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The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-10-11
AFTER A CYCLONE,
Ph@b0 C0uzins'S Account of tho Rerspt
Tornado In Minnesota.

Miss Phoebc Couzins visited Rochester
soon after the tornado and thus de.
scrlbes what she saw:
"The country, for many miles, is lail
waste. Farmers crops and barns and
improvements are strewn in every direc-
ton, but the loss of life is not so great
as at Rochester, although the few that
are killed and wounded in the country
are most horribly manglcd. The wife of
one farmer, who was in the field, started
for the house, but failed to reach it.
She ran for n stake in the field, but was
blown almost to pieces The stake was
driven through her body, and her limbs
torn off 30 that they have not yet been
found. One young woman is so fearfully
mangled with ashes ground into her
flesh that she cannot live. A boy had
his spine so filled with nails that he will
die of lockjaw. But the most frightful
of all scenes was that at Rochester.
The scene in the north part of the city,
where stood 800 houses and large
number of trees, beggars description.
Not n dwelling or a tree remains. The
debris is piled up in huge masses, or
scattered over the plain in hopeless en-
tanglement. Cattle, horses and pigs lie
about dead in all manner of attitudes.
One COW we saw had her head completely
blown from the body and the horns
sticking into her bowels. A horse tied
to d tree was blown ON his knees, and
his eyes in death bespoke the terror
which possessed him.
"The Hon. John Mccall, of Winona.
was killed near his elevator. He had
started for the house, across the way,
but had evidently been caught in the
air and whipped on to tho earth, for the
grass was swept clean whero he was
found and every bone in his body was
broken. A long train of grain cars was
thrown from the track and some of them
were pitched into the river beyond.
Among tha trees bordering the bed of
the river all sorts of garments were fly.
ing from the limbs, and while we were
there the bodies of a woman and n baby
were found. That hundreds were not
killed was marvellous. But the time
being seven inthe evening and the storm
seen by everyone, men had gone home
to their families and everyone had taken
refuge in the cellars. All who were
mangled or killed were those who had
no cellars to go to. In almost every
instance everyone saved was in the eel
lar.
"The most heartrending sight waa
the big hall with the houseless and
homeless and killed and wounded. Near
the door of the hall, improvised rs q
hospital, lay five children, all dreadfully
hurt, whose parents had both been
killed. A sixth child, the baby, never
has been found. This sight moved the
stoutest hearted to tears. Over forty
We're IN here-men, women and children
in most pitable condition. One
cunning baby which reminded me of
IS little one, which no one claimed,
with one of its eyes put out, lay and
gazed with its one eye at every person
who passed, with the most intelligent
questioning look, as if to say:
"'Wl.at does all this mean? Can no
one find my mamma?'"
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-10-11

e1tends back to Baxter street are two
immense houses in better condition than
the majority. The janitor's quarters are
IN the courtyard, which is large and well
hept A notice over the door forbade
ball-playing and most OF the amuse.
ments which children seemed to enioy
with immunity in other places. Tho
rooms were generally neat and clean and
the inmates appeared to be thrifty. An
old woman whom the reporter addressed
said that there had been but one death
In the house in over year.
In Leonard street something of the
lodging-house life Of the denizens of that
quarter was seen. The proprietor led
hls vlsltors-who, by the way, were moi
very. cordially received-through sa.
loon into small room, where, stretched
on benches, were three men sleeping of
the effects OF intoxicaticu, two old wo.
men, and girl who was smoking black
clay pipe. A glance into narrow area
showed that two moro were asleep. Re.
yond the small room was a long apartment
with row ef double berths, disgusting
In their appearance, several of which
were occupied by poor wretches. Beds
in this room cost ten cents, and there is
another room upstairs, somewhat
smaller, where the price is fifteen cents
night.
The latest 'snake story" going the
rounds CT the press is headed, IA Young
Lady Tightly Embraced by q Serpent" ."
Such incidents are not rare. But the
young lady doesn't know at the time
that he is serpent. Sometimes size
doesn't discover the fact until after she
marries him.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-10-11
COULDN'T OMIT THE KISSES.
Wasted Sweetness and What IL Cost
Train Fnil Of Passengers.

