The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-04-05
GENERAL NEWS.

Ia New Orleans, " tn membership OF
1000.
Tbhe Death list of New Orleans last
week, vast the largest since the epidem>
ic Of 1873, being 172 from all causes.
South Carolina has 2,O7S manu- factu>
ring establishments, with capital of
$1,20h 894invested. Value of products
$l6,78s,o0S.
Arkansas has doubled its population
In ten years. 1t is now the fourth cot>
ton State. .u.. .......t
Tie Arkansas Legislature has passed
q at'ingent law for the protection OF
timber.
Dealers in Athens, Ga. report four
times 80 many improved agricultural i'm,
pleme nts sold as last year.
The pauper farm of Clarke COUNTY.
Ga, has turned 1928 clear profit into
the State Treasury this year.
Paul H. Hayne WAS paid $500 for hia
oae read at the Savannah sesqui-centen-
nial celebration.
Mr.. w. III. Crawford, of Jonesboro
Ga, has bought and will plant 1,2O0
i grape vines on his place near that town.
granite monument is to be erected.
Al .Andersonville, Ga, in memory of the
Federal soldiers who are buried there.
1t is estimated that it will cost th,
State of Georgia $4,000 to assemble th,
Legislature this spring to count the
vote for Governor.
It is estimated that 460,O 900 of the 7G0
900 square miles of tmbered lands ot
J country are situated in the South,
ern States.
In some sections of Tennessee the far.
mers intend to plow up their wheat, as
it has been ruined by the Hessian ly.
, They will plant corn and potatoes in
stead.
On 3 deed which was registered at
Dresden, Tenn, q few days ago, the SIG
nature OF ten persons WAS required, and
oat of this number nine made thsir
mark.
A tract Of land, 1877 acres, on Thun-
derbolt road, near Savannah, has lust
been. purchased for fruit farm. 1t will
be under the superintendence of experi.
enced gardeners from western New
York
There Is more building of houses going
on now in Columbia, S. O., than at any
time since 1866. Within the past year
real estate hiss edvanced twenty-five rer
cent in some localities of the city.
A man in the Goldsboro district Of
Pulaski county, Ga, is offering 500
cash for 200 head OF geese. He wants
the geese to run in his cotton fields and
keep them clear of grass.
Atlsnts Ceustition: Much talk is
heard just now of Gen. Gordon's Flor
5fa road, and If completed, aa originally
contemplated, 70 Augusta, it will make
one of the most important railroads in
the South.
Mr.. Augustus Lsyvras, in Putnam
county, Florida, is growing five or six
different kinds of olives, rs many differ.
ent kinds Of American and European
pruneaa and sixty varieties OF grLpes,
He also bas q fouriehing apiary.
Mr.. r. Hunter of Alabama, will plant
over one hundred acres in peach trees
near New Castle, not far from the South
and North Alabama railroad He in
tends to build peach brandy manufac-
tory.
Savannah News: AS the increase o,
cotton manufactures progresses at the
South the solicitude of the Northern
journals increases lest the capital inves.
ted here in that line be thrown away
This friendly interest is truly remarka.
BILE.
Henry Clay Thurston, who was horn
in Greenville, s. c., but now lives in
Titus county, Texas is seven feet and 8
nall inch in height, but has foot thirs
teen inches long, wears No. Is shoes and
his hat is seven and one-eight, showing
that his head is small in proportion to
hAo uC1BMI'
Elder Morgan, a leading light Of tie
Mormon church, is in Chattanooga, ar
ranging for the scmi-annual immigration
of Mormon converts to the Western col,
onies, to leave about the 18th. Nor.
rnonisnl is getting many converts in that
section constantly, and recently met
with such encouragement that twenty
additional missionaries have been put to
work in that ftlj.
ING, A. Pike, Secretary of the His.
torical Society of Louisiana, states that
at the next meeting, which is eubiect to
call by the Hon. Charles Gayarre, a
proposition will be made to excavate
some prominent Indian mound in that
state for the purpose of ascertaining IL
the relics will compare with those from
90, IL. a..I.