The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1879-06-26
Brevities.

$ church has arrived.
, Ice cream for sale at Hampton
, Square this afternoon.
That straw ride will not come off tn
til the moon gets full.
The astronomers tell US that new
comet will soon be visible.
We are not responsible for the opin-
ions Of our correspondents.
Several of tho wells in town are going
dry on account of the long drought.
The Odd Fellows will hold their an
nual election of officers next Friday
night.
Ice cram, in any quantity less than
A barrel, can he bought at Hampton
Square this afternoon.
Blackbrrries are selling at seventy
fvc cents per hnshcl, Or their cqniva>
l"nt in old clothes.
Thr salty lamns thr sale by DR..
Znmp arr greatly approve! By those
Tho use them.
We arc poor at music. but We are
enough of natural musician TO play
a hand organ by air.
The hour for morning service at the
Methodist Charch has ben changed
from II to 1920 O'Clock.
Sparkling snda water at kirkley &
Smiths, and ice cream at Hampton
Square this afternoon.
The weather was quite cool last
Thursday and Friday. The fish quit
biting and the cotton slrpt late.
Mr.. Jseph Baruch killed a dog in
Dr. Baruch's yard last Thursday, that
he says had symptoms of being mad.
The Odd Fellows have got in good
working order, and ars now looking
around for suitable lodge room.
Young map, take your sweetheart to
Hampton Square this afternoon, and iu
vest in two or four plates Of ice cream.
There will be a grand picnic at Pine
Grove, in West Wateree. on July 5th.
We acknowledge the receipt Of au in
vitation.
Mr. Fl K. Sanders, of Sanders De-
pot, is among the graduates of the Car
"lina Military Institute at Charlotte,
North Carolina.
A colorrd girl, confined in Jail for
violating h"r labor contract. with Baum
Bros, escaped from that institution last
Thursday.
Do rot forge, that the ladies of the
Methodist Church will have ice cream
for sale at Hampton Square this after.
noon.
Present Indications are very encour-
aging for many weddings in Cam
den this fall. Mr.. Robert Singleton,
at Mrs. Crosby's old stand, is prepared
to gil all orders for wedding cakes upon
short notice.
One of our subscribers ordered US to
stop his paper last week If he stop
ped it because he does not intend to
read it any more, he will not see
that we have made any mention
of the fact
We have heard of no programme FIR
the celebration of F"urth Of July in
Camden. Tire Gamlrn Artillery might
! give us a few blasts from "Old Hum
drrd" early in the moraing, to stir up
the patriotic blood.
! For the largest watermelon presented
to this office by Sep ember l. W. will
rive one years suhsc:ia;i0l to the
JOURNAL ard for the ncxt largest. six
months subscription. Weights and
rames will be published.
Arml"ts and bands about the head
in the ancient Greek style, are now
worn. The head bands are very hand.
some on wDll shaped heals. Strings of
p"arl or coin Of veritable Greek stamp
fill over the fringe on the forehead.
4 meeting will he held tomorrow
evening for the purpose of forming an
"old bachelors club" 1t has been de-
cid"d that the motto shall be ut is
better to be hung with a chain cable,
than be tied to an apron string"
A great many p'aple abuse our luer
chants for tho prices they charge for
lien goods. These same parties would
soon change their tune if they were in
the business. 1t is certain that our
merchants don't get to b. nabobs fast
on the profits they make from giving
liens.
A glass of whisky sells for dime,
and is drunk in a minute. It fires the
brain and deranges and weakens the
system. On the same table lies
a newspaper. 1t is covered with half
million type It brings Intelligence
from the four quarters of tn" globe.
The newspaper costs l"ss than ! alf the
glass of gr9g, hut it is none the less
true TIA, there is large number Of peo-
pie who think whisky chap and news