The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-03-17
SOUTHERN NEWS.

the last year. ........ ...
The colored population of Arkansas
has increased from 122, ,169 in 1870 to
21O,622 in 1880.
The Lynchburg News says that during
the past eleven months the sale of the
goods of the Charlottesville woollen mills
has given about seventeen per cent. net
profit from the capital stock.
The work of naming and numbering
the streets Of San Antonio, Texas, was
begun February 16. Although the city
is over 140 yeara old, but few of the
streets have been named, and none num-
bered. ....
The Palatka (Fla.) Herald says that
there are 10000 acres of the best sugar
lands in the world, south Of St. Angus
tine, on the Atlantic coast. If properly
cultivated it would produce 10000 hogs
heads Of sugar annually.
The constitution Of the State of Texas
provides that the Legislature shall have
no power to appropriate any of the pub
lie money for the establishment and
maintenance of bureau of immigration.
or for any purpose of bringing immi-
grants to this state.
The receipts of cotton at Columbus,
Ga, for the season beginning August 81,
on February % attained the total regis
tration of 1OO,38S bales, figure which
has never before been exceeded, except
in three seasons 1856, 100, ,629; 1859,
115.885, and 1S59-6O, 122,11O.
The silver dollar of the Confederate
States is valued at 200. There were
oaiy few of those coins struck. The
Confederate government had the dies
made and few coins were struck at the
New Orleans mint for the inspection of
the government official. They found,
how ever, that they had no more silver
The prohibition bill passed by the
Alabama Legislature for the benefit of
Clarke and Limestone counties forbids
the sale and manufacture of spirituous
liquors in all shapes and forms, and ex
cepts nothing but the wine used bv
churches in communion. Doctors who
lind 1T necessary to use it at all must give
ut in doses like other medicine.
The free night school opened at Mem
phis in front of the court house, on Main
street, for the benefit of mechanics,
labore's, newsboys and others, whose op-
portunities have been defective, is sue
cessful. The attendance has outgrown
the room. The school is in charge Of
Scott A. Murray, who is principal of the
Peabody sc ool in South Memphis
Those attending the night school pav
nothing, and are furnished with everv-
Thing necessary by charitable citizens,
The Arkansas House has amended the
House joint resolution proposing an
amendment to the State constitution
prohibiting the sale or giving away of
liquors, as follows: Hereafter it shall
not be lawful for any person, directly or
indirectly, to manufacture, import, sell,
give away, or in any manner traffic in
any Intoxicating liquors in the State Of
Arkansas, except for sacrimental, me-
dlclnal, art and mechanical purnoses
under such penalties as shall be- nre
scribed by law.
The Waldeck plantation in Brazoria
county, Texas, comprises about 2,60O
acres, about four miles from Columbia
Formerly clarified sugar was manufac-
tured; afterward cotton was substituted
Alter the war cane was again planted
but the sugar is not clarified. There are
ooO acres now in cane and 10 more mat
ted down to be planted. Last wear the
product was $50 hogsheads of sugar and
l'3oo barrels of molasses, together worth.
say $4,000 or more. The Galveston
News thinks that the whole of Brazoria
Fort Bend, Malagorda and Wharton
counties could be converted into one vost
sugar field, making enough to supply the
whole United States.
1t seems that there are in GEORGIA cer.
tain lots or tracts of land of nnuauol
quantity. An inquiry addressed to w.
ID. Sparks respecting the origin of the
very odd 2O93, 400 and forty acre lots
has drawn out long explanation in the
Constitution. It seems that the act of
June 16, 1902, for the survey and disposal
OF the lands then just acquired from the
creek Indians, between the Oconee and
Ocmulgee rivers required the lands to
be surveyed into tracts forty-fve chains
square, which gives an area of 2O21 acres.
The survey of forty acres was ordered in
the gold region, to give opportunity to