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The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1886-10-14
AT q Montreal Kniob+s of r.o.

AT a Montreal Knights of Labor
picnic at Ormstown, Que, one moyTied
couple brought their. fourteen ohiIdren
on the grounds. The Judges cbaTge5
with the duty of giving o prize to @ 3ba
largest family present Thought aore
than fourteen children ought TO have,
been there with some couple. and adyaS
show, HS's'VA U1pat
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WHERE TIE FLAG WAS FURLED.
TIE SLEEPY OLD PLACE THAT WILL
EVER LIVE IN HISTORY.
An Eyewitness TO the Surrender The Story
Fold by Colonel Peers on the Historic Field.

An Eyc-Witness to the Surrender The Story
Told by Colonel Peers on the Historic Field.
(L'ttcr to the Philadelphia Timas.)
AppomattoX Courthouse, Va, q sleepy
little village, DOING its days away on
the old stage road between Richmond
and Lynchburg, seems to the Northern
traveller to have become tired of exist
enco away back in the early part of the
century and to have settled into Rip
Van Wrinkle sleep, from which it only
once awokc, shaken by the thunder of
cannon and the tread Of armed men,
only to relapse into moro profound
slumbcr. All unconscious of its world
VIDE fame and the richness Of its local
history, the little town is content with
Its own peculiar life and calmly ignores
the roar and rush of the outside world.
once III while a stray tourist comes
tins way, but seldom does the old tavern
door open to admit stranger. It's
hinges have accumulated rust for years
ana long sprigs of grass grow l,ctwcon
the broken porch-steps. The whole
town wears the same passive air of
somnolency as when Generals Grant and
Lee rode through its quiet streets to
close, by few strokes of the pen. the
most bitterly contested and bloody in
ternecine contest ever to swell the Daces
of history.
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General Boulanger, desiring to sc

General Boulanger, desiring to Sc
cure from the French government an
appropriation for new explosive bombs,
recently inyitec the Budget Committee
to witness the experiments he was carry
ing on i'll private. The experiments he
was carrying on in private. The expert
ment is made with monster mortar, for
the destruction Of fortifcations; tho mis-
sile cxplodos with exceedingly dostruc-
tive effect. 1t is charged with new OK
plosive, Of whose composition Bouhnger
and hls associates alone possess the
secret. The compound. however, is ad-
mitted to have all the powers of gun
cotton with none of its defects, and is
said, in addition, to bo easily transport
able and free from liability to spon-
taneous ignition. 1t is stated that the
budget and committee were not only
highly satisfied and pleased, but promis-
ed to freely support the Generals dc.
mand for large special appropriation.
A bank cashier may get himself involved
| but he generally comes out all ripbt in thf
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1886-10-14
COLONEL pEERs's STORY.

A great man here is Colonel G. T..
Peers, clerk of the county court, an
Office he has held unintcrruptcdly for
eighteen years, and altogether for near
~ quarter OF century. Colonel Peers
IS the only white man now living Mt
AppomattoX Courthouse who was here
at the time of the surrender of General
Lee. lie is the friend, counsellor and
leader OF the little community, and his
kindly blue eyes and flowing Whito beard
give him IL patriarchal appearance. His
office in the basement of the Courthousc
IS crowded with musty old papers, many
bearing date early in the last century
and concerning the estntes and fortunes
OF many proud J.. +. V's. Colonel
Peers is probably better acquainted with
the local events transpiring at the time
01 Lees surrender than any man in the
South. With great kindness he pointed
out the scenes Of the memorable Incl.
dcnts OF the Sth and 9th of April 1866.
81 remember well, " he said, as, stand.
ing on the Courthouse "grecn, he gazed
thou8htfully at the woods skirting the
western sky, as though catching again
III memory's eye the ghmmer of hostile
banners through the trces-'I remom
- D'l as Uilough yesterday the day wheT
the Army Of Northern Virginia passed
INTO history. There were few mon il
Appomattox that spring. Some wer,
with Lee around Richmond, others viii
Joe Johnston in tho South, and other
again were sleeping on the fields O
gettysburg, Antiotam and Chancollors
vile. There we're anxious wives
broken-hcarted widows and childlcs
mothers among us, and the few who 70
mained could easily see the dark cloud
gathering closer over the Confedoracv
Lee driven out of Richmond and IN
rooted from Petersburg, was hurryin,
his weary troops toward tho wnstnr,
mountains, with the sleuth- -hounds q
Grant and Sheridan pressing hard be
hind. On Saturday morning, April 8,
few stragglcrs reached Appomnttox wit
the information that Lee was close a
hand, while terrified country peopl
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A bank cashier may get himself involved,
but he generally comes out all right in tho
long run-thOt is, provided the long run is
TO Canada.
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TILE STORY OF HIS LIFE.

"trom the little book which [ sa,y, "
said the narrator, "for [ was one Of The
party, We learned the following facts,
me man supposed to be over seventy
years cid was not yet fifty. Years ago,
tG~ lnlicS out OF Savannah, lived Frank
Walton and Minnie Jefrcoat. The farms
OF their parents Ndioined; the two had
grown up together. Together they mGs-
tered the lntricaciCs Of the school-books-
They became plighted lovers. lie was
twenty-threo years old; she was barely
seventeen. They were to have married
IN June, 1861, but the tempest swung
the pine against the palm. Frank en-
listed in tho gallant Bartow's regimen
and marched gaily to the front. Minnit
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SicNkholdcrs-BuIchcrs.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1886-04-20
T1NTED---HOUSES
UANTED---ROOlfS.

XXTANTED-Two LARGE UNFURNfsifED
w communicating rooms, I'd 0oor with
private family. with or without board: N. W.
Address X. +. r., Republican 0liice. 421
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1886-04-20
Westward Ho!

The men who habitually discuss social
problems reyel in statistical tangles. What
tinglng delight they take in figuring out
a phenomenon The United States, that
doubles its population about every twenty
five years. is a source of vivid enjoyment to
them, and how the possibilities of our
100000 square miles Of cultiyable
ground becoming the homo Of 500, 10000 OF
people, 400 to the square mile, don't you
see, at the end of the next century is an
exercise in mathematics that delights the
statistical soul Of the figuring philosopher.
The statistical problem, we would essay
at this moment, is insolvable by mathe-
MATES. 1t is that there are 10000 super
nuous women in this District OF Columbia
The term superiluous women is not happy
term. We mean that there are that num-
Der Of women in excess of all the men,
They are unhappy, we are told, and what
shall We do for them? The pathetic cause
OF large per cent, Of the feminine super
fluffy may be read In the piteous spectacle
Of long lines OF white headstones to
be seen at Arlington and other
national cemeteries throughout this broad
land. And the living army OF brave women
remains, 10000 Of them in this small space.
What tender-souled statesman is here to
frame an act of congress to alleviate their
forlorn and hopeless state. Many of them
earn their own support, presumably they
are Sin Office" existing In daily dread of
receiving the yellow envelope of dismissal.
Homes they have none, for the lodging.
house and restaurant is poor trayesty
upon the humblest cottage home. Down
the years comes the CHEEKY advice of dear
old Horace Greely, "Go West, young
woman; 90 Vest" With what lnterjec-
tion, think you, would he emphasize
the change Of gender in the command
could he see the abiect helplessnesS Of the
situation. And what OF the west, with its
grand freedom and financial possibilities
The successes OF women rauchers are
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1886-04-20
The English Leaders.

To those Of us who can afford to take a
and outside Wow Of the present
struggle in British political life no aspect
of that great contest is more striking thau
the distinctness with which the issues are
portrayed by individual statesmen. Hart.
ington stands for that portion Of the ven.
cradle past which is known as feudalism;
but feudalism, watered down into whiggism,
loses the charms It possessed in the heroics
of Shakespeare, and the amiabe marquis,
like the Chinese "must CO." Dixie rep
resents higher and broader political
culture than any man in the House
Of Commons except Gladstone, but
Dixie has no heart; he repudiatos ma
tional sentiment and emotion in auy other
people than the Greeks or the English ut
isuniyersitya proprietor the 1thcnT,on,
in his private relations aud his tenderest
friendships, he has enjoyed the soubrlquet
of the "slave driver;n and, notwlthstand.
ing his wonderful knowledge Of European
politics and the eastern question, Dixie and
his great prospects belong to the past.
Chamberlain is the ne plus ultra Of
Brummogcm and ward politics. He is the
focus toward which converge all the vulgar,
political, pockct-sentIments Of shopkeepers
and mechanics Of the baser sort. He is the
founder Of the ''caucus" in England, and he
is the first "bossn in English politics since
the reform bill OF 1882. But he is detested iu
parliament, both for his narrowness and
his conceit, and nothing but the almost
universal prevalence Of those qualities
among his countrymen can account with
impartial judges for Chamberlain's position
at present. 1t may, perhaps, be approxi-
mately explained by Carlyle's hopeful die
tum that ga man with thick skin, good
digestion, and ample stupidity may fairly
hope to attain to any position in Great
Britain"
We come now TO the two men upon whom
the eyes Of humanity are turned and upon
whom the cherished hopes Of ireland repose
Mr.. Gladstone and John Morley, now on
the crest Of the wave, represent not only
the power Of finest intellectual training in
the muddy arena Of practical politics, but
they are incarnations Of the fact that there
are intuitions OF the heart as well as Of the
intellect, and that It is high time for Irish
natonalism to realize the aspirations Of
seven hundred years.
"After all,n wrote George Eliot, sour
| sentiments and emotions are the best parts
Of our lives" And 1t is because Gladstone
and Morley-having taken balance Of
mere material and political forces-haye
thrown into the scales the deathless senti.
ment of gallant race that their memories
will require no monuments.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1886-04-20

stories familiar to all, and are no exagger-
alton. Better to be cattle queen, young
woman, than the weary hirellng Of a capri
cious master. Falrcr sight for daily con-
temptation, the broad growth Of prairie
expanse than endless rows Of clphering ac-
counts in the close atmosphere Of a stufry
Office. Better the humble, healthful in
dustry Of field and farm, with the honest
sons Of toll for helpers, than the shabby
gentility Of sham society in which you
have no part. Though in the golden Land
of Promise lowly beginnings are made,
the Highest is the possible attainment.
There are warm, manly hearts beating in
stalwart forms--manly in the finest, high
est sense of the word, waiting, in the land
near the setting sun, to give you 20,-
eco superfluous ones the crowning glory OF
womanhood, true, noble husbands. Why
do ye tarryY Do ye not know that the
men and women who went overland In
wagons, years ago, are returning to-
day, or their children are returning, or
have long been here, to occupy the proudest
| positions at the national capital9 Why
stand ye here wasting your blessed oppor.
tunitlesY The days roll over, your youth
will be gone, and soon II will be everlast'
ingly too late. Lose no more time.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1886-04-20

A bridge across the Potomac, afTorllng
untaxed and ready transit from Washing
ton to Arlington and Fort Myer, IS ncces.
sity that should long since have been met
by act Of Congress. There Is no other locality
on the continent where so urgent want
could have existed year after year sud DO
cade after decade. The demands OF pdbllc
and private business, the interests OF the
government and the people require the
lc,s.of-=s--.. ,i'ss.>l.ise. 40 drgu'
ment has ever been made against It, for no
man can frame n good reason why II should
not be built. Indeed, 1t would have been
completed some years since but for the
dilatory operations Of certain persons In
terested in toll bridge which bars the way
between West Washington and the Virginia
shore.
1t is a shame that the visitor who desires
to see the grand "bivouac Of the dead" at
Arlington must be stopped by gate swung
across the path and comply with a demand
for toll. 1t is a national disgrace that
patriotic citizens cannot go to that cemetery
to strew flowers above the dust of heroes
without paying for the right to tread on
some old planks
We are not disposed to blame the AQue-
duct bridge corporation for protecting their
own interests. 1t is their right 10 make
their property profitable. But It Is the right
of this great community, the right Of the
millions who visit this capital the right OF
the Congress and the army, to have free
path from the north to the south bank OF
the Potomac. Nor is 1t less the right of the
people residing near that south bank and
opposite to this District to have free access
to the capital city.
The beautiful hills across the river should
be dotted with villas, and made fruitful
and fragrant with vineyards and gardens.
a great suburb of Washington ought to
grow up On the Virginia shore. And such
win be the case when we have free bridge
The Potomac flats improvement Is sure
, 10 20 on to completion. The Permanent
Exposition will be provided for. with
these, and constituting feature Of the gen
eral plan, should be free bridge from the
New Potomac Flats Park TO Arlington.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1886-04-20

Several Republican Senators, having In
charge certain leading measures Of legislation,
have recently been in consultation with mem
hers of the Republican caucus committee with
II view TO putting an end TO the clash of COM
pcting interests and consequent loss of time
which has been feature OF the proceedings of
the last two or three weeks. An understanding
of u somewhat indefinite and preliminary ma
ture has been reached, which will, 1t is bs-
lieved, secure harmony and dispatch for the
present. II Is proposed TO continue work upon
the foreign relations committees business in
secret session until 1t Is disposed Of and then TO
take up "unobjected' pension bills IN the morn
ing hour and the interstate commerce bill after
. o'clock. The general pension bill and the
bankruptcy bill are next In order. While this
programme is liable to change. 1t is proposed
that whenever one of the measures named
shall be taken up the discussion upon 1t shall
proceed until II Is acted upon. II Is agreed by
both friends and foes of the resolution for open
executive sessions that that measure shall have
its day in court so soon as the special orders
already made shall be disposed Of The plan
has been submitted 10 tho Democrats, who, IN
caucus yesterday morning, approved II.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1886-04-20
PERSONALITIES.

Col. D. s. LANoST has returned from Fortress
MonIoe.
SECRETARY ENDIcoTr has gone to New York
for Il few days.
d. J. OLIVER prominent capitalist of San
Francisco, who was created n marquis by Pope
Plus TX, died suddenly last Sunday night.
Mr.. LOUIS scHADE, editor Of the Sentinel,
OF this city, has been invited to deliver an
anti-local option law speech in Lynchburg.
Mrs. MARY ]. HOLMES, the authoress, has re-
turned from Florida, and is, with her husband,
Mr.. Daniel Holmes, guest at the Riggs House
AMBROSE II. LINDSEY, postmaster at Ports.
mouth, Va, and one of the most successful
TRUCKERS" in that section Of Virginia, is at
the Ebbitt.
PROF. BRAIEARD has been elected President
of Niddeburg College. lie was gradu tied by
this college in 1854 ana by Andover Theological
Seminary in 1868.
SISTER MARY FRANCIS, better known as the
Nun Of KenmaTe, is at present stopping at Mrs.
Whites. corner OF Twelfth and NJ streets north
west, She is on her way south.
JUDGE r. s. Brown, of West Virginia, who
wants to succeed Congressman Gibson, of the
fourth district, Is working up his nomination
in the usual way by going TO Washington aud
having dispatch sent home telling how pop
ular he Is IN his own neighborhOod,
JosFpH c. G. KENNEDY, the veteran Wash
ingtonian has been quite III for some time,
but Is now able to sit up aud read his Horace
and Virgil lie reads them In the original
and II was TO him that Senator Thurman gen.
orally went when in doubt about Latin quo
taliOl,
"WHEE Mrs. George Bancroft died." says a
Washington letter writer, Mrs John Davis,
Secretary Frellnghuysens youngest daughter,
told me II was tho fifteenth death OF fpcrsons
with whom she was intimately acquainted
since her father left her on the llth of March
last year"
GRANT PARISH, who has just returned from
advance of the "Yautour, the Exile company,
will sail for Scotland May on the steamer
State OF Nevada, Of the state Line. Mr. Parish
will remain abroad three months, and wlll
visit the principal cities Of scotland, Ireland,
and England, including snort soloum ia
Paris.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1886-04-20

1.-THE star Of last evening,
On the occasion OF one OF Mr.. Randall's
calls at the white house a day or two ago, It
is asserted, Mr.. Cleveland talked with him
on the tariff, expressing the opinion that q
revision and reduction Of the tariff should
be had at this session, and suggesting that
the Democrats were pledged to such action
and would be expected to fulfill their pledge.
He expressed the opinion further, 1t is
stated, that the present one seemed to be n
safe one to pass.
The President is said TO have talked with
other Democratic protectionists, and to
have put himself In the breach in support
OF the ways and means committee.
This has had very serious effect upon
the ''little protectionists band" in the
party, and II is believed by their opponents
that their numbers will melt away before
the mild influence of the executive
opinion. Randall,s attitude cannot thus
be changed, but It is hoped by the tariff
reformers that his following will shrink
away. 1t is estimated that under the most
favorable conditions this following will not
exceed twenty-five, aud that the President
can carry away half these easily.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1886-04-20
THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS.


Active Work Begun by the Building
Commission-S1,O ,OOO, 900, to be Ex-
pended in Washington During the
Next Year.
The commission under whose direction
the new building for the library Of Con-
grcss has gone actively to work, and, with
full appreciation of the mandatory terms
Of the law just passed, the commission yes
terday served notice upon the owners OF
property in the two blocks east Of the capt.
tol building to make return, not later than
May 4, Of the lowest prices at which they
will dispose OF their property. This ser
vice was made personally upon each one,
the commission not willing to risk the pos
sibility OF non.deliyery through the mails.
With two or three exceptions no disposi-
tion is manifested by property owners 90
raise the price because OF the location des-
ignatedfor the library. The commission
will purchase the square which may be
offered upon the best terms. No time will
be lost in any Of the preliminaries. As
soon rs the question OF titles shall have
been settled by the Attorney General the
commission will break ground for the new
building.
1t is estimated that, during the next
twelve months, in the nelghborhood oI
$l,0G0,000 will be expended In connection
with the building for the library.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1886-04-20
Hau Of Rocords In va.hInoton.

Senator Vest, from the committee on public
buildings and grounds, reported fayorably yes
terday the bill to provide for the erection of a
frepIoof hall of records in Washington. On
bill that has twice already been passed by the
Senate, and Is In accordance, Mr.. Vest said,
with the recommendations of Presidents Ar
thur and Cleveland Mr.. Hoar inquired
whether the hall was for keeping of the "prl-
vate 'papers Of the President laughter Mr..
Vest replied that II was for the keeping of the
legislative, executive, and judicial papers of
the government.
Tie bill provides that 100000 bo appro.
priated for the purchase OF site near the War
Department and erection thereon of a brick
and metal fire.proof building TO be used for
the saie-keeping of records of the several de-
paItments not required for constant reference;
said building 10 be erected under the super
vision and direction of the supervising archi-
teCt of the Treasury Department on plans and
specifications approved by the Secretary of the
Treasury Secretary Of War, and the Secretary
nf
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1886-04-20

In the case of Horace NJ. Johnston agalns
the District Of Columbia the Supreme Court
of the United States yesterday handed down
a decision affirming the decree of the supreme
court of this District. This was an action
brought by Mr.. Johnston, n tax payer, TO re.
cover damages caused 10 his house and land
on Missouri avenue by an overflow OF foul
the exercise of the duty Of selecting and adopt.
ing general system OF drainage by municipal
authorities being Of quasi judicial nature Is
not subject to revision by court or jury in n
private action, for not sufficiently draining q
particular lot of land, but the construction and
repair of sewers according to the general plan
50 adopted being simply ministerial duties, the
the sewer may he sued by n person whose
property is injured by negligence In construct
Ing the sewer or keeping II In repair.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1886-04-20

VNoR sALE-A CHOICE sEALsKIN CLOAK
-n and muii, cost $780, must be sold. Address
NECESSITY, Republican ONCE. S-fe9-n