The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1882-08-03
NEWS GLEANINGs.

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No fewer than two German expedi.
tions will come to this country to OBJ.
serve the transit of Venus next Decem.
ber.
A California young man, hugging his
aged grandmother, forgot that it wasn't
his sweetheart, and broke four of the
2 old 1ady's ribs.
~ John Sullivan, the Boston slugger,
who pounded Ryan and Ellsott, offered
%"Tug" Wilson, the English champion,
5000 to stand up under his soft-glove
blows four rounds, and to Sullivan's
disgust, Wilson went through the ordeal
and walked off with the money.
An American by the name of Living
stone, who has lived in Florence during
the past thirty years, is seen almost
avery day driving twenty horses-tcn
spans attached to an ordinary wagon
and he manages them with perfect ease.
The harness Is quite curious in lis adap-
tion to the purpose of driving SO many
horses at once.
The appropriation foy the signal scr
vice has been cut down about SG5, COO
New stations have been established
special reports for tobacco, cotton and
augar growers have been commenced,
the telegraph bills have of course in.
creased with the extention of the SER
vice.
AT last q man has beat bank cashier
at his own game. A janitor in a bank
at Elizabeth, N. j., fixed piece of lead
with shoemakers wax, and string, and
arranged 1T in q money drawer so he
could jerk out bill every few minutes.
He got about nineteen hundred dollar
all told, and then the cashier GOT onto
1t. The ianitor should lave given
chrome, but lie will probably be given
three years.
Mrs. Lincoln was torn December 13,
1918, in Lexington. Kentucky, and was
the daughter of Hon. r. s. ard Eliza
be tn P. Todd. She came to Springfield
in 1889. and was married to Mr.. lin,
coin, November 2, 1912. She died in
the same house kin which she was mar
rled. She leaves three sisters, residents
OF Springfield, Illinois, Mrs @. NJ. Smith,
Mrs. N. w. Edwards and Mrs DR.. Wal
lace.
Iroubulous times are upon the lottery
men. In ST. Louis three of them were
sent to jail for six months; in Louis,
vile Justice Matthews decided that
there was no jurisdiction to cnioin the
Tostn aster from refusing to GeIivcr let
q tiers to lottery, and Washington spe-
cial says Postmaster General Howe,
whenever the question is brought before
him, will decide that letters C containing
money or money -ordcrs directed to q
lottery, shall not pass through the mails.
The receipts Of the post tflicc depart
ment for the quarter ended March 81,
1882, were 1o,956, ,235 Sc; payments
$9,976,3O 81 excess of receipts $979,.
927 80; probable profits on money or
ders $4,000; total $1,O84 S27 90. To
get the whole amount Of expenditures
there should be added to the amount
; paid the amount withheld from subsi-
died Pacific railroads, about S25O,OGO,
and the amount due railroads unaScer-
tanned but estimated, $20OOOO; total
$4,000 This makes the nct receipts
for the postal service for the quarter,
above all expenditures and liabilities,
more than 100000.
An effort is making in Congress to have
Washington Territory admitted into the
Union. but it is probable thatthe ambi-
tious Washingtonians will have to wait
awhile. The Territory is very beau
tiful piece Of country. In 1880 the
lumber men cut 250,OCO,0OO feet; about
10000 tons Of coal are produced; the
manufactured PRODUCTS arc valued at
$6,129,7C2; the wheat product last year
was nearly 2,0O0,O00 bushels; taxable
values aggregate $14,00O,OO", and the
population $4,000. Many immigrants
are going to Washington Territory this
year, but it will bc some time before the
State can show enough people to give Il
Would'be congressman chance. The
required ratio is 151 ,00O
The New York directoty appears this
year with 1902 pages and $50, 724 names,
an increase Of 4,5H namcs over last
year. 1t begins as it has done for many
years with Elizabeth Aab and ends with
Jacob cypress. Among the noted names
which disappear this year are Henry w.
Bellows, Lorenzo Dclmonco, whose
.rimc fist ;llOs ~ ttjltCtDy of
982 Fletcher y. Harper, ore of the
original firm, George Law, Clarkson
N. Potter Samuel B. Ruggles, J. Cotton
Smith, f. w. Stoughton, Moses Taylor
and James r. Wood. The first directcs
ry of New York made it's appearance
in 1876, a paper covered pamphlet of
eighty pages. Since then there has
boo,o n,,o rooulor1u with ono