The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-02-15
NEWS GLBANINqs.

There are 100000 acres of United
States lands for sale in Mississippi.
Four thousand merino bucks have been
received by San Antonio, Texas, firm
Lake City, Fla, is supplied with eba,
meat, which is sold at fifteen cents pei
pound.
The Governor of Alabama is mansion,
lees, and his salary is only sufficient for
bare subsistence. -
The Vicksburg Herald estimates that
there are forty pistols to every subsoil
piow in the State of Mississippi.
Augusta, Ga, loses the $4,000 dona-
ton left by Gazaway B. Lamar, through
a decision of the United States Supreme
Court.
The noted Indian mound at Tusca-
loosa is to be excavated. 1t is expected
that some interesting relics will be un-
earthGd.
A Northern company has purchased
the iron ore bed near Rome, Ga paying
$4,000 for it. Another blast furnace is
to be erected.
A party of gentlemen from Kentucky
are prospecting in Florida, with view
to start factory to manufacture fibre
from "bear grass"
A party of Michigan capitalists have
made large purchases of timber land in
Marion county, Miss, for the purpose of
going into the lumber business.
The Knoxville Chronicle thinks that
the people of Tennessee could afford to
give away their iron ore to people who
would build furnaces in their neighbor-
hood.
AT Mobile, Ala, Mr.. and Mrs. l..
Gale, Mrs. Bamhauer and her daughter
Fanny were poisoned by eating hogs
head cheese that had stood in a tin YES
gel for some days,
Virginia ranks seventeenth in the list
OF fish-producing States, the oyster, men,
haden and shad fisheries being the three
branches in which her citizens are most
extensively interested.
"A reward of $500 and no questions
asked" offered by Judge Strong, fails to
elicit response in the case of the re- cords
which were spi1ited away from the
County Clerks office in Atlanta.
Three barges and 10000 feet of wal
nut lumber, valued at $500 were lost
last week in the Powell river, on the way
to Chattanooga 10000 feet consigned
to New York reached the city in safety.
The Atlanta Constitution tells Of n
Georgia boy just little over eight years
old, who last year cultivated with a
common goat three-Guarters of an acre
of land and made 233 pounds of lint cot
ton.
People in Athens, Ga, are loading
their wood piles. A negro stole some
the other day from one of the loaded
piles and now her cooking stove is fiying
through space, and phe's lying up for
repairs.
The freezing of fish, flowers and other
articles in blocks of ice which are used
in the windows of restaurants, making
very attractive signs, is rracticed by the
New Orleans ice manufacturing es;ab-
lishments.
A fernando county, Florida, farmer
made last season from seven acres of land
planted in sugar cane, fifty-one barrels
OF syrup, five barrels of molasses, ten
barrels of sugar, and sold 10000 stalks
of seed cane.
Mr.. Knight, the superintendent of the
Maginnis cotton factory at New Or
leans, makes the prediction that in
twenty years all the mills of the United
StateH producing plain brown cotton
goods will be located in the South.
Mrs. Lucinda Ross, of Monroe county,
Ga, is seventy:four years of age, has
one hundred and forty five living de
Fcendents and thirty.one dead, and be-
ing an accoucbeure, has officatcd at the
birth of one hundred and fifty.eight of
the aforesaid posterity.
Macon Telegraph: Dogs command y
much higher. price in Georgia than
sheep. Legislators have superstitious
fear of thesevil results which they i'm
agine would come to them if they should
try to equaIize the value of these ami
mails by putting p tax on the f)rmer.
Although year has elapsed since the
appropriation of the $2Oo, 900 for tie re-
building of the Pensacola custom-house
and post'office was made by Congress,
nothing has yet been done toward it's re-.
establishment. The difficulty seems to
be in SECURING a suitable site for the
building
Mr.. Haneon, President of the Cotton
Manufacturers Association, insist that
the South must not continue to be de.
pendent on imnOrted lahor onJ..LA :,