The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-10-13
NEWS .CEEAREMGS.

The Mobile press Indignantly howl a
the published reports that the city is or
the decay. They assert that the city O.
Mobile is fast improving.
The cotton crop of .Soutl. Carolins
will unquestionabIy be short as com
pared with lat years crop, but there is
some reason to hope that the loss will
not be as great as generally supposed.
1t is said the Pensacola railroad has
tire largest pair of track scales in Amer
lca, which are 1O6 feet long, and can
weigh three cars at once loaded with
spar timber.
Marion (Ala.) Standard: A Perry
county woman, whose arms are cut off
just below the elbow, threads her needle
ny sticking it in her dress and tax
lng~the thread between her two stumns
OF arms and forcing it through the eve
or The needle. She does neat sewing.
hoes corn well and can pick fifty or sixtv
Poun6s of cotton per day.
Arkansas Democrat: The cotton
crop OF Arkansas is much smaller than
NJ was last year. But it must be remem-
bered that we lost large portion of last
years crop by bad weather, and much
or what was gathered was of a very in
1erlor quality and sold for small price.
III the weather continues favorable for
picking there will be only small diff
terence in the amount saved as com-
pared with last year.
Mobile Register: There seems to he
fatal disease among horses and mules
m this neighborhood. Within the
1orty~elght hours ending at dark last
night eight horses and five mules have
died. We also understand from Can't
T. r. Alba that he has several horses
under treatment for the same disease
which is an affection of the throat.
Some apprehension among the owners of
valuable animals exists for fear that tho
disease may become epidemic.
The State Virginian: The rains that
have fallen in the past few DAYS in
nearly every portion of Virginia and
North Carolina will benefit the grass
and set the streams to running once
more but they come too late to help the
tobacco crop. Indeed, some OF the most
experienced tobacco planters are of the
kopmon that the rain, coming so late as
1T did, will do the crop more harm than
good. But the tobacco raisers will have
X the consolation of knowing that the de-
'flclency in quantity will be made up in
a measure.
~ The Madisonian There is a negro in
morgan county, Lewis Jordon, who is
thoroughly conversant with the rudi.
ments of the Latin language, knows
smatterlng OF French, and is fast learn
ing to read and parse Greek. He is n
capital scholar in English grammar. and
IS ready in mathematics. He has ac-
CURED this extraordinary amount of
learning without the assistance of q pre-
ceptor, and seems charmed when under
some great mental task. He hasn't an
intelligent face, but rather the reverse,
appearing at times silly in the extreme.
ne IS about thirty-fve years old, and
feels confident that he can master sev-
reral languages before his death. He
laughs at you when you ask if he could
not progress faster if placed under a
competent teacher. He is humble. no.
lite and strictly reliable.
Knoxville Tribune: One Of the moot
wonderful phenomena that have oor,o
under our observation in long time ia
natural flow of gas from the earth
that burns with brilliant fame wbon
l8ignited. The spot where this oas o,-
capea is about one mile from OI;vor,a
Springs, in Anderson county, and in.
Pregnates the atmosphere for Yards
around with the odor> The gas seems
to come from a spring on Coal creek
near the water, but for yalds up the
mountain side there runs a vein about q
foot wide, which has been fired and at
gtimes burns brilliantly. At the end Of
the vein, on the bank of the creek, the
gas burns with a bright yellow fame
ana emtts considerable heat. A pine ia
SomeUlmes introduced in the spring and
. ,aat at a distance of several yards burns
readily A traveller passing few DAYS
ago stuck in small pipe in the vein,
put TWO rocks, one on opposite sides of
inc pipe' andNboiled tea from the flame
that was produced on igniting. The pas