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

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J in Memphis
Tramps are faocking into Florida fol
their winter quarters.
Texas would make thirty-fivc states
the size of Massachusetts.
A new town in Lauderdalc county
Tenn, is named Pilllcrk.
A South Carolina man cut q, 900 shin
giles from one cypress tree.
The cause of education is booming in
many coudtics in Alabama.
Chestnuts sell at twenty-five cents pei
bushel in southern Virginia.
The sewerage question is the leading
| topic of interest in Memphis.
The third crop of figs for 1879 isnearly
ripe in Oglethorpe county, ia.
There we're 1l3 deaths in New Orleans
during the week ending Sunday.
The wool clip of Texas this year is
estimated at 22,O00,0O0 pounds.
The colored Baptists are erecting Il
So, 900. church at Dallas, Texas.
There were sixty-one vessels in the
port of Savannah, Ga, Saturday.
Alex. II. Stephens is a consistent mem
Der of the Presbyterian church.
Arkansas has a state society for the
prevention of cruelty to animals.
Over fifty new firms have commenced
business in Atlanta, Ga, this year.
A Texas boy sixteen years old is being
searched for on the charge of rape.
The Alabama Great Southern railroad
will soon receive 100 new coal cars.
A cotton gin with lI5 bales of cotton
burned near Dallas, Texas, Saturday.
A Memphis gun store was robbed OF
81 900 worth of pistols Sunday night.
Panthers arc said to abound yet in the
mountains of western North Carolina.
Some of the Arkansas papers advocate
spelling the name Of the State ArEan-
saw.
The tendency of the people of Georgia
to cmigrata to Texas is not so great as it
was.
A penalty of four per cent. has been
added to the delinquent tax list OF Mem
phis.
The burden of the North Carolina
papers is of heavy crops and new rail-
roads.
The people of San Antonio, Texas,
have subscribed 5000 for IN emigrants'
home.
The enrolment in the public schools
of Chattanooga, Tenn, last month, was
1,614.
Colonel Robert NJ. Nimn, well known
throughout Virginia, died at Newark
Friday.
4 woolen-mill at New Braunfels
Texas, yielded a net profit of SSl 200
last year.
The Collierville Tribune is the latest
addition to the democratic press OF Ten
ncSscc.
The Grand Lodge Of Tennessee, f. and
4. NJ, met in annual session in Nashville,
Monday.
The expenses of the city government
of Galveston, Tex, for October, amount
ed to 50, 4460S.
There was an increase of forty in the
number of post Offices in North Carolina
during October.
Taxes have been paid more promptly
this year in South Carolina than for
many years before.
4 colored man in Tennessee goes to
the State penitentiary for three years for
stealing fifty cents.
John Arnold, of Mineral county, w.
Va, raised this year ten barrels OF corn
from one ears planting.
The Council of Wheeling, w. Va, re-
fuses to encourage the introduction of
he telephone in that city.
The Groesbeck New Era says that one
fourth of the cotton gins in Texas are
destroyed by fire every year.
4 widow seventy years of age, residing
near Austin, Texas, takes care of a stock
ranche and 300 head of cattle.
Four calves were found near Talbot
ton, Ga, with their throats cut. 1t is
thought the deed was done by wildcats.
Texas papers arc complaining of an in
vasion of tramps from the north since
the beginning of cold weather up there.
During the first seven days of this
month, 32,S0l letters and packages were
handled in the Columbus { Ga.) postof-
flee.
The registration of the voters of
Charleston, S. c., closed Tuesday, the
number being l0,777, against 1856 in
1877.
The Robcsonian says there is we'll in
Robson county, North Carolina, over
100 years old, which has never failed till
this fall.
The circuit court of Rockbridge coun.
ty, Virginia, granted 4 decree last week
for the sale of the Rockbridgc alum,
springs.
4 lot of 14s Short-horn cattle, avcrag.