The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1879-11-27
heavy burden of taxation on assess

Il heavy burden Of taxation on assess
mcnts based on ideas of valuation
which obtained during prosperous years,
will no doubt be pleased to observe that
the present Board of ASSESSORS have re-
duccd the city valuation on property to
J S91 900, 600. or about $40, 900, 900, below
the previous assessment. This, it will
he generally conceded, is Il very fair val
uation when the extremely depressed
condition of all kinds of business for the
| past ten years is taken into consideration.
Columbia (S. c. Register: The bus
mess of making baskets from osler viii
| low twigS is one which seems to be spec
iallv ADAPTED to the south, and we under
stand that it is now being carried on in
| this state on small scale. We have al
! so heard of Il movement looking to the
extension of this industry. AT present
the twigS or rods used for basket making
here are brought from abroad, some Of
them from Europe, but the willow tree
grows, here very readily, >omc varieties
growing wild without any cultivation:
If the matter were properly taken hold
of large and paying industry might be
built up in basket making from native
twigs.
Galveston News: The increase in
custom receipts ut the port of Galveston,
from July l to October l, 1879, COM
pared with the same period of time in
1878, is something remarkable. For the
fiscal quarter ending September 30, 1873,
the duties on imported merthandice col
lected at this port were only S5,O1S,91.
For the quarter commencing July 1
and ending September 80, 1879, the du-
ties collected on imports at Galveston
amount to $42, 22S--an increase of S37,-
600 or 1879. It is pleasant to learn, also,
that costly and varied cargoes are now IN
transit to Galveston from foreign lands,
Oh which duties amounting to SloOOo
, will be collectable.
st. Paul Pioneer Press: Mr.. f. A.
Fulton, of Minneapolis is the representa-
tive of the colony of colored peoplewhich
has been organized in that county, who
are seeking aid in the North to enable
them TO remove to Southern Nebraska.
Mr.. Fulton is a colOrcd man, though
there is but faint trace of African lineage
in his complexion or features. While
Il boy he fled from Kentucky to Chicago
where he lived for eleven years, being EN-
ployed in the Office Of the Democratic
Press, Deacon Bross' paper. After the
war he went South and settled in Drew
county, Arkansas. He is now United
States Deputy Marshal of the Southern
District of Arkansas.
Mr.. Fendel Horn writes to DR.. Mer-
cier, of New Orleans, who introduced
the seed of Egyptian cotton: Il have
been handed a sample of the Egyptian
cotton raised on the plantation of Col.
Claiborne-Dunbarton plantatiOn-near
Natchez, Miss. He and Gen. Stephen
D. Lee, another experienced planter
livingnear Columbus, Miss, planted the
original seed last year, and both report
the plant grew very tail, rank and with
but few bolls. This year they have
planted about one acre each with seed
taken from the last years plant and both
repor' that it has improved very much.
The plant is not 50 large, fruits well,
and they say from the one acre one-half
of cotton and Il much better quality is
obtained"
Sherman Texas Courier; A vcrita-
bic cloud of negroes, all sizes, shapes and
shades of color, passed through Denison
Friday, enronte for Kansas, where the
people live in mud houses and live on
grasshopper soup. They came from
Grimes county, in this state, and were
filled with eyultation over the glittering
future spread out before them. They
got us far as the Nation, but the weather
wasn't propitious" enough. There was
too much frost in the air. Visions Of
icebcrgs, snow three feet deep and no
wood in the house began to loom up be-
fore them, and they switched of, turned
around and sailed back. They went
through on their homeward journey yes
tcrday morning, and propose to stay in
the sunny south as long as they have a
grip on life.
Charlotte n. G. } Observer: Capt.
Jas. 0. Moore, chief engineer of the Win
ston and Salem and Mooresville railroad,
went up the Richmond and Danvillc
railroad yesterday morning to meet Mr..
Garrett of the Baltimore and Ohio rail-
road company, and receiver Barbour, of
the Virginia Midland, for the purpose of
comforting with them with view to in
ducing them to utilize the road bed of
his road, us much thereof as is completed,
in their proposed extension of the Vir-
ginia Midland from Danville through
parts of this state. About twenty-five
miles of the Winston and Salem and
NIOoresville railroad are already graded,
and Capt. Moore reports having on hand
and attainable sufficient amount to
grade the road to point between Moores-
vile and Winston-ffty-fve miles in all.