The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-03-10
SOUTHERN NEWS.


1t is said that Sabine Pass has been
deepened ten feet at an expense Of $50,-
900.
A vineyard in Live Oak county, Texas,
is said to have produced three crops of
grapes last year.
Il single business house of Greensboro,
n. c., has bought $50, rabbit skins
this season.
S venty buildings were erected in
Raleigh, n. c., in 1880, oe which one
was church and sixty-three were dwell
ing houses.
Col. Thomas Ruffin has been appoint
ed Associate Justice of the Supreme
Court of North Carolina, vice John II.
billiard, resigned.
The Arkansas State Senate has passed
bill appropriating $4,000 for st branch
normal college at Pine Bluff for the cdu-
cation of colored teachers.
The proposed amendment prohibiting
the sale of Intoxicating liquors in West
Virginia has been indefinitely postponed
! by the State Senate.
! In Gadslen, Ala, the value Of taxable
property has increased from $293, 792 in
1879 to SAL, 200 in 1881, and the city
tax at onc-fourth of one per cent. from
$7S4 rs to 81 ,033 Is.
The Swedenborgian Publication So
ciety has donated to the library of the
Georgia institution for the education of
the deaf and dumb Swcdenborg's COM
plctc works. There are no funds to re.
plcnish the library Of this institution,
and persons who can give books should
send them to Cave Springs, Ga, or to
Gov. Colquitt.
The North Carolina Legislature has
passed a bill providing for the publica-
ton Of a roll of the North Carolina
troops in the late war. The duty Of
collecting the names has been delegated
to Maj Moore, the historian. In addi.
ton to this work he will add other facts
1
regiment during the war.
Montgomery Advertiser: Considcra
| bic sensation was excited by the sudden
sinking Of nearly 100 feet Of the track of
| the Montgomery and Eufaula railway at
a point near the limits Of Union Springs
a day or two since. Those who visited
| the spot speak of it as something of
| phenomenon i'll its way. 1t had the ap-
pcarancc of depression caused by an
earthquake.
Memphis, Tennessee, is in a bad way,
financially. Its taxable property has
decreased from $3O,SO0,OO in 1866 to
$l3, 900, ,00G there is So, 100000 of back
| taxes due and the tax rate for the next
| two years, if the health improvements
arc carried out, will he 1896 on 500.
The present population Of Memphis is
33, 593, and the total debt, Sc, 100000, is
$l7S per capita, and +3 per cent. ON the
whole taxable property.
The rapid development of the business
Of importing fruit to New Orleans, the
| Times of that city says, has materially
| interfcred with and reduced the foreign
trade of New York, which city has here
tofore supplied the entire West with
fruit. New Orleans possesses exceptional
advantages as distributing point Her
| climate is favorable. Fruit often reaches
| I'll l,o
is exposed to severe frosts on landing.
Speaking Of the State debt of LOUIS
isana the New Orleans Democrat SAYS:
Under the provisions Of the new constitu-
| ton the debt, in case all consolidated
bonds are exchanged for four per cent.
bonds, would amount to $3.50, $50, re-
quring the sum Of 1866, 1872 annually for
interest Collections for the interest
fund already amount to 1855, ,225 83, or
more than enough to pay the interest
for 1880 upon the whole amount Of the
State debt refunded under the provisions
of the new constitution. The surplus.
$43 83, doubtless goes to the support of
public schools.
1t is questioned at Mobile whether the
public property belonging to the dcfunct
city of Mobile, now in the hands Of the
Commissioners for the adjustment Of the
debt of the late city, should not, under
the decision of the United States Su-
premc Court, in the Memphis case, be
turned over to the Commissioners of the
port of Mobile for governmental
purposes. The port of Mobile ha.