The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-01-20
SOUTHERN NEWS.

1t Is estimated that the Indian-riYer
country of Florida will alone produce
this year 10000 or 10000 boxes of Or
anges.
Of 25,125 population of Harrison
county, Texas, 17,203 are colored ;.while
of 38,10S persons in Grayson county
only 4,55S are colored.
Good mules in Mississippi are worth
about as much as four bales of cotton.
while one can be raised for less than it
costs to raise half bale of cotton.
1t is proposed to improve the Library
building at Augusta, Ga, borrowing
money for the purpose from the Orphan
Asylum and depending on increased in
come to gradually reduce the debt.
A new station-house is demanded at
Memphis. The present building was
formerly used as slave market, and it
is said that in several instances death
has resulted from a nights confinement.
Arkansas is in the same belt with
Northern Africa, Southern Italy, Egypt
and Pale slime, countries which, in for
mer days, were seats of the highest civ
lllzation, and the granaries of the world.
Receipts of cotton at Madison, Ga.
this season already aggregate more than
$4,000 bales, and are likely to be- more
than double those of last season, which
were not more than 1000 bales up to
April.
An effort is anticipated in the next
Legislature of North Carolina to estab-
llsh criminal courts for the whole State
or for the larger counties. Some change
seems to be made necessary by the heavy
doekets.
The yield of sugar per acre on the
Teche, in ST. Mary parish, Louisiana, is
simply astonishing. On the left bank,
in several instances it has averaged 4, 900
pounds, and $500 pounds is said to be
not unusual.
A horrible death has occurred at Holly
Springs, Ga, traceable to Christmas hol-
idays' inhibition of liquor. Peter Reece
fell asleep in brush pile and froze to
death. When he was found the hogs
had torn out his bowels.
The Richmond State thinks it was the
late Judge Percy Walker, of Alabama,
who sent the famous dispatch north an
nouncing the attack on Fort Sumter
"With cannon, mortar and petard,
jeff Davis sends old Abe his Beauregard."
A poor little boy in New Orleans
picked up pocllet-book containing
$332.25 in cash and several promissory
notes. His mother restored it to the
owner, who gave the boy complete sui
OF clothes and the mother money to paw
three months rents dueand more besides.
In Georgia there is no State law gov
ernlng commercial travellers, but power
of taxation is vested in municipalities.
In Athens the tax is $40 per week, $25
per month, $1o0 per year. No license is
required in Rome, Atlanta, Macon or
Columbus. In Savannah the license is
the same as that of resident dealers in
the same articles.
= Three plans or systems Or labor are
used in Louisiana. One is the share
system, under which the laborer is fur
nished with dwelling, land, tools, seed,
ETC., to make crop. Another is the
tenant system, paying given rate per
acre. On these two systems four-fifths
OF the cotton plantations in the State are
operated. The third plan is that of hir-
ing laborers by the month, which pre-
walls in st. Mary and st. James parishes.
A meeting has been held at the rooms
OF the Union Francais, at New Orleans
by the Chambre Syndicate Consultative
du Commerce Francais, which approved
report suggesting the appointment of a
resident comr.....cc- = Paris to co-onerate
with the Chamber, and als, the appoint-
ment of special committe, to furnish
to the French Consul in New Orleans
facts and figures to be laid before Euro
pean capitalists with view to securing
the establishment of French financial
institution on large scale.
The purpose of the Atlantic coast
steamboat canal company in Florida is to
construct steamboat channel connect
ing Lake Worth with Indian river, In
dian river with Mosquito lagoon and
Halifax river, and Halifax with Matan-
zas river, which would bring the naviga-
tion up to ST. Augustine, thence through
North river, and from that point into
the st. Johns by cut into Pablo creek
to Mayport, at the mouth of the St.
Johns, or into Julington creek, which
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