The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1882-12-14
NEWS GLEANINGs.

s yAs&s s Sesssyieta. Ot Eneee ei1ty-SSNen are
/ whites and 400 colored.
a total Of $S,372 40 has been collect
ed toward erecting monument to Sen
atcr Ben Hill, of Georgia.
The Little Rock Gazette says the
acreage of wheat sown in Arkansas this
fall is larger than ever before.
Alabama has over 5000, 900 acres of
Government land subject to entry un-.
dor homestead and pre-emption laws.
Richmond, Va, has fifty factories,
representing q capital Of, $4,000, 900
Their sales for 1881 aggregated 81 ,250.
900.
The debt of Memphis is four and a
half millions, and the Avalanche says it
Is increasing at the rate of $27O, 900 per
year. -
A Southern paper estimates that at
least 100 cotton gins have burned THY
season. Many Of the fires were incen-
diary. :
The general local option petition
which Is to be presented to the Georgia
Legislature in few days is 300 feet in
length.
A bill has been introduced in the
Georgia Legislature to require all the
qualified voters in the State to register
before voting.
A bill introduced in the Alabama
Legislature provides that the study of
the laws of health be introduced into
the public schools. .
The North Carolina peanut crop will
this year reach 100000 bushels. The
nuts are of better quality than any
grown during the past FIVE years.
Fifty.one women from Northeast
Georgia left Atlanta day or two ago
for homes and husbands in Utah, hay
ing been converted to the Mormon
faith.
The dam across the Chattahoochee
river, at Columbus, Ga, is nearly corn .
piete6. 1t is the largest in the South.
and contains about 200, 600 feet of solid
masonry.
Virginia will soon have the largest
iron furnace in the United States The
Victoria furnace, in Rockbridge coun-
ty, now nearly ready to put in blast,
Will daily produ CO 200 tons of iron,
Georgia has more illiterate than an
: other State in the Union. North Caro-
lima is second on the list, Alabama third,
Virginia fourth, Tennessee fifth and
Mississippi sixth. ..-.
Geological examination reveals in the
delta OF the Mississippi, along space
of 800 miles, ten distinct forests of bu,
gied trees. Bald expresses with diam.
I eter of twenty-five feet have been
found. ..
Rev. Geo. w. Baker and wife have
sued w. A. Huff, proprietor Of the
Markham House, Atlanta, for SIC, 900
damages for injuries sustained by M rs
Baker by being bitten by rats while q
guest of the hotel last summer.
Male relatives Of the girls employed
in the Nashville manufacturing estab.
iishments are acting as detectives, on
their own VOLT ion, to punish fast young
men who are in the habit of insulting
working girls on their way home afte,
dark.
The Columbus (Ga.) Enquirer says
there is probability that the Cotton
and WOODEN Mutual Manufacturers In
surance Company, Northern institu
tion, will extend ats borders so as tc
take in Southern cotton and Wooler
mills.
Austin Statesman In the most relia
BILE quarters the crops of TIE xas for thi
!. season are estimated at 1,4O0, 900 bale
OF cotton and 150,00O,COO bushels O
corn. Texas now stands first on tn,
list OF Southern States in the produc-
zion Of cotton and corn.
Great excitement exists in Frankli,
and Wake counties, N. O., over the
wholesale killing of hogs bIonging to the
farmers. They allege that the hogs
have been poisoned by tramp peddlers
in the interest of Western pork packers
Scarcely twenty live hogs are left in the
two counties.
Bills in the interest OF temperance ar,
consuming a great deal of the time OF
the Georgia Legislature Many coun-
ties want the sale of whiskey within
their borders prohibited altogether
while others ask that the license be fix
ed at $4,000, $4,000, and even 500.
600 per year.
Atlanta has a candidate for Mayo
who proposes, if elected, to gradual,
reduce taxation until, at the end of fif,
teen years, the city government can b.
run without one cent of cost to her cit
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