The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1885-09-17
THE NEWS OF THE STATE.
Some OF tho Latest Sayings and DoInps I'm
South Carolina.

-Cowpcns has three brides, aged
respectively l3, II andyl5 years.
-llcnry Berry, colorcd preacher.
lost his hand in Il cotton gin at Rock
Hill. '''0N
-MarShal Hamilton, colorcd, was
suflocatcd by foul air in well in York
county last week.
Work is progressing on the foun-
dalion of the Calhoun monument in
Marion Square, Charleston.
MIR. IL. n. Emlyn, of tho Daily
Rec0Fd, has been duly installed as an
alderman of Columbia.
M. u. Maycs, Jr., has been np-
pointed poSImastcra at 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 Abbcvil!c High school opened
on Monday with the promise of a sue.
CCsSiul session.
--Jcrc. Williams, colorcd, fell out of
Il boat in 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 WATERFORD of which
Col. IL. S. Bcdoh was elected prcsi-
dent.
Tho Tooth anniversary Of Plum
branch Church, Edgchcld county, will
DC celebrated on Tuesday, October
18th.
AT the close of the fiscal year, there
will be Il surplus in the TREASURY of the
State lunatic asylum. There arc 6O4
inmates.
Mr.: r. b. Lowry, of York, has
double-hcadcd king snake, which he
Killed in the road before discovering
its singularity.
-Mr. w. A. Carncs, Of Lancaster,
recently had about sixty feet square of
a: patch of cotton completely killed by
Lightning,
-Charlcston, Columbia and Green
Vi'lc arc the only places in South Car
olila which come under the ten cent
lmmrIiatc letter delivery system.
Tho subscribers to the telephone
exchange III Columbia are indignant
at threatened increase Of rates from
$50 to $40 year.
From 225 to 275 hands have been
working on the Columbia Canal for
thc last month. he work is reported
rs progressing satisfactorily.
MIR. II. 5. Galloway has one of the
largest brick kilns ever burnt in Abbc-
vile county. There arc 12O, 900 bricks
lii it, and it has sixteen eyes.
The board of councilmcn of New
berry have passed an ordinance re-
| quiring that all births and deaths that
occur that town shall be registered.
-Ihc earnings of the Chcraw and
Chester R&ilroad for the month OF July
1859, amount to Sl,jlS 0S, an increase
OF Sl36 30 over the receipts for the
same month last year.
! There is Il Young lady m Oranpc-
| burg who runs farm and makes
from thirty to forty bnics of cotton q
year, beside sothcr crops. She doesn't
want to marry, however.
"A party of young men paid DR..
Eahit $40 for the privilege of cutting
'hG dam OF one OF his fish ponds near
crs. This is true fish story.
MIR. Henry George, who resides
near Carriers Postoflicc, Collcton coun.
ty, picked peach from one ofhis trees
measuring ten inches in circumference
ana four inches in diameter.
1.-The telephone company has given
notice TO their subscribers in NcWbcrry
that the exchange i'm that town will be
closed on the 24th Of October, as the
business fails to pay expenses.
Capt. Il. G. Billings, of Lancaster,
sat down on snake SuppoSing it TO be
stump, got up hurricdly and made
tracks homcWard, when he straddled a
ycllow-j jackcts nest, but got away
without serious injury.
Joseph 4. McEachcrn has cipht
acres Ca mill pond) Of the finest rice
ever seen in 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 as train hand on freight
train on the South Carolina Railway.
fell between the cars near Branchvilc
last Tuesday morning and was run
ofSi "''' instantly hllicN.
Judge Kershaw, in his CHARGE TO
the grand jury in EdgcGcld, 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
houn, 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 dcsist from their business.
Mr.. G. II. Sanders, of Kcrshaw,
Killed strange bird among a flock of
| doves, and found it to be carrier
pigeon turned loose in Pensacola.
Florida, and bound for rs Courtlandt
street, New York.
deputy Sheriff Hughes, of Edge
field, and constable went to arrest n
negro named Holmes near Trenton.
when the latter fired on them from a
held. The officers returned the fire,
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