Yes, she WAS pretty and very charm
ing, and was the saucy possessor of one
OF the most kissable little mouths that
man ever set eyes on. There was no
doubt at all about that. She liked to
kiss and be kissed too. At lenst she de-
monstrated the fact to the perfect salts
iactlon OF car full Of people. It all
happened in jnst the easiest way pos
slble. She and her young lady COM
panion took n seat in the forward part
of car on train that stood in one Of
the railroad stations Of the Hub. The
train happened t" he an express, which
run ten miles ont of the city before stop
ping, but of this the young lady was
most tcharmingly ignorant. She laughed
and chatted and chatted and laughed
with her companion ns if there were 70
such things as express trains, or at least
that they would stop at her own sweet
Will. The warning bell struck, the en-
g!ne backed into the depot, the man
with the signs shouted his monotonous.
"All aboard" and the train was of.
The conductor quickly put in an appear
ance and was presented with ticket
Tor town about a mile out of the city.
We don't stop there, miss don't
stop TIL we get to b. Express. YOU
see. You'll have to get off at NO. Moth
ing station just this side of 1.-The
place Mt which she wished to stop).
THAT'S the best | can do for you." and
OIL he went. AT first there were threat
enIngs of slight April shower, but by
the time the "No- Nothing" was reached
the clouds had vanished and the skies
were clear. Only All instant's stop is
ever made at this station, but the Young
lady with the kissable mouth seemed to
be III most blissful ignorance OF this fact,
10 be sure she started off all right to-
allglt III good time, but when SHE had
reached the door she returned quickly.
retraccd her steps, md in the most naive
manner imaginable, and, as if the whole
world were Mt her disposal, threw her
arm about her companion's neck md he.
slowed upon her two crispy little good
by smacks. Then she tripped through
the door and the train started. The
April showers came and likewise the
conductor. He was a chivalrous man
and che pretty woman in tears, III
she had been homely the result would
undoubtedly have been different. but as
it was the bell rope was resorted 70 and
the train brought to standstin Pro-
fuse in her thanks, she alighted, and
then as she started, womanliko, she
turned and threw kiss at her friend,
whose anxious face peered at her from
the car window.
eyes, said the figure fiend, who has
not grain of sentiment in him, "but
III wager n fo'pence she never Thought
how much that kiss cost. Just see
here. Those cars seat sixty people
apiece, there are ten of them and thew
are al full. That makes 600 people,
We were delayed ono minute. That
makes 600 minutes, or ten hours-a
whole working day. Reckon it up as
you are mind to, there was money in
it. Thnnderation All for kiss, too I"
and the fend settled back in disgust
Boston Globe.
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Chewed Goldfish.

"Would you like to buy some con.
densed Goldfish ?"
"What is condensed Goldfish ?"
The man opened box and showed q
preparation which he said was simply
ground Goldfish.
"What put it in your head to grind it
in this manner?"
"Wcll, 1 was i'll the fish business.
barely making enough to keep body and
sc'sl together, when friend came in aud
claffed me for not going into some other
business. He picked up big Goldfish
scornfully and said:
Now, that's pretty thing to offer
man; it's just a mess of strings that no.
body can chew
"And to chaff me still further, he said
IA n sort of jocular way:
You ought to hire boy to chew
that fish for your customers
Il got an idea from that, and before
night I had grinding machine, and
next morning put out sign Condensed
Goldfish Everybody wondered what
that was, and most Of them bought some
to try. 1t took like fire, and IN less than
month was clearing 35 dollars n day
Oh that alone, and had dozen instead
of one boy to do the chewing for nv
customers. 1t is big business now. i
am shipping it all over this country and
am about to close arrangements for SUD-
plying the English market through a
New York house. If that succeeds ]
can retro in five years with fortune
My friend is keeping the books for me
and says he is the inventor of chcwed
Goldfish"
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-10-11
Like a BOmbsheI TO the Dog,

One evening while travelling in Snain
| reached solitary little inn. Close W
the stove Jay dog, warming itself in
comfort. ."
What can you give me for dinner %
I asked the landlady. '
Some egge," was her reply; AL thr
dog looked fixedly at me,
''Eg8s? p repeated I. "That's Door
sustenance for man that has come tbirt1
better?" "''''Iie' =
There's a bit OF bacon, =" suvoeated
the landlady: and the dog looked at me-
more intentiy than ever. 90 Die
I'm not passionstely fond oi bacon, "
replied |, "what, t,alse have You ?"
"Santa Anna, cried S6e Iandladv ,cT
can give you chicken p l
At these words the dog iumned nm
and sprang through the haR-opened WIN M
dow. = WILL
''Gaod eJaetogs r. said I; t,vbv .ho
word chicken was Like bombsSell' 70 to
bin ~
%Ah. smiled the y hostess. '4t's5scsuse
y turns the Sptt," "''' Z"
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WHEN 6. young man becomes impatient

