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The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1880-02-26
SIS IS s. Smart = as you are,

Ever since that day he had gone on
being completely happy. He and Mseta
would be married by.and-by, he be-
ieved; and when he whispered that to
her, she did not gainsay him.
But Rates. whole heaven and earth
had changed.
A stranger had come to Lakeville-
worse, he had come into Meeta's very
home, where he saw her fresh as rose
o. morning, washing dishes in the
tidiest of aprons, or in pretty afternoon
dress loading the abundant tea-table
with dainty hands.
Rafe knew nobody could see what a
delightful little housewife Meeta was
thanks to the careful training of a good
without wanting to marry her
and. sure enough, Mr.. Clarence Pinkton,
the stylish stranger from Boston, bowed
to the ground before Miss Meeta, and
Immediately began to show her the
most marked attentions. So, soon the
girls head was turned. and then, alas
her heart. And this was Rates. trouble.
. Yes, he had been broughtup a farmer.
The fact did not please him as it did his
uncle, who had been as his father from
childhood. The cultivation of Hill
home. that great farm of two hundred
acres, Rafe understood perfectly; and he
was thoroughly competent to undertake
farming on a still larger scale.
He had attained to a very superior
knowledge of agriculture, but now he
would have given it all for a valueless
city standing. His high health. his
tanned cheek, his hard hands, filled his
heart with pain, for Mecta no longer
loved n farmer.
Mr.. Clarence Pinkton, with his lily
fingers, his exceeding politeless, his
ability to chat 80 affably on nothing,
had won little Meeta from him. Rates.
stout young heart gave him cruel
twinge at the thought.
In vain he tried to blame Meeta, to
whistle her down the wind; he only
succeeded in hating himself for his dis
loyalty - wished he was foppish and
smart. and vainly cast about in his
mind for means to outshine Mr.. Pinkton.
And this was RATES. trouble.
"Rafe!" sharply.
"Sir?"
"What are you Langing your head
absutp"
Rafe got out of his despondent atti-
tude.i
Its about the girl, isn't it?"
With some hesitation, the young man
confessed that it was.
"By the Lord Harry! Do you sup
pose I've made you what you are to see
your sweetheart 60 back on you for 4
picayune sort of fellow like Pink
what's-his-name? Like all girls, Meeta's
a fool; but that sha'n't matter here or
there, if you want her, Rafe, my boy"
Uncle, think it is something you
can't meddle with"
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1880-02-26
True Culture.

The highest culture is to speak no i'll.
The best reformer is the man whose eyes
Are quick to see all beauty and all worth,
And, by his own discreet, well-ordered Life
Alone, reproves the erring.
When thy gaze
Turns in on thine own soul, be most severe
But, when it falls upon tellow-man,
Let kindliness control it, and refrain
From that belittling oensure that springs forth
From common lips, like weeds from marshy
soil. Ella Wheeler.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1880-02-26
Galveston (Texas) houses on ,

+ GalVeSCOn le6aS) HOUSES OH w
streets rent much higher than thoA. ~
are more accessible, the reason being
that the tenants of the former houses do
not suffer so much from organ-grinders.
1t is leap year, of course, but after all
it doesn't look very well for a young
lady to 60 home about two o'clock in
the morning after sparkling her beau.
Livingston Freeman.
The ties that are the tenderest,
Are strongest in their clasp;
The hands that are the slenderest
They keep the hrmest grasp.
Buffalo Courier.
New Hampshire has s,535 public
schools, with an average daily attend
ance of 43,9lO pupils. Private schools
instruct 3,O66 pupils, while 1888 chill
dren between five and fifteen years at
tend no school at all.
The Welland (Can.) Telegraph says
there is not village for thirty or forty
miles back of the frontier which has not
a supply of some kind of smuggled
goods, whether it be in dry goods, hard
ware, machinery, coal oil, etc.
The Japanese make very curious
and handsome kind of copper by casting
it under water, the metal being highly
heated and the water also being hot.
The result is beautiful rose-colored
tint, which is not affected by exposure
to the atmosphere.
II druther fall down stairs than down
cellar" affirmed Rockland miss of a
very limited: number of summers,
"'cause if you fall down stairs you are
right there, but # you fall down cellar
you have to be lugged up again."
Rockland Courier.
80 A little pair OF gloves that yet
Retain the smell OF clover,
And just a tipge OF mignonette-
Turn them vaguely over,
And marvel how the girl kissed
The night she promised to be true
Could jam number seven fist
Into q paltry number two.
-NeU Orleans Democrat.
"Hurrah grass" is taking possession
of great many fine farms on the
Arkansas river bottoms. This botani-
cal specimen, on account Of Tie lives
lost in trying to kill it, is called eternity
weed. The negroes entertain super
stition that the seeds are sown by Satan.
Little Rock (Ark.) Gazette.
A drunkard at Battle Hill, Kansas,
resolved to reform or die. Putting some
deadly poison into a glass with whisky,
he locked himself in room with the
mixture. His plan was to conquer his
craving for alcohol il possible, and, if
his appetite overpowered him, kill HIM
aclfwith the, drink that satisfied it. He
was alone with the poison for six hours,
and then he drank it. His life was saved,
however, by the timely efforts of a ply
sician, and he was sent to an asylum
for inebriates.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1880-02-26

