The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-01-04
NEWS GLBANINes.
a hog killed In Rutherford county,
Tennessee, weighed 500 pounds net.

sSNSf "SASuS0 ooV POuuus net.
A factory for making illuminatin
and lubricating oil out of cotton see
has been started at New Orleans
OF sixty one prisoners working GU
fines in the chain.gang on the streets o
Atlanta, twenty seven are women.
An unusual amount of cotto remain
unpicked in Alabama, and that picked
and packed is being held by planters fo
better prices.
The South Carolina Legisla ture ha
passed bill raising the limit of interes
on money to ten per cent. The limi
heretofore has been seven pel cent.
The New Orleans street railway com.
pany have begun using patent cal
atarter, which takes away the strain on
car mule and necessarily lightens it's la
bors. -..
mississippi has 1,479 manufacturing
establishments, with capital of S4,727,
600. They employ 5,S27 persons, and
produces goods worth 81 ,496, 1892 per an
mum. ..
Austin Statesman Texas has 81 600.
oFO lying idle in her treasury. She
owes $4,000, 900, but her credit is so
good that creditors ask 81 40 for bonds,
and she declines to pay n forty cent
premium on them.
Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser A bill
has been introduced in the Senate ap-
propriating for the next two years the
sum of $4,000 per annum for the compile
ton of tho geological and agricultural
survey of the State.
Atlanta Constitution Yesterday Mr.
W. b. Burke received an order from
George Earl Church, of Providence, for
10000 twenty dollar Confederate bills,
to be used for advertising purposes. Mr..
Burke filled the order, and has So. .OO0,-
QUO left.
Richmond (Ya.) Dispatch The agita.
tion of the tobacco tax question in Con.
gress has had fearful effect upon the
factories here, In the uncertainty pre-
vailing manufacturers do not know
what to do. Most of them have sus-
pended operations.
The Supreme Court Of Tennessee Is
over four years behind tho cocket, and
the lawyers Of Nashville met and ap-
pointed a committee to devise some ways
and means to obtain relief for the court
and their clients, so that the docket may
be cleared and the cases disposed of.
At Lile>ville, N. c., Alexander Dock
cry and wife murdered Slawson Mapes
and Richard Cribbs and then ESCAPED.
The murdered mon were former lov ers
OF she woman, but deserted her, and,
becoming incensed at them, she confess
ed her former guilt to her husband, urg
ing him to kill the men, which he did
with an axe.
The Rugby Colony, in Tennessee, has
taken a new lease Of life. A great deal
of land has been sold recently for fruit
raising purposes, n large canning factory
is bting built, new settlers are constant.
ly coming in, the schools are flourish
ing, new business houses are being erect
ed and everything points toward the
future successes of the colony.
Savannah, News: Uncle Sans mail
yesterday contained the long L. oked for
recognition of the late Confedercy in the
shape Of n ten.cent Confederate stamp
with ex-President Davis face upon it,
upon registered letter. The letter was
sent by merchant in Wiregrass, Ga, to
another in this city, and had safely run
the gauntlet of two United States Post
masters.
Wolfe Trap lighthouse, on Clesa peake
Bay, Mathews county, Va, is infested
by ghost, which drives keepers of the
light houee out as quickly as they ere
engaged. One night recently a daughter
of the then keeper was slapped in the
face while asleep, and for hours after
bore the prints of the ghostly fingers on
her cheek. The haunted house has rails,
ed quite sensation in tho county.
Athens, Ga, is city Of modern Sam
sons. One man named Jacks carries six
full bags of shot in each hand with ease
and can hold out three bags at arms
length; VIM. Beuse lifts keg of beer
over his heed with one hand without the
same rching his head in being raised
JUDGE Nicholson has taken a large anyi
j. each hand and carried them across ,
room; Wyatt Uphaw, colored, has beer
seen to carry bale of cotton on his
shoulders, and a man named Harrison
carried three sacks of salt, weighing 2O(
pounds each, on his shoulders at on,
time.
Savannah News: The results OF Grim,
in Georgia, as CLEANED from the stats
tics contained in the report of the keep
er OF the Georgia Penitentiary, shoy
the following facts: One hundred con.