The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1891-03-12
MARCH A LIVELY MONTH.
Strong Breezes Watt These News
Notes TO Us,
From Many Points In the Progressive
Southland, InterestingtWe
Are Sure.
VIRGINIA..

The burned electric plant Of the Dan
vile Street Car Company will be rebuilt
ut once.
Roanoke will soon boast of a postonicc
building constructed ut u cost of $75,
600 by the general government. A bill!
ordering this has passed both houses Of
Congress and been approved by the Pres
idcnt.
Timbcrvillc is new town Oh the line
of the Broadway a. West Virgins,
Railroad that is soon TO be constructed
1t is the centre of the great folcst regions
OF North mountain and Brooks Gap.
The North fork of the Shenandoah river
'uns through the town.
NORTH CAROLINA.
Sam Jones has been invited and wilt
conduct cvangelistic services in Char.
lottc shortly.
The Legislature passed the bill uppro-
priatng $10, 900 annually for a gcologi-
cal survey Of the state
The vacancies in the state bond of ag,i.
culture were filled by The legislature, as fol-
lows: First district, J. b. Coilicld, fourth
W. f. Green, eighth, =. +. Patterson.
On Tuesday night, David Jones, Of
Cape Lookout Saving station, about u
mile south of the camp, found IN the
wash of the sea the dead body Of II man.
The body was without clothes Of INV
kind. The arms were off at the sholl-
dcrS and legs of at the hips.
In the state senate Thursday bill TO ap-
proprlatc So, 900 to secure exhibit ut
Chicago, failed to pass; this raised Il
great howl, and at night this action was
r"considcrcd and the bill passed the sen
ate unanimously.
'fhc census officer announced the pop.
uation of North Carolina races us fol-
lows: whites, l,0l9, 1915 cplorrd 2G1,-
40; Indians, l,51l; Chimes" 10; total,
l,Gli,9i1.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
The ner'ruIlural Experiment. station, a,
Spauanfw.. Darlington and Columbia
have been sold. They brought s.. 900,
SO, 500 and $500 respectively.
Senator Edmunds. Miss Edmunds and
other distinguished tourists were in Co
lumbia Thursday en- route to Camden.
Branches Of !hc Atlanta Building and
Loan Association have been organized in
Yorkvillc and Florence.
Thos. N. Berry and l.. ID. Childs, of
Chester, have been appointed as dele
gates from this State to the Right Wor-
thy Grand Lodge. |. O. &. r., which
meets in Edinburg, Scotland, in May.
Robert Mill has has prepared plans
for the erection Of church at Spartan
burg for Tie Eaptisls TO tcst 100000.
The students of the South Carolina
College for women visited the State
House Tuesday afternoon. They were
evidently delighted with their visit.
The erection Of the $4,000 school
building has been commenced Mt New
berry.
The Anderson Building & Loan Asso-
citation. which will wind up its business
will declare n dividend Of about G5 per
cent.
Gailncy City has voted 10 subscribe
$50, 900 to the projected Cape Fear and
Cincinnati Railroad
GEORGIA..
Wade Hampton will deliver the ad.
dress at Augusta, April 81, at the reunion
Of his old brigade.
A correspondent says that large por-
tion Of the peach and plum crop has been
killed or badly in urcd in the vicinity of
Davisboro.
Georga's pension laws went into effect
March I, and from that dnte the widow
ri y, fn,l,, 10
annuity OF 300. Alabama has also at
last recognized their claims, but their
share will scarcely be half so large.
The John p. King Manufacturing Co,h.
pany, of Augusta, has made direct shin
mcnt, of cotton goods TO Manchester,
England.
Governor Northcn has instituted n re-
form in the management Of the Georgia
prison camp that will meet with the
hearty commentator Of humanitarians.
lie has ordered that hereafter male and
female convicts must be kept in separate
apartments, and that no communication
must be allowed between them.
TENNESSEE.
nv IEiSSC(t IL Din 10
build monument to John Sewer. the
first governor Of Tennessee.
The bin authorizing the issuance of
$500, 600 of bonds by Knoxville has pass
cd the legislature and become law.
Three men were killed and thirteen
wounded in an accident at Whitwell, on
the Tennessee Coal Company's incline
railway.
A printer employed on The Chattano
ga News, jim Compton, shot Harry Her.
pert III the neck. The wound is proba
bly, fatal one
In the scnste Thursday the bill creating
bureau of labor, statistics and mines,
with commissioner at n salary of 8, 800,
whose duties arc to inspect mines, mills
and factories and gather labor statistics,
was passed, only two negative votes be.
ing recorded.
Nashville has but few runaway wed.
dings, consequently social circles were
startled by that one which occurred