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The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1880-10-21
THE DARK STOCK IN IRELAND

A good deal is said about "the dark
stock prevailing in Ireland. IA But one
of the chief sources of that element is
entirely overlooked, probably because
too recent and too obvious to arrest the
attention of the paleolithic and neolithic
othnologists. The source in question is
the Spanish, due to the close CONNER
cial, md even social, intimacy main
taincd by Spain with the west coast Of
Ireland down to quite recent times.
There were important Spanish trading
stations at Dingle, Valentia, Oahirci-
veen, Bantry, Timoleague, Galway and
elsewhere. Many of the old houses in
these places were built in the Spanish
style, and it may not be generally known
that Valentia island was actually held
by the Spaniards until expelled during
the vigorous administration of Crom-
well, Many of the peasantry in Kerry
and Galway bear an unmistakable Span
ish expression, and this factor ought
certainly to be taken into account in
dealing with the complicated problem
of Irish ethnology.-Nat,we.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1880-10-21
LAPEn DrEEas ANp s,nAnKs.

The pearl divers of the Coromandel
coast afe not infrequently attacked by
ground-sharks. AS rule, shark will
leave man with dark skin alone, but,
when hungry, it rarely makes differ
ence between European and Hindoo.
knowing this, the divers of whom I
speak frequently arm themselves with q
stout bamboo, in the shape of cross,
with the extremities made sharp. With
this four-pointed dagger they will dare
any shark to seize them, for, as the mon
ster turns on his back and opens his
mouth for the bite, they dcxterously
thrust the bamboo across between it's
jaws. Great care is taken of the strength
OF the bamboo the consequence is that
the shark, on closing it's mouth to obtain
the first taste of his anticipated meal,
drives the spike well home between its
jaws. Fishermen say that when shark
has q sturdy, wcll-pointcd and placed
bamboo cross-fxed in its distended
mouth, no efforts of the creature can
rid it of the wood. It's efforts are de
scribcd as being often furious and comic.
The diver, as soon rs he has impaled
his enemy, has to get out of the way as
fast as possible, as blow from the tail
of Nh infuriated shark is no joke. AS
for the comic side of the picture, it must
be q ludicrous sight for little fishes to
witness, to see their dreaded, but now
impotent, arch-foo wildly tearing about
hither and thlther in the deep, with
crOss-bar between his distended Jaws. !.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1880-10-21

A MEMORIAL window is to be dedi-
Gated to Sir Walter Raleigh in that alb
hey at Westminster under whose shadow
his ashes reposc, "thus adding" the
subscription circular says. "a fresh link
to the chain which closely unites Great
Britain and her frst-born daughter.
Raleigh is held in far warmer remern-
brance by the citizens of the United
States, and especially by those who now
reside in Virginia and North Carolina,
than by the modern English inhabitants
of the Old Country which gave him
birth. Virginia halls in him the first
European who appreciated the delights
of that fascinating nicotian weed which
is now one Of the most popular lIxuries of
civilized mankind, and North Cafolma
has named her Legislative capital Ra-
leigh after hira.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1880-10-21
TO COnSumptiveS.

II ODERs EMULSION or COD LIVER OH. AND
Wild Cherry Bark, the most palaabl combination
OF these renowned remedies eXtant An
dy for Consumption, Scrofun, all Lung affections, Ner-
vous Debility and all wasting diseases. The In
Iy enables II to be Hssmilacd by the most decae stom.
system, relieves cough, increase Of nesh and
strength Endorsed by the most eminent physicians
well-known specialist In Lung affections has used II In
overtwo hundred cases and 'there is combina-
tion equal to it for Consumption, Scrofula' etc Thou
sands OF sufferers need and desire take
Of God Liver OIL but have been unable to do so. They
Will find that they take this preparation readily
with excellent results. Price, One Dollar per Bottle
sx Bottles for Five Dollars Circulars and valuable In
formation to all sufferers receipt descrp
tion OF case. Address all orders to -. -.
g. G. a. LODER, Manufacturing Chemist,
$50 Chestnut ST.. Phiiadeinhin Pr.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1880-10-21

