The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-03-24
NEWS GLEANINGS.

In the Cherokee nation there are 10
schools where the English language i
taught.
There are 220 students at the Soutl
! Georgia Agricultural College, at Thorn
asville.
The granite for the base of the Cow
pens monument is arriving at Spartan.
burg, S. G..
1t is alleged that the oysters found of
the Texas coast are the largest and finest
in the world
A license to sell liquor in Nebraska
costs $1,000, which shows that their
drinks are dear to them out there.
Lizzie Crompton, aged seven, of Pat
erson, N. j., jumped a rope IT'S times,
and then stopped few minutes to die.
WINDOWS home is in Minnesota, he
was born in Ohio, married in Massachu-
setts' and he lives in Washington.
A bill has been fled in Chancery con-
testing the title Of lands covering a large
part of the fifth ward of Cha tanoopa
Tenn.
Strawberries cultivated near Charles
ton, S. c., are expected to yield 1,OOO,-
600 quarts for the Northern markets
from $50 acres of land.
Thomas Smith, of New York, who re-
Gently compelled his young son to keep
the track in a walking match, was fined
500 and sent to prisonSsfor ten days.
A bill has passed both houses of the
Florida Legislature taking Sumter county
from the First Congressional district
and transferring it to the Second
Kansas druggists, according to the new,
absurd law, can not sell camphor, CO.
logne or favoring extracts into which
alcohol enters without the prescription
Of a physician.
The Prescott (Ark.) Dispatch say
that there are seventy-fve saw mills on
the line of railroad between Little Rock
and Texarkana, and timber enough for
750 more.
Miss Mary Maury, of Milton, N. c.,
vWho was engaged to be married to TIL os
DeJarnettc, who is now under sentence
OF death for shooting his sister in a low
house, has married a Mr.. Charles Cor
don.
A correspondent of the Savannah (Ga.)
News says that the largest tea plantation
IN the United States is located about
nj teen miles from Fleming. Fleming is
about twenty-four miles southwest of
Savannah in Liberty county.
Karl Gerha!dt, a Hartford drauehts-
man, modelled so fine figure of his wife
IN clay that Mark Twain and Charles
Dudley Warner have sent him to Europe
Tor education i'll sculpture.
The Money Order Superintendent at
New York says the M. O. Department is
only sixteen years old. The smallest
money order ever sent was one cent.
Last year over $1O0,O0O,OOO was sent
through the department..
Two of the Texas Congressman gre
Georgians Olin Wellborn began his
Legal career in Atlanta, and moved to
Iexas IN 1868. d. B. Culberson went
from LaGrange to the army, and then
10 1eXas as Adiutant General of that
State.
GARFIELD kissed the Bible on the twen-
ty-hrst chapter of Proverbs, and the
verses he kissed were these "Everv
way OF man is right in his own ewes
out the Lord pondercth the hearts"
10 do Justice and judgment Is more ac-
cePtaple t) the Lord than sacrifice"
The Maine liquor law is still supno,ed
10 be III force in that State, and the Tec-
1slature is still loyal to the prohibitory
statute 50 long upon the Maine booLs.
but for the refreshment of the ;nner mo =,
engaged in the Maine Legislature liouor
is made quite accessible to the can;+ol
building in Augusta.
The Texas Legislature is said to have
passed aresolution requiring that women
stall be employed in the State depart
ments for every position that they are
competent to fill upon the same terms
and conditions as men. The heads of
departments, it appears, have hitherto
declined to give the women any public
employment.
The Rev. DIR. Philip Schaff, Chairman
OF the Bible Revision Committee, an
nounces that the Revised New Testament
Will be published by the English Univer-