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Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-10-10

The insult gratuitously offered by our
evening contemporary to the Methodist
Conference now in session in Sacramento.
by characterizing the assemblage as q
Methodist Pow-wow, was not pardonable
upon any ground whatever. The Dramatic
NelcS published last evening the following
communication concerning it from a
Methodist -
In yesterdays Bee the proceedings of the NJ
E. Church South Conference were published
under the heading of Methodist Pow-wow."
II caused the members of that church to feel
that they had been offered an open insult Why
should the deliberations of body of Christian
gentlemen be handicapped by such a heading?
This also seems ungrateful from the fact that
the copy ofthe days proceedings was furnished
by member of the Conference, and not OBJ
tanned by the labor of one of their reporters, as
the public are led to believe. If the editors of
the Bee do belong to a church whose opposition
"a Methodism is known to be of the strongest
Character, is that any excuse for their offering
such wanton and unwarranted heading as
" Pow.-wow%' That appellation might be ad-
missable in describing the deliberations of a
ward political convention, but in this instance
is not only misnomer but an insult to their
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-10-10

GENERAL FITz JOHN PORTER has an
extended article in the North American
Rerieag on the suppression of mobs. The
sum and substance of his advice is TO check
mob at the beginning, to permit no de-
lay. A few resolute, stern words, and then
if there is hesitation and resistance of
arrest, powder and bullets should be used.
This is more merciful, he holds, than to
temporize, and thus give the mob rein.
which nearly always results in the loss of
life, and necessitates the sacrifice of inno-
cent persons. He would have all police
forces drilled for such exigencies, so that
at moments notice they can act under
standingly and promptly. So, too, he
would have the organized citizen soldiery
made perfect in riot resistance and disper-
sion drill. He refers to the great riot of
1868 in New York, where the United
and the State troops failed to quell it, but
the police force by its bold, brave, and in
defatigable action suppressed disorder and
restored peace to the city, and there has
been no formidable riot there since. The
result attained in that instance was due to
a thoroughly drilled organization.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-10-10

WE have predicted several times that the tll-
ture would, to the CONSERVATION of the spoiis-
men OF both parties, exhibit two parties vieing
Win each other IN Claiming each for itself to be
the best and faithfulest civil service reform
party, If this shall be so, what place will the
machine advocates bave?
So says the Memphis Avalanche in It's
comments upon the Republican platform
In New York, and the attitude of the Pres
ident regarding civil service reform. At
that time the Aualanche had not foreseen
the possibility of the Democracy of New
York repudiating the President, civil SER
vice reform and all So its question,
What place will the machine advocate
have? ?" Is easily answered-in the Demo-
cratic party. Nor will he be'wholly elimi-
mated for long time from the Republican
party. There is a good-sized host within
the ranks Of that organization that looks
upon the reform as wrong to political
partisans, and positive outrage upon men
who labor to plant the standard of party
principle upon the mount of victory. The
issue is not, therefore, to be between two
parties, both protesting that they are
friends of the reform. On the contrary.
before another campaign comes on, the
whole of the Democratic organizations will
be outspoken enemies of the system. This
is preferable to the hypocrisy of pretense.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1885-02-26
The Convict Question.

The Columbia Correspondent Of the
News and Courier says: "The convict
questions is becoming serious. There are
$50 persons ander sentence to the Peni-
eentiary, and of these only about 275 are
loased outside its walls. At Pringle's
Phosphate Works there are 1870 at work
and the proprietor valves his right to &c
moro under his contract. At Jervey',
Phosphate Works there arc about z
working out of $50 called for by the con
tract, and the proprietor says that he
does not want the remainder now
Twiggs has II on the Savannah Valley
Itailroad out of 100 subject to lease, but
objects to signing the bond required by
the recent law. If these contractors dc
not take their hands soon the Penitentia,
ry will be unable to yield the S15, 900 OF
income given to tho Columbia Canal. II
is already hard to make both ends meet
There are about 26O hands now WORKING
on the Canal. Thore is nothing else to
put them at. Convicts are pouring in,
Ten were received from Sumter to-day,
ami sovon from Fairfield"
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1885-02-26

Congressman Perry gives notice
through tho Greenville News that Il COM
petitive examination will bo hold in Co
lumbia on the End day of April next for
the appointment Of a suitable person to
fill O vacancy from the 4th Congressional
District i'll tho Naval Academy. The
examiners arc Col. A. Coward, Mr. j. s.
Muller and DR.. B. w. Taylor.
The applicant must be resident Of the
4th congressional district, between the
ages of fourteen and eighteen years, and
will be eyamined i'll reading, writing,
spelling, arithmetic, geography, English
gralnmer, history and algebra, and will
also be examined as to his physical,
soundness.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1885-02-26
Our RailrOa1.

