The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-05-31
NEWS GLEANINGs.


in operation and is erecting third on"'
Gov. Boynton's bride is worth $oo'-
600 in her own right. She is about Az
years O d.
The firft cotton factory in Wisconsin
was opened few days ago at Shepoy-
gan Falls.
Mr.. J. H. Henderson, of Covington
county, Ala, is sixty-three years of age
and since 1916 has killed 412 deer.
Gen. Fitzhugh Lea added about $3,-
900 to the funds of the Southern His
torical Society by his recent lecturing
tour through the South.
The Key West, Fla, sponge fleet,
numbering seventy vessels and six hum
dred men, is out on'a cruise. A large
catch of sponge brings about 100000
into that city.
1t is said that Vermont farmer
sends more than an average of 1000
pounds of butter to one hotel in Geor-
gla every week during the year.
Within eighteen months $50 miles Of
railroad have been under construction
in Mississippi, over 10000, 900 being
invested. During the fifteen years pre-
vions only 70 miles Of road were built.
J, II. VanSlyth, of Texas, is carrying
$4,000 sheep from Arizona 10 Graham
county, Tex. lie paid IS cents each, or
$4,000 for the whole lot.
Gen. E. r. Sturdivant, Of Orlando.
Fla , recently took $40 worth of honev
out Of one bee hive, and yet left honey
enough to keep the colony in good spir-
its and working dCndition.
In every tobacco factory at Key West
there ia "reader." Cubans cannot
talk without gesticulating, and in order
to keep them from talking a person is
employed to read aloud to the hands
during working hours.
A negro woman at Powder Springs,
Ga, stuck a kni'e through her hus-
bands heart, and then aroused the
village by her yells over his dead body.
The bloody knife was found concealed
in her tosom.
Smith Islaud, in Smith Lake, near
Ocala, Fla, containing eighty acres.
thirty>tivc of which are in an orange
grove, sold few days ago for $1,000
Five years ago it could have been
bought for 500.
The Sewannee coal seam, of Tennes-
see, covers an area of 5000 square miles
in which there Are 100000 acres,
which, at a low estimate, will yield an
average Of three thousand tons per acre,
or n sum total Of fifty: even billion
six hundred million tons.
Talbotton (Ga.) New Era: Capt. n.
7. Carreker presents j. w. y. Jones,
Talhots antiquarian, with couple OF
nc riied owls, perchcd on petrified
imbs. The feathers on the birds and
the leaves on the limbs lock perfectly
natural
"Ifteen years ago an cnterprising
Mobilian brought little Jersey COW to
that city, and was laughed at. To-day
the wealthiest m en- in Mobile own herds
of Jerseys, and it is estimated that
there are nearly 5000 registered ami
mails and numbcrless grades in Mobile
county, worth near $5O0,OOO.
Tavares (Fla,) fishermen have institr.
ted new and novel methud et catching
fish, which seems, however, to be very
successful. A fire is built on board
across a long row-boat, and the fish,
attracted by the bright light, leap to-
ward it, fall into the boat and are cal
tured.
Rice planting in S3uth Carolina and
Georgia is becoming precariouS, and,
except in the cases Of very rich men,
it is thought that the industry in the
two States will die out. Louisiana and
Florida will become tie rice States par
excellence. The coast planters of Geor-
gia and South Carolina will have 70
initiate Mr., Robert Gourdin-drain
theta fields and convert them into mead"
Ows,