The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-11-24
NEWS GLEANINGS,


OF Veloclpedes on her streets.
Eighty bushels of rough rice to tb
acre Is tAe average yield in Florida.
Arkansas produced 10000 bales O.
cott''n during the season Of 18s0-S1
Ihe German carp planted in Tenpes
zee ponds do not propagate we'll.
Farm lands in the neiobborbood 81
Athens, Ga, bring from 500 to s4oC
per acre.
1t takes $3o,OOO,OO for freipbt and
insurance to place years cotton cror
IN the New England cotton market
Over fifty thousand bales Of cotton
were exported from the mort of savon
nah last week,
Anere are fifty females in the North
Carollpa penitentiary, two white and
1orty eight colored.
Wild turkeys are plentiful in the
country adjacent to New Orleans on
account of the protection accorded them
by the game laws.
''iesnahe SIX feet long and
twenty inches in circumference was
Killed recently in Rutherford conntv
Tenn. ''
i'eer' squirrels and pheasants are eaid
10 I'VE very abundant in the Shenandoah
'aiieS region this fall. Partridges are
S'"tce' While wild turkeys are about an
average. ."
The Alma (Ark.) Independent knows
men who saw their wives and children
put in, make and harvest this wears
crops, and are now investing the nro.
ceeds in cheap whisky.
On the wharf at Key West, Florida
are two sticks Of mahoeony. One
measures twelve feet in length and ia
fourteen feet two inches square, The
other is three feet eight by three feet
TWO inches in thickness.
The cotton States consume 49, 252 944
bushels more wheat than they raise, and
pay to the North for wheat, corn oats
ana nay $l60,OOO,Oo0 annually, which
Is equivalent to that amount of m,nev
being literally equandered by Southern
people.
The net profits Of the cotton factory
owned by the Tennessee Mqnufacturinp
Company, Nashville, for the year were
ITO 'ooo. The company declared divi
ueno OF ten per cent. Arrangements
nave been made for the erection of an
other M
In quarrel between Capt. Frank Sui
lVan, of the bark Potter, at Charleston.
.. o., and Portuguese seaman named |
sylvia, the latter drew a knife. Sullivan
said to him that he didn't have "spunko
enough to cut anyone. To prove he had, |
the Portuguese drew the knife across
ms own breast, inficting deep and
painful wound.
The Natchez and Jackson, Vicksburg
and Ship Island, the Mobile and North.
western, the Durant and Lexington, the
, Greenville, Columbus and Birminp-
ham; the Aberdeen and Elyton, the
columbus, Fayette and Decatur; the |
Zazoo City and Canton, the Meridian
and New Orleans are some Mississippi
railroads that for the present only exist
on paper.
Mrs. Jane Gornto. widow living
near Wrightsville, Ga, sent her son for
quinine. The clerk gave him bottle
OF morphine, which he made in pills and
gave his mother. She died in forty
eight hours.
In Atlanta the rain drops that fall
off the western side of the roof of the
First Baptist Church find their dest:na-
ton in the Gulf of Mexico, while tn ose
which fall from the eastern side of the |
roof meander to the Atlantic ocean.
Gen. Jubal Early lives at a Lynch
burg hotel and practices law. Although
not yet seventy, he is as bent and
bowed as man of ninety years. His
dropping sho ulders, his lc~ gray beard |
and flowing white hair, and the strong
staff on which he leans, makes him look
like the ideal Rip Van Winkle. He
wears the Southern gray yet, and his
still vigorous mind is full of fire.
Marion, Georgia, is only a shadow
OF her former self. In days gone by
twenty faro banks hourished there. It'll
was no trouble at all to raise three or
four thousand dollars for a}political
barbecue, and the floating Svoters of the
county were entertained in regal STYLE
Wlned and fed upon the fat of the land
nH tho