The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1885-09-17
THE NEWS OF THE STATE
Some of the Latest Sayings ana Dornps I,
South Carolina.


-Cowpcns has three brides. ogod
respectively l3, Ii and'l5 years.
-iicnry Berry, n colorcd preacher.
Hill. ''''N
mmMarshal Hamilton, colorcd, was
suiiocatcd by foul air in well in York
county last week.
work Is progress 'ng on the foun-
aalIon OF the Calhoun monument in
Marion Square, Charleston.
Mr.. IL. n. Emlvn, of tho Dojlu
RecoFd, has been duly Installed as an
alderman of Columbia.
M. Il. Maycs, Jr., has been up-
pointed postmaster ut Maycsvillc, Sum
ter county.
THUS far about one hundred bales
of cotton have been shipped from the
Marion depot.
A public meeting in the cause Of
OF education was held at Lancaster
Courthouse on Monday night.
The Abbcvilic High school opened
ON Monday with the promise of a sue.
ccsSiul session.
-Jcrc. Williams, colorcd, fell out of
Il boat III Edisto River, near ORANGE
burg, last week and was drowned.
-Mr. Jul al a. Sally Of ORANGE
burg, with his doublc-barrcl, downcd
TWO bucks that attempted to pass him.
An agricultural society has been
organized in Waltcrboro of which
Col. II. S. Bcdon was elected Drcsi.
dent.
Tho Tooth anniversary of Plum
Branch Church, Edgciicld county, will
DC celebrated on Tuesday, October
AT the close Of the fiscal year, there
Will be surplus in the TREASURY of the
otatc lunatic asylum. There arc GO4
inmates.
Mr.: r.. b: Lowry, of York, has a
douDlc-hcadCd king snake, which he
killed in the road before discovrrino
its singularitv.
-NIr. w. A. Carncs, of Loucas.cr
recently had about sixty feet souaro Of
a patch of cotton completely killed by
.--Charlcston, Columbia and Green
vile arc the only places in South Car
ollna which come under the ten cent
Immediate letter delivery system.
Tho subscribers to the telephone
exchange i'll Columbia are indignant
at threatened increase of rates from
800 to $40 year.
From 225 to 275 hands have been
working on the Columbia Canal for
the last month. The work is reported
as progressing satisfactorily.
MIR. II. S. Galloway has one of the
largest brick kilns ever burnt in Abbc-
vile county. There arc 12O, 900 bricks
Iii IT, and it has sixteen eyes.
The board of comcilmcn of New.
berry have passed an ordinance re-
quiring that all births and deaths that
occur in that town shall be registered.
The earnings of the Chcraw and
Chester Railroad for the month OF July
1859, amount to 81 ,jlS OS, an increase
OF SloO 10 over the receipts for the
same month last year.
u There is young lady IN Orange
burg who runs Il farm and makes
from thirty to forty bnlcs of cotton q
year, beside sothcr crops. She doesn't
want to marry, however.
"A party Of Young men paid DR..
Can't $40 for the privilege of cutting
the dam of one Of his fish ponds near
Aiken ana caught only nineteen suck
ers. This is q true fish story.
MIR. Henry George, who resides
near Carriers Posto1ficc, Colleton coun.
~, picked peach from one ofhis trees
measuring ten inches in circumference
and four inches in diameter.
The telephone company has given
notice to thcirsubscribcrs in Ncwbcrrv
that the exchange i'm that town will be
closed on the 24th Of October, as the
business fails to pay expenses.
Capt. X. G. Billings, of Lancaster,
sat down on snake Supposing it TO he
stump, got up hurricdly and made
tracks homcWard, when he stradded a
yclloW-JackctS nest, but got away
without serious injury.
Joseph A. McEachcrn has cight
acres Ga mill pond) Of the finest rice
ever seen i'll Marion county. IL will
average six feet high, is well headed,
and good judges estimate that it will
yield from so to 100 bushels per acre.
A young man named b. p. Boyd,
employed rs train hand on FREIGHT
train on the South Carolina Railway.
fell between the cars near Branchville
last Tuesday morning and was run
over and instantly killed.
Judge Kershaw, in his charge to
the grand jury in Edgcfcld, directed
attention to the custom among trial
justices of compromising cases of lar
ccny: Such action is unlawful and
unwisc in policy.
"A meeting Of the citizens Of CAL
noun, Bordeaux and Magnolia town.
ships, was held on Saturday at Mount
Carmel, Abbcvillc county, for the
purpose of asking the buyers of seed
cotton to desist from their business.
Mr.. &. II. Sanders, Of Kcrshaw,
Killed strange bird among flock Of
doves, and found it to he Il carrier
pigeon turned loose in Pensacola.
Florida, and bound for 79 Courtlandt
street, New York.
deputy Sheriff Hughes, of Edge
field, and n constable went to arrest n
negro named Holmes near Trenton.
when the latter fired on them from a
field. The officers returned the fire.