General Hagood, President of the
Carolina, Cumberland Gap and Chicago
Railway Compay, has called meeting
of the Directors for the Sd day of March
next, at Charleston, s. O. Theobiect of
the meeting is to confer with the South
Carolina Railroad authorities and the
Board of Trade and the Chamber Of
Commerce of Charleston and citizens of
the city generally who arc interested in
the completion of the road. Delegates
viii be sent to the meeting from the
towns along tho route instructed to
pledge for each, substantial financial
aid. What the result of the conference
viii be, we can not fore-tell, but we have
strong faith that it willresult in arrange
me, t. for the early resumption of work
on Sho road and it's completion to this
lace within twelve months. The route
8 the shortest and most practicable from
The sea coast of our Smte to the great
Wess. Charters have been obtained in
all the States through which the road
runs and decentralization effected. About
sixty-hye miles of the road between this
place and Aiken have been graded, and
q contract for the steel rails made in
Europe. The South Carolina Railroad
win transport them from Charleston free
az cost aud give other substantial aid.
With so much of the work already per
fected, it seems to us that it will be a
very small matter for the friends of the
road to devise plans by which the rem-
aiming portion of the work can be done
and the early completion of the road
snnde an absolute certainty, the doubling
Thomasos and it's enemies to the contrary
aienFsanding let us keep the ball
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1885-02-26

Eek Judge Wright, coal black negro
who was Associate Justice of the State
Supreme Court during the days of Moses
and Willard, died of consumption in
Charleston Inst week. Hc will be rem
embcred rs the champion of Chamber
lain during the trying days of '76. He
was notorious drunltnrd whilo on the
bench and was frequently picked up out
to his home insonsihly drunk. A Lcgis-
ative Committee got after him tHr cor
ruption in 1877, after the Democrats got
in power, and he was forced to resign to
escape impeachment. One by one the
old Radical lights go out.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1885-02-26
The Pea Ridger,

AR. EDwoR: I VIII give you little
account of the Pea-Isidger and some
OF his peculiar characteristics, to-
gether with short description of his
country. The Pee-Ridger generally
speaking, presents q more corpulent
and healtyappearance than his friend
further down the country, who is
ienicd tAe blessed privilege of in,
| habiting the pure mountain air as il
IS waited to him in oil its purity and
sweetness, awaking all his energies
md inspiring him with o desire to
make his country more desirable and
profitable. He is rather undor the
medium height, but this defect is
entirely counter balanced by his mas
sivc structure in every other ptIti-
cular, and win bodily tenacity that
defies injury, which might be occa-
stoned by being unexpectedly upset
or suddenly jolted as he travels over
the exceedingly diversified surface of
his country. Hence, his peculiar ad
agitation for this peculiar country. 1t
would be amusing for those who
have never seen him to watch him as
he Wakes over the vcrdant slopes
and vine clad hills with Il creasein his
back you could lay your arm in. This
country has been sadly nlisreprcsent-
eel to many, Us being barren aud un-
fit for cultivation. This is not doing
the Poa-Ridgcr and his country JUS
tlce. 1t is not only well adapted to
the cultivation of corn, wheat, oats,
&c, but vies with the low country i'm
the production of the fcecy staple of
our State. However, "hoG and hom-
my is the chief industry of the Pea
Ridgcr, end for the past two or three
months he has beer reveii1.g in the
luXuries of "sousc, sausage, and HON
inT,' y which produces more pleas
ant and delectable sensation to his
palate than the most delicate of dain.
ties. UNCLE NED.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1885-02-26
How Druggists Can Sell
SpirituOus Liquors on
Prosecutions.