The easiest way to remove rust from
iron is rubbing it with rag dipped in
oil of tartar. The rust will disappear
immediately.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1880-02-26
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

American sweet potatoes are becom-
ing popular in English markets.
Fig trees bear fruit in California the
second year after being planted.
A sermon can be heard in the Arctic
sections at distance of two miles.
Good temper is like a sunny day,
shedding brightness on everything.
The world is said by astronomers to
be at least five hundred million year
old.
The best boy in school" occasionally
bankers TO throw q paper wad.-Fres
Press.
When a man falls down his temper
generallY L gets up before he does.-Bos
ton Transcript.
Maysville, KY, has decided by a vote
of 500 to 172 to allow hogs the freedom
of her streets.
Five and half millions of dollars are
spent every year by the Russian govern
ment on military schools.
The punning poetry popularity pub
lished probably proceeds principally
from Punnassus.-Pkiladelphia Bulletin
Give us, yells the Philadelphia Chron-
icle-H Herald, the dollars of this country,
and we don't care who takes the Gen.
sus.
In the imperial public library Of st
Petersburg there are more than 400
portraits of Peter the Great, collected
from every country in Europe.
The farm products '6f Illinois for 1879
amount to 5000, ,0OO, 900, said to be
double the product of all the gold and
silver mines in the United States.
Since the hour we were relieved of
our woodshed paddock, we have learned
that eternal vigilance is the price Of
kinding wood. Konkers Statesman.
The youthful minor pants for twenty-onc,
The statesman pants for Office and haul,
The poet pants for an undying fame,
The tailor only tits who pants tor all.
-Keokuk Gate City,
Pop corn makes nice refreshment for
cold winter nights; but beYare, young
man; don't let Amanda Jane do the pop
ping. It's leap-year syracuse Herald.
The american Register says the Uni
ted States may he regarded as the para
disc of women. It would be if there
were Adams enough to 60 round.-Bos-
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1880-02-26
Effects of Heat Up0n Meat,

Prof. johnson, in his "Cnemistry of
Common Life" says that well-cooked
piece of meat should be full of its own
gravy. In roasting, therefore, it should
be exposed to a quick fire, that the e1-
ternal surface may be made to contract
at once, and the albumen to coagulate
before the juice has had time to escape
from within. The same observations
apply to boiling; when piece of beet
or mutton is plunged into boiling water,
the outer part contracts, the albumen
which is near the surface coagulates,
and the internal juice is prevented either
from escaping into the water by which
it is surrounded, or from being diluted
or weakened by the admission of water
amongit. When cut up, therefore, the
meat yields much gravy and is rich in
flavor. Hence, a beefsteal1 or mutton
chogis done quickly, and over quick
fraG at the natural juices may be re-
On the other%aa;f, if the meat
ugkns sa,slH5zs fireA S1nsu6e-
[!1n Il I'll
slrMu Ad the flesh PM y and become
dry, hard and unsavory. Or, if it b
put in cold, tepid water, which is after
wards brought to boil, much of tn
aibumen is extracted before it coagu
iates, the natural juices, for the mos
part, flow out. and the meat served i
in nearly tasteless state. Hence, t.
prepare good boiled meat, it should n
once be put into water al
ready brought to boil. But tt
make beef tea, mutton broth ant
other meat soups, the flesh should b
put into cold water, and this afterwart
very slowly warmed, and finally boiled
The advantage derived from simmering
"a term not unfrequert in cooker.
books-depends very much upon the eff
fects of slow boiling, as above ex
plainei.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1880-04-01
The Grave of MIR. Calhoun.

