The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-12-15
NEWS GLEANINGs.

Real estate at Atlanta has advanced
fifty per cent since the opening of tn,
Exposition.
The Baltimore Packing company viii
pack fish, oysters and turtle at Apalach
icola, Fla. "..t ".. "..
Decatur, Tenn, has given up its char
ter of Incorporation to get rid of its
whisky saloons,
Seventy-five white persons le ft Greens
boro, Ga, recently to seek homes in Ar
kansas.
The Union Passenger Depot at Allan.
ia will be illuminated by an electric
light.
Twenty-Five nuns of the order of the
Incarnate Word, from France, are en-
route to Texas to engage in educational
work in convent of their order.
Two live-oak trees are now growing
within seven miles Of Palatka, Fla,
which meas ure respectively thirty-six
feet in circum ference.
During the past fiscal year Savannah
exported $50 100000 more than Bos ton.
S31 100000 more than Baltimore and
$6O,0o0,000 more than Philadelphia.
The Little Rock"and Fort Smith rail-
road, in Arkansas, makes no charge for
carrying seed wheat to all stations along
it's route.
The grange crop Of Florida Tthis wear
is now estimated at $4,000 900, all of
which but about 100000 will be ship
ped out of the State.
There is monster orange tree near
Fort Harley, Fla, that measures nine
feet one inch in circumference. 1t is
over fifty years old, and some seasons
has had over 5000 oranges on it.
go "A GermanTTprofess who is gathering
materials for Il history Of this country
IS quoted as saying that he was surprised
at the superior appearance and intelli-
gence of the white laboring class of the
South when compared with that of the
North or t at of Europe.
In Union county, Ga, veins of mica
from five to fifteen feet wide have been
found, which are intersected by innu
merable smaller veins Of the purest
quality of this valuable mineral. A
company has been organized O develop
it.
Mr.. Ben Hilliard, of Washington
county, Ga, is perhaps the greatest suf-
ferer in the world. He has been thirty.
threeyears in his bed, enduring the most
excrutiating agony from rheumatism.
beine unable to move any part of his
body except his lower jaw, and to slight
ly shrug his shoulders For all those
long years of suffering his joints have
been as stiff as if grown together solid
t111HTATHaa ~ - 'as@s
Last week the Mexican Congress grant
ed a pension of $3.50 month to Mrs.
Augustine Ramirez. Her claim upon
the bounty of her country is the follow
ing: When the French invaded Mexi-
CO, Mrs. Ramirez was the happy wife Of
Severiano Rodriguez, and the proud
mother of thirteen children, all of whom
were grown up men. Her husband and
her sons all took up arms to repel the
foreign invader, extraordinary as il
may seem, they were all killed in bat
tie during the intervention.
New Or cans Times To take horse
back ride over each parish in this State
one would be surprised to see thousands
upon thousands of acres Of the. most
fertile lands to be found on this CONT
nent,' lying idle, bringing in no revenue,
. doing no one any good, but burdens to
the owners, cankers upon their energies,
their labors and their pockets. You ask
''it these lands are for sale? Oh, yes; all
for sale - can be bo light almost at YOUR
own price. But who is the owner :?
Don't know. How is man to get it &?
Don't know, and so on.
Within the last two week a verv large
vein OF pure lead has been found in the
Msgruder mine. The first large piece
taken out weighed 26O pounds, and was
20 sent to the Cotton Exposition as a fine
specimen. But day or two after an
other solid piece was taken out which
weighed 856 pounds. Thir was shipped
to Augusta to the President of the COM
pany. Since then another large piece,
which will weigh not less than 500 lbs.
has been dug out, but has not been rails
y ed to the surface of the ground. This
is pure lead, without rocks or foreign
y an befa1aa op1 :, 80, Il. .----