The following Act in reference to
the sale of spirituous liquors by
druggists on prescription, was passed.
by the Legislature at it's last session,
| and we publish it for the information
of all concerned:
An Act to Amend Section 1743 of
the General Statutes, Relating to
the Sale of Spirituous Liquors on
Prescription by Druggists.
SECTION l. BE it enacted by the
Senate and House of Representatives
of the State of South Carolina, now
met and sitting in General Assem-
bly,, and by the authority of the same,
That Section 1743 of the General
Statutes, relating to the sale of spir-
ituous liquors on prescription by
druggists, be amended by adding
thereto the following proviso, to wit:
Provided, further, That no druggist
or apothecary shall sell more than
one time upon the same prescription,
whether the same shall direct more
than one sale or not. Nor shall any
druggist or apotheeary give any pre-
scription for the sale of any spirit
uous liquor to any person or persons
unless the said druggist or apothe-
cary shall also be regular practic-
ing physician, who must be in actual
attendance upon hepatient for whom
such prescription is made. And if a
Sale be made second time upon the
same prescription, the druggist or
so selling shall be deemed
to have sold without any prescrip-
ton.
Approved December Oath, A. D.
1884.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1885-02-26
The Illinois Contest.

The Illinois Legislature is daily bal
1oting for United States Senator to
suooeed "Dlack Jnck" Logan. The Dem
oorats and Republicans arc equally di-
vided on joint ballot. Morrison is the
candidate Of tho Democrats and Logan
Of the Republicans. Logan has bccn
able to secure thecntire vote Of his party
but Morrison has not, by several votes.
Some Of the Democrats object to him on
account of his FREQ trade ideas. 1t is
said that the dead lock between these two
candidates can nos be broken, and thnt
there will not be an election till other
candidates arc brought in and Morrison
and LoSen retired. 1t is also stated that
the election will then depend upon the
longest purse. When it comes to this
we shall expect to see Republic.l
elected as that has boen their method of
securing positions and power heretofore
when party majorities failed them. How
degenerate tho times! Money, money ia
now the power that moves tho world,
CONTROLS Legislation i'll many instances
and mooks at the poverty of the great
mass Of the people. Radical asoondancy
in the United States for the past twenty
four years has SO Gemora!ized the country
that it will take many years of honesty,
straight forward Democratic government
of the old kind, to eradicate the evil and
swing the old ship of government back
to the honest moorings of the fathers of
the Republic.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1885-02-26
Two Very Ugly Twins.
BLACK EYES.

They go hand in hand, and lead their
victim r. terrible trot down into the val
ley of tho shadow of death. One is hell
ralgia, the other rheumatism. These
generaly proceed from disordered blood.
Browns Iron BiHers knocks out these
ugly twins by setting the blood Alright
and invigorating the System. Mr.. w. r,
Osborne, OF Coxville, Ala, used Browns
Iron I5itters for rheumatism and neural
gia with most happy effect. It aIso cures
dyspepsia.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1885-02-26

Mr.. Elias Day of this County is pro-
pairing to plant Il vineyard. He will set
out two acres i'll vines this spring and will
cnlnrge the area from year to year,
Judging from the SUCCESS attained by
others i'll this section Of the State, there
is no business 20 profitable as that of
grape growing and wine making We
hopo Mr. Days example will induce
others to engage III 1hc business. Our
SOIL and climate seems to bc entirely suit
cd To the grape, and if or people viii
turn their attention to this business.
and use only thor spare timo out of thcir
crops i'll Planting out grape vines, it vii,
not be many Years before thoy can bid de,
hanco to king cotton nna hard times. Il
Mr.. Day" oxa:nplo should induce othcr,
to engage III the business, he will hav,
accomplished II great good for tin
County.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1885-02-26

BOOMING THE CAROLINA, CUMpERIANn
GAPAND DCHIcAGo-An enthusiastic meet
mg OF Che citizens Of Bolton was held on
last Saturday evening, at which $5,2GO
WAS subscribed to the Carolina, Cumber-
land Gap and Chicago Railroad rs capi-
tai stock. Resolutions wero passed
pledging Beltons support to this enter
prise, and appointing Measrs. w. r.
Cox, George Il. Brown and j. NJ. Gccr
committee to meet and confer with the
Charleston Chnnhcr of Commerce on
the 3d Of March.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1885-02-26
To "Y'kc Little Bee"
E.AsTATOE.

