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The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1892-05-12
The. Deadly Currenf

AUGUSTA, Ga. April 29.-Miss Maude
Hill, the young daughter of Mr.. George
L. Hill, had novel and painful experi-
ence with electricity last night. The
family reside over the store $50 Broad
Street, and have Il veranda in front
with iron railing. Into the store be-
Eeath electric light wires are ran, and
by some means or other the insulation
was removed from the wires, giving free
contact With the railing, which became
thoroughly charged with electricity.
Miss Maude went out on the veranda
last evening, and as she rested her arm
on the railiug tho current immediately
struck her and severely shocked her,
seven burns were inflicted on the young
iady sarm, and the soles of her feet were
Daaly Dllstered. Miss Hill has been ex-
tremely nervous since the accident.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1892-05-12
Fire I'm Toxic.

SAN FRANCISCO, April 29--The
steamer Belgic arrived to day. She
brings details Of great fire at Toxic,
Japan, April 10. The fire started early
In the morning in the house Of small
restaurant keeper from candle left
burning. 1t spread in three directions
through dcnsely populated districts.
me llrc was eX'inguished after con.
suming 5000 houses on twenty streets,
including forty warehouses, police
sCatlons, panorama building, Russian
schooi' Toxic English school, Kinji
Schooi and many fine residences
Detalis OF loss of life are meagre. 1t
is Varlously estimated that seventeen
10 lorty-iive persons perished. The
steamer Raiden Mauru was sunk bv
floating ice in Kushior harbor and forty
drowned. 'i" ioi'y
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1892-05-12

1t is a source of annoyance to the
good people of this community that
McLane should come in their midst
with his missionary work--under the
gulSe OF Il Reformer-- when it is too
apparent that his honeyed words and
apparent frank statements are, when
Invested of their deceptive qualities,
but pitfalls to ensnare us back into a
degrading and hateful political
bondage.-News and Courier.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1892-05-12
Cut of Her Hair.

CHARLOTTE. N. c., April 3O.-Miss
Inez Sykes, a young lady, was caught
on the street last night by ru6fan
who smOthered her cries and cut off her
hair. She wore her hair in Il long plat
and he whacked it off with a razor.
Her assailant, after cutting off the
hair, struck her in the breast, threw
the hair to the ground and escaped.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1892-05-12
Jack the Ripper.


MELBOURNE, April 28.--TD day the
Judge, to whom Mr.. Lyle made appli
cation yesterday for further adjourn
mcnt of the trial of Frederick B, Deem
ing, refused to grant any further post
ponement. The Standard today says
mat 1T IS in a position to announce
without reserve that Deeming has con
feSsed to his lawyers and the doctors
who examined him that he committed
the majority of the "Jack the Ripper"
crimes in the White Chapel district of
London. The article has created great
sensation. The demeanOr Of Deeming
when he was arraigned for trial to-day
presented marked difference from his
conduct at the inquest. Today he was
quiet and depressed and he looked very
much disappointed when tho Judge de-
cided that no further delay would be
granted. Deeming had put aside the
nippant air that characterized him at
the previous hearings, and he listened
closely TO the prosecutors speech, pay
ing no attention to the crowd that
thronged the Court room.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1892-06-22
Before and After Election.

The American people are often ac-
cused of displaying short memories,
but they have not vet had time TO for
get the Democratic cries about the
"billion-dollar Congress" the prospec-
tive ruin of foreign trade by the uncon-
stitutional Mckinley tariff and the car
ism and tyranny of ex-Speaker Reed in
counting a quorum.
A few months ago these cries were
repeated with such seeming honesty
and sincerity that many people were
led to believe there was something in
them, and they were not merely the
latest cut and style Of campaign. lie Just
from the hands of Democratic artists
long trained in the production of such
false issues.
A short time elapsed and the people
learned from decision of the federal
supreme court that the Mckinley tariff
was strictly constitutional and valid in
all respects, and that there was nothing
TO support Democratic charges TO the
contrary.
Next in order came the official re-
ports of imports and exports showing
that under the Mckinley tariff our for
eign commerce instead of being ruined
had swollen to proportions never
known before. So another Dem ocratic
campaign lie went by the board.
Further: The supreme court at Wash
ington not only uEheld the Mckinley
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1892-06-22


