The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-03-01
NEWS GLEANINGs,

Square, Savannah, has been completed.
The warehouses of Danville, Va, are
crowded with leaf tobacco, which is sell
ing high. .....
An old lady asked at the Sandersville,
Gap post-cfticc for "yaller developments
to do letters up in"
The First National Bank of Colum-
bus, Miss, is now in operation. 1t is
the only national bank in the State.
a company has contracted with the
Richmond, Va, City Council to furnish
gas at sixty cents per 1000 cubic feet.
A woman in Hart county, Ga, has
given birth to twenty.onc children and
does not seem to have had any grave
yard luck. She has raised them all.
A BIN containing 5000 bushels of cot
ton seed at Lancaster, Texas, exploded
from the generation of gases. The re-
port could be heard two miles and WAS
of terrific force.
Atlanta, Ga, is consuming large
amounts of Chicago refrigerated beef,
nd the demand is growing daily. Deal
er3 in that city also furnish Macon, Mont
gomery, Ala, and Jacksonville, Fla.
An unknown woman threw her infant
from the car window between Macon
and Atlanta, while the train was run
ming at full speed. It was picked up bv
the road hands badly bruised, but will
probably live.
The enthusiasm Of the farmers of
Dougherty county, Ga, on the subject
of truck farming increases in volume.
One or two of the largest planters have
already engaged the services of skilled
vegetable growers at large salaries. II
promises to work an important rcyoiu&
ton.
Information has been received flo
Bandera county, Texas, showing that
800 out of one flock of 1000 sheep had
died and 200 out of flock Of 200 have
been killed by cold. The loss of sheep
through cold will average from fifteen
to twenty per cent At one firms rancho
they have lost 400 sheep out of q flock
Of 5000.
The Rome, Ga, cotton factory has
just been finished. One month ago 40
were freely offered for stock, but none
could be had at those figures The stock
holders have already decided to double
the capacity of the factory during this
year. Parties are examining Cohen's
fine water power, within half mile of
Rome, with view of erecting cotton
actory there.
Macon, GA, Telegraph The general
neglect of orchards in Georgia is to be
regretted. Here and there over the
State an entclprising fruit man raises
peaches and pears for the Northern and
Eastern markets, but the home markets
arc sadly neglected. 1t was not so for
mcrly. We did not see a bushcl of first
class peaches last year, and not one Ro-
mantle apple-the best that grows, in
the opinion of the writer.
DR.. Tectcr, Of Chattanooga. war ar
rested for concealing over his drug store
n case of small pox Of woman named
Russell. He was taken to the ouaran
tine station, a ball and chain attached
to his leg and kept several days He
was then presented before the Magis-
tratc and fined &15 and cost, and again
quarantincd several days 1t turns out
that the woman died of measles, and
the doctor brings suit for $4,000.
Gainesville (Ga) American: The
Dade Coal and Iron Company have near.
ly finished their railroad from ROGERS
station TO the vast and valuable deposits
of iron ore III the mountains, eight or
ten miles to the northeast OF this place
This is no insignificant enterprise, and
its projectors know no such thing as
failure. No such effort to develop the
grand resources Of our county has ever
been made since that old hero, Mark A.
Cooper, started those great manufactur-
ing works at Etowah.
The success of Judah P. BENJAMIN in
England has been wonderful, but'he has
'-"0 eoN'S Nc ) oilb VIC IN l)cCldIlSlS Oh his
friends in this country who knew his
gifts as lawyer. Mr.. BENJAMIN is not
by birth an American. He was born in
Santo Domingo, but was brought to New
Orleans by his parents when four years
Old. His career in the Senate from 1852
to 1860 was especially brilliant, and
there was no greater constitutional law
yer and orator than he in Congress. In
the Confedercy he occupied a front posi-
ton as Attorney General and Secretary
or State. 1t has now been eighteen year
since he was ad nittcd to the bar in Ions
don, and in the third year of his resi-
dence there he became widely known as
Jurlst Reaching the rank of Queens
Couneslor he attained the highest hon
or in, the practicing legal profession,
LatteriV his Dractire viaI6oJ bio, eoOn