The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1880-12-02

not cast vote for Garfield
The assessed value Of taxable property
in Georgia has increased $14,00O,O00
during the past year.
Weaver carried Walker county, Texas,
by majority of sixteen over Hancock
and Garfield combined.
The cupola Of the courthouse at
Clarksville, Tenn, is surnounted by a
brazen eagle measuring twelve feet from
tip to tip.
A building erected at Lexington, Ga,
for a dancing hall when that town was
in the zenith of its glory is now used as
a stable.
The Appeal says that the all night
houses, where men can be around, drink
and quarrel, are the cause of nearly all
the rows that occur in Memphis
The City Council of Fort Smith, Ark,
has passed an ordinance prohibiting the
carrying of pistols in the city limits in
nay other way except in the hand.
The city board of health of Vicksburg
has petitioned the National Board of
Health to have sanitary survey made
of the city and it's surroundings.
Nearly one hundred more marriag
licenses have been issu ed to colored cou
pies in Mecklenburg county, N. c., this
year than to whites.
The new Mississippi code fixes the
fee of Coroner for holding an inquest
at $5 instead of $40, the former figure,
and some Of the Coroners are resigning
in consequence.
A proposition is about to be submitted
to the Little Rock City Council for the
construction of new water-works. A
number of prominent citizens have q
new organization in contemplation.
Cotton seed was first planted in the
United States, in 1921 in Virginia as an
experiment. 1t was first planted in
Georgia and the Carolinas in 1894,
and in Louisiana in 1742.
A water-wheel put up for a Touring
mill at Augusta, Ga, weighs 5000
pounds and is to furnish 135-horse
power. 1t was manufactured in Chat
tanOoga.
At a fashionable masquerade party at
Vicksburg, two ladies who attracted
much attention and admiration during
the evening were found to be young men
when the unmasking took place.
The finest dress ever seen in Atlanta
was worn at the inaugural ball by Miss
Leila Austell, of that city. 1t cost
$4,000, and was trimmed with lace pur-
chased by her in Paris, at 5000 per yard.
A boy in San Antonio, Texas, while
standing in front of his fathers house
eating peice of bread, was suddenly
attacked by an electric flame, which is
supposed t, have come from lightning
rod near by and was badly burned.
Gen. Phinney, at the Georgia Mining
Company, has thoroughly tested the
Robertson process for reducing ores,
and the tests show yield of $8 to $15
per ton from ore that yielded only 81. so
per ton. Works will soon be erected at
Gainesville.
The cotton crop of Texas was closed
by killing frost The total will amount
to 1,250,000 bales and $60,000,000. The
Chicago Texarkana Mexican Genital
cotton factory, with capital of 5000, 900,
was started here to-day. Forty thous-
and dollars was subscribed in Dallas.
The new statutes of Mississippi pro-
vide that in cases where persons are doing
business as agents, or in their own
name, with the goods and capital of
other people, the principals name must
be conspicuously displayed at the place
of business, or the goods shall be liable
for the debts of the person conducting
the business.
During the last three years nearly
400 people from North Georgia have
been converted to Mormonism, and emf
grated to Almaso, Col. The people of
the colony oppose polygamy and there
is only one polygamist among them.
The colony is still growing, a party of
fifty being ready at present to start from
Virginia to join it.
A man by the name of Albert Green,
while walking with young lady on
Sunday, lin Cleburne county, Texas,
was approached by Ellen Powell, whom
he had ruined. At night, Green and a
companion blacked themselves, forced
an entrance into the woman's house and