The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-12-01
NEWS GLEANINGS.


6O6,209 bales of 400 pounds each.
There are 500 prisoners in the Texas
penitentiary.
The public debt of Tennessee is $33,
100000.
There are 10000 head of cattle and
$1,000 head OF sheep in Mitchell county,
Texas.
Georgia has forty cotton mills and
they pay from eight to twenty-five per
cent. net on the money invested.
An eighteen pound sweet potato is
among the Georgia exhibits at the At
lanta Exposition.
A fig bush in Mobile, Ala, is credited
with producing annually 800 bushels of
wheat.
birmingham, Ala, expects two rail
roads to center there within the next
three or four years.
The city council of Knoxville, Tenn,
has passed an ordinance preventing the
sale of parlor or other explosive matches
Wltpln the corporate limits.
The Atlanta Constitution reprints an
old freight bill issued for the Georgia
road forty-one years ago. Dogs and ne
groes were charged So each.
Forty-eight applications for divorce
were filed at Chattanooga from July
to November l, and only 10 marriage
licenses were issued.
The citizens of Sparta, Ga, have not
paid any municipal tax for over two
years The retail liquor licenses have
more than paid the expenses of the
town.
The cotton crop of Alabama for the
present season, notwithstanding the
ofouth and other disasters that beset it
during the year, will not fall more than
ten per cent. behind that of last year.
The largest block Of marble ever gotten
out in Hawkins county, Tennessee, con-
tanned 1876 feet and weighed $4,000
pounds and required twenty-four horses
to draw it.
A bale of cotton was sold at Waynes |
boro, Ga, few days ago, that had 200
pounds OF sand concealed in the center
of it. The negro who owned it acknowl-
edged the sand
Three lengthy, angular women passed |
through Rome, Ga, few days since to |
join the Mormons. They said the mis-
slonarv told them they could get hus-
bands by going to Utah.
Eureka Springs, Ark, by authority of |
the Governor, is now declared city of |
the first-class. Within two wears and |
three months from. the building of the |
first cabin, it has become second in pop-
ulation in the State.
1t is occasionally long time between |
drinks in Texas. Local option is en-
forced on the road between Benham and |
Crooks, and for sixty miles the law
doesn't allow the traveller to wet. his |
lips.
Opie Reads "Uncle Jerry" philoso-
phises: De ole time nigger is passin' |
away " lCh uSSo Olc ZONES Is la1u
to rest in de narrow bed of eternal sleep,
my sons, wild dar young buckish ways
will be goin' roun' declarin' dat dar
fodder want nebber a slabe.
Chickasaw (Ark Messenger: On the
morning of the election we ate as nice |
biscuits, in which the cotton seed oil |
was used, as we ever saw, and we here
and now declare we take no more lard |
in ours. The oil is cleaner and cheaper
than lard, and has better flavor.
John Greenwood, of Walkers Station,
Red River county, Texas, offers 81 900 |
reward for the return of a boy child |
nineteen months old, white-haired, blue
eyed, with fair complexion, which was
taken from Shawnee Prairie, in that
county. The child had very dim scar
on the back of the left hand, and a scar
on the left side, few inches below the
arm.pit.
Jacksonville (Fla.) Union: Mr.. David
Dyal, of Nassau county, Fla, has gone
to the Atlanta Cotton Exposition. He
took along with him, just to show what
there is in Florida, what he calls his
walking stick, which is ninety-fve feet
long, is perfectly straight, hewn to an
eight square, and fifteen inches in diam
eter. He also took cabbage palmetto
stalk. sixty-o feet long to the leaves,
and with the leaves is sixty.seven feet
long; also, pine fag-pole eighty feet
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