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DEVOTED ITO POLITICS, MORA LITY, EDUCATION AND rO TIIE GENEllAL INTEREST OF TTlE COTNTRY VOL. VII. PICKENS, S. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11, 18TT THE SENTINEL KR PURLISUND ZVERY THURSDAY. BY D. F. BRADLEY & CO. Terms of Stabscriptlon. One Year . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $1 60 8iz Months . . . .. . . . . .. .. 76 Advertisiig Bates. Advertisements inserted at the rate of $1 00 per square, of (9) nine lines, OR L11S, for the firs insertion, and 50 cents for each subso qmiat in'seirtifn. Contracts made for TUn", SIX or TWF.LVX mots, on flvorable terms. Advertisements not having the number of inmertidne marked on them, will be published wu=ri and charged accordingly. etus are so simple any child may understand them. Nine lines is a square one inch, In every instance we charge by thes oaoupted, as eight or ten lines can be made to occupy four or five squares, as the advertiser may wish, and is charged by the Advertisers wil. please state the num Us t squares they wish their advertisements WBusiness men who advertise to be beneitted, will bear in mind that the SNTINEL has a large and increasing cir omtion, and is taken by the very class of persons whose trade they desire. Is it Anybody's Business I PIs it anybody's business, If a gentleman should choose To wait upon a lndy, If the lady don't refuse! Or, to speak a little plainer, That the meaning all may know, l It anybody's bujiness If a lady has a beau? oes It anybody's business When that gentleman doth call, Or when he leaves the lady, Or if he leaves at all? Or is It necessary That the curtain should be drawn, To save from further trouble The outsido lookors.on? "Is It anybody's business But the lady's. if her beau Riidoth out with other ladieS, And doFen't let her know? Is it anybody's husine.in. But the gentleman's, if she Should accept another escort, Where he dosen't chance to be? "If a person's on the side-walk, Whether great, or whether small, to It anybody's business Where that person means to call? Or if you see a person While be's calling any where, Is it any of your business What his business may be there? "The substance of- our query, 8inIply stated, would be this: Is it anybody's bussiness What another's business? Whether 'tis or whether 'tisn't We should really liko to know, For we are certain, if it isn't, There are somec who make It so.'' ,Caught and Condemned. Sloan Leaird, of Long Cane was brought before Trial Justice Calhoun at this place on last Friday, charged with buying seed cotton after night. For a long time farmers in that sec tIon have Buffered very greatly from the operations of the cotton bagger and have determined to break up the gang who have preyed upon them. On Thursday night a special detective force was organized and set to watch the roads leading to Lezird's house-he had boon suspect ed but the evidence necessary to conviction was lacking. Our detec tives discovered a squad of negroes loaded down with cotton on the way to Leard's, saw them sell their 'turns' and captured several of the thieves on their return bomne. Comning to Abbeville they secured the services of Sheriff Jones who arrested Leard on Friday morning before he wvas out of bed and brought him to Abbevillo Judge Calhoun looked into the case and fined the party fifty dollars and costs. Leaird had partly paid for his cotton in poach and p>lum brandy and bis. prosecutors allowed him either to submit to indictment in the United States Court for illicit traffic in whiskey or banishment from the State. The cotton bagger accop)ted the alternative and has left the coun, try for the country's good. This is only thi beginning of the end-the * ~ farmers are thoroughily aroused and are determined that their labors shall not all go to enrich the thievish deal er in seed cotton.