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PIKNS SETINE I 50EAM NUWST IEL This (Wednesday) is oil mill day at Aberty. Last Monday the -id court house ralped its hat to the new. Mrs. . P. Bruce has been quite sigk for the past ten derys. Cashier W. 0. Smith had to excuse * hiasself from businces last Monday. 0. W. Bowen has been appointed tU the ofice of general deputy mar - Mrs. Eliza *. Hunter. of Pendh' ton, has been juite feeble for several weeks. Several faithful side-walk hands were conspicuous by their absence )Nt week. The bridge on the Liberty road near the Parkins place, needs mend ing with a new one. The West End had three or four imes as much rain last Mlonday as the other portion of Pickens. The singing school had an auspici. ous beginning last Monday. Prof. J. M. Looper has an interesting class. Jeff Moon and his crowd worked out the section of the Liberty road between Rices and Wolf Oreeks, last Saturday. There should be some mutual ar rangement among the denominations to have public worship in Pickens on each second Sabbath. Last Saturday Col. Hagood's office fupsture was moved from the old rt, house to the. Folger building near the Hotel de Thornley. The infant daughter of Rev. John T. McBryde died last Friday. He has the deepest sympathy of many warm friends in this sad bereavement "Wheat-straw will be wheat-straw Ihis summer," as the old negro said about shucks. It appears now that the crops will be short, shorter, shortest. Rev. J. 0. C. Newton, of Kobe, Ja pan, is in attendance, as a delegate, upon the Memphis Conference. He will visit relatives and friends in this county before his return. On the 9th inst. Mrs. Jane Smith, the postmaster at Liberty, was mar. ri4 to J. S. Smith, the liveryman. Th ceremony was performed by Rev. J. T. McBride, at Pendleton. No cards, and no 'kin. The Clemson boys had a fine ride to Rock Hill. to witness the laying of of the corner stone of the establish ment which is to be Clemson's little sister. It also will be guaranteed to have an India rubber liver and elec tric lights. Christopher Jones and John Lesley got into a fight last Thursday, at Richard Rosmond's shop, and Jones smote Lesley on the ear with bin teeth and nearly cut off the lower lobe thereof. And Lesley's blood was qpon his own shoulder, and his father's name is Dennis. The district school mass-meeting, 4at Easley last Monday, was very much ini the notion of a healthy school tax. Re,: J. RL. Riley, D. D)., was chosen chairman, and the crowd was highly pleased with the courteous manner in which he presided; The meeting adjourned to meet next Mon day. Very appropriate and touching * memorial services were held in the Wathalla Baptist church, on the first Sabbath in this month, in honor of the late pastor, Rev. R. W. Seymore. Members of other denominations par ticipated, and a representative of each pronounced eulogies on the life and Scharacter of the deceased. Mrs. W. A. Smith died at her home at Pelzer last Monday morning. She was about forty years of age. She leaves 'a husband and several children, to mourn their loss. Her remaine were interred last Tuesday at the Z. Smith bahrying ground, the funeral being conducted by Rev. (3. RL. Shaf for. W. A. Smith is quite ill. The case of the State vs. R. M. Griffin for violation of labor contract with Mrs. E. A. Brown was heard last Saturday by Trial Justice Stew art. The defendant wa acqui$ed, He was inidicted under the law made for the "protection of laborers," but it was not on that ground that he es. caped. The contract was insufficient to anstain a prosecution. Jeremiah Looper makes claim to the most gentle and sensible cow in Vthe burg. He tells a well vouched story of how it deliberately walked Into the kitchen during the Apri: snow, and quietly stood by the stove until Mrs. Looper . did the milking and then walked out and back to the Jot. The cow is a Devon-Jersey, ani . a fine specimen of beauty among the bovine species. - Build up and pull downi Thore was a strike in ?ickens last Monda3 A crowd of hands employed by Col Hollingsworth struck the old cour 'eause and down it goes, before a could have its picture taken. Th< Inside works are not the veeture, bu thaey are being taken out and careful lyp folded together. 