The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1880-11-11
SOUTHERN NEWS,
Selma, Ala, is growing rapidly.

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Nashville ships fifteen car loads of
lumber northward every day.
Five negroes were elected TO the Geor-
gia Legislature at the recent election.
The ladies # Macon propose to make
vigorous winter campaign in the tenn
perancc cause.
The people of Clarendon, Texas, are
building abode houses. They are made
of sun-dried bricks.
A colored couple were married in the
poor-house at Barnesvillc, Ga, the groom
ITO years old and the bride only forty.
The three richest men in Georgia are
Joseph E. Brown, of Atlanta, and Fer
dinand Phinizy and John A. White, of
| Athens.
Bnrnum is having bad luck in Texas.
An elephant, two tigers, giraffe, train,
ed oxen and a number of smaller animals
in his show have died.
The tobacco outlook has increased the
| value of timbered land in Buncombe
county, N. c., at least fifty per cent.
within the last three years.
In Schley county, Ga, q freedman,
with one mule, this year made twenty
three bales of cotton, weighing over SOC
pounds each, and 200 bushels of corn.
4 young man died at San Antonio
Texas, after licking cotton from the cf-
feet O poison put on the cotton to kill
| insects. His brother is ill from the same
cause.
A colored girl named Lizzie Hampton,
IN Union county, S. c., has given birth
to twin children, which are ioined to-
gether by union of the breast bone,
having but one naval, but supposed to
have two sets Of intestines confined in
one cavity.
r. A. Hyslop, gentleman living in
Norfolk county, Va, recently captured
an ordinary live turtle possessed of two
well-formcd heads. The turtle was
brought to bay in the woods by dog,
and is considered such n curiosity that
MIR. Hyslop has decided to send it on to
the Smithonian Institution at Washing
ton.
Leprosy exists to a considerable extent
IN the parish of Lafourche, La An at
tempt to make IN official investigation
was lately resisted with arms, the lcpers
and their friends believing that the suf-
1erers were to be isolated on an island in
the ocean. The report of the p' ysicians
IS that the disease is not gaining ground.
Baton Rouge, La, has no public
schools open. The same is true of St.
Landrey, and the Democrat, of the latter
parish, says: "Wc have school officials,
State and parochial, all the time, but no
schools. What is the use of having an
7 organization that accomplshes nothing ?
| The public school system of this State is
a delusion and snare"
Samuel Hawthorne, who killed McGcc
at Vicksburg in September, has been SEN
fenced to the penitentiary for life by
jury of twelve colored men. This is the
first case in Mississippi in which white
man has been convicted by negroes. The
jury is said to have exhibited every evi
dence of marked attention, and brought
in their verdict intelligently.
The Vallambrosa Place, near DubI;n
Ca, once the home of Gov. George M.
Iroup, but recently the residence of Col.
Robert Wayne, who married n grand
daughter of Gov. Troup, was DESTROYED
by fire. The family pictures and fine
old silverware were all lost, and many of
the historic oaks were killed by the fire.
Col. Wayne has suffered losses from fire
four times within eleven years.
In Tennessee, under the law O 1874. |
no liquor can be sold within four miles
of an incorporated school of learning,
unless located in an incorporated town
or city. The friends of temperance are
taking advantage of the enactment in
some portions of Shelby county by seeur-
ing charters Of incorporation for schools
in their neighborhood, in all cases near
some little village where the ineb iatinp
fluid is dispensed.
The Kings Mountain Centennial AS
sociation reports a surplus of funds re-
naming after dcfraying the expenses of
the recent celebration. It has deter
mined to build aniron railing around the
monument and construct a dwelling
house on the mountain near by for the
keeper of the monument, who is to be |
selected hereafter. The Association is a