-A bbeville Miedium There are some human tonguts which have two sides, that like of certain quadrupeds, one swooth, theo -other very r'cugh. Higgins and the Widow! One day Higgins came into my office and sat down without a word. For some minutes he sat still, watch ing me intently as if he was trying to make out by the sound of my pen what I was writing. "Squire," said be at length, "did I ever tell you about my scrape with the widow Horry, up here on the river?" "Never did," said I, laying down my pen, "let's have it." "They're curious creatures, widows is," paid be in a meditative tone, "and the more you study about 'em the more you don't know about 'em. What was this thing I've read about in Egypt, or some other country, that nobody could unriddle?" "The Sphinx, probably," I replied. "Well,' he continued, 'that was a widow as sure as you ever had a granny. Everything else in the earth has been found out but them, and they're as much a mystery to day as the length of the North Pole You may read the history of the wr-ld from Genesis to Revclations, and you'll find that widows has been at the bottom or top of five quarters of all the devilment dhats been cut up Was you ever in love with onel" "Lots of them," said I. "You're a great gander--that's what you are,'said he. 'A man that loves one and gets over it won't nev or get bit by another, it he's got as much sense as a.ground hog. I dont cinsider I've got any sense at all, bnt I'm a little grain too smart to let another of them got all the trumps on me. The wi(low Iliorry that I was speaking of, is a little the handsom est woman I reckon that ever looked a man into fits, and I ought to be a judge, for I've seen lots of pretty women in my day. She w about,as twenty-five years old when I went tp there to work, just in the bloom of her beauty and as full of deviltry as a three year old mule colt. There was a ball over at Jenkins', and of course I w ent, for I always go where there's any fun going on, and gener' ally act the fool before I get away, of course. The widow was there, dres. sed as fine as Solomon's lilies, and flying around as frisky as a young lamb in a rye patch. I got intro duced to her and asked her to dance with me, and when sho flashed her eyes at me and said "yes," I jumped up like I had set down on a griddle. You may talk about sensation, but when she took hold of miy hand and I sorter squeezed it, I felt a sensation as big as a load of wood, and it kept ru-'ning up and down my back like a squirrel with a hawk after him. 1 am very fond of dancing; but I'll be hanged if I know whether I enjoyed it that night or not, for every time she took hold of my hand I'd come', mence feeling curious behind my ears and up and down my back again, and then I wouldn't know whether I was on earth or in a balloon, or on a com at, or anything about it. It was uin doubtedly a case of love at first sight and a powerful bad case at that. For a wonder I got throngh the frolic without making myself conspicuous or cutting up any exdras, as I am in the habit of doing when I go into public. I'd set my pegs to go home with the widow after the ball, but just as I was fixing my mouth to aek her", up steps a big, long, leather faced doctor, named Mabry, and walked her right off before my eyes. That riled me a little, but I kept my towns gue still, inwardly swearing to break his bones the very first opportunity that.presented itself. I saw there was no use in saying anything, so I wont bomne and ,ront to bed, and all the rest of the nighi I wa8 dreaming about rainbows, -angels, butter filiee, fiddles, widows and doctors, mixed up worse than a Dutchman's dinner. w V1L 'Squire, to ak, a abotstory. of it, I made up my mind to have the widow, or kill myself or somebody else. So I mado it convenient to be on hand where she was, upon all oc casions. I couldn't eat, 1101 sl0p, nor work, and if the thing had held on, I wouldn't have had sense enough left to skin a rabbit. But I was deter mined it shouldn't last long, for' I had been fooled so often by women that I thought I wouldn't give her time to think of anything but dae. She ap peared to take to me right sharply, and the doctor seemed inclined to mix in with i me, but I didn't consider him no more than a brush fence, .for I was so far gone I thought she could see nobody on earth but me. Well, 'Squire, things went on so for 'bout a m"onth, and one Sunday I sctowd up my spunk and put the question to her. She sorter laughed and sorter looked one sided, and finally told me she couldn't give me an answer just then, but if I'd call at her louse next Thursday evening she'd give me a final Aiswer. Thinks I you are mine just as snre as there's a fiddler be, low. Whenever a woman takes timo to study she'll say yes. 