The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1886-02-04

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chicago are calling each other names
.-Ex-C congressman Rainey is run.
ming a coal yard in Washington.
Morgan O'Donnell was drowned
off Sullivan's Island beach on Sunday.
The United States Bagging Asso.
citation in Charleston has been dis.
solved.
This has been the hardest winter
Scotland has experienced in twenty
years.
Col. Ashbel Smith, veteran OF
the war for Texas indepcnd ence, died
in Houston.
The weather has been 50 >evcre in
Pickcns that trees were split and opos-
sums frozen.
-Eeightecn bodies so far have been
brought ont of the Oral mine at New
burg, w. Va.
--Bloodshed is feared by some OH
account of the disagreement in the
Ohio Senate.
AN Indiana mans diseased liver
was recently removed, and he is now
doing well.
Greece still refuses to disarm. The
| III itisll uCCC mas DGGn
ordered to the port of Athens.
Two murderers, Mexican and
an Indian, were lynched in Carson
vile. CAL, on Thursday.
The Mississippi River is blocked
by mass of ice for over sixtv-five
miles above and below ST. Louis.
The heaviest snow for fourteen
years lies over England aud all along
the Continent.
"A child Of Mr.. John. Stockman,
OF NeWbcrry, was bitten by a mad dog
last week.
Each Congressman gets this year
$500 packages of vegetable seeds, be-
sides 500 packages of flower seeds.
White & Mathews, fancy goods,
and Trim 81 Spear, candy manufac-
turcrs, of Charleston have suspended.
Last week Percy Sibley, white
boy, stabbed and killed his father,
while in n fit of anger.
THE British Government is ready
to push the fighting in the House Of
Commons Oh the Irish question.
Calvin Simpson, the negro who
murdered Mrs. Graves in Henderson,
Ky, was taken from Jail and lynched.
-Servia is disheartened by the an
nounccmcnt that the great European
powers have decided to cocrce Greece.
"A small colored child was fatally
burnt on the premises Of T.. Nj. Bailey
Oh Edisto Island last week.
"A boy employed in mill in
youngstown, Ohio, dropped lamp
into an oil pan causing n $50,000 con
fagralion.
The st. Cloud Hotel, Arch street,
Philadelphia, and several adjacent
stores were burnt last week; loss
heavily.
The County Poor House, at Jack
son, Mich, was DESTROYED by fire last
week, and number of the aged in
mates pershcd.
The latest sensation in Chicago is
| the marriage of son to the bride-ex-
pcctant of his father. The parties are
very respectable.
| DR.. Sam. Price and VIM. Powell
quarrcled over n medical bill in Walker
county, Ga, fought and both werc
fatally wounded.
1t is claimed in Washington that
leaders of both parties have arranged
for the admission of three new States
Washington, Dakota and Montana.
George Daniel last week elopcd
from Griffin, Ga, with his sister-ir,-
law, and killed his wife who was in
pursuit.
"A fire in Brownsville, Ala, last
week destroyed six stores end four
dwellings. Loss about $4,000; no
insurance.
Hon. David r. Atkinson, former
| ly Senator from Missouri and leader
of the pro-slavery party IN Kansas,
died OH Wednesday.
The two-story dwelling and store
of Robert Ward, colored, of Green
vile, was destroyed by fire; loss $4,-
900.
President Cleveland is reported to
value "AGld Lang Syne" and Sep.
Winners knocking Bird" above all
other music.
According to the Baltimore Man.
WdcturerS' Record, the assessed value
of property in the South has increased
nearly 81 900, 100000 since 1879.
"A fire burned three buildings,
corner of Orleans and Linden streets
Memphis, Tennessee, on Friday, and
Fred. Schmidt, German, was burnt
to death.
Charles Howard, a colored watch
man in q railroad shop at Marietta,
Ca, was murdered few nights ago |
and an attempt made to burn the body. |
Officers are after the murderer.
The freight depot of the Richmond
and Danville and Western North Car
olina Railroads and the wooden mills
at Salisbury, n. c., were destroyed
ny fire last week.
Lieut.. Borden, cousin of the late
King Alfonso, has been sentenced at
Madrid to eight years. confinement in
military prison for publicly villify-
ng the Queen.
--Miss Bercnico Morrison, of Chi
ago, forty years old and worth S8,.
100, 900, has married the son of her
'ousekeeper, a young man of twenty
me. Her friends are surpried.