The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1880-11-04
SOUTHERN NEWS.

Rome, Ga., had but five bar-rooms three
years ago, while it now has twenty-one.
A seventy-acre field near Norcross, Ga,
yielded seventy bales of cotton this year.
A nugget of gold weighing two and a half
pounds has been taken out of the Christian
mine, in North Carolina.
Forty thousand dollars have been subscrib-
ed Tor grain elevator in Richmond, Va.
The amount needed is 100000.
The last grand jury impaneled in Claren-
don county, S. c., included four colored men,
all of whom could read and write.
The cotton oil works of Eufaula have been
completed. They have 1000 bushels of cot
ton seed on hand with which to start opera.
tions.
There are in Georgia 1882 colored men
who own, by the tax receivers returns for
their respective counties, 551 ,199 acres of
land.
In Dodge county, Ga, a Mrs Wright has
made twenty yards of silk, having herself
raised the trees, attended the worms and
woven the silk into cloth.
The receipts of the North Carolina colored
State Fair, recently held in Raleigh, were
something over $4,000. The expenses of all
kinds, including premiums, will fall rather
8 1ort of S. 500.
Edward 1. Strohecker, aged thirty years,
son OF prominent physician in Macon, Ga,
was found unconscious on the sidewalk, on
Broadway, New York. suffering from poison
ing from using opium cigarettes
Mrs. Annie Perkins, the est inhabitant
OF Danviile, Va, wa buried last week. She
was 1O4 ears of age, and was the mother of
Rev. VIM. Perkins, Baptist minister, of the
! old "hard-shell" denomination.
There are in Chatham county, Ga, includ-
| ing the city of Savannah, 1O,917 school child
rem, of whom only 4,031 are white. The de-
partments Of modern languages and calls.
| themes have been abolished in the schools
of Savannah.
Vicksburg is making movement toward
| improving her streets, but the new blocks of
! the Nicholson pavement are being laid on the
same planks that have rested under the old
pavement for ten year and the improve
mont will hardly be permanent.
~ 1l' h''IS ISol, leAaS, IL lafmer named j.
A. Tinkle was shot dead by negro boy who
had been in his employ several years. Mr.
Tinkle had just sold his cotton for $4OO, and
the negro secured this moneg and escaped
before his crime was discovered.
Two les of cotton from Harris county,
Ga, were received at Columbus a few DAYS
ago, which were ginned and packed twenty.
three years ago. The bagging and rope are
in good order. The cotton was sold and
brought nine cents per pound for one and
ten cents for the other
Vicksburg Herald: What this town and
county wants just now is labor-good, indus
trious labor and plenty of it. Negroes have
become so tritiing that they can't be utilized
any more. Just think of a common rouster
demanding salary of 500 per month and
his board for rolling cotton.
correspondent writes from Amelia coun-
ty, Va, that twenty-five cents is the usual
price for baptising converts in that section,
and adds: "Several colored Baptist preachers
in this county charged fifty cents a head for
baptising; but, of late, one of them has
agreed to do it for twenty-five cents cash,
and now all have come down to that"
w. f.. Hidden, the n.ineralogst who was
in North Carolina last year in search of
platinum, to supply Edison's electric light,
IS again in the western part of the State. He
is now looking principally for chromate of
iron, which is being used In the manufacture
OF the finer kinds of paints, and in dyeing
and calico printing
a horned snake Is kept as a curiosity by
II. c. Gregory, at his residence in Mansboro,
Va. 1t is about three feet long and has q
horn on the end of the tail, about one and a
half inches in length, little bent and resem-
bling very much the spur OF rooster. The
snake uses the horn as a weapon, which is
said to be very deadly. Even trees are said
to have been killed by its blow.
Tarboro, North Carolina, has colored
woman who was raised as boy; does not rec
ollect when she began to wear male clothing;
still dresses and acts like man does mans
work and bears mans name. She has an
aversion to being with women or doing their
kind of work, and says she would 90 to the
penitentiary before she would wear bonnet.
She as mother, but not at all motherly, and
her child cplls her papa.
In Georgia the number of children enrolled
in the public schools of the State has risen
from 1875 in 1878 to $3.50 in 1877, the last
year covered by the State School Commits.
siOner's report The number of colored
children in attendance at the pub ic schools
has more than doubled in the last five years.
The State makes the same appropriation for
the colored State University that it does fer
the white. Georgia requires poll.tax from
all voters, and returns show that in 1879 the
number of color men who paid this tax