The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1882-09-14
MEMS GLEANINGs.

Knoxville, Tehh,, has raised $259,0C
toward building cotton factory.
A hog owned by man living mes
Petersburg, Va, weighs 1900 pounds.
Louisiana proposes to enter EXTENSIVE
ly in the raising and manufacture Q
jute.
At Henrys, N. O., vein of mOer
schaum of extremely fine quality hs
been discovered.
Vicksburg's new cotton compress, wit
a storage capacity of $4,000 bales,
ready for business.
AT sale af public lands at Austin
Tex, 10000 acres were sold at fifty
cents, man named Forsyth taking i
all.
The State Land Office at Tallahasse,
has now eight clerks employed. Three
did the work before the boom reached
the State.
A man near Newman, Ga, has beer
working an alleged gold mine forty
years and has never made a cent. He
Is still confident that "there's millions
in it."
The huge rattle snake recently killed
IN Sumter county, Fla, has been for.
warded to the Smithsonian Institute
1he snake measured eight feet and two
inches in length.
Raleigh News and Observer; North
Carolina has 17S varieties of minerals,
20 more than any other State can show
up. There are 112 varities of woods,
ana again we are in the lead.
1t is intended organizing the "Ben
Hill Monumental Association" in Geor-
gia' the object of the association being
TO collect funds to erect monument at
Atlanta in memory of Hon. B. 81. Hill.
An old silver watch, once the prperty
OF Aaron Burr, and an autograph of
Thomas Jefferson, were purchased in
"chmond, Va, recently, by ex-Gov-
ernor Randolph for the New Jersev-
Historical Society.
The enterprising Texan who started
goose rancho near Taylor has given
up his project. The geese, 400 in all,
died, failing to find sustenance enough
IN the grass on which it was thought
they would thrive.
The chestnut tree recently fel]ed at
Salisbury, N. c., measures nine feet in
diameter, and lady and gentleman can
walk through it without getting near SO
close together as they do at lawn par
ty. The rings on the tree indicate that
1t is 400 years old.
''Pa, what is pessimist, aud what Is
an optimist ?'' "a pessimist, my son
is one who takes the surplus kittens,
just after they are born, and chloro-
forms them. The optimist is one who
let's the kittens grow up, to live a
wretched, starving life; to be tortured
continually by boys and other thought
less animals, and to be finally killed
with brickbats and left to rot on the
street."
Great war ships are costly even in
England, where ship building is less ex-
pensive than in this country. The Brit
ish jronclad Infexible cost $4,000, 900,
but she is the most formidable war YES
sci ever constructed. She has tonnage
of II, ,40G tons, 5000 horsepower en-
glnes, and an armor ranging from six
teen to twenty-four inches in thickness
She carries four eighty-one ton guns,
which Propel 1,700 pound shot a dis
tance Cf nine miles.
At the receut Forestry Convention at
Montreal it was shown that in Canada
the annual production of pine lumber
is 1000, 600, 600 feet, requiring the trees
o. l,OOO,W acres, and that at this rate |
the pine forests will not hold out over
fifty years, and not that long if the |
present waste in cutting continues and |
fires areallowed to ravage the pine re-
gion. DR.. Loring, our Commissioner of |
Agriculture, made an address to the |
convection, showing that the pine for
ests in nthe United States would in Tex
as be- Exhausted in 500 years; Florida, |
thirtyyears; Alabama, seventy years
Mississippi, 150 years; Minnesota ten |
years Michigan, seven years; Wiscon-
sin, twenty years; North Carolina, fifty
years houisiana, $40 years; Georgia,
sevent-five years; Pennsylvania, five
years Arkansas, 500 years; California,
ZOO ydns; South Carolina, twenty-seven
years Maine, fifteen years. The bulk
of the pine lumber supply is in the
South States, and from DR.. Loring' |
stateient it is very evident that it is
greatpublic duty to prevent the present
recklFs waste of timber, and to rehabil-
itate TASTED areas by forest planting.