The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1893-12-14

of the Second Di-
lie Association will
church Saturday be-
fore the fifth Sunday in this month.
The County Commissioners will meet
on the 18th of this month and pay out all
the money they can. If the county owes
you anything be on hand ready to receive
it.
I Mrs. r. D.'Iarris let last Saturday
for Grccnvllc county to attend the mar.
riagc Of her brother. J. ID. Harris to Miss
!hzzle Willimon, which took place last
Monday.
-lAeut. f. &. Maudln went to New
York this week to stand competitive
military examination He will probably
be here few days. on his return to San
Antonio. Texas.
There was almost a Scr,nns fire Mt
HESlricks e. Edcns gin at Pumpkintown
last Sunday. Fire was discovered in four
bales of cotton Sunday morning in time
to avert serious cont1agration.
DIR. J. r. Riley and family take this
means Of extending thanks to the good
people Of Pickens who remembered them
on Thanksgiving Day last with c0ntribu-
tions much appreciated by them.
Go to Lewis & Sons for your oranges.
candy, raiSinS, cOcOarMts, citrOn, currants
prunes, etc. They are offering special
bargains in every line to save cost of NOV
ing on January 1st Don't fail to give
them n CALL
Santa Clause is getting ready COR his
annual visit to the homes of our readers.
He is just AS rich and jolly as he was last
Christmas, despite the hard times lie
has some Of his choicest gifts advertised in
tD ibo
rush, order early. They will keep
The editor spent dav and night last
week il Spartanhurg county, at the hosni.
table home Of Mr.. and Mr.. p II. vii.
liams Mr.. Williams is Of this coumtv,
Int moved to Spartanhurg ahont two wears
aGr. He is well situated and well pleased
with his new home. He has q church anal
school in two or three hundred yards of
his house and is in three miles Of town.
The following We're elected by the lcr-
islaturc last week as trustees for Clemson
College: j. &. Hardin. II. VI. Staclihonsr,
!. f.. Tiadnll, ID. ~. Rrdfrrn, w. II.
Maultlin and John r. Jcfferirs. ManlGin
and Jcffcrcs are now men. diSplaring
James l.. Orr ard Allen JnhHstonc who
received 0nl V twenty seven votes each, and
were the only two antis OH The board and
the two most active and ctlccMt trustees
Many OF our readers will regret to
read the following. which we clip from the
Grcenv;ic News last Friday: ''Thcrr was
tlrnb nf SORROW in every hcut in Giccn-
vile yesterday morn,Hg when it was known
that Mrs. Mamie Wells. wife Of Capt. G.
G. Wells, WAS dead. Fer five months &l.c
had been sick at times improving q
then rc!anSing, but her patic"cc and cnur-
age were SN s'ro"g that those ne rest her
hardly realized that she was losing ground,
and it was only in tie past two or three
weeks that they were forced to hclic\ q
that noble wife and mother would soon
be at rest from pain and SUFFERING.
The Easlcy corrc spondent of the Green
Vile News, under date Of the 1th inst
says Last night the old gin house Of Co.
lumbus Ellison, living four miles from
Easlcy, was burned with Il lot of peas, cot
ton seed shucks. etc. During The burn
ing, two negroes entered the house of Hugh
Ellison, father of Columbus Ellison, and
with drawn pistol presented at Mrs. Eli
aon, demanded what money they had, ard
the robbers gOl 81. The suspicion is that
lot of money to pay for attract of land, and
fortunately he had just paid out s 500.
The gin house was no doubt set on fire
with Il view of robbing Mr.. Ellison.
Il hc first dlspcnsary case IN this county
was tried before Trial Justice Childrcss mt
Dacusvillc last Wednesday, the parties in
dictcd being capt. Elias Day, Elias Ellison
and West Bowen, coOrcd. They were
charged with selling liquor without the
dlspensary stamp on it and without the au.
thurity of the Governor. One Of the Gov
crnOrs constablcs has been around Easlcv
for some time and with the aid of some To-
cal constable worked up what they thought
to be prima facic cases, but on the tlInl
there was not spark of proof against Mr..
""l We might say,
B,wcn. 1t is said
the State would
States Attorney
lc would ask them
hat his cXamiIa
60. dants clear 1t is
ivp"i.,. 80. '' bic who worked up
the case, Tribblc, and who attended the
trial. became apprchcnsivc Of violence and
retuwcd to Easlcy. No threats nor dem
onstrations were made by any one to lead
q reasonable man to such q conclusion and
it is thought that priCkCd conscience was
the cause. 1t waS1 clear case Of the wick-
ed fleeing where no one pursued for it is
said every few yards hc would look back
and tell the driver to drive up. At Easlcy
he took the tram to Grccnvillc, where per
haps lie received coincidence, if not sym
pathy. The negro was bound over to court
on the testimony of one witness, who
sworc that he gave Bowen G5 cents 10 get
him quart Of liquorand that Bowen went
off and got it for him--which is very
n;p,ov I - (t,rnv al thp 1p.