The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1885-11-05
THE NEWS OF THE STATE.
como of the Latest Sayings and Doings
South Carolina.

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The Marion county fair will be
held this week. ....a,. =. -. ~,
The Methodists Of Fort Mill are
building q parsonage.
An epidemic of matrimony is
sweeping over Spartanburg.
The new Presbyterian church at
,Wedgeficld was dedicated on Sunday
before last. -, -
Tho survivors of the Palmetto
Sharpshooters are arranging for a re-,
union next year.
Tho heavy rains last week did
considerable damage to the cotton in
the Piedmont section. . ~
"A kennel for tho breeding and
training of pointer and setter dogs has
been established Oh q farm near Rock
HILL ~, -.
Geo. e. Watson, son of Mr.. I. IA.
watson, of Marion, dropped dead at
his home in Millcdgoville, Ca, re-
Gently.
Tho Collcton Baptist Sunday
School Convention will be held at
Der ID.
-Jonathan Gary, of Edgciield coun-
ty, was robbed of $255 while in the
crowd around the circus ticket wagon
OH Monday.
Some unknown person fatally shot
one of Mr.. Benjamin Sneleroye,s
horses in his stable at Gilbert Hollow
on Friday night.
AFTER four trials in the courts at
Abbevillc, it has finally been decided
thDt 10 10
under the statute.
THE town Of Lancaster was raided
on Saturday night by party of street
lamp smashcrs, sign changers, house
rockers, step movers, etc.
-Thirty-thrcc persons arc now con-
tned i'll Edgetcld. Jail charged with
being Implicated in tho Culbreath
MURDER They will apply for bail this
week.
Sam and Gus Scawright, two boys
of Abbcvilc county, have averaged two
hundred pounds of cotton each every
favorable day since the picking season
commenced.
--Chas. Chant and Bella Jackson,
colorcd, OF Collcton, acting husband
ana wife, quarrelcd about another
woman, when Chants wife stabbed
and killed him.
-Eeprcscntativ l.. p. Jones, of
Edgcticld, who has been living near
that town for some years, has removed
TO !Hdgc Spring, having sold his plan
tatlon and residence TO John III. Hol-
lmgsworth.
Mr.. j. G. Written, steward of the
Anderson county poor house, has made
| ,fc rIN,,,N
lasses from small piece Of land. This
will be moro than enough to supply
the paupcrs.
Between thirty and forty thou
sand dollars arc due Woflord College
from subscriptions to the "Ccntennial
Endowment Fund.-" and on bonds
given to the Endowment Fund of
Wotlord College,"
A colorcd boy in Lancaster ran a
race on foot against another on an old
poor horse. The little chap who ven
turcd TO pit his speed against the
| horses was ovcrtakcn in tho race, run
over and fatally injured.
MIR. James Lagroome, of Edgclieid
county, has II farm valued at ST., 900,
on which he makes about one hundred
bales of cotton every year, besides an
abundance of small grain and corn,
and raises the finest stock in the county.
"A herd OF fine Jersey cattle, sew
eral head of pure Angora goats, Berk-
shire hogs, etc, will be sold at public
sale i'll Lancaster ON November 20.
They were the property Of the late DR..
Joseph III. Foster, breeder of fine
stock.
Trustworthy information indicates
that the cotton crop of Ncwberry
county will be about the same as it
was last year. The corn crop has
been excellent, and especially in the
bottom lands along the Saluda and
Bush Rivers.
The expenses Of the recent term
of Court at Lancaster were S1.O7O.35.
The whole expenses of Court to the
county for the present year, for grand
and petit jurors, States witnesses.
Dalllffs and meals furnished Jurors
while engaged in trying cases, have
been 81, ,858.35.
MIR. B. D. Springs, of Fort Mill,
York county, realized thirty-nino
pounds Of lint from 100 pounds of seed
cotton of the Pctcrkin variety. Messrs.
y. IL. Allen and w. j. Rawlinson
I'"''I'' 'hS oahu NttlcJy anu IIc NlGlQ
was forty-Onc pounds Of lint to the
hundred pounds of seed cotton.
While prospecting for phosphate
on the Carrier lands, New Road, Il. O.,
C0llcton county, one day not long
since, Charles Campbell, son of Col.
a. l.. Campbell, killed three rattle
snakes and a water rattle. The rattle
snakes averaged four and half feet,
and had from eleven to thirteen rattIes
each.
A Presbyterian church was organ
lied in Mount Carmel, Abbevillc coun-
ty, on Monday, October 10, consisting
OF thirty members. The following
officers wcro elected, admitted and
installed: Eldcrs--J. w. Morrah, C.. n.
White, r. Il. Morris. Deacons.-A. II.
McAllistcr, j, j. White, p. l.. Nc
Ce!vy. .
David a. Long, of North Caro-
lima, who married Miss Alice Evans,
NJ IROoly II;n on Morcb 1QQS oni