The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-02-10
SOUTHERN NEWS,

il Thomas county, Ga, than they have
been since the war.
Three hundred German carp have been
placed at various points up the st. John
river in Florida.
A Louisiana planter says that he con-
slders twenty geese in cotton field equal
to one hoe-hand.
Negroes are said to be leaving Gadsden
county, Fla, in such numbers that It
amounts to an exodus.
Toccoa, Ga, having an existence Of
eight years, has acquired thrifty popu-
latlon approximating thousand souls
Thousands of robins roost in cano-
brake about fifteen miles from Homer
La. They are taken to Homer by the
sackfull.
A clipper ship, brought into Port
Royal, 5. c., loaded with guano, came
up to the dock at half-tidc, drawing
twenty-onc feet.
In Louisiana the census exhibits 473
Chinese, $40 In1ians and halfbrecds,
eight half-Chincse, one West Indian and
one East Indian.
| N. Garblnl has been elected President
of the Now Orleans Fruit and Produce
Association, new and permanent organi-
zation of wholesale fruit dealers.
In the last four months of 1880 col
pertucrs OF the American Bible Society
supplied 1913 destitute families and 955
destitute individuals with the Bible.
Harry Stephens, the wcIl-known col
ored body-scrvant Of Hon. Alex. H.
Stephens, who died last week, at Craw.
tordville, was the owner of perhaps 500,
900 worth of property.
The St. Augustine (Fla.) Press sav,
that the majority Of the farmers there
abouts, instead of raising their own corn
buy 1t at the city stores. A cotton plante
could scarcely do worse than that.
An amendment of the constitution O
Arkansas has been proposed in the Leg
isIaturc, providing that the general elec
ions shall occur every fourth year, Stat.
Representatives be elected for four year
and the Legislator, meet every fourtl
years.
The Perry, GA, Home Journal say.
that the old plantations system, almost
universal i'll Houston county before tho
war, has gone to its death, and small
farms now constitute the order Of opri
cultural work. There are very few ten
mule farms in Houston.
There IS proposition to form a new
North Carolina county on
OF parts of Sampson, john
ston, Wayne, Cumberland and Har
nett counties. There are several propo
sitions to cut off portions of Wake county
Tor the formation of new counties, but
Raleigh is aversc.
At Scarboro, Ga, John T. Toole il
President, Warren r. Wood, Treasurer
and James A. Fulchcr Secretary, of thc
"First National Non-cursing Society
Scarboro Division No. l." The object
Of the organization is to discontinue tho
practice of profanc swearing.
BY clerical error, in making up the
list Of cities FOR census bulletin No. As
the population of one enumeration dis
trict of Atlanta was omitted. The true
population, Gen. Walker Supcrintend
cnt of the Census, says, is 3742l, moi
81, 308, as previously announced.
Real estate in the business part of Or
angeburg, S. c., is as high as in Charles
ton. A cotton factory with four Glen
cnt attachments is established. The Gro,
of upland rice raised in the county will
probably reach about 10000 bushels
The cotton crop is between 10000 an,
10000 bales.
The answer Of the citizens of Memphi
to the petition Of bondholders or cred
tors of the old corporation of Memphi
alleges that the compromise proposed b
the taxing district, twenty-five cents O.
the dollar, and IN addition, the take
due the old city, say 81 ,248,982, is fair
just and honorable.
Knoxville, Tenn, was laid out in 1871
and named in honor Of General Knox
of Revolutionary fame. The first Ter
ritorial Legislature assembled there il
1894, the constitutional convention il
1875, and the first State Legislature il
} 1896. The scat Of government was re
moved to Nashville in 1910.
Richmond Dispatch II Mr.. jefferson