The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1894-03-22
PICKENS SENTINEL.
LOCAL NEWS
Next Sunday is Easter.

Next Sunday is Easter.
Miss 9orrie Bruce, of this place il
visiting relatives and friends in An
derson, s. @.
The students OF Clemson College
have organized a brass band, number
ing fifteen pieces.
Don't fail to remember that we
have the best equipped job office in
this part of the State.
Mrs. J. Il. Thornley,, Of Pickens, is
visiting her daughter, Mrs. W. W.
White, in Anderson this week.
Mr.. Julius E Boggs, of The Sen
T1NEL, accompanied by his son, Leroi'
has gone to Charleston Oh business.
The store of Judge J. B. Nowberry,
on Maine street has been greatly i'm.
proved by a new covering of fine
heart shingles.
NJ. +. Hester sold at auction last
Monday morning fine three-year old
horse. It was purchased by II. O..
Bowen. Price paid, $4,000.
The Rev. II. w. Seymour preached
two eloquent and interesting sermons
on hypocracy at the Baptist church
last Sabbath morning and evening.
Gen. Rudolph Seigling, the largest
stockholder of the News and Courier,
of Charleston, died suddenly in that
city, OH thh 14th inst, of paralysis.
Mrs. J. M. D. Bruce and Son, Ha.
good, loft Pickens last Thursday, for
CEEoAleston, where they will visit AIRS.
Bruce's father, Col. j. L. Hagood.
Throe literary societies have been
organized at Clemson. One is called
Calhoun, another Palmetto, but the
third has not yet been given a name.
@The Pickens Parlor Minstrels gave
a performance in tho Academy Hall
at Easley. lust Friday night, to
rather small, but appreciative
audience.
If the County Commissioners do
not soon give their attention to the
road between Pickens aud Easley. it
will become utterly impassable in
some places.
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Miss Lidie Hagood and Master
Bruce Hagood, after several weeks Of
pleasant soiourn with relatives and
friends in the city by the sea; re
turned to their home in Easley, S. G.
last Saturday.
Tom Cannon, the old colored man
who has supplied shuck collars for
P!ckens county for over thirty years,
died last Wednesday morning at the
advanced age of 81 years. He was
buried Thursday at Bethlehem.
Chief constable Fant of Anderson
says there will be no more dispensary
cases tried in that city, except those
Of the Mayors court; that i'll future
lie expects to take all his cases before
trial Justices in the country.
Postal notes are now thing of the
past. Money orders have been sub
stituted. For orders not exceeding
$3.50 the charge is three cents, and
Increases until it is fifty cents, for
sums over $500 and under $4,000.
This system will take effect July 1st
Judge Simonton has decided in the
railroad cases, that the assessments
are.not excessive, and that the rail.
roads must pay their taxes. This
will benefit the State Treasury by
many thousands of dollars, and make
Tillman feel that his reign has not
been in vain.
Some of our subscribers of the
Town Creek section are complaining
because all the farm news in Tul
SENTINEL last week, related to farms
OIL the Wolf Creek side. We wish to
state that we will send our farming
editor out again ae soon as possible.
On Monday night March 10Th the
stables of Mr. j. s. Fowler in Ander.
son, which are managed by MIR. j. G.
Hamlin, were broken open and two
mules were stolen. The mules were
recovered the next day near Augusta,
Ga. No trace of the of the man who
did the stealing could be found.
Mr.. James X. and DR.. r. Kirksev.
accompanied by Surveyor w. N.
Hunt, went to Table Rock and BALD
Knob last Thursday to establish the
lines of their mountain lands. The
valuable hard woods on those lands
cause the logging men to be Il
little indifferent as to boundaries
sometimes.
Here is the brief history of a deco
which shows how tedious sumetime,
il the approach to perfection. It wa
executed the Eth day of Nov, 1863
by H. e. Blaasengame. Dover wa
renounced thereon before Hon, e. H
Bates, the 9th of October, 1880.