The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-03-08
NEWS GLEANINes.

Freight trains are prohibited from
running on Sunday in Alabama.
West Virginia contains $4,000 persons
over ten years of age who cannot read.
There were 1850 arrivals at the Cedar
-, Keys hotels during the month of Janu-
ary.
About $5,0O0,00O is the amount now
invested in the manufacture Of pig iron
In Alabama.
A bill making it criminal oflense tc
deal in futures has pass ed the Alabama
State Senate
Sixteen very largo whales drlfted
ashore on the sea beach near Cananeral.
Florida, recently.
A negro in Newberry county, South
Carolina, has forty-two children and
S4 grandchildren.
A man living in Polk county, Tenn.
had six acres in tobacco last year, and it
made him $75 per acre.
A remarkable rich vein of ore has been
struck in the Gold Valley mine in Row.
an county, North Carolina.
Frederick county, Va, has fine cloth
manufactures, turning out over SOC, 900
3 yards of cloth per annum.
Only four miles Of iron has got to be
laid to complete the railroad from Pen
l.
sacola to the Apalachicola river.
Over 100000 cans Of tomatoes were
packed last year. Nearly half of it was
done in Maryland and Virginia.
4 The horse trade of Texas is rapidly
growing in importance, and assuming
proportions only surpassed by it's cattle
trade
The grand jury of Mobile has been in
session two weeks, during which time 1t
hes examined $50 witnesses and found
14S indictments.
There are 10000 square miles of al.
most unbrokcn forests in North Carroll
ma, comprising pine, chestnut, oak, ma
pie, beech and hickory timber,
Land at Gaffney City, Spartanburg
county, S. G., which was worth abou,
" an acre ten or fifteen years ago, now
finds ready sale at from $40 to $50.
The North Carolina Legislature is IA
worldly disposed toward bill which
makes null and void all contracts for
cotton futures. The measure has possed
first reading.
In Anderson county, Tenn, there is
we'll which emits perpetual stream of
illuminating gas, and it is said that
crude petroleum may be found in the
same locality.
Perh"ps the rarest curiosities ever
Drought to Jacksonville, Fla, are two
monkey-taccd owls, recently captured in
one of the caverns in Fort Marion at
st. Augustine.
It's very probable that the city of
Atlanta will get special appropriation
o. $4,000 to buy land and begin the
erection Of permanent United States
barracks in that city.
a rich vein of gold quartz, over seven
feet thich, has been struck in the Nor
row gold mine, Virginia. 1t yelds now
$50 day. The new machinery, now
being added, will greatly increase the
yield.
The Alabama Legislature recently re-
FUSED to grant charter for the Rome
Vda.) and Decatur railroad, saying it
was against the policy of the State to
grant charters to roads leading out Of
the State.
The Alabama Legislature has passed
an appropriation bill in favor of the Mo.
pile Medical College. An appropriation
Oh $9oO,OO0 in favor cf the University
and Agricultural College of that State
has also been passed.
Maj. A. ID. Hit, who, in ante-bellum
days, was one of the largest cotton buv
era IN columbia, S. c., and possessed q
fortune estimated at 5000, 600, died in
the alms-house Of that city on Saturday
last aged seventy-eight years. He was
never married.
When Gov. Stephens, of Georgia, was
lad the ladies of the PRESBYTERIAN
church, appreciating the great capabili
Ses ana fine promise, aided in having
him educated for minister; but he be.
coming a lawyer, made the money al
his profession and refunded it.
The salaries of the city officials, in
cluding the Police force of Pensacola
We're paid in cash last Saturday, for the
first time in many years, and the city
administration will hereafter be run OF
a cash basis. The salaries of city official,