The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1882-09-21
NEWS GLEANINGs.
Georgiahas 3. 5l7 drlnhlng saloons.

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There are seventy-three saw mills, al
rinning, in Obeon county, Tenn.
!, Last year Texas supported corn. Thi
year che will have millions OF bushel
to sell
Hon. Alexander III. Stephens says h.
now weighs fye pounds more than h
ever did before.
~ "a solid lump oil pure silver weighing
W near. a pound, was found near Mag
nolia, N. o., recently.
's The explosion of bottle of ginger
caused an Augusta, Ga, lady t,
pse tse sight of both eyes.
steamship from Norfolk to New
J! y cow x q few days ago carried 10000
**fe gems from Southwestern Virginia.
North Carolina has IT'S saw-milla
with capital of $1,743,217, employing
Il 3,029, hands, and the products are worth
$2,e72.796.
i The total consumption of cotton BY
!, North Carolina mills and factories fol
<ffthe year ending August 81, 1882 was
y t20, ,0O0,0 pounds.
A panther six feet in length was re-
3 Gently killed in Buchanan county, Va.
1t had for long time been terror to
the neighborhood. 'aa
: During the year of 1881 ninety.six
wild cats were killed in ST. Johns county,
, Fla, and 60 far this year seventy-six
have bitten the dust
he average corn crop In Tennessee is
( 60,000,000 bushels, but it will reach
i, 100, 100000 bushels this year. The whea
crop will reach nearly IL, 600, 900 bushels.
Mrs. Bozeman, whose age is we'll au
,4lheEticated to have been 115 years, died
in the Halifax county IN. C.) poor
house last week. She leaves great
( great grandchild forty years old.
The crop of sugar made in Louisiana
during the season of 1872 amounted
to 159, ,950 pounds, equivalent to
122, 982 hogsheads. The production of
molasses amounted to 1851, ,104 gallons,
for 206, 1914 barrels.
!. An Alabama law, passed by the last
Legislature, prohibits the owners of
sheep killing dogs to permit them to run
& ut large. The first conviction under the
law was made in Jefferson county re-
Gently, and the owner of the dog fined
$75.
y The Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser
learns with surprise that the "poor but
proud" young women Of that city are
reluctant to engage as operatives at the
cotton mill for fear that such employ
ment isi."not quite respectable"
: Fifty one counties in Georgia have no
licensed saloons. Two others close out
October 1. Seven have only one each,
and In many counties the the sale is
confined exclusively to the county town.
The proBihition element is becoming
B. stronger .s.3n1ore formidabloevery day
- The CORN crop for the State Of Geor
gia is estimated by the State Agricult,
ural Department to be in the neighbor-
hood of 30,000,0 600 bushels, which makes
the yield about equal to that Of 1859
which latter has long been regarded as
probably the larges corn crop ever gath
cred in the State.
The Blair family, of Camden, S. c.,
<have a sad record. Miss Blair beau
tiful girl, has just committed suicide.
Her great grandfather was hanged, her
grandfather committed suicide, her fa-
ther, L. w. r. Blair, was tried for mur-
der and escaped only to fall in "a per-
sonal rencounter with Capt. Halle,
short time since. One of her brothers
issllow in the State penitentiary, serving
\ out life sentence for murder. g.,
At the Saviour's Home a fanatical
institution at Little Rock, Ark, no
medicine is given to the sick, no matter
what the disease with which they are
suffering. One of the inmates, child,
died recently for want Of medical treat
ment, and the inhuman managers of this
. more than inhuman institution made no
i effort to save its life They should be
prosecuted for willful murder, and the
name Of the house prefxed by some
thing smacking to ha IS. The present
name is a misnomer all reports be
true.
There is kind of dwarfed kangaroo
in the Staked Plains of Northwestern
Texas. Its body is about eight inches
long; its.fore.legs are not more than an
inch and a half to two inches in length,
4 while its hind-legs ale all Of six inches.
It has tail about eight inches long,
completely bare except a tuft of long
hairs at the end, and a ridge of short
hairs on it's upper part. The animal is
also q marsupial, the pouch being well
developed. 1t is a soft blue color. Its
only mode Of Iocomotion is by jumping,