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Newspaper
Pickens Sentinel
Location
Pickens, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 12, 1891
Page
2
Local items discuss railway subscription enthusiasm and costs, political counts in Barnwell, and cotton prices vs finished goods. Resignations and business ties appear with Thackston and Garrett Hydraulic Motor. Governor Tillman inquiry on poor relief contrasts with county poor fund and debates over public institutions and poor farms.
A reform stance notes that 374 of 600 railroad companies enforce strict rules against alcohol. From conductor to flagman depot agents and telegraph operators face dismissal for whisky impairment. Railroads frame it as business, protecting property and passenger safety over personal habit.
A fragment discusses minimizing pain by avoiding trifles and wisely evading trivial sufferings. It contrasts tiny harms with a broader machine metaphor and hints at prudence in seeking comfort. The text remains cryptic and philosophical without a clear narrative.
Greenville News notes that east side river merchants plan to stop time business next year after informal agreement. Landlords now borrow to pay tenants and keep papers, while merchants fear losses on liens. Renters face becoming day laborers if supplies aren’t furnished.
One Rembert of Texas devised a roller attachment to compress or bat cotton as it exits the gin and feed it into the press box, enabling a five hundred pound bale to shrink to half its size. Shown at the Atlanta Exposition, the invention drew much attention for potential cost savings.
The piece proclaims a sweeping Democratic triumph in New York and hints at Cleveland’s national potential. It credits Governor Russell Campbell’s defeat as evidence against protectionism and notes shifts in Iowa and Massachusetts toward the Democrats while mentioning McKinley.
Mrs Ame Ha F E Barry, a popular American author, writes an exquisite romantic story set first in the West Riding of Yorkshire, then in a Mexican region and Texas. The tale, to appear in a metropolitan weekly, promises a purely romantic fiction led by a female author. Mortality and local notices follow. Peter King, lifelong resident of Anderson County, died after a long illness at his Brushy Creek home aged about seventy seven. He was a Shiloh Methodist Church member and leaves a son and daughter. The community mourns his passing. The Sentinel urges readers to subscribe for real estate ads to find bargains as land markets thrive in the county.
The Atlanta Journal argues that Democrats can win next year by nominating trusted leaders and making tariff reform the central issue. A strong ticket and a low tariff platform could flip key states including New York New Jersey Connecticut Indiana Massachusetts Rhode Island Iowa and Illinois Michigan Wisconsin, while warning against heedless defeat.
The 1797 grant of 238 acres to William Symmes near Pendleton village, signed by Gov. Charles Pinckney, traces ownership through several holders and notes the tract’s placement in then Washington County. The record, now preserved by E J Shanklin, shows pristine ink and careful penmanship. Also referenced are political notes on a federal district attorney appointment and a call for united Jeffersonian democracy in the state.
The piece notes Russell Sage earning a first wage as a clerk in a Troy grocery store, Ife learning frugality in a brother’s shop, Harrison finding his first dollar in a stocking toe at Christmas, Levi P. Morton earning his first dollar as a Shoreham clerk, and Blaine teaching in western Pennsylvania for his first dollar before becoming a newspaperman.
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