The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-03-24

''' - JonnSon, careSS1ngiy called
Buckshot Bill, Chief of United State,
scouts, Is authorized interpreter in four
teen Indian tongues and speaks clever
more, Bill was once taken prisoner BY
Split Nose, Comanche, and saw eleven
OF his comrades burned. He says he has
III scalps hanging in the Smithsonian
Institute taken by his own hands.
Capt Nelms says that there are now
about $50 convicts at the various prison
camps Of Georgia. The largest number
at any one place is at the Dade coal
mines, where there are about $50. The
| decrease in the number of convicted
criminals for the years 1889 is said to
be about twelve and one-half per cent,
and for the year 1880 about fifteen per
| cent.
The Charleston banks refuse to take
silver certificates at par. The certificates
represent silver-coined dollars in the
United States Treasury, and are receiva-
BILE for customs dues; but the demand for
silver to pay duties at Charleston is
small, and the banks must charge quar-
ter per cent. discount on the certificates
to pay expressage on them to some city
where a large amount Of custom-house
duties is paid.
The Concho (Texas) Times says that
Judge Pruesser describes Ell Paso as fol-
lows: Imagine the main street of San
Angela with the houses all flat-roofed,
and about thousand drunken men, rail
road hands, gamblers and adventures, all
staggering, fighting and yelling through
the streets, and you nave pretty cor
rect idea of Ell Paso as it is. That there
will be a good town there some day, or
probably further down the river, I have
no doubt"
Robert Collyer, Sunday, in the course
of lecture on George Eliot, said: Gas
to her after life, it isn't question
of casting stones, but it is whether
she did the best possible here with that
fine spirit. I believe that her soul is at
rest. In the boundless bliss Of heaven
alone could such soul find its place.
Old Father Taylor, of Boston, once said
to a Calvinist who was talking about
Ralph Waldo Emerson's going to the
bad place after he should die: "Well, if
Emerson goes to hell, he will change the
climate" And so say of George Eliot.
The negros in Liberty county, Ga, are
said to be we'll behaved and industrious.
The Rev. j. II. II. Waite, who located in
Liberty in 1874, has done much toward
their moral and intellectual advance
ment. Th@ academy which he establish
ed at Midway several years since is in a
prosperous condition, and numbers $50
pupils on its roll. The assistant teachers
are young colored men, one of whom re-
ceiVcd his education at this academy.
Another school has been started recently
at Dorchester by the Rev. Mr.. Waite,
who is devoted to his roble mission.
Speaking of the improvements which
are to made at Athens, Ga, this sum-
mer, the Atlanta Constitution says:
Athens is already one of the most beau
full, aristocratic and progressive cities Of
it's size in the Southrn States, with n
population largely made up of the wealth
lest of Georgians. Its long avenues,
lined with stately old Southern mansions
with beautiful yards and shade trees,
reminds one vividly OF the princely times
of ante-bellum days. The colleges of
Athens are numerous and of the highest
order, and from their halls have gone
out men who have become honored and
distinguished both in private and in pub
lie life.