The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1884-10-16
uENERAt NEWS. IrEnts.

Tho President returned to WASH
ington from New York on Monday.
There is a marked decline in the
ravages Of the cholera in Europe.
"A Cuban tilibustcring expedition
| from New York has landed at Las
| Villas.
Five masked robbers entered a
house at, Edenburg,i Pa, last week
and stole Owes So f9a6
.-Diphtheria,. has ccome epidemic
at Astona, j.. |. Th9 e were fifty cases
and five deaths last Week.
! "A new volcano has been discover
ed at -Four Mountains, near Seventy
| two Pass, Alaska.
Three mon were drowned bv the
ccapsizing of a sailboat in the harbor of
Halifax, N. S., last week.
"A fire at Richmond, Ky., on
wednesday night caused $i25,O0O
damage.
The now steel q user Atlanta was.
successfully launchd i at Roach's ship
yard at Chester, P.t., last week.
There SG%ere seven deaths from
yellow fever in Havana during the
| past week.
The Hampden Mutual Fire Assur-
ahce Company, of Springfield, Mass, :.
has decided to close up business.
The Grand Opera House at Bethlc-
hem, Pa, with several adjoining build
ings, was destroyed by fire last week.
"A French man-of-war has been
ordered, it is said, to occupy Taiourah.
seaport in the Gulf of Adon.
An indignant husband at New.
waygo, Itch, killed his wife and q
male boardcr with an axe on Monday
ccEXpcrimcnts with 1CO-ton gun
at t,opcZZla nave demonstrated the USE
lessncss of plate armor for. vessels or
forts. "
The British government has cablcd
TO Ottawa, Ont, for eight steamer
captains to'join the Gordon relief cx-
pcdtion.
The steamer Tallap0osa Is now in
EdSartOWn harbor and is now comDor-
atlvclv safe from the effects of gales
ana the ocean swell. 1
The commissioners on Soutb
American commerce called on General
Grant at his residence in New York
ON Thursday, aud listened to his views
on the subject.
Tho faculty of Vassar College has
ordered the g iris TO discontinue pistol
practice, on the ground that it makes
then. bold and brazcn. ..
--Curran Battle, prominent farmer
of Warren county, Ga, aged sixty.
was killed in his steam gin last Satur-
day.
The business failures for last week
in the United States, were 1876, and in
Canada 2l-making total of 22O, as
against 2l7 the week before.
The citizens of ST. Louis are max
ing preparations for grand celcbra-
ton Of the four hundrcdth anniversary
Of the landing of Columbus.
-Licutcnant Grccly leaves Ports
mouth, n. H., for Washington about
November 5. His health is slowly
improving.
The schooner Arabia, with &C, 900
bushels of corn, sank at the entrance
to Gcorgian Bay during a heavy gale
recently.
! On Thursday last PHILADELPHIA
young lady threw bottle vitriol at q
gentleman who had neglected her for
another.
| ~. "a. proWh, ol S'lh FRANCIS
co, Wnlle al fesScadero' picked up on
thc leach q perfect opal with q nova
0'' ,uop ' ~ '''e ce'''re'
-Ihe MASSACHUSETTS Humane Socie-
" mas presented medal to C0mmo-
tT uorc ocllie! ,! lor his services in rcscuing
the Gfecly party.
-Durlhg game OF ball III the rear
ol tenement IN New York on Sunday
,',r row was was slarted ant three Italians
were seriously ll'hot fatally stabbed.
,-At Fond (lu Lac, Min. last Tines
gay, portion OF freight rain was
!hroWn from the track in" the st.
LOUIS l'iVef, three train hands losing
'heir ilVcs. g..
Several challenges haye rccc ntlv
,' Deeh eX.ch9ggcd between prominent
PPoop'c PooI III tarls. several ducls have
oeu,5 iought ana others are reported
r''''.,'s'
rJwo men, one fagman, were
hrnoi.mt r'.eH "rar nf froS1noronSn, Mass, by the
ton and pro~iG"mnp TI G"' 1p"ih naiI on the Bos-