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The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1885-04-09
Terra Gotta for Housc-Fronts.

SO far as my experience goes, the pub
lie generally arc unaware of the real
advantages and merits Of tcrra-cotta
for facing street fronts. When proper
ly burned, it is absolutely inpervious to
smoke, and is unaffected by acid fumes
Of any descriptions; it is about half the
weight of the lightcst building-stoncs
and its resistance, when burned in SOL
I'd blocks in compression, is nearly one
third greater than that of Portland
stone; it is not absorbcnt-a great de-
sidcratum when damp has to be con-
sidcrcd-it is easily nodded into any
shape, for strings, cOrniccs, or window
sills and architravcs, and can be easily
nodded for figure or other enrichment.
1t can be got in good warm yellow or
red color, and, when glazed, can be
produced j. almost any tones of soft
browMS greens, reds, or ycllowS;. and
its strength, durability,and impcrTious-
ness to all the destructive Influences of
town atmosphcrcS, to my mind, re-
commend it as the building material
most adapted for facing street front
ages. -Pol"l0r "icNcc NonthiHt0r JGN-
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1885-04-09

liuSband--"It looks like rain, nv
dear. Don't you think we had better
take an mbrclla?" Wifc-"O, no!
we don't want to be bothered with it."
Husband-"Io GU take great chances,
my love-" Wilc-'T know do. If /
were a man | would be a bold spccula-
tor. / would never be content like
you, to do an ordinary humdrum bus
ness that would just bring nc n liv-
ing. An hour later, the couple
standing i'll narrow doorway with tho
rain beating licrccly in.J Wifc-"lIow
do / Iook?' IIusband-''Vcry much
like a spoculator, sharcr of my Joys and
sorrows"
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1885-04-09

America promises 10 become tho
greatest winc-producing country in tho
world. Ten years from now our annu-
al wine product will probably amount
TO lO0,OOO,OOO gallons. Even then the
industry will be only in its infancy.
California is 4 great wine State, but as
yet sh" has cultivated very little of her
grarc area. There are three great
vine crntcr5 III this country. The first
IS the Parii" slope, the second is tho
Piedmont region, or table lands be-
tween the Allcghanics and the Blue
Ridge, including Virginia, the Carroll
mas, Georgia and parts of Kentucky
and Tennessee, the Indian Territory.
with large parts Of New Mexico, ATi-
zoMa, Arkansas, Kansas, Texas, Mis-
souri,, Ohio and New York. We have
100 acres adapted TO grapes for eycry
one acre that France can show.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1885-04-09

Matthew Arnold announces his in
tention Of again visiting America next
fall. Como on, Matthew.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1885-04-09

Sierra Valley, Sierra county, CAL, is
Dhc Oh inc prcttieSt but most isolated
places IN the State. 1t has no telegraph
&C communication with the rest of the
w"rid' and can only be reached by n
iilc"lI lIiilc"lI stage ride of twenty-five
p,,t nc ;c Irinco o. Wales is only forty-five.
1ut II you count his age on the littlo
SHarkcy plan by the fun he's had, he'd
Globe. ''' N'o''on
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1885-04-09

But an unconquerablo drowsino $
had taken possession of Mermelle, and
conscious That she was yielding to a
kind of sleep, yet utterly unable to
throw it off, she at last lay back in the
carriage in state OF complete mon
sciouEnCsS.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1885-04-09
WIT AND HUofoK.

The Jersey farmer felt tho shake
On Sundays sudden fierce earthquake,
And shivercd, as If racked with pain;
He looked around in mortal dread,
ana, seeing nothing, shook his head,
but fcobly smiling, simply said:
"I'NO got tho blnStoh 'ShnknR, nQninn
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1885-04-09

ncu&chnG bard, that fain on downy wing
ouId ~ With tougher Quils to soar and singl
'9ng lailSs, nN whom the cage door nc or has
Inn
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-01-21

