The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1894-08-02

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l.. THORNLEY,.
Mrs Warren Boyd has been quite
sick. but was thought to be improving
last Saturday.
DIR. Lawrence G.. Clayton. of Cen.
tral, who has been quite sick is up
and out again.
Matthew Gillespie and wife, of
Praters, are visiting relatives and
friends in Brevard.
All tho democratic cl1bs in the
county are called to meet next Satur-
day, the 4th at 4 p. m.
John II. Stall died on the 24th ult.,
OF his LONE in Greenville. He was
consistent and faithful member OF: the
Presbyterian church, and his death is
q great loss to that church and COM
munity.
Rev. E. p. Hutson, of Easley, dur
ing the past week did some faithful
and earnest preaching at Zion. There
were several accessions to the church.
The song feature of the service was
also greatly enjoyed. '...
On the 25th nit. Joseph Ellington
died suddenly of heart disease in
the drug store of Carpenter Bros, at
Greenville. He was an htnored citi-
zen Of West End and had been in
bad health for some time.
The attention of the merchants and
the court house ring is called to the
fact there has been complaint about
the chairs furnished to loafers being
too low. If they were about six inches
higher, it would be so much easier to
rise.
John Lanco was last Sabbath COM
mitted to Jail on q charge of appro-
priating live stock belonging to Mr..
Gillespie. He was committed by
Trial Justice Lewis, of Eastatoe town
ship, for the preliminary to be had
this week.
The Post says: Women charged
with misdemeanors never try to es-
cape. Men do. Yet we have seen
women carefully guarded until they
gave bond, and have known mon to
have bonds sent to them with request
to sign and return.
Although it is an old folk singing
at Bethlehem next Sabbath, it is not
Il "fa-sol-la-mc," but q "do-ra-me ia
sol-la,c ,ce" singing. It is not quite MS
ancient as some of us supposed. It
is the round notes md round dancing
that seem to run an even race.
Cards are out announcing the mar
riagc Of Miss Lizzie Dargan to T. EG-
ward Rodman, on the 9th inst, at the
Citadel square Baptist church, Charles
ton. The many friends of the bride,
in Picllens, send congratulations.
Two negroes became involved in a
difficulty, near Cross Plains, last Satur-
day, and the one named Evans made
n bad crack in the head of the other
with a hoe. The one hurt is Dan
Anderson. DR.. j. J. Morgan thinks
the wound rather q dangerous one.
Josiah Chapman, who escaped from
Jail about q month ago, last Monday
wrote the sheriff to send him his coat
and some other things he forgot in
his haste on leaving to take with him.
He further stated that it was too "big
word" for him to use to say he
would come back.
Russell Duke died at his home in
Pickcns, near Tabor, last Sabbath,
aged about so years. He had the
confidence and respect of all who
knew him, as a man who attended
carefully to his own business. He
will be greatly missed by his neigh
bors. Hc was never married.
The protracted meeting ut Mountain
Grove, conducted by Rev. J. E. Foster,
closed last Sabbath night. There
were six accessions to the church, who
will be baptized on the 4th Sabbath
in August. The interest Was kept up
throughout the meeting and much
enjoyed by all who attended.
r. r.. Branaham, who was shot by
Joyner at the Eastover county cam
paign meeting for Richland county,
died On the 25th ult. There were
some ugly rumors about lynching,
and the governor had Joyner trans
forred to the penitentiary. The coro-
ner's jury charged him with murder.
Mrs. Evans Brown, Of Major, re-
turned last Wednesday from six
months visit to Texas. She brought
good tidings from many ex-Carolin-
ians in tho Lone Star state, and espe-
cially from those in Grayson county.
She saw Henry Bowon and his sister
Miss Lidie, both Of whom exposed
themselves rs being well pleased with
their now home.
These are some Of the excursionists
to Asheville last Tuesday: Mrs. r. A.
Lancaster, Misses Hortenso Mauldin,
Angie Clayton, Elizabeth Mcmillan,
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