The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, February 15, 1877, Image 1
DVOTED TO0 POLITIC6, VRAUITY, VDUCATION AND fO THEGNRLITRSlFTI ONR
BYtD. F. BRADLE & Co
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JUJP-Y PIKENS,RSD,
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The Bengal Disaster.
The Gazette of India contains th
fol!owing minute of the Lioutenan
Governor of Bengal, Sir Richard Tom
pie, on the cyclone and storm way
in the districti of Backergunge an
Noacolly.
In an area of some 3,000 squar
miles out of 1,062,000 persons sud.
denly throw into more or loss o
danger, 215,000 must have porishod
This, of course, is only an cstitpatc
the exacet number cannot bo knowi
yet awhile, perhaps never will b,
known. We found in some village
thirty percent. of the inhabitants lost
in others fifty por cent., in somi
even seventy per cent. There wa
a severe cyclone in the bay of Bon
gal on the night of the 31st October
But it was not the wind which prove<
so destructive, though that was bat
enough; it was the storm wave, swool
Ing along to a height of from ten fee
to twenty foot, according to differon
localities; in some places, whero it me
with any rorstance, it mounted ovet
highor than that. In the evening th<
weather was a little windy and hazy
and had boon somewhat hot; but th<
people, a million or thoreabouts o
souls, retired to rest approhondinj
nothing. But before eleven o'clocl
the wind' suddenly freshened, an<
about midnight there arose a cry o
"The water is on us," and a grca
wave burst over the country severa
foot high; it was followed by anothe
wave, and again by a third, all thre,
rushing rapidly south ward, the air am
wind being chilly cold. The peopl,
were thue caught up before they ha4
time to climb on their roofs, and weri
lifted to the surface of the water, to
gether with the beams and thatche
of their cottagos. W hen tho storn
burst there was an abundant rice crol
ripening for the larvest-tho vel
known deltaic rice crop whih is muel
beyond the noods of local consunip
tion, an quantities (measured bi
thousan dOf tons annually) for ox
portation to distant districts. A par
+ is lust, that in which the plant ha<
not advanced beyond the stage 0
flowering, and a part is still safe, tha
in which the grain had formed o
begun to form, If oven one thirdi
saved that would suffice for the popu
listioni now on the land. The wealti
lost almost entirely agricultural
* crops or cattle. To this, howevoi
there is one noticeable exception
namely, Dowlutkhan, a rich tradin
town, clean destroyed and valu abi
records, 1t had eight thousand in
habitants, one fourth of whomi per
jshed, perhaps more. It may b
asked, in conclusion, wvhother an~
protective means against such calam
ities in future can be devised-an,
embankments or the like? This quos
tion will be duly considered; but a
present I know not how to devis
such safeguard, nor have I seen an
one who can suggest anything. Th
* area to be protected would be to
great to be encompassed with pro
tective works. If cmbankmonts bc
came breached in such a storm, the
would afterward do more harm tha
good, for they would prevent or rotar
tihe running off and the subsidence <
the waters. Perhaps the people migh
build perches for themselves on plat
forms, on stilts, and the like; but th
trees which invariably surround th
homesteads serve this purpose admi
rably, and it is to them that the s'ur
Vivors mainly owe their escape.
Keep your own counsoel. Nothin
can be more injurious to your ow
piece of mind than to have too man
confidante. Yon- live in abject slav
ery every dlay, as you are constanti
fearing some of your numerous co~
fidanja will reveal a8ecret you woul
not have anybody to know for tb
world.
.Judge HIoar onco said of a lawycr
'He has reached t6e superlative 0
lite; at first be sought to get on, an<1
then he sought to get honor, and nos
lie is trying to got bonest.'
And now the community had bet
ter look out, or they will be lhor
swaggled.
The Story of a Child.