sunshiny morning, near the close of the
Wal, Jesse returned to his old home in
Hart County. A bullet had pierced his
aide, but, fortunately for him, he had
been carried from the field by . COM
rade, and cared for by q skilled physi-
can. He had almost entirely recovered.
After the last column of figures in the
official count had BEEN added up and
the Democratic majority was announced
1,147, Jesse and Rebecca began their
preparations to seal q contract that had
stood inviolate for twenty three years.
To duly celebrate the occasion it was
agreed to make a trip to Louisville and
solemnize the nuptials while there.
At 2:55 yesterday afternoon Jesse
Small and Rebecca Woodson arrived in
the city. They secured q license to
marry and were piloted to the Office of
Justice John McCann, where they were
soon made happy under the seal of the
marriage VOW. Last night the bridal
couple were registered ct the st. Cloud
hotel, and to-day at noon they returned
to Hart county. Mr.. Small is A years
of age and his bride five years his jun
ior. He is tall, with thin face covered
by iron.gray whiskers. Mrs. Small has
pleasant face and blue eyes. Both
we're dressed in simple country style.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-01-21
A Citizen Of St. Kilda

~We're getting fewer and fewer every
year at st. Kilda," said "Old Salt" to
newspaper interviewer" and there's now
only about 100 people on the island.
This, we are told, is because we marry
our cousins. That don't know. At
any rate it is not the old people that
die, but the babies between months
and l year. It is about eighty miles
from the Scottish mainland, and twice
in every year a ship comes to us and
supplies us with what We want and takes
away birds feathers and the oil we get
from the eeabirds. Formerly we had no
glass for our windows except we got the
glass from q wrecked ship, but some
good people on the mainland sent us
glass, and We have also iron roofs on
our houses now. They have tried to
get us to leave the island, but none of
us will do it,"
"How Go you catch the seabirds?"
"The way we do it is to drive stake
into the brow of the cliff and then throw
q rope of cowhide over. The man then
descends and catches the birds with 8
net"
"Do you have many shipwrecks?
20, aye, nearly every year; and some
times the men are saved and sometimes
they're not. Once upon a time Span
ish man-of-war was wrecked at St.
Kilda, and that is the reason 80 many of
Us have black hair and eyes. In those
days very few ships ever vi sited US. The
island belongs to the Laird of Dunve-
gan, Macleod of Macleod. We pay rent
in feathers and oil. He's good Laird,
is Macleod"
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-01-21
DUEL on A TRAIN.
A Conductor aud Brakeman Fight
With Knives ON the Top Of q

A Conductor aud Brakeman Fight
With Knives ON the Top Of q
George jackson, conductor, and
James Wilson. brakeman of . freight
train on the Louisville & Lexington
Railroad, were brought into Louis
vile on the morning of the 10th,
suffering from wounds inflicted
upon each other in duel, fought with
bowie knives on the top of the train,
running at the rate of thirty miles an
hour. Jackson was coming from Lex
ington with his train when he and VIII
son quarreled over q woman in the ca
boose. The men were about to come
to blows, when q proposition was made
to fghta duel on the top of the caboose
with bowie-knives, with which both
men were armed. No sooner was the
proposition made than it was accepted,
and, drawing their weapons, the men
climbed to the top of the car. The
other employees on the train gathered
around to witness the conflict. The
train was whistling along at the rate of
thirty miles an hour between Christians
burg and Eminence when the men TN
nounced themselves ready for the battle.
They rushed upon each other and clos
ed in. Blood trickled from the knife
blades and bespattered the roof of the
car. 1t was apparently combat to the
death, but neither man sho ~ed signs of
mortal wounding. The men separated
once when the signal was given that the
train was to pass under bridge, but re-.
newed the fight immediately after the
bridge had been passed. Both men were
badly hacked, and the train men, not
desiring to witness murder, put stop
to further fighting. Jackson got the
worst OF the fight, being badly cut
across the breast.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-01-21
A DAY OF DISASTER.

Terrible Cyclone m Portions Of
Georgia and Alabama.
A terrible cyclone passed over por-
tions of Alabama and Georgia on the
night of the 18th. The direction was
from southwest to northeast. Great
damage was done to houses, fences and
timber in its path, which was about a
mile wide. In Bibb County, Ala, near
Centerville, one man is reported killed
and woman seriously injured. Sew
eral horses and mules were also killed.
The damage to horses and other prop
erty will reach into the thousands. In
Jones County, Ga, houses, barns and
fences were carried away and much
damage done to the forest. In Baldwin
County the sweep of the cyclone was
complete, taking everything in its path.
Several persons were injured but no
lives are reported lost. The roar of
the storm was distinctly heard for dis
tance of eight miles.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-01-21
DUEL IN THE DARK.

