The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1885-10-15
THE NEWS OF TUE STATE
Some OF the Latest Sayings and DoInrs In
South Carolina.


The Citadel Academy is we'll under
way, with excellent prospects.
-Newberry College has opened
under very favorable auspices. ..aA
B. f. Welsh has been acquitted of
the murder Of w. G. Moore, at Lam
caster.
Tho Green Pond, Walterboro and
Branchville railroad is in q fair way to
be built.
4. NJ. Wolfe, of Orangeburg, has
been acquitted of tho homicide of
Albrecht.
An amalgamation of the Huguonot
ana Campcrdown mills at Greenyille
is proposed. ''
-Abbcvillc is to have a bank and
Major a. Ii. Wardlaw has been elect.
ed President.
The New Brighton Hotel on Sulli-
vans Island is being put in trim for
winter travel.
The executive committee of the
Iledmont Fair Association is booming
the coming enterprise.
David Miller and James Carson
had each a hand and arm lacerated bv
cotton gins in Spartanburg.
!, -Congrcssman Tillman will address
the survivors of Collcton at Walterboro
on tho 18th of November.
The State Convention of tbe Vo.
mems Christian Temperance Union
will be held in Grccnvillc on the 18th
inst. ''''
Three prisoners escaped from
NcWDcrry Jail few nights ago by
taking the lock Off the door of their
cell. '"''i
Henry Butler, colorcd, accidental.
~ shot and killed another colored man
III bordeaux, Abbcvillc county, last
week. '"''
-Ihc South Carolina College has
opened with about 175 students. The
prospects of the institution are brighter
than usual.
The Rev. A. w. Moore, of Lam
caster, was thrown from a buggy in
h3nrcns county last week, and pain
fully injured.
Owing to the increase Of business.
Two trains a day now run on the Abbe
vile branch of the Columbia 81 Green
vile Railroad.
Mr.. G. W. Williams, of Lancas-
ter, had his house DESTROYED by an In.
cendiary fire last week. Loss about
$500. No insurance.
-, Tho Rev. ii. M. Allen, of Hall
township, Anderson county, was
thrown from his horse and had his
ilSht arm, just above the elbow,
Mr.. j. d. Avinger, of Vance's
fcfry, claims to be the youngest Cons
iederatc soldier, having entered service
When he was only thirteen years and
six months old.
Tho Columbia postof1ice needs n
separate delivery windows for ladies.
as the crowds are such at the single
window now used as to preclude the
presence of ladies.
j. e. Elliott, of Lancaster coupiv.
fired two loads of bird shot into tLc
head ofa negro named George Garter
who had attacked him with the heavy
end OF n wagon whip.
Henry Ashley, an aged colored
man who had affiliated with the Dem.
ocrats, died in Aiken last week, and
was buried by his white friends, the
negroes having ostre cised him.
Governor Thompson has offered a
reward for the arrest Of parties en-
gagged III the lynching Of Culbreath,
and has instructed Attorney-G
Miles to assist in the prosecution.
An Orangeburg farmer has exper-
imented in raising tobacco, and comes
10 the conclusion that it is q more VAL
uaDlc crop, and that it would require
less cultivation and less fertilizer than
cotton.
Major Joseph Carter, trial Justice
at Carter's, Colleton county, in coming
down stairs on The evening of October
Z, stepped on small dog and fell.
breaking his arm in which he was
wounded during the war. He is doing
well.
Mr.. Robert Brodic, of Aiken.
seized an immense hawk by tho winos
as il was cndcavoring to carry off one
of his chickens, when the savage bird
its talons in his legs and hold
on until Mrs. Brodic decapitated it
with hatchet.
The main statue for the Calhoun
monument at Charleston has been fin.
!shcd and will be shipped from Naples
III u lew days. The statue is Of bronze
md represents the great statesman in
the act of rising from his senatorial
chair. 1t will snrmount the monu.
mcnt.
The Adjutant and Inspector. Gen.
lral of the United States has prepared
uniform rules for infantry, artillery
and cavalry practice, and General
will promulgate the rules at
IN early date in this State, with the
nope, OF securing uniformity of prac-
ice here.
Mr.. G. L. Payscur, Of Lancaster,
bought Gs old gold an old-fashioned
medallion with the following inscriD.
Jon on it: "This is the picture of
Edward Fcnwick, Esq, of South Car
Dina, grand son of Robert Fenwick.
ESD, of Stanton in the County OIL
northumberland. Edward Fenw;cL |
vas born in South Carolina January
I'd, 1921, and died July 8, 1875"
"A gentleman just from Charleston
'ays that DR.. Bellinger will be acUnit.
ed IL tried for tho killing of RfIev.
lie SaVS that eufficianf ox,;Jo,.1 l. -