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The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1877-03-01
TATE OF SOUTH, CAROLINA
County Of Pickens.
IN THE PROBATE COURT

WHEREAS, John J. Lewis, Clerk Of the
w Court of Common Pleas, in and for the
County and State aforesaid, has made suit in
this Court, to grant him Letters of Admins
tration, of the Dereliot Estate and effects of
A. j. Stewart, deceased, late Of the County
and State aforesaid
These are therefore to cite and admonish
all and singular the kindred and creditors Of
the said a. j. Stewart. deceased, that they
be and appear in the Court of Probate. TO be
held at Pickens Conf House, on Wednesday,
the 29th day of March next, at 10 o'clock, a..
m, to show cause if any they have, why the
said administration should not be granted.
Given under my hand'and official seal, this
the 18th February, 1877.
w. g. FIELD, J.P.P.o.
Feb 15, 1877 & s..L-. 23yt 6
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AS9Oo HSSBo
FALL AND WINTER GOODS !

VOUR ATTENTION rs MOST RESPECT
Il fully called to the largest and decidedly
the CHEAPEST Stock Of Goods that has
ever been exhibited in West Greenville; con-
ssing of DRY GOODS, BOOTS, SHOES,
HATS, HARDWARE, CROCKERY,
GROCERIES, etc., etc.
Our prices are 80 low that no house this
side Of New York can undcr-sell us.
We sell Goods strictly for CASH, which
enables Us to make the above declaration.
We keep constantly on hand q largo lot Of
DOORS, SASH and BLINDS, at prices that
defy competition.
We also keep on hard large lot of thoss
celebrated GRANGE PLOW STOCKS, otO
which We invite your attention.
We have also connected to our Store.
n Large WAGON YARD, with we'll Of Good
Water, which is Free and Open to ALL.
CELY <& BROTHER
Greenville s. c., October 1 1876. noe
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Judge Cooke will be here next
Monday, for the purpose of hearing
and .disposing of such cases as do not
require jury. ..| '.|.
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Court commences at this place next.
Monday. ,hI@ 4j-1s1a. ...s#....
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Miss Alice Mckinney is the Post>
mistress at Eighteen Mile, instead of
Miss Margaret Mckinney, as stated
by as last week.
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Imaginary evils trouble some people
more than real ones. a., ,rf-
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Eggs have been selling at tsix cents
per dozen in this market.
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LOCAL. I,FFEMS.
This is court week at WalhaIIa.

Northern Irish potatoes are selling
in this market at $3.50 a bushel.
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. ..... Boston, january II. I07A.
This oertihes that have recommended tho ues a,
Dr. TUFTS ENpectoFant for diseases Of the lungs
FOR tho past two years. ana TO nay knowledge many
pottles havo been used by my patients with sho hap
piest results. In two whore itas thought oo
EnedoonBomptIon had talEon place tho Expeotorant
efrecSed cure. n. II. 6PRAoUB, nd.
"We can not speak too highly OF Or. Tutt'a Eye
pectoPant, and for tho sake of suffering humanity
hope IL may become more generally known" ."-CHRIs
TIAN ADyoCATB. DID,. ..,. -
Sold BY Druggists, Price S1.OO @ ..
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VICK'S
Vick's Floral Guide

u beautiful Quarterly journal, finely illustrated
and containing and elegant colored Flower
Plate with the first number Price only rs
cents for the year. Tho first No. for 1877
just issued in German and English.
Vick's Flower and Vegetable Garden, in
90 cents; with elegant cloth covers 81. 90.
Vicks Calalogue-300 Illustrations, only q
cents. Address,
JAMES EIGK, Rochester, N. Y.
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The State of South Carolina
PICKENs COUNTY,

The State of South Carolina
PICKENs COUNTY.
In the Court Of Common Pleas.
Elihu Griffin, Plaintiff, against F. G. Parsons,
}. G. G. Parsons, and w. 8. Williams, De-
fendants.
Summons for Money Demand.
TOW. s. Williams, Defendant in this Action.
iVOU are hereby summoned and required
l. to answer the complaint in this action,
Of which a copy is filed in the Clerks of
fee of Pickens County, South Carolina,
and to serve copy OF your answer on
tho subscribers at their Office, ct Pickens
Court House, within twenty days after the
service Of this summons on you, exclusive Of
the day Of service.
: If you fail to answer this complaint within
the time aforesaid, the plaintiff will apply to
The Court for judgment against you for Two
thousand, two hundred and fourteen 50-1O0
dollars, with interest at the rate Of per
cent per annum, from the 9th day of Febeuary,
one thousand eight hundred and seventy six
and costs.
Dated January 26th, A. D. 1877.
HOLCOMBE s. CHILD,
Plaintiffs Attorney.
To w. 8. Williams: Take notice that the
complaint herein was filed in the Office of the
Clerk of Court for Pickens County on the Goth
January, 1877.
HOLCUMBE g. CHILD,
Plaintiffs Attorney.
Feb l, 1877 81 6
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/" WON'T 40 TO FLORIDA"

