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The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1886-10-07
NO. q.
woNIEN's NAMES.
"A Simple Device by Which Personal identity
May DO Retained. atE sfm

Simple Device by Which Personal Identity
May DO Retained. FtE srm
(oharles Dudley Warner in "Thoir Pilgrimase.n)
Now, however good o woman's name
may be, she is in danger-exoept, they
say, in Massachusetts losing it, and
commonly in the change she blots out
all traces of her former existence and
even identity. In royal and noble fami-
lies the attempt has been made to pilo
SO many names upon the female infant
that some stick through life, and we have
to somo extent initiated this in our re-
public by gi wing girls two and three
names, sometimes string of very pretty
appcl!atlons taken out of novels, and
especially If the child is poor will she be
rich In names. This is all very well so
long as the girl remains Clarissa Elvira
Euphemia Hoskins; but when it would
become Clarissa Elvira Euphemia Hos
hlns Fond it is too much, and either the
surname surname or somo of tho baptismal names
h'So 10 DO thrown overheard. All these
ano many other Inconvenience can be
Nolael ana tho personal identity of %
woman be secured through all changes
by very simple device.
In inc hrst place give the girl in
baptism only one name. She will be
perfectly content with it. Her lover .
| never requires, never uses, but ono Of
her names, if she has half a dozen. In
the height of his tenderness he never
says: "Amelia Jane, como to nv armsl"
lie simply extends his arms and cries:
'Jane!" In the second place, when the
girl marries let her always keep her sur
name. Then, whenever we SEQ q wo-
mans name we shall know whether she
Is married or single; and if she is married,
we shall know what her family name is.
LII she has earned q reputation as O
writer or doctor or an LID. as Mary
Brown, she will carry that with her as
Mary Brown johnson; and in all cases
there will be spared an indefinite amount
OF talk and inquiry as to who she was be-
fore she was married.
This system is essential to the "cause"
OF woman. 1t may be said that it lacks
perfection in two respects. We could
not tell from tho three names whether
the bearer of them might not be o
widow, and it makes no provision for
second marriage. These are delicate
questions. In regard to tho first, it is
nobody's business to know whether the
woman is or is not widow, unless she
chooses to mako that fact prominent,
and thon she has ways enough to en-
phaslzo it, And in the second place it
does not at oil matter what becomes Of
tho name of the first husband. 1t is the
woman's identity that is to be preserved.
And sho cannot be required to set up
m!ie-stones all along her life.
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crown every elevation and line every
picturesque vale, and the seductive titles
are enough to make the mouth water.
Every bare knoll covered with weeds
and powders, every clump of scrub oak
lined with golden rod and every rock
ribbed run has been gobbled up and is
on sale by spectators.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1886-10-07
"A cucumber has been raised in Iowa
which measures four feet in length.
A yong man at Neche. D ~

"A yong man at Neche, d. IT,, near
the Manitoba line, wanted to marry a
girl at Gretns on the other side. Her
parents forbP de her leaving town, so she
stood on the Manitoba side and he in
the Unitet States, and the minister
stood witt. one foot in the Queens realm
and the O her in Uncle SANS, and the
two were married The legality of The
performance now troubles them.
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Born With Three Hves,


a wonderful freak of nature was seen
in a chilI Jorn in this city O. few DAYS
since of respectable parents which doubt
less has no parallel. When tho child
was born it was discovered that it had
three eyes, one of which was set directly
III the top of its head. The eye was per
fectly formed, with lids, and was similar
to the two eyes in its forehead, with the
exception that the eye was very large
and perfectly blue, while tho others were
black. The child was hidcously dc
formed otherwise, both of its feet being
grown together, but were well formed.
There was also about two inches of the
spine missing in the small of it's back.
The monstrOsity weighed fourteen
pounds, but only lived about two hours
after birth. Chattanooga Times.
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Platform Adopted by the WorkiDgmen of New
fork-Mr. Henry George the Nominee for
hInNOr.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1886-10-07
UFrom the Baltimore sunN

1t has already been announced in the
Sun that the labor campaign in New
York city was opened Thursday evening
by tho adoption of platform and the
nomination of Mr., Henry George for
mayor. Over 400 delegates were present,
representing, it is claimed, 5000 organ
lied men. The following is the platform,
which was adopted with great unanimi-
tY:
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A convict in the mil at Athcn,

