The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1882-10-05
NEWS GLEANINGs.

1he South will make 100000 gal
~ Ions OF cotton seed oil this year.
Bee-keeping is becoming a large an,
Pfohtable industry in Mississippi.
The trade in cotton in Montgomery
Ala'' last year footed up Sc, 6,oe0, 900.
Florida has shipped, during the sea
Yon gust closed, $4,000 head of cattle t(
Cuba. .. ...' >-.. ',> - O''''0 y
IN some Portions of North Alabam,
corn is offered at twenty-five cents E
bnsheJ.
.'~ Clay county, N. c., polls but twenty
negro votes, while Wake heads the list
with 5,12S.
The colored military co .npanies in the
South will hold an encampment in At
lanta this fall
.Ihe Selma, Ala, cotton mills have
Jnst shipped five car loads of cotton
goods to China.
=. Hale county, Ala, is looking out for
Nher moss industry and is gathering
thousands of tons.
Macon, Ga, has bonded debt of but
100000, and taxable property amount
ing to $10,OO0,0OO.
Memphis has one. seventh of tie
whole number Of cotton-sced oil mills
Gin the whole country.
The first and only Flown clock in the
State of Florida surmounts the new
court house at Tampa,
Large and very rich deposits of iron
ore have recently been discovered in
Marshall county, Ala.
=, grove Of eighty banana trees
eighteen months old, is bearing good
tr1lt at Waynesboro, Ga.
An effort is being made to found a
college at Greenville, Miss, for the ed
ucation of colored youths.
A stalk of Sea Island cotton nine feet
IN height and having forty-two branches
and 250 bolls, is on exhibition at Bron-
son, Fla.
The Georgia Lpnatic Asylum is full
to overHowing, and cannot accommo
date large number of insane persons
waiting treatment
1t is estimated that over one-half of
the new manufactures started in the
South during the last two years belong
to Northern capitalists.
Little Rock, Ark, voted on the
License" question at the recent election
and decided by an overwhelming ma
Jorlty to continue to "sip of the flowing
bowl"
The New Orleans Times-Demo crat say
1t is quite probable that the amount
paid by the South to the West for food.
stufs this year will be $1O), ,OO0,O9}
less than paid in 1881.
The atlanta Constitution publishes a
table showing the taxable property of
Georgia to be worth, as returned from
taxation, 1920, 600, ,oC0, an increase over
ast years returns Of SIG, 200, 900.
There are now twenty-five iron fur
naces in Alabama, The Birmingham
Age says that within q radius of fftv
miles of Birmingham there is enough
iron to supply thousand furnaces for
a Thousand years.
Two more OF the old guard have pass
ed over the dark river. Michael Hol-
BERT aged 101 years, died last week in
Marion county. West Va, and James
Stalwart, aged Ill years, has just died
in Accomac county, Va.
The Americus (Ga.) Recorder saws
that during the present cyclone the
wells in the eastern part Of the city
were blown dry. These wells, up 70
the time of the gale, were unfaiIing.
The explanation of this remarkable |
occurrence is the existence of subterra-
mean passages and the violent agitation
on the surface opened channels of es-
cape FOR the water to these.
A curious looking specimen Of the
bovine race was exhibited on the streets
Of Greensboro, N. O., recently. The
animal is Devonshire bull calf, three
months old, with tail and hide similar
to those of an elephant. The calf is
about the usual size, and apparently
well and hearty It's hide is entirely
destitute of hair, lies in heavy folds
like an elephants, and is of about the
same color. The tail is short and
piked.
Over 400 mines, including silver, cor
per and other minerals, are being work
ed in North Carolina.
Florida will soon be n perfect net
work of railways, and the rapid devcl-
opment of the State will Of course fol
low. Her resources are wonderful, and
few years will place her among the
liveliest Of the Southern States.
North Caroolina's rice crop is good,
and this year will reach 65, 200 bushels
of tide-water and 100000 bushels of up