Short sermon on American Homes.
life.
No country can be counted prosper
GUS the majority of whose people DO
not own their homes. Here. then, we
have good test of the relative benefits
OF protection and free trade. Which
system makes il easier for a working
man 10 have a home OF his own?
Among the iron workers Of free
trade England, and they are perhaps
the most prosperous of all that coun-
try's workingmen, one man out OF ev-
cry twenty five occupies his own home.
In Philadelphia, the largest city of
the greatest iron producing state in the
Union, there is one home TO every five
inhabitants.
The latest British Parliamentary re-
port on the Housing OF the Working
Glasses" says: Even in the country
districts (where surely one would ex-
pect to find more homes human beings
are TO be found boarded together in a
condition considerably worse than that
in which the beasts that perish are
usually kept by their owners"
The United States census of 1880 re-
ports that the number of dwellings in
the United States In that year was ,9oo,-
SD. The population was a little over
100000 30 that there was about one
dwelling to every six inha bitsnts. One
out of every six Inhabitants occupied
his own home.
1t is to protect ion we owe the larger
number OF American homes. For the
tariff maintains the American rate OF
wages; from our higher wages come the
greater savings of our people, and from
the savings of the family comes the
home
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1892-06-22

tariff, but (the Democratic justices con-
curringl declared the course of ex-
Speaker Reed in counting quorum,
legal and valid in all respects. So much
for czarlsm, tyranny and oppression In
the last Republican House.
There remains one Democratic cam
paign lie not entirely disposed of, al
though rapidly disappearing. viz, that
about alleged eXtravagant appropria-
tons by the so.called "billiou-dollar
Congress" But that particular lie
hasn't much lett in it. The people have
learned that there was no "blllion-dol-
lar" Congress, that no such amount of
money was appropriated, and the
Democrats now find they must expend
as much as the Republicans, or else
take the responsibility of starving some
branch OF the government.
The Democratic leader, Senator Cor
man, in a recent speech in the Senate
thus exposed the hypocrisy and false
pretenses of his party in dealing with
this question:
mean to say, Mr.. President, that there
is 10 power on earth, rs the government Is
now constituted, TO enable the Democratic
party 10 reduce the appropriation of Sl5O,-
OOO, 900 or more for pensions; there Is no
power in the party To which he ana L be-
long 10 reuuce the llAeu expenditures vi
the government. the interest on the public
debt, etc.; here is no power on earth To re-
ducc the expenditures Tor Offices; there Is
no power 10 reduce taxation, and you cali
not diminish expenditures.
La other words the Democrats lied
when they charged the Republicans
with extravaganza, and they lied again
when they promised to practice econo-
my and reduce expenses.
Exposed and discredited at every
point what sort of campaign lies will
the Bourbons produce this year? Do
they really expect the people to believe
anything they may say? Can they not
see what help 1t would be to them
now to have some slight reputation for
truth and yeracitv?
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1892-06-22

TIME well used yields to man eternal
good and imperishable happiness. BY
proper use OF time man can attain to the
highest pinnacle of culture; he can ac-
quire what all the money in the world
cannot purchase-wisdom which is the
true end of man upon the stage of cx-
iStencp.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1892-06-22

IL proportion as you willingly accept
and use the help of the Spirit of God In
the duties and works to which you are
prompted by these several graces, these
graces themselves will bc increased and
multiplied, enlarged and deepencd.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1892-06-22
MICHIGAN STATE NEWS
OCCURRENCES DURING THE
PAST WEEK

Notorious Crook Arrested-Detroit's Big
Death Rate from Diphthcria-Jackson
Convicts Strike "a Rock I'm Their Tun-
nel-Crazy Project of an Old Soldier.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1892-06-22
AMERICAN W0RKINGMEN
HAVE BETTER HOMES THAN
THEIR BRITISH COUSINS.

