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Newspaper
Pickens Sentinel
Location
Pickens, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1894
Page
4
Poem extols the beauty and joy in daily moments. It urges uplifting perception, sharing happiness, and embracing sunshine as troubles fade and skies clear. The verse links golden hours to golden days through hopeful living and cheerful steps.
Rev Dev Tal mage tours Australian cities presenting a sermon on life’s worth. He argues the answer hinges on the life you live, citing Solomon Jeremiah and modern wealth, social status, and personal conduct. He urges purposeful living, calls attention to youth to maximize gifts, and closes with faith in God and eternity.
Dr. Stuart Ildridge in Yokohama urges strict limits on admitting goods from China to guard the United States from the plague. He cites Canton and Hong Kong outbreaks, with mortality rising to 100 daily in Hong Kong. Japan enforces a nine day quarantine on ships from infected areas to keep the disease out.
Director Buer reports a very good growing week ending July 22 1894 with cooler than normal mean temperatures and widespread rainfall causing some crop damage especially in bottom lands. Crops like corn cotton and sweet potatoes show strong growth though grassing and rust noted. yields expected to be strong with large corn and turnip seed plantings and heavy melon shipments locally. Rainfall amounts listed for multiple counties across the state.
The State Alliance adopted a resolution approving members of Congress for relief efforts but condemning their vote to repeal the bank tax. A council split over Duncan Gantt with calls for expulsion followed, new officers were elected, and a misadventure in New York left Miss Eleanor Markham nearly buried alive but later recovering.
A young Russian named Michelson arrives in Charleston from St. Petersburg aboard the Richard LIL. He dazzles Col. Trenholm and Major Mitchell, works as a clerk, forges checks, serves time in prison, becomes a Cambellite preacher, marries, then vanishes. Later reports place him in Florida politics, with forgery arrests in Georgia towns.
News from Ivory Arkansas reports a feud over a slanderous report ending in a fatal fight. Rev. J S Pratt and two congregants were slain while others, including Dan Perdue and G G Stuart, were wounded. Competing factions fled to the river. Pratt was killed by a Winchester.
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