Tragic Termination OF u Dance at
Ellis Prairie, Texas.
News was received on the 10Th, from
Ellis Prairie, Tex, of the killing of
George Stevens, noted character of
that portion of Texas. A farmer named
Shepherd gave dance, which Stevens
invited himself to attend. Matters not
progressing to suit him, Stevens drew a
six.shooter, and, declaring that he would
make things interesting, opened fire on
the dancers, who precipitately fed. The
room being cleared of all but Stevens,
Farmer Shepherd quickly extinguished
the lights and combat in the dark was
begun. Stevens became alarmed and
fred wildly at his antagonist, who from
the flash of Stevens pistol was able to
ascertain his exact location in the dark
in the room and poured both barrels
of buckshot into Stevens breast, killing
him instantly.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-01-21

An accident on the Pensacola & A.
lantic Railroad, near Boniface, Fla, on
the evening of the 10th, resulted in the
serious injury of six passengers. Two
Pullman coaches were wrecked.
An old lady named Vaunessen was
fatally burned At Pittsburg on the
morning of the 9th by the explosion of
q kerosene lamp.
Fred. Ecker and Israel Smith were
killed in saloon row at Louisville, KY,
on the 9th inst.
A party of eleven persons at East
Liverpool. O., were poisoned, one f.
tally, on the night of the 9Th, by pack
age of Rough on Rats" which had been
placed in the coffee-pot.
Mrs. Myrs Clark Gaines, the great
ihgant, died at her homo in New Or
leans on the 9th inst, at the age of 80
years.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-01-21
The ssUnfyersal Day.O

The resolution Of the late Prime Me-
ridian Conference, establishing . @uni-
versal day. to begin for all the world
at the moment of mean midnight at
Greenwich, went into effect New Years
Day. Hitherto, unlike the civil day,
the solar day has begun at noon, or
twelve hours after the civil. But hence
forth the two will coincide, and Will be
counted from zero up to twenty-four
hours. This international arrangement
was not intended to interfere With the
use of local or other standsrd time
where that is desirsble, but to unity the
astronomical and civil day, and also to
gain uniformity in scientific observations
and reports Of solar and other physical
phenomena over the globe. It involves
NO perplexinR calculations to ascertain
the actual universal time ip sny part Of
America.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-01-21
WHY q Series of Entertainments Ceased.

(Ben: Percy Poore In Boston Budget.l
The Russian legation at Georgetown
became, after old Baron Bodisco's mar
riage to the young and beautiful Miss
Williams, the scene of brilliant weekly
entertainments, given, it was asserted,
by the special direction of the Emperor
Nicholas, who had special allowance
made for table money. At these enter
tainments there was dancing, an excall-
ent supper and a room devoted to whist.
Mr.. Webster, Mr.. Clay, Gen. Scott and
several of the diplomatic corps were in
variably to be seen handling "fifty-two
pieces of printed pasteboard," while the
old Baron, who was not good player,
used, as the host of the evening, to take
q hand. One night, when he had thus
sat down to play with those better ao-
quainted with the game than he was, he
lost over $1,000, and at the supper
table he made the following announce
ment, in sad tone: Ladies and gen.
tlemen: It is my disagreeable duty to
make the announce that these recep-
tions must have an end, and to declare
them at an end for the present; because
why? The fund for their expend,
ladies and gentleman, is exhaust, and
they must discontinue"
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-01-21
Working Free-C Cologne Routes.

From the New York Ttnes.)
The young women of New York have
regular free cologne, just as every old
topper has his free lunch route. And the
lunoh-tray isn't worked with any more
thoroughness, either. TWAS unusual q
year ago for customer to come in and
waste time over the per:umery bottles !;
they generally knew what they wanted
and got. Now, the strange thing is
when we don't have 100 feminines a day
waltzing over to the cologne bottles to
risk questions by the acre and take Z
free bath, with never anything more
than q suggestion Of purchasing. Don't
imagine that these are people who can
not afford to buy their perfumery.
Young women who are known in Ill
the fashionable circles of the city have
got the mania,
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-01-21
BLOWN TO ATOMS.
A Steam Tug Demolisbed aud r
Of The Crew lnsl0ullY Killed.

