The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-09-27
GENERAL NEWS.

THE Mississippi river has 6,571 mile
navigable to steamboats,, and 1922
miles nayigable to barges. ..
THE Texas pecan crop promises to b.
very heavy one. The burdoned tree'
are bending under ssthe weight Of hal
grown nuts IS ..s-.sa a.
A NATIONAL bank has just been or
ganized at Admission, Alabama, with G
capital of 100000, d. D. Parker was
elected president. ~%.'
IT is supposed that the building OF
fhe Lady Ensly Mining and ,.Manufac-
turing Company will be located at Rms
selville Ala.
The AppokaFla) canal is being made
twenty three !eet wide and seven feet
deep. 1t is thougSt it will have to be
further enlarged to seventy-five feet in
width
THE dried fruit trade of Statesville, N.
G., reaches annually into hundreds of
thousands Of pounds, and it was never
any previous year nything like as heavy
rs this.
MEMHp1s Avalanche: Southern far
mers will have more cash in the bank
this year than ever before, even if the
cotton crop be short, because they owe
less to tho ""ichant and have raised
more food this year thanIany previous
year.
Wilcox county, Aln., has baby-boy
now IA months old, who weighs G8
pounds. rho parents have been offered
$4,000 and cxpenres for the privilege of
of exhibiting the child fer tie Ecne6t of
the medical fraternity. They have re-
FIJI: cd.
TIE Eufaila (Aln.) mills are putting
in new of machinery for making
patent process flour. When completed
the mills will1'" &c capacity of40O bar
rels per day, and will be the best appoint
ed in the country,
The Water Valley, Miss, Central is
not satisfied with the pistol assessment.
1t says: "The assessors in this state can
only gather i'll their rolls n total of 227
pistols. We will venture the assertion
that about 10000 lies have been told the
assessors about this pistol question.
SPECIAL, ON Acworth Ga, SAYS:
Mr.. .. p. McRoberts has discovered
and is now opening n rich silver mire.
His show 80 far is the best thing we
we have ever seen in the line. He has
get his shalt open and molten shows it.
self i'll pure state rs it does near the
surface. Acworth will have a genuine
boom,
THE two cotton mills in Matches have
expended in that city in the past twelve
months over $500, 600 for wages and ma
terial. They have consumed nearly
10000 bales of cotton ond turnen out g.
G5O,O00 ynr Is of cotton goods and cloth.
During the year Matches received &C, 200
bales of cotton, 1866 more than any
previous year.
The trustccs Of colorcd church at
Winston, n. c., mortgaged the clific .
recently to secure $1,000 with which to
have an excursion to Columbia. Half
the amount required was deposited Mt
Winston to the credit of the Richmond
and Dnnville Railroad. A special train
WAS sent to Winston to draw the money
nrd take the congregation, but it steam
back to Richmond when it was learned
that the trustees could raise no more
cash.
AT recent cid mems gathering at
Lcwisburg, Tenn, 164 members were
present, the oldest being 104 years old
There were Id between the ages of six
ty and seventy; 12 between seventy and
eighty; 5 between eighty and ninety; 2
between ninety and one hundred: over
1CO one Or this number 1O2 were born
in Tennessee, forty in North Carolina,
eight in Virginia, five in South Carolina,
three in kentucky, one in Maryland, one
1CGnaIy, q e i'll He)Grd AID three in
Georgia.
KYcAvII1E Til rre: Yesterday Mr.
Scuthy Nelson n youth of 113 years Of
ngc camo to Knoxville "to have his pic
tule took" Mr.. Nelson lives about five
miles. from the city, though he seldom
comes to town. He was accompanied
by his vile, n grandson, and q great
grandson. The latter is just 100
years younger than his great grand
father.
AT Edward, Miss, two negroes nam
cd James King and George Gaddis were
ar osted enlarged with having robbed
the grave of Mrs. Hattie Howell. They
confessed their guilt, informing tho Off.
Ger that they stole the body for the pur.
pos of securing the bones of one arm,
which they used in carrying on thei,
profession as conjurers,. One was huno
and the other shot in his attempt to es
cape.