The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-01-06
SOUTHERN NEWS,

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been found in Cherokee county, Ga.
Key West yields about $21,5OO Der
month to the internal revenue fund.
Real estate in Lafayette, Ala, is as
sessed $114,175 and personal property
$112,175.
The revival at the Baptist church at
Durham, N. c., resulted in forty-seven
conversions.
1t IS proposed to scale the city debt of
New Orleans to the extent of fifty cents
on the dollar.
Lands in Montgomery county, Ala,
have more than doubled in price within
five or six years.
The building of the Library Associa-
ton, at Thomasville, Ga, cost $4,000.
1t has 1000 volumes.
1t is against the law in Fort Smith.
Ark, to carry pistol in any other way
except in the hand.
In Perry county, Miss, John A. Syl-
vester planted poplar tree near an ap-
pie tree, and the poplar bore apples
In some instances in Grayson county,
Va, five and six persons of family died
of diphtheria, and in one instance an en-
tire family.
Some thirty families from Michigan,
New Jersey and Florida, are locating in
North Georgia. en- the line of the Allan
ta and Charlotte road.
William Lockridge, of Highland coun-
ty, Va, says that he has killed in his
time as many as 1900 deer. The old
mans step is still firm.
The receipts of the State of North Car
olina from all sources during the wear
ended September 80, were $546, ,796. Cd.
ana the disbursements were 1852, 72o. "a.
The Supreme Court of Mississippi de-
clares that eighteen mills on the dollar,
including three mills for State tax. is the
utmost limit to which taxes can be laid,
About sixty Swiss colonists, the men
being generally possessed of means, ar
rived at Mount Airy, Ga, Saturday. A
colony of Armenians are expected in the
spring
Ihe entire amount collected bv way of
taxation in North Caoolina is $2082,7Co
OF which the counties spend two-thirds
the schools one-sixth, and the State the
remainder.
Walnut furniture has been received
rom Chicago and put in place in the
new post-oflice at Atlanta, Ga. The
Old furniture will be used to furnish the
post-office at Macon, Ga.
The dueling bill has been passed by the
South Carolina Senate, with an addi-
tlonal section providing that it shall not
effect indictments now pending or offenses
committed before it's passage.
Three men sit in the United States SEN
ate who were Governors of Southern
States when the war broke out, and re-
manned in office by reelection at it's close
Harris, of Tennessee Vance, of North
Carolina, and Brown, of Georgia.
The flat lands on the Escambia river
in Santa Rosa county, Fla, are alluvial
deposits from the rich lime lands of Ala
bama, and it is thought that they will
make the largest possible crops of rice
for hundreds of yea without any ma
nure.
Two bells found by a diver between
Fort Sumter and Fort 'Moultrie, taken
from the wreck of a vessel of about $50
tons burden, bear the date 1874, and
must have been cast nearly two centu-
ries before the discovery of America. .
There is an extensive deposit of kaolin,
or porcelain clay, in South Carolina,
near the Georgia city of Augusta, of the
finest quality, equal to the demands of
hundred years It is said to have been
used to adulterate flour, being soft, white
and free from gravel.
Old Poldo Lamar, in Alabama, is dead.
He was positively known to be 10 years
old. But according to his statement of
his age when he came to this country
from Africa and his recollection of war
times long ago, he must have been 1875
years old. He was able to go about
where he wished until about a month
ago, when he fell in the fire, since which
time he has been confined to his bed.
The South Louisiana Canal and Navi-
cation Company in less than twelve years,