The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1880-12-23
SOUT HERN NEWS.

The city tax rate at Mobile is $1.75 per
800. At Memphis it is So.
| gin for sea island cotton has been in
v'nted by aScreven county Georgian.
Capt. Henry DeTonti made the first settle.
meit in Arkansas, in the year 1880.
Sheep raising is said to be the principal
industry of Geneva county, Ala.
Sheep-raising is id to be the principal
industry of Geneva county, Ala.
The forthcoming report of the Auditor will
show in North Carolina $50, 0,4S3 hogs.
| Twcnty-seven artesan wells are in Fort
Worth, Texas.
| A bill in Alabama proposes to forbid the
shipment of freight on Sunday.
In Birmingham, Ala, more than 100 houses
have been built in six weeks
Gov. Yarmouth expects to make over one
million pounds of sugar this year on his
Magnolia, La, plantation.
| Mr.. T. NJ. Boyd, of Va, has been called to
the charge Of the Eufaula. Ala, PRESBYTERIAN
church.
| The total loss by the fire at Durham, N. G.,
last week is estimated at 100000 to S65OOO.
| Fourteen or fifteen buildings were destroyed
| The Alabama senate has passed q bill au-
thorizing the appointment of a commissioner
| Of immigration.
Capt Dwyer is cleaning out the Knoxubee
| river for steamers, which can reach Macon.
Miss, by spring
| The quantity of leaf tobacco sold at Dan
II will Va
| pounds.
| The Henry county, Alabama, Jail is with
| out an occupant for the first time since il
was built.
There arc over 5000 bales Of cotton in
compress i'll Vicksburg, awaiting transporta-
ton to New Orleans.
| There will be 20 farmers in the next legis-
lature of Texas. very large majority will
4 be lawyers.
In the African Methodist church of South
Carolina, there are 100 local preachers, and
92 exhorters.
The New Orleans Demo crat says that the
Sabine river never f1oated so many stea III
| boats as now.
The travel on st. Johns river, in Florida
is thought to be 80 per cent. greater than in
1879
1t is said that there is plenty of idle land
IN Louisiana, which can be bought cheap
md will yield large crops of corn, cotton and
cane.
| Gen. Joseph f. Brown lives on Washing
| ton street, Atlanta; Benz. II. Hill, on Peach
tree, and Gen. Gordon, at Klrkwood, a sub
urban village.
| The census returns from ten counties of
/ Georgia are not yet completed. 1t is thought
| that the result will show that Georgia has be-
tween 100000 and 100000 population.
The new ice factory in course of erection
at New Orleans wi turn out about $4,000
tons OF ice annually, and employ about rs
hands.
| The Jacksonville (Fla.,) Union reports the
| reception by rail in that city for shipment
to northern factories of 55 specimens of
| Florida wood.
The Gazette says that German or Swedish
servant girls are to be supplied to RESPONSE
| bic families at Little Rock. Two or three,
have already arrived.
/ Poisoned water is said to have appeared
in the gulf. The Pensacola Gazstte hopes it
will not reach the upper banks. The fish
seem instinctivcly to flee from it.
| The lberville South says that five'acres of
cane ground last week on Mrs. -Paulin Du-
| py's plantation yielded 1925 quarters hogs
beads of sugar of excellent quality.
The constitution of Florida provides that
after 1880 the Legislature shall pass a law
making an education qualification for
voters.
| plan to settle the state debt of VIRGINIA
| proposes to issue three per cent. bonds for
the whole Of the principal end establish n
| sinking fund
| The amount of public school money avail.
able i'll Georgia, this year is $346273, or
about 80 cents head on the school popuIa
| ton.
| The roll of tn. New Orleans Cotton Tx.
change is now larger than at the close of
any previous year. The board is about to
buy the property known as the Denham cor
! ner.
An orange crop embracing 35 acres con.
tanning about $500 trees, in Sumter county
Fla, has been purchased by Columbus,
Va, man for $31 900. He sold the fruit now
on the trees for $4,000.
The annual report Of Major H. S. Thomp
son, state superintendent of education of
South Carolina shows 1913 schools and 3171
teachers for 1879-8O, against 2,9O1 schools and
! 3,166 teachers for 1880. In 1867 there
were 2,483 schools and 2,674 teachers.
| twenty-five m cmbers Of the South Carroll.
| M 1oc,;cI o4ure orc in fovo, of I, .I1.-