The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1890-01-16
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.


Al the Jamaica railways have been
taken by an American syndicate.
Now South Wales and Queensland
nave erected SS7 miles of rabbit proof
fences. - = r->'
1t requires twenty-five volumes to
register the different cattle brands of
Arizona.
The Baldwin locomotive works ex.
Pect TINS year to turn out not less than
l,o0O locomotives.
Ice has been found on Mount Nc
Clellen, California, which is computed
to he $4,000 years old.
Tho commission of French epgi-
neers to investigate tho Panama Canal
nave arrived on the ground.
The Baltimore committee of one
hundred have fixed upon $1,000 aa the
iu'i retail license fec for that city.
The engagement of George Wander.
bilt to Miss Mary Johnston, daughter ~
Col. VIM. Johnston, Of Annandale
Georgetown county, is s. G. announced
"A special cable to the New York
Herald from Nice says: Miss Mary An
oerson wing is now staying here, emphat-
cally denies the report that she is eppag.
ed to be- c'married.
The wedding of Wilson 4. Ris,e,I
the ex-law pratuer of Grover Cleveland
and Miss Louise Sturges. of Geney,'
will be celebrated on February Sth.
A telegraph message costing 80 ~
W0rd was recently sent from Portland
to Hong Kong, and an answer received
IN twelve hours. 1t was first sent to
New York, thence to London, across the
Continent to Yokohama.
Thus far twenty of the 211 presby
terles of the Presbyterian Church have
oeen reported as voting on tho overture
on revision OF the Westminster Stand
ards. For revision, 10, against rcvis.
ion, 8.
Mrs. Hannah b. Southworth. the
murderess Of millionaire Stephen Pettus.
a!ed at u o'clock Tuesday morning in the
Tombs prison.
-Ihos. A. Jones, employed in the
TOOL room at the gun foundry of the
| Navy Yard, at Washington, has been
| dismissed because it was learned that
he assisted John Wilkes Booth to es-
cape after the assassination of Lincoln.
Thomas Nelson Page OF Virginia,
! one o' the brightest literary men of the
| DAY, mas accepted an invitation to deliver
an address in Atlanta when the Society
OF the Elrglnians of that city celebrate
the birthday Of General Robert E. Lee
on January 10th.
Walter Wright, q member of the
provisional government of Brazil, but
an Englishman by birth, is in New
Iork. He says there is no question
| that the republican feeling in Brazil is
sIrong and solid, and runs through all
| classes of society.
-While n. S. Pope and G. J. Poat
OF Columbia, were out cunning on
| Tuesday, q stray shot from Mr.. Poat,s
| gun pierced Mr. Pope's left eve near
The centre. 1t is feared the sight of
the injured eye will he permanently
| lost.
Peter Jackson the colored Austria .
lian pugilist has sent n cable dispatch
from London to the United States. an
| nouncing his acceptace Of the challenge
| OF John l.. Sullivan to fight for ST 900
side. He will sail for New York on
January 10, in the steamer "Adriatic. ."
Sunday night in the Methodist
church at Flcmingsburg, Ky, during a
union meeting, in observance of the
week OF prayer, one minister interrupted
another during his prayer. A sharp
quarrel ensued, and the Methodist minis.
ter drove the congregation out, saying
the scene was TOO disgraceful to be toler-
ated.
General T.. @. Jordan, who was O.
prominent Confederate officer, was
found dead on Monday in q house on
his ranch, so miles west of Gainesville,
Tex, where he had lived alone for q
number of years. It is supposed he
died of heart disease. He leaves O.
large fortune.
B. o. Jenkins, owner of a govern
ment distillery uear Earl's Station.
nine miles from Shelby, N. c., was
shot through the body and mortallv
wounded by J. II. McNeilly, store
keeper and gauger at the distillerv.
The cause of the quarrel is not now
known.
The American Bank Note Com
pany has commenced work on the
new postage stamps. The stamp will
be about oheeighth smaller than those
now in use, and the designs will be
changed. The one cent stamp will
continue to be printed in blue; the two
cent stamp now printed in green, will
be printed in carmine, and changes will
be made in some of the other denomi-
nations.
Ward McAllister's New Years ball
the other night at the Metropolitan
Opera House cost $14, 400 made up of
subscriptions of 800 each from 144
subscribers, and Mr.. McAllister saws
that Notwithstanding the rumors about
it's having cost $4,000, the expendi-
lures wele all kept within the limit of
the subscription N oney. The Centen-
nial ball, which was given by Mr..
Fish at the same house last spring, cost
800, ,706.
1t is said that Silcott, the defaultine
cashier ofthe House of Representa-
tives, has never been in Canada at all,