The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-04-21


tance are rapidly buying the coal lands
of Tuscaloosa county, Ala.
The Vicksburg Herald says that Yala-
busha county, Miss, has imposed tax
of 81 on each dog, except one to fam
\ lily, in the county.
The Tampa (Fla.) Tribune says that
sheep-shearing in South Florida is be-
gun, and that the wool clip this year will
be larger than ever before.
The pistol law has been signed by Gov.
Churchill, of Kansas. 1t imposes fine
and imprisonment for thirty days, and
allows the court no discretion.
The Brady land, in Rockbridge county,
Va, 1000 acres of mountain land, as
scssed at ten cents per acre, has been
sold to Pennsylvania firm for $23, 600.
Petitions to the Legislature of South
Carolina are circulating in Marlboro
asking the total prohibition of the man.
ufacturc and sale of ardent spirits in the
State.
Citizens living on Seneca river, in
Anderson county, S. c., say that it is
very seldom now they ever catch a shad
in that stream, rom the fact that a dam
across the Savannah river, at Augusta
prevents them from coming higher up
the stream than that city.
The Memphis Board of Health has
offered to the National Board of Health
the quarantine grounds and buildings on
Presldents Island for use as an inspec-
ton station, and has requested the Ma
honal Board to place an Inspector or In
spcctors on duty at New Orleans and
such other Southern ports as NAV be
deemed necessary.
Since the Inauguration of the Board
or Harbor Commissioners at Norfolk
va, the total amount of excavation is
l,olI, 1898 cubic yards. The board has
granted permits to the seaboard and
Roonoke railroad to reclaim a large Dor
tlon OF the Portsmouth flats adjacent 10
It's North-street depot wharf and to con-
struct thereon extensive docks and piers
The Charleston News and Courier re.
ports that in Greenville county, S. G.,
there were recorded last year 2,34O liens,
averaging about 245 each, making an
aggregate of $105,3OO in property pledged
by the farmers for supplies. This season
thus Tar there have been 972 liens given,
tor amounts ranging from $5 to $3.50.
averaging about $45, making a total of
$43,740
The Memphis Avalanche recalls the
TACT that Randolph, an ancient and de-
cayed pest village of Upton county,
Tenn, was once the commercial metronu
OILS OF West Tennessee. Fifty years ago
IL was place of far more Importance
than Memphis 1t never fully recov-
cred from the disastrous blow struck by
the panic of 1887. It was burned finalIv
IN 1868 by the Federals, the Confederate
COL Faulkner having fired into pass
ing steamer
New Orleans Democrat: It is said
that wheat In Northern Texas is begin
nlng to break down in Just the same
manner as 1t did last year; what the
cause OF this was no two persons seemed
to agree upon at the time, but later it
was pretty generally conceded to be the
work of worm. The worm has not vet
been seen on the ground, but it may be
that it is working on the root of the
grain, and will make it's appearance on
the surface later.
Anderson Is. o. Intelligencer, March
81: The work of immigration to South
Carolina is being successfully pushed
forward by the Agricultural Department
of this State. Col. A. P. Butler, the
Commissioner of Agriculture, who is
temporarily in charge of the matter, has
introduced and settled in different parts
Of South Carolina over 100 German
families since the 1st of January, and
is continuing the work in q most sue
cessful and promising manner.
Atlanta Constitution: In the Stone
wall Cemetery at Winchester a large
number Of soldiers from Georgia lie un-
ourled-probably fully 500. Virginia
and Maryland, by erecting handsome
monuments, have acknowledged their
Indebtedness to their own heroes, and it
IS now proposed that the people of Geor,
gla shall attest their gratitude and
regard for her dead soldiers by erecting
y on the lot where so many of them slee1