WHEN 6 young man becomes impatient
waiting half an hour for his girl, who
left the room with the remark that she
would "be ready in two minutes" he
should not manifest his uneasiness. but
let his mind revert to the stock of pa.
tience exhibited by the physician who
counted the holes or cells in the human
lungs and discovered that the whole
number was 174,000, 0,0O0.- -Norristo,Un
T/cr1ld
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-10-11

The penetrating qualities Of petroleum arc
Wel r.. known to those who have any knowlcdgo Of
lIS a p[opeItles at all and that is what makes il
crude oil deprived of It's odor and color. 20
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Canadian Bazaar,

Mr.. John Osborne, Musical Bazaar,
Toronto, Canada, writes that his wife was
cured of rheumatism by the great pain
bnnisher, ST. Jacobs Oil; that he has
found it an invaluable remedy for many
ailments.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-10-11
Spanish Beauties.

I almost think, says nowspapcr cor
respondent, that the finest beauty in
Saratoga this summer is Cuban ~
, }1anish, and there arc many of them
hey are worth watching in social in.
terconrse, having slight fire and more
affection. They roll off the CastilIion
language ike battle going on in a sea.
shell; it comes from such lips, too and
'"h hs hes release the amber eve to do
ITS hashing, aud the noshils swell as II
they also ought to have eyelashes to
modify the trapsulence of their eers; ~
biIity. 1hear that their beauty does not
wear. It wears on me from vesy 70
year. Some of these maids are white ao
enow. You think they are going to tall
to you in the Vermont or the Iowa
tongue, till suddenly they shoot out A
sentence which sounds like 40 hoto
poto, cas- ada tornado, bang r"
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-10-11

foRR cod'liypr oil, m m selec' ed livers on
the sea shore by Caaweil, Hazard & Co.. New
YORK, Ahs"iu. pure and sweet. Pa
nent1 who have once taken it prefer it to
All DINERS. Physicians de- clare it superior
to all other OILS
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-10-11

DR.. Il: A. Davis, 200 Jorallum St., Brooklyn,
says: "physicians generally know no cure for
rheumatism and Bright's kidney disease. DR..
Elmore is the first to discover one. His Rheu.
really cures both.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-10-11

If yon are real man, then do real
mans work and say nothing about it,
and if you are only rooster, why, OF
course, you can't help growing at
nothing,
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-10-11

BosToN girls who got lost in the wood,
in the White Mountains the other day
did not cry "Help," but '"Threc ladies
in this direction IRE in urgent need OF
assistance"
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-10-11

cHAPPED hands, face pimples and r"uGf
SAin cure 6y using JonipeE Tar Sosp mad'
y CaSTsN, Hazard & Co., New York.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-10-11

"Ycvr SKIN CvyI ~ super-crcetIenL II is
fast cy,.,no my tlnwNhter'a ring tDorm, ,chicL
tnd srrn0d an o""r her hodr"-Mrs. b. l.
D. Nerriann B!ne Hill. Maaa. Druggist
( kaA;, II. 81 T,ef rAcks re
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-10-11

"Dr. BenBon's Cslery and Chamomile Pills
'ick headache. "--Dr. Schlichter, Baltimore.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-10-11

A Russian proverb says The devil lies hid.
den where the water il stillest
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-10-11

The only scientific Iron Medic;re ,bot
does not produce headache, &C., but give q
10 the Iyso ON oil the bena6>a otirsn Ss;tIa
out Its bid effects. is Brown's Iron B,ttersP
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-10-11

Ncthing IL so great an instance of i'll man
nor as fiattery. II yon fattcr all the company
you please none. Ifyou flatter only one or two;
you atfront the rest.-[Swfti.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-10-11

