The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1890-01-02
News Items.

At Chattanooga peach trees are in
Iull bloom. Men appeared in their
shirt sleeves on Christmas day.
J.W. Hinton shot and killed his
brother, W. II. linton, town mar
shall Mt Jasper, F a, on the 10th ult.
An old family feud.
Mr. J. P. Nayrant brought to the
departments of Agriculture yester
lay branch of blooms and speci.
mems # second crop pears, perfectly
ripe.-Columbia Register.
Mrs jefferson Davis is bnsr com.
yletins the life of her husband. and
visitors are denied admission. Miss
Winnie has been notified to remain
abroad unit Il her mother meets her.
Tho Capital Stock of $4,000 has
been subscribed aud is really to be
paid in for The establishment OF =
hat manufacturing company. which
will probably be located at Co:um'
5ia.
No one can ask hon 'stly an |
hopefully to lie delivered from temp.
tation unless he has himself honest
" and firmly determined to do the
5cst he can to keep out Of it.
Memorial services were held in
Atlanta on the 26th nit, in honor Of
Henry ". Grady. Many prominent
men from all parts o! the South were
present. The fund for q monument
to Grady has reached 50 QUO.
"Raise your right hand said the
court. "Do You solemnly swear TO
tell the truth, the whole truth. and
nothing but the truth. so'-"Ilold
M. Judge" interrupted the witness;
can't YOU mitigate that sentence jnst
. little? You know I've been in
politics for a good long time"
In Florence, on the 25th ut. Mr..
O. S. Ellis received painful though
not dangerous wound from pistol
in tie hands Of ex Sheriff Berry, OF
Marion. The shooting was the out
come Of a--dispYte- between those
gentlemen. DR. Covington extracted
the ball, and Mr. Ellis is doing as
we'll MS could be expected.-Charles
ton World.
Among the farmers in North Caro-
lima there is much unrest manifested
in regard to the present mortgage
system, ana it seems its doom is
only n matter of time. 1t is fast
losing favor, and many farmers are
declaring war upon it, saying they
will suffer for many nccessarles OF
life before they will mortgage THEN
crops.
The negro exodus from North
Carolina. it il said, will assume
large proportions after the holidays
The grain crop failure down in the
eastern portion Of tue State leaves
no Inducements for the farmers to
off.r them to remain. They are
now leaving the farms in droves and
going to the nearest railway stations,
where they wait TO- immigration
agents to come and carry them any
where on any terms.
tits stated that in some parts OF
The South there has been an organ
lied effort this season to reduce the
size OF cotton bales. 1t is claimed
that the advantage of bales averag'
ing, say, $50 pounds over those
weighing $50 pounds more are great
Smaller bales can be handled muct
more easily and are not 80 apt tc
break or to cause damage to thoiI
contents.
TO MAKE TIE Cows CONE Up
Always have q lock Of nice hay or q
lick of meal in the manS r and eacH
niuht anil morning. for thu COWS, anr
there will be no need OF sending q
dog or a tired and cross lnred man
after them. They wi be on hand
at milking tine, ready to hurry :ntt
their places. and they will expires:
thci- satisfact on by iaoreas'ng tnt
contents of the milt il. Try ii
if you never have.
SMALL FAaMs.-1t is remarkable
fact that a farmer who produces
large or unusually proii'abLA~crop Of
one that has been unush.I.. sue
cessful, you will fnl thai he com
menced farming with 4 small larm
and only increased its slzs as his
means increased and only as he
could Give the same care and atteh'
tion to the aldit onal acres that ho
formerly gave to the original. Small
farms, as a rule, pay better than
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