'ihis lumber was cut by a sash saw and put in the Piekens District court house wheni was first built on the Keowee Enough interesting history could b< written about the Judge's stand an< -those old benches to fill the Koran~ But they will go in a court house n< 1sore, It Is nothing short of poeti, joustice that a lawyer should have th< jo of tearing It away. The man, pieces will find their respective Ara rat., and perhaps some of them wil become dumb witnesses to love in cottage, as they have been to the he tred and malice engendered by leg. strife. So endeth chapter the second The county will please sing some fa J. H. 0. McDaniel bad a severe brash last week, but he was soon out again. The pot office has temporary shel ter on the 'frst floor of the aic5Oi temple. Rev. J. J. Beck, of Bowman, Ga., will preach -in the Baptist Chureb Thursday 3ight. Mrs. Mary 9u GAston, of Dun. cans, Spart4ibU 0ouityj is visiting relatives at Liberty. She is one cheerful and happy woman whom everybody is delighted to see. Col. C. L. Hollingswotth is in the stock business to stay. Diversified lands call for diversied crops, 'and stock raising, well managed, will make broom sage and Tom Bell pay divi. dends. Frank and his little brother, sons of John T. Boggs, cast 6their nel on the other side of the Davis Branch, this side of Liberty, one day last week, and captured a prodigious eel, neasuring more thaa thirty inches. There is a woman in Sitka known as Princess Tom, who is very rich, She at one time had three husbands, but has become Christianized and has discharged two. -She is an extensive trader, is known all over Alaska and wears on her arms thirty gold bracelets made of $20 gold pieces. "Old Gilbert" is a horse thirty-seven years old, owned by a resident of Owensboro, Ky., which is the posses. sor'of a competence which enables him to live without labor. His late owner, Mrs. Fannie Sharp, left a fund of $500 and stipulated that the old hotse was to be well fed and groomed for the remainder of his life. Senator Irby has been absent from his post of duty in Washington f&r the last two weeks. Will the Head light please inform us what the mat ter is this time? Is he running from Coxey's army or dodging a vote on the tariff bill. An admiring constitu ency is growing weaty with waiting for him to give them relief. His or gan should keep us posted.-Cotton Plant. Col. A. B. Andrews, General Agent of the Receivers of the Richmond and Danville Railroad Company, came to Walhalla in his special car on Tuesday to pay to A. P. Crisp, Coun ty Treasurer, the arrears of taxes due for the past three fiscal years on this railroad in Oconee county. He paid $8,338.07 for State, county and school purposes. The taxes on the Blue Ridge Division will be paid in about two weeks.-Keowee Courier. Mr. D. P. Duncan was at the Capi tol yesterday, in consultation with the members of the South Carolina congressional delegation. Mr. Dun can is one of the State railway com missioners of South Carolina, and re sides at Spartanburg. It is under. stood tbat he will be a candidate for the seat in the House now held by Representative Shell, the latter having announced his determination not to seek a' renomination.- -Washington Post, May 10. On the 10th inst. B. F. Dacus, near Williameton, held the fort against the revenue officials, who undertook to make him a prisoner. Ther# were three of them and one of him, till he was reinforced by his son and daugh ter. The officers .were armed with guns and pistols; Dacus with agricul tural implements He is said to have mauled them with plow-stocks and swingletrees,and his da'ughter clubbed one. The officials were actually dis armed and ingloriously fled; unhon ored, unsung, but terribly shot at with their own weaponis There was a light shower last Sab. bath between 1 and 3 o'clock on the south side of Pickens. Ransom Dur ham tells us that the hardest rain of the season fell on his farm where in a short time the water above his ter races was deep enough to swim a dog. His near neighbor, E. J. Prince, sayve the heaviest rain of the season fell at his house. Tbe farm of G. W. Dorr and that of many others up Rice's creek were badly washed, and some damage was done on the farm of B. F. Lesley. The rain was very light about Senator O'Dell's, but from there to Saluda River, it was a regq lar downpour. The celebrated case of Miss Sadie M. Means is to come up before the General Assembly of the Presbyteri an church which meets at Nashville next Thursday. It will be remem bered that the South Carolina Synod reversed the decision of the Charles ton Presbytery and suzstained Miss Means. Rev. G. A. Blackburn and F. L. Leoper on the part of the Pres. bytery will make the appeal, holding that the Synod's action was unconsti tutional and contrary to the evidence, that new evidence was allowed to he introduced and because work, as ari avocation in a telephone office on the Sabbath, is a disciplinable offense. The case is sure to excite interest all over the country.