The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-06-07

Fifty>six thousand. cocoanuts will Le
planted at Key West. Fla. ...a
In one week, near Winuna, Miss,
Buffalo gnats killed over 100 horses and
mules.
lowdnes county, Miss, has over $1G>
600 in it's treasury and does not owe 8
cent,
The white Baptists of. South Carolina
have $40 churches and 58,782 commu-
nicants, and the colored baptists number
10000.
1t cost $40 to raise 3S4 bushels of
rice at point in South Carolina, which
sold for $340 in Charleston. Net pro,
eeds $270. - -.-.
Nearly one hundred thousand dollars
worth of buildings have'Eeen erected in
Morristown, Tenn, in, the last twelve
months .w es
The State of VIRGINIA expended more
than million dollars in 1882 for the
support of her common schools. OF
these 4,062are white schools, and | ,525
colored. ~ p
In is found at the South that land
planted in cotton, after vegetable
crop, produces bale to the ccrc, where
only one bale 10 three acres was the
rule.
Near Lake City, Fla, is a dead pine,
which is broken off at distance of sixty
feet from the ground, In the top of
this tall stump grows huckelberry
bush,
In 1860 thele were 54G,7 $50 sheep in
North Carolina. In 1870 the number
was 463, ,435. In 1880, by the aid of the
Legislature and the dogs, the number
had fallen to 461 ,63S.
The great need of New Orleans is
admitted to be a comprehensive and
harmonious system of drainage, The
city authorities have determined on the
appointment of commission TO look
into the matter.
New Orleans has discovered q nev;
thing to do with its oyster shells, which
1s to plant them for the production Of
more oysters 1t is now found that bed
ding them out i'll oyster waters stimu-
lates production.
short time ago Mr.. Thomas Peters,
of birmingham, Ala, sold 10000 acres
of mineral lands lying IN Fayette and
Walker counties, 20 the Kentucky and
Alabama Coal, Iron and Land Co., for
$99,600.
TIE Governor of Alabama has awar-
ed contracts for 400 convicts Of
this number 200 were let to the Prat,
Coal and Coke Company at the rate OF
$40 month for first class hands. $1.5C
for second and 81 fer third class
Adams cotton factory Of 5000 spin
dies, started last year at Montgomery.
Ala, was closed recently for want Of
satisfactory prices realized from yarns.
The property Will he sold by resolution
of the stockholders at an early day.
The shipping Of cattle from Yves,
Florida to Texas has not proved sue.
cessful. Maj. Hines, of Mariana, lost
one out of every six head shipped, and
that before the arrival of the shipment,
IN New Orleans. The cattle do not
seem hardy enough to stand any rough
usage.
According to the Atlanta Constitu-
qicn, Georgia will produce 5000 car
loads Of melons, or more than 7,5OO. .OC0
separate melons. The price of melons
ranged in Chicago from ewenty-eight to
twenty cents. Averaging the crop this
scar at twenty cents, and putting ,250
melons to the car, each car will be
worth $3.50. This will make the crop
worth 81, 1,500, 900 for this seas u.
The largest sale Of Georgia gold lands
ever made has just been consumated in
Ioudon. Negotiations between DIR.
Josiah Curtis, of Washington, d. G.,
the representative of the Nacoochee
Mining Company, and an English COM
Pany, have been pending for several
months past, and have resulted in the
purchase Of the latter. The purchase
includes nearly 5000 acres of the best
gold lands in the codnty, including
lands of J. X. Dean, J. II. Nichols and
others, besides the Nacoochee Mining
Company's canal, mill and lands.