The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1886-03-11
IsepGAT4 I,rE1NTfs.

Mrs, Q. P. Barrett, of spartanburg,
y was in town last Sabbath.
Mr.. Judge G.. Ferguson is quite sick
OF his home in Greenville.
On last Sabbath Tom Arter colored,
died of heart disease.
Susan IPgood, wife of Johnson Ha-
good ooiofed, died last Saturday.
Irish Potatoes are sold at one dollar
per bushel by the mountain wagons.
The Legislature of Mississippi has re-
pealed the agricultural lien law. Watch
the results.
There were only two tracts of land
sold last sale day, and they were pur-
chased for small sums
Mrs. w. II. Hester is in charge Of
Miss Myra Lays house while the latter
\ Ia on visit of q few days to her mother.
Hon. d. Wyatt. Aiken has our thanks
for some garden seed sent us this week.
The most OF them ale new varieties.
The farmers above this town are haul
ing their cotton off to market, they wont
wait any longer for the price to advance.
One of our best citizens has spaded
his garden. This is slower process
than the plow, but it cuts the soil deep
ind fine.
Miss Leila Grogan, of Eureka, Geor-
gia, is visiting the Misses Crittenden, Of
Greenville City. She will visit friends
i'll Pickens before her return home.
Court convened at Wnlhalla last Mon
day, Judge Witherspoon presiding.
The Courier says it will be short
term.
Our readers will regret to learn that
the health of our Congressman, Col. ID.
Wyatt Aiken is not much improved. He
is still suffering much pain.
Mr.. Aaron Boggs has about compile
ted new dwelling house for his son
John, on Seneca River. We wonder if
John is providing for bachelors hual.
Mr.. S. A. McCrachin has n pair of
names which has beon in use ever
since the war of the Revolution. Tho
pair has been rs -ironed several times.
There were goodly number in at
tendance in the County Commissioners
Court on tho 2d inst, some pushing Pc
titione for now roads, others opposing
them.
+;ol Nntdery, President Of the Au:7us-
IT, and Knoxville Railroad eays the Cam
berl"nd Gap is an enterprise Of great
Importance, and his opinion Is thnt it
will be built.
The case Of thc Superintendent ot the
Pcnitontiary against K. E. Bowen and
otaorA, for the escape Of convict' en-
ployed on the Cumberland Gap Rail
Roal has been compromiSed
mort elegant tombstone has been
plannd over the grave of Mr. J. r. Ha-
rrintely inscribed. it was prepared and
placed in position By that master work
man, MMstA. Ozark Of Grcenville.
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On Sales day tho weather was congo
NAL to the development of candidate
timber. Some was budding, while some
seemed to have been ripped in the bud.
Which is the best way to get nippcd, if
at all.
The Town Council should look after
the bridgeat the intersection Of the streets
near Mr. Laban Mnuldin's. It il badly
out OF repair and somebody's horse may
be injured i'll crossing it:
Mr.. Jesse r. Smith, of that most pop
ular and enterprsing clothing house,
T. w. Pos & Co., OF Grcenvilld, was in
town last week, selling goods for Mossrs.
Edwin Bates & Co., of Now York.
Last week deputy mafsha1, r. A.
Bowen, destroyed a considerable quaint
prepared for illicit distilling in Oconce
County, near Shelor's Forry, on Tuga-
10 River. The copper had been remov-
ed before the arrival Of the officer
The trial of the parties, charged with
lynching Culbrenth, has been continued
until the next term of the court in Edge
field. The motion was granted on a
Datch of afiidavits, it is said, big enough
to postpone the trial until the day OF
judgment.
James W. King, of Piedmont, on the
I'd instant murdered his wife, by stabbing
hor in the breast and throat with knife,
and then cut his own throat. The sup,
posed cause OF this murder and suicide
was family trouble, and insanity to King
In consequence Of it.
Capt. Fl. @. Grady has served the