The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-11-17
NEWS GLEANiNGS.

North Carolina ranks third in the lis
OF cotton-prodncing States.
Eight hundred Russian emigrants ar,
thlnk:ng of settling in Georgia.
Lawrence county, Georgia, doubled
its population in the last ten years.
The total acreage of cotton last yea,
IN Tennessee was 722, ,5O2, yielding 33O,-
628 bales.
Charleston, S. c., has decided on q
Pald tre company, which will cost $35,-
900 year. ....
Macon, Georgia, will have tomato
canning factory, owned and conducted
by Northern men.
Tennessee will realize as much from
her fFu't crop this year as she usually
does from her wheat crop.
-Four thousand men are at work on the
East Tennessee, Virginia and Georpia
railroad from Atlanta to Rome.
Yazco county, Mississippi, produced
more cotton last year than any county
IN the cotton region. 1t turned out
48, 321 bales.
Ihe Constitution says over $50, 600
worth of real estate has been purchased
ut Atlanta by the Coal railroads in the
past four months.
Gen. Peyton Wise has been elected to
I'LL the Office of bonded tobacco inspector
at Richmond, Virginia. The salary is
only $4,000 year.
Among the exhibits at the Talbot
county, Georgia, fair were 1900 spcci-
mems of minerals. The owner was
twenty-five years collecting them.
1he FLORIDA Agriculturalist says this
IS the last Year cheap orange lands can
DO procuned. There is very. little left,
except in private hands, and it will
brlnGg; big prices in the future.
Two paupers in the Aiken, S. c., Door
house have SO arranged it that their
hearts will hereafter beat the State as
one. The beautiful and accomplished
groom is only seventy, while the bride
is ugly and thirty-three.
Union Springs (Ala.) Herald: A suit
for damages by a colored widow of this
county against the L. and N. railroad
for killing her husband was recently
compromised for $500. The LAWYERS
got $3.50, her advancing merchant got
Sl25 for looking after the affair and the
clone widow" got 1926 to soothe her
grief. Nothing like an equitable divis-
ion Of spoils.
st. Louis Republican: There is doubt
less no child now living that will see
New Orleans a greater exporting port
than New York, but the next few years
will see it make a demoralizing advance
on New York. Within the last three
years it has advanced ahead of Philadel
phia, Boston and Baltimore, and within
the next three it will make enough
progress to cause lots Of trouble for New
York, however impossible it may be to
surpass the trade of that city
Nashville American: For snutf-dip-
ping and sneezing the people Of Tenncs-
see annually pay over $1,000,O00. a
dealer in snuff informs us that the Nash
vile merchants annually pay over $780,
OOO for snuff, and the merchant, of the
city of Memphis more than that amount
The people Of the Southern States con-
sumo annually over $8,O000OO of that
article, while the people of the Northern
States use comparatively none Two
firms of New York supply the South.
A Pike county, Alabama, negro first
stole hat, bride from q near neigh
boris next stuck to his hands, going
farther mules head became fastened
in the bride, proceeding on his journey
a stable furnished harness for the ami
NAL, and a few miles further on a farm
er's spring wagon had joined the cara
van, then some one else's bale Of cotton
that wouldn't get out of his way WAS
transferred to the wagon, and the pro
cession arrived at Union Springs, where
the police jailed the manager as he was
bargaining to get rid of his booty. He
resisted and cut one Of the policemen's
throat.
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