The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1882-11-02
NEWS GLEAEENEs.S.


A colored lawyer has been admitted
Ito the bar at Macon, Ga.
Mount Vernon, Alabama, is to be made
a permanent military post.
Tie Ben Hill monument fund bo
reached total of $3,142.25.h
Savannah, Ga, has sent 81 1,913. .25 to
the Pensacola fever sufferers. ..>
The South sends 5000, 600 worth Of
cotton'seed oil to Great Britain an
nually, ......
Mr. Bearden, aged 1O4 years, has lust
tDeen married to Mrs. Lee. ageG fortv
years, at Bibb, Ala.
1ohniSYork, for the Fmurder Of his
s'eP son. in Whitfield county, Ga, goes
to the penitentiary for life.
A Blackshear, Georgia, farmer still
"see a wagon made fifty years ago, and
which has never Teen repaired,
Fearce county, Ga, is seeking legisla-
zion that will increase the cost of 1icenso
10 sell liquor in that county to $40 con
per annum.
Inc mace and sword Of State used
In south Carolina in colonial times
are still preserved. They were brouobt
to this country in 1929.
Ihe cotton crop of Texas is 50 laroo
ana Plckers so scarce and hard to oct
'ia' q great deal of the staple will re-
main nngathered, thereby entaiIiro
heavy loss,
"A company organized at Atlanta will
import and slaughter cattle, run stock,
yards and make oleomargarine and but
terlne. The company has cash con-
ital of $5O0,O0O. p
Macon, Ga, bees have religious in.
cllnatlons. The steeples of the Presbv-
ler1an and Wesleyan churches were each
invaded by a'swarm on the same dov
which remain and are at work.
One man at Dalton, Ga, has paid ont
over $4,000 for matrimonial policies
Controller General Wright saws Goor
ela Is gaming in wealth more rapidly
thon sny ctl CT state in the s,rt
A curious bird, bronze colored with
a long, keen beak, long slender leos and
and talons and similar in manv resnocts
to the English bittern, has been oon
tured near Nashville. 1t is q stronoor
to this country.
Newspapers are published in SEVENTH
three of the ninety.four counties in
Tennessee at eighty-seven different
towns aud cities. of which numLo'
sixty"nine are county seats.Ess There or,
loO papers in the state.
Pickens county, Alabama, is 50 ovor.
whelmingly in debt that property bos
decreased in value until it is now
almost impossible to give it away. A few
DAYS ago 800 acres of fine timber land
and mill in good condition brouoht
but $2lO, The effects of the condition. of
affairs in the county.
Elizabeth Malley, convicted of illoao1.
ay hVlng with S O Prentiss, ex-citv
editor of the Nashville World and
sentenced to term of two years in the
penltentiary, has been granted n new
trial; the motion for new trial in tbo
case of Prentiss has not yet been acted
upon.
The Nashville and Chattanoo,,o ,o;,
foao Will build belt railroad around
Cumberland mountai;l. The Cbotto
nooga Times says the result Of tho
grand plan canrot be estimated The now
road will pierce the heart Of the fnest
coal co:intry in the state, and will aid
ni0ie IN theindustrial development Of
out states, than anything done in years
Mobile Register: The McAllistcr
gun, invented and patended oy DR..
A. Fl. McAllister, of Union couutv
MISS has twenty-four rifle ibarrels, and
discharges 500 cartridges a minute
greatly exceeding the Gatline o,,n IN
"hu reliability, The entire
WORE OF construction was done at tba
placksmith shop on his plantation Nv
'O'' mcAllister and machinist Of his
own neighborhood,
Chattanooga Times: One would think
that IN the Tennessee penitentiarv would
be found hoary-headed old men, who had
been there Tor thirty or forty y ears. vet
strange to say, though the pefiitentiary
was erected fifty four years ago, never
during all that time, has prisoner sur
VlVed over seventeen years, though many
nave been sent there under life sentence
1here is no one there now who wos there
1870. " '''> ''
The Columbus, Georgia, Enquirer
says the worth of cotton seed is not &c
yet' appreciated by the planters Of the
south. The linters taken from the seed
sell at from five to six cents per pound ,
after the oil is extracted the n,aoI -