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THE SENTINEL. D. F. BRADLEY, Editor. PICKENS 0. II., S. C.: TH1RSDAY, MARCHI 31, 1881. For subscription, $1.50 per annum, for six months, 75 cents; strictly in advance. Advertisements inserted at one dollnr per square of one inch or less for the first inser, ,on and fifty cents for each subsequent in sortion. Liberal discount made to merchants and others advertising for six months or by he year. Obituary Notices and Tributes of Respect harged for as advertisements. Announcing Candidates five dollars, in tdvanco. We return thanks to Senator Butler for Congressional favors. The President is beginning to'show his band by his appointments. Stalwart to the palm. Some of the Deiocratic newspapers who went into exsticies over his inaugural may soon wi-h they could lake back what they said. The State Press Associathon will ;meet at Benifort on the 4tl of aiy. A trip to Florida is .contemplated by Sh o A.-ssocia tion, a nd till net-essary) arr'angeicrits havo been mado to Savannalh, whcre the Associatioi will take the steamer to Jacksonville aind thonce up the St. John's river by hteamer. The Cowpens Centennial. The Cen tennial celebration of the battle of .he C owpens takes place at Spartanburg on zie l1th day of May next, The following -ogranmme has been arranged: S unrise, salute of thirteen guns; 10 A. M., :alita ry review by Gen. Ilundt, U. S. A.; 12 , entennial ode, Centennial orations, un-- 9 iling the statue of Morgan; 6 P. 1M.; the j ivernor's reception to State guests; 8 P. M.; .,play of fireworks; 9 P. M., reception by City Council to the Washington Light In u&ntry and their guests. The Struggle in Washington. ] The United States Senate, which was con.. vered in extra session, by the President for the purpose of conftirming appointments made by him, is still in session. Alter the Riepub ]i cns bought Mahone, and by his hel p or ganlized the Senate comhmittees in their inter *At, they have undertaken to oust all the Decmaeratic officers and make their control d the Senate c omplete. One Riddleberger, a opud iationist and a henchman of Mahione in II!. ' is to be elect ed sergeant-at-arms by de o ivaublicans. Ie was a Confederate ioonel. Mahone was a Confederate 1briga dier, and the Republicans have taken them to their bosomis. When the Senate was Demo -atio, they called down curses upon the Con. deirato Brigadiers who made it so, but now nce the treachery of a Confederate Brigadier vos them control of the Senate, they almost zdown and worship him. They have al 'ys porfessed to be in favor of pay irg the * t dollar of a public debt, and abused the uith unmercifully for refusing to pay some rthe fraudulent debts imnposed on her by ' ical carpet bag governments. Mahone is e leading repudiationist in Virginia, and 'W bosses-the Radical roost. Consistency .a jewel, but we have never seen it in the IHe -.blican party. The Democrats ar~e resist *.gthe effort of the Republicans9 to oust the *"nooratic officers by filibustering, and say y will stay there until December ntext it a~ssary. On the other hand the Rtepubli as say they intendl to fight it out if it takes 7 summer, and so the struggle goes on, Our Railroad. Tho Board of Directors of tho At mntic and French Broad Valley Rail iad were to have met at Williamtn 'n the 24t h inst., but for the lack of a *uorumn no business was tran~saICtd. hero was, however an ini'ormal meet og of the four Directors present, the *osideunt, and three representativyes coma Duo WVest, viz, Messrs. Hood, taddon and Naince. These gentle_ en, we understand, are very earn it in their efforts to advance t ho in.. "res3t of tho Road, and feel confident Sraisin g quite a handsome prIiito u tbscription in addition to the amount 's expected to raise by township *xation. A slip up in the form of' the , tition for eletion upon the question tsubseription in Abbeyih C I Township has