The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1886-02-11
NO. 20.
PERsoNAr. NOTES.

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john Kelley is reported to have
secretly written volume of personal
ramininiscences af a political nature,
which he will shortly publish.
Gen. Roger A. Pryor has declined
to serve on the Tammany committee
on election frauds, for the reason that
to do SO would interfere with his bus
iness.
Governor Foraker, of Ohio, has
entirely severed his connection with
his old law firm, in order to give, both
III appearance and In fact, his entire
attention to public duties.
JAY Gould had planned to steam as
lar into the tropics AZ Rio Janeiro.
out ms notion Is now to be to turn ihe
At"tdnfd's Prov towards the western
shores of the Caribbean Sea. IS
The Ladies' Silk Culture Society
or California are disposed to complain
because Miss Cleveland has not ac-
khowIedgcd the gift Of specimen of
thelr manufacture, although now she
has probably worn them out.
John Sherman has writeen an an
tograph letter 10 Jacob Bolander, of
Cincinnati, who named boy baby
atter the Ohio Senator, in which he
sends "his kindest regards to the
mother and kiss to the baby" @
Senator Beck SAYS that since b;s
pro-sllver speech oe has received let
tcrs from Governors of nine States.
DID they repeat the historic remark
Of the Governor of. North Carolina TO
the Governor of South Carolina?
Representative j. Randolph Tuck
er, who has written letter to his con-
stituents in which he declines to be
candidate for reelection, will have
been in Congress twelve years on tho
expiration of his present term.
Mary Anderson has not quite
made up her mind what she will do
next season. Her ambition prompts
her to attempt n professional tour of
germany, and she has many reasons
for believing that she would succeed.
Miss Alice Jordan, the young lady
who recently joined the Junior class
at the Yale Law School, has with
drawn, owing to the announcement by
the faculty that she would MOI be eligis
bic tor degree after passing the re.
qnired examination.
Miss Maud Gardner, daughter Of
eX-Govcrnor Gardner, Of Massachu-
setts, is giving lessons in whist to
boston young ladies', ostensibly to
teach them tho game but really, prob.
ably, as q missionary labor to iucul-
cate the silence which whist imposes.
Mr.. Stanley, the explorer, who is
living in London, with trip to the
tropics in mind, used to have dark
hnir' but some bitter experience on
the Congo changed it to an iron gray.
Now, again, strange enough, the color
or his hair has changdd from gray to a
rich brown.
Mr.. Charles G. Williams, of Wis
conSin, Is dclightning rural audiences
IN Dnkota, with u lecture on the "Ins
ana Outs Of Congress-" and as Mr..
Williams has not been a Representa-
tive since the Forty-fourth Congress-
his inflammation on the "Outs" Ia
especially extensive.
len Years ago Miss Rose Cleye-
land, sister of the President and now
mistress Of the White House, was a
teacher in the Female Seminary at
Mnncy, N. Y. Her lady friends as q
nickname called her "Jobnnie.v to
which name she would answer as
Lieut.. Greedy has arrived at tho
irm conviction that ice in the sea
never forms to depth of more than
i've feet to ten feet. The floeberos
md icebergs Of great thickness that
lre encountered floating out to sea, he
naintains, are merely detached por-
IONS OF the great polar iee-cap.
-Mr. Seth Sprague, of Hinoham-
Mass, has been sclectlnan twenty Limo
years, and there is no disposition to
select any other man, while the town
collector, MIR. Andrew j. Gardner.
now seventyeone, hops around and
collects as lively as he has been doing
or the past quarter of century. -.
-Gcneral TOombs in his will gave
O his faithful servant, Billy, the use
If rooms privilege Of wood, and an
annuity as long as he lives. There 10
bequest 10 each one of the family
servants, and the desire is expressed
hat they be retained as long as thew
wish to stay on the same terms as
-Mr. Henry j. Ellicott, of rbila.
lleIphia, will make the plaster cast Of
nc John Mccullough statue, which
vii be "Virginius" seven feet high.
ne monument, of which the bronze
tatue will be the central figure, will
c OF sandstone or gray marble and
will be finished at cost of $4,000
within three months, s.a
Prof Huxley, who is only four
ears older than the oldest steam rail-
7ay, Is astounded when he reflects
hat he lived when he could not travel
ny faster than horses could transport
i'm, and so had no advantage over
lchilles, but does not reflect that the
1eans Of individual locomotion have
OF improved in 5000 centuries, ex-
epting possibly in going upon two
Get Instead of "all-fours."
Mrs. Langtry at q late London re.
option wore tight-ftting black VEL
ct coat, heavily trimmed with sabless
entirely covered her dress and was
cry we'll shaped. Her hat was in
nc newest Partisan mode; high, with
hick gold embroidery over the crown
nd pigeons feathers placed at tho
'ack standing upright. The narrow
rim was trimmed with brown fur 5
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