4 Steam Tug Dem0lis0ed aud Two
Of lhe Crew lnst0otly Killed.
The steam tug Mike Dougherty while
lying at Bellevue Landing. near Eliza
beth, Pa. for repairs to her machinery,
on the 10th, exploded one of her boilers,
making Q total wreck of the vessel The
upper works were blown to atoms, and
were scattered about for q distance of
200 yards in all directions. William
Holler, steward, and William Matthews,
deck hand. both of Allegheny, were in
stantly killed, and three other men in
jured. The only man unhurt by the
accident was Henry Brown, fireman, also
of Allegheny. The two men killed are
to have been blown into the
river. Their bodies have not yet been
The wrecked steamer was
screw propeller, seventy-one feet long,
feet wide and drawing six
feet of water. She was owned by the
Brown coal firm, of Pittsburg, and was
three years old. Her equipment was
the very best, and she was valued at
$15, 600. She is complete wreck.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-01-21
The japanpse O!
from the NV Aee.1

lf1on tue NJ" ARe.J
The chief object Of interest to the
traveller in Yezo, the island dependency
of Japan, is the remnant of the Aino
race, the aborigines of Yezo, and not
improbably of the whole of Japan,
peaceable ssvages, who live on the
coasts and in the interior by fishing and
hunting, and stand in the same relation
to their japanese subjugstors as the red
Indians to the Americans. A rough
ceneus of the Amos, made in 1873, gives
their numbers 12,281, and they are be-
Ieved to be decreasing in numbers. The
''hairy Ainos," as these savages have
been called, are stupid, gentle, good
natured and submissive. They are a
wholly distinct race from the Japanese.
In complexion they resemble the people
of Spain and Southern Italy. The hair
is jet black, very soft, and on the scalp
forms thick, pendant masses, occasion
ally wavy, but never showing any ten
dency to curl. The beard, mustache and
eyebrows are very thick and full. and
there is frequently heavy growth Of
stiff hair on the chest and limbs. Their
language is q very simple one. They
have DO written characters, no iters-
ture, no history, very few traditions, and
have left no impression on the land
from which they have been driven.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-01-21
WAR SOUTH OF THE IsTHMUS,
The Republfc of Colon bia Torn by
Bnternecine Strifes

The Republfc Of Col0mbi Torn by
Bnternecine Strifes
According to advices of the 10Th, q
most alarming condition of affairs pre-
walls throughout the republic OF Colon
bia, South America, and general con-
fict is imminent. Cival war is now
going on at Cundinamarca, Boyaca,
Santander and Magdalena, and seems
about to break out in the important
state of Caucasus. In Panama more
trouble may occur, but there will
be but little bloodshed. Heavy fighting
has already taken place in the interior.
The Radical party has joined fraction
of the Conservatives. They are en-
deavoring to turn out the Liberal gov
ernments in different states which are
the strongest supporters of the govern
ment of President Nunez; then if sue
cessful, they will unite the states they
hold in an effort to overthrow the gener.
al government. Severe skirmishes oc-
Cured in Santander and Boyaca, and a
battle has taken place at Tunja, in
Boyaca, in which the Federal forces
were defeated and the commauder-in-
chief, Gen. Montirfar, and another gen.
eral killed.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-01-21

A LOWELL lady haying read in the
Mail the experience some other ladies'
had while shopping in Boston, they
being deceived by mirror and CRITICS.
ing their own reflections, relates the fol-
lowing story about herself: II came
out of one of the large stores on prin-
cipal street, raised my psrasol in the air
and opened it. I thought the people as
they passed me seemed in good humor,
and also that my hat was not - heavy
- usual After / hsd walked about
half mile some one kindly stopped me
and called my attention to the fact that
I was carrying my hat on the top Of
my ,parasoi and walking bareheaded."
The lady ssys that hereafter she shall
patrorize local tradesmen and not go to
the Hub and be laughed at for being
Yerdsut- Lowell Mail
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-01-21

Mr.. O'Reilly WAS dazed. "The Bridge
Street ferry stopped running fifteen
years ago" he said.
well, I can take the Fulton ferry,
then; I owe some brewers over there .
little bill. While I'm gone look up my
bill"
He gave his name and departed. Mr..
OReilly began to overhaul his ledgers,
and after an hours work he found the
name as far back as 1866. The man
owed the firm $2947O. In the after
noon the stranger came back, drew .
big pocketbook from his pocket and
counted out the money.
@Dont you know that the debt is out
lawed three times over?" asked MIR.
O'Reilly.
"That makes no difference. always
try to pay my debts. Sorry I wasn't
able to pay before, 1t kept me awake
nights"
@You're . gentleman" said Mr.. O.
Reilly. ~Take drink"
.Thank you, never drink" said the
stranger as he walked out.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-01-21
Ruined by Drink.

