The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-09-06
GENERAL NEWS.

'hh PopuiuIth OF ChaltenoC8 q is said
to be O,66S.l -. Z I In Az =
EIGHTY cents per hundred, is the price
offered for good lines in Jacksonville,
-, Florida.
FRTY-FIvB thousand dollars worth of
sponge were sold at Key West, Fla, las
Monday. -
EIGHT and three-quarter million dol
lors is tho valuation Of property in Flor
ida for 1883, an increase of four millions
Owen Iast year.
VICKsBURa, Miss, wells sunk about
260 feet reach the gulf level and an
abundance of excellent water, with fine
sand and sea shells is found
HE Charleston, IS: G., News and. Cou-
rier reports great injury to the cotton by
drouth and greater injury threatening
upland crop.
SOUTH CAROLINA, according to the cen.
BUS, is the mcst illiterato state, 48. per
cent of tho population being unable to
read, and 55.4 per cent IL able to write
FROM present Indications it is probable
that Galveston, Texas, will receive for
the season 1928 about 900, COO bales
OF cotton, leaving every port except New
Orleans in the race.
COMMITTEE is canvassing for sub
sonptlons to a steamship line between
Augusta and Savannah. 1t is thought
that it will be success. When the con-
templated improvements in the river ore
made steamers & can run all the year
TIE German colony located ut Pick
ensville, Ala, apprehend realizing moth
ing from their crop, on account of the
drouth, and have entered into negotia
Gons to furnish slaves to the Mobile
market from tho timber along the upper
Bigbeo.
IHE work in tho harbor Mt Vicksburg
will not be abandoned. It is confidently
believed that sufficient depth of water
can be kept in the west pass of the lake
TO allow tributary boats to land ut the
city landing during the lowest stage in
the river.
THE Board Of Directors of the Florida
Ship canal and Trnnsit Company adiour-
ned at New York yesterday, after four
days session. Work will probably COM
mence on the canal within the next
ninety days. It's estimated cost is $lG,-
100000.
WESTERN North Carolina is certainly
n great section for fruit. In Watauga
county is an apple tree fifty years old
which has Oh it about fifty bushels of
fine apples, and hs nine large branches,
which give rise to thirty-two branchIets,
is seven and half feet in diameter and
covers twenty-nino yards.
Two Of the best farms in Culpepper
county, Va, exchanged hands recently.
One of them, containing 300 acres, sit
uated on tho Rappanonnock river, was
purchased by Thomas B. Nalle for $50
600 cash; the other, containing 200
acres, near brandy Station, was sold at
$4,000 the County Treasurer, S.
Russell Smith.
A Two-THoUsAND dollar Jersey COW,
owned in Baltimore, Md, has recently
butter producing COW in the United
States, having in seven days test, given
327 pounds of milk, which made twenty
five pounds two ana half ounces of
butter, being ono pound of butter from
little less than thirteen pounds, or six
and half quarts of milk.
GEORGIA, Tennessee and other south
ern states comblain that dogs kill their
sheep. In England pet dogs are becom-
ing n serious drain upon The edible ne
cessities and Injuries of life. Many
pups are fed on toast and tea and eggs
and lamb chops. One gentleman daily
orders a beefsteak and two glasses of
wine for his dog. Some OF them take
brandy and soda, cheese and picked
oysters.
Mr.. Fl. j. GAoHET, Bullock county,
Ala, is engaged in making syrup from
melons, and has already made 800 gal
Ions. This sells for rs cents per gallon
An ordinary melon will make two gallons
OF juice, and it takes twelve gallons to
mako one Of syrup. Estimating the
yield per acre 1000 melons, which will
give 1000 gallons of juice, OF 1861 of
syrup, at rs cents per gallon, the pro-
ceeds will be 1925.
ALBANY (Fla.) Argus: An immense
town is now being built on the line Of
the st. J. & l.. T. railroad. 1t commen-
ces at Ravenswood, and continues all
along the line to Umatilla distance of
six miles, of which Altoona is the grand
center, geographically. Five saw-mille
make it hum for us, and if things con
tinue this way for another yenr line Of
street cars and street lamps will have tc
be inaugurated per necessity. Within
this six miles are the towns of Ravens
wood, Pittmann (now consolidated), Al
toona, Honeywell. Glendale and Una
tillo