caused someo delay in yebmitting the matter to the people, but the error has been corrected and t h question will be speedily sutmit adJ to a vote. A promineno~t gentlo, nvan of Abbevillo county, in a private letter to us says: "We are ready to hold an election, and I think thor'o is no doubt but we will be ready to go i.b work in May." It is reported in~ Abbeville that the Clyde Company3 conItemplate taking hold of the enter prise and pushing it through to a weptedy compistion. The great, im artance of the .Road to the whole Sttits easy grades and cheatpnosa oconstruotion, matkes it ant almost no&slute certainty that the work wil be raipidly pushed forward and the Jaad rcnmninted mith., - SlOv i . A Right Move. A number of the prominent business men of Columbia have bought the charter of the Columbia water power from Messrs. Thompson & Nagle, or ganized a company, subscribed about one hundred thousand dollars, and are prepared to go to work at once. This is a move in the right direction, and it now looks like something prac ticablo would be done. We opposed the granting of the charter to Thomp. son & Nengle, on the grounds that the State was developing a water power worth a million and a bnlf of dollar-s for parties who had no capital, and only expected to make money out of it. We told some of the citizens of Columbia, that if they would organizo a company in good faith, we would support the charter; that they need not expect Northern, capital to develop it unless they took hold them solves, by which 'mcans they could save what Thompson & Naglo expect ed to make out of it. Some of them had such strong faith in Thompson, that they almost considered our ad vice an insult to their intelligence. By not pursucing the course, we thought proper for t hem, they have lost 815, 000 they had to pay Thompson & Na glo for the charter, besides the inter ot (to what amount we do not know) they reserved in the Company. Bat we are glad the scales have at last allon from the eyes of our Columbia 'riends, and that they have at last aken hold of this great enterprise in I practical and sensible manner. They Vill now have the sympathy ar.d sup )ort of all the good people of tho state, and can make the enterprise a lccess. Mahone cannot got many followers nto Radicaliam but 500,000 men will tand to hini in putting down Bour >onism and ring rulo.-Abbevillo Me lium. Mahone went into the worst ring n Amer ina and voted with it for the wrpose of perpetuating its power. 3erhaps 1,500,000 Republicans will 'stand by him in putting down'' what eo calls CbBourb~onmm and rintg rule," >ut no true Democrat will do it. The Democrats of Rhodo Island ave endorsed Ben 111ll, of Georgim, lenounced the Republicans for or ganizing the Niational Senate in their owvn interest, anud denounce the unmanly, dishonest and tl-eacherous ucourse of' Senator Mahlone in aiding and albetting the Republican partty. President Gariebld has appoi nte'd Judge Robertson for Collector of Ncew York. Robertson is an an ti--ConkIi ng Republichan, anid his appointmen t, it. is predicted, will cause a fierce war between Conkling and theo Adminis-. tra tio n. Mahone cannrot complain that he is kept out of his share of the spotis. Riddleharger, who is to bo the sorge, ats at-arms of the Sona te, is oneo of his men, Gilmer, the now postmaster' at Richmond, is his nominee. Ilowv many such places are the modern equivalont of thirty pieces of silver? Gen. Grantbhas been praised to the skies by subserv'ien t Sout herneirs for his magnanimity in declining to re ceivo Gen. Lee'e sword at the sur r'end or of' the Armiy of Norther n Vir' ginia at Appomattox. But General Grant himself, in reply to anm inquiry, writes that "there was no demand mado for'Gen. Lee's sword, and no tenider' of it offerecd." Hlolme's School H istory should boe corrected accord ngly. MIJONE AND Ti1IE REPUBLIcANs. If' Mahone lived in any Northern State -barring Minnesota-every Repub lican Senator wvould fight him at home andl donounrce hi rm in the Senate. If Mahone lived in Massachusetts, if he was tho boss of an ignorant vote, if' he had attacked the credit of the State, and proposed the repudiation of heri bonds, Senator Iloar' would fight him day in and day out, at hon'e and in Congress, in caucus, conven tion and at the polls. Mahone is all these things in Virginia, anid the fact should have moderated Senator Hoar's enthusiasm.