The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-07-07
- NEWS GLEANINGS.

est orange grove in the world-1 200
acres.
Some 1900 dogs have been listed f, r
taxation in Lewis county, Va.
A fruit canning factory, to cost $40
ooo, is to be built in Nashville Tennes-
see ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS .......
The market price for turtle eggs in
St. Augustine, Florida, is 16 cents ner
dozen.
Georgia pays out about $4,000, 900
per year to increase the cotton crop and
lessen the price
A company has been organized with
plenty of capital to go into the bust
ness OF canning fruits and oysters at
Pascgoula, Mississippi.
A negress, arrested at Abbeville, s,
O., for carryinga a pistol, was DISCHARGED
on the ground that the concealed weapon
act does not apply TO women.
Loudon Hood, wcll-known negro,
died in Meriv ether county, Ca, last
week, aged ninety-fve years Tt was
his proudest boast that during his long
life ass slave he had never been whipped
The fruit growers of California have
challenged the fruit growers of Florida
to exhibit fruit with them in the city Of
New York during next spring,
Gen. Gordon is prospectively the
richest man in Georgia. Gov Colquitt
is reported to have recently made $7O,-
600 by the sale Of coal mine in which
he and Gen. Gordon were interested.
A writer in the Ennis (Texas) Re-
view proposes raising catal pa trees for
nce@Posts; he says that in five years
from planting the tree is large enough
Tor posts, and that in ten yesrs it is
large enough for railroad tie. He es-
Inmates that 1000 trees can be grown on
an acre.
Unpopular ministers that no commun-
1ty wants are called "gum-log preachers"
In the Georgia NJ. e. Conference. They
are "hard stock" and are generally put
Off on some mountain community, where
they get salary ranging from $50 to
5000 a year.
A South Carolina paper says that
thousands and thousands of doves are
lnfesting the rice fields of West Wa
taree. In some places the rice has been
replanted two or three times, and vet
the stand is not good, owing to its de-
struction by the birds.
A party of miners in Northeast Geor-
gia, at the depth Of twenty feet below
the surface, found seventeen diamonds,
They have been pronounced genuine by
a New York firm, and are said to be
equal to the African diamond. There
may have been "salt" in the neighbor-
hood.
Recent census bulletins show that
Selma has 1888 people; Greensboro
1888; Demopolis, 1889 Marion, 2,O74
Jacksonville, 882; Oxford, 1861; Annis-
ton, 942; Lafayette, 1,061, and Tallade-
ga 1888.
While Rev. Mr.. Collision, of Hous-
ton, Texas, was taking farewell of his
Methodist congregation, preparatory to
gong over to Episcopalanism, and was
giving his objections to Methodism,
Brother .Jeems f. Dumble interrupted
him, saying: "I have no right to OBJ
Ject to your quitting the church if you
think proper, but have right and do
protest againt your using q Methodist
pulpit TO abuse the Methodist chuI ch in,
or Ito condemn Methodist doctrine'
There was quiet on the Potomac after
that.
In 1887 Georgia produced %, 100, ,472
bushels of Indian corn against II, ,G46,-
459 bushels in 1870. Of wheat she
made last year 1858, 335 bushels against
2,l2I0l7 bushels in 1870. The oat crop
1880 amounted to 5,544, 161 Bushels
against 1900, 601 bushels in 1870. Only
1886 bushels of barley were grown in
the State in 1880, but the product in
1870 was still smaller-5,64O bushels.
The figures Of rye are 1O1,769 against
82,649, and Of buckwheat 3 439 against
tOZ. Georgia is not a buckwheat State
Mr.. j. M. Darsey, of Hinesville, Ga,
was annoyed last year by the otters.
just back of his house is spring branch
"hlch affords a home for great many
otterS. Fish being scarce, when the
corn was in mutton, they left the branch
and took to eating the corn, and they
could destroy as much as SO many coons.
Mr.. Darsey would sometimes rim oe
many as FIVE out of the field at one time