Every South Carolinlau and every
true Southron must feel for the memory
of Mr.. Calhoun something of the rev.
erence with which be regards his own
ancestors. The correspondence which
has recently occurred with regard to the
removal of his remains, is not therefore
without a deep and tender interest for
US all, and We are pleased to see that
his remains will be permitted to rest
where they are inferred in the city of
Charleston. No filter resting-pace could
be found for them than the metropolis
of the State in which his name and
memory will ever be held sacred and
honored with a reverence which can
never grow cold or die out.
Shakespeare says, "Curst be be who
moves my bones;" and We have always
felt it as q sort of desecration which
should not be committed unless under
circumstances of peculiar emergency.
No such circumstances appear to US to
exist in this case, and we therefore hope
that the descendants and relatives of
our illustrious statesman whom we, in
South Carolina, venerate as the Virgin.
ians venerate Washington, will deter
mine to leave his remains where the
world may see how South Carolinians
will honor him, and where the grand
children and great grandchildren of the
present generation may make pilgrim
ages to his tomb and catch the inspira~
tion of high patriotism and noble
ambition from SO exalted an example.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1880-04-01
Camping Out.

Scarcely more than a decade of years
ago, Thad Stevens, the great Commoner,
with strong spiritsin a very weak
physical structure, declared that was
'not only absurd, but monstrous to
think for a moment that the Constitu-
tion, written by our fathers, should be
adhered to when it did not suit to DO
So" In short, he said that he was
camping entirely outside of it, and that
he had no apologies to make for it, as it
was desperate disease that be was try
ing to doctor, and he didn't care plea
yune how he did it. "There is an un-
written Constitution, and do not pro-
pose to coat over the old one with all
sorts OF legal constructions, but when
necessary I mean to 60 right out OF it."
Every one knows that this old fellow
had in him more of hatred to the South,
perhaps, than any man living. His.weak
body held in tia furnace offre as hot as the
internal regions and his trembling tongue,
tho exponent of his seethiug brain, never
failed to fash the keen, sharp lance of
his deep and bitter hatred to the South
But with all of this, the old demon was
brave and consistent. He had his God,
and he made ono bones loved
persecution, and he served it faithfully.
He was a devotee of mischief; but he
never failed to stand to his colors, and
on this account he did have respect
even among those who hated him as
they did the devil.
At the time of this remarkable decla-
ration of Stevens, he was lashed from
every quarter, and descrvedly so, we
think. Ee was the target of every gun
fred from the Democratic camp, and
his bold anuouncemnt was declared to
be the rapid decay which would soon
throw down the pillow of the Republic.
However, time softens and changes, and
Sunset Cox, the other day, when intro
ducing some remarkable measure for the
relief of the suffering Irish, said: CAL
though it is not constitutional. yet the
Constitution must rest and be quiet
when oropp-u ae t'.U ~. --c ------y."
This, in our mind, is the same rose by
another name, and though mercy may,
and is far more commendable than
hatred and vindictiveness, yet, indeed,
why damn one and halloo the other,
when both in open debate declare that
they care not for the Constitution !?
That jewel of consistency is dimmcd by
such course, and we are forced to ask,
what can we expect from politicians ?
We have reached that period when con-
stitutions amount to little. and we don't
suppose there is much prospect of a
brighter time. What will be next, we
cannot tell. We have an expression
from both sides now, and We would not
be surprised if the best thing that we
could do would be to burn up the whole
concern. 1t was buried at Appomattox,
and it is wrong to honor dead parch-
ment.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1880-04-01
South Carolina Railroad.

Trains on the Camden Branch run daily,
except Sundays On Columbia Bianch, only
the night trains run daily. On Augusta
Branch all trains run daily. All other
trains run daily except Sundays. Sleeping
cars on oil night trains-berths only 81 30.
Passengers taking the 2 Is p m train to
Columbia will have to remain over in King
Vile l2 hours. Those taking the 40 p IN
train from Augusta will have to remain over
in Kingville 6 hours. Those taking the
9 90 m train from Charleston will have to
change cars at Branchville. THAI Is p m
train from Camden is the only one to make
connection at Columbia with day trains on
c.. C. s. A. r. r. for Charlotte and oil
points North. The I 90 m train from
Camden and Is p m train from Columbia
connect with trains of Greenville and Col
umbia Railroad 10 and from oil points on
that road. The Is p m train from Cam
den connects at Augusta with all trains di-
vercing from that place both South and
West. Connections are made for Tuesdays |
and Saturdays steamers from Charleston !.
to Florida, aud on Wednesdays and Satur-
DAVIS with steamers for New York by 2 10
D IN train. For information and tickets to
any point in the United States, apply to
JAS. JONES, Ag't, Camden, S. O.
JOHN B. PECK,
General superintendent,
DC. ALLEN, General Pass. Agent.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1880-04-01
No Middle Men,