-"Jpringfield (Mass.) Ro pub., Inud. Rep. A SON-IN-LA\V KILrLED.--On last Thursday on the plantation of Mr'. Lowvis Wilson, near Fort Mills, in Yor'k County, there was8 a log~irolling at, which a misunderstanding Look place bet woen Mr. WVilson and his son. in-Jaw, Mr. Kimnbrell, whereupon Mr. Wilson dealt Mr. Kimbrell a blow across the head with his hatndspike and killed him insannt. Our Washington Letter. WASZIIsGTON, M arch 21-The flopu b licans now see the mistake made by their retiring President in vetoing the Funding bill. Outside of placi'ng an unnecessary tax amounting to- 61,000, 000 monthly upon the people, no bet ter time has over boon known than nosy, to float bonds bearing a low rate of interest, and even should an extra session pass a similar Funding bill to the vetoed one, the timo may have past in which it could have been float. ed. Another matter which should re% ecivo the attention of Congress should be a policy in relation to inter-ocean ic canals aindl ship railways, it is time an assertion should be made of the right and power of the United States to control any canal between the oceans, no matter by what nation cons structed. It would be nothing more nor less than the enunciation of the Monroe Doctrine, a doctrino dear to veiry native born American. Besides there are hundreds of other just. meas. uros that were killed or died with the last Congress, that should be re-in troduced and passed. If it were only possible for our wise legislators to adopt some measures by which the weather could be controll ed, what a blossihg it would be. At present the weather is badly out of joint. The cxtraordinary weather of the past winter has caused a conviction in the minds of a great many people that there must be something more than mere idle talk in the theories of weather prophets, in regard to the ef, foet upon the cartlh of the present p culiar position of several of the most important planets of our system. We have been accustomed to laugh at tho speculations of those who havo told us that the perchelia of several great planets, occurring at tho same time, would neceessarily produco violent dis Lu rbances in the atmiosphlierie :i -ra ngo. menits of' the earth, sinrce si milar' posi t'ois musi~t have been assumed by the samifo plantiCs, ait stated intervals, ever since t.ho tgystem came in to beinag, and the eve'les have not beena so great but, what, -istor'y hazs been able to spa m from one to the othera; heonce we have been wont to say, if such conjectures airo to producwo such and such dice con sequenices upon the earth, wvhy~ didn't the same ca useti brii ng fr'th thle same results onl previous occas-ions? Wec arie no t preCpared to sa~y they djid not, aflem thamt (te preen~t p)ositionl of a ew~ oif our nieighborsj int).he solar sysS tema has been thie moving cause of uin usual an.d altogothier undesirablo con d Ltion of terrestrial :affai rs, atm.mosphier ical1ly considerecd, whiebch we have cx. perIiene C in thii le pas t-espCcial ly duir. th le laist six imoniths. But w hethier tibe responsiblilty' is to be haid at thie doois of pilants, or* comets, the moon or' thc girounad-bhog, certain it is that the times are out of joint some where, and such a succes'sion otf violent dis turbances, occurring not only all over our' own continent, but in every part of (lie w orld from which we receive accounts, has never occurred before since man began to make record