The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-07-05
GENERAL NEWS.


are covered with timber.
a. Texas has bought all the grazing cat
tie OF Tennessee and Arkansas.
Darlington, South Carolina, has raised
$3.50, 1000 towards cotton factory.
The fruit business is threatening to ri
val the iron industry at Chattanooga.
Sales Of fertilizers in Alabama this year
arc much larger than those of last year.
Nearly million acres of land in Louis
, lana, have been sold recently to Kansas
speoulator.
The barrel, box, tub and bucket facto-
ry of Chattanooga will give employment
to 100 hands.
Selma, Ala, has sixty artesian wells,
end the water from no two Of them is
exactly alike.
The Southern wheat crop increased
from 37,000,O00 bushels in 1873 to g.
100000 bushels in 1880.
A bagging factory is to bo erected in
Selma, Ala, and it will be ready for the
. coming seasons business.
The grand jury at Austin, Texas, have
Indicted fifty members of the Legislature
Of that state for gambling
'Tis said the English sparows have
driven nearly all the mochng-hirds from
around Goldsboro, North Carolina.
Mr.. Charles Goodwright has 7OO. 900
acres of land, located at the head of Red
river, i'll Texas. He has herd of 40
600 cattle.
New Orleans commerce for tho first
i>o months of this year exceeds last
Ycnrs' by over $11 900, ,0O0-an increase
e nearly third.
\ vein of silver ore three feet and q
nalf wide has been found on the property
of Mr. POwhattan Williams, of FLOYD
county, Virginia.
New Orleans is now the second grain
exporting port of the United States
During The past five months AGO, ,OOG tons
have been shipped.
Bay-colOred wild goats are said to be
plentiful in Grant parish La The Col
fax Chronicle says the meat of the ami
mails is extra fine.
Most of the tobacco stems from the
North Carolina tobacco factories arc ship
ped to Germany to be manufactured into
snuff for the German peasants.
Six hundred hands are Mt work Oh the
Florida Southern railroad, and three YES
sells are en- route for Pensacola with iron,
cars and engines for the road.
A farm of 400 acres, little more than
four miles from Winchester, Ky, sold
recently ut $11O per acre, and another
farm of 225 acres sold for 1892.
The value of the orchard crops of Flor
lda twelve years ago were estimated Mt
about $4,000. To-day million and a
half dollars would hardly buy them.
The cattle drive Of Texas this year will
be ninety-tive herds, averaging $500
head each. The entire herd is estimated
Mt $4,000 head, against $4,000 head
last year.
In the Gulf Hammock, Levy county,
Fla, are two live cypress trecs, some 80
feet high that have cabbage palmettos
growing out of holes in tl,eir sides, forty
to fifty feet above the gro und.
Col. j. B. Killebrcw of Nashville, has
been visiting the Ne tican mines of Polk,
the lcfaulting state treasurer of Tcnnes-
see, and reports that they are good for
$l5O,00O year, if properly worked"
During the early part of this month
the largest mule in the world was sold at
Kansas City. 1t was 18, hands high,
weighed 1875 pounds measured IS feet
from nose to tail, and was six years old.
At Pensacola, Fla, there are ut present
i'll qunrantecn twenty-thrcc vessels hail
ing from infected ports and ports cmbra-
ccd i'll .ho proclamation Of the Board of
Pcalth as subject to quarantcen rcstric-
tons
A company has been organized in New
Orleans to build a railway to the jetties.
The charter authorizes the company to
construct warehouses, harbors piers,
wharvcs, etc, at the junction of the rail
way with the sea or river.
At the South Tradegar Iron-works of
Chattanooga adifliculty occurred between
two employees, Lafayette Browdcr and
William Thomas. Browder who is n
powerful man, raised Thomas like child
and laid him Oh his back on red-hot
SLAB of iron, holding him there until
nearly burned to death
The pope will hold a consistory ut the
end of June, to fill up the eight vacant
posts of cardinal i'll the Sacred college
The total number of these dignitaries
should be seventy, as fixed by bull o.
Sixtus Y i'll 1866, in memory of the sew
enty elders who governed the people O.
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