-Columbia Journal, County Clomamissloneru. Present: Commissioners 0. P. Fiold chairman, and E. E. Perry. J. W Lawrence detained at home on accoun of sickness. *Minutes of last meetini confirmed. Tlestimony was heard on the petitior for a road from Lawrence's Ford t< Fort Hill. A. J. B~oggs, J. W. Coch ran, J. H. Payne, 0. A. Holcombe an< W. N. Cochran testified for the road IThe petition was granted. Specia commissioners to mark it off: J W Lawrence, 0. A. Holcombo and J. M Cochran; to report at next meeting aTestimony was -heard on petitioi for a change in the road near He tr' Hadden's. Joseph Looper and J. 13 Looper testified in regard to the change, which was ordered; and E. E~ Perry, J. B. Looper aind Joe Looper Jr., were appointed to lay it off. .Testimony was then heard on thb -Dacusville and Jesse Crenashaw road W. B. Jnes, A. K Eders v. ?LI R:.. don, W. B. Hendricks and Matthe Hendricks testified in favor of th change; J. M. Looper, T. A. Willian s.M. Looper and James Barnetl against. It was ordered that E. E Perry, 0. P. Field and M. Hendricki be appointed special commissionern to go over the route, examine the same and report their conclusions a the next regular meeting. Petition to send Thomas and Poll3 Crenshaw and Tabitha Bates to th4 poor house was granted. The baserent of the court housq was ordered to be cleansed. Ordered that if T. R. Price faili and refuses to move the lumber of the court house lot that suit be com menced against him. Pdtitions were filed as follows: Foi a road beginning near A. B. Kay' mills, thence by B. Hughey's and W D. Massengill's to Croswell schoo house and to public road at Garrison' field.-Notices sent. To be heard a! June meeting. Road from J. H. Am bler's to Margaret Eden's, beginning at James Massengale's, on Ambler' land, by W. H. Rigdon, to intersecl with Pumpkintown Road at Margare Erlen's.-To be heard at June meet ing. Change on road from Andersor line to Five Forks, by Carmel church -To be heard in June. A Housohold Treasure. D. W. Fuller, of Canajoharie, N. Y says that he always keeps Dr. King' New Discovery in the house, and hi family has always found the very bes results follow its use; that be wouk not be without it if procurable. 0. A Dykeman, druggist, Catskill, N. Y. says that Dr. King's Now Discover, is undouletedly the best cough reme dy; that he has nsed it in his fanil for eight years, and it has never faile< to do all that is claimed for it. Whi not try a remedy so long tried an( tested? Trial bottles free at McFall's Regular size 50c. and $1. Death of a Centenarian, Miss Julia Stanton died at th bomb of Mr. Cooper, in Brushy Creel township, Anderson county, yesterdaZ and will be buried at the old Douthi burying ground today at 1 o'clock Miss Stanton had lived to the remark able age of 105 years. Her deat was the result of an accidental fall in which her leg was broken, nin weeks ago.-Greenville News. Notice. All persons interested in the publi schools.of Bethlehem School Distric are notified to attend an election t< be held on the question of levying i special tax for school purposes at thi bridge on Shoal Branch, one-hal mile north of E. Smith Griffin's mill on Saturday the 26th instant, at 3 p M. E. S-IT11 GRIFFIN, Sec'ry of Board. "Ten people out of a dozen are it valids," says a recent medical autho ity. At least eight out of these tei it is safe to allow, are suffering fror some form of blood disease, wvhich persistent use of Ayer's Sarsaparill would be sure to cure. Then, don be an invalid. Insect Powder cleans out bed bugs moths, flesB, flies and all insects. 