- Rs TUFTS
Dear 5irs-When in Aiken, last winter. used your
8xpectorant for my cough, and realised moro benot
from it than anything ever took. 30 wen that
win not 60 20 RloFida next winter as Intended
send mo ono deSan bottles. by express for scnao
fFtendSs AhFRMD GUSHING,
1a3 West Thirty first Btreet,
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SIS to $50 per day at home. Samples worth
ST. free. Stinson & Co., Portland Maine.
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or EXTRA FINE MIXED CARDS, with
OO name, 10 cents, post paid. l.. JONES g.
Co., Nassau, N. Y,
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-01-04
A Word to Parents.

Not long ago a teacher in one of III
public schools was convicted OF having
had in his possession certain vile pam
phlets and pictures, which he used for
the Generalization of his pupils. The
mans sentence was q heavy one, but
there was probably no father or mother
in New York who would not willingly
have doubled it, to be sure that their
children were safe from the corrupting
influence of such a monster. We wish
to warn them, as we have warned them
before, that there is just as corrupting
m influence daily set before children
who pass through the streets on their
way to school, which parents appear
strangely to ignore. mean the flash
newspapers and cheap novels which
are offered for sale to half-grown boys
and girls by their vendors, " thrust
g~ratultously into their hands as they
pass, with the certainty that they will
buy the succeeding numbers. Very
few girls and fewer boys, unless they
have been ~forewarned, can resist the
tempting dramatic pictures of kneeling
women with streaming hair, braves
armed to the teeth, ETC., etc. The
opening chapters seem harmless
enough, and the boy or girl, reared
most probably in a refined and Chris
tian home, plunges unchecked into this
off2l OF kitchen literature.
These papers and magazines to which
we advert would not strictly fall under
the prohibition against obscene publ
cations, and SO they manage to escape
the law; but the views of life they
present are those taken from the gros-
shop and gambling hell their very at
mosphere is crime. A boy who would
be simply disguised by the open vice in
publications which the law prohibits
accepts the concealed poison in these
without suspicion. When we read (as
in our exchanges of last week. of muir
derers of fourteen years old, of burglars
of nine, of delicately reared girls in the
first bloom of innocent youth leaving
their homes and coming to this city i n
the mad desire for adventure, to be
rescued on the very verge of ruin, we
can trace the motive cause in every case
to these publications, or their
dramatization on the boards
of variety theaters. In even
the best class of juvenile literature be-
longing to the present day there is too
much of fever and unrest. The child's
brain, crammed and forced at school,
is still further heated by tales of wild
adventure or fantastic improbability.
Robinson Crusoe and the Parents AS
sistant are voted dull by our boys;
even SCOTS magic wand moves too
slowly to enchant them. But if our best
juvenile literature be thus open to
criticism, what is to be said of this the
worst and lowest deep?
We speak this warning advisedly to
parents. 1t would be well if they would
pay closer attention not only to the
books which are bought for them to
study at school, but to those which they
buy themselves to study outside.-NeW
York Tribune,
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-01-04
The Distance to the Sun.

Light, which travels with amazing
velocity, required eight minutes to
reach the earth. Sound would require
fourteen years to travel from the sun to
the earth, so that if we saw an explo-
sion at it's surface it would be fourteen
years before we could hear it. But if
we could place a rod of iron FROM the
earth to the sun and then strike it with
a hammer on one end the sound would
reach the opposite end in about eleven
months. But perhaps the most singu-
lar illustration of the SUMS distance was
drawn from the human economy. SEN
sation took a certain time to travel to
the nerve c~enters, and if we could i'm
agine a human infant with an arm long
enough to reach the sun it would take
$50 years for the sensation to reach him
after burning his fingers; in other
words, he would be dead several years
before the sensation of burning could
reach him. The suns distance vas so
uncomfortable that it was only by max
ing such comparisons that we could
form any idea of it at all.-PrCfeSSor
YC1nH'S Lecture.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-01-04
HWhat's in q Name!"

