The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-03-31

AvhO65oj OLA Ahilco, auu DdWbOnVlll6,
sixteen miles-forty miles in all. The
hearing and recognition of voice over
the whole line is as clear and distinct as
if only short distance away.
An Oneida Indian, who is an ordained
clergyman, preached in New York Sun
day, and in the course of his sermon
quantity rebuked the sin of profanity.
He said he was thankful that "the
Creator did not give the Indian enough
language to allow him to be profane
without first learning English"
Speaking in the West Virginia House
of Delegates Wednesday, on the dog bill,
Mr.. Lowry presented table sent him
by Gen. Walker, Superintendent Of the
Census, showing the number of sheep
killed by dogs in West Virginia in 1879,
and the total number is 10, ,209. The bill
was passed. Yeas, sixty; nays, three.
Wilmington IN. o. Star: Lanes
North Carolina brigade, during the cam
paign of 1868, lost in killed, wounded
and missing 1,640 men. In the campaign
beyond the Potomac the brigade mum.
bered but 1856 men. 1t lost 731 men.
This tells the story. There were few
such brigades in the army of Northern
Virginia.
About 800 laborers are employed in
the rolling mill, furnaces and foundries
of Birmingham, Ala. about 400 in the
coal mines of Coketon, six miles distant,
and about 100 at Oxmoor, also six miles
distant. The country around Birming-
ham is said to produce more corn, cotton,
wheat, oats and potatoes, acre for acre,
than the cane-brake.
Mrs. Schneider, of st. Charles, Mo-,
slapped her twelve year-old son Willie
because he was naughty, and when Mr..
Schneider came home to dinner he
whipped Willie. Willie then went to
the barn crying. When they found him
an hour or two later he was hanging
dead, suspended by leather strap from
a beam in the hay loft.
The Atlanta Constitution The rail
roads leading south from the Ohio river
are blocked with corn, pork, weat, hay
and other articles destined for Southern
consumption, all of which should have
been produced in the South itself. The
very fact of the blockade is a sad com>
meHtary upon the agricultural enterprise
of the South. The railroads cannot sup
ply us with articles that our own soil
would gladly produce if it was tackled
with the plow and the hoe.
Chattanooga Times: The project for
new railroad to the top of Lookout is
succinctly this: A horse track to the
foot; go up on an incline to the point by
stationary-engine power, taking car,
horses and all; then horse road back
from the point to say near Chickamauga
bluff, which has many advantages over
the point as hotel site, being well
watered and having large tract of fine
surface in the vicinity. The matter is
In the hands of live, energetic men of
means.
The proposed prohibition amendment
to the State constitution of Texas reads
as follows: The imp rortation into and
the manufacture or sale within this State
of intoxicating liquors as beverage is
prohibited; provided, that the Legisla-
ture may exempt beer and native wines,
unmixed with alcoholic liquors, from
the provision Of this section, and the
Legislature shall at the first session after
the adoption of this amendment enact
laws to carry out the provisions hereof.
The President of the New Orleans
Board of Health says that part of the
sickness and mortality in the rear of the
city must be referred to the cultivation
of rice, and that the Legislature of Lou
isiana, the Board of Health and the Citv
Council of New Orleans should consider
the subject of rice culture in it's relations
to the health of the city of New Orleans {;
and such ordinances should be considered
and passed as will protect the inhabi-
tants from the effects of the destructive
emanations of rice fields.
The condition of the levees on the Lou
isiana side of the Mississippi river from
the Arksnsas line, down as far as Pensas
parish, is reported precarious. At AL
satia the cavipg has cut out the apex
of the triangle made by the Ievee, but
the fall of the water prevents immediate
further damage. At Millikin's Bend