The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-08-02
GENERAL WS.

hr>-o SothpJ, Nu NoGSu ou tllo
stock law Monday, and gave majority
Of seventy for ono fence"
In the southern part of Louisiana
many plantations will yield this year one
and half hogsheads of sugar per acre.
FHTY-rwo students are registered ut
the colored National School ut the Lin
coin Academy, ut Tallahassee.
Col KIILEBREw, of Tennessee, has
gone to Mexico to work the Polk mines.
He says they are worth So 100000.
IT is claimed i'll Atlanta that Atorra
people own at least twenty silver mines
in Mexico, all believed to be worry pro-
ductive.
The Lady Ensley mining and manu-
featuring company have purchased 75,-
600 acres of ore. land in Franklin, Colbert
and Marion counties. Ala
IT will require four cars to bring the
Escambia, county, Ala, big trro to the
Louisville Exposition. 1t is III feet
long, md will be used as II flag pole in
front of the exposition building.
BIDS for building the new Navy Hos
pital nL Hot Sprin. s. Ak, arc rapidly
: coming in. There is III appropriation OF
SlO0, 600 for this purpose. Work ls to
begin by the Goth of August.
In Il portion of Lake and Attain co,,n-
ties, Ala, II worm resembling the cotton
worm has made its appearance. Several
head OF mules have been killed recently
by cnting oats with the insects on them.
n HERD of 1000 cattle, mostly COWS
and hcifers, passed through Fort Worth
Texas, the cthcr day, for the New Mex
leo Land and Cattle Company, Boston
corporation
"A COMPANY organized in Washington
ID. G., lately has purchased six thousand
acres of land i'll Polk county, Fla, and
will raise oranges, lines, lemons and
other tropical fruits.
LIE total number of failures in South
Carolina The past six months is FORTY
eight. with liabilities amounting to S657,
755. Tho humber of failures for the
corresponding period of 1882 WIS sixtv
eight, AMI the liabilities amounted to
$626.517.
The Board of Health have issued
proclamation that all We ssols from in
fected ports arriving at pcnsa ,olr with
yellow fever on y .ard shrll remain at the
quardntNCn station until frost. The re-
grct is general that Ship Island station
for infected vessels has heen closed
AT the United States Land Office at
Gainesville, Fla, during the month
ending Jund 30, 13t homestead entries
were made, embracing 17,70i.OS acres.
Forty-six final proofs were made, con-
tanning 4,377.96 acres. The total re-
ceipts of the Office for the month wore
$75,O19.27
IHE Poters place at Enterprise, Fla,
was sold recently, under foreclosure of
mortgage for 81, 900, bought l,y Fred
erlck dc Barry. The mortgaGor had hc-
fore tfuscd $4,000 for it. 1t is said
Lord Peters spent too much time and
money i'll jacksonville to make an orange
grovo successful.
"A CIRCULAR giving an exhibit of the
trade IN crude and manufactured rhos-
pilates jn South Carolina shows tbc
shipments of fertilizers t. have increased
from 1853. i'll 1871 IT, 1870, 900 tors in
1882. The shipments of crude phos-
pilates rose from 132,G2G toms in 1876 I,
353,333 tons i'll 1888. Much of it Goes
abroad
L. G. Bush, of Mobile. has bought the
planf":inn of w. +. Higgins, o"c mile
FROM Oxford, Ala, fur S15, 900 cash and
Will rrm' We his line herd Ct Jc:s"y cattle
TO 1t. He has enc of the finest herds in
the South and has bought some of the
finest land i'll North Alnbama It is I'M
derstood that he will improve the place
for summer resort.
SALLIE FARMER, of Kcsse, Tex, alb, ut
ten years cid, an adopted daughter of NJ
IL. jackson, while climbing in the door
OF the crib, accidentally stuck II needle
which was sticking in the bcs IN of her
dress against the door, running the nee
dle about an inch and n quarter into her
breast, striking the base of the heart.
Medical attention was procured immcdi-
atcly, but sho died in about nn hour
ter the accident.
THE Arkansas shcrifs have been in
formed by Gov. Berry that the sup-soad
sion OF the lawlessness now prevailing in
that State must l'c affected lv their own
efforts and these of law abiding citizens
"i their respective counties. The Gov
crnor sees no necessity for calling ont
the maitia to arrest outlaws at n heavy
expense to the State, when the shcrfIs
have authority to summon as many per
sons as may be needed to take dcspcra-
dCes into custody.
FLORIDA Timcs-Union One Of tbo
best things that has been done by the
Georgia Railroad Commission is the re-
cent adoption of an order requiring the
railrOnllH Of TINT Stnin tn G1rnish raoa,,n