The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1882-01-26
NEWS GLBANINGS.

ma insane asylum.
New Years day Georgia had SOIL
4SS 24, in her treasury. .
X0laatGTy donations to the Universi.
ty of Virginia since 1866 foot up $440,-
600.
This years hay crop in Augusta
county, Va, is estimated to be worth
over 100000.
Maury county, Tenn, is out of debt,
and her warrants are worth ninety-five
cents on the dollar.
The license to sell Intoxicating spir-
its within the town of Jasper, Ga, has
been raised to $1,000.
One hundred thousand young Cali
fornia salmon have recently been placed
in the waters of Georgia.
Bets of $500 have been made at ALL
gusta, Ga, that tais years cotton crop
will be at least 100000 bales
II The residence of Hon. Ben. Hill, at
Athens, ga has been sold to Prof.
Speer, of the University. 1t originally
cost $4,000. -
There are seventeen tobacco factories
at Pe ersburg, Va, employing about
$4,000 hands. The gross annual pro-
ducts amount to about $S,200,O0O
The st. Louis, Iron Mountain and
Southern railway company pay $780,
600 yearly for ties to the wood choppers
between Little Rock ahd Texarkana.
The Porter Guards. of Memphis, will
wear swallowtailed scarlet coats, trim
med with buff and gold, buff pants with
scarlet strips, bordered by gold cord and
buff helmets to correspond.
At New Orleans all the cotton rcsscs
are glutted, owing to the fact that great
quantities of cotton is being held for
future delivery and no Large shipments
are being made to Europe.
Tie ci<y of Fayetteville, N. c., fol-
lowing the exsmple Of Memphis, has
had its municipal existence terminated
, by state law in order Co escape from
the clutches Of the mandamus movers.
Chattanooga Times: AS things are
now going, the south will in the year
1890 support lrer own markets with
every grade of cotton goods, and with
every form of iron and steel, fine cut
1ery included.
DIR. Barksdalc, of the Virginia lunatic
asylum, reports the case of a negro lu-
natic whose brain weighed seventy
ounces This is believed to be the lar
f'gest brain ON record, except that of Oli-
yer Cromwell.
In Mississippi there are 1G8, $40 horses,
1f5,600 mules, 273, ,250 oxen,. 900, $3.50
COWS, 22O,33O sheep and 1880, 900 hogs,
with the following average value:
Horses, 5E73; mules, $40 80; oxen, 81 50;
COWS, $1z 90; sheep, So 81; hogs, So 70
The black confuent smallpox is ra-
gipg at great many points in Texas.
1t is said to have been first introduced
by exiled Russian Jews. Be that as it
may, it is very obstinate and fata', re.
curing the greatest care to keep it from
spreading.
A gentleman largely interested in the
proposed canal, near Macon, Ga, states
that the project is not abandoned by
any means. At the proper time the
whole project will be brought promi-
nently to the front. He is Of the opin-
ion that the enterprise will only cost
about $45O,COO.
1t is generally conceded, says a Flori.
da exchange, that the brown or rusty
orange, is much the sweetest, and can
be kept longer than the bright fruit, but
by not unusal perversity of taste,
the brown fruit is deprecated in North
ern markets, and sold at half the price
OF fair fruit.
Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser: There
are ", ,250, 900 acres of government land
in Alabama, subject to entry under the
homestead and pro-emption laws. md
the entering of land was never brisker
than at present. Hundreds of acres are
being sold on the cash basis system OF
$1.25 per acre, particularly in some of
the counties of the state.
The total receipts of the city of At
lanta from all sources during 1881, was
$48N,51S 81 The city debt is $2,196,-
200, and the expenditures on account
of interest and sinking fund, $193, ,573,
leaving balance 1886, 045,97 for ordi-
nary expenditures. The city haa no