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The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-05-03

THE reports from the great cattle
ranches of The West and Southwest in
dlcate that the cattle have wintered we'll
and arc in fine condition. Already large
numbers of them are being gathered for
'hipme mt and driving in Louisiana
Texas, Kansas, Arkansas and Indian
Territory. Prices a,e good and hc
ranchmcn are jubilant over the prospect
of prosperous year. The business is
likely to be very largely extended in
Indian Territory, through system of
leasing large tracts from the various
tribes who occupy that section. Tho
public are waiting mxIously for the
business to Increase sufficiently to in.
dnce lower rr.ccs for icCf.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-05-03

letting the sur; a water of through the
underground streams known to exist all
through this section. This will give
him hundreds OF acres of the most fer
tile lands for cultivation, and of its sue
cess there can be no doubt. Several
large, sickness breeding ponds have thus
been drained off within the corporate
limits of Albany within few years
past.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-05-03
r1ONhNo' B. Y, THURSDAY, MAY 8, 1883, VOL XII NO

river parishes of Louisiana and Mississip.
pi, in the samo manner as the overflow of
last year. and cattle. horses. and mules
are falling before their deadly attacks.
The Vicksburg Herald reports that in
the neighborhood of Mound Landing, in
Bolivar County, Miss, forty-seyen fno
mules fell victims to these dreadful pests
on Thursday and Friday of the firstwcek
IN April. Several counties above Vicks.
burg have been invaded by the gnats.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-05-03

NEW remedy for the head ne has
been found by DIR. Haley, an Australian
physician, who says that for some years
past he has found minimum doses OF
lodido of potassium of great service il
frontal headache; that is, a heavy, dull
headache, situated over the brow, and
accompanied by languor, chilliness, and
feeling of general discomfort, with
di5tasto for food, which sometimes ap-
pr0achos to nausea can be cOmplctcl,
removed by a two-grain dose dissolved
III half Il wineglasstul of water, and this
quietly slipped, the whole quantity being
taken in about ton minutes. In many
cases, he adds, the effect of these small
doses has been simply wonderful, as, for
instance, person who n quarter of a.
hour before WAS feeling most miserable
and refused all food, Wishing only fer
quletness, would now take good meal
and resume his wonted chccrfulness, #
this cure of DIR. IIalcy's is in reality n
practical one, he will merit for the dis
covcry tho gratitude of suffering mil
lions,
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-05-03
Boots and Buyers in Maine.

A few frosty mornings and little muu
have co-opcratcd in starting demand
for cowhidc boots, which have played
such an entertaining role in Maine poll
tics for three or four years. The fact is.
the shoe dealers recognize no such thing
0s q cOwhido boot nowadays. Every
thing is called "Ilip," whether it came
from hcifcr, COW, OK or bull. A boot
which would be called cowhidc in old
fashioned parlancc sells at 80. 80 to So
per pair this fall. A good pair of kip
boots, handmade, may be bought for
50. 50 pair. Split-lcathcr boots sell for
So. The rural trade demands n hand
made boot, and the result is that most
manufacturers stamp their boots "Sidcd
by hand" WhcH n man buys pair OF
kip boots III the fall no expects to get
something which will "wcar him" till
after planting III the spring and through
the carly plowing next fall. He is gcncr-
ally anxious to know whether they are
"hOt-liQuOr tanned on cold liquor tanned,
and if they arc made of "SouthGm
hides or slaughter hides" TO clinch n
trade the dealer has to usually "throw
in" n set of heel irons Lrimbermcn and
woodchoppcrs have adopted wool boots
and Gum-rubhCr covers, almost exclu-
sivcly. Tho boots and rubbcr8 cost So n
pair this ycar-50 cents advance of last
years price. Very few moccasins are
now used in New England. d.-Lc'OtstOn
IOW17laS.
IL
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-05-03

PERSONS i'll this climate who grumble
because of harmless insect bites ought f.,
tcel comfortcd when informed that os
many as 20, 900 deaths occur annually in
India from snake bites, and since 1870
from 10000 to 100000 persons have
persisted in this way.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-05-03

a NEW enterprise in illustrated jour,
nalism hNs been undertaken by the
Pictorial lVorM of London. for whose
proprietors Capt. Morton, the noronaut,
he's just built Il balloon. They intend to
send experienced artists into the upper
air in charge Of experienced aeronauts,
aud the results of their work and a de-
tailed account of each voyage wilIappcar
IN the Pictorial World. They have also
arranged for a series of experiments in
balloon photography.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-05-03

