The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1882-09-07
NEWS GLEANINGs.
Florida has made an immense crop Of

There are between 1900 and 1,S0
blind persons in Tennessee.
Richmond, Va, is shipping larg,
quantities of grain to Italy,
The Southern Presbyterian Church
has 5000 elders and 1000 deacons.
The prohibition law prevails in fortv.
two counties in the State OF Georgia.
A Southern scientist has discovered
that alcohol can be produced from
acorns.
George w. Swepson, with property
worth $2,OOO,OOO, is the richest man in
North Carolina.
Richmond, Va, has debt of $4,741,.
7O7 65, on which she pays an annual in
terest of 5000, 1874 43.
The celebrated Dummett orange grove
has, according to the Florida Dispatch,
been sold for 100000.
The public library at knoxville, Tenn.
has 1,500 new books, is out Of debt and
has $4,000 in the treasury.
A young Virginian has invented a ma,
chine which turns out 150 cigarettes per
minute. It is on exhibition at Lynch.
burg.
In 1833-34 the railroad from Charles.
ton, s. O., to Augusta, Ca, 130 miles,
was the longest railroad then in the
world.
The gum of the palmetto, which is
found in abundance in Florida, makes
as good if not better mucilage than gum
arabic.
1t is calculated that the splendid
grain crops of the South will save that
section $100,O0O,OOO hitherto diverted
Northward.
A mortal enemy of the cotton worm
has turned up in Mississippi. 1t is red
dish looking spider, and attacks and
kills large numbers of the worms.
AS early as 1888 the sale and con-
sumption of whisky was prohibited in
Georgia, then a colony under British
rule. The act, however, was repealed
in 1742.
The Rugby colony in Tennessee, in
stead Of being on the wane, is said to be
growing nicely. A large number of peo
pie from Michigan will cast their luck
with the colonists this fall.
The State Democratic ticket of Texas
contains the name of but one native
Texan. Of the other nominees three are
natives of Kentucky, one of Georgia,
one of South Carolina and one Of Ten
nessee.
The New Orleans Times-Democrat
from carefully gathered information,
learn that the present condition of the
rice crop in Louisiana is good and the
prospects for large and good crop most
favorable.
The locomotive General" which was
the one that pulled the train that was
stolen by the Mitchell raiders in 1861, is
still in use as freight engine on the
Western and Atlantic road, and is in
good condition..
The process of articulating Guiteau's
skeleton is nearly completed at the Ar
my and Medical museum. 1t is doubt |
full if the bones will make a first-class
skeleton. Many were found to be po
rous, requiring great care to mount.
Near Fort Valley, Ca, lives a man
who has named his children after ami
mails, having belief that they will in
consequence live to an old age. There
are four children and they are named |
respectfully, Rabbit, Coon, Fox and
'Possum.
Nashville, in its craze for marital and |
natal insurance companies has capped
the climax by organizing "The Natal |
Twin Association" which will pay $2,-i
OG0 to each member producing certif- |
cate Of the paternity of pair of twin |
babies.
In Alabama the Senate will stand
thirty-one Democrats and two opposi- |
tlon the House seventy-nine Democrats
and twenty-one opposition. The latter
consists of eight Republicans, four
Greenbackers and nine Independent
Democrats.
AS compared with the cotton manu-
factures of New England, the Southern
mills show a wonderful difference, in
heir favor, of earnings, but the thing is
oeing overdone, and too many mills will
prove to the South as bad, if not worse,
than no mills at all.
in the Gulf near Apalachicola, Fla,
d saw fish of immense size was captured.
1t was fourteen feet, six inches long,
forty-two inches across the body, the
saw forty-one inches long and seven
across the center between the points of
the teeth, weighing 500 pounds.
Near Lawrenceburg, Tennessee, an
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