexington KY,
have closed on account of regulation
of the railroad companies. raising the
cost of transportation for dress feFiPed.
Farmers in Chattahoochie and Stew
art counties, Georgia, complain of u
great scarcity of labor, and the c3tton
crop threatens to be diminishe2, az con-
sequence, . .'.ar0
Louisiana sugar-planters arc ated
over the fact that the Europei beet
sugar crop for the present is
twenty-five or thirty per CENT. By the
average. Gs; = II T. 80. ..E i 81
Memphis Appeal. The city is rom-
ing haunted with drummers. Th now
think Memphis is great city, al bugh
during the epidemic they gave he8e Wide
berth.
Flemingsburg (Ky.) Times We have
no big pumpkins, but D. B: Hinton has
gourd that is 104 years old. It was
brought from England to Virginia in the
year 1775.
The Little Rock gas company has re-
fused to furnish gas to the city for its
streets and public buildings until the
city puts an end to its Indebtedness to the
company. y ="
In Loroke county, Ark, last week, a
quarrel between McArmstrong, Justice
of the Peace, and Pink Saunders, result
ed in the shooting of the latter. Death
occurred instantly. &C.
The past summer in Key West, Fla,
was the healrhiest which the inhabitants
of that city have experienced in thirty
years. The mortality was less by one
third than in any year since 1861.
Mr.. w. 6. Cotton, of Harris county,
Ga, raised a stalk of cotton this season
that is now bearing nine hundred and
eighty-seven bolls. The cotton is the
Dickson variety.
The Catletsburg DEM, says that VIM.
Christian, of Lawrence county, claims
to have fallen heir to Fountain square,
in Cincinnati, and that he has refused
$140, 900 for his interest.
Frank Smith of Fayette county KY,
has shipped to New York for the eastern
market one hundred head of cattle that
averaged 1900 pounds. Four head
averaged 2,120 pounds.
Savannah News: Pensacola is elated
because she owns the steamship Escam-
bia, of the capacity of $500 bales of cot
ton, which is intended to ply regularly
between that port and Liverpool.
Ex-Governor Alcorn is building fine
residence OH his home plantation, in
Jones-own, Coahoma county, Miss. When
finished it will be one of the finest and
best arranged dwellings in tile State.
A eolored woman died at New Orleans
the other day whose age was given at 100
years by the coroner, but she was sup
posed by those who knew her best to
have been at least thirty years Older.
Belgreen, the new county-seat Of
Franklin county, Ala, though founded
only eight months ago, hasa nice, new
courthouse and county Offices, and a
brand-new paper--the Franklin News.
In Walter county, Tex, the District
Court rendered verdict of $4,000
damages against the Central raj way in
favor of Mrs. Fowler, whose husband
was accidentally killed at Howth Ssation.
Memphis Ledger: Nearly 400 Pales of
cotton have been shipped from captain
William Forests Presidents island
plantation. The crop will ii all be
gathered before the end of tn present
year. r..'.rl :....
Columbus Times: Some of tur citi-
zens lave already commenced to SOW
oats for the spring crop. Efa5F will be
made 10 retain the reputation d: raising
the finest oat crops in southwestern Geor-
gia. ,,.-... -.r
According to the Banner, the years
operations of the Nashville cotton fac
tory, closing ON the 30th of September,
indicate considerable prosperity. The
amount of wages paid was So, 5000, and
the number of yards of cloth produced
was 5,424,927
Little Rock, (Ark.) Democat: The
iurY in the Tom Davis murder kase was
hung by colored man, repQrt to be a
barber. The other juror white.
The prisoner was colorcd the vic