There are some curious specimens of
nomenclature in the LIST of members to
the Forty-ffth Congress. Hilary A.
Herbert is the name of a member from
Alabama. Romualdo Pacheco comes
in from the Fourth California District
by n vote; Dabney is the Of
one of the Georgia delegation; Gabe
Bouck~ comesfrom Wisconsin; Ashcroft.
is from Illinois; Benoni Fuller. will
come from Indiana, and Sobrieski Ross
from Pennsylvania. There will be two
MILESTONE from New York and one
from Kentucky. Elan is the name of
a Louisiana member, Muldrow that of
q Mississippi member; Bland was re-
elected from Missouri, and the Nevada
members name is Wren. From New
York we have Solomon Bundy, the
name of a hero in nursery rhymes, and
a man named Tramper. From Virginia
will come a man named Pridemore,
from Iowa Mr.. Sapp, and from Wis
consin Mr.. Bragg and Mr.. Pound. In
the present Congress there are three
Harrises, and two each of Baker, Bag
ley, Brown, Burchard, Caldwell, Clarke,
Clark, Hamilton, Hewitt, Jones, Lam
ders. Mackey, Phillips, Vance, Walker,
Wallace, Wells, Wilson, and Wood. In
the next Congress there will be. four
lClarkes, three Evanses, three Harrises,
and three Townsends. The list of dou--
bles is as follows: Baker, Cox, Cald-'
well, Davis, Finley, Hewitt, Jones, Pat
terson, Rice, Smith sStone, White, and
Willis. Scott Wike is the most pecu-
liar name on the rolls of the present
House. Gabe Bouke, of Wisconsin, will
probably be 81 noticed in the next Con
gress. Milton will be the most, COM
NOR Christian name; there will be five
Miltons.-WasbGngtoe Cor. Graphic.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-01-04
The prisoners were duly found gull

The prisoners were duly found gull
ty and sentenced, and then there ros
the somewhat perplexing question as
to what should be done with the re-
captured plumber. A host of claimants
struggled for its possession. The Attor-
~ney-general demanded it as q preroga-
tive of the crown. The city of London
insisted ON q clause in its charter
which gave it a title to the goods of all
felons convicted in. that city. The
Southeastern Railway advanced the
theory that it was the proceeds of the
property stolen from them, it's nature
changed, but its title ~undiverted.
One Saward, who was counsel for
the prisoners, set up a lien on it for his
fees, while Mrs. Tester and Fanny Kay
each claimed a share.
After an extended argument, the rail-
way company was allowed to take
whatever it could prove conclusively to
be the direct fruits of the robbery OF
which it had been the victim. The
residue was turned over to Sir Richard
Mayne, Chief Commissioner of Police,
with the understanding that it should
be applied to the support of Fanny Kay
and her child.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-01-04
THE PEsCEeEGAE.

1nheritors OF vast wealth are proverbfallv
spendthrifts. The golden ore is dug from
the mine, refined and coined by the Labor of
other hands and the sweat of other brows.
Liz children playing with an expensive toy,
they can form no just estimate Of its value.
When the donor weighed it, he cast into the
balance so many days Of UTrcgnittitg and fa-
tlguiHS toll, so many anxious and slcepless
nights, so much Sclf-dcnial and so much care.
But the inhcritOr into his balance throws only
pleasure. The one values it by what it cost
him; the other, for what it win purchase.
Liz The p~rodigal in The Scripture parable,
he thoughtlcssIy eXpcnds il to crafty the
caprice and cravings OF his nature. Then
comes the last Scenc-the misery, the re-
morse, ard The long and wcarisome Journey
back 10 the home of frugal industry. But
there are other prodigals. On her favorites
her richest t-Casure-health. But the pTodi-
gal values it Tightly, for it cost him naught,
and rccklCSsly squanders it in riOtous living.
Present pleasure obscures future want. Soon
the curtain rises on the last scene: We see
him helpless, impoverished - the rich
treasures Of body and mind al lost-in mis-
cry and despair. RemOrscful Conscience
holds up to him the mirror of memory. In
his oBn reckless folly he perceiyes the cause
OF his present pain. He resolves to return.
The Journey is long ann tedious, but if he
persevcringly follows the right road, he will
at length sec the haven of his hopes in the
distance, and Nature, seeing her invalid
child afar Oft, will comc out to meet him,
and receive him back with love and blessing.
10 find the right road homeward, the suffer-
ing prOdigal should read 1.-THE Peoples
Common Sense Medical Adviser" Therein
1t is completely mapped out, its landmarks
all Indicated and its milestones all num-
bcrcd. Read it. Price $50 postage pre-
pald). Address the author and publisher,
Il. V. Pierce, Nj. d., Buffalo, n. Y.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-01-04

