The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-07-21
NEWS GLEANINGS.

is sweeping off the dogs.
The glass factory at Moss Point, Mis-
sissippi, has commenced operations.
The wheat crop Of North Carolina is
about twice as large as was expected.
The Springfield coal pits, of Henrico
county, Virginia, h We been sold for
1886, 200.
Three men recently killed in ten days
800 alligators in the Miaka lakes, Flor
ida.
Judge McGehee has ten century
plants in bloom on his place, thirteen
miles from Madison, Florida.
Tennessee is fast taking foremost rank
as the leading wool growing State of the
South.
From 5000 to 1000 pounds of toma-
toes are being shipped daily from Chat
tanooga to Cincinnati.
one man in Tampa, Florida, has five
varieties of the Japan persinmon, and
also Chinese prune.
Sam. Clay, of Bourbon county, Ky,
has sold from his farm this season Is, 900
bushels of bluegrass seed.
Over $l,000,00) in the Texas state
treasury to the general revenue, and the
total cash balance edges closely to
$1,8}O,OO0.
In fernando county, Fla, the carna
tlon pink, the calla lily, the verbena,
honeysuckle and the woodbinc bloom all
the year.
Since the season in Charlotte, North
Carolina, $500, 900 worth of steam en-
8ines and other improved machinery has
been sold.
Andrew Fitzpatrick, of St. Angus
tine, Fla, recently found on the coast
In st. Johns county in one evening
seventy dozen turtle eggs.
Every dollar of taxes paid by the
colored people of Texas, and every dol
lar of fines assessed against criminals bv
the circuit cou rts of the State, goes into
the cSlored school fund.
A marble mine has been discovered on
the farm Of Eph. Erwin. few miles
from Columbia, Tenn.
The theory that a negro can net be
sun-struck is over thrown A plantation
darkey was victim at Madison, La.
= Thirteen new babies have made their
appearance on one ejstreet in w arrenton,
Georgia. this year. The republic still
goes on.
The negro church Of Cedar Grove,
Bibb county, Ala, was burned recently
by white incendiaries. The next night
f the. white church was burned by black
incendiaries.
An aerolite or meteoric stone fell
with fearful report near Mr.. Jack
Pearson's, near Tuscaloosa, Ala bama,
tearing up the ground with tremen,
dous hole. Mr.. Pearson is going to dig
for it.
Over 2, 1000, 0 feet-of lumber was cut
by the st. Simon's mills, Brunswick,
during the m nth of May. The nine
forests Of Georgia would give out in the
course Of time with MANY such mills
srupning. ::
There is an Englishman living in Pen
field, Greene county, Ga, who makes
good support for himself and a help
less sister by working a single acre of
!and. Ut, course, he has it very rich,
using only spade in cultivation. AS
soon Us one crop come> off he plants an
other. This shows what energy can ac-
4 comrpllish under adverse circum stances.
Mr.. w. B. Williams caught ont of tha
Canoochee river two hundred and thirtv
fishes, nearly all of hich were lack
His mode Of catching them is verv sim
:" pie, but reliable. He takes a hatao,
and builds fires to it, conducts i noou
the bank of the river and strikes tho
water with piece of wood, at which
the fish become frightened and iunr
out of the water towards the fire ,wben
the boat catches them. .......,... :
IN In many parts of Ogle thorpe county
are vast beds of kaoliD, only used by
our good ladies to whiten their hearth,
with. This is a very valuable mineral
and when purified sells for $40 a ton
1t is largely used to adulterate sugar
candy, -four, etc, besides supplyino
other more legitimate needs. l. an
8 swers the purpose of fire brick, and will
some day DO worth fortune to Ian,
owners lucky enough to nov. honl,a -