The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-11-15
GENER Al NEWS.

MANY Mississippi planters 49,. eo
their own molasses this year.
OVER 5000. 0o0, 900 feet f lons-lea
oines arc now standing in North Caro-
m. e.
APALATCHIConA, Florida, is soon to
have an oyster canning house in opera
hon. s....
IN Selma, Alabama, forty-si1 leading
business houses, during the past year,
did business of $11 S14850.
-, A SINGLE pumpkin vine on the farm
Of DIR. w. NJ. Clark, six miles south of
Nashville, bore sixty-nine pumpkins.
THErice crop just harvested is report
cd to be the larges ever made in the
parish of Jofferson, Louisiana.
TIE orop OF hoaey for tho present
reason at New Smyra, Fla, amounted to
130 barrels. o..
EIaHrEEN THOUSAND and eighty-six
homesteads have been entered in Florida
during the year.
Ex-Gov. Brown, of Georgia is to get
$4,000 por year as President Of the
Florida ship canal.
A FRANKLIN county (Tenn.) farmer re-
allied the past season So, 900 from eighty
acres of strewborrics
By the Mississippi overflow of last
year, Louisiana claims to have been
damaged 20 the extent OF $GO,00O,O 900.
AN impecunious old lady of Augusta,
Ga, has subscribed SO to mission work
and expects to earn the money by wash
ing clothes. ...f'
New ORLEANS is preparing onerscti
cally fer the worlds fair. to be held in
that city from December, 1884, to the
end of May, 1886.
The last census of Alabama, shows
an aggregate gain of G,O2l white, 5,391
colared voters in the last dcoado that
cannot read OF write.
w. j. BARLOW, Of Live Oak, Fla is
102 years old. His father lived t, the
ago of l06, and his grandfather, it is
said, was 126 years old when he died.
THE whole mmGor of postoil;,cs in
the United States, at the end of June
list, was 47,SG3; increase during In,
year, 1852.
IT is said that thousand Mormon con.
verts will leave Chattanooga next month,
Tor Utah. They are from different points
of the south.
THE total cost Of transporting the
mails, by all methods, for the past year,
was $l9,234, ,8oJ, an increase, over the
preceding year of 1913, SIT.
The Chinese are swarming into San
Francisco and other points along t Pa.
coast, upon "traders' ccrUnruu:s'' issued
to them by the Chinese government.
CHAMBERS county, 4 A.. has n brae
club OF cotton pickers, which in one day
lately had eavy game, scoring ar
average of 800 pounds to cach picker
AGREEABLE to an ordicance passed in
Montgomery, Ain, the chief of police
has notified nowsdcalors that no htcra,
ture of an obscene character can be sold
in that c ty.
THREE years ago, q dozen hous~s and
asmali frame depot building constituted
Big Lick station, fifty miles southwest OF
Lynchburg, Va. To-day tho same place
has 5000 inhabitants.
FIVE hundred Catholic children at
Leredo, Texas, are about to he deprived
OF educational advantages because the
Catholic clergy vii: not allow them t.
attend the public schools.
THE schooner Alfred Wilson gathered
wo hundred and eighty bund cs Of
ponges, ct the mouth Of the Osello
lyer, Florida, last week. Her cargo
brought $4,000.
HENPY FEE,cKH, cf Pennsylvania, i
looking for tel farm in tho South. Lc.
Duo has said that tea will flourish in Al.
bama and Georgia, and the experiment
to be made at an ca;ly day.
The ship Silvertown, from london q
vessel Of 3.724 tons not. nnd 4gl3 tons
gross, whose length is 338 feet, beam s.
feet, and depth of hold BAL feet, has
safely passed the jetties and landed al
the docks ut New Orleans.
THE manufacture Of starch is about
to Doc me considerable industry in the
vicitity of Seneca Lake, Fla. a starch
factory is to by started there, and sevo
al parties are preparing for an extensive
cultivation of cassava.
NEXT month the people of New Yorl
vote for or against the proposition tt
abolish convict labor in the State nri
sons. Last year tho entire cost of main
tanning the State prisons was paid by th,
work Of the convicts. The amount vo
$415,66
THE New Orleans Picayrno sovs a.,