"A convict in the Jail at Athens, Ga,
stripped the iron hoops from his cell
tub, made them into 8aw-blades, sawed
through an iron bar an inch square max.
ing n hole in the window fourteen inches
square, soapcd his naked body, and thus
slipped through it, and was then detect.
cd by the sheriff. He said he had to Gel
out Of his dark cell. o
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"A cooper in Exete~. Calada, built q
large tank in the shop and taen had to
tear down the whole front OF the shon
heforc ne could get it out.
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\ Warming AgoInst Dad Writing,

Henry Clay, who was neat penman,
was quitc ali enthusiast on the subject of
plain handwriting and was in the habit
of telling story in point about q Gin
cinnati grOccryman who wanted lot Of
cranberrics and thought he could get
them cheap i'll littlo kentucky town.
10 this end he wrote to o customer at
the place requesting him to send lin
ono hundred bushels of cranberries per
Slmmons-thc name of his teamster.
Ihe writing was so bad that tho party to
whom the note was addressed could not
make out the word "cranberries" at all
but did conclude that his correspondent
did want one hundred bushels of per
simmons, which were at once gathered
and forwarded, much to tho disgust o.
Book.
The new Attorney General of Tennessee,
is George w. Pickle. He is generally re
gardcd as Il well preserved man.-Hc. Nov
let some fellow gherkin joke about hi
being mixed up in rsmily jars. -
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MIR. CLEvELANUs NEW HOUSE.

The villa on Tennnllytown Road Is Not Yet
Ready for 0ccupancy-What May be Seen
There Now.
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-The m0friago wrlte- The cortifionte.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1886-04-03

her appearance In ON. Of the boxes. For Q
few minutes the speaker upon the stage was
quite lost sight Of, and round after round Of
applause rang to the dome Of the great build
'ng, all for this one little woman.
She was warm advocate Of tho election Of
President Cleveland, and wrote letter CIV
Ing reasons why he should receive the votes
Of lrish-Amertcans. She thought the Demo-
cratic party would do more for ireland than
the Republican would
Later Mrs. Parnen fell into financial tlif-
fcu1ties. Malicious neighbors broke into her
grounds at Bordentown, destroying fences,
cutting shrubbery and killing and manning
farm stock It was supposed that this was
lone at the instigation Of political enemies.
Then other and deeper troubles came There
was sheriTs sale ordered at the Old Iron
sides home itself to satisfy Judgment for
debt In some way this sale was stopped, be-
aeve, as nothing has been heard OF It In some
time. This / imow, however: Papers were
circulated in New York city asking for sub
sc1iptions to relieve the poverty of Mrs Par
nell Her picture was printed upon the back
the very picture from which this iIlustra-
ton is taken. How It happens one maz ha
Fanny Parnen was a great blow to her
mother, and it may be that since then Mrs.
Parnen Is too prostrated to look utter her
financial affairs But her famous SON, in
Ireland, is a rich man. Why should charity
be asked to relieve the wants Of hts mother In
Americas ELIZA ARcHAnD.
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A Celebrated Hu,norsst's UslIness.

In and Ont Of season know Bill Nye He
is the honieliest llan in seven states Not
many months ago BID and I and another
won't Oh trip west together. William .Tas
iecturin2 The more Travelled with him and
saw hi,a IN fhe primitive state, the more I
became Convinced Of his ugliness became
really ashamed Of him. At the hotels where
we stopped Bills honleliness actually took
away my appetite. his facs will stop the
hands Of & clock any day. Yet with oil
these strongly developed physical phenomena
Bill is vala, positi7eiy vain, and loves to pose
before the ladies. He does it. too, with tact
and diplomacy, that wins admiration ard
makes the fair creatures forget that hs has
face. Nye is bald. He is painfully bald.
Out Of one hundred bald heads his would be
thu man you would pick as the mark for par
hcular balinass. He is tall and loos:,
jointed, and wherever he goes he is attired in
a claw-hamnler coat. He stands with h;a
hands behind and his toss turned in. At
Waupaca, Wis, his family tailor resides. /
didn't know that he had a game eye until re-
csntiJ. He is totally bind in his lef. eye ant.
has a cast in it. His full nanas Is E.ea..
William Eye. Ee sseyvs hos7 to tall: s.esat.-r
and ss5Eisaliy 20 laelea s:ss:! Il goes a.ssho:s
sat,sa - .la L -c.. .n,,lli:r asss sr.Iy WITH
ih-is, but II ia r..sr:-- EugsEe Field
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1886-04-03
Retail Merchant. and The4, Bad Debt

