The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-08-04
NEWS GLEANINGs. ctr,


62,948,697 pounds of rice,
Last year Moth Carolina made on1v
nineteen barrel s of beer, y
There are ffty-six cotton seed oi
mlllS In the United States. GEORGIA has
only one. Il 'E}B1f' :, oOi % 8 si'' IA naS las
Anctber squad of Cherokee Indiana
t% o . ION to leave London, Tennessee, for
the indian Notion, '
Many now claim that iron can be
= Aaoe cheaper at Birmingham, Alabama
chan anywhere in the United States
VI Florida towns the census Of T,.ko
City is 1879; Lavilla, 1918; Jackson.
willie, 7,648; Pensacola, 5,845; Tallabas
see 2,4F9e4 FeTnandina, 1852, and Pa.
latka, 1,616 T. H'tH ~ 'ANNs-A'"f : :"
Nine Incorporated companies and in,
olVla"'Is are engaged in phosphate
mlnip g in the navigable streams of South
Carolina.
The great temperance petition pre.
scented to the Georgia Legislature the
other day. was 600 feet long and con
talned $4,000 signatures. 1t was greet.
ed with applause. :
The Steamship Seminole, AMONG other
freight from Savannah to Boston, q few
DAYS since, carried 80, 900 waterme1ons
One of the officers of the Southern
Express Company says that the paw roll
OF the Company for Georgia alone is
3d. GOO per month.
The Augusta Sewerage and Water
supply party carried their ticket at the
recent election, and city bonds will he
ISSUED to raise the money and begin the
work. ''0
Inc buckingham (Va.) gold mines
"io Pahn'ng out such marvellous
amounts. of the auriferous metal, that
= =. me news gets abroad they will have
''i'rh OF gold h"nbere .lIIthur euuaI TO
0h''t of California in 1S48.
A moccasin residing in Henry countv
Alabama, bit Mr.. Roberts son on the
loot, in Hollands mill pond, six or
eight feet under water, recentlv. He
hao no whisky or any other antido.e,
ana yet he experienced but little injury
irom tDe reptiles fangs. Query Is the
plte OF a snake under water poisonous
Further figures of the Alabama cen
a'us show that Eufaula has 1886 people:
Union Springs, 1862; Greenville, 2,471:
Iallassee, 1882; Opelika, 3,245; Auburn,
l,l6l; Girard, 1924; Mobile, 29132.
montgomery, 1918, and Tuscaloosa,
2017> N'''''''
Mr.. r. M. Sandys, a Louisiana sugar.
maker, is put ting up permanent works
at Sterling, ILL.,, 13Ox4O feet ground di.
mensions, walls twenty five feet high,
oullt OF stone, at total estimated cost
OF $4,000; capacity, 800 tons of cane
per day. Mr.. w. G. Clement is also
putting up a large mill at the same place.
Tecumseh Furnace, of Tecumseh, Ala
fbama, entered on it's seventh year of
blast ON the 10Th of June, on one h earth,
without blowing out. The furnace is
making twenty tons of iron per day on
LILO bushels of charcoal The furnace
rs sixty by twelve, and uses brown hem
attic ore.
Senator Jones, of Florida, recently
received letter informing him of the
oeath OF his only sister, Mrs. Margaret
Dowd, of Galveston, Texas. This is the
thlrd death thaj has occurred in the Sem
ators family within few months. He
1850 MS wife last fall, since then grown
son OF his died in Washington and now
ne gets news of his sisters death.
49,. During a trial for assault in Arkansas,
a club, rock, a rail, an an ax.handle,
4 knife and shotgun we're exhibited
as the instruments with which
the deed was done. It was
also shown that the assault.
ed man defended himself with re,
Volver, scythe, pitchfork, chisel, a
"a hand-saw, a fail and cross dog. Then
20 the jury decided that they'd have given
= tive dollars apiece to have seen the fight.
,ar A curious decision was recently made
in trial Justices court in AbbevilIe, S.
y. The cause under consideration was
the right of wife to enter into q con,
tract to labor against the will of her
f, husband The husband had brought
suit for the setting aside of the contract,
but the justice decided that the woman
had the right to make all the contracts
she chose, whether of q nrooart,, ~,