New Year's night an infant chil
t was found in a basket at the Centre
ville depot, on the New Jersey Cen
1 tral Railroad, by Edward Marshal
a traek walker, and by bimi, ike
home. A eard inscribed "Marti
Jenkens" fastened to the child
f clothing led the old folks to believ
that it might be their daughter
child, she having eloped from thel
home in Liverpool ; Englan<
3 with a itian named Jenkins. The
were so strongly impressed witf th
idea that they requested the repori
3 ers who called in search of the fac
3 to mention it in their story, and t
- say that their daughter would receiv
a welcome home if she would retur
to them), she being their only chi
Chief WIhitney, of the Bayonne pc
lice, learned of a probab-le case of ii
fanticide, and in working it up leart
ed that a poor, miserable womat
living in a tenement house on Av
enne D, Bayonne, had had an infat
cliild until %-few days ago, but rc
cently it had not been heard or seew
f lie learned that the woman was
M'rs. Jenkii,s, and on questionin
ber about the fate of her child learne
I furtlier that she had put it out in th
f sniw in a basket on New Year'
night. She told him hier story, hoi
ishe had el )1pd from Liverpool, an
-lived in New York with her hu
band nitil about a year ago, who
he took to drink because he coul
not o) ain work, and then dOeerte,
hier. She had four children, bi
three had died, and the last ome wi
born attor her husband's flight. Sh
nearly starved after the birth of' l
child, and was kept alive only 1)
I tle clarily of her neigbora, as p
almost as herself. Wheii she coul
go out she could not find employ
mneint, and by reason of ill health an
scant food she could not nourish i
cli l She knew from a lotter sh
received from friends in Englan
wherifbhr father was employed, an
knouing his fondness fo' ch ildr'e
-deterined to put lier' child in bi
way. She watched him, anud know
Sing when he would pass the depot a
-Centreville she left the child joi
where he would see it. She hid t
see what became of it, and when L
Spicked it up she ran away. She in
o tended to commit suicide the follow
- mug (lay, but her courage failed h(
-on seeing the ice on the river, an
0 she wvent back to the tenement hous,
She would scarcely believe the cli
when lhe tild her that her fath<
wanted her to come home again, bi
cause lhe had been so much inconse
at her' elopement. Finally shte con
sented to go to her' father and re
tuned hocme.
W XONDERF'UL, IF TRLUE.-ThO Savar
nah News tells the following Ceniter
nial incident:
A few days sinoo whilst somio cli
d dron moere playing in tho old corm
Stery, on South Broad street, ono
thiem, in knocking around the gr'oun
with his stick, suddenly caught sigh
e of a bright, shiny object. On a]
o proaching to pick it up, lio saw it wi
a handsome gold ring, Hoe carried
home to his mother', who, on inquil
ing whero ho found it learnediC( thi
it was near the sp)ot wher'e the r<
mains of her anoostor's had repose:
and that the oldost surviving womb<
of the family was Colonel E. C. At
derson, to whom tho r'ing was accord'
ingly sent. On the insido of tho rin,
in legible English text, was the il
scription II, W. to E. C., 17G9-or
hundred and eight years ago-Honr
W ayne to Elizabeth Clifford, the rn
being none other than the weddin
: ring of' the grandmother of Colon.
f Anderson. Th le remains wore rcmos
] ed1 from the old cemetery somoe tin
, ago, and the ring was brought to th
surface at tho disinterment unpoi
. civd It is singular that the arin
Sjshould have been found by one of th'
child ren, the dendannne ofr fa mir.
The Populatiou of the Globe.
d The most trustworthy estimet
- the number of people on the earth
- for the year 1876, as- ftirnished - Uy:
, Germtn etitisticians, is 1,423;91T,QOQ
n This ipain ,increase of over twenty
a seven millions of the . estimate -.of
' 1875, but the angmentation is not
' due entirely to the excess of 'birtls
1 over deaths, but largely to the ob
r taining of tnore accurate infornation
, regarding the popul&tian of rygi6s
5 hitherto little known, and.'.to more
e perfect retiurns from other contries.
Asia is still the home of the iha.
e jority of te human race, after haviig
o supplied offihoots from which have
0 sprung great Western peoples. A
n bout: four'beventhe of the earth's
I- population is Asiatic,, or 825,658,590;
Europe comes next with over a fifth,
or 309,178,300; Africa with abont a
seventh, 1or 199,921,CO; Atnerica
with less tian a sixteenth, or 85,
- 519,800;- and finally Australia and
I Polynasia with the very small frac
tion of 4,748,600 people. Europe is
'- the nost densoly popuflnted, having
a 82 persons to the squre mile; Asia
g comes next with 48 to the square
d mile; Africa next with 17J and
0 America and Australia bring up the
' rear with 5j and 1j respectively.
