The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1886-08-12
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.
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world is 1,439,915 bales.
ll99ar sprung, a bloody shirt discussion In
the Senate Thursday. 49,
Speclgls from all over Alabama show un-
expected victories for Independents.
The elections In, France resulted In q
complete victory for the Republicans, ,..
Handbills demanding home rule arc being
circulated throughout Wales. .. 49,
The operatives in 42 factories at Broclon,
Mass, struck Saturday.
The New Orleans Times. Democrat thinks
the postal note is a failure and a fraud.
Virginia has raised more hay this year
than for any of the preceding forty of her
existence.
At Oakland, ILL.,, the mercury Mt one
Tune last Thursday registered 112 degrees
in the shade. '
william Hooper & Son, Of Baltimore
nave made an assignment. Estimated
assets $500, 900.
MIR, and Mrs. Van Houten, of Watses-
sing, N. T., were poisoned recently from
eating canned lobster.
David Davis was not worth the six or
eight millions he was credited with. 1t has
Decn officially given at $3.50, 900.
D. .. Dobbins, Il train shifter, was torn
literally to pieces by freight train at Cen
trail, Thursday
The ground was covered to the depth of
] ! inches yesterday at Mount Washington,
N. H., with snow.
The fourstory brick block, comprising
Nos. llG, 11S and 1870 South Eutaw street,
baltimore, was burned last Thursday.
In the anarchist trials at Chicago, YES
tcrday, the defence opened their case,
| Mayor Harrison being one of their wit
| ncSSCS.
The Siblcy Mills operatives at Augusta
returned to work to-day. The situa-
| ton at the Augusta factory remains un-
| changed.
~ by special order of Governor Ireland, of
| icXas, the parties concerned in delivering
| ArrcsurcS to the Mexican authorities have
| been arrested.
The Governor of New Foundland says:
| l nave reason to believe that the report of
starvation in Labrador is absolutely un.
| true"
| Two French sub officers of the army,
stationed at Algicrs, fought duel with
sabrcs. The head of one of the combat
ants was cleft in twain.
| There is said to be another great boom I'm
| Alabama coal lands. Active life prevails
III the vicinity Of Birmingham and through
out tho Black Warrior belt.
| The proprictors of factories in Wcstpha-
| lla and lthenish Prussia are dismissing
workmcn by Wholesale owing to the ter,
| rlOlc depression in trade.
In New Albany, Ind, on July 27, Prof.
j. G. Strunk shot DR.. G.. L. Hoover. q
prominent druggist, and his son Charles
lioovcr-domcstic difficulties.
The people Of Texas have established n
Confederate Home in Austin, which they
propose to make model resting place for
the heroes of the Lost Cause.
Entcrprising South Carolina editors are
beginning to admit that wisdom did not
die with Calhoun, McDuffle and Waddcll
Inc world moves.-1uguSta ChrOniclo
At the trial of the Chicago dynamitcrs q
carload of the explosives used by the an
;rchlsts as well as the blOodstaincd clothes
OF the murdered policemen were exhibited
to the jury.
In Louisville, on July 81, John Koehlcr,
| Il Jealous husband, shot John Carter, a
countcrfcier, through the heart and Peter
il"uph, Il bricilaycr, through the right eye.
In recent autograph letter to a New
York man, Jefferson Davis saws: II am
too old to quarrel, too old to boast. The
man of sense in his old age likes to be let
alone"
Gov. Ircland's letter addressed to Secre-
tAry 5ayard is approved all over Texas,
and has had the effect Of intcnsifyinp the
war spirit by atfording it quasi authority
for its existence.
Careful Republicans conccdc that thc |
next House will be Democratic by re- |
duccd ma jority. Don Cameron admits that |
lhc next Senate may he Democratic or pain.
fully close politically
Mosquitoes arc SO thick at resorts on the
coast along Barncgat Bay that city pcoplc
arc compelled to return home. The walls
on every house arc literally black with the
insects, and the people endure almost un-
bcarablC torture.
The aggregate appropriation made by
the regular appropriation bills passed at
this session Of Congress Excluding the for
tlllcatlons bilD is 1866, 100000, which is
$l3, 900, 600 in excess of the appropriations
made by the bills passed last session.
In Cincinnati, Wednesday, little boy,
barchcadcd ana barcfooted, rccling with
liquor, staggered before the merchants
along Race street, tlourishing u revolver.
lie llred at gentleman who attempted to
disarm him.
1t is estimated that British capital invest
S'' III llC OIltch OtutcS amounts 10 $40
GSG, ,535. This money is in mortgages cat |
tie, land, mines and manufactures Some |
Investments pay from 12l to per cent.
Some pay nothing.
Seventy acres of land north OF Birminp- |
ham, Ala, were recently sold at the rate |
OF $4OO per acre. AS the same land was |
purchased five years ago at about $50 per |
acre, an idea Of the increase in the value of |
property in that rising district can be OBJ. |
tanned.
The Adjutant General of Texas received |
at Austin applications for permission to |
raise volunteer regiments in case of war
with Mexico. He also received informa- |
tion that the NIeXicans are reinforcing the
garrison at FL Paso del Norte. Uncle Sam |
has only one company at Ell Paso in charge |
of Fort Bliss.
Either Senators Hampton and Butler arc
wTrng i'll voting practically against the
MOI SiSon resolution or the whole South |
Car"lina delegation in the House, includ |
ing McSsrs. lIemphill and Dargan, have
blundcred. Hcmphill and Dargan heard |
from the people at home, no doubt Hamp |
ton and Butler may hear later on.-Augusta |
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