The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-11-10
NEWS GLEAMINGS.

The Texas Pacific railroad is With,
100 miles of Eel Paso.
Albany Georgia hasa new sixsbundro,
dollar ire alarm bell.
The corn crop in Georgia will ba q,
average one. '''
An atlantis. hotel includes ten cleo
''io lgnts among it's attractions.
Uen' Gordon will soon start 9 co++or
A"'''ry at Carrollton, Miss.
In Florida 81, 900 worth of arrowroot
Is raised on an acre of land,
New Orleans has a buttorine foo+o.
~ that turns out 10000 pounds per dav
me colorcd baptist of Lynchburg,
''''' completed $4,000 church.
w: r. Holt, of Mt Sterling, has ar
rived, and is domiciled at the Louisville
DR.. John Phister, Grand Master, is at
the Gait house.
ne a Appeal says the grand Jury will
lno'ct the "Bucket Shop"
NaShVlile grand jury has indicted
ABOUT twenty-five Or thirty pool bnvers.
- Alex. Bell, Of Pike county, Ga, is Il
years old and weighs 355 pounds.
1t is estimated that gold, silver and
copper mines Of the south will Weld
S2o, 600, 900 this year.
mr.. Il. Young, of Pennsylvania, has
PAID $4,000 for prospective gold mine
IN Goochland county, Va.
An artesian we'll in Durham. N q
has reached depth Of 1,6' O feet with
. out any indications of water.
John Stewart, the oldest man in Ala.
pama' 1an' is dead in Shelby county, aged
102 years.
Col. W. G. Richardson, of Mississippi
has raised 1880 bales of cotton this
year.
translucent porcelain was first manu-
factured in the United States at New
Orleans last spring.
It's crime in Georgia to point Gun
or pistol at another in fun or malice,
whether the weapon Is loaded or not.
The sevcnty-fve members of the new
Hermitage Club, at Nashville, are worth
IN the aggregate, $4,000, 900.
A Chancery case eleven years old has
oeen decided at Troy, Alabama. The
plaintiff got judgement for $3.50.
The American rife team is arranging
Tor shooting tournament sometime
during the exposition at Atlanta.
Nine hundred acres of land were re-
Gently sold by the sheriff Of Macon
county, a Ia, for eleven cents an acre,
McPhe son Barracks, at tlanta will
be broken up. The troops will 90 to
New York barbor to take the place of
the third regiment .......a ......
Eureka Springs, Ark, has Is, 600 in
habltants, and is beginning to ape CITY
manners. The latest affection is Mas
tered rooms ard brick chimneys.
Forty thousand dollars for BUILDING
and twenty thousand dollars for a site
will be expended for an opera house at
Dallas, Tex.
The old city park of Charleston, S. G.
mas been re-christencd Washington
Square. A statue of the father of his
county will soon be erected there.
1he Sloss furnace now building at
Birmingham, Ala, will cost when com
pleted $18O,0O0; will nmploy 25O men
and have capacity of 80 tons per dov
new town is springing up at the
terminus OF the Pensacola and Selma
road, thirty-two miles from Pensacola
Junction, in Conecuh county, Ala.
1T is expected that that the canal
around Muscle Shoals will be COMPLETED
IN two years, when the Tennessee will
be nayigable from Paducah to Knox-
vile, distance of 500.
There is great excitement in the locol-
, lty OF the zinc mines, in Tazewell corntv
Tenn, over new finds" supposed to be
silver. 1t must be valuable, as thew
will not suffer so much as an ouncs of
the ore to be lost. E."@ @sE ..I..'~
ne One year ago, near Charleston, Miss,
Mrs. Crosby gave birth to tripets. A
few days ago Mrs. G. did nothing less
than repeat the performance. The chill
dren are all alive and kicking, and it is
presumed that Mr.. q. is going through
- similar exercise. S = MI
- The contract for that portion of the
Pensacola and Atlantic Railroad not