The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-05-26

The Savannah News regards tea cult
ure in Georgia as an assured success.
The Leesburg (Fla.) Advance learns
that wooden railway will be built from
Leesburg to Lake Harris and Griffin for
the transportation of goods.
The Sugar Planter reports that sew
eral planters in West Baton Rouge, La,
are to give the sorgum cane a fair trial
this season, and if results are satisfac-
tory to plant extensively another year.
The Columbus (Ga.) Enquirer-Sun
says that the woods are alive with To-
Gusts around Griffin. They are of the
same kind as those there fourteen yea1s
ago, and farmers fear for their wheat
crop.
The rector at st. Johns Episcopal
church at Montgomery, Ala, has bap.
tized 5O2 persons in twelve wears. The
amount of money contributed by the
parish for all purposes during the past
twelve years, including the support of
the church, is$1O9,778.
There is peach tree, now growing
IN Jasper county, Ga, on the plantation
OF b. Il. Ezell, near Erickson, the seed
OF which was planted by Mr.. EzeIps
father in 1909, The tree was TRANSPLANT
ed IN 1911. 1t is now growing fruit, the
Macon (Ga.) Telegraph reports. Mr..
Ezell is now in his eighty-second year.
The Raleigh IN. CO. News Observer
reports that Governor Jarvis, Lieutenant
Governor Robinson, and others, who re-
Gently visited the eastern part of the
State, saw two fish hauls at Mr.. Cape
harts fishery at Avoca, one of 17O, 900
herring in the morning, and another Of
TO- 'ooO IN the evening. The warp of
tho seln was $500 yards in length, and
it was hauled in by steam.
One of the most remarkable instances
or selt-sacraice and per everance is
that OF the Beal street colored Baptist
church at Memphis, which. out of the
very small daily earnings of its poor
members, has contributed since 1868
$o|eOO to buy ground and build and
pay for its fine church edifce. About
$1,000 more is requisite to complete
the interior of the upper part of the
building.
The Mayor and board of aldermen
have revoked and cancelled every license
TO sell wines, spirituous or malt liquors
or any intoxicating liquors within the
limits OF the city of Charlotte, N. G,
The keeping of such beverages for sale
Is declared a nuisance, and in this
declaration branded fruits and alco-
hollc liquors are included.
Mississippi has a total population of
l,l3l, ,592, of which 479, ,371 are white
and 652,221 are colored. There are
seVenty-four counties in the State, of
which thirty-eight contain more colored
than white population, and thirty-six
more white than colored. The colored
majority. is 172,850. In Issaouena
county the whites number 824 and the
colored persons 9,177. In Washington
county the whites number 3,474 and the
colored persons 1891.
Contracts have been made by the To.
cal Board of Swamp Land Commission
ers for the parishes Of Lafourche and
Terrabonne, for the construction of two
canals, to be completed within one wear.
The New Orleans States saws that this
will open to cultivation or other useful
purposes and render conveniently acces-
sible large area of heretofore useless
lands within easy distance from New
Orleans.
Spartanburg, S. c., news in Charles
ton News and Courier: The LONGEST
cotton row in the county, or in the
State, perhaps, was laid off by Mr.. e.
b. Huff, who works and of J. III. Mont
gomery, Esq, two miles north of town.
1t is 9O,76O yards long and the rows
being three and half feet wide, this
row contains fraction over two and
one-thlrd acres. Its length is little
more than five and half miles. It
would require about six hours to run
round this one row of cotton.
The Bullock (Ga.) .)Banner hears of a.
man who is taking his all on cotton. He
has waved the homestead, and is giving
mortgages on all that he has on the in.
coming crop, in order to get guano, corn
and meat. The Banner asks: "Sup-
pose the cotton crop this year is short
one, or that it is large one, but the
prices low and the mortgage and home
stead waving notes can not he noid