MIR. TABOR, the one. month Senator,
said to q reporter the other day: 81
never saw the like of some Of these
newspaper mcn-telling how much
man pays for his night-shirts and all
that sort OF thing"
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-05-03

GENERAL LEES monument at Lexing-
ton, Va, will be unveiled on June 5.
Jefferson Davis will preside, General
Joseph f. Johnson will be chief marshal
and Major John w. Daniel orator.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-05-03

JUDGE DAVID DAVIS proposes to turn
'Durley Hail." tho principal house of
amusement at Bloomington, Ill. into O.
business place and to build in the same
town theatre that shall surpass any
thing of the kind in Illinois.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-05-03

OVER 1900 persons waited in the
drizzling rain to lave last look at the
face OF Peter Cooper as he lay dead in
his coffin. Among the procession was
an old gentleman who had walked with
Mr.. Cooper at the funeral of Washing
ton
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-05-03

New YORK city has adopted the Brush
system Of electric lights for illuminating
the streets. There is sufficient evidence,
however, to justify ono in the belief that
the idea of adopting n similar system for
cleaning the streets he's never entered
the minds Of tho authorities OF that
city, IUpker8 Statesman.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-05-03

FREDERICK DOUGLASS is soon to marry
young woman, who il described as
"nearly white" Mr. Douglass is sixty
years old, and receives large fees as
Recorder of the District Of Columbia.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-05-03

FRENCH policemen i'll Paris are paid
rewards of from one to five dollars for
making arrests and capturing offenders,
and the Minister of Justice has decided
to increase these by ono o-third.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-05-03

CHARLES f. FREEMAN the religion
fanatic of Poca5srt, Mass, who, i'll 1879
slow his little daughtcr as sacrifice to
God, has baan pronounced senc, and will
now have to be tried Oh the pending in
dlctmcnt for murder. He now says tina;
he was instigated by the devil, and lis
religious belief is entirely overturned.
Mrs. FREEMAN, too, has renouncod the S C.
ond Advent delusion, and feels more keel
ly than does her husband the terrible man
ner OF her child's death. The Attorney
General will bring the case to some set
llcmcnt before the Supreme Court at
Barcstable in May. Freeman will prob
ably be acquitted on the ground of in
sanity, or be allowed to so on his own
rccoGnizance.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-05-03

MATTHEW ARNOLD insists that in re.
vla'ng the Old Testament, beauty and
power shall not be destroyed, even to
obtain more correct rendering, and
that ever where the meaning is not at
all clear, the charm and music of tho old
words shall remain.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-05-03

MALARIA affects by preference low and
moist localities. AS such localities are
the natural abode of mosquitoes, d SOL
cntific gentleman asserts that malarial
diseases are produced by the bites OF
these insects
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-05-03

The London Lancet says that the peo.
plo who sneeze oftencst are the healthi-
est. A sneezo sets the blood circulating
and throws off a cold which is trying to
settle. This medical opinion is evidently
made in the interest of snuff, and tho
public is notyet up TO it.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-05-03

RACING in Paris has become species
OF fashionable madness. With the NAL
tpiicHtlon of suburban race courses.
horse racing has become a colossal
swlndlo. like thimblo,rigging and card
sharpln8, carried on by associations of
Thieves and blacklegs Of all categorics.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-05-03

GENERAL FrTzuUGH LEE is making ar
rangcments to hold reunion of the sur
vivors of the Army of Northern VIII
ginia ut Manassas next summer.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-05-03
TOPICS OF THE DAY.