The Cost of AN Article Determines
Whether 1t Is Cheap or Dear-Before
and After Election - What We are
Fig biting For.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1892-06-22

A LADY in Springfield has large cage
tame red bird, and one wild bird after
another came visiting him till the cage
was occupied by the voluntary captives.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1892-06-22
Press Opinions of Our Republican Lead

Press Opinions of Our Republican Lead
ers.
The Evening Wisconsin President
Harrison was renominsted, not because
he was the best man, but because he
was deemed the most popular and avail
able candidate, not in one section, but
in every section Of the Union. His pop
ularity is widespread and general !;
therefore he was properly considered
the strongest candidate. His admins
tration has been clean, pure, patriotic
and wise, and therefore he possesses q
grand record TO go before the American
people for its approval. He is strong in
the doubtful states, just where the Re-
publican party needs most strength.
He is strong in New York, Connections
Indiana and Michigan. With the cleo
toral votes OF the first three he can be
elected without the votes Of the silver
states, so-called. He is sufficiently
strong on the Pacific Coast to carry Cal
itornia, Oregon and Washington. We
think also he will carry Nevada and
Wyoming. Senator Jones ia warm adj
vocate of free silver, but he loves the
Republican party even more, and with
his influence Nevada will cast her votes
for Harrison. With Harrison we have
SOOu uSullHx CuduCe IOT w ebJ lIklQla,
which has six electoral votes.
The Inter Ocean: Mr.. Depew well
called Benjamin Harrison Americas
parallel to the younger Pitt. Belong
ing to one of the most illustrious fami-
lies in the United States, the great
grandfather signer of the Declaration
of Independence, the grandfather a
President of the United States, the
father the leader of his party in Ohio
In 1860, he has during the last four
years achieved place in history which
is the especial glory of the name. Four
years ago he was an expectation rather
than realization. His rank as law
yer was high and his record az senator
good, but his towering ability has been
the surprise Of his administration. The
country supposed when ne was nomi-
mated that he was a fairly able man, but
hardly more than that. His short cam
paign speeches made them inquire: Is
il possible that great statesman heads
the Republican ticket? Fortunately for
the real test Of his ability the two NEST
important cabinet officers, the secretary
of state and of the treasury, were dis
abled from otiici,a business at very
critical times. and in both cases the
President came TO the front in person
and conducted the affairs of their re-
spective portfolios, doing so in the most
satisfactory manner. Those two cpl
sodes fairly demonstrated the remark
able craftsmanship of Benjamin Harri-
son, and, taken in connection with the
general administration of affairs and the
continued felicity of speech, has left no
room to doubt that very great states
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1892-06-22
Mhnt Me Az. rIght.ns cor.

NnhL We hTe
The chief points of the Republican
platforms:
We believe in the American doctrine of
protection.
We believe that articles, except Injuries,
which cannot be produced in the United
States should be admitted free of duty.
We demand that on all imports cOmpet-
ing with the products OF American labor
duties should be levied equal to the differ
ence between wages at home and abroad.
We ask the people TO pronounce a verdict
upon the cowardly course OF the Demo
Gratis in attacking the tariff piecemeal.
We believe in reciprocity, which has
opened new markets tor the products of
the workshop ana the farm.
We believe in the use Of both gold and
silver money.
We demand that every dollar, whether
of gold silver, or paper, shall be equal to
every other dollar.
We believe in an international confer
ence TO secure parity of gold and silver
throughout the world.
We demand that every citizen, rich or
poor, native or foreign born, white or
black, shall be permitted 10 cast one ballot
and have it counted as he cast 1t.
We propose 70 keep on fighting till we
have honest elections in every state.
We favor the revival OF our foreign COM
merce IN American ships.
We demand navy To protect our inter-
estS and maintain the honor of our flag.
We demand that arbitrary combinations
of capital TO control trade conditions shall
be rigidlY regulated.
We believe in wise and consistent civil
service reform.
We believe In admitting all the territories
into the Union rs soon as they are quail
fed for entrance.
We reatlirm the Monroe doctrine.
Wn nniMonI tho rnCtripfi of orin1ina al
paupcr. and contract immigration.
We demand that the employees of rail-
roads, mines and factories shall be pro-
tected against all needless dangers.
we sympathize with the oppressed in
every land.
We demand freedom of speech and of tie
press
We believe in popular education.
We favor the construction and control of
the Nicaragua Canal by Americans.
We believe that the Columbian EXPOSE
tioE should be made a success worthy of
the dignity and progress OF the nation, and
that the government should aid In this If
necessary.
We SympathiZe with all legitimate efforts
to promote temperance and morality.
We pledge 20 the loyal veterans of the
war tor the Union the recognition that is
theirs by right.
We are proud of President Harrisons
magnificent administration.
And we propose to give the country an
other administration Just rs good for the
next four years.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1892-06-22
Instructive Illustrations.

