The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-06-14


Alabama. by 17,247.
AlbemsrIe u county, Va, produce
about 100, 900 gallons of wine each year
Some samples ofS5ores from thejschop
lands of Puridio county, Texas, assa.
over 81 400 Of silver to the ton.
The Columbia, S. c., stocking mill i
in operation in the penitentiary, and
now turning out $500, pairs of finished
stockings day. ..-s,,
Eight thousand geedar lsawslogs wei,
seized at Newport, Arkansas, by Unitet
States officials, on a, charge that they
had been cut from Government land.
Cotton caterpillars have made:thei
appearance on the farm ofssMr.,G. NJ
Bacon, near Athens, i! Ga, month ear
lier than ever before known in thai
locality. p .,vElssg,g ,gg s2,,
Dick, Dedwiley, :.of Quitman, Ga,
while hunting q n the creek a few days
since, found d stbee tree, sndupon cut,
ting openth same found that it con
tained ten3teecofsolid heney.
A factory s abeut being started at
Key West fer the manufactlire of glu-
core out of c.mpti aId cassava starch,
which is raid to be better aud cheaper
than corn for that purpose. -.-..
Within eighU'en months $50 miles of
railroad have been under, construction
in Mississippi. over $2O,0Oo,C0O teine
invested. During the fifteen ycars pre-
vious only sseventy-nine miles of road
were built.
A gentleman ofKTalahassee, Fla, put
up fruit evaporator last week, to util-
ize the blackberry crop and fruits of all
kinds The capacity Of the machine is
twenty-five bushels every twelve hourp,
or fifty bushels per day.
Owing to the wet season and cold
weather large rart of the peanut;
llaDted in Virginia have rotted, and
The farmers are forced to re-plant or tc
abandon the CROP. The outlook is said
W De very un1aV0raDle.
In a farm house rear Boone, Iowa
lives Mother Spence, agel e6. In the
'ame house lives her daughter, aged S4
her granddaul lhter, aged 40, her grea,
granddaughter, aged 81, and her great
great granddaughter, aged 2.
marietta, Ga, with her population
2,6rO. has sixty old maids, twelve old
bachelors, fevtnty-two widows, twelve
widowers, Direty.three marriageablt
young ladies, forty-fve marriageable
young men and only one dude" The
above is vouched for as being authentic
The citizens of Charleston, s. c., arc
TO erect monument to John G.. Cal
houn, in that city. 1t will be surmoun
ted by statue, on which Roman
sculptor is engaged. The statue is fif
teen feet in Eeight and will be cast ir
bronze.
Vicksburg Post: The grit or sand
which is taken from the Artesian wei
now in course of construction at the
FloweIree Ice works, at a depth of 16(
feet. is composed chiefly of minut,
eheils, and corresponds exactly witt
"bottom' such as is found in the ocean
hundreds of miles from land.
At Gonzales, Texas, colored woman
named Easter Gilmore went to church
after locking up her children in house
About ten o'clock the neighbors hearc
them screaming, and on reaching thu
house saw colorcd girl 12 years old il
flames. The door was broken down, bu
the girl was already burned to a crisp
and died in few hours. She had beer
holding small tin lamp in her lap anc
had gone to sleep.
Richmond Dispatch: A German wo
man immigrant is teaching the farmers
in the neighborhocd of Norfolk some
thing about shecp-shearing. The Vir
ginian says: The modus operandi wa
simple but very effective, and a grea
improvement on the old Virginia meth
cd, which requires two negroes to catcl
the sheep, two to hold it and one tt
shear. After catching the sheep enc
tying its hind foet together, the womna
sat down on the ground with her leg
stretched out in front and bound tn,
anjm' l's hind feet to Ter light Ico
then taking the sleeps head under he
left arm she rapidly and skillfully piec
the shears with her right hand. Th
work was beautifully done, the neec
being removed very evenly and the ski
free from all cuts. When necessary th
sheep WIS shifted from side to side.
The price Of public lands in Mexic,
ranges from four cents to ninety cent
an acre. After December 81, 1854, th
rates are to be raised. The land is solc
by the sitio, which comprises 4 At
acres. Thus sitio in Coahuila W.
cost $238.85, or five cents an acre; i
New Leon the cost of a sitio is 313, &C
or seven cents an acre; in the State @
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