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Newspaper
Camden Weekly Journal
Location
Camden, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1866
Page
4
A scrambled, jokey monologue plays with jokes about lions becoming roosters, lightning, pirates, and public morals. It riffs on soldiers, maps, diseases, and marriage with ragged wordplay and dated slang, ending with a drunken temperance scene and a mock dialogue between brothers on a mission.
A village newspaper patron questions paying for papers while a printer explains custom by saying a nonpayer is not a gentleman. A Quaker advises against marrying wealthier than oneself, with a humorous anecdote about cents and value. The New York Tribune notes Cabinet resignations may be postponed awaiting presidential action, while Richmond Dispatch discusses Senate votes and public opinion on the president’s stance.
February 17 item reports Dr Hughes recently hanged appears in visions to a Teutonic butcher, causing sleepless nights and fear in his family and jail inmates. The butcher swears to seeing Hughes in a barn and speculates on the specter’s continued presence after death.
The General Land Office orders agents to collect vestiges of records and forward them to the Commissioner to supply new plots and title evidences. Citizens urged to recover or prove defenses for destroyed titles. An Augusta Constitution list notes President Johnson's policy aiding the homeless. A vessel from an Eastern port carried cannon powder cannons and ordnance for privateers and crew.
The News frames its duty as defender of the Constitution and habeas corpus against centralization and tyranny. It appeals to conservatives across the country to back its daily semi weekly or weekly publication to spread its faithful adherence to strict construction and populist union values.
The notice promotes The Semi Weekly and Weekly News journals with literary and general news content. It invites readers to send names of friends for specimen copies and lists subscription rates for New York Daily News to mail subscribers at five dollars for six months and ten dollars per year.
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