The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1886-03-04


nnyes has been committed to fail by
.ho ordinary. Graham was brought
into Savannah by his father.
There are said to DO less than
3l,0OO, 100000 worth of diamonds i'm
America to-day. The most costIy one
is that belonging to- the widow ofGoy.
T.. -. Morgan, Of New York. Ii bas
been offered for $50, 600, and is twen-
ty"two carat stone.
The selection by Mr.. Psrnell of
NaPt. oehea to represent the Galway
coisCuency seems to have been mia-
;ake. -. ne met with chilling reception
III TUG ,iouse OF Commons. Mr. Big
gar is disgustcd and tho breach In tS.
Nationalist ranks has widened.
-,Bismarck is driving tho Poles out
OF germany, and Austria is receiving
mem win open arms. II this policy
IL Kept up long on both sides, Austria
WIN oefore long be ready to retrieve
the disgrace Of Sadowa.
The official returns of the Mon.
treai health Office for tho wear 1885
nave just been Issued. The total
number OF deaths was I, 1926, as asains,
a,ooo IN 1855. There were 3,l64 deaths
rom smallpox. Of those who died
",o'" "eTo CnllQren.
.--Birmingham, England, still makes
nint-iock muskets for use In tho intc-
rlor OF Africa, where percussion caps
or any form Of fixed ammunition
would often he impossible to obtain,
Wmle powder can always be made aud
nlnts picked up in the desert.
Henry johnson, " miserly bach
elor and hermit, died in East Perkio-
men, Pa, recently, from the effects of
the cold, as he would not allow him
self the aecessaries of life. His feet
were so badly frozen that the soles
mortified and fell off.
while 8 clerk was in the act of
weighing some gunpowder in store
Ill Winchester, KY, q man standing
near struck q match to light a cigar,
causing a terrible explosion. Ths
mouse was wrecked and eight persons
BADLY injured, two of them fatally.
"A burglar entered the residence of
Dr. doughty, Augusta, Ga, on
wednesday night. He was frightene d
Dy the screams of the ladies, and escap-
ed through the windows on TO the
roof and evaded the police who were
in pursuit.
-Recently nearly 1000 fishermen,
WIN their horses and carts, were car.
rieu out to sea on the ice, which sud
denly became detached from the shore
at the small port ofTaganrong, Odessa
Although many of these unfUrtunates
were saved the next day, it is feared
that many perished.
AT fair in Aubany, France, last
week, herd Of bullocks worked bv a
gang OF thieves broke loose and charg-
ed into the crowd Of spectators, killing
three persons and wounding 14O others.
During the panic which ensued the
thieves devoted themselves to picking
pockets.
john N. King, master car builder
OF the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad,
while crossing the track at the com
pany,a shops last week was struck BY
shifting engine, run over and in
stantly killed. He WAS 94 years old,
ana had been employed OH railroads
forty years.
In the Virginia Senate last week
the resolution, introduced by Senator
Wlngdcld, to remove Raj road Com
missioner Moffett from office, becausc
ot lnc"mpetency, was discussed and
nnally rejected by o vote Of 80 to /,
the onl y Senator favoring its adoption
/ being the author Of the resolution.
: The championship pennant won
by tho Atlanta Base Ball Club va.
J received on Tuesday from Chicago
, 1t is blue field, with white border
aid "Champions, 1885," in white let
ters in the centre. 1t is 25 feet i'm
length and Is in width at the staff,
and tapering to five feet. The pennant
F cost 800.
Father hinte, Of the German Cath.
oiic Church, communicated two
members Cfhia congregation in Youngs.
town, OHIO, first cousins, for getting
married. Tie had previously warned
them OF the improperly Of the step
ana refused TO ante them, but they
obtained the aerviccB ofa Pennsylvania
and were married.
1t took only thirteen minutes at
Salt Lake on Saturday to convict two
Mormons charged with unlawful CO.
habitatiOn, and the record of tho week
showed fifteen of the Saints sent to the
State prieOn. At this rate it will not
take long to thin out the Saints who
insist upon enjoying the ministrations
or more than one spouse.
1.-Two brothCrR from Pittsfcld,
Mass. named w. E. and II. r. Her
nance, aged respectively twenty-three
and eighteen years, arrived in New
Orleans last week from Livingston,
Montana, having travelled the distance
of 1906 miles in an open light canoe
since July 4, 1885. The trip was mado
purely for love Of adventure.
-Mrs. Matte ThOrntOn, q chamber
maid at the Kimball House, WAS out
rageouRlv assaulted on Mitchell street
| by two negro men about O'Clock on
Wednesday morning, in Atlanta. The
negroes, named Rcdan and DeLvon,
have been arrested. MIRA. Thornton
has identified both the darkeva posi-
| lively since their arrest, and one of
| them has acknowledged his guilt.
| "A man can make q competence at
saving wood as well as in any other
busineas if he saws it well and saws
enough Of it. The Dexter, Maine,
Gazette tells of man in Pittsfield