MURDERERs In France, if they have
money, are compelled under the new
law to pay large sum to the family Of
their victim.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-05-03

OK Duty. The fireman detailed for
duty on the stage of n San Francisco
theatre had not been told that conlla-
grafton was one of the scenes of y new
play. When he saw the flash Of the
flame he concluded that the house was
on fire. Sccingan nx, he chopped down
Plg piece of the scenery before lac
could be stoDrcd.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-05-03

The practice of cremation is making
such progress in Japan that it is said
about 9, 200 bodies are annually disposed
Of in this manner.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-05-03

DIR. PIOHAUD.thinks that trees in streets
DO more harm than good, because they
impede the circulation of the air, while
Prof. Govct says that the evaporation
from their leaves keeps tho surrounding
air moist and cool, and that they are n
protection against dust; they absorb tho
carbonic acid and send ont Oxygen,
while their roots draw up stognant water,
and absorb the organic matter in the
filth from which the streets of a town
arc never free, acting as a disinfectant.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-05-03

EXCITED. Most of the troops who
fought on either side at Gettvsbnro,
were veterans. and yet out of "a O06
muskets picked up on that field q COO
had three cartridges in and !, 1,15O had
from four to eight, 'NTF '''''
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-05-03

a COUPLE Of ostrichcs in a California
ZOO got into o. fight recently, during
which thoy knocked the fence down, and
ran over a crowd of school children, i'll,
jring several of them severely.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-05-03

In BUSINESS. Tom Thumb and his
wife have grown SO much that they are
no longer curiosities. They have opened
n museum in Chicago, anil advertise SIS
attractions pair Of midgets one-third
OF their own size.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-05-03

ELDER w. p. SrRATroN, one of the
best known pioneers of Cincinnati, who
died a few days ago, married in that city
more than two thousand couples.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-05-03

DE man what keeps Monday in his
heart and Sunday on his shirt front amt
got my idoo 2b 'li&on'
3Fapsker,
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-05-03

The actiety for the Preservation Of
the Irish Language lNs made a report
which shows that at the beginning of
iar prcscnt century there were Tot more
rhan 400 persons who could read and
write Irish, while at present 950,OO0
sp9ak tho old longuage. This nearly
equals the Eumber of Welsh speaking
people,
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-05-03

a NEW way of stopping horse cars has
been introduced on tho Sixth Avenue
Railroad i'll New York. Straps hang
against each window sash, and whcn the
passenger who wishes to aIight pulls
one Of these, o whistle is blown. Tho
conductor then pulls the strap, which
runs along the roof Of tho car, and the
bell suunl' to stop thc cdT.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-05-03

Why ia oxhiaration like the conse-
quence Of breaking rum bottle? Be-
cause it IL a flow Of spirits.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-05-03

TINS years food Oil the Mississippi has
been followed by swarms of gnats in tho
Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-10-16

Mother. where IS your daughter to-
night Is she at home and enjoyinx
the comforts of that heaven on earth.
or - she roaming the streets flirting !?
Father, where is you. son tonight Is
DE at home In your library, and improy-
ing his mind, or Is he trying TO play
both ends against the middle in a brace
game OF faro, or rey.iing in shame with
degraded women Father. mother, ask
yourself this question, and find cot
where your children spend their time.
NO matter how humble, there is 70
place like home, sweet home. Don't
imagine because your floors are not
covered with Brussels, and your chairs
covered with velvets, that YOU cannot
make your home little empire of love
and happiness. Ii you have spacious
parlors, don't lock them up and open
them Just TO receive company. Throw
yoar folding doors open. light the gas
and make everything As cheerful and
pleasant as possible, and give your chill
dren the entire benefit of the comfort of
your home. If you do not do this. they
VIII seek pleasure somewhere else, and
the result of this can be seen every
day in the sad faces of downfallen
women and men. Ii your home is hum
bic try and make lsvs reign supreme.
Let the father and mother address each
other kindly, and avoid gruff words in
the presence of children. Make home
50 attractive that your children would
rather spend their evenings there than
any place else, and you will find your
sons and daughters at the tireside with
you. instead of roaming about the
streets. Every home i'll the land can
he made a heaven of Joy if love and re-
spect are held paramount. We have
too many households where man and
wife live together simply because they
are married, and that are mere places
ut residence. Don't allow the fire of
love to burn to ashes; keep on feeding
the fire until the cold wave of death
quenoses the flame. Treat your chill
dren to all the comforts of home, no
IN tier whether it be a mansion or a
humble cottage, and impress upon their
minds tAat beautiful phrase, There is
no place like home" and If your son
ard your daughter don't help yoa
make home happy, then the fault is
none of yours. Don't let the thermom-
eter of love 60 below zero. It's danger
Gus.
Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-10-16
PERlLOUs SUSPENSION.