Hungry and restless, that is what we all are
Until He takeE us Mr and feedb us.
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MAN urged, as one Of the reasonA
WY e1rl should marry him, that he
9ad collection of over four hundred
&asrent kipds of wood. She said II i
was kindling wood she'd think ahcUt il,
r"4ss!rlSn9t0n RotDkegc, '" ~
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All the scholastic scaffolding falls az q rlincd
edifce before the single word--Faith.
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GastTine.
All unpleasant feelings, the result of inter-
rupted digestion, are speedily removed by
GABrRIEE. All druggists
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-10-11

To what Atrocities cannot that mind react
which 70 inpelled by savage sTsFieep
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-10-11

IADIEs' & children'B boots IL shoes cannot run
over II Lyons Patent Heel Stiffencrs are used
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-10-11

test satified with doing well, leave others to
talk OF you as they please.
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Old truths are always aew TO us il they
como with the smell Of heaven upon them.
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FRONT FRONT ROYAL, VA. DR.. G. II. Hill, saws:
bio"hs iron Btters seems to give geneisl
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-10-11

The FIRST DUDE, we believe, was Yam.
Xee Dude who went to town upon 0
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Sweep frat before your own door, before you
sweep before your neighbor's
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should be patient. Fr
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Disparage and dcpreciato no one; an ins,ec
has feeling andan atom a shadow \
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, OTTAWA, ILL. DIR. Il. A. nurr, saws
Browns Iron Bitters give entire satisiao
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-10-11

Wool batistes in checks and white
and black mixtures will be much worn
this fall.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-10-11

a wise man is like spring lock, alive
more ready to shut than open.
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EMFBA Send TO MODRE'9
p kHE HUSANESS UNIVERSITY
haE9&D Atlanta, Ga.
FOR illustrated C-"nI"r 25tb year
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9flccs bel9fy all Others Agents wanted. The ''New
b1donsehcId light running sewing machine of tho
strength durability speed and utility Buy direct from
factory at factory prices UtityMch Co. I69illiam
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END for Illustrated Catalogue Steam Engines SGw
Mills, Traction Engines, Standard implements. A. u.
Farauhar Pennsylvania Agricultural Works. York Pa,
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1883-04-28
Telcxraphac Breyifics.

The failures for the last seven DAYS mum
Der Isl compared with 2O5 last week. New
England States hsd 80; Middle States. %,
Western States, So; Southern States. 33
Pacific States and Territories, 10; New
York city, II, and Canada. 10.
The stockholders OF both the Western
Union and Mutual Union Telegraph Com.
panies having voted TO ratiiy the lease O,
the lines Of the latter company to the
former, Judge Freedman yesterday vacated
The injunction against carrying the lease
into effect.
William Ward negro, United States
Claim and Pension Agent, was arrested
yesterday In Norfolk by the United States
Commissioner, and held In Jail in default
Of 5000 bail.
The London Times says the proceedings
OF the Irish Convention In Philadelphia,
although ridiculous In some aspects, are
important when taken in connection with
the examination OF the dynamite conspira-
tors ut Bow-Strcet Courthouse.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1883-04-28
CHAPTER /.

Ask any or all OF the n ost eminent physicians:
What is the best and only remedy that can be
relied on 20 cure all diseases Of the kidneys and
urinary organs, such As Bright's disease, diabetes,
retention or inability to retain urine, and all the
diseases aud ailments peculiar TO women"
And they viii tell you explicitly and emphatic
ally, " Buchu.n
Ask the same physicians:
"What IS The most reliable and sure,t cure for all
liver diseases, or dyspepsia, constipation, indigcs-
ton, biliousness, malarial fever, ague, &c, and
they viii tell YOU,
"Mandrakel or Dandelion!"
Hence when these remedies are combined with
others equally valuable
Aud compounded into Hop Bitters, such a won
dcrful and mysterious curative power Is developed
which Is 50 varied In IT'S operations that no disease
or Ill health can possibly exist or resist its power,
and yet It is
Harmless for the most frail woman, weakest i'll
valid, or smallest child to use.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1883-04-28
Brief News Items.