of motoorological conditions. Unipreco dented cold, uinpreceden ted floods, un, procdented snow storms-thoso des cr'ibe theo accounts of the condition of' the weather thiat havte been comning to us from various parts of the country almost over'y day since last fill, and no0w, as5 soon as the earth begins to respond to the first kindly touchics of spring sunshine the dreaded cyclone presents itself, to fill up any measure of discomfort that may possibly have escaped the storms and the floods of the wintcer. This is a very unsatis factory and unwovlcome c'onditLion of things, and we (10 not hesitateo to con fess that we don't like it, but in the memorable words of the lato Mr. Tweed, "what are you going to do about it?" In ancient times the poo pie would have concluded that the god was out of humor, that a few liberal s'Acrificos would have appensed the ire of the offended deity, and the elements would have settled down into their customary tranqui lity, and everything would have movcd on smoothly again. But we can't fix things so readily nowadlays. When the sutn loses a linchspin out of his cart, in these times, we can't put it back by killinkg an ox and having a roligous barbecue. But all this (1008 not affect the great underlying fact that the "prince in the power of the air'' seems to be trying to makeo it as uncomfortable for gs as possible, and does not propose to relax his efforts a whit -because of the change of' season. Hurricane Item. Mu. EDIToR: It hasween some time since otyr section has been beard from thrugb tfe SANTrNst, and. as your former correspondent is very busy on his now purefiaso, I will, by his con sent, drop you a few lines. "Torrap" expressed sorne dissatis. fation in the changing of the town ship name to Harrykin, but thinks after all it is quite appropriate. The frm of Murphree and Parsons have purchased at the confluence of Big and Little Crow Creek, what is admitted to be as good, if not the best water power in the County, and the result shows that it has fallen in to proper hands for rapid improvement. The firm of King and Stewart in competition with that of Payne and Fendley, are up with the times, ex. cept in advertising. Our bachelor has whitened his house. Suppose he will soon adorn the interior by adding the beautiful to the sublime. Among the natural curiosities in our quarter, may be mentioned a Bird, which excells the Parrot in speech-has some knowledge of let, ters and displays considerable skill in the use of carpenLor's stools. A King w ho would have scorned a crown, but has quietly consented to have hung around his neck, a belle. B ethren Burdine and Gillespie seem to have some trouble as to who shall rule. Brother B. promises no more, execpt by special request.. Per. baps you need not trouble yourselves any further. Uncle Bob has decided that the Devil rules when the timo price tor corn is $1.20, while cash. buys it for 60 cents Truth is stranger than fic Lion. The scarcity of onion buttons, as made know through the SENTINEL, may be remedied by tho uso of shel ots--they are about the same for health and moro samor forobreat. I, LET Us C. More Immiigranits. Seventee'n Geurman imm ligrantsi Lisenft to Colonel Butler by Rev. Ilobert Ne'uman arrived in the city yest er dlay w~ ith the'ir wifes aund children. Th'le wh ole p~arty numbors thirty-four. One of the meon i-i a wheeclright, one a carpentor, one an iron wvorker, one a brick layer aLnd the rest farmtors. Six of them were taken at once by Mr'. W. 11. Bartless, of ILlm pton)1 C.ouirt flouse, to' work in a steam saw mill, w'here lumber is sawed for export from Port Royal. Th'e rest leave this moring'or Oconeo, wvhere t.hey will be employed by Mrli. Str'iblinig. T wen.c ty. nine more immlnigr'ant s are expet od her'o on Friday.