The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1882-08-31
NEWS GLEANINGs.
Nashville has twenty-one hotels.

struction of q street railway.
The new three-cents-per-mile railroad
law has gone into effect in Texas.
Fort Valley, Ga, Twill erect beauti
full and costly Confederate monument.
Pike county, ALA, has fourteen
year-old soy who weighs 1856 pounds.
Arkansas is shipping immense quanti
ties of black walnut timber to England
Last year Texas imported corn, but
this year will have 60,000,0O0 bushels
to sell.
Mississippi has organized several live,
stock insurance companies--a new de-
parture.
A million s.dollars sworth of improve
ments are being added to Birmingham,
Alabama.
Five miles from Fort Smith, Ark, q
vein of coal five feet in thickness has
been struck.
Griffin, one eff the most enterprisipg
little cities in Georgia, is to have the
electric light.
The wooden plate factory at New
berne, N. O., turns out 100000 of the
plates each week.
Atlanta, which last year handled 12O,-
600 bales of cotton, expects to handle
100000 bales this year.
One hundred and twenty.four varie~
ties Of cotton goods are turned out by
the Mississippi mills.
Athens, Ala, has population of g.
600 and valuation of $4,000, ,0OO-that
is, 81, 900 to every inhabitant.
The coal measures of the Warren,
Ala, coal field are 1000 feet in thick
ness. The seams number forsy-two as
far as developed.
Mrs. Butler, of Marion county, Ga.,
who has reached the age of 112 years,
was baptised last Sunday as a member of
the Primitive Baptist church.
Pensacola parties have sent to Ger
many for 200 servant girls, to be held
under years contract, with privilege,
to employers, of two years.
A shark was killed in Mobile bay
few days ago which measured fifteen
feet from tip to tip, and of that variety
known to sailors as the tiger shark.
Columbus, Ga, has ten cotton and
woolen mills. Sixteen thousand nine
hundred and forty-eight bales of cotton
were used in manufacturing last year.
ID. R. McCurry, of Floyd county, Ga,
has succeeded in making fine article of
syrup Of watermelon juice. It is rich
and thick, and has the taste of honey.
Mattresses made of needles from South
Carolina pine boughs are said to cure
pulmonary and rheumatic ailments. and
an active trade in them has been estab-
lished.
A $1,000 diamond was found recently
in the bed Of a creek near Danbury, N.
q. AS it was in the rough and other
large ones have been found in the State,
the charge of sailing will not hold.
Perhaps the best apologyLfor Mormon
polygamy that has been made is by
wit on Pacific coast newspaper. He
says that at least the system does not
throw the burden of supporting a hus-
band on one woman.
Louisiana's salt mine, which is in
Iberia parish, covers an area of 40 acres
and is solid deposit of remarkable pur-
lty and excellence. The rock is yerv
solid and is without fissure or seams.
Over 1900 sacks is the present daily |
output.
A weed far superior to oakum, has
been discovered in Putnam county, Flor
ida. which, after being put through
process, proved the above assertion. A
stock company is Sbeing formed for the
purpose of utilizing it. The weed is
found in abundance.
The South does not grow enough pro-
visions for nome use, despite the ad-
vance made in that direction. So far
this season, she has drawn On the North
for wheat to the value of $55, 900, 600
corn, $6O,OOO, 900, and provisions, $72-
100000. Total, $177, 900, 900.
A curiosity in the fruit line is on ex.
hibition at Tampa, Fla. It consists of
five distinct, fully matured pine apples |
on one stem, touching each other at the |
sides, and spread out in the shape of |
fan, and around the top of the fan, like
handsome fringe, 'are nineteen crown
lets, which will each make distinct |
plant.
The Oldest stove probably in the |
United States is the one that warns the |
hall of Virginia's capitol in Richmond. |
1t was made in England and sent to |
Richmond in ITO, and warmed the |
House of Burgesses for sixty years DE-
fore it was removed to it's present loca- /
cation, where it has remained for thirty |
years.
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