The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-09-22
NEWS Gl EANIRGs.

Birmingham is also to be lighted with
gas. !.
The bottom corn in the South is not
so bad.
The old city debt of Memphis is $2,-
: 1T2792H5.i Hnr;...,.. ~. ..
Cotton-seed oil is now used in the
Soush extensively in place Of lard for
cooking purposes.
They gamble wildly and desperately
at Hot Springs. Twelve faro tables in
one house allow 200 sinners to fight the
tiger nightly.
AT lost the capitalists of the North
are turning their attention to the South.
1t Is the best place to invest money.
Augusta, Georgia, is no slow place by
considerable She has IFS, 900 spindles
in active operation, representing S.
100000 capital.
The White Sulphur Springs property
IN Virginia has been sold to satisfy liens
1or$l9,O00. The original cost was $780,
GOO. The property contains ,439 acres.
Good judges estimate that the de-
hclency in the cotton crop this year will
oe ooO,ooo bales-that is to say, the to-
tai product will be $500, 900 instead Of
100000 bales, as in 1880.
Faom an estimate made bv the Aeri-
cultural Department at Washington, we
learn there are l, Ill acres of grapes in
cultivation in Alabama, making 1922 672
gallons, worth $780,
Out of eighty-fve distilleries in tbe
nashville revenue district all but twenty.
SIX have ceased operations. It is he
heved all the distilleries in the unner
country save two in Moore county, will
nave to cease for lack of corn.
The city of Pensacola has redeemed
her credit by agreeing to paw her deb+
a vote of her citizens on the 9th do
Veloped but twenty-five against a. set
'lement' agreed upon between the Mayor
and Council and the bond-holders.
. New Orleans has sixteen steamers on.
gagged in the Mediterranean fruit trodo
Durlng the present year they have landed
no less than three hundred and twcntv
Thousand boxes of oranges and lemons
and about twenty thousand more boxes
have been brought in by sailing vessels
Louisiana. produced and marketed
= during the year ending September the
largest crop of rice and sugar since the
war. A careful computation shows the
receipts to have been 218, ,314 hogsheads
OF sugar, 16,256,c2S gallons of molasses
and 2266,65S barrels of clear rice.
Ihere are 225 Indians still remaining
IN South Florida. They are peaceful
and hold friendly relations with the
White settlers. They are remnants Of
y the ne Tigers" Wolves" "Snakeso and
North Winds" Their chiefs are a.
, ways chosen from the Tigers from sinner
stitious traditions.
"'' lhe"Morning Star (N.C.): The forest
acreage Of North Carolina is probably
greater than three or four of the Morrill,
western States combined What q for
''tune there isin the forests'of opr Sto+o
tor9 generations unborn. Every formor
should plant at least 10000 tree Lot
the supply be increased rather than di-
minished.
We see it stated that the advance
sheets OF the census declare that the
small portion of the State of Mississinni
called the "Yazoo Bottom" which in
1879 produced only 25S, 900 bales of cot
ton, is capable, by the exclusion of the
mississippi overflow and by improved
cultivation, of producing nearly s, ,737,-
zo' oaies annually, or the whole present
production of the whole country.
An interesting feature of the Interna-
tional Exposition at Atlanta, next
month, will be the manufacture of q
suit OF clothes from raw cotton in twenty.
Iour hours. The cotton will be picked
spun' dyed, woven and made into a suit
OF clothes for Senator Brown inside of
the day.
North Carolina has discovered a new
- gem. 1t is called the "hiddenite." It
IS similar in color to the emerald, but
harder and more brilliant. One vein
only has been found, and that only two
to two and half inches wide and two
feet long The cut stones sell readily
Tor 800 per karat, and the largest vet