The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-02-03
SOUTHERN NEWS.


Fernandina, Fla, has been Rewarded.
In Mooresville, N. c., out of 71O cases
of measles, there has been one death.
An attempt is to he made in North
Carolina to create the office of Railroad
Commissioners.
Eight thousand logs broke loose in the
Lower Pearl river and foated out into
the Gulf of Mexico.
Subscriptions to start glass factory
at Moss Point, on the Mississippi coast,
amount to $13, 500.
One thousand immigrants are expected
to arrive shortly in Southeast Missouri
and North Arkansas.
-Four large rattlesnakes, killed recently
In Greenne. county, Ala, had fifteen,
fourteen, twelve and ten rattles.
Last year was the most bountiful
known in Texas since the war. The cot
ton alone amounted to 100000 bales.
Aperson writing to Mississippi paper
thinks that cotton seed is better for fer
tilizing purposes than cotton seed meal.
A company is to be chartered to devel-
op the granite quarries near Petersburg,
Va.
An alleged petrilied baby, said to have
been unearthed near Eureka Springs, has
been sold at Russcilville, Ark, for
$4,000.
1t is suggested in West Virginia that
the State shall appropriate $4,000 to
send an agent to the North OF Europe to-
induce the immigration of families of
Swedes and Danes.
The estimates Of the expense Of the
State government of Texas for the year
ending February %, 1882, aggregate
$1,357,913.
st. Stephens, in Savannah, is the only
colored Episcopal church in Georgia.
The twenty-tifth anniversary has recent
ly been celebrated.
The loss to the Louisiana sugar inter-
ests by the cold and wet weather is now
carefully estimated at $4,000 hogsheads,
or about ten per cent. Of the expected
crop.
The Swiss colony in North Carolina is
said to have discovered that the mulber-
ry tree grows with as much luxuriance as
the cherry, and that the soil and climate
favor the production Of silk.
The capacity Of the Charlotte, N. c.,
cotton mills is five bales of cotton rer
day, there being $500 spindles. The
machinery is all on one floor. The walls
are very thick and the floor is triple,
thus neutralizing the effects Of the Jar
ring of the heavy machinery.
The Birmingham Iron Age reports
contract with parties from Chicago for
$4,000 tons of coal to be delivered on the
line Of the New Orleans and jackson
road.
New Orleans States: Mr.. Duncan F.
Kenner is the first planter to take the
wise precaution to lay tramways from
his cane'fields to his sugar-housc. His
example should be followed.
The soil and climate of South Florida
are said to be very favorable to the cul-
tlVation OF sugar cane. The yield is
sometimes as much as 1000 pounds to
the acre.
Mr.. Cage told the Sugar planters AS
sociation at New Orleans that in his
opinion nothing could equal a negro as
laDorer on sugar plantation when he is
properly paid and handled.
Over 800 pupils are now in attendance
at the Agricultural and Mechanical Col
lege of Mississippi. This is the limit of
its capacity at present, and Gen. Lee
has accordingly announced that no more
pupils will be received.
Wages for good field hands in Abbe-,
vile, S. O., range from $50 to $40, some
few receiving as much as 800. But f.w
contracts have been made, q majority
prefering interest in the crop or rental.
The Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser re
ports the departure of considerable
NUMBER or carpenters Tor PENSACOLA, Fla,
where they expect to find work in the re-
building of the burnt district
The failure of Welsh & Bacon, at AL
bany, Ga, is said to be perhaps the larg.
est single failure that section has ever
known. The gross amount of assets is
reported by Col. Nelson Tiff, the as
signee, to be $408, ,254.17 and the Iiabili-
ties $476, 269.79. ,.
1t is said that what is called the Pied