'Squire, don't the poeti say something about the calculation of men going crookej?' "Mice and men," Burns says," I answered. "Well mice and rats is all one, and so is men and fools sometimes, as I have found out in my travels. I was so sure she would have me I went off and spent all my money for fine clothes, thinking I would have them ready for the wedding-and I didl Contonnd that widowI I saal cn found all widows! Thursday even ing came at last, though it was a long time about it, and over I went dressed into fits, and feeling as big as Josh Raynor did when he wau elected coroner. I got there about dark, and found a right smart crowd collected, which was not on the bil, but I felt as big and as good as the rest of 'ei. So I marched in like a blind mule into a potato p)atch, anud took a seat by the fire. I dJidnl't see anything of the widow, but I kop)t looking for her to come in and send for me, and passed awvay the time by cussing the crowd to myself, thinking they had no business there, and I would not get to talk to my wonmn a bit. Presently the door opened and in walked Polly and that long-legged Doctor, and a whole teamu of boys and girls fixed up savagely, I tell you. I looked around for a fiddler, thinking they were going to lhave a ball, but wondered what they kept so still for, and was about proposing a reel, when up gets a little preacher and before you could swallowv a live oyster, ho had Polly andl the Doctor married laster than a Mexican grens cer could tie a bull's horna. I was so compjletely flummuxed that I sat there with my mouth open like I was going to swallow the whole crowd, and nmy eyes looked like billiard balls till the ceremony was -over, whenlI jumped up and bellowed; "I forbid the concern from being constituted I" "You are a little too late, my friend' said the preacher, and they all com menced laughing like they had soon something funny. "I'll be squizzled .if I don't be soon onough for somobody yet,' says 1, "for I was mnad Squiro, and no mistake in tho ticket. I could have cat that Doctor quiekor'n a hungry dog could swallo w a tiquirrel skin, if I could have had a fair chance at him. it, wais too bad after J had fixed up to marry her myself, f'or bor to wvalk right out ho fore my eye- and marry that great baboon." "It was bad, that is a fact," said I. "Bad!' cr'ied ho, 'it was meaner than eating fried coon. I first thought I'd go straigh't home,.but then concluded that wouldn't, spite nobody'so 1 de termnined to stay and see if I couldn't grot satisfactiont out of somebody. You know I am the douce to got myself or The VuTry Law As the time for the meeting of the General Assembly draws nigh the people should be alive to the best in terests of the country, and urge upon their Legislators the enactment of such laws as will advance the gener al peace and piosperity of our dear redeemed Carolina. Urge upon our reproesentatives the great importance of placing the farmer and the labor. or upon an equality with the more fortunate, and in many cases, the more rascally capitalists, who, under Radical rule, havo been able to live npon the high and unjust rates of in% terest demanded from the "bone and Binew of the land." One of the modt injurious and unjust laws that has come down to ns through the corrnp Lions of that monstrosity, Radicalism, is that which permits one who lenda money to charge fifteen, twenty, or thirty per centumn intetest. The ag ricultural interests, in fact, the gen oral prosperity of the State, call for the ei)actmncut of a reasonable and equitable usury law. It must be passed at the next scEsion of our Legislature. It is hardly necessary to argue that this high iate of inter cat eflects the farmer, although he may never borrow, and whatever operates against his progress is a curse to any country. Iundreds ot brave hearts have been crushed in the attempt to build up a farm which wonild p&y the individual and prove a blessing to his fellow men, crushed by the unbearable weight of interest, Which, with the substance of the hardest kind of labor, finds a resting place in the capacious pockets of the capitalist. Hundreds of acres of our best lands lie idle and unimproved because he wbo ho!ds the money can live istimptuously upon the interest, without work; while he who would till these fields and cause them to blossom as the rose has not the means and cannot borrow and pay the usury deanarided. And again, hundreds of our largest and best farmers are, each year, compelled to secure ad vances in!snpplies, giving their notes for "value received" with interest at eighteen,.et#d sometimes twenty-five per centum. Value received, in.. deed I When we buy supplies from the merchant