V There are 215 cities on the earth
d with a population of over 100,000;
29 of balf, a million or more, and nine
n cities containing a million or more
d inhabitants. Of these last four are
d in China. Including Brooklyn with
t New York, as we may rightfully do
5 for the purpose ot comparison, and
u the greatest cities of the wuibl stand
r in this order; London, 3,489,42S;
y Paris, 1.851 792; New York, 1,535,
r 722; Vienna, 1,091,999; Berlin, 1,
d 044,000; Canton and three other
Chinese cities, oie million each. New
d York therefore takes its plaeo third
r in the liet of the great citiesr without
e counting our new Jersey overflow.
d Though t.here are not at hand,sta
-A
d tisticsp~pon wbieb to base an accIraute
n statement of the fact, yet it io the
*s opinion of all observers of the condis
- tion of civilized people that the aver
Lt age longevity of the human race 'has
tE increased within a hundred years.
o such reports of the death rate as we
e have got, to support that conclusiorn1
- and it is thoroughly proved that the
- devastations of epidemic diseases are
~r not so great now as formely; while
d the medical art steadily advances in
3. its mastery of the disorders of the.
if humaivaystem and in its ability tc
:r ward off' and check mal'idies which
3 threaten' human life. In England,
d for instance, the death rate has de,
-dcined.considerably during a quamnter
of a century. There and elsewhere~
in Eurppe, as also in this country, the
subject of public hygiene has r'eceiv
~ed great attention ot recent years
Sand its-difiedities are being steadily
overcamne. The~ probability is' Wai
men now on thle average live longer
than tlieir ancestors and in bet ter
d average health, and that our decenm
tdents will gain on us in those re
~. spects.
18 As to great citie, Newv York is
it easily third. If it took in all its
-children, it would press hard on Parie
LL for thtesecond place, and beforo thc
Snext century is reached, or belore it
Ihas advanced far, will probably know
r n superior except mnarvolous Lon.
'don.
'It is' worth nothing as an indicn
tion of' the times that many of the
leading savings banks in the West
ern cities begin thme new year' with,
an annountcemelnt of red(uc'd rates of
~interest. In Chicago, for instance,
three of thme strongest -institutions~
Stherec have led the way, and the signs~
e there are that others will soon fol
s.low. These banks her'etofore have
g been paying depositors 6 per' cent.
oe for their money. In thme future it
yv will be 5.
History Repeats Itself.
Theb' foll6wing is 'from Wheeler's
oistory of North. Carolina, volume
1, page 35:
"Th,omaa Cary. was appoitited Do
iputy Governo by Sir Nathaniel
Johnston (1705). The Lords Pro
prietors disapproved ef the choice,
and directed their deputies to select
one of their own number as Governor
61 North -Carolina. ' The deputies
eWlected:G6vO. Cary, who was'0se
lected q8 Dephty Gorernor, had been
collector of the rents of tke Lords
J'eoprietors, and had neglected to
settle bis, ccounlts.. For a while he
segmed to yield to the away of Glov4
er; but aided by his friends," (Grant
and Chandler,) 'he seized the records
of the province, and proclaimed
himself Governor. The colony nw
was a scene of arLarchy; the laws
were suspended, and justice fled.
The respectable portion of the colony
adhered to Glover, while Cary poo8
essod the force,' (in command of
General R.) 'A General Assembly
vas called, which met at Captain
11Beckelfield's, on L'ttlo River, to de,
cide this vexed question. Membeis
appeared under writs of election
issued by President Glover, while
another set appeared under writs of
election issued by President Cary.
Glover and. Cary sat iu separate
rooms with their respective councils.
Great coufusion prevailed, and the
partisans of Glover, irritated by the
prosecutions from Cary and his ad
herent1, songht refuge In Virginia.
* * At thia period, Edward Ilyde
arrived with the commission ot Lieu.
tenant Govern.-, but Cary refused
to yield. * * Ed ward Hyde, who
was appointed Governor the next
year, issued his proclamation, Jan
uary, 1712, granting pardon to all
the late insurgents, except Thomas
Cary, John torter and three others.'
Aid so Chamberlain was sent to
Maine.
