The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1888-01-05
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.
Io,ns OF Intsrest GntIicred from Various
Qua tiers.


Iio,ns OF Interest Gathered from Various
auh- tiers.
The post office safe at Ashcvillc, N. c.,
has been robbed Of $500.
The Prohibitionists say they are going
to start paper in Atlanta.
At Minneapolis, Mimi, yesterday, the
thermometer was twenty degrees below
zero at A. NJ.
There has been serious trouble in sending
and receiving Cablcgrams and kilograms at
and from New York.
The Government receipts for December
amount to $27, ,2G5 ,259, and the surplus for
the month will reach SO, 100000
At Rockland, Me-, gale ragged Wednesss
day night with unparalleled fury, doing
grcA damage to shipping in the harbor.
The Catholics of Richmond, Va, last
night held mass meeting in the Cathedral
hail in celebration of the Popc's jubilee
At Halifax, N. s., a terrific gale pre-
vailed on Wednesday night, causing cXten-
sivc damage to shipping in the harbor.
Roland Taylor, colorcd prisoner, set
fire to the Toccoa, Ga, Jail Monday night
and was burned up In it.
a fierce northwest blizzard has prevailed
throughout the upper Michigan peninsula
on "Wednesday, and bad blockades are an
ticipntcd.
Fire at Moss Point Miss, on Wednesday
night, destroyed ten houses, including j.
III. Kribbcs store, new hotel and glass fac
tory. Loss $21, 900.
AT San Francisco yesterday Judge 1Iofr-
man rendered a decision in the United
States District Court sustaining the right
Of Chinese to import opium.
The British steamer Lord Cough, which
left Philadelphia, December IS, for Queens
town and Liverpool, has not yet arrived
Considerable anxiety is felt.
Mr.. Geo. II. Ingraham, Sr, died at his
home in Charleston last night at quarter
past II o'clock. He was in the S4th year of
his age.
The Morgan Wooden Mills near Winchcs,
ter Va, were entirely burned on Monday
night. Insurance $5S,O0O loss much
greater.
The gift Of Queen Victoria to the Pope
consists Of Il gold ever and BASIN These
the Pope intends to use in celebrating the
Jubilee Mass.
The Czarina has given an audience to
Lord Randolph Churchill, who presented
to her letters from the Princess of Wales
and Duchess Of Edinburgh.
The steamer Oceanic arrived at San Fran
cisco from China and Japan yesterday and
was placed in quarantine, as two cases of
| smallpox were discovered among the Chi
| hcSc stccragc passengers.
~ Michigan man has bought 900 acres
of tennessee bog lands, near Chattanooga,
which he proposes to drain and raise celery.
He thinks "thcrc's millions in it."
The Pope yesterday received King Leo
| sNl,l,,
Holiness with jubilee gifts and an auto
graph letter.
Sullivan has challenged Smith to fight
| for 81 ,OOO side, the affair to come Off Il
fortnight after Sullivan's match with
Mitchell has been fought. Sullivan has
| deposited $500 forfeit.
The State Convention Of the Kansas
Prohibitionists was held in Topeka Tues
day. 1t was decided to begin vigorous
campaign during the coming year. and &c
| put Il full State ticket in the field.
The post Office safe in Charleston, W.
| Va, was blown open between 1 and /;
o'clock yesterday morning by burglars
who obtained $400 in money and $40 il
stamps.
| II. Rider IIaggard says that, next to the
Bible, Shakcspcarc's works and those OF
| Cerv0ntCs and John Bunyan are the bcst
| for young man just entering upon active
life.
Two printers, named Coylc and Gallatin
were walking on the Pennsylvania Rail
road track, near DOwnington, Pa, on Sun
day evening, when they were struck by q
train and both fatally injured.
w. w. Corcoran, Of Washington, is
again reported seriously i'll. lie attended
| Communion service in st. Johns Episcopal
| Episcopal Church Sunday, and was Obliged
to be carried from church after service.
Mr.. W. W. Corcoran, the wcll-llnown
phianthropisL Of Washington, has Just
celebrated his eighty ninth birthday Many
| letters Of congratulation and tokens Of re-
gard were received by the venerable phil
| anthrOpist.
! Calvin GOvan, colorcd, got on spree in
OrangcDurg on Saturday, and going tow.
ards home, stopped on the road. The next
morning he was found dead. 1t is thought
he died from exposure.
| The Rev. ID. II. Winfield, editor Of the
irkanSaS Neth0diSt, and one Of the most
widely known Methodist divincs in the
| South, died at Little Rock, Ark , on Mon.
| day night, of pneumonia.
The Prussian and German Departments
Of Justice have commissioned Judge Asch
Ci'o'V w StuuJ ui'l report upon inc Amen
can penal system, with the view of making
it the basis OF a new system in Germany
w. X. Vanderbilt it is stated, will take
| up his permanent abode in Europe, proba
| bly, in England, visiting America only at
| occasional periods as his interests or pleas
| urC may dictate.
Ben. Butler has not sent in his bill yet to
the Chicago Anarchists. Lawyer Tucker
wants $500, and his bill is still unsettled.
All the money has been spent giving the
martyrs funerals.
The Government official at Cork who is
charged with criminally assaulting three
young girls is Major Bishop, governor of
the county jail. The police authorities re
fuse to prosecute Bishop.
Geo. w. Meade & Co. of San Francisco,
one Of the largest exporting firms on the
Pacific coast, made an assignment ycstcr-
day The firm has shipped fully 81, 900,
600 worth Of fruit to the East this year.
At Kansas City, Mo, on Wednesday
night there was a grand jubilee of saloon