The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-06-23
NEWS GLEANIMGS.
North Carolina has 96 counties


100000.
Key West Fla, shipped 900, 900 cigars
last week.
Apricots sell in Lake City, Fla, at $S
per bushel.
Pensacola, Florida, is to have new
hotel, cost 100000.
Wilmington, North Carolina, has a
population of II, SOC.
North Carolina has commission er O
immigration in England.
New Orleans is to have a school for
b the training of women nurses.
North Carolina has 221 Masonic lodges
at work with membership of S,199.
Six hundred thousand oranges will he
shipped from Enterprise, Florida, this
fall.
Monticello, Fla, has shipped this sea-
son 503 barrels and 20 crates of Irish
potatoes.
A green turtle, weighing over 400
pounds, has been captured off the Flor
ida coast
One hundred children work in the
Maysville, KY, cotton mills for rs cents
TO $1.25 week each.
The Association of Atlanta Preachers
have signed a respectful protest against
the issuing of Sunday papers.
Mr.. Matthew Berry, near Ramer,
Montgomery county, Ala, is sending to
the high school his eight children.
Nine spongers came into Key West,
Fla, last week, after nine weeks
cruise, and sold their sponge for $2,511.
The Adventists of Granbury, Texas,
have erected a large tabernacle for the
purpose of expounding their doctrines.
Six thousand cans of oysters were re-
Gently sent North in one shipment by
the canning establishment at Newbern,
North Carolina.
One hundred and two thousand, eight
hundred and thirty-five pounds of straw
berries have been shipped from Chatta-
|'nooga this season.
A correspondent Of the Atlanta Con-
stitution says Savannah is the modern
Sodom and has four hundred bar-rooms.
or one to every twelve adults.
Such severe storm prevailed in Lee
and Sumter counties, Georgia, that in
one place, for nearly mile, you could
walk on the trees that had been blown
down.
In Harris county, Ga, dinner-horns
are said to have gone out of fashion.
Provisions are so scarce that when a
horn sounds all the neighborhood re-
spond to the call.
Charles Johnson, of New Orleans, the
convicted ship-burner, says that num-
Der OF business men, cotton brokers
chiefly, were "interested" with him in
his business--the ship,burning business.
A number Of young men from Greene
county, Ca, started down the river in a
canoe about six months ago to try the
novel business of trapping beavers. The
voyage was very dangerous, but success
ful, and each mans skins netted him
800.
Two little boys, Clarence Gross and
Willie Dominy, were wrestling in Dub
lin, Ga, and fell on their sides. Willie
got up, leaving Clarence on the ground.
NIhe by-standers noticed that he did not
stlr' and approaching they found he was
dead.
Mr.. j. w. Slaughter, near Pineville
Georgia, was having a well dug on his
place. and when about twenty feet deep
Well-preserved oak leaf was found firm
ly imbedded in the chalk. When about
fifty feet deep live snake of the black
species was found.
"The Atlantic and Gulf Coaos Canal
and Okeechobee Land Company" is the
digniied title of the organization which
proposes to reclaim the Florida Ever
gIades. The company will have cap.
ital of $1",O00,O 900, and will build a
canal to drain Lake Okeechobee, east
and west, and also canal 800 miles long
along the east coast of Florida. Colon
lists from Europe are to be settled on the
lands. Sugar and indigo are to be
grown on the reclaimed lands. The
company held meeting at Philadelphia
last week.
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A COUPLE Of young mon went out fish.
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