The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1882-08-17
NEWS GLEANINGs,
Gull eggs sell at fifteen cents dozen

The hemp crop in the blue grass regiol
OF Kentucky will be short. ..-
Texas has nearly 81 ,0O0, GOO cash bal
ance in the State Treasury.
A cotton seed oil mill has been con,
tracted for in Greenville, Ala.
The cotton crop of Florida will b,
about the same as that of last year.
New corn is being contracted for a
twenty-five cents bushel in Texas.
From Key Largo, Fla, $780, pine
apples have heen shipped this season.
The fine quarries of marble in Pick
ems county, Ga, are to be developed.
Americus, Ga, according to recent
surveys, is just 800 feet above sea level
Rich deposits of phosphate rock have
Oeen discovered in Chatham county, Ga.
Preserving figs is an Important indus.
Try at st. Augustine and Jacksonville,
AN Atlanta druggist saws there are
Z,Ooo confirmed opium-eaters in that
city. "'
North Carolina now leads the South
ern States in the number of her cotton
mills.
ot. Augustine, Fla, is manufacturing
and shipping large quantities. of orange
wine. i'ee
>, virginia has 681 prisoners in the pens
'tentlary and 291 hired out on railroad
work.
Three hund red Swedish families will
fettle along the line of the Florida Cen.
trail Railroad ~"
n 'e"lsh synagogue, fashioned afte
an ancient Palestine palace ;s 70 b
built in Athens, Ga.
A large factory will be erected neor
Nor1olk, Va, tor the preservation of
lumber by the creosote process.
For the first time in the history Of
!eherson county, Co., no intoxicat;no
liquor can be purchased within its bor,
ders. "oi~
III the past ten years Georgia has in
creased the number of her farms n;no+,,
eight per cent, and now has a total of
1885. -
WIS WIN. Boarding, who died RECENTLY
In ferry county, Ala, was 1O7 wears
old. Her husband, who survives how
is 100 years old. N'''
me great iron viaduct for the track
OF the Frisco railway south of the Ros-
ION mountain tunel, in Arkansas. is ao1
feet high and 800 feet long.
VI the 1921 convicts in the Georo;o
Penltentiary, lila are negroes. Onlv
thlrty women are among the MN, bor
ana but one of them is white.
Ihe United States troops stationed at
Tampa are to be moved to Mount Yer.
non, Ala, and the Tampa most will
probably be abandoned altogether.
Since the spring of 1880 Memphis has
paved eight and half miles of streets
and Put down forty miles of sewers and
torty miles of su3soil pipes The cost
was $5OO,OOO. '''
Savannah parties are endeavorino 70
establish semi-monthly line of steam
CTS between that place and London, Enc
land' tor the purpose of bringing immi-
grants to this country.
Many parties in the South are nor,
experimenting in the manufacture Of
sugar from watermelons. A briobt
clear syrup is made to the proportion of
one gallon to eleven gallons of Juice.
The editor of the Key West (Fla
democrat, Gen. Songer, is twenty wears
old, weighs thirty-five pounds and ;o
Just forty inches high. He was born IN
San Domingo and was raised in Florido
The best grit for the marufacture of
mlllstones to be found in the world ie
quarrled IN Moore county, N. G. r. 10
natural composition of flint rock and
cement, which sharpens rather than
dulls by use. ''
Ihere are about one thousand acres ne
land on Matecombie key, Monroe conn
ty, Florida, and it has recently hao,
purchased by three Key Westers who
intend to convert it into one big cocoa
nut grove.
Ihe Southern car works at Knoxville,
Tenn, turn out $4OO, 900 worth of rail.
road cars and $175,OOO worth of wheels
every year. Three furniture factoria
do an annual business of $500, 900; q
barrel factory, 10000; a handle facto.
ry, $4,000, and an iron company, $3.50.
600. There are besides, two founder;es
doidg business of 100000, and six
Touring mills, all doing well.
Peter Griffin, colored, lives near An.
gusta, Ga, and owns farm of over 3OO
- acres, all OF which is under cultivation
He has 100 acres in corn, and will make
fifty bales of cotton this wear. He hos