The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1886-03-25
GENERAL NEWS rTENIs,
Facts OF Interest, Gathered frons yarious
Quarters.


Mrs. Bancroft, wife of the histo-
rian, died last week.
There arc over fifty thousand
Workinen in the strikes in America.
DR. D.: j. Caldwell, one Of the old
est physicians of Atlanta, is dead.
1t is again rumored that the Presi-
dent Is to be married this summer.
The sale of the Morgan art co)lec-
ton IN New York realized 81 ,2O5. 400.
The treaty of peace between Servia
and Bulgaria has been ratified.
Prof. Friz Heider, editor of the
Hudson county, N. j.; Journul, suicid-
ed last week.
1t is learned that the health of ex.
president Arthur has lately become u
matter for serious concern.
j. 0. Polk, supposed horse thief
Texas.
-EX-GOVernor Hahn, Representa-
tive in Congress from Louisiana, died
last week.
Earthquakes have occurred in Ger
many and Spain, but no serious dam
age was done.
About forty per cent. of last years
gram cropls reported to be still in the
hands Of the farmers.
OF the seven thousand bills intro
duccd in the present Congress but
three have become laws.
-Four cadets have Just been dis
missed from the Naval Academy Mt
Annapolis for the offence of hazing.
King Ludwig of Bavaria has again
raised q storm ofindignation by order
ing the erection of two new palaces.
DR.. Armstrong, of Atlanta, is now
associate editor OF the Sunday Iele-
gfom and his congregation has gonc
to pieces.
Diamonds worth 100000 were
saved from the sunken steamer Orcgon
but the owners have not appeared.
Struggled goods, doubtless.
Louise Michel intends TO make q
tour OF America. She is mobbed
everywhere she attempts to speak in
public.
-EXpress Messenger Nichols was
Killed ON train near Chicago and the
safe robbed Of about $50, 900 in money
and jewclry,
Tho unknown schooner which col.
ilded with the steamer Oregon had hel
BOWS stove in and sunk and all on
board perished.
All the United States prisoner,
nave been removed from the Fulton
county, Ga, Jail, but not until four OF
them had died Of meningitis.
The farmers in the northern sec.
tlon OF ONO arc much alarmed over
the appearance Of swarms of vouno
grasshoppcrs.
. ~-Ex-Attorney-Genera Brewster is
SAID to attribute his wifc's death large.
" to ovcrwork in discharging social
duties.
Police Sergeant Brooks, of Rich
mond, Va, was shot while attempting
to arrest burglar who was trying to
board a train.
The Duke of Portland, with q
million and q quarter annually from
ground rents alone, is the richest
noblcman in Britain.
No settlement of the labor troubles
on the Southwestern Railroads is in
sight; the striking contagion seems tC
he spreading.
Henry Scott, negro, sentenced tc
bc hanged, at Wilmington, for rape has
had his sentence commutcd to impris.
mcnt for life.
Miss Cleveland will not resume
hcr lunches to wives Of Congressman
until after Lent. The stag dinners
will go on all the same.
-"Old SOrrcl', Stoncwall Jackson's
war horse, is dead; the skin is TO bf
stuffed and the skeleton mounted and
kept in the Confederate Soldiers Homo
in Richmond.
-rhc linSccd oil mills Of .Varncy,
Taylor ~ Co., Toledo, Ohio were burnt
last week, involving loss Of 800 900
An explosion occurred which damaged
buildings several blocks off,
John Gillespie, colorcd, murdered
Inc Wlic or Capt. Thos. Gray, neal
London, Tenn, stole horse and rar
OH, but was overhaulcd and lynchcd
Mrs. Mary Wilcman, comcly
woman Of forty, has been convicted 0t
poisoning hcrhusband at Little Valley
n. Y, and sentenced to be hanged O.,
the 3Oth April.
1t is said that Secretary Lamar re-
Gently rcbukcd Colonel Ingcrsoll TO,
his aggressive intidelity, and expressed
q hope that he would some day become
Christian preacher.
L: G. Dewitt, New York drum
mcr, fell from the ice mound at Niagara
rails and was killed, but his bod,
could not be recovered for two davs,
although plainly visible.
"A siX-year-old child of joseph
Taylor, in Clay county, Tennessee
accidentally killed her father while
handling Il pistol in his presence las
Friday.
Emma Norman, young woman
shot and killed Henry Arnold, q procc,
in Memphis, Tenn, whom she charge,
with her ruin. Arnold has reccnil,
married another woman. The mur.
deress was arrested.
Canada has her first colored law
yer, V. Dclos Davis. He could no,
reach the bar in the regular way bI
reading in the office of an attorney. as
no attorney would take him. bnt 8