The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-08-09
GEN ERAT NEWS.

SNN ollo Ct)ltatllSt WlSIiSS 10 BtarG
rolling mill in Atlanta, Ga, and has been
in correspondence with Mr.. Nat. Haven,
of that city, in regard to the matter.
THE cotton worm is reported in u mum.
Der of places in Wilkinson county, Miss
and it is feared will do the crop much
damage.
THE inspectors ut New York siezed
10000 watcrmelons, shipped from Savan-
nah. The fruit was said to bo rotten
and unfit for use.
THE Coalburg Coal and Lake Compa-
ny, of Alabama, own $4,000 acres coal
lands. The company has already beg,m
operations, and is getting out 300 tons
of coal day, and will increase the out
put as fast as possible.
THE military telegraph lines have been
sold at Sam Antonio. Seven hundred
and thirty-five miles of line were sold
realizing q total amount of 81, ~, so.
The Erie Telephone Company was the
principal purchaser
A NUMBER of citizens of Oxford, Miss
have engaged in the business of buyino
and shipping cattle. The cattle are
shipped to Arkansas, Texas and Missou-
II. Tho business seems very profitable,
and Should encourage stock raising,
A GENTLEMAN living in Florida has
patented process for making sugar
and syrup from cussava, and, after ex-
perlmcnt. writes that he has no doub
That cassava cultivation will. in n few
years, be the most profitable employ
ment of the people of that State.
GREAT excitement prevails in Russel
Ark, over the discovery of gold mime
few miles west of that plnce, which as
says $lO.23 in silver and $11. O3 in gold
per ton. 1t is thought the ore extends
all along the divide between Red and
White rivers. Tt crops out at Salcdo.
Greenbrier and near Buck Horn.
H. W. HARRISON, of Mclrosc, is the
honey farmer Of Rockingham Co., Va,
This year from $50 hives he will seucre
" crop OF over 1000 pounds of honey, for
which ho will get about $lOO. This.
besides the increase of his bees, which
Will be fully eighty hives, thus adding
to his "working" capital.
AFTER shooting ut it eight or nine
times, Mr.. w. II. Richardson finally
killed with Me ninth shot, n few lovs
ago, " milk-whitc deer in the forests
near BlBbcc, Ala. The negroes think
'n't white deer nrc akin to witches. and
are probably delighted that one of them
mas neeh lad low. Two more of them
nave he"n seen recently in the forests of
washington county.
AKorr,D Gainesville, Fla. the ro;s;no
and shipping of the turbine souasb b,s
become an industry. 1t finds n ready
sale at Boston, and is used almost exclu-
slvely for making pies. In shape it re-
scmbles turbine Wheel whence it t,kcs
It's name 1t has the color OF pumpkin
and looks like n kelshaw, but is finer
ana has more delicate flavor The
vines bear heavily, and continue bearing
until about the first of August The
prices vary from $3.50 to SIS Der barrel
THE four wing dams at the Gunner
Flats OF the Savannah river have bcon
completed. The effect of these worl.
upon the channel is already pcrceptible
and 1t is the opinion of the engineers
that there will hc within short time n
depth OF twenty-five feet of water at this
point, an increase of six feet. The con.
strucuon OF the wing damhs ut tc,"Cub
hagc Trees" or Clover Flats, :" has been
commenced, and it is expected the work
will be finished IN two months.
CArrrALlAN 0a) Advocate: The in
ceSSant rains are working injury to the
growing crops, particularly cotton, which
Is shedding i'll some places and rustine
III others. 1t is feared the little cotton
the ram leaves will be finished bv the
catcrplllars, although this destructive
insect has not appeared in this vicinity
as yet. Cane is not LOOKING os woll 10
we would like to see it, the continued
rams beng anything but favorable TO
ITS growth, while the grass in some pla-
ces Is abort to take complete possession
OF the cane fields.
A LARGE mining enterprise of North
ern Alabama is the Lady Ensley Mining
and Manufacturing Company. It's in
corporators are chiefly Memphis gentle
men, and it is named in honor of q Mem
phis lady, who met n tragic death last
year on n Nashville street in a runaway
accident. These gentlemen with the
assistance of agents, have quietly been
buying lands along the projected
Birmingham and Northwestern railroad
until they are now in possession of 75,-
600 acres of the finest mineral lands in
North Alabama. Mining operations
have already commenced.
LAST week in the northern part of
Henry county, Tenn, while some bows