15c at Morris's. There is no excuse for any man t<n appear in society with a grizzly boar< since the introduction of Bucking ham's Dye, which colors natura brown or black. Notice. All who are inte rested in the pul: lie schools of Wolf Creek District ar requested to meet the trustees at Se cona Bridge on Twelve Mile on Sal urday the 19th instant, at 3 p. mn., t consider the matter of levying an ey tra tax for school purposes. Tak due notice and govern youraelves at cordingly. By order of the Board W. B. ALLGOOD, Ch'n. line fat mackeral, three for 25c. a Morris's. Lost Note. All persons are warned not to trad for note made to me by F. 0. Parsona for $43.00. Said note has been filche from me. JOE JONES. April 24, 1894. Finest Line of Canned Peache and Tlomnatoes at Morris's. RUN DOWN WITH DYSP[EPS IA STOMACH L~iver AND HEART AFFECTED. -. Almost in Despair lut Finally SB~y Taking AYER'S PILLS 'For fifteen years, I was a great suf ferer from indigestion in its worst forms. 0 I tested the skil of many doctors, but o grew worse and worse, until I became 0 so weak I eould net walk fifty yards without having to sit dewn and rest. My stomach, liver, and heart became affect-O ad, and I thought I would surely die. I 0 tried Ayer's Pills and they helped me o right away. I continumed their use andC am no ntrl well. I don't' know of 0 antigthat will so quickly relieve 0 -and eure the terrible suffering of dlys- O pepsia as Ayer's Pills.".-Join C. o PRITCHAnD, Brodie, Warren Ce., N. C. AYER'S PILLSi Received Highest Awards o 0 A THE WORLD'S FAIRl o 0 3 0.00000000000000000000 Kansas City Dried Beef 10 con per lb. at Morris's. T-W-O PAPERS For One's Price. BY SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT WITH THE ATLANTA WELKLY CONSTITUTION We are enabled to offer it with THE SENTINEL for one year for $1.50, club bing subscriptions to be sent to this offlce and accompanied by cash. LIBERAL PRIZE OFFERS Every subscriber to this remarkable club bing proposition is entitled to enter TWO PRIZE CONTESTS, sending his guesses for the $1,000 Cotton Crop Contest In:which there are FOUR PRIZES offered for the NEAREST ESTIMATES of the size of the cotton crop of 1893-4, now be ing marketed, and award to be made as soon as the New Orleans Cotton Exchange announces the official crop fikures. $400 IN GOLD for nearest gueo to the crop, $200 prize for second, $200 prize for third, $100 for fourth, $100 for fifth. Crops for recent years have boen as follows: In 1888, 7,017,707 bales; in 1889, 6,935,082; in 1890, 7,818,726; in 1891, 8,655,518; in 1892, 6,700,865. In addition to the above every clubbig subscriber can enter our combination E llRV WOR CONT FOR MAY Supply the missing word in the following sentence: The five hundred pounds of gold which he had received in exchang< .for his treasure, had been conveyet ,to the hiding place in th: - - u field. a ONE FOURT[H of the net sub scription receipts of those entering this con tsst will be divided among those who supply the correct word in the blank. in the above sentence. Thus, if there rre $5,000, one fourth would he $1,250. If ten supply the correct word, each would receive $125, if 100, each $12.50, &c. Both of the above contests free -and inaddition to TWO PAPERS For the Price of One. . Has a circulation of 156,000, and is a THE PEOPLE'S PAPER. It fa. vora Tariff Reform, an Individual *Income Tax, and the Expansion of the Currency to a degree sufficient to t meet the legitimate business demands of the country. It covers the news of the world e every week, having rnewvs correspond. ;ents in all the news centres of the 1world. We offer you THE PICK.. ENS SENTINEL and THlE ATLANTA WEEKLY CONST ITUTION for $1.501 per year. IF YOU WANT TO BUPY Goods Cheap for cash, come and see me.] am~ at Lewis & Son's old stand. Good Molasses 25c per gallon. Sugai Syrup 30c per gallon. Muscova do Molasses 40c per gallon. Many other things: Sugar, Coffee, Lard, Tinware, Glassware. I alsc have some Patent Medicine which)] will sell at cost for the cash. If you owe me on last year's accouni come and settle. I am needing money I didn't mean to make you mad wher you bought the goods, so come and settle and let's be friendly. W. C. BRALETT, Note Is hereby given that every owner o: personal property Within the corporate limits of the town .of Pickens, is re. qjured to make a fair and just return: of the same, under oath before the clerk of council, on or before the 2d day of Juno next. By order of the council, this 4th (lay of May, 1894. - J. J. LEWIS, Intendant. te C. E. ROBINSON, Clerk. Country Hama 10 cents per lb. al NAOOD, DRVM O. PICKENS, S. C. WE haven't been saying j It is not out of place, howev selected stock of goods in I bargains, but when it comes IN SHOES-Our stock cot Our stock is larger than evei We have suits from $4.oo DRESS GOODS and FA prices on GROCERIES that to be found anywhere. WE HAGOOD, BRUCEi PICKENS. Mc FALL' ALMANAC -FOR flAY, 1894 -0 Another car of Good Flour. A large lot of Good Corn. A lot of Sound Peas. A lot of Wheat Bran. A lot of nice Salt. A good stock of Shoes. A nice assortment uf H A lot of pretty Dress Go, A now lot of Tinware. A lot of good Jugware. A house full of Furniture. Another lot of Stoves. A big lot of Baskets. A large stock of Lamps. A lot of nice Trunks. A little of almost everytli We like to show our gc We like to sell them too So call and see us when Come to towm. A new lot of Grain Cradles, 3 Blades, S weeps, Grind Stones, Wlh barrows, Harrows, Briar Hooks. 