FROM the best data at present sattam.
able this years wheat crop will amount
to about 900, 900, 900 bushels, and, over
and above the amount required for seed
and home consumption, we shall have a
surplus Of about 18O, 100000 bushels for
export. If our wheat production is to
be kept up at nything like it's present
magnitude it seems not unlikely that we
must be willing, at least at the outset,
10 sell at prices which will force many.
of our foreign competitors to withdraw
from an Improbable branch of industry.
From the latest European advices, how.
eyer,it seems that the crops across tae
water, especially in England, are so poor
that we shall find much better foreign
demand than we hsd reason to expect
some tiIra back.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1880-10-21

REv. 4. DEWIrr TAIMaoR ia making
an inspection OF the alums of Leadsille
for the purpose ofgathering material on
which to found illustrative sermons in
future After visiting q faro bank,
where gambler had just been shot
dead, and being initiated into the fas-
oination which surrounds draw-poker,
keno and roulette, he visited the dance
houses, IN one Of which he was requested
to lead set.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1880-10-21
IN AWEUL DEATH.

The following additional particulars Of
the awful demise of Milton Story, and
the biting Of q number of dogs ut Spring
Hill, Maury county, have been furnished
us by gentleman of that place On
the Witt place lives man by the name
of Story. Their eldest son, the finest
looking man, perhaps, in the county,
weighing, without surplus flesh, 221
pounds, was fondling, last March. D
shepherd-dog that bit him on the finger.
1t healed up and he thought nothing
more of it. Last Friday he was in
Spring Hill, as well as any man present.
The next day he was seized with hydro
phobia in all it's horrors, and tried to
bite his mother, who, fortunately, made
her escape. Twenty or more mon gath
cred there on Sunday, but, on account
of his great power, all were afraid to
approach him. He was barred up with
rails and wood, and left to tear himself
to pieces. Mother, father, friends and
neighbors had but to stand and sec him
kill himself by piecemeal. He begged
to be killed, and was continually plead
ing for q pistol to kill himself. All
prayed for his immediate death. About
day this prayer was answered. He be-
came quiet, and upon examination he
was found to be dead. Every piece of
furniture in his room, including mantel-
board, chairs, beds, bedsteads, carpets,
windows and blinds, were shivercd and
torn into atoms. He was covered all
over with froth, or foam and blood.
His arms and limbs were literally torn
to pieces.-NashUiUe (Ien1.) Banner.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1880-10-21
I,HATDECEIVXNG HAMMOCK
By NJ. QUAD,

By NJ. QUAD.
"Ive been q FOOL" growled Harper,
as he united parcel in his front yard
and shook out new hammock. "Here
I've been looping around all through
this Internal hot spell when I might just
MS well have been swinging in ham
mock, and had my blistered back cooled
off by the breezes."
Any ono can put up hammock. All
you've got to do is to unite about 500
knots, unravel about 500 snarls, and
work over the thing until you can tell
whether the open side was meant to go
up or down. This puzzled Harper for
full twenty minutes, but he finally got
it right, and fastened the ends to two
convenient trees.
Then he took off his hat and coat, and
rolled i'll with o great sigh of relief.
No, he didn't quite roll in. He was all
ready to, when the hammock walked
away from him, and he rolled over on
the grass and came to stop with
croquet ball under the small of his back.
Odd you mean. to do that ?" called q
boy, who was looking over the fence md
slowly chewing away on green apples.
"Did I? Of course I did | Git
down off'n that fence, or I'll call po-
iceman
The boy slid down, and Harper
brought up lawn chair for tho
in the world to drop off chair
into hammock. Lots of men would
be willing to do it on salary of $40 per
week. The trouble with Harper was
that he didn't drop all his body at once.
The upper half got into the hammock
MI right, but tho lower half kicked and
thrashed around on the grass until the
small boy, who didn't mean to leave the
neighborhood until tho show was out,
felt called upon to exclaim:
"You can't turn n handspring with
your head all wound up in that 'ere net,
an I'll bet money on it !"
Harper suddenly rested from his Ia
bors to rise up and shake his fist Mt the
young villain, but that didn't help the
case bit. He hadn't got into THAI
hammock yet. He carefully looked thu
case over, and decided that he had his
plans too high. He therefore lowered
the net to within two feet of the ground,
and he had it dead sure He fell into it
3 rs plump as O bag. sshetngNipg aaWRTHV
we'll, He felt around to see if I2 was all
in, and then gave himself swing. No
person can be happy in hammock un.
less the hammock has pendulum mo.
tion. This hammock of Harper's was
just getting the regular saltwater swing
when his knots united, and he came
down on the broad of his back with such.
n jar that the small boy felt called upon
to observe
"That amt no way to level lawn
You want to use @ regular roller
After the victim had recovered con-
sciousness he crawled slowly out, gently
rubbed his back on an apple tree, and
slowly disappeared around the corner of
tho house in search of some weapon
which would annihilate the hammock at
one sweep, and, though the boy called;
to him again and again, asking if q min
strel performance was to follow the reg
ular show, Mr.. Harper never turned his
head nor NAL q sign.
- ! IL. .
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1880-10-21

