The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1882-02-02
NEWS GIEANINGS.

The public debt Of tennessee Il = lit
tie over $26, ,000, 800.
Knoxville expects to have watsr worl,
"a operation about the LIST Of June.
A Baltimore liniment nam foot u,
\ spenas $z0o, ,OOe q year in advertising.
Ihis seasons Louisiana sugar crop has
Aallen short from % to so per cent.
ses Inc population of Virginia is ,512,.
Alabama cultivated 2,17s acres of to,
baccO last year. -
The Mississippi State lunatic asylum
mas 0O0 inmates '-'
The value of productions in Missis-
sippi in 1870 was $s,l54,75S in 1880,
$12S52,S76.
"a lew days ago Columbus, Miss, in
vested $500, 0G9 in cotton factory, and
nov the capital amounts to 81, ,25O, 900.
a Van Buren, Ark, man has con-
tract to dig 1000 persimmon roots to be
shipped to Los Angeles, Cal.
A four story hotel, with all modern
improvements, and to cost $4,000, is a
probability at Birmingham, Ala.
Atlanta's irst grain elevator is com
pleted. 1t cost $33, 900, and has a stor.
age capacity OF DOC, ,0t0 bushels.
Georgia raised less than 1000. 600
Ousheis OF oats in 1870, and in 1886 the
production was over 100000 bushels.
Pensacola, Fla, has voted against re-.
pudiatinG her ante-bellum debt, and re-.
Gently paid $500, 900 of it. -.
Blk hundred and one conyicts in the
Arkansas penitentiary. Over 100 of the
number are murderers.
The individual deposits in the four
national banks at Nashville amount to
$3, ,702 S3162. -.
Shad are becoming numerous in the
Alabama, and are sold in the Montgom-
cry markets. -.
Birmingham, Ala; taxes retail whisky
, 800. - :, - : 0'1''
Grandson Harris, Jr., was convicted
OF -snatching at Augusta, Ga, and
sentenced to pay fine ofS1 900 or work
in the chain-gang for twelve months.
A stick Of yellow pine timber at Way
cross railroad, Fla, measures fourteen
inches mt the small end, and is 94 feet
long. - 0'
A company will cnmmence work at
Atlanta on the 1st of March on facto-
ry for the manufacture of stationary
engines. .......
large portion of Arkansas has been
carried by the late three-mile local op
tion law, and hundreds Of saloons were
closed with the close of the year.
A factory will be established at New
Orleans to prepare cotton-seed oil for
cooking, illuminating and lubricating
purposes.
In the Green county, Tenn, poors
h use the daily expense of each pauperi
averages four aud half cents. The bill1
OF taie ought to be printed for the sake
Of curiosity.
Alabama has 81, $40 square miles, is
divided into sixty-six counties, eleven OF
them being 1000 square miles or more in
dimension-the largest, Baldwin, being
1,62O square miles. The smallest are
Green and Etowah, being each $40 square
miles.
Twelve tramps visited Columbus, Ga,
few days ago, and a few hours after
wards they were beginning thirty days
sentence on the rock pile. This treat
ment generally and vigorously applied
will reach the very marrow of the tramp
nuisance.
The Little Rock Democrat says that
great many people in that country do
not understand that it is greater crime
to kill human being than it is to steal
a Choctaw pony, with flax name and
tail, worth $14T5.
The Florida Southern railroad projects
an extension to Perry, Ga, which will
pass through one of the richest undevel-
oped sections of the State. The com
pany is composed of Boston capitalists
said to represent $40,000,000. A heavy
force is at work on the Georgia line.
Atlanta Constitution If one of the
products of the cotton plant is to run
hogs fat out of the South, this remark
able weed will hereafter be regarded az
the author of new and higher civil
zation. We are all the victims of dis
eased hogs fat and too frequent use of
the frying pan.
Fort Smith (Ark.) independent: It is
no longer Old Arkansas, but New Ar
kansas. The flint lock rifle, the coon
skin cap, 1he yellow dog, the belled spurs
and the quirt are only remembered as
the past, and good stock. good farms,
good schools, education and refinement
have taken their place.
Macon (Ga.) Telegraph: With the in
crease of our industries comes also the
demand for skilled laborers The South
has not got them. All our boys have
been trained to be lawyers and doctors.
Georgia has not an institution for train
ing young men as skilled mechanics. She
has several so-called military attach
ments, but not an institution devoted to
practical Knowledge in mechanism and
manufacturing, which is now her great
est need. .... ....
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