The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1894-03-01

an April. convention.
J. II. johnson, of Laurens, vii
run for congress again this year.
Mr.. f.. T.. Mauldin defied the snow
slush and mud and came to towr
Monday.
Rev. w. G. Seaborn was in town
last Monday to attend to important
business
The rabbit fraternity has been
considerably thinned out during the
recent snow.
Rev. J. MsgBoyd, presiding elder of
the Spartanbnrg district, died sud
denly Oh the 25th ult.
Wilton, a son of NJ. r. Hester, has
been quite sick with fever for three
weeks, but at this writing he is con-
valescent.
Jury and witness tickets will be
received at par for subscription to
The SENTINEL, as also any audited
county claim.
Court convenes next Monday, his
honor, Judge I. D. Witherspoon pre-
siding. he witnesses for the State
should be on time.
Conductor j. H. Raburn, of tho
Greenville and Columbia. was acci-.
dentally killed at Greenwood on the
morning of the 25th ult.
A Presbyterian elder trudged
through snow last Sabbath to school
and said he found it three feet deep
in some places the snow, not the
school.
A substantial, new bridge has been
placed across Rocky Branch, near
Wolf Greek. Thus the drains be-
tween Easley and PiclSens have been
recovered. :
Quite an exciting auction sale took
place last Tuesday morning on the
front of the old court house, in which
e. f. Looper Figured prominently as
anctioneer.
Look at the figures of our dispen
sary on the first page. We have
nearly a hundred Thousand dollars in
profits, which we will now proceed to
offer for sale at regular prices.
Cholera is getting into herds of
swine i'll Orangeburg county. One
farmer, among many other remedies,
tried concentrated lye. He says it is
a sure cure; it does its work after the
hog is dead.
VIM. Wright, colored, has filed q
suit against the Pickens Telephone
Co., for $500 damages. He had the
misfortune to break his leg while
stretching the wire between Easlev
and Greenville.
On Friday, the 23d. there was but
one passenger in the frst-class chr
from Greenville to Easley, and he had
pass. Conductor Rosenberg said
It WAS the first time in his recoilec-
ton that such had been the case.
In the case of the State Va. Symmes
for killing William Gary, the supreme
court has filed its decision confirming
the finding of the circuit court. The
prisoner was sentenced to three years
in the penitentiary without labor.
As our new postmaster, r. A. Bow
en-, is determined to be as popular
with his patrons as is compatible with
fidelity to his trust, hs is now selling
thirteen two-cent. stamps for ont,
cent aud a quarter. We guarantee
none Of the anti crowd reports him.
10 ,eph Talbert, late postmaster of
Ninety. Six, was convicted last Satur-
day of the illegal aale of stamps, and
fined $50-paid. There were several
other counts in the bill, but he was
convicted only on one. He was de-
f"nded by Cothran, Wells, Ansel &
CJChran.
There are singing schools, grammar
schools and writing schools, bu,
Grecnville came to the front last
Monday with stove school. Mi 3
Clarke Is the teacher, and the sessions
will be held in Covers hall. Tire
pupils will be allowed to play doll at
the recess.
Miss Lidie Folger, WHO has been
visiting relatives and friends in Pick.
ems for the past three weeks, returned
to her home in Easlev last THURSDAY.
You needn't feel too bad about it,
Easley is only. eight miles away, and
has perfect telephone connections
with this place.
Tom Gaines, who isscharged with
Killing Henry Fisher and W. H. Paris,
near Campobello, last November, Wa.
captured near Mineola, Texas, anu
is now in Spa"tanburg jail Ho was
in Jail in Texas, charged with theft,
under The name of Johnston, but he
preferred to come back here and be
tried for murder, SO he informed on
J himself.
The following citizens of Pickens
county have been drawn to serve on
the grand jury for the August term
of the u. S. court at Grecnvillc: S.
H, Brown. II. A Richev John y