The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-05-05
NEWS GLEANINGS.

There are more than 100000 Germans
in Texas.
! Col. Fred Grant is to reside at Bous-
ton, Tex, it is said.
In Lafourche, parish, La, there are
318 citizens named Williams.
The frontier battalion of Texas now
consists of five companies numbering
120 officers and men.
The Louisiana Sugar Bowl does not
hope for large crop this year, for it is
at least a month late.
The Austin (Tex.) Statesman saws
that the increase Of the sheep focks
about Uvalde this year averages ninety
per cent, the largest known for long
time.
The Charlotte Observer reports the
purchase of land near that city for the
purpose of smelling works. Ores will be
purchased from the owner of mines and
smelted and refined at the works.
Chattanooga Times: A terrible dis
ease prevails among the cattle in the
Seventeenth district Of Barlow county,
Ga. 1t proves fatal in nine out of ten
cases. Not less than twenty milch COWS
have died within a mile Of Euharlee in
the past ten days.
Mobile (Ala,) Register: The resigna-
( tion Of DIR, Stuart Robinson retires from
active service in the Presbyterian church,
one of the ablest divines in the country.
Many of our readers will remember hear
ing DIR. Robinson preach when the Gen
eral Assembly of the Presbyterian church
South met here a few years after the
war.
Austin CTex,) Statesman Galveston
having deprived herself of her natural
barrier against the encroachments of the
gulf waves by removing the sand hills
that had formed along the beach, is re-
placing them, or aiding nature to do so
by planting hedges of salt cedars, against
which the sands drift and form natural
levees or break-waters.
The South Florida Journal states that
DIR. A. @. Caldwell, of Sanford, has an
orange tree that is curiosity worth 60
ing to see. 1t is large, fine tree, stand
ing just at his front gate. 1t has good
ly number of ripe oranges on it, and
about 1000 green ones half grown the
tree having blossomed after the storm of
last August, and is now full of blooms
for another crop.
The Pulaski (Tenn.) Citizen says that
DR.. Leftwich, assisted by the Christians
OF Pulaski, held a prayer meeting in the
courthouse in that town before a very
large audience Of country people, and
the editor states that it was one of the
most serious and effective meetings he
ever witnessed. Two neighbors, come
ltQ town to law each other, stepped into
he room where the meeting was being
held, and they soon had each other by
the hand and differences were forgotten
in embraces.
The Macon (Ga.) Telegraph says tha
on Friday last Mr.. w. II. Turner, a
brother-in-law of Mr.. Nelms. went down
to Butler to get Squire Bryant, negro,
under sentence Of ten years in the peni
tentiary. Squire saw that he was in for
decade of labor, and, rather than en-
dure it, he took a pocket-knife and cut
out both his eyes. He afterward claimed
that the deed was done by his having
run against some splinters in q wall, but
marks of blood upon his knife and other
circumstances disprove this, and prove
the first statement. Mr.. Turner returned
without his man.
New Orleans States: Telephone com.
munication has already been established
between Vicksburg and Jackson, Miss,
and verbal messages are sent over this
wire daily. Yesterday the exchange in
this city placed the telephone attach
ments to a Western Union wire and
yelled 'Helloa" at Vicksburg. The lat
ter answered back, "What do you
want ?" just as natural as you please.
This interchange of salutations placed
the two cities on speaking terms, as it
were, and business began at once. Every
body who had anything to say said it,
and those who had nothing to say said
it just to be sociable Mr.. G. w. Irby,
of Vicksburg, sent an order to Justin
Langles for several boxes of ginger-snaps
and crackers. The experimental con-
uectiOn was a decided success.
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