The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1879-12-25

/ The Observer says that every railroad
running from Charlotte, n. c., has done
larger business this season than at any
other time within their history.
q; 1t will cost at least $3.50, 900 to furnish
the manned Confederate soldiers of Geor-
gia with artificial limbs, as contemplated
| by an act of the last legislature.
Last Friday the Eagle and Phoenix
cotton mills ut Columbus Ga, sold S45,
600 worth of their products-Rescue
plaids and ball sewing thread.
James Rice, confined n:jail at Ash
land, Ala, for giving his step-daughter
medicine to produce abortion, hung him.
self in his cell Friday morning.
Orangcfcld, (S.CO Democrat: A larger
number of trains are employed now on
the South Carolina railroad than at any
previous time to move the freight.
The Cincinnati Times says that dur
! ing the past six months five colonies
have gone from Cincinnati to settle on
lands in Tennessee and Alabama.
Rev. w. G. Veal, of the Methodist
Episcopal Church South, OF Texas, has
been deposed from the ministry OH ac-
count of charges of gross immortality.
The Lancaster, Is. CO. Ledger says
that number of persons who emigrated
to Texas last year are coming back to
their old homes in Lancaster county.
Texas exports S50,000,000 worth OF
exports annually, and the GroesbccS
New Era says that if it were not for the
imports the state would soon wax rich.
Upon the resignation, last week, Of 4.
Shaw, Superintendent of the Richmond
and P Petersburg railroad, he was presented
by the employees with an elegant gold
watch.
4 fire started in a cotton gin in Wins
boro, S. c., the other day, and before it
| could be checked three cottages and Il
colored Methodist church was de-
stroyed.
Thursday afternoon negro woman
and her child were burned together in a
house in Union county, S. c. The fire
was caused from a wood chimney catch
ing fire.
A colored woman, about fifty years old
and in feeble health, while alone in her
residence in Richmond, Va, last Satur-
day evening, caught fire and was burned
to death.
A meeting of farmers will be held at
Hendersonville, n. c., this week to con-
slider the adrisability of planting large.
crop of tobacco in Henderson county
next year.
Carrollton, Ga, charges license OF
81, 800 for the privilege of selling liquor
in that town by the quart or less, and
50, 1000 for selling it in amounts more
than quart.
The Gulf City Steamship company,
of Mobile, Ala, has advices from Glas-
cow, Scotland, that the fast steamship
built for the company has Just been
launched and will soon reach Mobile.
There arc 754 patients in the Georgia
State Lunatic Asylum. The current
expenses of the institution mounted
to $50, ,629, 10, IN average of expense per
capita per diem of 80 9-10 cents.
In Washington county, Mississippi, a
colored man was elected circuit clerk
over two white competitors. He was
voted for by Il good many white people
on the score of superior fitness and relia-.
bility.
A. ]. Killian, Il quiet and highly-rc-
spected citizen of Ellijay, Ga, commit
ted suicide the other day. He tied a
rope around his neck, fixed it to the limb
of tree and then shot himself through
the brain.
The Raleigh { n. c. Observer is of
the opinion that the reports OF the AS
SCISSORS for the present year will show an
increase of the valuation of property in
that state over last years figures of 81
100000.
The CITY of Richmond, Va, is asked
to contribute $3.50, 900 for Il railroad up
| the James river, such road to be con-
structed under the auspices of the James
River and kanawha Canal Company.
Nashville American: Lightning en-
tered the capitol Monday via the tele-
phone wires, and produced loud reports
| in the rotunda, in the comptrol ler's Of
fee and in that of the clerk of the SUI
prcme court.
The owners of established factories i'll
Georgia complain of the legislative ex-
emption of new factoaes from taxation
for ten years, and it is said that the valid
ity of the exemption is to be tested in
the courts.
Lynchburg Virginian: One of the
most remarkable results of the late cleo
ton in Virginia was that in which an old
politician who had been frequently
elected to the legislature, was defeated
by his former slave.
Charleston IS. CO. News: In the past
three days three large steamships have
passed out from this port for European
ports with about $4,000 bales of cotton,
and on a submersion of sixteen and a
half to over eighteen feet.
The law passed at the last session OF
the Alabama legislature, prohibiting the
buying of cotton in seed, has been deci'
ded Unconstitutional by the circuit court
in Lowndcs county. An appeal will be
taken to the supreme court.
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