The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1894-01-25

Saturday at 2. p. m.
| Mr.. Roberts, of Paris, Tenn, &C
companied by his amiable and charm
ing wife, are in Pickens, the guests
of the Hotel de Thornley,.
Henry Jones had his right hand
badly cut by the circular saw al
Vaughn's mill last Thursday. He
was promptly attended by DIR. Earle.
and is getting on oil right.
Major f. B. Murray, Of Anderson,
was in Pickens last Tuesday on pro-
fessional business. We notice from
a card in another column that he and
Lawyer Boggs have formed part
nership for the practice of law.
Rev. j. E. Fogartie is again a
member of South Carolina Presbytery,
! and is to be installed pastor of the
Greenwood church on the first Sab
bath in February. There is certain
ly warm welcome in the Presbytery
for this earnest and eloquent divine.
The following promising young
men OF the county appeared and
stood the competitive examination for
admission to Clemson College last
Thursday: Messrs. II. r. Hallums,
Henry Hunter, Langdon Clyde, Os,
car Boggs. No doubt all four will
be admitted.
Henry w. Farr is selling tho most
readable book yet. 1t is entitled
-Four Centuries Of Progress, and is
a master piece of workmanship, both
as to composition and binding. The
Binle excepted, it will pay the best
dividend for the price Of any other
book you can buy.
James Bratcher, n youth of seven
teen, was before the Judge of Pro
bate on the 18th inst. on a charge of
lunacy. He was adjudged a proper
subject for treatment in the asylum,
and the unfortunate young man was
carried down last Tuesday by H. A.
Richey and w. A. Palmer.
Only about $60O.oO worth of III
creditors of w. E. Griffin, complied
with the terms of the deed of assign
ment, that is, accept the same and
execute releases of their claims, with
In sixty days from the date of the
deed. Thus, those who have accepted
and released, will get just about 10,
cents on the dollar on their claims.
On the 10th inst. Mrs. Naomi
Mauldin, relict of Benjamin Mauldin,
died at the home of her son, Allen
Mauldin, near Pumpkintown, at the
age of seventy-six years. Her re.
mains were buried at Tabor, the cere.
monies being conducted by Rev. G.
II. Shaffer. She was n good woman
and member of the Methodist
church. Her husband died in 1887.
Beauregard Kelly, who lives in this
county, rode into Pickens Friday on
the back of the famous black mare
which South Curolina's S only Redmond
rode in his pnlmy days. 1t seems
that the mare is ":'Gghtly disfigured,
but still in the ring" and it is esti.
mated that she carries about nine
ounces of lead just under the surface
Of the hide.
A stockholder in the Easley Bone
Yard was in to see us last week, and
reluctantly submitted to an interview
in legard to the future Of that enter,
prise, which, in substantial dividends,
seems destined to eclipse anything in
the county. 1t will be chartered by
halter rein and incorporated by a
saddle girth, at both ends of which
buckle and tongue will be required
to meet.
Elizabeth j. Moser, wife of G.. w.
Moser, died at their home, near Old
Pickens, ON Monday nights at 7 o'clock,
from grip, after brief illness. She
was about sixty years of age. For
many years she had been q member
of the Methodist church st Old Pick
ems, at which place she was buried
on Wednesday morning, after funeral
Sci vices conducted by Rev. w. G.
Seaborn, assisted by Rev. j. G.. Spann.
-Keowee Courier.
Mrs. Lisle, who lives with her SON
in law. Mr.. Matt Knight, near Pied
mont, Ala, has recently passed her
one hundred and fourteenth birth
day. She was born in South Caro-
lima, but has lived in Cleburne county,
Ala, for more than half century.
Her senses are, Of course, enfecbled,
but she manages to get about the
house without any trouble and takes
an interest in what is going on aroud
her. Her son In-lnw, Mr.. Knight, is
himself very aged man.
Mrs. Louis II. Redmond lost the
thumb from her left hand last Friday
in most painful manner. She was
trying to unite a rope by which n
strong OK was hitched to q tree The
OK began surging and caught her
thumb between the rope and tree
cutting it off ut the second Joint and