The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1890-03-06
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.
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The hotels in st. Augustine are do
ing better than usual.
Columbia 10 to have new lee fae-
tory with capacity Of ten tons daily.
The equestrian static of Robert r.
Lee, by Mcrcie, the French sculptor, has
been completed. 1t will DO placed in
Richmond
The recent food near Phoenix, Ari-
zona, destroyed nearly million dollars
worth of property and cost the lives OF
about forty people.
| "A cyclone near Brownsville, Tenn,
| onWcdnesday unroofed half the houses In
| the place, killed one woman, and woun-
I'D several other persons.
Senator John w, Daniel, the
great Virginia orator, will deliver the
address at the reunion Of Confederate
Veterans to be held at Atlanta Apr. 20.
The Secretary of the Treasury has
just ipaid $57, 800 to the Richmond, Va,
Locomotive Works, for work done for
tho battle ship Texan now building at
Norfolk.
The last time Stanley lectured at
Birmingham, England, he received
fifteen guincaS for his fee. This time
the Birmingham lecture manager Of
fcrs 800 guineas, and is afraid no can't
get him at that.
Erred Aviation, who stole $35, 900
from the Express Company at Dallas,
Texas, has been captured at st. John,
N. B. lie had but $4,000 left, bunco
men having robbed him of the other
part of his stealage.
The Congressional redistricting
bill TO make five out of six of the dis
trict5 Of Maryland soldly Democratic,
which at first failed for want of one
vote, was passed by vote of II yeas
TO 3nnys. The Governors signature
has been attached.
A cloud burst Mondry night caused
MActindalc Creek Ind, to rise 80 quickly
that the women and three children of the
Hall family were drowned. They be-
ionged to party Of gypsies cucamped
ncNr the stream. The bodies have not
yet been recovered.
President Day, Of the New York
League club, vainly offered Buck Ew-
ing, who caught for the club last year,
$4,000 Tor Il three years. engagement.
Buck sticks to the brotherhood.
Ward Richardson, Gore and Slattery
also dcclined big offers.
"A committee Of tho Texas Legis-
laturc is hard st work on tho accounts
OF cx-Treasurcr Hemingway, who Is
apparently $250,000 short. 1t is de-
velopcd, however, that he is entitled
to a credit ofS105, $50 which he erro-
neously had charged against himself
1t appears from the two hundred
and forty or more petitions sent in by
| tho good people of Massachusetts and
presented in the Senate by Senator
Dawes, that 100000 gallons of intoxi-
cants are shipped annually from this
country to Africa. The petitioners
pray that this very wicked traffic be
stopped.
"A fatal shooting occurred Tues
day, seven miles fromHillsboro, N. c.,
during 4 raid on a ,,distillery by reve-
nuo officers. Revenue Agent Kirk
patrick, who was in charge of tho
raiding party, was shot in the face and
received a dangerous wound. The
shot was fired by negro who was
shot and killed by member of tho
raiding party.
The Rev. DR.. Lorimer, of the
Baptist Church at Holyoke, Mass,
caused sensation on Friday by max
ing violent and indecent attack from
his pulpit on tho Catholic Church.
On Sunday he tearfully explained to
his congregation that he was drunk
at the time from an overdose of qui-
nine and unconscious of what he said;
and he publicly retracted and apollo
gizcd.
Senator Voorhees, is out in long
address urging harmony in the Demo-
cratic party OF Indiana in tho nomina.
ton OF legislative and county candi-
dates. Mr.. Voorhees, says he will
support Ex-Governor Gray for the
icePresidency in 1892, as he did at
the ST. Louis convention two years
ago. 1t is understood that Mr.. Gray
will use his best efforts to secure a
Democratic Legislature and tho re-
election OF Mr.. Voorhees, to the SEN
ate.
Chicago has won the fight for the
location of the Exposition in 1892.
There were eight ballots in the House
the vote finally standing thus: Chi
cago, 1877; New York, 10Y; st. Louis,
25; Washington, IS. Whole number
of votes, 3O7; necessary to a choice 154.
When the Speaker announced the re-
suit ofthe eighth ballot the supporters
of Chicago on the floor burst into O
shout of triumph, which found an
echo in the galleries. Speaker Reed
hammered away with his gavel to
quell the confusion, but was unable TO
obtain anything like order. Half the
members rushed rell nell for the
exits, and amid this disorder the
Speaker, on motion, declared the
House adjourned.
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