The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1886-04-01
GENERAL NEWS IrrnIs.
Facts OF Interest, Gathered from ynriou.
Quarters.

Tile loSs by the wreck of the Ore.
son amounts to $3, l66, 900.
"A Republican, coalition has been
Iorlhed In the Spanish Cortes.
Spring feshcts are getting in their
Usual work III Grrman! at present.
The President gave his .ccoud
oihl'cr TO congressman ON Thursday
nigh last.
-Sehur Autouiu Mayner, a sugar
Piantcr III Malanzas, has freed his
slavps.
AT Wilmington, Del, the striking
morocco men have returned to work,
professionally.
The trial. OF" Alderman Jaehnc, of
New York, on the charge of bribery.
has been fixed for the l2lh April.
"A cotton ship at New Orlcana was
struck by lightning, the cargo set ON
fire and damaged $4,000.
-Geronimo, tho Apache Chief, has
surrendered to Lict. Maus, who de-
Tended him against the Mcxicsns.
Gen. Frecdmcn's Bureau Howard
has ocen nominated as Major General
IN tho army, rtce Pope, retired.
The new Roman Catholic Bishop
OF Georgia is master of fourteen lam
guagcs. He is said to be indeed very
learned.
w. W. Vance, formerly of Able
VILE, has been homina: Ell by the Dem
ocrats tor the Louisiana State Senate.
-MessrS. ID. G. Zciglar and r.
Copes, of Orangcburg, have secured
patents for hoeing machine and We
hiclc shaft.
"A. ). Twiggs, who lives on Beach
Island, has set up u distllcry, and is
making whskcy out of his !,rge corn
crop.
The sum Of 81, ,OO5.1O was tho
amount paid witnesses, Jurors and
constabes for service ut the recent
erin of Eigeticlr court.
Paris has been authorized bv the
Chamber of Deputies to build public
works in order TO employ her idle pop
uation.
The PuU NuU Gazette denies the
alleged opposition TO Gladstone in his
Cabinet, except rs 70 Chamberlain and
Trcvclyan.
Three valuable blocks in Helena,
ARK, including the Opera House,
were burnt last week, loss 1925, 900
half insured.
There were three failures in Rich
mond, Va, on Thursday, tie liabilities
aggregatlng about sixty thousand dol
lara.
The case of Cluvcrius, convicted
OF tho murder of Lillian Madison, is
set for hearing this week, before the
{ T. IF A or
The Pan-Electric investigation was
continued in Washington last week.
Nothing new or startling was devel-
opod.
AT latest accounts the situation
among the strikers in the West wax
serious. All attempts to run freight
trains seem to have been fruitlcSs.
1t is now said that Secretary Man
ming is stricken with paralysis. and
he will have TO abandon his place IN
the Cabinet.
Exclusive Ward Hunt Of the
United States Supreme Court died in
Washington last week. He was sew
enty six Years old.
Hon. Wm. III. Smith, of Lc1iny-
ton, ILL.,, committed suicide last week
He was worth 5000, 900 lie was 81
years old and Il native ot Kentucky.
lion. Charles =. MatthcwAon.
President Of the Norfolk, Nrb., Nation.
al Bank, has disappcarc,. tina,cial
cmbarrussments
-hldcrman Jachnc, Of New York,
arrested on II charge OF bribery. has
been logged in Jail l-one of his bondsmen
declining to hold.
james McIIcnrv, OF Erie Railway
fame, has been declared a bunkrnpt in
London, he having dtfnulted on nn
imstalmcn due to Creditors. flo will
appeal from the decree.
Randolph ChurchilPs description
Of Mr.. Gladstone as "thc Ossifica,ion
OF inconsistency" was ;Hadc to match
the Presidents "Inuocuous Desuetudc"
may be.
-An electric lincman was killed in
Philadelphia on Saturday by holding
TO a wet iron awning post with one
hand while he held the wire in the
other.
In NanacmOnd county, Va, the
17-ycar-old son ofJ. Van llarrcll dan
geroualy shot Thomas Bigwood, be-
cause of his too Intimate relations with
his mother.
Two negroes were drowned in
Savannah River OF positc a point in the
CITY where an inquest was being held
over negro drowned u few day4 be-
fore.
The Democrats have Governors In
twenty-onc States. Tney have Gov
crnnrs in all the sixteen Southern
States, and in New York rkTPemn-vlvania.
California, New Jersey aud Nevada.
The Rev. +. II. Walker and family
lctl Edgrticld last Thursday for Wan
darvillc, near Charleston. Mr.. Walk
or goes To assume the rcctorship of the
Episcopal Church ut Wandarvii!c.
M. BlHsNo, postmaster at lluspuck-
nnr, Mis-, ninety miles sourh Of
Memphis, wac murdered by unknown
persons, who robbed his store uu3
rItled the pohtotfice OF all the money
and stamps.
The Canadian Pacific Railroad
will be completed to the Pacific Coast
early in April, and line of steam
shirs will soon follow, to run between
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