Charles May and his brother Robert,
in the spring of 1870, offered to pass
5000 railroad ties down the Arkansas
from the mountain source. He says:
Our offer WAS accepted, and We start
ed into the upper entrance of the canyon
with large skif provided with six days
provisions and 200 feet of rope with
which, by taking running turn around
some firmly planted object, We could
lower our boat 100 feet. In this way, at
the end of three days, having set adrift
many hundreds of ties, we reached the
entrance to the Royal George. Here We
discovered that an attempt to descend
the first waterfall with two in the boat
WAS certain destruction, and to return
WAS impossible. Accordingly l deter
mined follower my brother down the fall
in the boat. distance of 200 feet, give
him the rope and let him take the
chance of the canyon, life seemed more
certain in that directlon) while would
risk my physical ability to climb the
canyon wall, which was about 1000 feet
high.
about 10 o'clock in the morning l
shook hands with my brother, lowered
him in the boat safely to the foot of the
fall, gave him the rope and saw him no
more. Then, throwing aside my coat,
hat and boots, and stripping the socks
from my feet, / commenced my climb
ing way, often reaching the hight of one
or two hundred feet only to he compelled
to return to try some other way. At
length, about 4o'clock in the afternoon.
1 reached hight upon the smooth oan-
yon wall of about a Thousand feet. Here
ffrrk a faH INV
shelving ledge of rock that jutted out
from the canyon side foot or more.
To advance was without hope: to return,
certain death. Reaching upward and
outward ! grasped the rim of the ledge
with one hand and then with the other,
my feet slipped from the smooth side of
the canyon and my body hung suspend
ed in the cir thousand feet above the
roaring waters of the Arkansas.
AT that moment looked downward
fall when the strength Of my arms gave
ont. A singing sensation crept through
my hair as nay eye caught the strong
roots of a cedar bush that projected out
over the ledge little beyond my reach
My grasp upon the rim of the ledge was
fast yielding to the weight Of my person
1tu CobcItAlucu W u8kc NY Uc5t Oh
fort to raise my body and throw it side:
wise toward the root, SO as to bring !,
within my grasp. At the moment Of
commencing the effort saw my mother
face as she leaned out over the ledge
reached down her hand and caught me
by the hair. Stranger, my mother died
while yet young woman, when and
my brother were small boys, bat re-
membered her face. ] WAS successful
in making the side leap of my arm
when l drew myself up the ledge and
rested for time. From here upward
my climbing way Was laborious, but les,
dangerous. | reached the top of the
canyon just as the sun was sinking be
hind the snowy range, and hastenea T.
our camp NJ the mouth of the canyon
where l found my brother all safe
Charley said he, have you had your
head in -four sackT II was then thai
| discovered that my hair was as whit.
as you see 1t now"
Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-10-16
PACIFIC COAST
New steamer Route.


PoRT townsend, O,t. 15.-Capt. Gil
more has established a route for the
steamer Hope. taking in Seattle, Port
Townsend and Port Discovery.
Gas Company Franchise.
At a meeting of the City Council Sat
urday evening an ordinance was passed
granting to James Epler and his asso-
ciates franchise for supplying the city
with gas for twenty years, the city to
use ten street lamps at 81. 80 each per
month, aud all public buildings to be
furnished at a cost not to exceed $3.50
per thousand feet, tine same rate also to
apply to private persons.
Meanderlngs or the Generals.
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 13.-Gen. Scofield,
who has been appointed to the COM
mand of the Department of the Mis-
souri,, will leave here for Chicago on the
18th inst. Gen. Pope, who succeeds
ScOtield in the command Of the Depart
ment Of the Pacific. expects to arrive
here about November LIST.
a New Game Of che Childiike Chinee.
SAN Francisco, Oct. 15.-'rhere have
been suspicious for some time past that
MANY Chinese have been permitted to
land from Chinese steamers who, under
the restriction act. are not entitled to
that privilege. A lonphole was discov-
cred To exist under article second of the
treaty which permits Cinnamon other
than laborers to come to the United
States if provided with u certificate is
sued by the Chinese government, iden
tifying him as engaged 10 other pur-
suits than that of laborer. The
steamer Rio Jaueiro, which arrived
SATURDAY., brought 132 Cinnamon into
San Francisco, II of whom held trad
ws' " certificates, issued by officials of
the Chinese government, notwithAtand-
ing the strongest external evidence of
their being ignorant Chinese laborers.
They were all, with the exception of
six, permitted TO land. The steamer
Coptic, which arrived last month,
brought ia Chinese, 81 of whom held
similar certificates, issued by officials Of
the Chinese customs, fully 50 per cent.
of both lets belonging to the common
class of workmen. When that circum-
stance was called - the attention Of
the Custom House officials here, the re-
oily was that they had no power TO go
back OF the Chinese government certifi-
cate.
Mfniag slecka
San FRaScBco.: Got. 15.-Alpha, 10,
fselcher l.35, Bodie Con. 6Oc, Best 4
Belcher 3l5. Bullion LOO, California
aOc. Chollar 2.35, Con. Va. $50. Grown
Point 80, Eureka Con. 500. ExchequeI
80, Gould 4 Curry 2.25, Hale 4 Nor.
croes 2.k5, Mexican 2.45 Mount Diablo
400. Grand Prize 800. Ophir ESQ
Savage 10, Overman, AOc. Silver King
-, PotoSi 100. Sierra Nevada, 40
Union ass, Utah 200, Yellow Jacket
$50, Northern Belle -.
Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-10-16

