The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-06-30
NEWS GLEANINGS.

Gas in Nashville is furnished at $1.7!
per thousand feet.
A company is organizing to manufac
ture cars in Selma Alabama.
st. Augustine, Fla, has surplus of
$2,740,87 in cash in her treasury.
A fisherman at Pensacola caught |, ,cOC
red snapper fish recently. 6 lHt
Selma, Alabama, has a population in
its corporate limits of 1929.
The mayor of Montgomery, Ala, re-
ceives salary of 81, ono a year.
Western corn has killed a number Of
horses and mules in Alabama.
By lowest estimate Mr.. Davis h rs al
ready made $100, 600 on his book.
Boston capitalists are investing $500.
900 in a cotton factory at Vicksburg,
Miss.
Baltimore capitalists have invested
S1,5Oo,000 in a Davidson county, N. c.,
gold mine. .-
Two hundred thousand young shad
have just been placed in the Congaree.
The colored people of Abbeville, S.
c., have formed life insurance asso-
citation.
Yellow fever was not known in Mex.
leo until 1925.
Volusia county, Fla, has the largest
orange grove in the world 600 acres.
MIR. Herzler, of Madison county, Ala
bama, clipped 1,40O pounds of wool
from 252 sheep.
The sales of leaf tobacco in the Lynch
burg, Va, warehouse for the present
year aggregate 1922, 1907 pounds.
An apple tree in LAGRANGE, Ca, has
two or three apples upon it's trunk.
There is not sign of a twig or branch,
but they are growing upon the bark of
the tree.
a letter from Southern Florida de-
scribes flight Of white butterflies from
the South that has filed the air like
snowfllakes for six days, going North.
A little ninc-year-old boy at Center,
Ala, killed his uncle, named Brooks,
by hitting him on the head with rock.
The uncle had Wiped the boy, and the
young reprobate took this means of re-
dress.
Nine tenths Of the babies born in
Oglethorpe county, Ga, this year are
boys - This rule also applies to animals.
The males are undeniablv on top this
year. This preponderence Of sex is said
to be sign of coming war.
The spongers of Key West are making
money. The Democrat says there were
over $4,000 worth of sponges on the
wharf there one day last week.
The Atlanta Constitution saws there
are many lunatics wandering around the
country, because of the inadequacy of
the present accommodations at the Lun-
attic Asylum.
Georgia paper: The press of Geor-
Ria is unit in the cause of temperance,
The boys differ somewhat, however, in
their ideas as to the proper mode of
attacking the hydra-headed monster.
We are for killing him with kindness
and coercing him by persuasion, Choke
dog to death with butter and he won't
know what killed him.
The San Antonio Express says: Last
week was a good week for killing con.
VlctS who attempted to escape, though
three were laid out instantly and two
others mortally wounded. When it ap-
pears to be almost certain death for a
convict to attempt to escape it seems
strange that the attempt. should be 50
frequent. To remain must be almost
worst than death tc a good many.
a, The Pueblos of New Mexico believ
. that at death they will be carried ava
IN some Mysterious manner to a nlaco
beneath vast underground lake, where
melons and peaches and beautiful maid.
ems and horses and in never ending SUD.
: ply for the good. Notwithstanding all
these inducements, some of the Pueblo,
a are as depravcd as if they had been born
IN the United States.
The editor of Paris North Texan thu.
uehnes his position on the liquor ques
'lon -. we are not chronic temper.
ance core nor a. church member. We
are rough, wicked man, and we have
orank whisky, periodically, all our lif,
h EhCil Il'l last year, when, recognizing the
dutles OF father, remembered that W.
ere responsible for our example, we quit