Mr.. EDITOR: [ so likcl what "Little
Bee" said about people marrying in
last weeks issue of The SENTINEL that
L cannot refrain from adding q few
remarks. I think like you, that
some people marry just to have it
said they arc married. There arc
few marriages made in which one or
the other Of the parties, and, fre-
quently, 10th, are not actuated by
selfish motives; beauty, wealth, posi-
ton, sometimes one thing and some
times another, but all alike selfish;
beauty and purity of soul and heart
are only secondary considerations,
II indeed considered at all. When
tins 10 the case discord is sure to fol
low with all It's attendant evils, for
many other persona whom we meet
in the course Of time may possess
the charms we admire to greater
degree than the ono chosen, and il
thrown much together we may wave1
in our allegiance and trouble and
misery will be tho result But tC
hearts that are actuated by no selfish
human passions, hearts that hav,
riSon above oil earthly considerations
there will como sometime an ecstatic
happiness before which everything
VIC have here known or dreamed O
will appear as dyoss to pure gold
"With malice towards none anC
charity towArds all the Old bachelors.
[ am, respectfully,
RF Gru ICVDo
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1885-02-26

TnE BLACK LIST CompLErE.-
list OF purchasers Of guano who have
failed to settle their indebtedness of
last year has been com mpleted and is
now Ill the hands af the guano deol-
crs. Dy the terms OF The agreement
made among these dealers, each of
them will refuse to sell glano to anv
man whose name is on that list unless
ne shows owl ience that ho has paid
for last years supply or made ar.
rangcmcnts satisfactory to bis credit
or, The result will be that those
who do not pay their debts viii be
unable to buy fertilizers in this mar
kct. The list contains about 300
names, which considering the success.
siVe short crops, is not an unfayora-
bic showing, tho purchasers of fertiI-
lZers here numbering from $500 to
3,5OO.-GreenvLlle News.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1885-02-26
a Remarkable Story,
Ma; ie ia (Ga) Journl.l


Colonel W. II. Perkerson. of Wood
stock, Cherokee county, is the proud
owner of a fine herd of jersey cows.
lie has some seventy head and they
roam over hundred acre field en-
rlching it with their manure. He
has seventy stalls for his seventy
head, and colored man gives his
undivided attention to their welfare.
About three months ago he had a fine
Jersey heifer, eighteen months old,
to die suddenly. Being anxious to
know the cause of her death, ho had
her cut open, and to his astonishment
there was thirteen Q3) distinct calves
from two well developed to others in
different stages of formation down to
very small ones. This is remarka-
ble story, but true one, as Colonel
Perkerson is gentleman known for
his veracity, besides it is capable of
proof by eyewitncsses. This was
certainly very prolific COW, but not
nearly 80 prlitic as garden and grass
seeds, for sale by Sloan Bros, of
Greenviue, S. G.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1885-02-26
The State of South Carolina
PICKENS County
feb 10, 1885

'NN FIi'o . WV N
IN COURT OF COMMON PLEAS,
Sarah a. Stewart, .JOhu +. Stewart, Hnldo
A. Satcriield and Nancy v, GiIstrap
Plaintiffs, against Abraham Stewart,
Eizaeeth Thomas, Robert Nc Stewart,
Anderson K. Stewart Elizabeth Graut,
Mary NJ. Stewart, Anderson j. Stewart,
Mary Hinklc, Nancy E. Stewart, Andcr-
son Stewart Thomas w Stewart, VIM
H. Stewart and Abraham Stewart, as
Administrator of the personal estate Of
Nancy Stewart, deceased, Defendants
TO All ol the above named Defendants, in
this action:
" OU arehcrchy summoned and required
Il to answer the complaint in this action
which was on the 7th day of October 1884,
MED in the Oitice Of the Clerk Of the Court
OF Common Pleas for the County and State
aforesaid, and to serve q copy of your an
Swcf on the Subscribers at their office at
il,!:"ns Court House within twenty days
after the scr,;~c Of this summons on YOU.
exclusive of the day of service.
If you fail TO anmer this complaint
within the time aforesaid TIC Plaintiffs
will apply to Chc Court for the relief de-
n2ndcU il the comp aint, and costs.
4ou arc also notified that no personal
claim is made against you or any of you,
@nd that the object of this action is to par
tition the real estate of Nancy Stewart,
deceased.
February 9th, 1885.
II. s. j. J. LEWIS, C.C.P.
NORTON, EEIIH e IIOLLNGSW ORTIZ
Plaintiffs Attorneys,
feb l2, 1885 20 Gw
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1885-02-26
SCYentY-fYa Norm

