The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1894-05-17


brash last week, but he was soon out
again.
The post Office has temporary shell
ter on the first floor of the masonic
temple. a.. .e
Rev. J. J. Beck, of Bowman, Ga,
will preach in the Baptist Church
Thursday night.
Mrs. Mary Ann Gaston, of Dun
cans, Spartanburg county, is visiting
relatives at Liberty. She is one
ohoerful and happy woman whom
everybody is delighted to see.
COL. C. Il. Hollingsworth is in the
stock business to stay. Diversified
lands call for diversified crops, and
stock raising, we'll managed, will make
broom sage and Tom Bell pay divi-
dends.
Frank and his little brother, SONS
of john T. Boggs, cast their net on
the other side of the Davis Branch,
this side of Liberty, one day last
week, and captured prodigious eel,
measuring more thaa thirty inches.
There is a woman in Sitka known
as Princess Tom, who is very rich.
She at one time had three husbands,
but has become Christianized and has
discharged two. She is an extensive
trader, is known all over Alaska and
wears on her arms thirty gold bracelets
made Of $40 gold pieces.
"Old Gilbert" is horse thirty seven
years old, owned by resident of
Owensboro, Ky, which is the posses.
sor of competence which enables
him to live without labor. His late
owner, Mrs. Fannie Sharp, left fund
of $500 and stipulated that the old
horse was to be we'll fed and groomed
for the remainder of his lite.
Senator Irby has been absent from
his post Of duty in Washington for
the last two weeks. Will the Head
light please inform US what the mat.
ter is THE timeH Is he running from
Coxeys army or lodging a vote on
the tariff bill. An admiring constitu-
ency is growing weary with waiting
for him to give them relief. His or
gan should keep us posted.-Cotton
Plant.
Col. A. B. Andrews, General Agent
Of the Receivers of the Richmond
and Danville Railroad Company, came
TO Walhalla in his special car on
Tuesday to pay to A. P. Crisp, Coun
ty Treasurer, the arrears of taxes
due for the past three fiscal years on
this railroad in Oconee county. He
paid $8,339.O7 for State, county and
school purposes. The taxes on the
Blue Ridge Division will be paid in
about two weeks.-Keowee Courier.
Mr.. D. p. Duncan was at the Capt.
tol yesterday, in consultation with
the members of the South Carolina
congressional delegation. Mr.. Dun
can is one of the State railway com
missioners of South Carolina, and re.
sides at Spartanburg. It is under
stood that he will be n candidate for
the seat in the House now held by
Representative Shell, the latter having
announced his determination not to
seek renomination.- Washington
Post, May 10.
On the 10Th inst. B. F. Dacus, near
Williamson, held the fort against
the revenue officials, who undertook
to make him prisoner. Tiers were
three of them and one of him, till he
was reinforced by his son and daugh-
ter. The officers were armed with
guns and pistols; Dacus with agricul-
tural implements He is said to have
mauled them with plow:stocks and
swingletrses, and his daughter dubbed
one. The officials were actually dis.
armed and ingloriously fed; union.
ored, unsung, but terribly shot at
with their own weapons. %.::, :gs-e...
There was light shower last Sab.
bath between l and 8 o'clock on the
south side of Pickens. Ransom Dur
ham tells us that the hardest rain OF
the season fell on his farm where in q
short time the water above his ter.
races was deep enough to swim dog.
His near neighbor, E. j. Prince, says
the heaviest rain of the season fell at
his house. The farm of G.. w. Dorr
and that of many others up Rice's
creek were badly washed, and some
damage was done on the farm of B.
+. Lesley. The rain was very light
about Senator O'Dell's, but from
there to Saluda River, it was a regu.
lar downpour.
The celebrated case of Miss Sadie
NJ. Means is to come up before the
General Assembly of the Presbvteri.
an church which meets at Nashville
next Thursday It will be remem.
bered that the South Carolina Synod
reversed the decision of tho Charles
ton Presbytery aud Sustained Miss
Means. Rev. G.. A. Blackburn and
f. L. Leeper on the part of the Pres
bytery will make the appeal, holding
that the Synod's action was unconsti
tutional and contrary to the evidence
that new evidence was allowed to be
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