The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1882-01-05
NEWS GLEAEIEGs.

Florida. -.-..>.... ......-- .....
Local option is becoming popular in
Virginia. ire ..r. ....... ..."........
Corinth, Miss, is showing an interest
in silk culture. . .....u ....
A sea-cow was recently seen in the bay
near st. Augustine. '..'
Mississippi is displaying an unusual
interest in railroads. .a
Virginia now ranks eighth as a pro-
ducer of iron ore. In 1870 she was
twelfth. ......... ....'....
Twelve thousand barrels of rosin we're
disposed of in one sale recently by Sa-
vannah house. ..."'
The Chief Justice of Alabama is a
printer by trade, and formerly worked
at the case at Athens.
The machinery to be used in improv-
ing Apalachicola, Ella harbor has ar
rived there and work will begin at once.
d. Col. J. S. Mosby, of Virginia, when
he returns from China, will marry we'll
known society lady of Alexandria.
Stock raising in Texas offers greater
inducements to the capitalist than any
other business carried on in the coun.
try.
New Orleans property owners will
have to pay tax of three per cent. to
meet the necessities of the city govern
ment next year.
Asbury Bush, a ferryman, shot and
killed negro named Charlie Nixon, at
Warwick, Ga, for refusing to pay five
cents ferriage across the river.
Lucien Beard has been pardoned out
of the Virginia penitentiary at Rich
mond after having served eight of an
eighteen years sentence for horse steal
ing.
Five hundred inhabi tants at Ozark,
Ala, and not Smith in the directory.
Perhaps the old and we'll known Jones
family have kept them out with clubs.
Thomas Jefferson has been arrested at
Wilmington, South Carolina, for strik-
ing Ben. Franklin with rock and throw
ing sand into John Adams eyes.
A large petition is being gotten up in
Alabama, praying for the opening of
Coosa river to navigation, and beseech-
ing that no delay be permitted.
The convicts in the Tennessee peniten-
tiary will issue an address to the people
of the State, soliciting funds to pur chase
an organ forsstheir benefit.
The State of West Virginia has no
indebtedness, the constitution of the
State forbidding the creation of any la
bility in tho nature of public debt.
In accordance with an act of tn
Legislature every child who attends the
public schools in Savannah must be vac
cinated, otherwise they will be rejected
at the re-opening Of the schools next
month.
A company has been chartered and
organized at Rome Ga, to make surveys
and estimates with the view of con-
structing canal from point seven
miles above the city, 50 as to give fall
of thirty feet. With this fall 5000
horse power will be available for manu-
featuring.
U.s. Dalhonega (Ga., } Sentinel: The prep
arations for mining by the Loud Gold
Mining Company are simply wonderful.
The canals..are spread over wide extent
of country and mining by the hydraulic
process will SOON surpass anything ever
witnessed in the South. ... ..
Reports from Hoover Hill gold mine
in Randolph county, North Carolina,
still continue good. Since the rich
strike was made few weeks ago, it il
estimated that the ore raised is worth
$4,000, and it still holds out with
splendid promise. This mine is own ed
and operated by an English company.
Bibb county, Ala, has a curiosity il
the way of stalk of ribbon cane. Il
divides itself into two prongs near the
ground. Below the fork the stalk has
doubleeyes.' Above the fork, and in
cluding both prongs, it is ten feet lone
and has thirty-two joints. ...
Senator Brown, OF Georgia, said in q
recent interview that he received no ed,
ucation to speak OF until he was of age
At thirty-three he was elected to a
Judgeship, and at thirty seven became
Governor. Heis now, at sixty-eight, a
TYp;had Statoa Sanotor