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

Ga. Tho water comes tlmbling down
i'll cataract and furnishes the power
without a dollars artificial aid. 1t is
said that tho stream. without artificial
aid, will turn $lO0, 600, 900 worth of ma
chinery.
Tile Louisville and N: shvillc railroad
company offered to present their Alabama
exhibit now at the exposition in Louis
vile, t, tho city OF Birmingham, pro-
vided the board of trade will erect suit
able bui ding and L nkc permanent
display of tho exhibit, and tho proposi
ton has been accepted.
IT is unusual for southern planter to
make q bali million J., farming Mr. J..
ST. Hill. of Wiii.ls county Georgia, has
just died IIo made scvcn hundred
thous.n d. liars by farming. In the
same county, General Tcombs and his
brother Gabriel are each worth half
million, nearly all of which has boon
n,c i. r." w.
SANFORD (t'la.) Journal : The contract
for tEo ale of the crop on the old SDccr
grove, mile and q quarter from San
ford, has this week been signed up and
tho forfeit deposited. Tho grove embra-
ccs $50 trees, covering six acres, and the
estimated crop is 600, 600 oranges. Two
dollars and II quart per box, on the
trees, is the price paid ct 50 per box,
G00,Oc0 oranges will aggregate 1000
boxes. which, at 81 25 per box, will
yield So, 900 We lca,n that the expense
of the grove this year will not exceed
$500. Gen Joseph Finnegan, who has
grove near here and ono down the viver,
has sold the crop en- both groves mt So
per box, delivered at the rail ,0ad station
near his home place, and ut the warf at
his Iivcr place. ! he ostimatal yield of
both groves is l,4000 boxes, which at
S3per box, would amount to 81 200.
ThE first arrival of new granulated
sugar at New Orleans from the parish Of
Ascension is pronounced by competent
judges to be tho finest and ham3omcst
ever brought to that market, and the
equal in every respect, to the best pro-
duct OF the largest Eastern refinery. 1t
was in two lots. and one lost sold Mt nine
cents and the other at eight and seven
eighths.
TIE funds collected for the erection of
monument to General Lee, in Rich
mond, new amounts to about So. 900.
1t is suggested Tint the cornerstone
Sfould lie laid next October, and that
the ceremonial should be rendered mcm-
orable by reunion of the Army Of
Northern Virginia and bya ball at Which
tho men should wear the Confederate
Uniform and the women Dresses aDDro-
pirate to the sentiment of the occasion.
IlfE stock for the first ostrich farm in
the United States has been shipped to
Florida. 1t consists Of three pairs thr, G.
years-old ostri8cs. The destination of
the birds was Sylvan Lake, Orange coun-
", Fla the mode Of conveyance. tho
Mallory line steamer Western Tcx2s.-
The birds shipped weighed from $50 to
200 pounds, and stood about seven feet
high without any stockings. They arc
natives of Nubia, in Upper Africa. and
they were captu cd while very ycung by
the agents Of Messrs Charles Rrichc &;
Brother, of New York and II ,bokcn.
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strich farm.
CLAY SPRING, twelve miles from Or
lando and three miles from Apopka, Fla, =,
Is one OF the largest mineral springs in
the United States. The spring is situ-
ated at the foot of high bluff or hill.
Ihe pool where tho water comes up is
seVcnty-fve to ono HmnIred feet across,
IN tho center of which the water con-
stantly boils and bubbles. Enough wafer
comes out of the ground to form river
and steamboats, have run mp from St.
John and tied up directly over the opcn-
ing, where t8c water comes from the bow
els Of tho earth. Tho water is strong. v
impregnated with sulphur, and probably
with other minerals. The spot is y fo-
Vorltc resort for camping parties, who ~
Tnerc to batho i'll and drink thc wotors
The report Of the naval odv;soro
board as tc the number and class of VOC.
aelS which should bc commenced at once
in order t. carry forward The work of re
! constructing the Imarmorcd fleet, recon-
I merda ono vessel similar to the Chicago
oauthrHcd last winter and now under
construction, to cost 81 ,295, 600; one sim
liar to tho Boston and the Atlanta. ~,
! thorized last winter, to cost 1886, 900, onc
20 cost $i82,000; two costing $5lG, ,0O(
each; two light draught grmbonts to cos
$260,OO0 each. The total estimate io
the seven vessels, 81 283, 600. The boart
also recommends tho completion of tn,
monitors Puritan, Alnphitriic, Terror
ard Manadnock. at cost, respectively