The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-03-22
NEWS GLBANINGs.
Mississippi yet owns~8, 100000 acres
pofublic land. .-


sas during last year was 272,O53.
The Florida ship canal charter has
been. n..signed by the Governor.
More than zoo RATS of timber were on
the market at Darien, Ga, last week
An immenses bed."'of phosphatesSS has
been discovered in Brunswick county,
North Carolina.
Corn is telling in many portions of
North Alabama at thirty-two cents a
bushel.
A A million feet of black walnut tim
Der is to be shipped from Gsudaloupe
county, Texas. to England.
During last year forty>thrce railroad
and eight canal companies filed articles
of incorporation III Florida.
lin the year 1882 the Hot Springs rail
rosd carried $4,000 passengers.
! The business of catching aligators pro-
vides occupation for quite number of
persons in Florida.
Gen. Wade Hampton says his grandl
father rsised the first cotton crop ever
harvested in the South.
A Hawk was killed in Georgia last
week that measured forty inches from
tip to tip,
Five thousand dollars have been sub
scribed for a street railroad in Clarkg-
vile, Ga.
The cabbage shipments this winter
from Wythe county, Va, will yield the
county $4,000.
The cal fields of A, bama cover 10
$50 square miles, and the coal is all bit
luminous, but differs widely in quality.
Alabama has 1919 miles of railroad
and the railroads furnish eleven per
cent of all The taxable property in the
State.
j. NJ. Coleman, ex-Postmaster at
Crystal Springs, Miss, has purchased
10000 coccoons, and intends trying silk
culture in that place.
The Pascagoula, Miss, Ice Company
arc making preparations to can oysters,
tomatoes, figs, okra, etc, thus offering a
home market for fruit and vegetables
1t il said that fifty years AGO shad
were so plentiful in the Savannah river
that fishermen exchanged them for corn
at the rate Of enc ear of corn for one
shad.
The peanut crop of Tennessee last
year is estimated at $50, ,OCO or 100000
bushels. Virginia raised l, 500, 900 BUSH
els, and North Carolina $50, 900 bushels,
The price ranges from 81 20 to $1.75 per
bushel.
Irish laborers on the Texas and Pa
cific road, from the Pecos river 10 +
Pacos, have been supplanted by Chinese,
who are working for fifty conts day
less than was paid the Irish,
The real estate business in Montgom
cry, Ala, is on 4 boom. 1t is estimated
that The transactions of the last five
months exceed those Of the past five
years.
The Arkansas Legislature has passed
bill which prohibits for two Years the
selling Of liquor within two miles of any
church or school on petition of a ma.
jority of the adult inhabitants.] 50"
There is creek several miles from
Waynesboro, Ga, which is so highly
impregnated with lime that it will take
the hair off horses legs in passing
through it.
Mrs. Eli Brown, of Macon, Ga, while
whipping one of her children, accident
ally struck her husbands finger. The
finger infamed and Mr.. Brown rcccntly
died from the wound.
1t IL estimated that in the two Caro-
hnas, Georgia and Louisiana, a total
population of about 100000 people
white and colored, are dependent on the
cultivation of rice.
Gn q. Work on the Savannah river il nro.
crossing. The jcttes will be built and
the strean improved as far as possible
with the limited appropriation, which is
considered as altogether too small.
At Flat Rock, N. G., Mrs Alexander
Hollingsworth became exasperated at
her husband, who was confirmed drun.
kard, and assaulted him with an axe
nearly severing his head from his bodv
and killing him instantly. The parties
were white.
The original South Carolina ordinance
of secession is preserved in the Office of
the Secretary of State, at Columbia. It
is written on parchment, is entitled an
"Ordinance to dissolve the union be.
tween the State of South Carolina and
other States, united with her under the
compact entitled the Constitution of the
United States Of America" and is yerv
brief, containing besides the title, date
ETC., but little more than 100 words
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