The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1886-07-01
GENERAL NEyys IrEN,s.
) , Facts OF sInterest Gathered froans Various
, Quarters. ... ....

The Bank of Monroe, Louisiana, has
,een closed "a
A woman died in New York Saturday,
tis supposed, from cholera.
Unprecedented fruit and,wheat crops are |
'cported in Virginia
Tho apple crop of Connecticut promises |
o be unusually large this year.
EXVice President David Davis is lying
i'll and may die at any moment.
Parliament was prorogucd on Friday
Dissolution took place on Saturday.
Randall says the Administration Is not
the enemy of the silver dollar.
A horse was frightened to death in In
dianapolis, Ind, Thursday by fire steam
engine.
Providence, II. l., Thursday celebrated
the 25Oth anniversary of the settlement of
that city.
There is considerable grumbling in Ba-
varia regarding the treatment of the late
King.
The Treasury has issued call for $4,
GOO, 900 of bonds for redemption. The call
natures August 1.
a French brigantinc sank Saturday on
tho banks of Newfoundland and nine of
her crew drowned.
Rcvivalists Jones and Small are said to
be planning a New England scashorc cam
paign for the summer.
An unknown friend of Erin in New
York has contributed $4,000 to the relief
committee in Ireland.
The strike in the yarn mil of the River
side Mills at Augusta is ut an end and the
mill is in full operation.
John Johnson, of Brooklyn, n. y, com
mittcd suicide by pushing a handkerchief
down his throat with long ruler.
Jacob Swinglcy, Of Crcston, ILL.,, cut the
thrOats of. his two children and committed
suicide on the 19th-insanc.
The Board Of Trustees of tho University
OF Alabama conferred the degree of ID. d.
upon 5. Hccht, Jewish rabbi of Montgom-
cry.
The New York Times has determined to
make an attempt to find out the secrets of
Alaska, and has sent an exploring expodi-
ton.
Ncwsmeu in New Jersey, Brooklyn and
part OF New York commenced to boycott
tho Wortd Monday and killed so, 600 copcs
in one day.
The New England Institute Fair build,
ing, Boston, was burned Thursday, and
four wor rkmcn killed. Loss $3.50, 900; coy
CIEu ny INSURANCE.
The Republican State Convention met in
Montgomery, Ala, last week, and decided
to put a ticket in the field Protection
principles adhered to.
The British. Museum has recently paid
E6o Tor copy Of the first edition of the
I"g'2m% lr@grcSS. Only three copies are
known To be in eXistcncc
The plastcrcrs of Pitsburg and Ale
,rl,n 'tt,r F~.Nn
gone out on another strike. or account of
the bad faith Of the contractors.
The University at Athens, Ga. pcts
$4,000 per year from the State The At
lanta University for the colored people gets
the same amount.
Ten McNicanS attacked 80 A,;achcS in |
Tccapodcpc Pass, near Sarachc. The In
dMnS We're defeated. The Mcxcans lost |
thee killed and one wounded
Saturday morning J. II. Blackburn, Of |
Atlanta, ga, di&d. !r ovcrtaxcd his brain
in the cause of temperance on the day of |
election i'll Atlanta, and became insane.
Young and healthy us the season is. there
is already dispoaition 20 get up II yellow
fever scare III New Orleans, in consequence
of the arrival of Cuban doctor with some
microbes.
= Amcetin@ OF 10, 0nQ people was held Thurs
day at Zurich, to protest against the Gov
crnmcntS action against the strikers The |
rcd flag was unfurlcd, but the police pre-
served order
The Prince of Wales, who has decided
to become an amateur photographer, has
much disploaS"d the English by ordering
his first camera from an American firm.
Over 200 persons were poisoned at fcs.
tivn at Pctcrsvillo, N, j., from eating sand
witches made of canned beef Later news
attributes it to arsenic willfully put in the
ice cream.
The Lake Sb yrc switchmcn employed at
;he Union ST Jck yards quit work Thurs
day, owing - the refusal Of the railroad
company f. discharge eight non-union
men, ut Chicago.
Judge Holman, Of Indiana, has Just been
nominated for Congress, and if elected it
will be his l5h term. He is known in
washington us ''thc watch dog of the
Treasury
a contract was closed Monday for the
completion OF the Birmingham and Shcf-
field Railroad and the erection ut Sheffield,
Ala, of II second iron furnace with 100
tons capacity.
Five men have been sentenced to impris-
onmCnt for terms varying from four to six
months for joining the 400 rioters who
fcl("d. kicked and stoned 25 Catholic fac
tory women.
-Four Of the five saloons at Washington,
ILL.,, are owned by women. Women are
rapidly fitting themselves for political du-
ties in anticipation of the time when they
shall achieve the ballot.
Register Rosccrans says the war of the
revolution cost this country Sc, ,OOO. 0OO:
the war of 1912, $1i5, 600, 900; the Mexi,
can war, Tl35, 600, 900, and the late un-
plcasantncSs, So, 1870, ,020 ,905.
The agitation of the question Of scccs.
sion ut tho polls in Digby, n. s., has occa.
stoned more trankncss Of expression by the
people in regard to their earnest desire for
annexation to the United States.
II. NJ. IIyndman, President of the So.
cial Democratic Federation Of London and
leader of the English party of so-callcd
Scientific Socialism, has decided to visit the
United States on a lccturing tour
At the fire of the great exhibition build
ing in Boston one man was roasted in sight
of the gazing crowd. Eight charrcd bodies
were taken from the ruins and more are