The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1885-10-08
oRNERAL NEWS rTESrs.
Facts OF Iuterest, Gathered from YarIous
Quarters.

N Jersey Duil was sold in New
York the other day for $4,000.
In five years the South has increas-
cd lis productions $500, 100000.
The Earl of Shaftesbury died in
London last week.
The small pox in and around
Montreal is spreading considerably,
Her Majesty's and Covont Garden
Theatres, London, are to be removed.
"A grandson of Grattam has been
selected TO represent Dublin i'm Parlia-
ment.
Terrible floods arc reported i'm
South Georgia and along the Florida
line.
The Bashi BaZouks have sacked
and DESTROYED several villages in Rou-
melia.
The blacks of Virginia arc de-
claring their independence Of tho Re-
publican party.
The Bank Of Philipopolis has
closed and general anarchy prevails in
commercial circles.
1t is again reported that President
| Cleveland is to be married. This time
it is to Il young widow.
The introduction Of the whining
post In Maryland TO punish wife-bcat-
ers has had salutary effect.
Henry Soukce, Chinaman, and
Mary Head, white woman, were
married in Augusta on Thursday.
The Prince of Wales goes to more
balls aud dances than any married
man Of his time of life IN London.
| Experiments In growing bamboo
in Yuba and Sutter counties, CAL.
| have proved successful.
Tho report that John Kelly, of
New York, had been seriously i'll. is
contradictcd.
kansas brags that she has never
had breach of fpromisc snit since the
state was admitted to the Union.
Chief Justicc NYaito was passeu-
ger on the White Star steamer 4tiyfatic,
which arrived at New York on Satur-
day.
"A riot occurred ut BclPs Corners,
Ottowa, Canada, last week, over a dis.
putc whether Ricl ought to be hanged
or not.
Two hundred Pigeon Indians have
left their reservation in tho far North
west, and are now on thieving expe-
dition i'll Southern Montana. '..- -.
One of the buildings of the insane
asylum at Warm Springs, Montana,
was burned on Thursday and three
inmates lost their lives.
The cholera in Spain continues to
diminish. The number OF deoths
daily is less than two hundred, and
the number OF new cases less than five
hundred.
Mail communication between the
City of Mexico and the United States
was resumed last week. Nine days
accumulation of mail matter was re-
ceivcd and distributed.
The subscriptions to the Grant
monument fund are still coming in,
but at fearfully slow rate. The total
amount OF the subscriptions OH Tues
day was $82, $40 "A.
There was al interesting hog trial
iii Georgia the other day. After
hearing all the evidence the; court de-
cided in favor Of the plaintiff, and
then took the hog for costs.
Lieut.. S. a. Cook, of the revenue
cutter Corwin, died last Thursday at
the residence of j. f. G.. Smith, in
Martinez, CAL, whose daughter he
married the day dcforc his death.
1t is reported that the commander
of Portuguese gunboat is to buv
1,2O0 slaves from the King of Daho-
mey, to work on coffee plantation in
ST. Thomas.
New Hampshire has followed ND
liquor prohibition with tobacco prohi
bition, Furnishing by fine Of S2O the
sale of cigarette to a boy or girl
under sixteen years Of age.
john S. Wise and John Amber
Smith claim agent Of Washington,
had a fight OH q" railroad train last
week. Smith called Wise a liar, and a
scuffie cnsued, in which Smith was
worsied.
The Philadelphia Ministerial
Union has adopted resolutions de-
nouncing the special postal delivery
system as involving violation of the
Sabbath by the carriers.
Major James Ralston, q well known
farmer and extensive cattle dealer of
Rockingham county, Va, was run
over by train and killed on the Bal |
timore and Ohio railroad on Tuesday
night.
The Central Park board of New
York is very much worried at the
crumbling of the Egyptian obclisk. Ills
said to be due to the severity of our
winters. Scientists are trying to de- |
wise some way to prevent it.
Miss Alice b. Jordinc, of Cold |
water, Michigan, graduate of the
academic and law departments of the
University of Michigan, entered Yale
law school last week. She is the first
lady ever entered in any department Of
Yale outside of the art school.
The Massachusetts State Republi.
can Convention met at Boston last
week, and nominated State officers
Several speeches dcnouncing the South |
in the old "bloody-shirt" style We're
delivered and applauded.
Services in memory Of Gen. Grant
were held last Thursday evening under
the auspices of the local commandcrv
Of the Grand Army of the Republic IN |