The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1886-09-16
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.
Facts OF Interest Gathered from Warrior
Quarters,


Quarters,
Oldcnburg Is to succeed Prince Alcxan
der.
Charles II. Murphcy committed suicide
in Augusta few days ago.
Secretary Bayard is the only member of
The Cabinet now in the city of Washington
Prince Alexander Is on his way to his
parental home at Darmstadt.
The second International yacht race has
been postponed on account Of fog.
Geronimo, the murdcrous Apache chief,
Is to be imprisoned at Fort Marion Fla.
In Dakota butter Is selling at eight cents
pound and corn at fifteen cents Il bushcl.
The total capacity of American mills
making steel rails Is about /, 500, 900 tons a
year.
The B0rSen C0urier says: "What will be
tho end of the unparalleled success of Rus
| sian ambition?'
The Signal Service Office at ST. Paul,
Mtnn., reports light snow ut Helena Sun
| day last, with the thermometer at 81.
| A negro man In Garden, Ala, murdered
| his three children because he wanted to rct
rid of them.
| Pauline Mittclstacdt has been arrested
for the murder of an illcgitmatc infant for
which she was to receive $500 from its
| mother.
The negroes at bennington, Il small town
Il lew miles from Savannah, arc terribly OK
cited over the story that tac world is com
ing to an end on Scptcml 20
The JoUrndl dcs DoJotx at Paris publishes
a sensational report about an alleged up
rising OF the people Of Northeastern India
against British rule and in favor of Rus
sian INVASION
The Chronicle blamcs Bismarck for Gre
ating the present critical situation, and SAYS
that the clouds in the Balkans are darker
and more lurid than ever
The Temps says: I'm short time Eu
rope will have to accept tho fact that the
Russian outposts will DC by proCuralion at
the gates of Adrianoplc"
The No!tagsblnU says: "Dc Gicrs has
raised the Car to u position which Russia
has not known since the tlattcring DAYS OF
Olmuiz. Russia's influence has again be
come decisive in the fate of Europe"
a volume made lis appearance Thurs
day last at Washington containing the
PRESIDENTS vctocs of private pension bills.
lhcrc arc 10l vctOcs in all, which with
copies Of the bills and the committee re-
ports thereon make n book of $50 pages.
Mrs. James Potter Brown, who made
herself famous Mt Washington by reading
"Ostlcr Joe, hassmct the Prince of Wales
and he Is 'hCr'n." She will soon return TO
America, and has big offers to 20 upon the
stage rs Il professional
The DaiIy 7cIy,uM says: EVERY one
for himself is now the motto Of Eur0pcln
concert, and the result IS discord more or
less vcilcd We arc a maritime power.
Looking to the dark, lowering future, we
cannot too soon take al nccdlul steps and
| rely on ourselves"
The people Of the South few years ago
| were paying from %3. to Sc an ounce for
quininc, that every body uses. That WAS
when foreign quinnc was heavily taxed.
The duty was taken oil hy Il Democratic
Congress, and now it is quoted at whole.
sale in the North At 80 cents an ounce.
While Doris's circus was on its way to
| Norfolk from Cape Charles on Sunday
some OF the canvaSmcn became involved il,
| n quarrel, when Frank Smith shot George
! Taylor. Thinking that he had killed Tnv-
| lor, Smith shot himself and died III a few
minutes. Taylor will live.
| The troops engaged in the Woodford
| cvictions, on their return to their barracks
at BIT, protested against the work of fUrCi
Dly putting helpless, iniirm and starving
people out Of shelter into the roadway, and
| declared that they would in future refuse
TO perform such obnoxious duty.
a special from Washington says that
! Secretary BayNrd accepts the decree pro
mulgatcd by the Mexican Minister of
| Foreign Affairs, Mariscal, in regard to the
arrest and treatment of foreigners, as a
| complete vindication Of the position taken
ny him i'll the Cutting affair.
| The farmers Of the South are bcrnnirw
| TO reap the reward of mort"aginw their
lands to Northern capitalists for borrowed
4 tN, i'll