Retail Merchants and Their Bad Debte.
The retail merchant of west New York are
getting ready to try new plan of disposing
Of bad debts. They will cooperate to have a
bill auction, and accounts which they have
not been able to collect will be sold to the
highest bidder. There are good many peo-
pie who do not pay their debts who would pay
tksu If they knew that their names and liza
biHtiee were to become public property in the
event Of nen-payznent, end q firm enforce
ment of the ,7ectern New York method would
probably very soon render en- actual auction
unnecessary. 'Tkere ought to be g presump-
ton in favor Of publicity in every case Of
willful attempt to deprive creditor Of that
which is justly due him. and nobody will OBJ
ject to the plan who pays or honestly intends
to pay his debts. So 1t may even be adopted
outside of western New York.-Ph1adelphi
Times
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1886-04-03
A Scene Peculiar to Alaska,

A scene peculiar to Alaska wss an incident
of one Of the mornings Of last:week Three
spacious canoes filed with natives formed q
line of tugs towing a raft of timber across
the harbor fronting the town. The canoe
next to the raft had motive power of sixteen
"injines, " the next one in line had twelve land
the leading one had eight, besides an Ameri-
can ensign flying from staff erected in the
bow. While the entire force were padding
for keers their paddles kept stroke with a
loud chant, wild md weird, which seemed to
be compound of "Old Hundred" "John
Browns Body" and "Whoop,er-Up Eliza
Jane" A select portion of Sitka's population
witnessed the chow, while the raft was being
moved alcng at o rate Of fully three miles an
hour.-Sitka Alaskana
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1886-04-03
Tho Proper Way to Liok . stamn.

"The average ingenuity of the human fam
ily," said a retail stamp clerk at the post
office, emust be very small. Why, there IL
not one person in 500 who has gumptio1,
enough to put stamp on letter. see the
process gone through with about thousand
times day, and ought to know All the
people at my window begin by putting the
stamps into their mouths, closing their
mouths, rolling their eyes like man trying
to swallow pill, and moving the stamps
around in their mouths until they are per-
fectly saturated with saliva. They then lay
them on the corner of their envelopes and
bring their clenched fists down on them like
q pile-driver. Then comes the profanity.
See here, clerk they say, this stamp is no
account. Won't you please put a little
muscilage on ita So strange that they can't
put enough mucilage on the stamps to make
"Now, the trouble is that these people lick
and chew all the gum of the stamp be-
fore they try to aff1x it; and il the gum were
an inch thick, 1t would meet with the sams
fate. The way to put stamp on is to moisten
the gum very slightly, and then lay it on the
envelope, and with the end Of the forefnger
slip it back and forwards once or twice until
the saliva and gum are mixed have been
licking stamps for forty years, but I have
never yet met with ono which would not
adhere If 1t was treated in this ay."-ChicagS
Journal
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1886-04-03
NUMBER 81.
CHARLES 8 pARnslL,s MOTHER.
Tho Likeness and q Sketch Of ,rrA xsolia
Stewart ParnelL
Especial Cozrespondsncel