Cotton bought for them IS shipped
through to Europe and other places.
Planters, Merchants and others taking
in cotton on liens, barter or town currency,
will find it to their interest to call on me
before selling or shipping their cotton TO
their factors, as they will save from three
to four dollars per bale. | am prepared to
buy from one TO five hundred bales at any
time. The HIGHEST CASH PRICES
PAID IN GREENBACkS.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-07-17
HE Is HANGED.
oHAsTINE cox EXECUTED IN N. Y.
Proceedings frsm Governor Cor.
neII-CaIm and Self Possessed,
His Lips Moving iu silent
Prayer ScaHOld Scenes

New York, July l6, --Chastine Cox was
hanged at s:37 a. M. He died in sixteen
minutes.
Cox passed quiet night, retiring between
elsven and twelve O'Clock and falling into a
deep slumber before two o'clock. His coun-
sci and friends were unremitting Yesterday in
their efforts to procure astay Of proceedings,
waiting upon Governor Cornell, who was in
the city, and continuing their lsbors until a
late hour. AT 1857 message WAS received
at the Toombs bearing the fatal words "The
governor refuses to interfere" At few
minutes past five o'clock Cox was awakened
and quietly rose from his bed. He did not
exhibit in the slightest degree fear of any
kind. He spoke to no one, bu,
was absorbed, and probably en-
gagged in mental prayer. He seemed
under no religious excitement and WAS out
wardly calm, seft-possessed and even cheer.
full. AT $3.50 he called Deputy Aarons and
requested him to notify Rev. Mr.. Cooke that
he was ready to receive him, and Mr.. Cooke
went into the cell. He met him at the door
and shook hands with him cordially. After
religious exercises, Cox ate a hearty breakfast
and then more prayers we're said, until the
arrival of the sheriff and his deputies. About
s o'clock Cox was taken from his cell to the
gallows. The way was up a corridor to the
entrance of the court yard, directly under
the Bridge Of Signs. Sheriff Bowen and
Under Sheriff Stevens came first; then fol-
lowed Cox, with Rev. Drs. Russell, Stewart,
Cooke, Law and Proctor. The black cap
was on the head of the condemned man and
the fatal moose dangled from his neck, His
arms we're pnioned at the elbows. He
walked with firm step and composed de-.
meanor. AS the procession neared the gal
lows he looked at IL with
seeming GOODNESS; then his eyes
dropped and his lips moved in prayer,
as he took his station beneath the cross
piece. The moose was then hooked into the
pendant rope and the black cap drawn over
his face One of the ministers talked TO the
condemned in u low tone, and continued UNI
til motoned to retire. Heretofore plat
form, or floor, for the culprit TO stand upon
has always been layed. This tins the
doomed man stood upon the Belgian pave
ment with which the yard is paved. There
was only an instant Of suspense. When the
executor, hidden behind the board screen at
the end of the gallows, was signalled by the
sheriff, and cut with an axe the cord holding
the heavy weight the condemned rose four
feet simultaneously with the sound of the
axe, and then, with rebound, he fell back
Then nsued contortions of the body
and contractions of the muscles usual in cases
of death by strangulation. A minute later
and theso had ceased. Shortly after all was
still. A coroner's jury had been sworn in,
and after brief inquest the body was re-
moved by the undertaken. The funeral will
take place on Sunday from the colored
church in Fifteenth street.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-07-17
limited Odd Fellows

Philadelphia, July 16.-The third quarterly
meeting for the current year of the sub-com-
mittee of the managers of the Grand United
Order of Odd Fellows of America convened
to-day. The transactions at the meeting
we're the planning of districts through their
urislction--the North American,
British Possessions and West
Indies. Dispensations were granted
to thirteen new subordinate lodges; one past
masters council and one most venerable pa
triarch, the highest branch of the order
Reports from various districts show the past
quarter to have been very prosperous one
for the order, there having been over fifty
lodges, councils and patriarchs established,
principally in the southern and western por-
tions of the United States.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-07-17
MAZDA CONFEDERATION.
AT BRADFORD, PA.
Railroad Rivalry.