ga popular impression has gained
ceeded in surprising General Lee at the
battle of Charlottesville, in his cross
ing of the river Rappahannoek. GEN
'eral Lee said to me during the ten days
i staid with him in 1857: II was much
surprised to e your history of that
battle favor such an idea. 1t was
no secret move of General Hooker's.
AS he was situated, it was impossible to
tell whether he menaced Fredericks-
burg or my communications. l had to
wait till he showed his hand, as he did
in crossing the. river, to make proper
preparations to oppose him. Indeed,
real surprises in war are much less
common than is usually supposed. 10
With the above incident, in his lee
tnre, "Reminiscences of a War Cor
respondent" delivered before the
Brooklyn Teachers Association Friday
afternoon, Professor William Swinton,
an ex-war correspondent, illustrated
how necessary it is for HISTORIANS to
carefully study both sides+ "The COM
mon misconceptions of what battles
really aFes are sometimes very lu-
dicrous1 said the lecturer. San artist
once asked-megto criticise his picture al
General heridan as he appeared direct.
ly after hisfamous ride. General Sher-
idan was. made TO appear like avery
Mars, whom he does not much resem-
bic. He has more of a Punch and
Judy element in his character,
In the picture he sat on a -eoIos-
sal charger, was dressed in faultless
garb, had epaulettes and d typical mil
.itary hat with whiteaplume, and -four
ishedin his hand thetraditional Strand. )
His soldiers were in theform of a beau
tiful phalanx. Ife1s like turning three
or four somersaults round the studio,
but contented myself with telling the
artist that his picture would more truly
represent the original if Sheridan were
painted with a crumpled army cap,
with spatters OF mud instead of spangles
on his clothes, and his menintWosrnall
Irregular lines behind trees, Astumps
and rocks" "A respected New York
City editor, now deceased" continued
the lecturer, "visited the front with a
stove-pipe hat. The hat became the
immediate subject for fun and chatting.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-01-04
4 Valuable Medical treatise.

The edition for 1877 of the sterling Meai-
cal Annual, Known as Hostetter's Almanac,
is now ready, and may be obtained, free of
cost, of druggists and general country deal
ers in all parts Of the United States and
British America, and indeed in every civil
lied portion of the Western Hemisphere.
This Almanac has been issued regularly at
the commencement of every gear for over
onc-tifth of II century. 1t combines, with
the soundest practical advice for the preser-
walton and restoration of health. a large
amount Of interesting ana amusing light
reading, and the calendar, astronomical cal
culations, chronological. items, etc, are pre-
entirely accurate. The issue OF Hostetter's
Almanac for 1877 will probably be the larg-
est edition of a medical work ever published
in any country. The proprietors, Messrs.
Hostctter d Smith, Pittsburgh, Pa, on re-
ceipt Ola twO-cenI stamp, will forward 6
copy Icy mail to any person who cannot pro-
cure one in his neighbO?hOOd.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-01-04
an ALONE.
BY JOAQUIN MILLER.

The sea dove some twin shadow has,
The lark has loves in seas of grass,
The wild beast trumLets back his VOW,
the squirrel laughs alel 6 his bough;
But /, / am as alone, alas!
As yon white moon when white clouds pass
Al lonely and unloved, alasl
AS clouds that weep and drop and pass.
Oh, maiden, singing silver sweet,
AT cabin door, in field of corn,
Where woodbines Irvine for thy retreat
Sing sweet through all thy summer morn,
For love is landing at thy feet,
In that fair isle in seas OF corn.
But I, / am unloved INT lorn,
AS winter winds of winter morn.
The ships, black bellied, climb the sea,
The seamen seek their loves on land,
And love and lover, hand in hand,
60 singing, glad as glad can be,
But nevefmOre shall love seek me.
BY blowy sea or broker land,
BY broken wild or willow tree,
Nay, nevermore shall love seek me.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-01-04