Two thousand and two hundred trains
leave the stations of London every
twenty four hours. Every hour between
10 III the morning and IL at night,
1000 trains start for the various termini
in London-that is, at the rate of 100
and more every hour, or two u minute
all day long, not including two trains
on tho Metropolitan aud Metropolitan
district. OF the 200 despatched daily.
1,750 serve the suburbs and suburban
region of thirty miles around the city.
Fifteen leave for Scotland and ireland.
and sixteen for the Continent. Three
hundred md twelve trains start from
Victoria, 321 from Liverpool street, and
3O5 from Broad street.
Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-10-16

The Central Pacific Railroad Company
is building, at the Sacramento car shops,
a locomotive to weigh seventy-three tons
and have five pairs of driving wheels.
The length of the engine and tender
will be IS feet 5 inches. Diameter of
cylinder, q inches; stroke, 26 inches;
water capacity of tender, 1000 gallons.
Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-10-16

The London PDH Mall Gazette points
out that during Mrs. L,ngtry's nine
menths in the United States she Cleared
about Eve times as much as the Prime
Minister of Great Britain, and more
than twice the monthly emoluments of
the Bishop of Canterbury. Grea; is
humbug in Yankeeland.
Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-10-16
TRANS-CoMTINENTAL
SHORT LIME,

Fo- through tickets, time tables and full
Information apply to A. l.. maxwell.
Ticket Agent Oregon Railway and Navi-
CATION Company. Portland. Oregon. or 10
any coupon ticket agent on this coast.
). =. MEaRILL- A. V. h. CARPENTER,
Gen1 Manager. Gen. Pass. 4 Tiki Agt
w. III DIXON. Gen. N. w. Pass. Ag't, ST.
Paul, Minn.
W. III. MARSHALL. Trav. Pass. Agent
"a Front ct. Portland. Or. seq I'm
Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-10-16

Murat Halstead on John Mclean:
When stanpy-tail bull pup porsaes its
latter end vehementiy in the dog days,
and so runs in a circle, and becomes
frothy and unpleasant in tbs unproft-
able exercise, there is a suspicion that
the little beast is mad, and he IL thusly
treated with capital severity.
Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-10-16
SHORT LINE

ENRnM ALL POINTS IN THE PACI-
l. tic Northwest 10 CHICAGO, and all
points in the astern and Southern State.
III Il TIE ONLY LINE running Pullman
Palace Sleeping Cars between ST. PAU.
and CHI AGO. via Milwaukee.
II is the only line under one manage
ment between st. Paul and Chicago, and
owns three separate and distinct lines be-
tween those points. thus giving passen-
gers choice of three routes. passing
through the most fertile, populous and
picturesque sections of Minnesota. Iowa
Wisconsin and Illinois. II runs the finest
dining cars in the world. and no effort is
spared 10 secure the comfort of its patrons
No change of cars of any class between
st. Paul and Chicago. and but one change
from Portland. which is made in 81. Paul
in a grand Union Depot. occupied Jointly
with the Northern Pacific Railroad.
BE sure your tickets read via Chicago.
Milwaukee and st. Paul Railway. and Sc
cure the advantages only offered by this
great