Especial Cozrespondsnoel
NEW YORK, March 9S-They say that
Mrs. ParneH, the heroic mother Of the cham
pion Of Ireland, is IL and dying hero I'm New
York. It is said, too, that she is in reduced
circumstances. She il entitled to sympathy
from the well wishers, both Of America and
Ireland. She "a herself an American, being
the daughter of Commodore Stewart, who
commanded the old frigats Constitution in
the war Of 1919, and with it captured several
British vessels The Constitution was called
.Old 1ronsides" This name was given to the
commodore's estate at Bordentown, II. J.
Charles Stewart Parnell ought to bs some
body. He has heroic blood In him from both
sides. On the Irish side the Parnell family
have been remarkable for generationa Thsrs
were soldiers, there were distinguished
mechanical gsniusss, there wsrs learned
scholars and writer's, there were strong
minded women. Sophia PaxnoN Evans, great
aunt Of tho ibsrator Of Ireland, was Aon-
ess. Her facs looked Liz na. She was
woman Of splendid brain and executive abil-
ity, and q dsist Of the old school, being an
outspoken follower Of voltaire .end Hums
and Gibbons. Through her urgihs bar hps-
band entered politics, and he'd victorious
career as a Whig, she being throuRhou1 q
Mime. Roland to him.
OF such blood comes Charles Stewart Pr.
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cause OF his adhesion to the Union cause He
returned to Ohio in 1863 and married, The
next year he went to Illinois, where he has
stnceFresided He was, In 1878 and 1874, a men,
ber Of the Illinois legislature, and is the author
Of important railroad legislation in that state.
He declined reelection to the legislature. and
was appointed by Governor Cullom Republi
cam member Of the railroad commission.
Subsequently he became chairman of the
Democratic state committee. In 1885 Presf-
dent Cleveland appointed him superintendent
Of Indian schools His term Of service in tbat
place has been short, but it is certain that the
administration of tie Indian school system
has materially improved since he took charc.
Of it.
The transfer Of Mr.. Trenholm from fha
civil service commission to be comptroller of
the currency places him in a ,,rs5t,,,, -
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CHARLES LYNAM. removed by 6ecro-
tary Stanton before its close. In 1864 he
was made a clerk In the treasury depart
ment, and in 1871 became chief clerk.
In 1883 he was appointed chief Ct the
civil service examiners, by President Arthur,
from which he was appointed to his present
position. Mr.. Lyman has always been an
enthusiast on the subject Of civil service re-
form. He was an active member of the civil
service board appointed by Gen. Grant
during his administration.
John H. Oberly, ,sof Illinois, the newly ap
pointed head Of tho civil service commission,
comes from an old Pennsylvania family, be-
ing greatgrandson of Alexander schaeffer,
the founder Of Schaeferstown in Lebanon
county. His father was born in Schaehers-
town, whence he went to Cincinnati, O.,
where John 81. Oberly was born in 1898
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1886-04-03
MONUMENT TO GEN. LEE,
HOW THE BRONZE STATUE WILL
LOOK WHEN COMPLETED.
Tho Richmond, Va, Ladies Give the
Commission for Making 1t to Niehaus,
Of Cincinnati-American and roreirn
EomDetitOrR
Especial Correspondence,

Especial Corrsspondencnl
RICHMOND, March 23-Amerioa IS rapidly
filing up with statues Of her great men, The
country being 80 big it is good thing we
have great men enough to go around The
late war produced a vast crop of them on
both sides of the line There are major gen
erals and brigadier generals without end. If
we shouldn't have any more wars for the
next 500 years we shall not have more than
used up the great names the late war left at
our disposal for marble immortality.
The revered leader Of the lost cause himself
Is at length to have a suitable monument
erected to his memory. tits to be here in the
city Of Richmond; very fttingly, too, for
here the chivalrous, melancholy soldier made
the last struggle for the south, knowing full
well that it would be the last, and that it
would be in vain, though fighting like a
hero the while
= @@Richmond is beautiful and interesting
city, and is magnidcently situated A high
table land descends by steep bluff to the
James river. As one approaches the river
and looks up or down the vslley splendid
sweep Of country bursts on tho sight Really
1t is one among the grand natural views Of
the country. At suitable spot, where the
plateau Is somewhat broken, the equestrian
statue Of Gen. Robert z. Lee is to te placed
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even greater than the president him
self. But from the past course of the
grand chief of the brotherhood, Mr..
Peter ID Arthur, Of Cleveland, O., little
danger may be feared of his misasing his
authority. By wise rule OF this orzaniza-
ton the engineers of railroad who consider
themselves imposed upon cannot strike with
out first submitting their grievances to hin.
These he cooiy and deliberately examines ard
II, In his Judgement. the difficulty cannot Fse
settled Iii any other way, he gives t..s
crsier for strike: otherwise no styiae car,
take place
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A WASHINGTON LETTER
FURTHER CHANGES IN THE PERSON.
MEL or A FAMOUS COMMISSION.
The Civil Service Commission is Again
Rearranged-This Time 1t Ia with \
View, II Is Expected, Of Forming Per-
manent Body.
Especial cOrrespondenoe.1

