The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1882-10-26
NEWS GLBAN1Nes.

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W six editors, win hold seats in She mex
Georgia Legislature.
y The city tax in Tallahassee, Florada
but seven mills on the $500.
Gadsden, Alabama, has doubled it
population in the last twelve months.
Georgia's surplus crop of sweet pota
.8toeswill reach 400, 900 bushels this year
3 Wah Hing and Tin Sing, two China
Hnen, have embarked in the grocery bus
iness at Nashville.
Florida is making preparations to re
ceiye, an unusually large number of new
settlers this winter. -
The Georgia prohibitionists have
nominated, legislative. candidates il
= twentyanihe counties. - ''
A meteor fell few days ago near
Orange City, Florida, killing II colorec
women, whom it struck.
The wa6erworks at Hot Sprinoa
* Arkansas, are completed, and are said
TO be the best in the State.
Annie Hubbard, who murdered her
child in Colbert county, Ala, goes to
the penitentiary for ten years.
n The Vicksburg Commercial says Ia
borers were never in such demand in the
valley of the Lower Mississippi as now.
"a, complaint comes from several nor.
lions Of Florida that the orange crop is
turning out bad, and will be short about
one-third.
Inc ashes of common weed, known
by some in Florida as sickle weed, are
almost pure potash, being as strong as
baking soda, ,
1t is believed that the orange crop of
FLORIDA will this year be worth nearly
double that,of 1880, which brought over
$672,O0O.
A West Indian has purchased ten
acres af ground near Tampa, Fla, which
" he will plant in mulberries for the Dur.
pose of raising silk-worms.
The Vicksburg, Mississippi, papers
complain that, with population of
from $4,000 to $4,000, they can count
upon but one mail per week.
... A COW fell into pit near Cedar Kew
ria, and remained there forty'two days
without food or water, When discov-
cred the animal presented pitable pict-
"re OF pelt and bones, but was still able
walk.
l1r. w. III Bennett, an eccentric citi.
citizen of Meridian, Miss, died dav
or two ago, and his estate, valued at
$oo,00O' was left to a negro cook, cut
ting off his wife and heirs. The will ia
Q. to be contested.
Georgia's corn crop is the largest
since 1859, and will reach 10000, 900
bushels The oat crop reached 8, 900, 900
bushels, and the wheat crop $500, 900
bushels. 1T is thought 100000 bales of
cotton will be raised.
Mrs. Ann Talley, of iSpottsylvania
county, Va, aged seventy years and in
robust. health, became impressed with
the idea that she would die at a certain
hour on certain day. She prepared
for the anticipated event, and, true to
her Premonition, her death came.
Goldsboro, IN. o. Messenger A pe-
culiar and frightful disease has appear
ed in Northampton and other counties
in the northeastern part of the State.
It's called yellow chills or hemorrhagic
= fever, and is generally fatal in its re-
suits. Persons affected turn yellow and
vomit blood.
New Orleans will experiment with
l.. mesquite wood for paving streets. It
rs a native of Texas, partakes almost of
the hardness of iron, is very durable,
and it is believed will make a better
street than granite. 1t grows abun-
dantly in Texas, and can be easily and
cheaply transported.
g, Mrs. Lizzie VALLEY, convicted at
Nashville and sentenced to term Of
three years in the peuitentiary for al
legged cohabitation with Owen Prentiss,
ex-city editor of the World, is said to
be neice of the distinguished Codfed
crate General Bragg. 1t is limited that
Prentias will be released on bond, and
the case against him will never come to
trial.
At Columbus, Texas, about twenty
boys, whose ages range from ten to SIX
teen years, about six months ago organ
oe
time have been engaged in stealing.
They undertook to rob freight car,
, which led to their discovery. They had
cave abross the river where they de.
posted their plunder. These boys are
sons Of respected citizens, and had nc
object in theiving other than to gratify
desire for adventure, which they had
formed from reading dime novels, a
number Of which we're found in thei,