The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-02-01
NEWS GLRANINGs.

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All imates.
There are fields yet white with cottol
in Alabama.
Tennessee, in 1882, produced 9,0o0,-
900 bushels of wheat, and $4,000, 00j
bushels Of corn.
Nine new cotton factories, with n,
aggregate capital of 81, ,725. 500 have jus
been chartered in South Carolina.
In five years the sales of governmen
lLTnds in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida
Louisiana and Mississippi have increased
fourfold. The pine lands have beer
especially in demand.
Fro.n the deposit discovered in 1872
in the appomattox river, al Bermuda
Virginia, there are now taken 1000 tons
annually or. about third of the fine
ochre used in the United States.
A test was made in Sparta on last Sat
urday of the amount of water a bale OF
cotton would absorb in about one.hali
an hours rain. The increase in weight
was thirty seven pounds.
The project for Confederate monu-
ment at Nashville seems at last to be
assuming tangible shape, and if the
line indicated IS carried out the monu-
ment is certainty.
The experiment.. made in large num-
Der OF interior counties of Georgia last
year of planting upland rice, was SO un-
satisfactory on account of the long sum-
mer drouth, that very little was planted
last spring,
AT Greenfield, Tenn, an agent for q
st. Louis cotton firm was caught weigh
ing cotton with a brass pea, hollow in
side and packed full of shot, and making
difference of about five per cent. in the
quantity of cotton required
The Kansas supreme court has decided
chat the state has the right to prohibit
diquor manufacture, though this action
destroys the value Of brewery property
built when brewing was legitimate.
A keg containing $4,000 in gold was
stolen from the steamer City of Para on
her recent trip from New York to As
pinwall. The money was sent by The
Sub-Treasury in New York to the Unit-
ed States fleet in the Pacific.
Nashville Banner: The present mud
died condition Of the State treasury will
prevent any Of the members drawing
theii salary'for some time to comc-and
then there is onlya little over Sc, 900 ON
hand, and that won't pay of for ten
days service
Nashville had only two cases of
drunkenness on the police docket last
Monday morning, instead of the twenty
or thirty, as usual. The sudden reduc-
tion of aggregate wickedness is attribute
ed to the revival of law prohibiting
the sale of merchandise on Sunday.
Besides 2.cent pD Dftage, the country il
likely: to get, before the winter is over,
some improvements in the, money order
system At the last session the house
voted for reduction Of rates to s cents
ohsums below $40 and for the introduce
tion OF cent postal notes for amounts
not exceeding $5. A favorable re port
has been made in the senate, and there
is no reason to anticipate much longer
postponement Of these experiments.
Massachusetts has reduced her pauper
list from 10000 in 1876 to $4,000 at
present. The persona cost the State 81
8OO,G00 for maintenance last year, or
tax Of 81, nearly, for each man, woman
and child in the State. The great cen
ter Of manufactures, Lowell has more
paupers than any town in Massachusetts,
Many COWS have died in Milledgevilc
on account of over-fceding on cotton
seed.
For "a mob-ridden State, California
makes very credilable showing in its
finances. The taxable property in the
State is valued at $61O,OOO 900. The in
terest bearing debt is 50, 293, 500, and of
this the State holds $2,690,0O as trustee
fol its schools, leaving only $685. of
payable debt ; and there is now in the
treasury over $500,CO0 applicable to its
reduction
Georgia in 1871 owed 1,3O9,7 ,75O; in
1852 she owed 2,SO1, ,072; this sum was
reduced to $,67O,75O in 1850; in 1870
the debt stood at $6,544, 500, bus it was
rapidly increased until it stood-on pa
per--at $20,197, 800. When the true
amount of the debt was asccrtained, and
when the process of payment had begun,
the debt was reduced to 1885, 600; and
the bonds Of the State are now in de-
mand at premiums ranging from seven
TO twenty per cent.
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