A MOST extraordinary case in the his
tory of trusts has come to light in Phil
adclphia. The estate of gentleman
who died there less than q year ago.
amounting to something over $5, 900, 900,
has been settled up without contest OF
any kind, and the whole amount paid
over to the heirs intact, less the sum of
$4,000 allowed by the court to the
executors as compensation, and $50 court
costs
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1880-10-21

VIscoUNT DE LEssEPs was invited to
breakfast with the King of the Belgians
the other day, and the royal host sent
three court carriages to the station to
meet the Viscount and his suite. The
Vlscounts suite consisted of one of his
little girls, whom he had in one hand,
and his luggage of o gripSack which he
had in the other.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1880-10-21

Eva WnsoS was messed l,v her sria,,t,s
in So. Louis. a careful search was made
withodt avail, and her parcnts gave her
np as dead, because they would not be-
heve that she had rstn away from home,
One night poiiCeman arrested q dapper
young fellow SIS e suspicious character.
This proved to be Eva Wilson. She had
put on male attire and cut her hair OF
close in order to see the city ,nreshain-
edly.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1880-10-21
THr memhera of q Yonne lafliea, de.

THE members Of young ladies' de-
batting society in Harlem have decided
in favor Of long courtships. Level
headed girls Observation has taught
them that there is wonderful falling off
Of connections, balls, carriages, rides and
opera when courtship ends and the stern
Feahties of married life begin.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1880-10-21

AccoaDrEa TO the calculation of some
curiosity seeker, every husband and
wife haye tonr parents, eight grand
parents, sixteen great CRANE ndparanfs. etc,
ths total number amounting to 8 198
ancestors u slse sweifth generation Sc.
ia other words eyefy yoang child Of to-
day hac in its VEINS che blood Of over
{, 900 persons Who we're alive when Col
pmbus discovered America
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1880-10-21
Owe RHy Existence.

Abigail 8. Coles, Of Moorestown, Burlington
Co., N. j., says: Eighteen months ago had
dropsy around the heart. My physicians and
friends dispaired Of my ever getting well.
The first bottle of Hunts Remedy gave me
great relief. l feel owe my very existence to
Hunts ramedy, and 1 am deeply thankful" :"
Trial size Is cents.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1880-10-21

Mrs. GLENN saw her friend Mrs,
James take fatal dose of laudanum, in
Boston, and within few days she at
tempted to kill herself in the same man.
ner, though she had never before medis
tated suicide, nor had any desire to cause
death, Hs e..
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1880-10-21

M recent railroad nnash-up, the passen-
amused at the contents Of an old bacheIor's a
yalise, suddenly exposed to view. There was
his bottle OF hair dye, and ALEC 0! Tabler's
Buckeye Pile Ointment, which ia thr only mn
by all druggists. '''''
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1880-10-21

When the body is bowed with pain an intense
longing for relief brings hope. This may bright
." "ye snfIering but it does not cure. At time
A THE how Welcome 10 apch friend as War
ners Safe Kidney aEld Liver Cure, bringing
hope, health and happiness and the joys Of q
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1880-10-21
Are You Net An GOOD Health ?

If theLdver is tho source of your trouble you
can lind an absolute remedy in DIR. SANFoRD's
LIVER INyIGoRAToR, the only vegetable cathar-
iSc which acts directly on the LIVER. Cures all
Bilious diseases. For Book address DIR. SAM
FORD, 162 Broadway, New York.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1880-10-21

!. VEazT1NE. The great success Of the Vege-
tine as Q cleanser and purifier Of the blood ia
snoWa beyond doubt by the great numbers
who have taken It, and received immediate re-
ief, With such remarkable cures.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1880-10-21
NIGHT AIR.

