The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-03-29

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The amount Of naval stores produced
i'm North Carolina Is more thaa double
tho yield of all the other States com
bined. ..s2
There is about the usual average O.
wheat sown In Tennessee, and farmer'
are expecting good crops
"A raft of 400 walnut logs for New
Orleans, to be shipped to Boston, il
ready to leave Eittle Rock.
A. M. Scott of Hill county, Texas
raised last season 68OEbushels of sweet
potatoes on one acre of ground.
Bftds'eye maple, which sells for $3.50
per 1000 feet in England, is used for
fire wood in North Carolina.
Eighteen Mormon elders are in Chat
tanooga, on their way to different points
South, where they 20 proselyting.
"A New York firm will shortly estab.
iish regular lumber trade with Mobile,
and will at first send out vessel once a
month.
The Railroad bill row pending in the
North Carolina LIE sislature provides for
three Railroad Commissioners at salary
OF So 0J0 a year each.
Over $50, 900 worth of whale oil has
been shipped from Brunswick, Ga, this
year, and it promises to become an i'm
portant and aourishing business in that
locality.
Within the next twelve months be-
tween 100 and 160 acres of grape vines
will be set out in the ncighborhood of
Gerdonsville, Va.
Forest fres extending eighty miles
above Chattanooga, along the Cincin-
matt Southern road, are causing great
y Jstruction of timber.
The Hot Springs property, in Bath
county, Va, containing 1876 acres of
land, hotels, cottages, baths and nume-
rous buildings, have been sold for 500,
600.
A State Military. Academy will he
built at Savannah. Bonds to the
amount of 500, 900 will be issued at five
per cent interest, to run thirty years
A committee has been appointed to cam
vas for subscriptions.
A block of marble was shipped few
days ago from the Hawkins, Tennessee,
quarries. 1t contained 1856 cubic feet,
weighed 1890 pounds and sold for over
$40O.
New Orleans C"mocrat: "What the
Atlanta cotton exposition did for the
South, and we are now realizing the fact
that it brought millions Of dollars here,
and that to it is due the investment Of
$l5,0O0,000 in southern cotton mills
alone"
At Griffin, Ga, some Cne threw a
lump Of poisoned dough in Abel A..
Wrights fiii pond, causing the death of
no less thai 500 fine Carp.
The Georgia Wine Company has 100
acres in vines now producing, and 80
\acres for future use. They expect to
make 10000 gallons this year. They
get four gallons to the bushel, and gen.
orally gather 100 to 25O bushels to the
acre.
DR.. Charles, the Forsythe county, Ga.
miner, WI tes an interesting letter to the
Clarion. He says the Franklin mine
makes from three to four pounds of
gold per week, and not running their
mills in full regular time. The expen-
ses are about 81 900 per month, which is
$4,000 per year, and in this way money
Is scattered over the country.
A curiosity is exciting the colored
people of Macon, Ga, says the Atlanta
Constitution. A negro boy, called "the
snake baby" fourteen years old, came
From an adjacent county. His body il
very diminutive, his arms and legs are
the size of buggy wheel spoke. He
lies prone on his stomach all the time
with his feet drawn back In the mid
die of his back white spots are seen.
His tongue licks out of his meuth-
hence the name; >"snake baby" He
can't talk intelligently.
The English colony, at Rugby, Tenn,
which has been in financial strait, for
some time, has just received loan OF
$l2o'OOO from wealthy Engllshman
Henry Kimber by name and a collector
by profession. The lender receives A.
security, first mortgage on the Rugby
tract of $4,000 acres and tho imnro Va
ments belonging to the board Mr.
Kimber soue OF tie original stockhold
ers in the enterprise.
The project OF establishing coaIins
station at Port Royal hangs fire. owine
to the fact th>t no part of the appro
priations voted last year for a stor,
house and dock could be used for tb,
purchase Of land for the site of the sta
ton. Parry's Island has been agree,
upon, and an amendment to the Svndrv
Civil Bill appropriates $4,000 fer tn,
purchase Of the land reuuired