The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1879-04-17
Local Brevities.

The humming birds have arrived.
MIR. I. B. Alexander has ripe straw
berries.
Glory! The Branch has new pas
senger coach.
Gloryl Glory!! The Branch has
another locomotive.
He was a stranger, aud friendless,
and they took him in"
H. went over into Fairfield on a
counting expedition last woek.
The Thorne Comedy Company played
five nights in Lane last week.
Judge DeP,ss has removed his Office
TO the C!yburn Block, up stairs
Numbers of ladies made their ap-
pearance in new spring costumes last
Sunday.
Mr.. j. E. DeLoache killed two large
trout at one shot last week, in McRae's
old pond.
N.arly everybody ia Town Creek
neighborhood commenced planting cot
ton last Monday.
The average citizen is now eating
spring onions, raddish.s, lettscs and
other green truck.
If our new Council wish to distin-
guish themselves, they should pass q
law collaring dogs.
We learn that there are two COM
petitors in Camden for the prize story
of the Charleston Weekly Neps.
Stop at the DeKalb House, and you
will get fed so we'll that you will forget
you ever had any poor relatives.
1t was reported that young James
Clyburn had returned here last week,
but we have seen no one that saw him.
DR.. Armstrong hag sent herd of
cattle over to Capt. s L. Lang's PLAN
tation, to fatten there on pastures
green.
The last act of the old council was to
destroy 5000 in town currency-mak-
ing 81, 800 that they have destroyed up
to date.
The latest style is for the young gen.
tlenan to walk on the left of the young
lady and hold up her train with his
right hand.
A co!ored man was in town Friday
with dry goods box full Of fish. He
caught them with seine in one of the
lakes on the river.
A man who habitually, fills his bip
pocket with implements of death should
be regarded as an enemy to law, and
order, and society.
The pulpit for the new Methodist
Church has been finished, and reflects
credit upon the workmanship Of Mr.
E. O. McCreight, who constructed it.
There is a negro woman living in
Coleton county who is forty.six year,
old. and is the mother of twenty
children, the eldest Of whom is about
thirty years ofage now.
Mr.. H. f. Beard has leased the SAL
mond lot, on Lyttleton street, and will
plant diversified crop there. He has
built fence around the lot that the
geese cant get chrough. -
We have employed new carrier ~
deliver the JOURNAL to town subscri-
bers. IF any Of our readers fail to re-
ceive their paper, they will coufer fa-
vor by reporting the fact at this Office
The editor of the Union Times has
two coats. How he can afford such a
luxury on the profits of country news
paper, is what we want to know. How
many shirts have you got, brother
Stokes7
Geo. P. Rowell & Co.'s Directory
places Camden five miles east of Wa
feree river, and puts down the pupula.
tion at 1,OO7. These figures must be
correct. or how would that Z have got
there
A young man was at church last Sun
day with a button hole bouquet of
gerauium leaves and collard blossoms.
His sweetheart, who gave it to him,
told him that the pale yellow flowers
were lictomia coxlionica.
As. the fishing season has opsncd
several owners Of ponds, where fish are
taken, have posted notices around
them forbidding the shooting or gigging
of any of the fish in them-fshing with
hook and line being the only mode
allowed for capturing them.
Rev. A. W. Lamar has preached two
thousand seven hundred sermons in two
thousand seven hundred days. There
was far more good done for the hums
race by them than was done by the per.
son who walked three thousand mile:
in three thousand quarter hours,
gouncfI PROCEEDINGS.