The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-04-07
NEWS GEEANHNGS.


Georgia. ....
Sixteen years ago Durham, N. c., con
tanned sixty people; now that town ha.
population of 1000. Manufacturing
tobacco did it.
The appropriation of $65,OOO foi the
improvement of Savannah harbor will
De expended under the direction of Gen,
o. A. Gilmore, the news says.
The act "to abolish private seals and
prescribe short form of deeds, and for
other purposes" has been repealed bv
the North Carolina Legislature.
The Montgomery Advertiser and Mail
thinks that it is not likely that the ques-
tion of the annexation of West Florida
to Alabama will ever be raised again.
The congregation of the First African
Baptist church of Richmond, Va, has
paid OFT every dollar of more than $780,
900 debt incurred in remodeling it's ed
ifce.
Chattanooga Times: A farmer in
Houston county, Ga, as we are told
traded COW for snuff last week, taking
fifteen dollars worth Of the article home
for family use. -.
The Fincastle Herald mentions q re-
port that the Arcadia iron works Com
pany has contracted with the Richmond
and Allegheny Railroad Company to
ship $4,000 tons of ore.
Negotiations are nearly or quite COM
pieted for the permanent occupation of
the commodious shops of the Memphis
and Charleston Railroad at Huntsville,
Ala, for the establishment therein of a
mammoth cotton seed oil factory.
A bill against Creating" has been in
troduced in the Illinois Legislature 'It
not only makes treating unlawful, but
the man who is treated is in equal danger
OF punishment, for it puts the person
buying LIQUOR for another and the person
accepting on tie same footing.n
The Legislature of North Carolina has
granted one acre of ground, to be taken
from the southeast corner of the lot on
which the Governors mansion is now
located, to the trustees of Shaw Univer-
slty, for the purpose Of establishing a
medical college for colored students.
Wheeling (W. Va.) Intelligencer
heene Richards, of Kentucky, one of the
noted turfmen and imp orters of Arabian
horses in that State, died on Saturday
last. Many years ago he was a student
at Bethany College, and Is we'll remem-
memoered as dashing and generous
young fellow of large fortune.
The total area of Mississippi is 47,156
square miles, of which not quite 3,172
square miles was devoted to the culture
Oh cotton in 1879. The total amount Of
cotton produced was 922, $40 bales, over
hundred thousand bales more than the
crop of Georgia or Texas, according to
the Aberdeen (Miss.) Examiner.
1t is his superstition which makes the
Husslan soldier so good a fighter and 50
faithful defender of despotism. All
he asks is the satisfaction of his anima,
wants in this world; for the sake of
eternal bliss in another he will endure
incredible hardships with complacency,
ana will die with dogged resignation
unknown to other men.
The arrival of "the first batch Of i'm
migrants" at Columbia, S. c., is reported
10 the Charleston News and Courier.
Nine men, woman and child, all from
one neighborhood in the province of
Westphalia, Germany. They were re-
celVed by Col. A. P. Butler, acting Com
missioner of immigration. He will i'm
mediately order another batch, and
hopes to get hundred next time.
Atlanta, Ga, special to Columbus
(Ga.) Enquirer-Sun: A prominent rail
road man of our State remarked that
"nine-tenths of the business done bv
railroads in Georgia was in bringing pro.
visions and guano from the West into
the State" He agrees with Stephens,
that "the rich are getting richer and the
poor poorer" and that as our people
make larger crops the railroad business
is proportionately decreased
The Southern University (for colored
people, established at New Orleans un-
der authority of the constitution of the
State of Louisiana, is yet only Temporal
rily organized, it seems. Two chairs
appear to be permanently filled, that of
mathematics by Prof. Edmunds, and