The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1882-01-19
NEWS GLEANINGs.

+ manutactory.
Mississippi has four times as much tim
Der as Minnesota.
Marion county, Fla, has $4,000 acres
~ esteiand in orange groves.
Russian Jews are constantly settling
in all parts of Mississippi.
Fifty-fve cotton mills in Georgia, and
others in process of erection.
Real estate at Milledgeville, Ga., has
doubled in value in the last two wears
Birmingham, Ala, has raised the H.
cense OF whisky dealers to $3.50 a coun-
ter.
A bill has been introduced in the Vir-
post.
The salary of the Mayor of Savannah
mas been increased from $1,000 to So, 900
year.
It's I'd that twenty seven of the ex-
hlbitors at Atlanta are going to establish
factories there.
There are eleven men in the Clarks.
vile, Ark, Jail charged with murder in
in the first degree.
Three Butler county, Ala, bows in one
days hunt killed fourteen foxes and
twenty-five cat squirrels.
Forty thousand dollars have been sub
scribed toward a proposed car manufac-
tory in Montgomery, Ala.
Mrs. Nancy E. Pearce, who cut of, her
chlld's head in Howard county, Ark.
has been adiudged insane.
The street letter-boxes in San Antou
MO, Texas, have been robbed SO freouent-
ly that the postmaster has ordered them
taken down.
Many Georgia farmers believe there
Will be a great advance in cotton next
spring. and are holding back as much of
their crops as possible.
Since 1860 Tennessee has acquired
nearly 100000 additional population.
and has made crops every year of an
average annual net profit of $27, 500, 900.
Inthe four States of Georgia, Alabama,
South Carolina and Tennessee the num-
Der OF persons employed in the manufac-
ture OF cotton is II, ,7S8, against {, 800 in
1870. ,.~. ....' 4
The Mayor of Birmingham, Ala, has
gwen orders to the police 1orcc of that
city to require all merchants to discon-
tlnue the sale of cigars and tobacco on
Sunday.
JIhe father of Rev. Richard Jordan of
hhea county, Tenn, is still living, at the
age'ot l06. His son is seventy-five. His
wife is eighty-seVen, but looks older than
her husband. ....
The Cincinnati Southern railroad has
contracted with the Glen Mary (Tenn.l
mines for twenty car loads of coal per
day for their engines, at seven cents per
bushel unsoreened
The new capitol building at Austin.
Texas, is to be 366 feet high, 566 feet
long, and 285 feet/in depth, the seventh
highest building in the world, and the
second in the United States.
The Trustees of the Georgia Academy
for the Blind have purchased ground at
Macon for the erection of an academy
for the colored blind. The State appro-
priated $4,000 for the purpose.
In North Carolina there arc fifty three
cotton mills in operation, and six Others
are In progress and nearly completed.
Ihere are also four or five wooden mills
In operation in "the old Nortl, ..C,A.,,' .
A mulatto woman named Fannie
Crawford has just returned to her farm
In Mississippi, with fifty negroes from
Sumpter county, Ala. This year, about
closing time, she worked 800 hands on
her farm, which she manages herself.
With increased capital pouring into
New Orleans, with the ietties opened for
the largest vessels, with four railroads
running there, and at least three more
on the way, the Times-D Democrat wishes
the whole world ga happy New Year"
The Vicksburg and Ship Island and
the Memphis and Vicksburg railroads
have leased 600 penitentiary convicts
from the Mississippi State Board of Pub.
lie Works which are to be divided be.
tween the two roads and put to work
near Vicksburs
A good deal of syrup made in Alaba-
ma this season is found to be unfit for
use because the sugar cane from which
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