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Newspaper
Pickens Sentinel
Location
Pickens, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 03, 1890
Page
4
The New York World reports over 200 moonshiners have a fortified Franklin County Virginia camp along Shooting Creek and Runnit Bay with 100 illicit stills. They patrol the area with armed guards and two to three cannons, defying U S authorities as revenue officers lack funds to act before July.
A Washington Star report cites Mr. King of the census bureau describing humorous replies from Southern colored clergy asked to record births and deaths for vital statistics. Clergymen, including a Mississippi preacher from Skunk Hollow, question priorities regarding white folks versus negroes.
The census of 1890 will start June first and finish by July first. Enumerators receive pay per living inhabitant, farm, establishment, and other categories under the Census Act of March 1, 1889, with minimum and maximum rates and per diem limits. Mileage expenses are restricted, and district population limits apply.
St Louis architect Isaac Taylor leaves Friday for Mexico to supervise construction of a new $2,000,000 hotel in the city. The 460-room, fireproof structure will feature a 60 by 80 foot main dining room, open-truss ceilings, onyx walls, and frescoes depicting Mexican history. The project includes grand banquet and orchestra galleries and will house three dining rooms finished in onyx and marble. The hotel will welcome up to 1,500 for large events and will employ government-commissioned artists for decorative panels.
Surveys of the Virginian Western reach to Washington county Virginia with a line from near Buchanan Botetourt county parallel to the Norfolk and Western and Clinch Valley division. Plans aim to connect with the Tennessee Midline near Bristol and continue via the Richmond and... division to Memphis. Colonel A B Buford of Richmond leads the project.
The census department prepares to count the U S population with district supervisors appointing enumerators who must reside in subdivisions. Enumerators begin June 2 with city districts done in two weeks and rural areas in a month. Wages range from 50 to 100 dollars per enumerator. The questions cover personal details and home ownership with penalties for nonresponse. Superintendent Porter aims to have population estimates by August for congressional apportionment.
Colonel Frank Coxe and General P M B Young lead a syndicate that bought about half a million acres of the Okeefenokee swamp spanning Georgia and Florida. They plan surveys within ten days to estimate acres and clearing costs, expect cypress draining costs near 500000 dollars, and may develop phosphate beds for sugar plantations.
Vice-President Morton returns from the South with favorable impressions for its people and prospects. A New York Augusta syndicate buys thousands of acres in South Carolina to develop and ease access to Augusta. William E. Christian leaves the Charlotte Democrat for a Philadelphia paper, after marrying General Stonewall Jackson’s daughter who died recently leaving two children. The Midway hotel and several Kearney businesses burn in a NW wind, losses likely over 150000, one man dies leaping from a fourth-story window. A Redlands tragedy sees D C Gresham shot by C G McConkey, who then dies by suicide. both men are prominent. Aleck Copeland is fatally shot at his Clinton South Carolina home. Fearon Leak arrested amid old grudge. The new state law caps interest at seven percent, eight percent by written contract, with prior deals exempted. Washington Herald notes Stonewall Jackson’s widow may receive a pension for Mexican War service. Commissioner Raum sees no reason to deny.
Southern news items report Knoxville tailors forming a strike for higher pay while the Tennessee Legislature’s late session cost about twenty one thousand dollars. Other notes mention gambling suppression in Memphis and Pan American delegates, pensions for Confederate veterans, and local incidents across several states.
The City of Mexico cathedral features five naves six altars and fourteen chapels housing viceroy remains and famed relics. A silver balustrade from China weighs twoton eight tons and an emerald studded gold high altar once led the world in magnificence. The Assumption statue and a $70 000 lamp vanish after revolutionaries and cleaners altered their fate.
After the election the Paris flower trade sees red carnations tumble while white carnations hold at 1 franc a dozen. Red carnations sell at most 7 sous, signaling a market wary of association with failure and political symbolism.
Advertorial style claim promotes Botanic Blood Balm from Augusta Georgia as a universal cure. A reader from Athens Tennessee describes six bottles healing a leg bone enlargement and running sores, while an Anniston News edition plans a trade issue on April 1 detailing local growth and railroads.
An advertisement asserts that diseases peculiar to women especially monthly disorders are cured by the timely use of Bradfield's Female Regulator. The claim targets female health and promotes a medicinal product as a solution.
N W Tron at 134 Main Street Columbia South Carolina sells pianos and organs direct from factory with no agents commissions. Featured brands include Chickering Mathusek Mason Hamlin Sterling and Arion pianos and organs with prices from $22 for uprights to $200 for Arion pianos and $50 for Sterling organs. Instruments carry six year guarantees and a fifteen day trial with expenses both ways if unsatisfactory. Installment sales available.
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