The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-09-29
NEWS CLEANINGS.
North Carolina ores will be feature
in the Atlanta Exposition.

The Louisiana sugar industry will
pan out handsomely this season for tn,
pelican State.
And now they are talking of maxim,
an excellent substitute for butter out Of
cotton-seed oil.
y The crops of Marshall county, Ala.
are reported in good condition, In,
drouth to the contrary notwithstand
ing.
Silk culture in Alabama is being agi.
tated by many Of the papers. They
seem to think that it would Handsomely
Louisiana is well timbered State
\ The New Orleans papers claim that there
are millions to be made in the wooded
lands ofssthe State.
The health of JEFF, Davis rince he ar.
rived in Europe has been wretcbed. He
will probably return to America sooner
than expected.
Inc two ice-manufacturing establish.
merits at New Orleans arc MAKING b;o
money this season. They charge 500 y
ton' and can't supply the demand.
The tenant farmers in many places Of
the South are asking reduction of rent
owing to the drouth they have raised
little or nothing on their places.
The Virginia Historical Soc:etv 10 bo
ing built up. 1t is an ancient and
honorable institution, and it's friends
everywhere will be glad to know that
us prestige will be sustained.
PENSACOLA old bonds are now in re-
quest since the compromise of the citv,s
debts. Twenty-Five per cent. has been
offered for $4,000 of the old bonds, and
declined. >N
Colonel r. F. Maddox, the big cotton
man OF Atlanta, estimates that the cot.
ION crop will be short about 1000 600
oales. But with all this, there will he
an abundance of cotton in the land.
Marietta (Ga.) Journal: Some of
our most sensible farmers, notably the
larger and more thrifty ones, have dis
covered their mistake, and will bereattar
SOW down their lands in wheat, oats
clover and grasses, and increase their
nefos OF cattle, sheep, hogs and horses.
Arkansas Democrat; Cotton-seed oil
is being generally used here for COOKING
purposes, and is liked about as we'll if
not BETTER than the stuff, brought here
An buckets and sold as leaf lard; besides,
I is 60 much cheaper. ,... ... ~ ..... =
Georgia is not to have prohibition
campaign, after all. The bill to submit
the question to the people was defeated
IN the Senate by a. vote of twenty To
nineteen, and reconsideration failed
line House will probably let the bill
Ole on the calendar, and thus avoid
committing members.
charleston had a trade last wear Of
l'I1I'lO0. 1t receipts of cotton were
oI0'287 bales; of rice, 53,871 tierces
Oh spirits of terpentine, 1886 cakes
OF crude phos
Phate' lO8,l88 tons; lumber, 1850
'o| ieet, OF commercial fertilizers, 100,
900. .rs.ns....- ,'''' ~'o'N1o'-
The New Orleans Democrat sto+as
mat not drop of the water of the Red
river now runs into the Mississippi, but
"i' goes to swell the Atchafalava
"mch, re enforced by large porcent.
age 'ot Mlssissippi water, is daily in
creasing in size, and constitutes q dir.c+
menace to the future Of Nav Orloona -
Inc Legislature of Georgia has killed
Cne Dill to appropriate 81 900 600 10
oulld new capitol by large majority
Inc present capitol building was oriri-
nally intended for an opera house, and
Is not only unsuitable for State houso
put is unsafe. The dead bill provided
Tor the expenditure of $4,000 per an
mum until the whole amount was paid
at the end of the five years time set
apart to construct the new edihce.
Senator Butler, of South Carolina
mas correct appreciation of the news
paper and adds his testimony to its value
as an educator. Journalism, ;" he saws.
mas become as much a seperate and
oistlnct profession as medicine, or law,
or engineering, or agriculture, or archi
''ute, or mining, and every family
Snould nave newspaper if they expect
or care to keep pace with the current of
events in this fast-moving age. Books
are not always accessible, but panero