The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-09-08
NEWS GIEANiNGS.

Middle Tennessee.
Real estate is on the up grade in Bton
Rouge, La
The blackberry crop Of Pulaski Cd dln-
ty this year was worth $500.
Arkansas has $500 miles of navig bile
rivers. sgese
Wilmington, North Carolina, is slip
ping a large amount of lumber to
Hayti. ,s~
Selma, Alabama, has fifty-fve oNer-
flowing bored wells affording pleity
of good water. '& ~
Mississippi produced the largest
amount of cotton in 1880, the mum Ter
of bales being 955, 1903.
The Mississippi river commission Will
build ninety barges, and will have fke
steam tugs.
A live oak tree in Miconopy counJy,
Florida, measures twenty-five feetSn
circumference.
A Mort tn Carolina colony is talked of
which shall be free from "beer saloois
churches, ministers and lawyers. 81
Nashville wants to be the iron cen er
of the South. vt is now the next thie
toit-the rock. center.
Railroads, railroads, railroads, is he
cry from one end of the South to the
other.
Southwest Georgia is happy in tho
success attending the boring of artesAn
wells. Water in abundance has be dep
obtained at depth of $50 feet.
J. B. Morrison, of McCleIlansvile,
South Carolina, has raised three hi Jn-
dred pounds Of excellent Malaga gra pes
his SEASON.
The Edrta S.~>ith oil-miI1 and cotton
o~---pf1ss is about completed. 1t is one
of the largest in the country, and dost
$4,000 .@~
Pleas Harper, a negroRfhQpght plan
tation on Broad river, in Georgia, pay-
ing for the same $4,000. It comprises
2,100 acres. h
The official majority against prob ibi
tion in North Carolina was. 1I6,l56
Only three counties in the State gave
iofities in favor, which, combinea
amotnted to but 258. Next year lii di
ana Eackles the same question.
There is great anxiety at Vicksburp
Tor fear that the recent Congressional
appropriation of $4,000 for the inn
movement of the harbor at that point
ls5fot going to be expended as judiciou4
~ as expected. The citizens are NOV
ne, "a the matter, because at this STAGE
'fR 4ter good work can be accomplished.
oHerman society organized at New
ms for the purpose Of promoting
tn interests of German emigration to
the South is meeting with flatterinp
success. 1t is stated that large mum,
per OF Germans are now on their wav
from Europe to points in the South.
Now this does begin to look like bust.
ness, p.
One of the Cotton Exposition's at
fractions will be an "ensilage cattlery'
In full operation. The pits are being
dug, and the multitude of horses, sheep,
hogs, COWS and mules will be fed in the
eensilage during the exhibition. The
main object of the system is to save Ia
Dor and time.
The Georgia Legislature has passed a
bill making complete change in the
management of the. State 'penitentiary.
BY sit1the office of Principal Keeper or
Warden is abolished, and a board of
three Commissioners elected, clothed
with unlimited power to control the
operation of affairs. This power was
formerly. in the hands of the Governor.
The thirty-eight States of the Union
contain 1920 counties, Texas leads off,
having 151 counties, followed closely bv
Georgis's 1877. After Georgia in the
table comes Kentucky with III conn.
ties; Missouri, 115; Virginia; 1O5: II
llnois, 1O2; Iowa, 90; Tennessee and
North Carolina, eac p 94, and Indian
%. As rule, the Southern States have
more counties than the Northern
States. =
Inc Charleston Courier comes to the
defense of the southern girls who are
charged with being unwilling to work,
- says that "it lis only necessary to looL
.. .. golunbus 'o or Augusta in Georgia Or
81 s.., efeenville Or spartapburg IN tbis
ssale, ,,, or wherever manufacturers . ara
falsitv u ns ~, "a the South, to prove the
lsl'y OF this charge Charleston viii silT
ee no exception % the rule a now W. m,i,
favorable opportunities aya ,;, -" 'nat