do we not pay his per cent. without the addition of interest? Value received I Why it bears the unmistakeable ear marks of a lie, a cheat, a fraud and a swindle. And yet we cannot censure the merchant. ILe has to employ capital, and in many instances pay the same per1 cent, dlemianded by him. The capi.. talist, very reasonably, claims the right secured by law, to charge any rate ho pleases. So, the evil is di rectly traceable to the abominiable law, and in o'rder to mnake the labor, ing mana a free man we must have the usury law. A large and respec table number of our legislators urged its passage at the last session; all hion or to them, and now let the people hold up their hands so that they may be able, at the next session, to carry it throngh, the Opposition of the bloated cap)italists to the contrary notwithstanding.--summnit Courier. MIn.- Mind your tongue! Don't let it speak hasty, cruel, untruthful or wicked words. Mind your eyes? Don't permit thoem to look on wicked books, p)ic tures~ or ob)jets. Mind your eare! Don't suffer' themn to listen to wicked speeches, snigs, or words. Mind your lips! Don't Jet strong drink paUss them. Dimn't lot tob)ac pollute them. Don't Jet the food of a glutton enter between thorn. Minid your handsl Don't let themi steal or' fight,- ofe write miy wicked words. Mindl yonr feet! Don't let them wahlk in the step) of the wicked. Mind your heart! Don't let th~ love of sin d well ina it. Don't give it1 to 8atan, but ask Jesus to make i h ie throne.--Youthsb Companio. some'body else into a scrape when I take a notion, and Id taken One that night that wont all ovor me like a third day chill, so I commenced lo study'n out sone plan. I recollected hearing the doctor say that whero ho como from (but the Lord only knows where that was) tho brido and groom always washed their faces togothor as a ebarm against infidelity, or somo other long word. While I was study'n about that, I spied the doctors saddle bag sitting up in the corner, so I waited till they went into supper, and then I got the bags and looked to see what I could dioovor. Nearly the frst thing 1 saw was a piecoo of lunar caustic. I slipped it into my pocket, for I had my plan as soon as I saw it. Well, I watched around till I saw one of the girls go to the pail with a pitch. or, so I went out and asked her what she was going todo with it. She said sho was going to carry it into the room for the Doctor and Polly to wash their fhcoes in. I kept talking to her whilo she was filling the pitcher, and when she turned her hoa:1 I dropped the caustic into it. It was then about bed timo, and I got my hat and put out, but I couldn't help laughing all the way homo, whonever I'd think about noxt morning. "Well, 'Squire, they do say that when that couplo wakod up next morning they both had the hardost kind of fits, each one thinking they had been sleeping with a nigger. Oh, it was rich! He a coussin' and tear ing up things, and she a faintin and comin' to and going off again, and me not there to see it. They mado such an unoarthly racket that the folks broke into the room to see what was the mattor, and thero they was with their faccs and hands all as black as the inside of an old stove pipo. I'd give half my intorest in the tother world just to havo boon at somo safo place where I could havo seen the whole row. As soon as they found out that they was really the same folks that married tho night bolore, they called for warm water and soap, but just hore tho doctor happened to think about the pitcher and took it to the door to see what was the mat ter. There was a little p)ieco of caus tic that had not dissolvod, and as soon as he saw it, ho says: "It's no uso washing, Polly'. All the SOap) in New York city wouldn't wash that black off." "That was the truth, 'Squire, soap and wateor had no moreoeffect than it would ou a native born African, and all the chance was to wvait and let it wear off. Ilow long it took them to get white again, I never found out, but one thing I do know," he con cluded, getting up to go out, "the next time I saw the doctor I had the hardost fight, and come the nighest getting whaled tlhat I ever did in all my born days." Tusi INSOLENCE OF OFFloE.- eYs terday afternoon two prlofessio)nal dead beats, known as spotters ini the revenue department of the United States Government, wvent into a sa loon kept by a respectable citizen and demnanded an inspection of the cigar boxes. 