Scventy-fve Mormon converts ,oft
Chattanooga Tennessee, on Friday
for Salt Lake City. They are from
East Tennessee, North Georgia and
North Carolina. The Mormon cburcb
has been making such rapid bead,vo y
in the South that the elders have do.
cided to have spring and fall bo
gira. Heretofore the converts hovo
emigrated only in The fall E,do,.
John Morgan, head Of the church i,
the South, states that the eldors oro
meeting with great success in tbnir
PROSECUTING. Churches are be;no,
established in all sections of yir5;n;oo 20 %
an1 Moth Carolina.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1885-02-26

Aim at perfection in everything.
though in most things it is unattain-
able; for those who aim at it, and
persevere, will come much nearer to
it than those whose laziness and des-
pondency make them give it up as
unattainable.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1885-02-26
n BOung Woman Buried Alive

SPRINGFIELD, w. Va, Feb. 12.-
Mary Cox, well Eknown and popular
Young lady who lived near the mouth
"i the Little Capon River, was taken
violently i'll. The physician decided
nat, she was suffering from neuralgia
ot the stomach and prescribed NOR
pima. A dose was administered at
once, and another left with instruc-
tlons to give it in twenty-four hours.
Tor some reason the second dose was
gwen IN very short time. An hour
or two afterward the death of Miss
COX was announced, and two DAYS
later the body was buried.
AT the funeral one lady insisted
that Miss Cox was not dead, and
begged that physician be sent for
That night the dogs of a man living
near the graveyard stationed them
selves near the tomb and kept mp :
persistent hoYlinG. Thc next Ga,
the grave was opened, and, to tht
hUr11L Of al, it Was foun.t that t.,
E1rl had been buried alive. The lin
ing WAS torn from the siues Of th,
caFhet and the pillow was in shreds
lie poor girl had literally stripped
the clothes from her body. lie
hands and arms were torn and bleed
1ng' tho Ibis were bitten through, ant
hhnofuls OF hair We're tom from he
head. The giri had come to lille, an,
had evidently made u fearful struc
gle to escape. The awful affair nil
the community with horror.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1885-02-26
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY &c, 1896

The Washington Monument, the most
imposing, costly and appropriate mopu-
ment ever erected to one man, was
formally dedicated in Washington city
on last Saturday.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1885-02-26
WILD Q I3OFES,
IiaiL tiff s Attcrnc~s.

TO Harvev W'hitmirc, Aqua Whitmirc,
Richard Whitmirc, Ma!inda WhikmiYe,
Eu.icc Wh;tmirc, Eliza Wh!tmira. Re
becca "hitmirc ald Burt ~ nhitmirc, alb
SET Defendants:
Please t,lln l.ntice that the summons md
comriAiit in this action, Of which th,.
forcGni' e iX copy Of The &1tnno!.s WAS
flee IN the Office oi the Elrr! Of the Court
Of Common Pl@as for Pic!Iuns County Oh
;Hc 10th cay Of February 1885, AID tha.
the object of this action is fcr relief, ard
the partition Of the real csccS.c Of Chrsto-
phcr c. Whitmrc. deceased.
CHILD & BOGCS
Plaintiifs Attorneys
feb 10, 1885 21 6w
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1885-02-26
Cotton. Seed.

OFFER for sale til 10th March, several
j hundred bushels of Dickson" COTTON
SEED, from a crop that averaged. last
year (the worst of crop years. S75 pounds
per acre, all of which was sold In Charles
ton for 1 cents per pound, being the high
est reported sale in that market this season.
The tinest Cations of Georgia aud this
SrAtr are sold there,
Price of seed one cent per pound. Post
office, Pendleton, s. c.
j. w. CRAWFORD,
feb 10, 1885 90 4
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1885-02-26

The Rev. Sam Jones, the great evangel-
ist, who it is sold for twenty years, was
the wickedest man in Georgia, is con-
ducting revival meeting in Charleston,
the ike of which the old city scarcely
ever before Witnessed, and Eapparently
much good is being done.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1885-02-26

FIX Governor Moses of this State, was
recently sent to the house of correction
In MASSACHUSETTS for term of six months
for swindling. Moses plead guilty and
made, it is said, an eloquent appeal Ia
his own behalf, stating that his troubles
had been so greet as to impair his mind.