The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1886-06-24
GENERAL Yaws ITEMS.
Fae9 Of Intersst Gathered from Various
Quarters.

The total visible supply of cotton for the
world is 2, 118,639 bales. III
Twelve thousand Orangemeu are drilling
in Antrim. - - %
The Conservatives have selected Colonel
Campbell Walker to oppose Gladstone.
Robert Robinson, aged 18. of Wades-
boro, N. O., died Sunday of hydrophobis
Conrad Miller, of Baltimore. aged 90.
suicided by jumping into the Patapsco
River.
The cholera continues to rage In Venice
An average Of 20 now cases and 10 deaths
occur daily.
Lord Derby and other prominent Liber-
ais have issued manifesto to the electors
of Liverpool.
The Comte de Paris has declined :ho
queens otfcr of the use of the Claremont
Castle.
a severe shock of earthquake, lasting two
minutes, occurred at Asbury Park, N. j.,
Saturday.
All the Republican nominees for State
offices in Arkansas have been withdrawn
from the ticket.
The brotherhood of Telegraphers have
resolved TO fall III line under the banner of
tho knights of Labor.
Sam Jones has finished his work in Bal
timore, having converted 2.O00 persons out
OF population of 340, 1000.
One hundred natives and ten English
people lost their lives through the eruption
OF the volcano at Tarawcra.
Terrible storms and floods have prevailed
in the French provinces, and three shocks
OF earthquake visited Poictiers.
The coroner's jury has found another
verdict OF willful murder against the police
at Belfast.
A dynamite bomb was hurled into the
carriageWay Of the house of the Mayor of
Racine, Wis.
Roscoe Conkling is to get 500, 900 for
acting as government counsel in the Broad
way railroad investigation.
King Ludwig's old physician denies that
the King was insane. He maintains that
Ludwig was only eccentric.
Mrs. Wallace, Of Knoxville, Tenn, was
frightened to death recently by a runaway
horse.
The British troops are dying by hun.
dreds in Egypt. Ten dropped dead from
heat Sunday last.
n whole family was swept away by a
Hood in Cheyenne, Wy, and enc of the
bodies found in the top of a tree.
AT fire in mattress factory in Chicago
Monday afternoon number of operatives,
mostly girls, were buried in the ruins
Dave Wells, of Macon, Ga, blew out his
Grams yesterday with a pistol. Domestic
trouble and liquor was the cause
1t is stated that Parliament will bc dis
solved on the oath inst, and wrts for the
new elections be issued on the 25th
The Augusta mill owners posted notice
that all the mills will be shut down unless
the employees of the Algcrnon Mill return
to work at once.
The Knights Templar Of Richmond have
gone on iaunt to Providence, r. l. Their
train Is special, composed Of six Pullman
cars and one smoker.
a. man named Summerkalb, aged 85
years, and his wife, aged 7S, were burned
or sutfocatcd by the explosion of kcro-
Scne lamp in New York.
Nelson Palmer, of Baltimore, committed
suicide in Jail, where he was incarccratcd
on the charge OF forgery last Friday. lie
was respectfully connected.
McGraw, the Objectionable oversccr in
tue Algernon cotton mill at Augusta, has
resigned, and the thrca' cncd outlook in the
mills there has been avcrtcd
n terrific storm at Crookston, Mimi.
wrecked the Germania Hotel, iniurinr
eight persons, and the Catholic Church.
ana seriously damaged two other hotels.
Abraham Lincon's tomb has been turned
INTO making machine, by making
visitors who desire to sec it pay 2j cents
each.
The Vatican does not approve Of the eX-
pulslon of the French Princes, but has de
cldcd to take no action respecting the mat
ter.
n crazy negro women attempted TO hang
her three-year old child in Yamacraw YES.
tcrday. The child was rescued and the
woman taken charge of.
The convicts employed on the Pittsboro
Railroad, North Carolina, have refused to
work, and the authorities are trying to
starvc them into obedience.
The heat in Minneapolis, Minn., Friday
ana Saturday last was intense, tho thcr-
momctcr recording 90 degrees in the shade.
Three cases of sunstrOkc occurred Satur-
day.
The Michigan Democrats have decided
to run L. B. Barry, of the Knights of La
Dor Executive Board, for Lieutenant Gov
ernOr,
At a meeting of "Thc Brothers of the
ked Cross Socialistic organization,
iIlu III bnlcaSO MONDAY, anarchy, Mill
ism, revolt and plunder were advocated.
Winfield Lee Compton, of Kansas CITY,
Mo-, was married on June 3, and Oh their
wedding trip stopped in New York, where
he shot himself and wife Monday.
On and after August 1st, the seven prin.
clpal theatres of Chicago will abandon
window advertising. 1t will cut Off an
average Of 5000 doadheads.
Representative Smalls has at Inst sue
cccdcd in getting the House to pass his bill
providing for tho redemption and sale of
the school-farm lands now held in Beau
fort County.
Morrison's motion to go into committee
OF tie whole to consider the tariff bill was
defeated yesterday by a vote of 1877 to 14O.
The South Carolina Representatives voted
with the minority
When the early train from Atlanta
reached Charlotte Tuesday, stOut-built,
gray haired passenger was found to be dead
in one of the seats. His name was discov-
cred to be John Wilson, of Winston, n. G.
There IS great excitement in Ottawa,
Ont, over a report that the Fenians con-