The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1882-10-12
NEWS GLEANINGs.

a" BoAu III montgomery.
The largest single brick yard in the
United States is at Atlanta. ''''
Tennessee, North Carolina and Vir
ginia will all make good peanut crops.
Corn is offered in Jackson county
Ala, at twenty cents per bushel, deliv'
cred.
Pratt's coal mines at Birmingham,
Als., are the most extensive in the
South.
EXPERIMENTS have proven that the
Japanese seedless persimmon will grow
prolifically in Florida.
1t is estimated that over ,O0O, 900 Or
ange trees will come into bearing in
Orange county, Fla, this year.
1t is SAID that the first orange tree
ever known to have been injured bv
lightning was struck at st. Augustine,
Fla, recently.
Ot.the Immigrants arriving at Castle
Garden during the last six months.
Texas got 2,0S9 moro than any other
Southern State.
twenty more marriage and natal
guilds filed articles of incorporation at
Nashville Monday. The grand shaking
up of dry bones will be a thing of the
near future.
The Concho floods caused the death
OF l49 persons and $1,000 sheep. In the
past month, floods in Texas have de-
streyed 200 lives and $5,OOO,O 900 worth
of property.
The High Shoals factory recently sold
to an Atlanta broker, for $3.50, Confed-
crate bonds to the amount of 500. 900.
which had been lying in the factory
safe for seventeen years.
Griffin, Ga, has the largest peach Or
chard in the South, containing $4,000
trees and covering most of 600 acres.
the same farm area, 900 grated ap-
pie trees and 5000 pear trees.
Numerous. petitions are being circu-
lated in Alabama asking the Legislature
TO prohibit the manufacture and sale Of
Intoxicating liquors in the State. The
petitions are being numerously signed.
Gold has been discovered in the Organ
Mountains, sixty miles north of El
Paso, Tex. A piece of ore brought in.
weighing two pounds, was covered with
pure gold and contained $3.50 worth of
the metal.
In the orchard of Perry Howard, at
Ebenezer, Miss, there is an apple tree
from which the ri pc fruit is Just now
disappearing. A second crop is upon
the tree about half grown, and is still
blooming for tnir,l crop.
Williamsburg, the Oldest city in Vir-
;inia, is said to be one Of the quaintest,
iuletest towns in the South, and of
5reat interest because of its many an
tique and odd looking buildings. 1t was
once the capital of the State.
A New Orleans washerwoman has in
the past fifteen years raised family of
tatherless children, given them all good
educations, purchased handsome house
and mas $4,000 laid away for rainv
day. Her entire possessions were earned
at the wash-tub.
In Jackson county. Ga, two men,
named respectively Hill and Goss
fought duel with buggy whips to set
tie dispute. The fight continued for
over three hours, and resulted in
draw. The men were one mass of welts
at the close Of the novel duel.
Probably the youngest farmers in the
country are two children living near
Shreveport, La, who have eight acres
In cotton and ten acres in corn, and will
make good crops. The children ara
brother and sister, aged respectively
thirteen and ten years, and have done
most of their own work.
In Geneva county, Ala, a mill was
blown down by storm Tuesday, and q
woman and her child buried in the
ruins. The next morning the debris
was cleared away, and, while the moth.
er was crushed by heavy timber, the
little child was uninjured and found be.
side her mother, sleeping quietly.
Dixie Wagner, a smart Helen, Ark.
nymph du pave, has made the MARRIAGE
associations sweat. After taking out a
large number of policies che married
her "friend," drew all her money and
then went to Illinois and procured di.
Vorce. The pair then divided the swag
and are now laughing at the duped and
discounted "euilds."
Rome (Ga.) Bulletin: D. w, Ford
OF Gave Spring, brought into our office
yesterday a perfect natural pitcher
which he had found in Texas q fow
months ago growing as an excrescence on
red elm tree. It's proportions are a..
curate, and it is about twelve inches
high and six inches in diameter. is bol,
low, and has perfect handle and spout
At Wilmington, N. c., a party Of