111 Rakes, Sheep Shears, Bells, and a of other useful things in this i W. T. McFALI Marbles, all sizes and prices Morris's. 0tsRoo fin Costs only $2.00 per 100 square feet. Mi a good root for years, and any oete can it on. Gum-Elastic Paint costs only cnts per gallon,-in bhl. lots, or $4.50 five gallon tubs. Color dark red. stop) leaks Is tin or iron roofs, and will for years. TRY IT. Send stamp samples and full particulars. Gum-Elastic Roofing ( 89 and 41 West Broadway, NEW YO Local Agents Wanted. Best Muscavado molasses at IA WE WANT TO TOWELIT AderIsCOMMUNITY, Adhristhe way we propose to d 25 dozen 18x86 knotted fringed tow( 15 cents. 25 dozen 21x24 knotted fri towels at 20 cents. 25 dozen 24x48 kn< fringed towels at 25 cents. Special Drives In Table Clo1 Better bargains were never offered. sure to see them. Stamped Kensington work of every s-:rlption. Also a beautiful line of Star hinen Tray Cloths, S plashers, Scarfs, Crochet and Embroidery Cotton, V Silk and Linen Floss in all colors. It is an old chestnut, and we wou spring It on you If It didn't stick our petitors so: Best Indigo Blue Prints cents. Best Staple Gingham at 6 ci Here's Another Sticker, 5 papers of pins for 5 cents. Our hoi andl undlerwear department Is complet every respect. Our Ladles' Lisle Thu Vests at 25 cents, would be goodl vah: 50 cents, Our Ladles' 25 cents Hose< be equaled in Greenville for less the cents, WHAT DOES PLANT'S SHOES A OXF'ORDS MlEAN? It means that when a lady plants a of them on her feet that they will stay ti longer than any other shoe she can buy saves from 20 cents to SI per pair. VERY TRULY, *-GREENVILLE, 8. C. nuch to you lately. There is ,er, to put out a few sign boarc 'ickens County. We are not < to an every-day, substantial ba nprises the cream of three of r and there are some low price to $15.oo. IN HATS-We NCY NOTIONS in abundanc can't be duplicated. The lar APPRECIATE YOUR TR YOURS TRULY, k Co. WAE s Fine WAT Now at CAl Jones' Gray I for the Marke MANSION * Green NOW THI BRACE U' And sti No won ing.Have4 yt idg. No? WV in buxti ('all an< row '' Put an eel- develop >es- will soo lot no. a he BotSo o i li Ail. STYLE 0., D EA LE RS who push the sak RKwhich helps to increase the sei afor o selata lossr dpri, andw [oW. T. McFALL, PICKENS, S. C. nged >ted Be do0. '.pedi etc. lu8h 2 One Hundred Br The BEST lory "a Ever Offered an't t 85 ND Genil WE pair ere One and Tpw< Why buy Cheap Western Wap that irPatronizo HOME INDUSTRY Hi 0. W. SitRRINJmt Su..i W~~w MR. 4 HAGOOD &01 EASLEY, S. C. more in works than words, anyway. [s here,. showing the way to the best :laining to have any two-for-a-nickle rgain, we can't be equaled. the best factories in the country. s among them. IN CLOTHING have everything a man could wish. e for the ladies. We are naming rest stock of Tobaccos and Cigars ADE. W. M. HAGOOD & CO. EASLEY. :R MELON Ad CANTALOPE SEED ?ENTER BROS. Bradford, Ilonarch. Best Water Melons HIOUSE DRUG STORE Ville, - - S. C. N p gvowvhug about hard times. d1er you think times are hard. >u an add ini TIlE SENTINEL? e74, peoplie don't kmnowv you are ness and14 that is tihe reasoun times r'd to YOU whlle others prosper. 1l get our rates on advertising. add iun Thme Sentinel, aund await mnents. IIard( times with you W. L DOUGLAS $3 SH OE GENI" Squenklcess, flottom Waterproof. flest Shoe sold at thae price. ~Aaa~ILi~Sii wrk, costing Iron $6 to $8. $3.50 Poee Shoe, 3 Soles. * $2.50, and $28 Shoes, Uuequaalled at the price. * Boys $2 s$1.7 coo.he LADIES' -$3, $2.50 $2, $1.75 of W. L. oasthoesga, ins ustres, leson hei fllin of ord. The Sycn ela o ne I n spictponn halngwo L ENTR~AL, So. C.m andiHEAPS'Ipe o in South.Caroiona o acLDugahoesFanctorsy makeo thei fullieofgo8TThy~ beleve~'u can say nonmybugemaa wou. AI. 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