The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-05-19
NEWS GLEANIMGS.

The Live Stock Journal learns that
the New Orleans, Chicago and st. Louis
railroad has erected vast amount of
barbed wire fencing along it's track in
Southern Mississippi and Louisiana, and
will soon have it all along the line, SO as
to keep off stock from the track.
The Little Rock Gazette publishes
specifications of material and work
required to build hospital for the in
sane at Little Rock, Ark, from which it
appears that the main building Is inten-
ded to be sixty-three feet front by one
hundred and four deep, and the wings
each one hundred and ffty-six feet long
and forty feet wide.
New Orleans Picayune: Texas towns
grow SO fast that the population is al
ways ahead Of the returns. According
TO the last census Galveston had 22, 253;
San Antonio, 20, SCI ; Houston, Is, SAG
Austin, 10,960; Dallas, 1O,35S.
At Blackville, S. c., q correspondent
OF the Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle and
Constitutionalist Gays the Sotqth Carroll
ma railroad has built shed 200 feet long
and fifty feet wide, intended for a cotton
market in the fall, and to store fcrtil-
izers in the spring.
The sub-treasury at New Orleans has
been notified from Washington of the
discovery of counterfeit $40 gold coin,
an imitation of the New Orleans coin
age Of twenty years ago. About ten
years ago number of these counterfeits
were in circulation, but of late years
none have been seen.
The Houston (Texas) Post says that
Fort Worth has an artesan we'll $50
feet deep, and the water rises out of a
bed of white sand fourteen feet deep.
The well affords about 100 barrels of
freestone water per hour, which is suffi-
cient to supply the needs of the whole
city.
The Confederate monument in Talla-
hassee, Fla, is seventeen and half feet
high. The base is Of gray sandstone, on
"hASh 1OoUo lIllulCllSc DiOCh OF WnlIG
marble, with appropriate inscriptions
engraved. A tapering shaft Of pure
white marble, surmounted by an Egyp-
tion shaped marble vase, rests on this
rock.
Chattanooga (Tenn.) Tradesman: The
expense of the great Cotton Exposition
at Atlanta will reach a high figure. To
run the machinery will require not less
than two miles Of shafting. All sorts of
novelties in the manufacturing line are
to be shown. The enterprise will be
success in all respects, and every city in
the South should take hand in it, for
Its own benefit and for the encourage
. ment of our king of industries. For
cotton is now more truly king than ever
OF exports, and soon to be king of South
ern manufactures.
Charleston News and Courier; Tuition
at the South Carolina College is abso-
lutely free, except in the department Of
literature, where the students pay such
fees as may be agreed on with the in
structors. The South Carolina College
is emphatically poor mans college. 1t
Is supported by the annual interest on
the invested proceeds of the sale of the
agricultural land script given the State
oy act of Congress. The whole fund
was. lost, but it was replaced by the
present State government, and the inter
est Is regularly paid. This interest main
talns the College at Columbia for whites,
and the Clafin University at Orange
burg' for colored persons only.
Judge A. s. Merrimon, having been
invited to address the prohibition con-
Ventlon at Raleigh, N. c., responded in
an able, lucid and fervent sneacb IN tho
course of which he said All legislation
IS bundle of compromises. This hill
was not what many people wanted, but
seldom are statutes just what we yv;ub
Whatever else it may be, prohibition is
in it. The question must be discussed IN
the light of reason, and it must be pla;n.
ly discussed. But remember this: Tho
act prohibiting the sale of liquor is as
much law as any on the statute book,
Inc Legislature does not ask the people
to adopt or reject this act, but only it's
penal provision. 1t goes into full force
ana effect on the first Monday of Octo-
Der next The county commissioners
cannot issue licence after that date. II
is therefore idle to speak upon the stat
ute, for it is not a public question, being
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