The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1880-11-25
SOUTHERN NEWS.

Inere are nine cotton SEED OIL mills In
Mississippi
The cattle drive of Texas this year will
reach 400, 1000.
The State Treasury of Texas contains
nearly 81, 100000.
Jasper county, Ala, voted to repeal
the prohibition law.
| Western Texas is fast being turned
into pastures with barbed wire.
Beaufort COUNTY, S. O., has 2, ,43S white
and q, ,752 colored inhabitants.
The State offices at Little Rock are
still heated with blazing pine knots.
| There are 2,17O members Of the An
cient Order of United Workmen in Ten
nessee.
The new public school building at
Little Rock will be heated with hot
water pipes.
| A gentleman has recently settled at
| New Smyrna, Fla, with twenty-five
hives of bees, brought from Ohio.
| Preparations are being made to light
the Eagle and Phoenix Mills at Colum
bus, Ga, with the electric light.
Of 122 Greenback newspapers in the
United States only sixteen are published
south of the Ohio river.
S. II. Cox, of Oglethorpe county, Ga,
presented the Rev. Mr.. Ivey with a
plantation worth $4,000.
There is but one member of the forty
of the last Georgia Senate returned to
the present Legislature.
There are fourteen thousand six hun
dred and fifty-two more females than
males in South Carolina.
The Pratt coal and coke company, five
miles from Birmingham, Ala, are get
ting out 600 tons of coal per day.
The Commissioner Of immigration of
Florida thinks that $4,000 people lave
immigratcd to that State within two
years.
An elegant new steamer is being built
to run On the line between New York,
Port Royal, Fernandina and Jackson
vile, Fla.
In Nicholas county, w. Va, james
Austin, aged thirteen, and George Mas
tin, aged sixteen, killed during weeks
hunt, four deer.
Notice has been given that bill will
be introduced into the next Legislature
to increase the liquor license of Telfair
county, GA, to $4,000.
The shipments of cattle and sheep
from Southwestern Virginia arc now so
heavy that it is with difficulty that cars
can be procured for their transportation.
The machinery for Clement Attach
ment has been received and put in posi-
ton at Mt. Pleasant, Gadsden county,
Fla 1t took three cars to carry the ma
chinery to that place.
A sale of $4,000 in Tennessee bonds
was made in Nashville at forty-siX cents
on the dollar, heavy advance on the
rates which have ruled for some time
past
One thousand feet of tubing for the
artcsian well has arrived in Little Rock,
and work will be at once resumed in pre-
pairing the we'll for further boring. The
directors believe that large volume of
water will be obtained.
A man in Madison county, Tex, gath
cred on his farm l 200 bushels of pecans
and sold them in San Antonio for $40
per bushel Just $25 covered the ex-
pcnses of gathering and marketing, so he
realized profit of So, 400 on the crop.
In Augusta, Ga, velocipede tourna-
ment for the small bows &c '.c'A every
year, the merchants of the city contribu
ting the prizes, which consist of knives,
balls and other articles best suited to
boys fancy.
There will be i've colored men in the
Tennessee Legislature, three from Shelby,
one from Upton and one from Davidson
county. II. A. Sykes, the colored men,
ber from Davidson, was member of the
North Carolina Legislature.
The Capitol Commissioners appointed
by the Georgia Legislature to look into
the validity of the title of The city of
Atlanta to the City. Hall lot, which was
decided some time ago to the State for
the site of the State capitol, have held a
meeting and decided to accept the City
| Hall lot.
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