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

A lame beggar of New York makes on
an average about 81, ,140 yer.
John Sherman is worth $1,000, 900,
mostly Washington real estate.
An oleomargarine manufactory has
been established at New Orleans.
The artesian well in Corsicana, Texas,
has reached the depth of 91O feet.
Four North Carolina papers note an
increase of crop mortgages in their sew
eral localities:
The farmers of Alabama and Georgia
have sowed oats this season more gem
orally than ever before.
Bishop Fabre, of Montreal, condemns
as a sin the practice of swearing Roman
Catholic witnesses on Protestant Bible
In the Arkansas House of Representa-
tives there are twenty.four natives of
Tennessee and twenty-three natives of
Arkansas.
The State Agricultural Department Of
North Carolina has been experimenting
in the cultivation of jute with the most
satisfactory results.
Atlanta, Savannah, Augusta and Ma,
con, four Georgia cities, have an aggre
gate population of 100000, and an ag-
gregate Indebtedness of S,387, 200.
The frat cotton factory built in South
Carolina was one erected in Sumter
county by Mr.. Durant. It was driven
by horsepower, but was not q success.
The Knoxville Tribune says that there
are numbers of farms in Tennessee upen
which the fences amount to fifty per
cent. of the whole value of the property.
1t is asserted that during the period
187O-75 one-ffth Of the entire area of the
State of Mississippi has been forfeited
for unpaid taxes-6, 500, 900 acres, 10, 600
square miles.
The English government intends stop-
ping the rum ration to naval officers and
to boys up to twenty. Chocolate will
be substituted. The glory of the English
navy may now depart.
Rabbi Sonneschein, of st. Louis, advo-
Gates union of Jews and Unitarians.
he says there is not the slightest differ
ence In character, standing, human
worth or dignity between Jew and Chris
tian.
"Kordig Essence" is the name Of a.
newly-discovered mineral essence which
produces light without heat. One can
plunge his hand or head in the burning
liquid and have no unpleasant sensa-
tions.
Austin (Tex.) Statesman: A fierce
dog ran after Emma Grutzrier, bright
little eleven-year-old girl of San Antonio,
and when the brute reached the horror
stricken child; she fell lifeless to the
earth. She was absolutely frightened to
death.
The County Commissioners of Bullock
county, Ala, after six years of econmi-
cal management, have paid over $4,000
which the county owed, and retire from
Office leaving cash balance in the
treasury.
The Montgomery Advertiser says that
the joint. committee of the South and
North Alabama Conference will meet in
Birmingham to consider the establish
ment OF Methodist paper, to be the
organ of that denomination in Alabama,
The Covington (Ga.) Enterprise SAYS
IL Is beyond doubt that coal mine has
Deen discovered within six miles of Cow
ihgton, and not more than three miles
from the Georgia railroad. The samnles
OF coal are said to be equal to that of the
Coal Creek.
1lIhe latest novelty in spirituaIism ;s
he production of ghostly lights in dark
seances' The luminous shapes are crosses
circles, triangles and other eroh,o,,,a
and they float mysteriously over the
heads of the spectators. A Boston mo
dunn is the producer.
Spencer F. Baird intends to offer 70
the Atlanta Exposition the use Of tho
celebrated and wonderful exhibit ~ cot
ton fibre and fabrics made by the Ob;-
nese empire at the Centennial, and suh-
sequently acquired by the Smitbson;on
Institute at Washington. ~.Es .. -"
Richmond State: The corn cron IN
virginia last fall was unusually Iargn
while the Western corn crop showed .
decided falling of, 1t is generally, tho
case that grain-producing Illinois can
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