*unr PIG FoR TnE~ SoUTH.-Black or
slate colored pigs are frceest from skin
diseases in hot climates. The choice
is practically betweesi the Essex and
Berkshires for males with which
to improve thie native stock of hardy
gr'ubbers of the root-or-die variety.
Those who bave tried the former
have been delighted at first, but afC
ter afew years begin to recall with
longiug lean hamrs and thin but solid
and flavorous bac6n of the old race,
hibrseo breed... The trouble with the
Essex pigsju~ the South is that they
are not active enoughm. They are not
the eat-and-sleep, and wake-to-eat
kind, and their grades are of course
like .them. The side fa~t is snrperb,
and so is the leaf lard, and so far
the breed is all that could be desired;
but'the hams and abionjders are too
fak-ifo*: profit, anid ghs~ ham is not
mar'bled with fatL like the Berkshires.
Tlhe (the B3erks) are much more en
terprising, mnore wide awaike, less
easily controlled, but good $oragers.
T2he gr'des are a wonderful improve
meint upon~ the original stock, may
be mnad very fat, and yet the pro
portion between, fat and 'lean in the
hamrs, shoulders and side pork or
,bP&on'is Buch as to develop and pre..
servo thme excellencies of t,he meat.
The hams are large and rich, and
jdg ith diffused fat. Becrkshmires
are not quite so easily faittenmed whmein
peuned. and systematically fe.d as
theEssex grades, but they' will take
znnuch better care of lhemselves in
thme woods, and when penned for
fattening may be finished off with
half thme feed thme original "land
liikes" would require.-American
Agriculturist.
L6Ap,year is past, anid a young
follow. duen't feel so miany cold chills
running up his spine, it lie hanppe:ns
to he-left alone with an academy girl
for a few t,tman;
Alive in an Air Tight CoMa,
The body of a man wilo went to
California to ragain hi health, was
recently shipped'hi a metalie coffin
for his tbrmer home in the East.-.
When the Central pacific train an
rived at Ogden Junction the corpse
was consigned to the Union Pacifi
Express Company and placed under
charge of express messenger Frank
Burgess. While the t'rain was fi the
western part of Nebraska, Mr, Hur-e
gess heard sounds troin the coffin
that led him to believe tiat the dead
man had come to life. It was in the
night, and he heard the sounds as he
lay dozing and half asleep. Again
the noise was hoard, and the attention
of the messenger was Pivited to- the
coffin, and the horrible possibility
that the dead might be alive thrust
itself upon the messenger so forcibly
that lie called the attention of other
emp>)yees to it, but after listening a
moment, they merety l'aughed at him.
The convietions oft the express mese
aenger, however, were so strong that
lie had heard moans from the oofflin,
that lie had the case opened when
the train made its next bait. The
weather was very col'd and upon the
inside of the glass plate of the coffin
there had accumulated a thin film of
frost, such as might have been dvepot.
ited by the breath of a person con
fined in such narrow quarters. The
face was also drawn up against the
glass plate, and other disturbances
indicated life. While Burgess had
no doubt that the man, though dead
then, had been alive in. the outfin, the
other employees explained the aecu
mulation of frost on the glass at the
natural exhalations of the dead body
and the disturbances of t% corpso as
due to the movements in the shipping.
A private dispatch received from
Chicago says that when the coffin ar.
rived at its destination and was open
ed, unmietakable proofs of' the teri
ble truth were discovered. Th
hands wore clinched, the lip bitten4
and the mouth filed with bloody
froth. The man had been alive, and
it was his moaning that had been
heard but not recognized.-Omahma
ileral d,
Slander
Never use a lady's n#ame in an fm
proper place, at an Improper times
or in mixed companry. Xever maBkQ
nessertions abOnt her that you think
untrue, or allusions that she herself
would blush to hear. When you
meet wit hi men who do not scruple to
use a woman 's name in .a reckies,
maniner, shun them; they are the
very worst members of the commu
nity; men lost to every sense of honor
every feling of humanity. Many a
good arid worthy woman's character
has been forever ruined and her
heart broken by a lie, manufactured
by some villian and repeated where it
should not have been, and In prcs~~
enco of those whose little jndgment
could not deter them from circulatinmg
the foul and bragging report. A
slander is soon propagated, and tbo
smallest thing derogatory to a wo
man's character will fly on the wings
of the wind and magnify as it eirou.
lates, until its monstrous weight
crushes the poor unconscious victim.
