The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1880-12-16
SOUTHERN NEWS.

soon in Little Rock.
The Libby prison, in Richmond, Va,
has been sold for $4,000, and will be used
as tobacco factory.
The survey of the Savannah river has
been completed, and the estimated cost
of improvement is $4,000.
A farmer in Pickens county, Ala, has
made ia gallons of molasses from less
than half an acre of sugar cane.
Gov. Wilt, of Louisiana, has ordered
| the planters to take care of their own
levces, as the State is unable to make the
necessary repairs.
Mrs. Catherine Coveney, of New Or
leans, was bitten by black setter dog in
August and she died Tuesday of hydro
phobia. She was seventy-t two years old.
G. A. Peyton, negro of Memphis,
was sentenced to one years imprison-
ment in the penitentiary Wednesday for
marrying Levinia Washington, white
woman.
Mrs. Chaplin, of Charleston, S. c., pre-
scntcd petition to the City Council of
Charleston against liquor licenses. 1t was
signed by 5000 persons.
Gen. Sherman, who is at San Antonio,
has decided that military bands can play
| for private concerts as they are not en-
ploycd as musicians by the government.
Col. Glenn, who has run level along
the Colorado river, says that there is am
pie fall from between the mouth of Bull
creek and Austin to make practicable a
canal for driving machinery.
A school for the instruction of youths
in musical education is to be established
in New Orleans, in order to take advan-
tage Of the act Of Congress placing a
training ship at the disposal of that city.
Oranges, the Sanford, Fla, Journal
says, are not cracking and bursting on
the trees as they did last year. Some,
however, that were dana ed by thorns
during the gale of August, are dropping,
but very few.
Miss Mildred Lee, daughter of Gen
Robert Z. Lee, is in Staunton, Va, tho
guest Of Mrs. John B. Baldwin. Miss
Lee has travelled nearly all over tho
world, and never heard the "Pinafore'
until she heard it in Staunton the other
night.
In the case of William Williams, col
orcd, for killing the Rev. Mr.. Scott, col.
orcd, Of Austin, Texas, because of ieal-
ousy, the verdict was to send him to the
penitentiary for life. 1t evidently
pleased the defendant, for, feeling his
throat he smiled.
On Tuesday letter was returned from
the Dead-letter Office to the postmaster
of New Orleans which had gone to En-
gland via New York, returned to Ameri-
ca via Boston, forwarded from there to
the Dead-letter office and returned to
New Orleans, with nearly $4,000 of
drafts in it.
There arc at present in Key West,
Fla. q male and female manatee, or sea
COW, the finest specimens ever captured.
They were taken by means of huge nets
constructed specially for the purpose,
which were spread in one of the small
rivers emptying into the gulf upon the
Florida coast.
Complete census returns OF Alabama,
published in the Montgomery Advertiser
and Mail, give a total population for 1880
of 1,255, ,OG9, against 984,215 in 1870,
being an increase in ten years of $685.
iS54 In this statement the figures for
the counties of Calhoun, Clay, Shelby
and st. Clair are not official.
Rev. Thos. Stickney Haskell, who, up
to the latter part of 1876, was an actor
and circus performer, preached Sunday at
+. Carondelet street Methodist Church
South, New Orleans. A large number
of ladies and gentlemen were present to
listen TO the eloquent words of the be-
nevolent old gentleman.
The motion to quash the Indictment
in the case of Abe Rothschd, the muir
derer of Bessie Moore, at Marshall, Texas,
was sustained on Monday by Judge
Booty. He has been ordered into the
custody of the sheriff to await the action
of the grand jury, but the decision of the
Judge is looked upon as virtually an ac
quittal.
At the Baptist convention at Camden,
South Carolina, the report of the Sta
tistical Secretary, the Rev. Luthur