The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1886-04-23


weighs go pounds, was carried 400 fee
through the air and fatally injured. A dea,
baby was found in the street No owner for j
can be found.
At st. Cloud, i'll the track of the cyclone
stood the Manitoba freight house and cars file,
with freight. The heavy cars were lifted frou
the tracks and cast on the prairies q shapees
mass. Iron rails were torn from the sleeper
and twisted like wires. Telegraph poles were
torn up and wires twisted into curious masses
The freight house was totally wrecked. Tn,
roof was lifted and blown several hundred feet
and over $4,000 worth of freight was scattered
piece meal over an area of a quarter of a mile
Fifteen freight cars were demolished. Uper-
ators in the Telegraph office and employees at
the freight dcpots SAW the cyclone coming and
fled into the cellar and they escaped.
Cor His WIFE AMONG TIE ToMBs.-
Goldsmith Long, of the lower section of
Grccnvile, has been attentive for some
time to Miss Roxic Cox. daughter of
| Manning Cox. Miss Cox is young lady
whose many attractions of her person and
mind have given her the opportunity to
pick aud choose among the eligible young
men of the ncighborhood, and she selected
MIR. Long as the object OF her affections,
acting much more sensible than mnch
coured young ladies generally do, iuas-
much rs he has everything to recommend
him. Mr.. Cox, however, objected to his
daughter marrying any OF her suitors
and resolutcly Withheld his CONSENT On
Sunday Miss Cox attended church and
awaited her lover in the graveyard lie
called for her promptly in that somewhat
dolctul but decidedly romantic trysting
place, and they drove together to the resi-
dcncc Of j. III. Atkinson where the Rev
MIR. West soou made them Que in the pres
cncc Of Il few friends Thou they went
home
The beauty Of it was that another lover
Of the bride had requested her to meet
him that same day for an clopement. As
she could not very well run off with two
men from the same grave yard the same
day she wrote him to call next Sunday.
1t was one of the happcst aul funniest
weddings on record, with just enough ro-
nance to spice it. AS the rejected, like
the accepted one, has many things in his
favor, it is generally believed he will not
tarry long in the valley Of sorrow. but
vii! quickly arise and induce one of tho
many pretty girls of the neiyhborhooi to
join him in utilizing the Preparations he
had made for domestic happiness and in
getting up q wedding at which Mr.. and
Mrs. Long will be asked to dance Grrcm-
rWe Nuw&
y MURDERED MANS FORESIGHT. A.
p. lIcnly, the clerk Of the ordinary at
Athens, Ga, shows the copy of an old will
on file in the ordiuary's Office that probably
has not its Ike in the country. Peter
Perry thought that one Wells would as
sassinate him and, with this idea in his
head, he made his will. In it he eft his
property to certain number of his friends
whose names are mentioned to be used in
prosecuting Wells to the utmost extent Of
the law, provided he killed Perry. y few
days after the will was made Perry was
found dead in hi, garden, shot through the
heart. When bis will was read suspicion
was aroused against Wells, aud on Il search
being made, the wadding from the gun that
| did The killing Was found. and it proved TO