Respect thme name of woman. Your
mother and sisters are women, and
as you would have their Lair name
untarnished, and their lives unembit..
tered by t he slanderer's bitter tongue,
heed t he ill your words may bring
upon the mother, the sister or the
wife of some fellow creature.
A darky who was stopping to
wash his hands in a creek, didn't nos
tice the Peculiar action of a goat jnst
behind him, so when he scrambled
out of the water and was askeod bow
it hamppenaed, he answered: 'I dunino
'zackly; bu 'p)eared as of de0 shoro
kinder h'isted and frowed ume.'
National Capitol.
The corn or stone of the capitol was
laid by Washington, on the 18th day
of Semptember, 1793. The building
was opened for the meeting of Con
gress November 17th, 1800. En
largement and new dome completed
in 1867. The edifice fronts the cast,
is 751 foot long, 348 Feet wide, and
covers 31 acres; c<urt-yards, 31 acres;
in all, 7 acres. The predoiminant
material of the exterior is white mar
ble. The dome is of cast iron, 135J
feet in largest diaieter, and 287J
foot high, surmounted by a statue of
Liberty 194 feet high. The interior
of the dome forms a remarkable cir
cular chamber or rotunda, 96 feet in
diametor, 180 feet high. One thou
Band gas jets, flashed by electricity,
illuminate the interior by nigl)t. The
walls of the rotunda are adorned
with historical paintings by eminent
artists. The Senate Chamber, House
of Representatives, Supremo Court
rooms, and other apartments, are
3pl cndidly decorated. The halls are
lined with )(lished marbles from
every State in the Union. Frescoes,
paint inga and Bculptures abound.
The front porticoes are supported by
one hundred Corinthian columns of
white marble. T'he cost of the build
ing was $13,000,000.
TiE S(UTHERN DRY GOODs TRADE.
-We had occasion in a communi
cation at the opening of tho fall sea
son to refer to the brightened proa..
pects for a healthy trade for the bu
siness season now closing. We re
gret that. the "election muddle" has
had the effect to seriously interfere
with the fulfillment of these hop)es.
More especially has this been the
case in the trado with the South; all
branches of manufactures have na
turally looked to this quarter as a
large market for their products, and
unquestionably the demand from it
has grown with the development of
their home intorests since the close
of the war. But the disturbcd condi
tioni of Sonuthern finances has led our
merchants to pursuo a most conser
vat ivo' policy in extending their lines
of Southe~i rncdits, and now the
uncertainty of their political future
has for present almost completely
paralyzed the trade. This is seen in
the p)reparation - being made for a
late spring business. Lines of goods
strictly adapted for the Southern
markets are in light supply, and
staples for which the first demandl
comes from the South are, much short
of their usual showings, manufac
turers preferring to awauit the West
ern and home demand beforo putting
on their full force.
ish paor publish8 the fullowing ex
tract of a letter writ ten to a friend
by Mr. Carlyle: "A good sort of a
man is Darwin, and wvell moaning,
but with very li4tle intellect. A h1, it's
a sad, a terrible thing to see nigh a
wholo generation of mon and women,
p)rofesing to be cultivated, looking
around ini a puIrb)ined fashion and
finding no god in this universe. I
suppose it is a react ion from the
reign of cant and hollow pretence,
p)rofessing to belicve what in fact thbey
do not believe. And this is wvhat we
have got to. All things from frog
Sp)awn; the gospel oft dirt the ordjer
of the daiy. Th'le older I grow-and
Inow stand upon the brink of eter
nity-the more cornes back to mec
the sentence ini the cateclisi~m, whmich
learned when a chil, and the fuller
and( deeper its mean inmg hecomies,
"W hat is t he chief end of mani? To
glor ity God and en jo y himi foreover.''
No Lsospel of dirt, teaching that men01
have descendled from frogs throngh
mvonkoys., canI ever' se that aside."
'Bright * of my xis10ce! give mne
ai: Mal said a printer to 2 his sweet
heart. She made a at hi,m
antd plaunted heri R7j" be'tween his 2
aOt whieb nli$n (3 x xx