The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-02-17
SOUTHERN NEWS.

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arrived at Jacksonville, Fla.
The colored Methodists of Waco, Tex.
are to erect 81, 900 college.
Judge A. J. Ross, of Salado, has been
elected Grand Master of the Texas State
Grange.
Philadelphia workmen are laying street
mains for the new water-works in Ma
con, Ga.
Meridian has shipped more cotton for
this season than any other town in Mis-
Sissippi except Vicksburg.
Alabama has provision in her con-
stitutlon forbidding the consolidation of
competing lines of telegraph.
No smoking will hereafter be allowed
in any of the buildings of Vanderbilt
University, Nashville.
Mrs. Matilda Fields, of Gibson countv
4enn., sixty years of age, is the daughter
OF the celebrated Davy Crockett.
Atlanta, Ga, is large horse and mule
market. The receipts since September
have been 14,548 horses and mules, $3.50
cattle, and 25,990 hogs.
The Tampa (Fla.) Tribune mentions
report that the people in the eastern end
OF Hlllsborough county and in Polk are
becoming discouraged about the orange
business because of the lack of transpor-
tation.
Out of 172,005 voters registered in
Louisiana, 81, ,45l are white. and of these
1913 make their marks instead of wri
ting their names. The colored registra-
tration is s8,o24, and of these 11,40s
write their names.
The Dismal Swamp canal, which con-
meets Norfolk, (Va.) harbor with Albe-
marie, IN. CO. sound, is of great impor
tance to Norfolk. The number of YES
sells that passed through it last wear
included 34l steamers, 263 schooners, "a
sloops 617 lighters, "a boats and so RATS
Total, 1921.
A mysterious pillar of smoke rises from
the midst of morass in the southeastern
corner OF Jefferson county, Fla. Before
the war it was attributed to runaway
negroes, during the war to deserters, and
since the war to illicit distillers. It is
said that visible glow has often been
observed.
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not be accumulated very rapidly in the
South, but it will be rolled together
1ully as fast as the Northern mill-owners
Will care to have it. The North can and
Will manufacture a vast variety of
things, but it cannot monopolize or long
control the manufacture of the great
= staple of the South.
In Tennessee there are about l.250
conYicts, about half of the number being
in the penitentiary and the remainder in
branch prisons. The branch prisons at
Battle Creek coal mines and at Sewanee
are wooden structures inclosed by wood
en- palisades, and it is said that they have
: proved superior in comfort, security and
healthfulness to the penitentiary itself
The size of the cotton factory at Pied
mont, S. O., has been more than doubled,
and it is now the largest factory in one
building in the South. A correspondent
of the Charleston News and Courier saws
that five years ago there was no. single
house at that place, and now there are
~ besides the factory building, which
is to support ], 800 people and house H.
600 bales of cotton year.
Atlanta Constitution: The discovery
OF the lost portfolio came very near
working change in the list of States.
Georgia now has 1,642,071 people, and
Tennessee ], 542, 1853. If the enumerators
of Georgia had found 39s more people,
Georgia would have outranked Tennes-
see, and retained her place as the twelfth
State. AS the case stands, she is the
thirteenth State. Is there not another
lost portfolio?
The celebrated Dummitt orange grove,
the Oldest and largest grove in East Flor
ida, situated between the Indian river
and the Atlantic, comprising $50 acres,
having $500 trees now in bearing, pro-
ducing last year 1000 boxes has been
sold to the Duca Tella Castellucia, an
officer in the Italian military service
The Duke and Duchess will make Jack.
BonVille their winter home The Duke
proposes to have skilled laborers brought
from his groves in Sicily.
f. r Ferouson writas fro,,, ILL., TIT.