The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-05-03
NEWS GLEANINGS.

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name OF saloon at Malvern, Ark.
A large mine of Plumbago has been
discovered on the farm Of James Stone,
in Stafford county, Va.
An artesiau we'll four hundred feet
deep, at Parnasus, Va has been finished
and affords excellent water.
The Arkansas Legislature has passed
a bill prohibiting the sale of liquor
within two miles of any church.
Arkansas has doubled her population
within the last ten years, and is ranked
as the fourth cotton State in the Union,
The Florida coast is to have three
new light housef-at Mosquito Inlet, at
Cape San Bias and one further down
the coast.
Over 10000 acres Of timber land will
be sold in Randolph county, Ark, this
month under the provisions of the over
due tax law.
A sweet potato put to boil on Il e
stove OF lady in Natchez, Miss exr
ploded with terrific force, nearly killinp
the lady.
Florida fruit growers intend cultiva-
ting the Grape en- an extensive scale.
They claim that they can be as success
fully grown as in California.
A gold vein has been struck at Gains
vile, Fla. by men digging an artesian
well. 1t is believed that it will assav
5000 to $1,000 per ton Of ore.
The grange cooperative store at Me-
ridian, Miss, which started business in
1879 with capital Of $50, sold last
month $5,8 $50 worth of goods.
A capitalist contemplates the cstab.
llshment of n larger bucket and broom
factory on the Island near the railroad
bridge at Chattanoochee, Fla.
1t is said that the Jacksonville Fla.
liquor dealers have raised fuSd of 50.
600 with which to pay lawyers to contest
the validity of the new liquor law.
After protracted suspension, it Is
said the Roam iron-works, at Chatt:noo
ga Will resume operations this week,
furnishing employment to many people.
Some valuable phosphate beds have
been discovered in Florida, which Will
before long be brought to public atten.
tion and fully developed by Georgia
capitalists.
The University of Georgia has at last
accepted the $4,000 given it on certain
conditions. The Trustees voted thir,
teen to one on the proposition, Bob
Ioombs voting in the negative.
The peach farm of Mr.. Parnell, broth
er of Charles S ewart PARCEL, the Iri N
agltator, six miles below West Point,
Ga, contains 700 acres, and has l25, 900
peach and number of other trees.
There is determined effort on the
part of some of the people of Florida to
divide the State into two parts, to be
known as North and South Florida. It
is said the interests Of the different parts
are not Identical.
A movement is on foot in Savannah
meeting with great encouragement to
b. organize a company to commence man
utacturing rice this season. 1t is le-
heVed that it will prove a profitable
business here as elsewhere.
An aged gentleman at Griffin, Ga.
has buried five wives, and by the side of
each wife is buried little child, the
offspring of the mother by which it rests.
Some women never learn any ything, even
with the aid of a diagram.
The dredge Alabama, which has been
at work in Tampa barbor, has cut a
hanEel nine feet deep, sevcnty-fv feet
wide aud 500 feet long, portion of
which was solid rock. The channel
must be extended 1000 feet further to
make nine foot channel to the town,
The application of the Savannah Mu
tpal Gas Light Company. new con,
cern, to lay their pipes through the
sheets, was denied by the Sanitary
boafd on the grounds that it is iniudi>
clous to tear up the streets this season
They will have to wait till cold weather.
There are fifteen out of eighty chill
dren in the State Blind Asylum at Ma
con, Ga, whose sight can be partially
or fully restored by an operation. Dr.
calhoun, OF Atlanta, generously offers
to operate on these children free Of
charge, and they will be sent to A tJonta
for that purpose.
A movement is on foot to bol od
grand reunion of the army of Northern
Virginia, on tho field of the second bat
tie Of Manassas, during the coming sum-
mer. All the survivors of that army
will be einvitcd, and it is proposed to ask
Gen Fitz. Lee to order the VIRGINIA
volunteer force to have their srmmer