The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1890-06-12
PIoKENs SENTINEL.
local NExYSi

Miss Julia symmds, Of Greenville,
is visiting Miss Corrie Bruce.
twenty 1ntig tionvicts, were added
to the working force ut Fort Hill, last
Wednesday.
Mrs. G. L. Hollingsworth was quite
sick the past week. she Is some better
at this time.
Miss Flora Rirhey has dismissed
her school for the summer VACATION anu
is now at homo.
Geo. F. Turner, of Table Mountain,
was sent tp to the u. 8. court last Mon.
day, for working in still.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thornley, d. Harris,
of Greenville, visited Mr.. aud Mrs. II.
B. Hendricks last Sunday.
will Hawkins, U. s. prisoner, was
discharged from Jail last Saturday night
under the U. s.. convict not.
--Robt. J. Rurdinc, formerly of this
county, has been appoi, ted postmaster
mt Cowpens, Spartanburg county.
Ed. Washington, colored, was COM
mite, Il to Jail last Saturday by Trial JUS
tice Gavin, of Central, for bigamy.
-Robt. Can't, of the DacusviIe sec
ton, was last week held for the u. S.
court. charged with retailing whisky.
MIR. Geo. w. Brock, of Ce ntral, has
been quite sick for several days, but last
accounts report him improving slowly.
The shrill whistle OF tho engine alia
tho ratio and Ti,iEs of the threshing ma
chine will soon echo amoung these hills.
The first cotton bloom WAS sent to
the Greenvlle. Miss, Times Office on
the 9th inst. This is the earliest in
twenty years.
Mrs. Syphron, who has been visit
ing her father. 'Sqimo Gossett, of Eas-
ley, returned to her home in Greenwood
last Saturday.
The heavy rain on tho 1st inst,
washed the farms badly in the eastern
aged considerably.
Wheat, generally, 1ias been harvest
ed, and most of the TURNER'S report half
q crop. This is better than wus expected
seariicr i'll the season.
--WiN T. Burgess, of the Pumpkin
town Tection, was before the Commits
:sioner last Thursday for distilllig. He
was held for the August court
DR.. T. w. Fcser is erecting n nice
story eight-x house on the va
cant lot where Mr.. 4}ayis Gaines house
was burned some two years ago.
There are five blue ribbon gardens
in town, the rest are we'll supplied with
beans, Irish potatoes, squash, onions
and tomatoes, lettuce and cabbage.
Tom i. Mauldin, of the Citadel
Academy, is the best drilled man in his
company B), and the next best in the
Citadel. Tom Joe always toes the mark
The wheat crop is short, but somc
strong fresh lands have produced a good
crop. p. II. Boggs showed us q spcci-
men from his field last week which indi-
Gates good average crop.
Julius O'Dcll, of Liberty. hns made
such commendablo progress in teIesra,
ply under the instruction Of Mr.. j. A.
DAVIS, that the company has sent him
out as operator with bridge train.
-Glcnn Talley, colorcd, who lives
near Liberty, lost fifty dollar COW last
Sunday. She became cntargled in the
tic rope, fell and broke li,:r neck. Nor
nj: Always tie the line to the cows
foot.
On the 27th of May, at the res
idence of the father of the bride,
Mr.. g. A. Howard. near Liberty, Mr.
Ollie Smith was married to Miss Matte
Howard, John L. Boggs, n. p, oflicint-
ing.
DR.. G. w. Earlo has fully demon
stratcd that the best OF clover can be
raised here. Two acres of such clover
rs he cut last week will furnish more
provender than twenty acres of corn or