Waterbury, c., cor. New York sun.]
A. B. Wilson, q man whose name is
we'll known throughout both continents,
and who should be to-day one of the
foremost men of the country, the father
Of the great sewing machine industry,
has been wandering about the streets of
this CITY. It was some forty years ago
that, as a poor mechanic, he invented
the famous machine, which now bears
his name all over the world, and which
is manufactured in the mammoth estsb-
lishment in Bridgeport run by Nathaniel
Wheeler, and known rs the Wheeler &
Wilson Sewing Machine Company.
While the market has been flooded since
Mr.. Wilson's invention with other
makes of machines, the Wheeler and
Wilson still holds it's own, but the man
who made this great in lustry is to-day
q pitiable object. His residence in this
city on West Side Hill, is = fine one,
with vast extent of land, where he has
Tweed for some time with his wife and
daughter, women of the most estimable
character, in whose name the property
stands. It has been long time since
Mr.. Wilson was capable OF caring for
his own property. Dissipation has
ruined him and he has become total
wreck. Nathaniel Wheeler finally
purchased the sole right to the valuable
patent. Mr.. Wilson relinquishing bis
share in what might have made him
millionaire. For some time his sham
bling figure, clad in rough garments,
sbod with hdjspidated shoes, and crowned
with slouched hat, from under which
struggled his grizzled hair, has attracted
much attention on the streets here.
Gradually his condition has grown
worse, until to day his forbearing fam
lily could put up with it no longer, and
he was removed TO tie insane asylum in
Hartford, hope..s. wreck.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-01-21
A MISPLACED SWITCH.

A Portion Of Train Thrown Down
an Embank menl-NarHOW Es.
cape OF the Passengers.
When the Lehigh Valley Express
was near Stony Greek, Pa, on the
morning of the 18th, the engineer dis
covered an open switch just ahead. He
reversed his engine and whistled for
brakes. The conductor, whose name
is not given, with wonderful
presence of mind, ordered the
fifty passengers on board into
the rear car which was detached just in
time to save it from going over high
embankment. The engine and five cars
went down and were smashed into
kindling wood. The fireman, A. T.
Evans, was the only man killed. Sev-
eral other train men were hurt,
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-01-21
Married After Twenty three Year
From the Louisville Tiues.l

In Hart County, KY, lived before the
war Martin. Small, an honest farmer,
whose family, besides wife and three
daughters, consisted of six sons, the
youngest of whom was Jesse. Jesse
was fiery, impetuous fellow, who went
to every CROSSROADS dance, and was con-
sidered the finest rifle shot in the neigh
borhood. In those days turkey-shoot-
ing was the favorite pastime of the coun-
try gentlemen during the fall and win.
ter months. It happened one day that
the turkey shooting took place at old
Farmer Ezekiel Woodson's. Father
Woodson was the father of one OF the
prettiest girls in all Hart County. She
vas not yet 16, and already had received
numerous proposals for her hand in
marriage. On the day of the turkey
shooting it was noticed that Jesse Small
took no part in the sport. jesse and
Farmer Woodson's daughter Rebecca
had stolen away from the crowd, and
were breathing into each others ears
the gentle words of love.
The politics of old man Small were
Democratic, violently Democratic, of the
Breckinridge school of Democracy. His
sons took example from the father. At
the secession Of the confederation in
1851, and With the muster of confeder-
ate troops, the entire male portion Of
the Small family enlisted. Before he
went to the army Jesse visited Rebecca-
The lovers promised each other that
they would never we'd until the country
had been saved, and Democratic ad-
ministration restored. During the Bit
ter years Of conflict that followed Re-
becca heard but once or twice from Jes
&c. One letter told her that he had been
shot and mortally wounded on the bat
tle6eld OF Manassas. She had NO hope
0! e7er seeing him ssda, Oae bright