The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1882-10-19
NEWS GLEANINGS.


ierieS by Che close of the present year.
The colored Baptists in Tenness
number 60, 900 and have $50 churches.
Work on the jetties in harbor
Charleston, South Carolina, has bee
resumed.
In spite of the overflow, probably
consequence of it, the Louisiana sugt
crop is the best since the war.
Jack Butler, who burned his fttl
child TO death at Florance, Ala, hs
been sent to the penitentiary for life.
The Nickle church, to be built at Pa
estine, Tex, is to be paid for by not LEI
than 100000 persons contributing
nickle piece.
Para grass grows to an enormou
length in Florida. Near Orange Git,
Y some is growing that is eighteen fee
and half long.
A terrapin farm has its existence a
Waveland, Miss, and last week 900 lit
tie turtles were hatched. They will be
full grown in three years.
In Heard county, Georgia, resides O
family OF eight persons, named Ray, al
or whom are deaf mutes. Nevertheless,
they are all Industrious and happy.
The average corn crop in Tennessee is
6O,OOo,O0O buehels, but it will reach
l0O, 100000 bushels this year. The
wheat crop will reach nearly 10000, 900.
The Farmers Cooperative Union. of
Florida, are said to have secured sim
pie but eflectual plan for preparing or.
anges for market in such manner that
they will keep for months.
The monument to be erected at Vicks-
eurg' Miss, to the memory of Carl
baldi, will be surmounted by a life sized
statue of that personasc, and will be one
OF the finest in the United States.
A large shot-tower is to be erected in
New Orleans by a local company who
have abundant means and plenty of ex-
perlcnce. The tower will be the eleventh
IN the United States when completed.
The progress of railroad building and
rall1I ad business in the South last wear
was unprecedented. About 1900 miles
OF road were put in operation, ard the
gross earnings amounted tc $63, 600, OCO
Roberts & Salter, of Bullock county,
Ala, had twenty-six acres of heavy
tlmbered bottom land which they want
ed cleared. In ten hours 1O6 axmen
with ZOO log rollers and brush pliers
completed the job.
The Hot Springs creek on the Gov
lnment reservation at Hot Springs
Ark, is to be strengthened and protects
ed from sewage water and refuse, end
generally to have $127, 900 worth of i'm
proVements put on it.
The Times-Democrat in an article on
the health of New Orleans, claims that
there are no less than 1900 people in
that city over sixty years of age or one
eighteenth of the population, while 1876
have passed ninety.
Dallas, Tex, is said to be built over a
grave yard of mastodons, and for five or
six years past excavations for buildingo
have seldom failed to bring up their
bones A large number of these masto.
don remains were unearthed few davs
ago, and some of the bones were of enor-
nous size.
The officers of the Pawnee, Stonewall
Jackson, Esthetic and Chief Marriag4
Associations of Little Rock, Ark, have
been fined 1926 each for violating CITY
ordinance which prohibits "gift" enter.
prises being conducted in that city. The
State Gazette dubs them, "Wildcat
schemes to fleece the innocent"
A colored man, j. r. Ballard, was re-
emily ordained in st. Johns church,
jacksonville, Fla, which is called the
most artistic church in the State, by
Bishop Young, in the presence of diso
tinguished audience. It was the first
ase in the State that colored man has
been ordained in a white church.
Charlotte, IN. c. Observer: 1t has
only been few months since Prof. w
Z. Hidden, All employe of Edison, the
distinguished electrician, in search of
platinum, discovered in Alexander Co.,
and brought to the attention of the
world the now far-famed hiddenite. He
has now discovered another stone only
little less valuable, if any, than the
gem which bears his name. He believes
it to be new mineral, unknown to sci
entific geologists, perfectly transparent,
resembling the diamond, but belonging
to different geologicalf amily. 1t is one
degree softer than quartz, of higher lus-
ter, complex form, and he proposes to
call it Edisonite. It is found in the
neighborhood OF the place in Alexander
county where he discovered the hidden
ite.