The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-05-12
NEWS GLEANINGS.

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Charleston IS. O. News and Courier
The production of cotton per acre i.
greater in North Carolina than in an,
State in the Union. Georgia is next ir
the scale of productiveness.
The Cedar Keys (Fla.) Journal de-
sires to know who can tell now the shell
mounds in that neighborhood came
there. Some of them are nearly twenty
feet high. Digging for building pur.
poses discovered variety of shells.
The Louisiana Western Railroad Com.
pany has built mammoth hotel, cover.
ing a ground area Of 148 by 12O feet, in
the Attalapas country, west of the bayou
Vermillion, and a town has been laid
out and named McComb, in honor of
the president and principal stockholder
of the railroad company.
The Nashville Banner says that Liv-
ingstone Hall, now in course of erec-
ton, will nearly double the capacity of
Fisk University. The main university
building is five stories high. Jubilee
Hall is four stories high, with base
ment story, and will, perhaps, be COM
pleted by September, 1882. 1t is in
contemplation to erect another building
between Jubilee Hall and Livingstone
Hail.
Reporting the return of Okeechobee
expedition, Jacksonville, Fla, matter in
Savannah (Ga.) News says: The Kis-
simmee river was carefully examined.
The lands are rich beyond expectation
Lake Okeechobee was sounded for fortv
miles. Its average depth is eight feet
The Caloosahatchic was traversed for
sixty miles in a row boat. The lands
around the lake and the TWO rivers are
capable of producing sufficient sugar to
supply the whole country. The climate
is delightful. Operations will be COM
menced without delay.
Pascagoula (Miss.) Democrst-Star:
There is mistaken idea amorg our
wool-grewers on the coast that prices
will range up in the forties for the early
clip, based upon the assumption that the
crop will be short. It is true that many
sheep have died during the past winter,
caused by the severe weather, but" when
we consider the quantity of wool grown
IN this section as compared with what is
raised in California, Texas and the
Southern States, the amount raised on
the coast is very small, and is not likelv
to affect the general market very much.
E. III. Angomar recently died in New
York, and when his succession was
opened in the Civil District Court at
New Orleans, the New Orleans Times
says that it was discovered that 1887
represents the entire value of his estate,
He leaves widow and three children.
lie was an inventor, a man of great en-
ergy, and his process for the propulsion
OF street-cars would perhaps have made
him a rich man if he had lived. He
had received all the substantial encour-
agement he wanted.
The Columbus (Ga.) Enouirer-Sun
says that Columbus has a population of
nearly 10000 within the corporate lin
Its, and that including the suburbs it
will reach between 1900 and $4,000.
Noticing that it has been omitted from
the census list of cities having over 1O,-
700 population, the Enquirer-Sun infers
that there is an error in compiling the
returns. 1t says: "There is probable
lty that there is an error in compiling
the returns after they left here, as our
reporter, with the enumerators, exam
med them and counted every name,
making the population of the city some
thing over 10000. The department. has
been written to, and in a few davs of.
fetal information will be received" /"
The Green Cove Spring, published at
Green Cove Springs, Fla, states the
price of swamp land belonging to the
State as follows: For forty acree, or
less, 81 per acre; for more than FORTY
and not exceeding eighty acres, ninety
cents per acre; for more than eighty, and
not exceeding 200 acres, eights cents per
acre; for more than 200, and not exceed
ing $40 acres, seventy-fve cents per
acre; for more than $40 acres, seventy
cents per acre. In case of entries of land
at less than 81 per acre, the land must
oe In body, and not in detached pieces.
where, however, two pieces of land are
separated by lands not belonging to the
STATE they are considered as contiguous
Tor the purpose of sale. Many of these
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