The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1882-12-07
NEWS GLEANINGS.
The achosI popaIatIon 8 aeorgIa

II
are being set out in Leon county, Fla.
Cedar Key, T EIs Ne, beass the distinction
of being town in which not a single
COW is owned or kept.
Alab anna is in such prosperous con.
dition that the Governor recommends
q reduction of taxation.
A gold mine has been discovered in
Warren county, Ga, which promises to
be one Of the richest in the State.
Z In Georgia this year 140,515 white
voters paid their poll taxes, and 93,16S
co1ored voters did the same thing.
A bill has been introd duced in the Ala
bama Legislature to prevent persons
playing "crac-a-loo" in public places. i.
The iron bridge across Yazoo river,
twelve miles above Vicksburg, Miss, is
to cost $780, 900. 1t is now under way.
The actual capital now Invested in
Southern cotton mills is placed at $50,
100000, giving employment to 10000
hands.
"A bill has been introduced in the
Georgia Legislature to require railroad
companies to fence in their roads and
erect cattle guards.
Georgia farmers, elated and encour-
AGED by the immense oat crop harvested
this year, are putting in larger crop
than'ever this fall.
The New Orleans Times-D Democrat
and Charleston News and Courier are
agitating the project of organizing a
Southern Associated Press.
The Commercial says Vickburg is Oh
a regular business boom, forging ahead
at lively rate, but the condition of
the city finances is deplorable.
The award of 800 for a design for
the Confederate monument to be erected
|. at Nashville has been ordered paid to
Henry 0. Avery, of New York.
Waverly, Tenn, takes pride in point
ing out to visitors the site on which
stood the log school-house in which Col
Robt.rsG. Ingersol taught school twenty
five years ago.
Virginia ranks seventeenth in the
list of producing Estates, the oyster,
menhaden and shad fisheries being the
three branches in which her citizens are
most extensively interested,
A Mississippi man has discovered that
an excellent quality of sugar can be
made from sweet potatoes. If this
proves true, a new useE has been found
for one of the best and m ost prolific O
American products.
The News says Galveston may as we'll
give up the hope of being algreat cotton
market, in consequence of direct expor-
tation Of the cotton of Northern Texas to
; Liverpool and Bremen by spiuner's
agents throughout the State.
IA bill providing for the erection of
new Capitol has been introduced in the
Georgia Legislature. The bill provides
that it be built of Georgia granite and
marble, decorated with Georgia pine
and walnut. and cost 81, 100000.
On the farm of VIM. J. Watkins in
Buckingham county, Va, is mound
between twenty and thirty feet high,
which is filled with the bones of men
and women, together with pieces of In
dian pottery, arrow heads and other
elics.
The many hundred thousands of cane
fishing poles used in the North each
year are obtained near the head of Big
Black river, in Mississippi. Four hun
dred thousand poles will be cut and
shipped this fall, besides 100000 small.
er canes for pipe stems.
Louisiana's crops of sugar, rice and
cotton are enormous. Some of the SUI
gar plantations are yielding three hogs
heads of sugar and six barrels of moIas~
ses to the acre. This is remarkable. The
planters are in high glee. Net incomes
from 500, 900 to $500,0OO are talked of.
Lynchburg( (Va.) Advance: The an
nual report of the Hampton Indian
school shows thirty Indian girls and fif.
ty-four Indian boys in attendance. The
students made 1900 pairs of shoes an6
seyenty-fve sets of harness, besides
many other articles, during the present
year.
A Charleston IS. o. woman blondin
ed her hair with some vile concoction
and then while braiding it, it il
her mouth. The stuff poisoned her lips
and the poison soon found it's wa,
throughout her entire system. Afte
weeks of doctering, she recovered, bu
only by the merest chance.
Montgomery Advertiser: Among tn
fruits exhibited at the fair during tn,
present week was barrel af Alabam
oranges, raised by Mr.. Tatum, Repre-
sentative in the Legislature from Bale
win ounty. They attracted genera
afternoon by their rich color and lare
size, and compare very favorabIy wit,
the best Florida oranges.
Mellomaize is South American c,