Come out OF that II soldier says.
Another, 1 know you're in it, because 1
see your legs dangling down. Still
another: Boys, he's one OF them fel-
lows that goes up North and writes
cords aboutu bein' eager for the fray
In one of General Grants most impor-
tant interviews with General Sheridan
the conversation ran much like this:
sAre You ready, Philip yes swell,
go INF Scores of important interviews
between generals, were no more mag
niloauentt than this.'-NeW York World.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-01-04

Newspaper enterprise is not APP
preciated in France. A reporter of the
Paris Figaro was anxious to get con-
elusive news of an interesting murder
case, and, calling on the surgeon who.
had examined the victim, he obtained
the doctors report by representing
himself as a police agent. The Figure
got ahead of its contemporaries, but
the enterprise of the reporter was re-
warded. by 10 days in Jail.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-01-04
CATARRH
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Prompted by afellow-teeling for those afflicted with
Catarrh,l wish to add my testimony in behalf of SAM
FoRD'S RADICAL CURE FOR CATAREH. / have been
Iorely afflicted with this fearful disease for four years,
and have tried every known remedy without avail.
until bought a bottle of the above CURE from you,
which gave me almost instant relief. 1t being a con-
as well as a local remedy, I believe 1t to be
all that is claimed for it, a Radical Cure for Catarrh.
DENVER .s sept sr IS. 49, ssafS' With W Jens ahh Bliss { Co.
GREATLY AFFLICTED.
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snd cured it with two bottles OF the above CURE.
About o year afterwards / was again taken with Ca
tarrh quite severely, and Immediately sent for another
bottle, which fixed me all right, giving me relief from
the first dose. am conhdentt mat this remedy will do
all that is claimed for it, and more too. Wishing you
success in Its introduction, / am, very truly yonrs,
A. W. SMITH,
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DEsvER, Oct. ], 1875.
Each package contains Sanford's Improved Inhaling
luue, wltni uil directions for use in all cases. Price,
B1!n per package. For sale by all Wholesale and Re-
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Evening star., 1877-09-14
The International Rine Contest.
THE AMERICAN TEAM VICTORIOUS IN TIL

THE AMERICAN TEAM VICTORIOUS IN THE
FIRST DAYS SHOOTING.
AT Creedmoor yesterday the Americans
concluded their shooting at 500 yaris a fe "
minutes before the Britons, and i'm med IA ,el y
retired. AS soon as the British team ha 4
concluded their firing q recess for lunca was
taken, and the British team retired with
their hosts TO the grand paw lioa. Ia tn
meantime a detachment OF the Washington
Gray troop OF cavalry pa:Toled the inner cgr-
Gle OF The railing as q mounted police.
THE COO YARDS CONTEST.
Inc signal gun was again hrei for The 910
yards contest. AT five minutes past O'Clock
The respective teams took position and COM
menced firing. sir Henry H4iforI led for
The British team with a bulls eye, folio vel
Both teams al once set themselves dpwn 10
work, aud bulls eyes became the order of
the day. Sdch was the case especially with
Messrs Biydeuburgh and Dakin, of the An a.
rlcan team, aud Messrs. R,gby and Milner,
OF the British team.
AN ANNOYING BLUxpER.
Sir Hepry Halford failed on one occa sion, ,
owing To the fact tba; he had ON ittei by
mistake 10 load with ball, firing a simple
cartridge. Before five shots had been ex-
changed on either side IL beca me evident that
Ihe British team were last gaining ground.
Blydenburgh Kept scoring bulls eyes in eie-
CANT style, followed by Bruce and Weber.
Miner and Rieby Kept like tally for The
british. The Americans redoubled their
efforts, and AT last when the final sho. had
been fired they were once more declared
VICTORIOUS BY TEN POINTS,
me score Standing Americans 5H, British 5S7
Ihls announcement was greeted with loud
huzzas by the assembled multitude. SuO-
sequently To the Cessation of the firing on tine
y" yards range botn teams reir .ate1 100
yarus 10 The rear and prepared for the Il nal
contest OF the day. The Americans felt now
much elett d over the fact that they hal won
the Two preceding ranges by few points.
The result of the score at the 600 yards
range SHOWS 80 for the Americans and 534
for The British. This gave the contest to the
Americans by 26 points
THE DAYS RESULTS.
The following are the totals AZ $40 yard: