The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1886-01-21
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Facts OF Intercst, Gathered f,op, yariops
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~ ~ wv 'hothetcr M Atlanta, Ga.
was below zero last week. e. -
There is imminent danger of ,
water famine in Cleveland, O.
ON Thursday last navigation or
Inc James river was entirely stopped
The new British Parliament is ,c
"'cet on Thursday of the present week
--hNlston Hall block, in Macon, Ga,
was burnt last week. Loss $4,000
Insurance $4,000.
There are nineteen foreign born
members of present Natioua! House of
Representatives.
The Chinese laborers aro being
supplemented by white nell in Sacra-
mcntO.
Minnie Dishner, Nebraska's "sleep-
l's@ oeauty, has come to after sleep
OF seventy days.
The fashionable young man of the
cold North vest wears q tall silk hat
and velvet ear muf1lers.
The office Of the Western Union
Telegraph at Marion, Ala, was burn
eel with all its contents on Sunday last.
VIM. West, of Edgefield, lost his
cotton house and nine bales of cotton
by fire last week.
Fillmore Guntcr and his three.
months-old child were buried on the
same day in Batcsburg last week.
Phil Collum, colored, killed his
daughter Hattie in Edgefirld by the
accidental discharge Of his gun.
-Jcsse Marlborough had his leo
broken by piece of timber falling on
1t while digging a we'll in Lancaster.
The house of the Rev. G.. Lee. of
Spartanburg, was burnt by an acci-
dental fire; loss covered by insurance.
Nj. Dcvclle, the new French min
lister OF agriculture, never saw
plough, so they say.
In New York city within the last
twenty years there have been but
thirty -nihc deaths from hydrophobia.
Tho proceedings by the Govern
ment against western cattle owners
for fencing public land will be pushed.
:. The dwelling of Mrs. d. Will
liams, of Olangcburg, was burnt.
with the entire contents. a few niphts
ago.
-Scipio Scabrook, an old citizen of
Cfaf!cston, was run over and badly
hurt by car Of the Enterprise Rail.
way.
AIRS. Catharinc Tassal, an aged
resident of Charleston, died on ln,t
from being accidentally
burnt the day before.
Mrs. Louisa Riddle, of Lancaster.
trlpped on the ice and fractured her
right arm near the shoulder and broke
her collar bone.
while ON rabbit hnut in North
Carolina last week, Tom Mowery was
accidentally killed. His head was shot
from his body.
a Washerwoman and her children,
named Dunbriskv, living in New
York city, recently fell heir to $780,
600 or $20O,O0o.
The State Of Texas is covered
with snow and dead cattle are TO bc
found in every direction. The cattle
men will suffer heavily.
The Powers have summoned Ser
via, Bulgaria and Greece to disarm.
prom i>ing them that Turkey will fol-
low their example.
--Princc Bismarck is the first Pro-
tcStnnt that has ever received the
decoration of the Order of Christ. The
badge Is worth EG00.
Sir Walter Raleieh's original to.
bacco pipe, which excited the disgust
OF Queen Elizaurth, was sold recently
mt an auction in London.
MIR. Barnum has bought Alice. the
widow of Jumbo. Alice has been an
object Of interest to little Londoncrs al
he 100 for many years.
The editors Of several newspapcrs
of the City of Mexico have been i'm
)rlSoncd for making libelous attacks
IN the authorities.
"A little boy named FLOYD fell into |
he race at the Camperdown Mills in
during the freezing weather
md narrowly escaped drowning.
On account of ice blockading the
unncls travel on the Western North
iaro ina ltuilroad between Salisbury
nd Ashevillc was for several DAYS
uspcndcd.
president Grcvy has signed n
lecrcc granting amnesty TO persons
onvictcd Of political offcnscs since
$40, and reducing sentences of many
blenders against the common law.
j. W. Bondurant a prominent CIT
zen of Staunton, Va, was dccapitatcd
ast Thursday at Goshen bv n Chesa-
eakc and Ohio train. His head and
he arm were severed from the BODY.
The rush of negroes immigratino
rom the Goldsboro section of North
aroma 10 tho Georgia turpcnlinc