'rho clerk complied with their demand and showed up the cigar boxes, whbich were found to be regularly stamped. Oneo of theseo ofilcers then proposed to have drinks "on the house," a p)roposition which the house failed to agree to, whore upon the other beat remnarked, never mind, I knowv the old -, and I'll have him up int loss than a week. It seems to na t hat a little civil serv ice reform might bo0 applied with ad vantage ini this direct ion .-Unuion Titu0sO. Indien'tions~ of a pm ehisitorii people, which are plentil in south western Culorado, have lately been discovered in western Nevada. Ant igne pottory and undecipherable writings on the rocks are the umost ommon tokens. AL one place, engraved n)pon a rock, is the nude ligure of' a mian, holding in his right hand a shirub, the outline5s of which show conisiderable artistic skill. [From the ou"ern (N. Y.) Herald.} Piohan Couty, . . Thi conity is in the Stat-ci fodOr Oarolli, and embraces, perhap, W greater variety of the clirm or-MArW4, than the samki amhnt of territory in any other ection sonth of tho line of the PDne Ridge motentaint, Which is the northern line.- It conseguently includeR the southern slope of 'its portion of theso mountains, conposed of a varied assortment of rich hills and valleye, checkered with its many beautiful rivilets, creeke and branch es of pure watery so olar that a pin may be seeny in woa of them a4 a depth of from tvee to- seten feet. These atremis abound with a variety of fish, from the salt water shad in the Keowee-thie westn. bonmdaty -to the jumping sucker, leaping up the shoals on the smaller strcami descending the valleys. The water courses of this eounty aTl head south of the line with North Oarolia, which is the meandering ridge on top of the Blue Ridge, and generally make their course in a southwesterpt diree. tion, on the west side of the COUIty to the beautiful Keowee; on the east sido in a southeastern direction to the rich valloy of tire Saluda. These streams all have more or less valley (or bottom land, as it is called) which is rich, productive and continpally fed from the slopes of the bills on either side. Much of the northern portion has not been disturbed since the the Red man left it, and yet re mains quiet as when left by the hand of nature, except when entered by the seeker of game, with his born, dogs and gun. The southern half of this county begins at the toot of the slope of these hills, which as it were, build the southern sido of the grand old Blue Ridge, and breaks off in a beautiful level plane, interspersed with its streams, running in diversi. ried directions through a more thickly settled section of the county, and through whicht runs th'e Aire%Line Railway. In this portion of the coun ty by use of fertilizers or manures, one acre of land is frequently made to produce one bale of oottorn, twenty five bushels of wheat, and from thirty to forty bushols of corn and other products in proportion. From the resnlts of the late war, this county rem'iins undeveloped.-. Very few improved implements for farming have been introduced, the old system of labor being kept u'p. There is, perhaps, no se9tiori on the North American continent that has so many advantages for factories as this. The county has its idle water sites, its virgin timbers, its mineral resources, with its powers of produc tion, all blended, which when prop erly utilized, will make Pickens county second to none south of the Blue Ridge. The crop~s of this whole section of county, now being gathered, are uin usually large, produce is cheap and land is now cheap. The cspitalist can doubtless wake investments inl this county that will soon .And abun dantly pay. Go, see, and you will find that this is no exagerated ac cont of Pickene. The Israelitos in E~ngland are e0l-. leeting subscriptions in .aid of tbeir brethren in Bulgaria, who have been robbed and oppressed by the Russi ans. They call on Jews all over tho world for assistanco, and particularly on the Union of American. Hebrew Congregations. The Jews 000,000 strong in Hungary have already re.. sponded to the appoal. in Russia the prosecution of the Israelitos is continued, with nearly all its ancfont cruelty. They are not pormitted to resido in many or tho greatest ofiok# Kief and Novgorod, as well as Mos'. cow, are forbidden Lo thorn, atnd oven in the rural diAtriots w,bey are bg~r deod with multitorm 0xaCtions. We canl pardonW buti can1 We1 tfo'g