The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-07-12

the vine.
The Mississippi Iunntic asylum has 457
inmates.
Or Virginia's 5,587 schools, over 800
are colored.
Hot SPRINGS, ARK, will DO lighted by
electric light.
Lrrrb Rock ARK, is soon to have an
slecf ic light.
ROME, GA, with her suburbs has a
population of 5000.
Corn, sugar, cotton and rico crops of
Louisiana arc all doing well.
TIE genuine army worm has maclo its
appearance in Hale county, Ala.
A BARBEN-sulor in Atlanta run by wo-
men is doing fourshing business.
One man i'll Louis county, Kv., has
gathered LOCO pounds of ginsing this
season.
NEARLY Il million acres of land in LOU
lslnna have been sold recently to a Kan
s's spcculutor.
TWENTY thousand pounds of zinc were
shipped one daT last week from Knox
vile to Connecticut.
IHE new bank OF Nashville, Tenn.
VIII start with capital Of half II million
dollars. Col. L. W. Cclc heads the list
with $10O,O0O
THERE are found to exist three chan
nels outside the jettics below New Or
leans, and buoys are needed to clearly
mark these channels.
TIE City Council of Alexandria, La.
has decided to exempt from taxation all
manufacturing for ton wears. Many
ether towns in the South have done thc
Same thing.
The Southern Telegraph Company arc
ln!shing their lines rapidly through the
South They will extend to New Orleans
end have, i'll all, 2,7O0 miles of wire in
two main lines, coast and inland.
TnE Richmond, Va, nail works find it
impossible 10 supply the demand from
the South. Six hundred kegs are rolled
cut i'll twcnty-four hours, or3, 600 a week,
and yet the demand il grcator.
AN alligator caught a little siN-year-old
Rlrl, daughter Of Mr. Strange. of Calhoun
county, Fla. 4 little ninr-ycar-uld sister
fcat the reptile of. He was afterwards
killed and measured eight feet.
AN Indiana land corporation has
bought over | 900 acres OF lana az Will
s"nville, i'll Obion county, Tenn. and
E''l invest several hundred thousand
dollars Ill that and other localities in the
State.
ALABAMA newspapers report that the
prlcc OF common labor in that state has
increased twenty-five cents per dav as
the rcs'It OF the recent growth in manu-
fnctures. the building of railroads and
the wonderful mineral dcyplopmrnts
a NEGRO was killed at O. l.. Clouds,
III McDutlcc, Ga, II few days ago bv a
broken spike rcbounding while feeding 4
thresher, the spike striking him in tbo
forehead and passing on through the top
of the skull. He died in few hours
afterwarl
Mr.. j. i. FLEMING, of Rome, Ga. has
received IL curiosity in the shape of n
bird, known rs the New Zealand Croakcr
Ihoy are said to excel cat or doc for
killing rats and mice. 1t has long cur
Ncd bill with which it cuts the throat of
its prey.
SINCE September last there has been
expended on the lcvees on the cast bank
Of the Mississippi, between Vicksburs
and Grcenvilc, over $500, 600, of which
amount the levcc district furnished $225.
GOO. The National Government furnish
Cd the most Of the money.
THE hogs in Jackson county, Gu., are
dying III large numbers from hvdlnpho-
bm, and bite everything that comes in
their way. Some farmers have had all
the swine on their places thus afflicted.
The hogs die III twenty-foW hours after
being attacked, unless killed.
NEW ORLEANS is now Il deeper harbor
than New York. The white Star nnI
(fuion line dare not load their vessels
above twenty-six feet, while the French
line steamships ut twcnty-forr feet. At
New Orleans vessels drawing twcntv-siX
feet Of water have no difficulty or dclny
i'll getting to sea-
AN experiment has been recently mudo
III securing wool at Fort Worth, Ten.
nnd the clean prOuuct forwarded TO Po;-
ton for Inspection. Thirty or forty mil
hon pounds will be exported from Tcxas
ths year in an unsecured condition. An
allowance OF fifty per cent for dirt anl
grease is said to obtain.
lT IL found best to ship from the South
only the pick Of n crop of any fruit. and
: evaporatc the rest, or such as permits Of
evaporation. The improved process of