The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1886-04-22
aENERAL NEWS ItEnIs
F'acts OF Interest. Gathered from yarIo,s
Quarters.

Quarters.
Secretary Lamar is off on n ten
days vacation.
Mexico is to have colony of GOO. .
ooo Chinamen at an early day.
The ninth death growing out of
the East st. Louis riot has occurred.
-Ex-President Arthur is still unite
feeble and has not been out since Feb-
ruary.
When modern newspaper man
Pr"nounces story n. g. he means that
it contains no gore.
"A mass meeting was held i'm Lon
don on Thursday for the purpose Of
censuring Gladstone's Irish bill.
NORTH Carolina, formerly called
south Virginia, was once sold to the
Kings agent for o house and G2OO.
Tho school boys in Troy and Green
Point, N. Y, have struck for "shortcr
hours"
-$22 900, the forfeited bail of Geo.
-. Cannon, the Mormon Elder, has
been paid.
Tho upper House of the Prussian
Dlet has adopted bills for GermaniziDr
Poland. ''7
--Thad Fairbanks, the scales manu-
laclufcr, died in ST. Johnsbury, VT,
aged ninety years.
"A New Zealand coasting steamer
was recently wrecked and twenty nine
persons were drowned.
The tactics used against Virpiuin
arc to be tried in North Carolina
Sung the State through its officers.
- The Boston block, in MINNEAPOLIS.
Mlnn;, was gutted by fire OF Monday !:
loss about $75, 900, fully Insured
Mail bags from the lost steamer
oregon continue to be picked up; 256
OF he 59S on board have bccu rccnv-
cred.
Tho arrests of New York Alder
men OF 1854 continue. Eleven were
gobbled up on Wednesday.
john M. Rountree, an aged law
yer and sporting man Of Chicago, com
| united suicide with y pistol i'm a gun
| store.
1.-Two individuals who were about
10 leave for Bolivia with large quauti-
| tlcS o1 well executed counterfeit money
have been ovcrhaulcd in New York.
IF General Lord Wolsclev has no
better success III lighting MIR. Glad.
stone than in smashing the Mahdi,
home rule has nothing to fear.
There has been q rcduc;:c" 5s 2G7
IN the clerical force of the United
States Treasury Department under tho
present administration.
Tho Democratic State Executive
Committee of North Carolina met last
week and called the State Convention
TO meet at Raleigh on August %.
Grand Master Powdorly has called
upon the knights of Labor all over the
country to subscribe to the fund for
maintaining the strike in the West.
| John Wagner, farmer i'm Lin
coin, Wis, shot aud killed James Moe
IN dispute about land, and, fearing
lynching, shot himself dead.
The convicted Cluverius making
some narrow escapes from the gnIlows.
The latest theory is that tie murdered
girl was the victim Of malpractice.
The Liberal Association of New
Castle, Sunderland, Tyncsmuth, Liy-
crpool and many other bodies i'm Eng
land have resolved to support Glad
| stone.
The East st. Louis Deputy Sl,er-
iffS are good samples Of United States
Marshals heretofore employed bv Re-
4 publicans to guard elections in the
| West.
r. Ii. Harris, Superintendent of
the Methodist Sunday School at Sag
llarbof, N. Y, and Treasurer of the
Savings Bank, is $4,000 short in his
| accounts.
Tho Earl of Shattesbury killed
himsclfin Il cab inIondon on Wcdnes-
day. He succeeded last year to the
title OF his father, the noted philan-
Lhropist.
"A paralytic named Frank Kccvcr,
who keeps hotel at Hickory, N. c.,
attempted to cross the railroad track
III front of train, fell,. was run
over and killed.
The military have entirely SUD-
pressed the rtoting in East st. Louis,
ana on Monday everything was quiet.
Business has been partially resumed
and railway trains are running.
The Paris Morning News reports
that MIR. Thorndike Rice, the propric-
tor and editor of the North 1n,cricop
RecieV, won 100000 francs the other
day in two sittingS at Monte Carlo.
The cars OF the Capital Civ Rail-
way of Montgomery, Ala, commenced
running last week by electricity. The
trips arc regularly made and every
thing works perfectly.
One of the BARRIERS who was az
rested in Washington the other day
for Keeping his shop open on SUNDAY
had employed part of the day Of rest
III shaving President Cleveland.
Last year the expenses of India
exceeded the revenues by $4,000, 900,
owing mainly I" the war in Burmah'
ihcy figure ont surplus Of $IOO, 900
Tor the next fiscal year.
According to Commissioner Por-
ter about one per cent. of the popnIa-
ton of New York city is in the institu
| tons under the care of the commits
sIoncrS Of charities and correction.
The Now York House of REPRE-
sentauves has passed complimentary
resolutions on Gladstone and Irish
home rule. \ public InpctinU in