New York Press: Republican reclproc-
ity is already doing effective work in gain
ing new markets for the American produc-
or. Our exports 10 CUBA of corn, wheat
flour, butter, cheese and refined petroleum
for the three months ending March 81.
1891. were S3i2,S3l.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1892-06-22

Next lesson: "The Ascension of Jesus ,
Acts 1: LIE.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1892-06-22

Under the Mckinley tariff our sales
of American locomotives to other ma
tons are steadily increasing. For the
nine months ending March 81, 1891,
our exports of locomotives were valued
at 81 COS, 552.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1892-06-22

A short sermon on American Homes.
The home is the pillar of our national
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1892-06-22

THE births in Saginaw for the year,
as reported by the supervisors, foot up
LOLA, and the deaths for the same
period 6l6.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1892-06-22

For the corresponding period endin,
March 81, 1892, they were SLIT, 13O
The St. Johns herald., 1892-08-18
pnnlel Igebater.s cour.ship.

At an early period in his life he was a young lawyer in Portsmouth, \. H. At one of his visits to Miss Grace Fletcher, he had, probably with view of com bining utility with enjoyment, been holding skeins of silk thread for her, when suddenly he stopped, saying: Grace, we have thus been engaged in untying knots; let us see if we can tie a knot, one which will not unite for life time" He then took 9 piece of tape. and after beginning 2 l1notof a peculiar
 kind, game it to her to complete. This
 was the ceremony and ratification o1 their engagement. And now, in lit tie box, marked by him with these words: Precious Document,' contain ing the letters of his early court5hip. this unique memorial is still to De found. The knot has never been united.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-08-18
A War Atlas.

As vast and important as is the war record series, now publishing by the government, there is to follow a war atlas that will transcend anything of the kind ever undertaken by tho gov ernment, says the Chicago Inter Ocean. There is just completed the plate for the first battle of Bull Run, one of the most perfect in detail evers made. Tn fact, it is all but photograph of the field. T. is prepared from a carefully finished map by Gen. Beauregard. and one by Gen. Mcdowell. The big atlas will contain about one hundred maps. The War Record is published at phe- nomenal rate. A one thousand-page volume appears every three weeks. Sixty-fve volumes are now out, all re- lating to battles and campaigns. A second series will follow containing all correspondence between tic states and the federal government; a third will treat Of prisoners Of war.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-08-18
HE DoDaED THE WEDDING.

Why No Tears Were She'd When the
 Grenadier Guards Left Bermuda.
 ''The recent departure of the Grena- dier Guards from Bermuda did not cause many regrets among the island ers," said well-known Bcrnpdian to 9 representative of the New York World recently. ''Though the officers of the guards are the cream of the Brit ish military, they and all other swell soldiery have fallen into disrepute down there owing to the treatment one of Bermuda's most popular young ladies received.
 ''When tho officers of the guards had secured their entree into the best is- land society this girl fell a victim to the blind god, and everybody, from Gibbs Hill lighthouse to St. George, was glad to hear that big wedding with an off ger would result. The pretticst of trousseaux was secured at New York and all the arrangements for the cere- mony were made with great elabora- ton. The brides father is rich and of social position, and the affair was to be memorable in the social history Of the islands.
 The night before the wedding the bridegroom gave a farewell dinner to his bachelor friends. Tn the morning he was gone. A ship that had weighed anchor during the night was supposed to have carried him off. He left no word and at first there was wonder.
 Ut was the first time such a trick had been played on a Bermuda belle, and it was something the natives could not forget. Gradually indignation arose which came to manifest itself in social indifference to the entire body of soldiery. This was why no tears were shed when the guards left Bermuda"
The St. Johns herald., 1892-08-18
A LoNo-TgRm PRISONER.
Liberation of an Italian I.rig2nd After a
 Confinement of Sixty Years.

