The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-04-26

The result has been large increase in
traffic, the poorer classes avaling them
selves more generally Of the railways.
New YORK CITY has 1000 g-pickers,
whose collections are valued at $3.50, 900
per year, while the handcarts engaged in
the same business gather 100000
worth. The entire rag trade of the coun-
try reaches about $50, 000,0 900 annually.
CHILDREN born before the marriage of
their parents can not inherit property
unless by will, according to statute ex-
tsting in New York. A different law
prevails in Pennsylvania, where the sub
sequent marriage of their parents legiti-
matizes the children.
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Ir Is estimated that the wheat crop of
the present year i'll the United States
will fall below that of 1882 by at least
$4,000, 900 bushels. Much of the wheat
throughout the Northwest and West is
reported to be winter killed by the cx-
ceptionally cold weather.
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WILLIAM p. ALLEN and Horace T..
Jones, of Caribou, Me-, have bought
10000 acres of land in Aroostook Conn.
ty, in that State. This land will be snt-
tied by immigrants from Sweden, and n
new town will be organized that will
probably be named Stockholm.
LIE Treasury Department has made
contracts for the establishment of cattle
quarantine stations at Baltimore. BOSTON
Portland, and New York. 1t is the nnr,
pose OF the department to put thoroupb
system Of cattle quarantine into opera
ton at the earliest practicable day.
PHILADELPHIA is rejoicing in the sue
cessful opening of the cable motor rail-
way, q substitute for the horse railway
and regarded as much moro agreeable
substitute than the elevated road. The
cable runs at the rate Of seven miles Der
hour.
AT wood cutting contest in McKeon
County, Pa, few days ago, two women
won the first prize for croescut SAVING
the contestants working in pairs. Il
women really desire to compete with
men in industrial pursuits, here is q field
they may occupy, and no man will molest
them.
INVESTIGATION shows that in Utah the
Mormon Church has 1900 members
in the Western States and Territor;o,
about $4,000, and in the Sandwich
Islands about 1000. It has about ninety
churches in Great Britain, and the do.
nomination is one of the largest in the
southern part of Wales.
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DIR. f. r. SHowwALTER, of Mobile
Ala, has presented to tho University Of
Alabama his collection of fossils and
marine fresh-water shells, embracing
moro than ono hundred thousand speci.
mems, together with fine library Of
scientific works. 1t is said to he ono Of
the best collections in the United States
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JOHN G. WHITTIER thinks that tho
old Indian policy of reservations is no
longer available. "The Western tide OF
immigration" he writes, "is everywhere
sweeping over the lines. What is need.
ed, he adds, sis that not ouly the Indian
schools should be more literally SUP.
ported, but that new ones ahould be
opened without delay. The matter does
not admit of representation.
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In CUTTING away the knolls about the
/ old fort at Lake George, N. Y, to obtain
earth and gravel for repairing the rail
road embankment, the workmon lately
dug into what was doubtless at ono time
the military burial ground. Seven skel.
etons were exhumed, nearly all of which
bear the marks of battle. One skull has
q bullethole in the forehead, and wher
the sand was shaken from it out dropped
the flattened bullet.
DR. YOUNG, in his work on "Malaria
and it's Effects" says: "When the
poison Of malaria exists in the human
body In q hidden form, it will excite aui
complicate any disease to which the
body may be disposed. 1t becomes @
great danger when complicated with
local affections Of the lungs, heart, liver
and kidneys. The liver should pass out
two and one-haf pounds of bile daily
The kidneys also relieve the system Of @
proportionate amount of poison.
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Lrrz, the composer, has been supposed
to entertain tho same enmity for the Jews
that was evinced by Wagner, but in a
letter just published il a Hungarian
peWspaper he denies that such is the