An extraordinary fallacy is the dread
Of night mir. What air can we breathe
at night but night air? The choice is
between pure night air from without
and foul mir from within. Most people
prefer the latter. An unaccountable
choice. What will they say if it is
proved to be true that fully one-half of
all the diseases we suffer from are oc-
casioned by people sleeping with their
windows shut? An opened window.
most nights in the year, can never hurt
anyone. This is not to say that light
is not necessary for recovery. In great
cities night air is often the best and
purest air to be had in twenty-four
hours. [ could better understand shut
ting the windows in town during the
day than the night, for the sake of the
sick. The absence of smoke, the quiet
all tend to mako the night the best time
for airing the patient.
One of our highest medical authori-
ties on consumption and climate has told
me that the air in London is never SO
good as after 10 o'clock at night. Al
ways air your room then, from the out
side air if possible. Windows are made
to open, doors are made to shut a
truth which seems extremely difficult of
apprehension. Every room must be
aired from without, every passage from
within. But the fewer passages there
are in o hospital the better. Florence
{ Nightingale.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1880-10-21

TEE cheapest method to cheat the undertaken
(who 10 generally around when Coughs and
Colds spreVail,) is to buy and use Dr. Bulls
Cough Syrup. 1t always cures.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1880-10-21

LONDON doctors are recommending
the use in England of light beers like
those of Austria and Southern Germany.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1880-10-21

a SURGEON in the German army calls
6he attention of all who have to do with
horses to the danger of using the pocket
handkerchief to wipe away any foam
from the mouth or nose of horse which
may have been thrown upon their
clothes. Some months ago, the writer
states, an officer came to him suffering
. from IN obstinate cold and cough. The
usual remedies were prescribed, but in
Tain; visit to the baths ut Reichenhall
also did the patient no good. Return
ing to duty, the officer became worse ;
fever, attended with great pain in and
swelling of the head, set in, and ulti-
mately, after much suffering, he died with
every symptom of CHAMBERS. Inquiries
were set on foot, and it was found that
some time before he was taken i'll he had
ordered horse which he believed was
suffering from CHAMBERS to be shot.
Neither the groom nor any of the other
soldiers who had been near the horse
have been attacked by CHAMBERS, and con-
sequently it is suspected that the officer
who died may have conveyed the dis
ease into his system by perhaps using
his handkerchief to wipe some of the
foam from the mouth or nose of the
: horsA from his uniform.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1880-10-21

CoRREoT your habits of crooked walking by
nsing Lyons Patent Metallic Heel Stiffeners.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1880-10-21

A"o VShtAAS HeIt Co, mnrShnII, MIch.,
VIII send their Electro-Voltaic Belts to the
aafttcted upon 80 days trial. See their adver-
Trial. ''
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1880-10-21

New YorE Witness, Sabbath Reading and
euss Of Poetry are excellent. Get samples See adv
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1880-10-21
Loudly In Its Pralse.

..r- 80 TORONTO, ONT, March 3, 1880.
Dear Sir--Considcrng the short time that VEoErrYi
has been before the public here sells well blood
purifier, and for troubles arising from sluggish
liver 1t is frstcass medicine. Our customers speak
londly in its praise. J. WRIGHT CO.,
Cor Queen and Elizabeth Streets.
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'N1!elgetire. We


.Cerunh sgq, WALroLE, MASS, March 7, 1850.
Mr. II. r.. STEVENS: .... .t.., ......T. tt
! wish 10 inform you what vEeErnys bhs done for me-
have been troubled with ETysipelas Hnmor for more
than thirty years in my limbs and other Parts cf my
log NEaErIsE ngo last August and truly cay
has done more for me than any other nnedcnS sesIn
to be perfectly free from this humor and recommend
to every one. Would not be without ths medicine
ts more to me than goidand feel II will provo bess-
Ing to others as IL has TO me. .a.Ets'NF w.
... o. '.. Mrs. DAVID CLARK
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-,.,J. BENTLEY, M. D., says: n.
1t has done more good than all MedjcaI
d .sI, Treatment. ..,., ..,,t

