The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-04-28
NEWS GLEANINGS.


During March the yellow pine lum-
ber. shipped from Jacksonville, Fla,
amounted to 4,S31,7 ,779 feet.
The Houston (Texas) Post says that
over 100000 people petioned the Legis-
Iaturo on the prohibition question.
The Vicksburg (Miss.) Herald says
that the cotton factory at Water Valley,
which has been idle for some years, will
soon be put in repair and run again.
Col. James Crook, one of the Alabama
Railroad Commissioners, told reporter
OF the Atlanta Constitution that Gen.
Gordon owns 10000 acres of the finest
coal lands in the world.
Gainesville (Ga.) Southron: The gold
mines of Northeast Georgia are yielding
large dividends, with all the drawbacks
of winter and spriag unequaIed for Sc
verify in half a century. The rainfall
In March and April largely surpassed
that of any season within the memory of
the oldest inhabitant.
Memphis (Tenn) Appeal: With the
City-debt bill in force, and also the State.
debt bill, the rate of taxation in Mem
phis will be as follows; State-debt com.
promise on the 500, fifty cents; city
debt compromise on the 800 fifty cents;
city taxes for all purposes, 81 60; State
and county tax, seventy cents; total
amount of tax, Sc 80.
Columbus (Ga) Advertiser: Numbers
OF our planters are now paying high
prices for hay to feed stock on, and in a
short while will be paying nearly the
same per 100 pounds to have the grass
killed In order to make bale of cotton
to an average of three and half acres
OF land. This is one reason why our far
mers can accumulate no money, and in a
great measure accounts for the many
poor horses, COWS and hogs to be found
in this country.
Emigration has set in from the Valley
OF Virginia to Piedmont, Va. A num-
Der of farmers in the valley have recent
lY sold out and bought farms in Fauqui-
er and Piedmont counties. At Warren
ton, last week, farmer arrived from
Rockingham county seeking suitable
farms for twenty-five neighbors in that
county. The cause assigned for the
change is that Piedmont (Va) lands be.
ing cheaper, the farmers can own lager
tracts.
Tuscaloosa (Ala.) Times: Tuscaloosa
has three newspapers and one magazine :;
a Methodist, Catholic, a Presbyterian,
Baptist, an Episcopalian, and several
coiored churches; a University, two
High Schools for boys, and a number of
good schools for small children; two
banks, one national and the other pri-
yate; two cotton factories, two planning
mills and furniture manufactures and a
cotton-gin factory; an Insane Hospital,
and Theological Seminary for colored;
preachers and fifty business houses.
Atlanta (Ga.) Constitution Mayor
English told me yesterday that the I'M
crease in city property this year woul6
go sharply over 81, 100000. Bob Griffin,
one of the assessors, estimated that OF
this amount fully $5CO,O00 was in new
houses that had been added during the
year, and the balance in increased vail
ues. This is capital record for a youne
city and puts our total assessments above
10000, 600. The debt of the city il
about ten per cent Of the total value bu
it is decreasing while the city is growing,
Mayor English thinks that in three
years the debt will have shrunk to sew
en- per cent of the total value, which is
highest rate permitted. The outlook for
building next year is quite as good as
last.
A writer in the Reidsville IN, O.
Times, speaking of the birthplace of Ed
Richardson, said to be the richest mar
in the South, says that he was born II
Sergeansville, Caswell county, N. G.
He and Esquire Samuel S. Harrison
were born not half a mile apart anc
within two weeks of each other. TIL,
old Ladies used to say that when on,
died OF old ago the other would quak,
with fear. His name is Edmund F
Richardson, not Edward r. "He frs
set out as a young man clerking in Dan
vile at Sullivan's Hotel, the cold Bel
Tavern" Forty years ago he drove al
'he way from Mississippi here in a sulky
ana there wasn't railroad tn be Coon
now now see the difference. They wante
MIN for Governor, but he wouln't hea
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