-Columbia Re'gis ter. PresdentGarieltd's attention hav,. in er. cal lod to an article stating that Delegate ann f th a repreCsentingthttePeintds sented entirely fr'om the action of Governor Murray orn the Mormon mat ter, he turnedl to a distinguished Wecstern Senator then present and said: "secnator, as a personal favor to me I wvant you to take tip and cham pion this Mormon question in the Senate. We must stamp out polyga .my. I want this to be one of the dis;inguishinrg featu res of my adinn itration. But we mus.t save from ilegiti mac'y th le 70,000 children whlo have been born unde~lr Mormon rule." The0 President has decided to renomi nate General Bane, an anti-Mormon, to the position of Receiver of Public Moneys at Salt Lake City. Brevet Major General Emory Up,. ton, of the United States Army, was found dead in ii bed in San Francisco on morning of the 15th inst., having shot himself through the head somes time during the night. When discovered a revolver was still grasped in his hand. Nothing to indicate the cause of' the act has yet been discov% cred. Ilo was tho au thor of "Upton's Tactics" and was one of the most prominent officers of the Army.' An ingenious machine called the "tell tale" has been introduced on the Erie Railroad trains. It records the speed of trains, when and where tl ey stop), and how long. It is used espe cially for freight trains, so as to re, gister all irregularities--..such as ex. ceeding the prescribed rate of' speed on some por'tions of the road, and their delay at stations. The dealers in saiw dust in New York have oansod a sensation among the grocers and saloon--keeper's, their principal customers, by advancing the prico, to twenty-five cents for a flour hnrrel full. State Sunday School Convention. Mr. Charles Potty, Chairman ofthe xecutive Committee, publishes ,he follooftig progetamme of exercises for the State Sunday School Convention, which will be hold in Columbia on the 18th and 14th of April: The Convention will bo called to or dor at 10 A. M. the first'day. The following subjeelt will be disctussod in the following order unless otherwise ordered: Rev. W. P. Jacobs- The Proper Use of Illtistrations by the Superintendont and Teacher. Rev W. H. Strickland-gunday Schools and M issions-Twin Sistors. Major G. J. Patterson-Best, way to Retain and Interest Adultsin Sunday School Wo-k. . R1ev. A. Coko Smith-The Intdrna tion'il Lesson Systomn-Its Morits and Defects. Rev. J. lawkins-Sunday School Librariesand Litcraturo. J. Adger Smytho--Mothods in Pre. paring and Teachi rig, Rev. J. L. Girardeau-Perils of the Youth of To-day. Rev. C. C. Brown-Organization and Records. There will be a mnas meeting on Tuiesdiy evening, the 12th of A pril, under the direction of the committeo of arrangements in Columbia. It is desirabio that each county send up a full delegation. Arrangements will be made with railroads for reduced rates for delegat es. DEATH FROM CRUEL TREATMENT. Last Friday Dan Levick while fish ing in Pace's Branch, near Trenton, in Edgefield County, found the skeleton of a negro child in the swamp. It proved to bo t hat ofAlox. You ngblood, a negro boy about five years old, wio lad been living with a negro wom-in since his hailer was put inl the Peni ter.-tiary last June. Co-onor Corly held an inquest and the ju y foun the verdict of wilful ne:glect and cruei treatment against Eliza~ Iluet, with wh'lom the child was staying, as thn c'aumse. of deahtlh. The child wals mis-. inag about the time of the last snow andi is supposed to have irueze.n, bel in d rivo'n not on the road by the cruet.l treatment of' Eliza Iluel.. Elizai IIt was sont to jali to a waIi trial next June. - CRIEENiV LLE, s6. 47. fUANCHI OF LUDN & BATES' SAV.N NAll, GA. PlRl(ES A~ND TERMS EX.