The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1888-04-05
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.
Items OF Interest Gathered from Warrior
Quarters.


| about $150,000; assets $50,000.
Colonel e. Hurlburt, of Atlanta, well
known in connection with reconstruction
measures in 1868 is dead.
Isaac Hincl<loy, President of the Phia-
| delphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Rail
road, died in Philadelphia Wednesday.
| The failure of Louis III. Zernow, broker
Of South William street, n. Y, has been
announced on the Cotton Exchange.
The London Evening Star prints rumor
| that Prince Bismarck will shortly resign
the Chancellorship of the German Empire
| Charles A StCtSon, for nearly four years
proprietor Of the Astor House, New York
died in Reading, Penn, yesterday, aged r.
II is estimated that the membership in
this country of the Free and Accepted
Masons numbers 600, 900.
A condemned locomotive at Hartford,
Conn.,, burst its boiler yesterday and killed
the engineer and fireman.
About 1888 what tough stories some ven
erablc men will be telling of the March
| storm Of 1888!
Two white men and negro were killed
and several men wounded by the explosion
| OF boiler at COOkCvile, Tenn, on Tues
day.
The high license bill has passed the New
York Assembly by g. against 81. 1t was
almost party vote and required Is votes
| to prevail.
Reports from the flooded district along
the Nistula River in Germany, say that
| within an area of ten miles square there
are scvcnty-scven villages submerged.
Walter 7. Miller 4 Co., the oldest cot
ton brokerage house in New York, who
| recently failed. have announced That thcy
will settle in full i'll Il few days.
A correspondent writes from Honduras
who says that more than $l2 .00O, 900 Of
American capital is invested in gold mines
in that country.
II you suppose that the world is con
stantIy keeping its eyes peeled TO note your
troubles you will find Yourself nightly
mistaken.
Emperor Frederick has asked permission
Of Queen Victoria to confer upon DR..
| Mackenzie the decoration star of Hohcn.
zOllcrn.
! Gen. Lester b. Faulkner, one of the
| alleged DanVillc Bank w:cClicrS. has been
| admitted to bail on two indictments. The
bail in each Indictment is SD, 600 james
Faulkner is in Jail, and it is understood
tha' he will not attempt to procure bail
The Russian Government has prohibited
operations by The American Bible Society
in the Baltic provinces. it is probable
that the Government will ultimately rXpcl
all representatives of the British and Amer.
lean Bible societies.
| Ex-senator McDonald's friends believe
| that he will be appointed to fill the vacancy
| on the Supreme Bench. caused by the
| death OF Chicl Justice Waite. IL is uu
dcrst"Od that he has reason to expect a
nomination by the President
What is supposed to be Confederate
| gold dollar was found in An ash heap in At
| anta recently, and sold for $50. 1t is said
that only six such coins were issued bY the
Confederate Government, and if genuine
this specimen would be worth $3.50
| At the annual meeting of the anti.pov.
crty Society in New York the Rev. Ed
ward MCGiynn was chosen president; JAS.
Rcdpnth, vice president; Michael Clarke,
secretary; Sylvester r. Malone, treasurer.
| BY written request the name of Henry
George was stricken from the membership
roll.
The Bald knObbcrS, John Matthew's.
| VIM. Walker and Wiley Matthews. vino
nave recently been Convictcl at Ozark.
Mo, Tor the murder OF Charles Green and
William Edcns IN one of their night raids
in Christian county, about Il Year ago,
ON Friday, May IS.
A candle has recently been brought out
| which CNtngulshcs itself after it has burnt
for an ho],v. This it does by means Of IA
| tiny cNtinTuishcr of tin which is fastened
! IN the wax by WlrCS and which ciIGctually
| performs It's task. 1t is only necessary to
remove this diminutivc cNtinguishcr when
rs work Is done, and the candle is again
| ready to burn another hour. The use of
| such candle, in schOuls and nurseries
particularly, could hardly fail to prove
| beneficial.
| Cross arc commonly sad to live fer Il
| hundred years, and the turtles are rcportcH
| t. have even longer life; hut if Professor
laird he ri"lA, the Grcutc,t animal longevity
Is possess ! by fishes. Professor Baird says
that as "a n has no maturity there is nulh-
| Ing /" prevent it from living indefinitely
and growing continually. He cites in
| pr,Ot pike living in Russia. whose are
dates 'Nck to the fifteenth century. In the
| royal aquarium at st Petersburg there are
iiah that have been there Il hundred and
! forty years.
Around Birmingham, Ala, thcrain storm
! continues. The country is Hooded all
| W;lJ"rcourscS are unprcCvicntudly swollen,
many bridges have hccn swept away, and
| WA2huulS iNc reported on all RAILWAYS lead.
Ing into the city. The Birmingham Her
| aids specials from all parts of Tie State tell
Oh tremendous Hood and great damage.
| Travelling is aD 4 stand>tll, but the iron
mills are running on iWl! time.
The Alumni Association Of the Uniycr-
Sity of Michigan, at their banquet on the
night of the 21th inst, adopted resolutions
lavoring the appointment Of the Hon.
| Thomas VI. Cooley to the Chief Justice
ship OF the United States. and calling upon
| the alumni Of the University throughout
the Umlcd States to join with them in pro-
| curing pctltioning pOwcr Of the entire con
| fraternity to secure if possible such APP
| pOintmcnt.
! After the Easter holidays Parliament will
| be asked to vote compensation to the Cana
| dian Pacific Railway for the surrender of
its Northwest monopoly clauses. The
amount named is about $50, 600, 900. The
Canadian Pacific Offers to sell its line from
| Winnipeg to the United States boundary
for $1,000, 600, but the Manitoba Govern
mcnt thinks the amount too large. The
prospects for an amiCab!c settlement Of the
monopoly question look more hopeful.
The third Of series of excursions inaup-
uratcd by Southern railroads is bringinp
| thousands of visitors from thr NorIh ,rG