Charleston, IS. C., July le.-The purchas-
ers of the Greenville & Columbia railroad NJ
auction sale in April last here, fled petition
in the state court claiming the road WIS
knocked down to them at $2S93 COO
and that bids subsequently received
we're irregular, not bona fde, and
void, They pray that they be adjudged en-
titled to take the road at that price, which Il
the highest legal bid. The petition is yeri-
lied by affidavit. Application ives made 10
Judge Hudson for stay of proceedings
and an order was entered to-day, suspeniinr
all proceedings in regard to compliance wiz
the terms of sale for twenty DAYS, and The
case will come up for hearing during the
present term of court.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-07-17

the Democratic party in the whole country.
| now hand it to you, and permit me to say
that think yon ought t, feel proud of ii.
You have our best wishes for your continued
health and prosperity"
In reply, Mr.. Tilden spoke as follows
Mr.. STEVENSON President of the Dem
ocratic national conventions | thank you for
the kind terms in which you have expressed
the communication you make to me, the So
luton of which enables the Democratic rty
of the United States to vindicate the right
of the people to choose their chief magis
trate IA right violated in 1870 and at the
same time relieves me from the burden of the
canvass and four years of administration, is
most agreeable to me. My sincere good
wishes and cordial cooperation as a private
citizen attend the ilustrious soldier whom
the Democracy have designated as their
standard bearer in the presidential canvass.
l congratulate you upon the favorable pros.
poets with which that canvass has been COM
menced and the promise it affords of com.
plete and final success"
Members of the committee were then intro.
duced to Mr.. Tilden individually, and soon
after took their leave.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-07-17
Brighton Reach Races.

Brighton Beach, July 15.-First race yes
terday, for all ages, three.fourths of mile,
won by Lillian, with Kate Clark second and
Mister third. Time 1;20l.
Second race. for all ages, mile heats; First
heat Democrat won, Speculation second and
Ben Hill third. Second heat, Speculation
won, Ben Hill sscon and George the Fourth
third, Democrat dstanced. Time 1:49A-
1;50i.
Third race, selling race, mile and quarter
dash: Stark won easily by three lengths,
with Bosrdman second, Round Dance third.
Time 2:173.
Fourth race, handicap, for all ages, mile
and half, over six hurdles Bay Rum won,
with Ventilation second and Dalgasan third.
Time 3:05.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-07-17
Galveston Quarantines.

SneCiaI IN thp Hnrnll
Colvos,on INV 10 rho,
"alvesIon, July lo'-lhe board OF health
tonight held meeting to take action rela-
tive to quarantining against New Orleans,
which resulted in the adontion If tho follow.
;,. ,.,,,;o - ''' ''''o"
ing i's''U''ons
Resolved, That it is the sense ofthis meet
ing that the season is advanced to the time at
which yellow faver mo-, anu a,u !.
tho locsltv in wb;oh Ary u"s appear III
vsilel ,he mast season and , =, ,b;n mas mas Pre-,
m means fnr rece;u;ne, roa''1 .n's 1oaa nhs
direct inflammation s 81 isu'af; re''aoie anu
condition Of nor,o " or rIe sanitary nIoncs
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-07-17
Investigating Old Frauds.

New York, July l5.-Commissioner Day.
export was examined to-day before the sem
atorial investigation committee as to his
knowledge of alleged fraudulent naturaliza-
ton papers. He claimed that on the fraud
ulent papers of 1868 one man had been a
witness for 2,l66 applicants; another for
1897, and ten had been witnesses for s, 235.
He exhibited papers to the committee, and
claimed that the witnesses were regularly at.
tached to the court for the purpose of
swearing.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-07-17
NO YELLOW FEVER.
Information That New Orleans In
NaPerfectIy Healthy and Reports
10 the Contrary I'm
founded.
Special to the Herald.

Special to the Herald.
New Orleans, July l6.-There is absolutely
no occasion for alarm on account of the re-
ports alleging the existence of yellow fever in
New Orleans. The people of Texas can feel
assured that all such reports are uLfounded
and talk of quarantine unwarrsnted. There
has been but one case of alleged yellow fever
in this city this entire year. 1t was not fully
established that this, even, was genuine yellow
fever. New Orleans is now as healthy as any
city in the United States and from all indica-
lions will remain so throughout the summer.
THERE'S no fear felt by our people.
ANOTHER DISPATCH.
To F. Y. Simonds, Dallas, Texas.
New Orleans, July 16.-Ths city is perfect
ly healthy. Not a single case of yellow
fever. WACKERBARTH & JOSEPH.