\'TIAY TIl E MATHUSHEK PIANO, The Pianuo for a Lif'e Time. P'ossessing impor-taunt patented improve menu na ot used i oter-I Pinoes, whtichi great ly increcase the po-cer and <qualug of tone, and I heir st rcnyh and dur dbihity. OEIEN~ & le' 1FAO, WITII A RECORD OF j- IFTY-EIGuT YEARS. Southern Gem Piano, The best Piano evcr producedl for the money. MASON & HAMLIN ORGANS IHnve taken the highest awards at all the great world's exhibitions for thirteen years, and stand to day unriva ed. PELOUBET & 00., and STERLING ORGANS Strictly Fitrst Claa; fully Guaranteed; Ex tremtely Low Pr ices. MUSICA L AI! E I R .1 AVDIS, SII E tT MIUSIC, M US iC BOO KS, 4 C. A DDR? VSS, McSMITH MUSIC HOUSE, Greenille, S. C. CATA LOGUES 'FREE. march 31, 1S81 29 Notice to Debtors & Creditors. ALL persons having demands against, the A estate of 'T. J. McMAIIAN, d~eceas ed, will present them at once properly ptroved, to the un~dersigned, or be forever barrted of tall claim against the said estate; and all per sons indebted to said estate will please com forwar-d and set tie the same. WVM. McMAIIAN. Adm'r. marcht 24, 1881 28 3 Notice to Debtors & Creditors ALL persons having demands against the Aestate of JAMES M. FARRt, deceased will present them at once properiy proved, to the undersigned, or be forever barred of all claim against the said estate; and all persons indebted fo said estate will please come for ward and settle the same. FRANCI8 M. FARRd hENRY WV. FARRI, Adm'rs maroh 24, 1881 88 8 NOZTICE : ALL persons are hereby warned against. Atrading or having any dealings with moy father, JOHN W. Ii.SON, for heo Is of un sound mind, and not Competent of doing any business. MARY WYATT. match 24, 1881 28 a The balance of our stock of WiNTER CLOTHiNG will be closed out at ex actly NEW YORK COST, to make room for our immense stock of Spring and Summer Goods TO ARRIVE SOON!I Just received and ready for inspee,, tion, a lairgo and attractive - assortment of samples.~' for FINE - SUITS, TO BE M AIDE To Ufll. FIT G~UAIRANTE ED. 1'. w. LoE & ed~. doeC 23, 1880U 14 -3 hOMESTEAD & E.XEMPTION OTPEi her ehn givenci thait -31 f:8.' I1N.. NNilE L. ~kAle L. widowoftJameu Al. M c . Fa~,ll, deceaised, lateI of the~ Couniy Md PI'., Lfor llIomIIstea4d inl theR reail est4 te~ beVl')n-rin Itoj II l ouse, at P'ickensi, Souti hi Cau-o)llina. n T'hurs - Jay. t he 28t h day vf A pril, 1881, at I l o'clock, A. M ,J. J. LE' V IS, r c p. march, 24, 188'l 285 TEXASLANDS. 2.00 Sale, from $iO00 $2,00,an $3.00 per acre. A pply to 0. A. PICKL.E, Pa'est ine, Anderson Conny, Texas, march, 3, 1881 24 4 GIANT GUANO. J AMI AGEN' for then above CELEBsRATED) F [ RlLIZ ICR. Plnt ers will please l ake due not ice and govern I hemielvyes accrding~-. ly, as I feel conlfidlent it il beiIJ to their in. te'rest to buniy thle G'iant.l WANTED----ONE TVIIOUAND BALICS 01F COTTON. for which theo highest price ini cash will be paid. W. S. SMITII. Liberty, S. C. march 10, 1881 25 4 HUGH SISSONS & SONS, Importers, Dealers and Mannfacturers of Marble Statuary, Monuan ntstantels, E- nitule Slabs, Altars, Tile. Tonabs. 140 West Baltimore Ssreet, AND CODlNER NORTH AND MONUMENT 8TREETs. Drawings and Estimates Furnished Free. Baltimore, MD. feb 17, 1881 22 1 N OTICE OF' FINAL SETTLEMENT. Notice is hereby given, that I will ap.. ply to 0. L. Durant, Probate Judge for Pick ens County, on '27th A pril 1881, for leave to make a final settlement of my Ward WV. B. FREEMAN, and ask to be discharged there. from as Guardian BENTrON 8. FREEMAN, Guardinn.. march 24, 18 1 28 6. OTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT. NNotice is hereby given that, I will apply to 0. L.Durant, Probato Judge for Pjiken County, on Tuesday, 20th day of April nexi, for leave to0 make a final ettlement of' the es. tate of JOIIN 8. WA LKERI, deceased, and ask to be discharged therefrom as Executrix. ELEANOR J. WVA LKER, Ex'trix. march 24,1881 285 NOTICE TO FIDUCIARIES. XTOTICE Is hereby given to all Guardins, Administrators and Executors, who have not made their annual return for thme year 1881, to come forward and do so, or else the law In such case, made and provided will be enforced against them. 0. L. DU R&ANT, s.r 'r.o. marcih 24, 1981 28 4