The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1885-11-05
aENERAL NEWS 1rEsTs.
Facts OF Interest, Gathered from yariou
Qunrters. a.

Carl Schurz has offered to buy5the
Boston'foSt, with u view of running
IL as an "lndependcnt" paper.
Fire in New Hartford, Conn. on
Thursday destroyed eight buildings.
Loss $4,000. Partly insured.
+According to the Japan Gazette
tne process OF Latinizing the Japanese
alphabet is making great progress.
Sir Henry Drummond Wolf, spe-
clai british envoy, arrived at Cairo on
thursday afternoon and had q semi
royal reception.
DIR. Noah Porter, for the past thir-
teen years president of Yale College,
has resigned, TO take effect from the
next commencement.
The Great Eastern, The largest
steamship in the world, has been sold
at auction for G2G, 200 less than half
what it cost 70 launch her.
"A boat containing a whole family,
iather, mother and child. was capsized
III the st. Lawrence on Thursday, op-
Posite the Isle dc Grace, and all were
drowned.
Louis P. Havcr, publisher of
IhompS0n's Bank Note ReDortcr,
who was last week convicted of black
mailing, was fined $500, which he paid
and was released.
The postotttccs at Middleton, O.,
and llarpcr's Ferry, w. Va, were
broken open by burglars on Wedncs-
aay night and robbed Of fifteen dollars
in each case.
Boston is going to take a new
census, under its own direction this
time, and the police arc to be the
enumerators. The whole cost is not
to exceed $1,000.
The application of the white of an
egg TO snake bite wound saved tho
nc m Oh little girl i'll st. Johns county,
fla. one was bitten twice on the
loot by ground rattlcsnakc.
!, "A female sen lion, supposed to be
the one that escaped from Druid Hill
fark, Baltimore, a few weeks ago, was
Killed III Satilla River, 75 miles south
OF Savannah, on Sunday.
The solicitor of the treasury bos
decided that men engaged on Gsbinp
vessels arc legally entitled to treat,
ment ~ marine hospitals, and here
after they will be allowed that privi-
lego.
The Legislature of Alabama has
passed an Act requiring the public
schools to give instruction in phvsiolo-
gy and hygiene, with especial refer
cnce to the effects of tobacco and Of
ardent spirits.
"A Pittsburg paper publishes q list
of "a persons in that civ worth 90
100000 each, Is worth between ST.
zoo, 900 and 81 100000, ana 81 worth
$l,OOO,OOO. Mrs. Schenlev heads the
list and worth $25,O0O,OOO.
The Metical Rcvic,c, in an edito-
RAJ on "triplets," says that plural
plrths occur most frequently in Russia,
ana that when they do occur in this
country the fathers and mothers arc
generally found TO be of Russian birth
or descent.
AT "tournamcnt' at Spcarlish.
OAK, running start of seventy wards
was given to a steer, and Cowboy
Drlscoll overlook him, lassocd and
threw him, and, dsmounting, tied his
tcet, III torty-onc seconds.
The condition of the landowners
in East Lothian, Scotland, is uncnvin.
bic, and the prevailing depression is
making itself felt all over Scotland,
One noblcman with q rent roll of
$3.50, 900 per amnum has received iust
$4,000 net. '"''
-Ln Colusa county, CAL, about q
year ago, a youth shot himself because
young woman refused his offer of
marriage. The girl sad he was fool.
but the boy recovered. The other dav
the girl committed suicidc because the
same boy refused 70 marry her.
The tramps have ovcrrun the town
of Passaic, N. j., and the police are
powerlcss to prevent their raids and
robberies. When the citizens COM
bincd with the police to break up the
gang, the tramps fired upon them and
retreated to the woods around the
town.
"A poor woman came into the dis
secting room Of the New York Univcr-
sity Medical College last week and
offered to sell her body to the curator
IN order to get money to secure food
for he" children. The students raised
d purse for the poor dcmcnted and re-
lieved her pressing necessities.
-EScorting Archdeacon Farrar
about the White House one day last
week it is said the President, all by
accident, entered the conservatory
for the first time i'm his life;
not, he explained to his visitor, that
he docs not care for flowers, but that
he has been too busy to indulge his
taste in that direction.
The appropriations for tho next
fiscal year in New York CITY amount
to $50, 100000. Most of the tax falls
on the real estate. The personal prop
erty Of the city in great measure
escapes taxation. Men possessing mil
lions arc the tax evadcrs who shift the
burden they ought to boar on to real
estate.
james Hodges has been elected
Mayor of Baltimore on the regular
Democratic ticket, defeating Judge
George w. Brown, the FusionisL nomi- |
nee, by majority of about 1000. The |
new city council stands thirteen Rcgu- |
lars and seven FusiOnists in the first |
branch and seven Regulars and three |
Fusionists III the second branch.
Ferdinand Ward, of the late bank