Especial Correspondenoe.1
WASHINGTON, March 2a-The civil service
commission Of the present administration has
become one Of the most prominent features
of the government, not so much from the
duties it performs, but from the success of it's
members in keeping their names before the
public. Not only has the makeup Of the
commission been altered, but the run,ored
resignation Of Its prominent members came
with frequency that became, to say the
least, monotonous Now another transforma-
tion has taken place in the replacement Of
two Of its members With the intention. It i
expected, Of forming permanent commis-
sion. The new msmbers are John Il.
Oberly, Of Illinois, and Charles LYMAN.
Of Connecticut They take the places Of WI
liam L. Trenholm and Dunan B. Eaton.
respectively, the remaining member Of the
commission being Alfred r. Edeerton. Of
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Enemies q. Valuable Friends.

1 consider that my enemies are equally as
valuable to me as my friends, since they aid
as much in making man Of me. It is my
enemies who keep me on my guard; it is my
friends who throw me of my guard. Ny
friends accept me without due examination
Of my personal merits, but my enemies force
me to rise by the sheer force Of my intellect
and manhood. A man who has no enemies
lacks character and strength, and man who
has enemies and is afraid of them, lacks cour-
age and manhood.-A. 81. Isler In Arkansaw
Traveller
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JACKSON AT MANASSAS JUNCTION.
Capture of a Federal warehouse Fun o

| Capture of . Federal Warehouse Fun Of
| Stores-Distrfbutlon Of Wealth.
| All this time we had the vaguest notions a.
| to our objective; at first we had expected to
strike the enemy's flank, but as the march
prolonged itself, a theory obtained that We
were going to the valley. But we threaded
Thorouzhfare gap, heading eastward, and in
the morning Of the third day Aug. ~ struck
q railroad running north and south-Pope's
Zine OF communication and supply" Ma
1assas was oursi
What q prize it wasi Here were long ware
houses full Of stores; cars loaded with boxes
Of new clothing en- route to Gen Pope, but
destined to adorn tho "backs of his enemies"
camps, suffers shop-@no eating up" Of good
things In view Of the abundance, it was NO
easy matter to determine what we should eat
and drink and wherewithal we should be
clothed; one was limited in his choice to only
so much as he could personally transport, and
the one thing needful in each individual case
was not always readily found
However, as tho day wore on, an equitable
distribution of our wealth was effected by
barter, upon crude and irregular tariff in
which the rule Of supply and demand was
somewhat complicated by fuctuating esti-
mates Of the imnlinence of marching orders
A mounted man would offer large odds in
shirts or blankets for pair of spurs or a
bride; and while in anxious quest of pair of
shoes I fell heir to case of cavalry half
boots. which l would gladly have exchanged
for the object Of my search. For change of
underclothing and c pot Of French mustard
owe grateful thanks to the major of the
Twelfth Pennsylvania cavalry, with regrets
that l could not use his library. Whisky
was Of course, at high premium, but keg
OF "lager"-a drink less popular then than
now-went begging in our company
But our briel holiday was drawing to a
close, for by this time Gen. Pope had some
inkling of the disaster which lurked in his
rear. When, some time after dark, having
set fire to the remnant Of the stores We took
the road to Centreville, our mystiacation as
to Jackson's plans was complete. Could he
actually be moving on Washington with his
small force or was he only seeking escape to
the mountainsa The glare Of our big bonfire
lighted up the country for miles, and was just
dying out when we reached Centrevills.
Ian G. Redwood in The Century.
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Memory Of a Young African.

DR.. Moffat relates that after preaching a
sermon on ETERNITY" TO some Africans he
heard simple-looking young man repeat it
all over again to group of natives with un-
common precision, the very gestures being
reproduced. On telling him that he had done
iiiore than the original preacher could do
repeat the sermon verbatim-the savage
touched his forehead and said: sWhen l
hear anything great it remains there -
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