The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1885-10-08
THE NEWS OF TBE srArE.
somo OF the Latest Sayings ana DoinRs in
South Carolina.


on the Blue Ridge Railroad. n&s
Chicken cholera prevails TO q con,
siderable extent in York county.
%. Il. Culbreath's life was insured
for $4,000 in favor of his children.
-Groenville and Pelzer have beon
placed in telephone communication.
The annual fair Of the Piedmont
Fair Association is only two weeks off.
The Ncwberry County Fair will
be held on the 28th, Goth and 30th in-
slant.
There were three deaths in Camden
during, the month of September-all
COlOrcd. t...
New buildings are going up rapid.
ly in Charleston and old ones being
improved.
Nj. A. Waldrop, of Greenville, ex-
hibits stalk of cotton with 143 ma,
tured bolls. ..
The residence Of Mr.. Jerome G.
Miller, of York, was burnt by an acci-
dental fire.
Capt. III. f. Edwards. of Darling
ton, was found dead in his bed on last
Friday morning.
--Road-workers in some parts Of
Abbeville county arc excused on ac-
count of headache.
The Evangelical Lutheran Synod
of South Carolina will meet at Lex
ington on the 23rd inst.
"A sturgeon weighing 100 pounds
jumped into a boat crossing Sand-Bar
Ferry and was captured.
-Spartanburg banquets the Green
wood, Laurcns and Spartanburg Rail-
road men on the 18th inst.
Tho State Baptist Convention will
meet at Ncwbcrry on Thursday before
the third Sunday in November.
Robert l.. Connor, SON of Mr.. l..
ID. Connor, of Cokcsbury, was killed
i'll railroad accident in Arkansas.
"A protracted meeting al tho Bap-
tist church in Williamson has attracted
much interest and worked great good.
j. a. Attaway, of the Red Bank
section of Edgeficld county, claims to
have discovered coal deposit on his
plantation.
"A young mau of Abbcvillc county
gave a COW and calf, shotgun, sow
and seven pigs and six dollars in cash
for hound.
The next term of Court for Edpe-
field county will convene on the second
Monday in November. Judge Hud-
son will preside.
"A wild turkey gobbler runs with
drove of tame turkeys in Orange
burg during the day, but Mt night goes
into the swamp.
Sarah Scott, a colored woman,
died suddenly on steamboat i'm
Charleston as she was OH her way to
st. Helena Island.
The good will, material, etc. Of.
the Rock Hill He1aM is offered for
sale by Francis w. Williams, assignee
of j. M. Ivy 81 Co.
The Associate Reformed SYNOD of
the South was in session several DAYS
in Due West. The next session will
be held at Bethany, Miss.
John Benson, convicted of killing
another colorcd man in Laurcns and
recommended to mercy, has been sen-
fenced TO be hanged November 20.
Capt. III. T.. Edwards, of Palmetto.
Darlington county, was found dead in
his bed on the morning of the 30th ult.
lie was perfectly well the night before. .
William j. Cunningham was tried
last week in the Lancaster Court for
the murder Of Robert Bowers at tho
Halle gold mine on May 12, last and
acquitted.
w. G. Smith, Of Anderson county.
from one-slXtccnth of an acre expects
to make about 100 pounds of good
tobacco, which at 25 cents q pound
would be worth 1926.
The farmers of Eastern Kershaw,
where the cholera has been killing out
SO many hogs recently, are thoroughly
dlsgusted with hog raising and ere
anxious to sell out their entire stock.
In Abbcville county, a few days
ago, colored woman living several
miles from the village, who has been
somewhat notorious for her immorali-
tics, was visited and whipped by the
"rcgulators."
The new Catholic church at Abbe-
vile will be dedicated on the fourth
Sunday in this month with appropriate
ceremonies. Work on the new Meth
odist church in the same town is pro-
crossing rapidly.
Tho clubhouse of Mcdaniel &
Brooks, at Modoc, Edgefeld county,
was accidentally burned or the 26th
ult., together with % bales Of cotton
belonging to farmers in the vicinity.
LOSS ABOUT 9Z,OOO; no insurance.
1t is said that Mr.. O'Shields, a
well known farmer in Spartanburg,
has been warned to leave the county
after he gathers his crop, the charge
being that he warned the sheriff of the
approach of the late lyncling party.
George d. Wadlcy, Superintend-
ent of Construction of the Georgia
Central Railroad System, will COM
mcncc work on the Savannah Valley
Railroad Immediately, and expects to
complete it inside of eleven months.
There arc thirty~seven practising
physicians in Newberry county, one OF
whom is colored man, DIR. u. w.
who graduated in 1883 at
M IM4charry School of Medicine of the
Central Tennessee College, Nashville.
There was heavy freshet in
Lyncho's River, in the eastern part Of
L m hos L.