Liberation Of an Italian I-Fis->Dd After
 Confinement of Sixty Years.
 The other day, after sixty years of Imprisonment, part of which was passed ia the prison hospital, tbe Italian brig and chief Domenico Nocchia was lib erated, and passed through Naples to Rome, where it is probable, as he has 10 living relative, that he will be placed in some asylum, for he suffers from asthma and disease Of the leg.
 This old brigand chief, says the Phil adelphia Telegraph. was born eighty three years ago near Viterbo, where at fourteen years Of age he killed the snydic ard his brother, a priest, be- cause he had heard they wanted to have him arrested. After the murder he fled and joined band Of bTigands, leading the life of a highwayman and house. breaker for some years. during which. he asserts, more than million francs passed through his hands.
 When he was at school previously at EIonee4i2sccne he had been the con- panion of Pope Leo, and. being good agithmetician, was at that early age made to teach his fellow scholars. When he became brigand he used to dress like 8 superior officer, and quietly frequent the towns of Piedmont, TES- cany, etc. Of the Neapolitan provinces only the Abruzzi were favored by his visits. It was a sweetheart Of his who finally enabled the gendarmes to ar rest him without shedding blood. The price that had been set on his headwas tlirty-ive thousand francs, which the gendarnes gained.
 He was taken, together with five com panions, who were all beheaded; but Nocchia was saved by Prince Orsini, president of the senate, because when the prince had one evening been stopped and robbed by the band Nocchia had set him free and restored all that had been taken. Nocchia was, however, con demned to prison for life, but he did not cease to commit crimes. In 1941, being vexed with the reproaches of the chaplain because he refused to knecl and kiss the crucifix, Nocchia killed the priest by stratagem. July 3, 1855, he had been irritated by dentist failing to extract Q torturing tooth, and had treacherously sharpened large nail and killed the dentist with two stabs.
 In 1856. having made complicated calculation of all the expense Of the Crimean war within ten days, while his prison companions had not been able to manage it in a month, he gained prize of fifty scudi from the command i,,or colonel Twice he tried fo cor,,; mi suicide-once at Pesaro, where ke swal- lowed a blister that had been put on a companions arm, but, he said without result, as it was as if he had merely eaten 9 pastry. The second time he had cut vein in his arm, but this, too, fo;IaJ
The St. Johns herald., 1892-08-18
FIGHTING MONK EYs.
The Shrewd Scheme Of an Organ Grinder
 to Mako Money.

to Mako Money.
 An organ grinder who has been work ing the city recently has new scheme which is making his fortune. Instead of the customary one monkey this en- terprising worker carries two. When he stops at a saloon he doesn't bother with any of the customary tricks o1 climbing and begging. He sets the monkeys to fighting and then bets free ly with the crowd as to which will win
 His bets find plenty of takers, says the Buffalo Express, and they rarely SC against him. The result is that where. under the old method, he would proba- bly be getting pennies, he now gets dol lars, and it never occurs to the sports that their money is going to a profes- sional beggar.
 ''How can you tell what monkey to bet on?" 1 asked him.
 ''Oh, knowr' he answered slyly.
 By watching him close I soon discov- cred his system. He always bet on tho same monkey, which was proba6ll trained to be the winner. The tive were just alike, except for their caps. and when they would come to him after passing these around he would transfer them from one to the other. When l asked him if this was not true lie smiled and said: ''1 playa; they give-a me nick, calla me beggar; 1 betta, they give-a me doll; thinka it sport"
 The organ man has tie true book makers instinct of how to make the people give up their money without thinking they are giving it for nothing