NEWMARKET, ONT, Feb. Q, 1880. y
Mr.. H. R. STKvBSs, Boston, Mass.:' - A1G
Sir--1 have sold during the past year considerable
quantity OF Your NEoETSE, and believe in all cases il
has given satisfaction In case, delicate young lady
OF about seventeen years much ben eRed by use
Her parents informed that II had done her good
than all the medca treatment to which che had pTev
ously been subjected. " -. '.0.''-. =,
Yours respectfully,
]. BENTLEY, MD.
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70, 600 SOLD YEARLY,

= The growing popularity and usefulnesa
OF CABINET PARLOR ORGANS is
shOwu by the fact that SEVENTY THOU
SAND nre sold yearly I'm the United States.
I,n
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-01-26
MISCELLANEOUS.


The demand of cotton operatives at Bolton,
Eng, for 10 per cent. increase of wages has
been compromised. The masters promised
an advance if the Improvement in trade con-
tinues.
The New York Tribune says: There are no
recent sales of Edison Electric Light stock
The latest sale reported was at about 81, 900
share, but within week the price has de-
clined. There are no bids, and the price is
nominal. One broker said yesterday that it
could not be sold at 81, 900, and, perhaps, not
for half that sum, as there was no inquiry.
Miss Josephine Meeker did not appear be-
fore the House Committee on the Indian
Affairs, in Washington Saturday, and the
investigation of the causes of the late out
break was postponed until Tuesday
Congressman Money, of Mississippi, says
about the exodus of blacks. that he hopes it
will continue until every negro has left the
South.
British and Portuguese troops are united in
the suppression of the slave trade in the
Mozambique Channel.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-01-26

JACK FRosT's INJUNCTIoN.-A CORE
spondent-a farmer on Bear river-who
says he has lived on the river over twenty.
six years, whose home was destroyed by
the encroaching stream, and whose second
place on higher land he fears is in danger
from the sand and flood writes as follows,
after reading of the recent cold snap in the
mountains Judge Frost has issued his
mandate forbidding hydraulics running.
No stay granted for twenty or thirty days
again and again, nor no demurrer sustained
The order was to stop at once, and stop
they did The old gentleman is above cor
ruption, and cannot be bought. 1t would
be well for us if the injunction was per-
petual."
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-01-26

the whole course Of European history might
be hanging in the balance. Far greater is
sues to the world are now at stake in Europe
than in any other quarter of the GLOBE and
in deciding them England may have a still
more beneficial part to play than ever she has
vet fulfilled. To play it etfectually she must
be strong, and she should be at peace"
A French View of ParnelTs American
Mission.
PARIS, January 24th.-The Temps, COM
menting on the sympathy shown Parnell by
the American dignitaries and Legislatures,
says: Parnell has evidently been adroit in
selecting the time for his American campaign.
A Presidential election will be held in the
course Of this year, and the vote of 1000, 900
Irish electors is very important. There is no
wish to estrange the Irish, and this is why
Parnell is supported. He will return to Ire
land with the prestige of great success and
strength given by respectable sum OF
money. His party will, therefore, approach
the coming elections in especially favorable
circumstances with an organization all pre-
pared and with plenty of money.
Imperial Family disturbances.
VIENNA, January 24th.-It is reported in
court circles at st. Petersburg that the visit
of the Russian Imperial Minister of the
Gus efforts Of the Czarowitch to restore com
plete harmony between the Gar and Czarins,
disturbed by family affairs The Minister is
ordered to invite the Czarina on the twenty
fifth anniversary of the Cars accession to
the Imperial throne, if her health will per-
NIT.
The Russians ia Central Asia.
TEBERAN, January 4th.-Not only has
there been no attack upon Tchikislar, but
there are no Turcomans near there. Com
munications between Tchikislar and Russian
outpests some distance eastward are estab-
lished.
Opposition TO the Ferry Educational BiH
Suicide of an Official.
LONDON, January 24th.-A Paris CORE
spondent reports that in the Senate yester-
day Due De Broglie made an able speech
against the Ferry Educational bill.
The same correspondent announces that
Fournicr, high functionary of the War
Ministry for twenty-five years, upon being
summoned to produce mis- accounts yesterday,
blew outh his brains.
New Bi,I for the Abolition OF slavery.
MADRID, January 24th.-A committee of
Senators and Deputies has drafted new bill
for the abolition of slavery, differing in some
points from the bill adopted by the Cortes.