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

Joseph Jefferson has ordered 100000
feet of lumber for his $500 house on
Orange Island, La.
The managers of the Camberdown Cot
ton Mills at Greenville, S. c., have de-
termined to employ $50 additional opera
tives.
The Supreme Court of Mississippi has
decided that the city charter of Natchez
does not authorize the levy of tax on
drummers.
The Waycross (Ga.) Reporter learns
that the farmers of that section are turn
ing their attention to the cultivation of
sea island cotton.
The government work at the mouth of
st. Johns river, Fla, is progressing, and
it is said that it will make that river one
of the most important in the Union.
The contractors who have undertaken
to drain Lake Okeechobee in Florida are
to receive fifty per cent. of all lands re-
claimed now or hereafter belonging TO the
State.
In 1875 there were 3,942 schools in
Tennessee, with an average attendance
Of 136,805. In 1850 there were 5,522
schools, with an average attendance of
191, ,46l.
An Alapaha, Ga, correspondent of the
Savannah News says that land suitable
for truck farming can be purchased in
Berrien county for 81 per acre and up
ward, according to locality and improve
ments.
The house where Sherman received
Johnston's surrender fifteen years ago
has been converted into a town of 3, 500
inhabitants and factories paying nearly
$4,000 annual revenue tax. Yellow
tobacco has done it.
Bishop Stevens presided at the Charles
ton convocation If the Reformed Episco-
pal church. The work of that church in
South Carolina is confined to the colored
people, among whom it has been very
effective, Nineteen buildings for public
worship have been erected during the
last five years.
The Putnam county (Fla.) Herald
says that an agent of the Italian govern
meat has been in Florida and has lust re-
turned to Italy. He advocates Florida
as a home for his countrymcn, and a large
immigration to that State may be expect
ed. Arrangements are being perfected
with the Oriental Steamship Company
for their passage.
Huntsville (Tex.) Item: Total con-
victs on hand February l, 2,14O Consist
ing of 2,111 State and 80 United States).
How employed: in prison at Huntsville
400; hired about Huntsville, 81 OH Rusk
prison construction, 1913; in iron foundry
force, 80; in wood-cutting forces, 265;
in plantation forces, GAG.
Speaking of the harbor at that place,
the Brunswick (Ga.) Advertiser says
that, in addition to the construction of a
line of crib-jetty for the maintenance of
deeper channel, dredging operations
have been carried on with view of es-
tablishiug an improved navigable chan
mel eighty feet in width and twelve feet
In depth at mean low water.
The prosperity of Columbus, Ga, ac-
cording to the Enquirer Sun, has been
remarkable. The business of the CITY
has increased over 1000, 900 in five years.
Ihe total sales Of last year amounted to
$685. ,S66 against So, $4,000 for 1879.
$5'388,97O for 1873, 81 ,966, ,556 for 1877,
and $4,517,986 for 1876. The increase
over 1879 is 1925 ,846, and over 1876
, $1,134, 800.
The oldest living ex-member of Con-
gress Is the Hon. John A. Cuthbert, of
Mobile. He was born at Savannah. On.
in 1888; graduated at Princeton Colleoe
in 1905; served in the war of 181o.16
and was Representative from Alabano
from 1919 to 1921, sixty years ago He
is still hale and hearty, and practices
, law in the courts of Mobile.
1t is estimated that there are above
10000 terrapins on Mulford Dorian,s
terrapin farm, on Mobile bay, about
thirty miles below Mobile, Ala. He
purcha es OF the country people on Mis-
slssippi Sound about 5000 a year, at
abouts8 per dozen, and adds them to his
farm. He ships about 10000 per year
to New York, whore they bring So to $1s
/, per dozen. The cost Of feeding them is
about 81 per dozen per annum.
The inland fisheries Of eastern North
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