The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1882-11-23
NEWS GLEANINGs.
y Jail at Atlanta contains

Tennessee is extensively shipping cat
tie and hogs to Florida.
James B. Pace is announced as the
wealthiest man in Virginia.
The United States Jail at Ft. Smith
Ark, contains 100 prisoners.
The late Gen. Holt, of Macon, Ga,
left an estate valued at $50O,0OO.
N itgomery, Ala, expects TO handle
10000 bales of cotton this season.
Maryville, Tenn, has factory where
buttons are made of muscle Shells.
A carload of German carp have ar,
rive at Nashville for distribution.
The New Orleans police are making an
effort to break up the opium oens {
that city.
Most of the levee work on the Missis>
sippi river below Natchez, Miss, is I'm.
der headway.
Fulton county, Ga. is taking care OF
ZIG prisoners who are awaiting trial on
different criminal charges,
A law in Florida requires that the
tickets of candidates for county officers
be printed on colored paper.
Nineteen Indian boys have been TAX
en- to Trinity College, North Carolina.
where they will be educated.
The New Orleans papers complain be.
cause the Charity Hospital at that place
rs oVerrun by patients from other States.
Nashville has no water for fire pur-
poses, and the underwriters are discuss
ing the adyisabilitY of advancing their
rates.
Several more Mormon elders have ar
rived at Chattanooga and Joined the
band of Mormon missionaries now work
ing up converts in the South.
Lord Houghton, of England, has pur-
chased 10000 acres of land in South
ern Florida, and intends going exten-
slvely into sugar culture, investing at
least $1,OOO,0OO.
The British steamer Castello left Sa-
Vannah, Ga, Monday, with the most
yaiuanle cargos ever cleared from the
port The cargo was 7,100 bales of up.
iano cotton, valued at $4O6, O97 32.
A bill to be introduced at the present
session of the Georgia Legislature will
provide for registration law, which
Will oeoar any person from voting who
has not paid his taxes in full. It is
thought this bill will be easily passed.
A Mr.. Johnston, of Atlanta, a cousin
of Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, is the ia
ther OF twenty-five children, the young
est OF them being an infant. Mr.. John
ston has been married but once. and his
wife Is now living and in excellent health
One of the four silver half dollars
coined by the Confederate States gov
ernment is in the possession of a gen
tlemah living in Cartersville, Ga. He
has been offered on several occasions the
comfortable sum of $500 by numismatic
collectors for the coin.
Work on the Mobile harbor progresses
satisfactorily. The present dimensions
OF the channell are seventy-five feet
wide by seventeen deep from the month
OF the liver to deep water down the bav.
together wither with an additional short
cut of forty feet wide near the month
of the river.
Iaere are now 979 patients in the
Georgia Insane Asylum, 257 of whom
were received during the present year,
Chatham county furnishes the7 larpest
number, sixty-four; Fulton follows
with forty eight, and Richmond with
forty-six. Fhe patients range from fif,
teen to ninety years of age.
The Picayune is informed that a dan.
gerous $40 counterfeit Treasury note is
in circulation in New Orleans The
note is of the same manufacture which
appeared in Chicago in 1880, the printer
OF them being arrested with $4,000 of
the money in his possession. Thew have
since appeared in many of the larper
cities.
BY recent decision of the Supreme
Court of South Carolina, characterized
by the Charleston News and Courier as
'the most important judicial deliver
ance that has been had since the adop-
tion of the new constitution" no felon
in future has the right to vote. This
law is being generally adopted in the
Southern States.
Suit has been brought against the
Tennessee Brokerage Association a.,
Nashville, by Calvin Morgan, who seeks
to recover So, $50 lost on corn deals d,Ir
ing the month of October The con,
plainant alleges that the transactions IN
which the money was lost were not bono
fide, as no real delivery was contracted
for