France has the largest national debt in
the world-reSult OF the Prussian indem-
nifty. IL amounts to 81, 1888, $40, 200, or
3l17.79 for every man, woman, and child
in the country.
A Paris newspaper credits the widowed
Baroness Rothschild with the intention OF
| establishing in Versailles a home for aged
and destitute authors and journalists. She
is said to have set apart 800, 900 francs for
the purpose.
Anton Urbach, while awaiting trial for
insanity in the County Court in Chicago
| Thursday. dashed through an open win
dow on the second story, falling to the
stone sidewalk. lie was picked up in a
dying condition.
During The progress OF a fire in IIeaton's
saw-mill, Trenton, y. j., Thursday, Stew
ard HeatOn, son OF the proprietor, entered
the mill. He became blinded by smoke
and fell across a circular-saw. and his head
was completely severed from his body.
Dynamite was invented in 1916 by As
cogne Sobrero, a pupil in the laboratory Of
Pelouze. the French chemist. 1t was pa
tented in the United States by Alfred No
bel, Of Hamburg, Germany, who assigned
the patent to John Bandmann, Of san Fran
cisco.
At the New Market spring meeting in
London yesterday the race for the one
acknowledgement stakes, for ~three-year-0ld
Gllies, was won by c. J. Lefeyre's Hau-
teur. Count Lagrange's Malibran second,
and Sir J. y. Astley's Lovely third.
An insect has appeared in the grain
fields Of California, which, it IS feared, will
prove disastrous to the crops. 1t first APP
pears as a small. green louise, but in a few
days develops into a fly with gauzy wings.
The bull element in the San Francisco Pro-
ducc Exchange is making capital out of the
scare about this bug, declaring that If it ap-
pears throughout the State the crop will be
entirely swept away.
A citizen OF Worcester county, Mass,
lost bis wife last January, and she was
buried IL The family vault, some distance
from the homestead. The bereaved hus-
band, in arranging his wiie's effects, failed
to find quite a sum Of money, some 500 or
$500, that he knew had been in her posses
sion. \ most thorough search resulted un-
successfully. until a week or two ago it Oc-
Cured TO him that the money might have
been buried with her in the pocket of the
dress in which the remains had been laid
out. He accordingly employed m under
taker to open the coffin, and a roll OF bills
was found in the suspected h~iding-place.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1883-04-28

A SCHEME 70 BUILD A SARRow-oAooh ROAD
rvou MOUNT PLEASANT TO RICHMOND, VA,
VIA GEORGETOWN.
charleston News and Courier, 26th.I
Nj. blanchard, q member Of the Boston
syndicate, which recently subscribed $685.
roo To the Georgetown, Santee and Little
River railroad, was in this city yesterday
and expects 10 90 10 Georgetown this morn
ing.
Mr.. blanchard, In conversation with a
reporter for the Neirs and Courier yester-
day. said that he was going to Georgetown
10 consult with his engineers and collect
full information OF the two roads which the
company proposes to build. He will re-
turn here on Tuesday next. and at that
time, he SAYS, he will be able to give fuller
information. As far rs Mr.. Blanchard
could say yesterday the general plan OF
operations is TO build q line Of railroad
from Mount Pleasant to Georgetown, and
thence by way OF Ralcighto Richmond; and
another line from Georgetown to Lancas-
ter, and thence in an airline TO Cincin-
natl. Both roads will be narrow-gauge
roads. The northern route will be an en-
tircly independent line 10 Richmond, and
the western road will connect only with
three Darrow-gauge roads between Lancas-
ter and Cincinnati. Both routes, he says.
| will place Charleston 300 miles nearer New
| York aud Cincinnati, and the object oil the
syndicate is to open a direct communities
ton between the West and the coast,
and 10 tap by their northern road the
rich timber and agricultural lands
through which il will pass, and
which now have no outlet. lie says the
syndicate has q plenty Of money to build
the roads without outside assistance, ana
that the work will begin just as o as the
rights OF way are secured. lie says thai
after the work commences, which he thinks
| will be very shortly, the line OF road from
! Mount Pleasant to Georgetown and from
Georgetown to Lancaster VIII be COM
plctcd within four months, "a forty-fiye
miles between Georgetown and Lancaster
have already been graded. The narrow
gauge system is adopted, he says, be-
cause the syndicate are satisfied from
actual experience that a narrow
gauge road can be built over rough
country mt about 30 per cent. OF the
cost Of building a standard gauge road,
and over level country at 60 per cent. OF
that cost. Furthermore, he says they are
equally.satisfed that the narrow-gauge road
can be operated at far less cost for the same
amount OF work. and will pay handsomely
where the standard gauge wouldfail to pay
expenses.
The southern terminus will be in the city
OF Charleston, connection with Mount
Pleasant being made by double-end trans
fer boats.