The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1889-08-30

SOUTHERN ITEMS.
INTERESTING NEWS COMPLIED
FROM MANY SOURCES


town, Monongalia county, w. Va.
A site has been selected at Buena Vista,
Rock bridge county, Va, ON which to erecte
2O1ton iron furnace.
Samuel Rosser. a colored man, died In
Campbell county, Va, at the age Of one hun
dred and fifteen years.
burglars went through the safe OF the
Kanawha Paper Mills at Charlestown. w.
Va, and secured $40.
-Lishtning struck a flock Of sheep be-
longing to Columbus Hardman, In Roane
county, w. Va, and killed four OF the finest.
Reports from the growing crop OF to-
| bacco la Danvills, Va, are most encouraging,
and there is now every promise OF Hue bright
! tobacco. .,.,.
-Efforls are being made for the erection
I OF e75, 600 hotel In WINSTON. N. c., and q
! consideraoies sum mas already bean plsdgsd.
! to the scheme.
| AT general meeting Of the stockholders
OF the Bank Of Ronceverte, w. Va, -esolu-
! tions were passed authorizing its conversion
| into a national bank.
w. r. Dennis, a prominent citizen Of
Campbell, Va, lost his .ife while attempting
to swim from his mill which had been flooded
by the high water.
A great revival OF religion has leon In
progress for several weeks past, at Lumber
| ton, N. c., and, so far, over one hundred
persons have been converted.
-ATUCieS Oh incorporation LOT Gn9 ACm9
Wood Fibre company, with a stock OF $780,
UO0 in 500 shares, have been nIed In tho
superior court OF Dare county, II. c,
The State Farmers Alliance of A ALBANIA
has consolidated with the Farmers Wheel.
Both orders have united against the jute
| bagging trust and will fight It to death.
B. +. Annentrout, a bricklayer, VS.
caught tetween the bumpers Of II eight cars
at Luray, Va, and SO badly crushed that
death was almost instantaueous..zs--'--'
Que Of tn, boilers in ths \
Floreutine Hotel at Huntingtoi %. va. ex-
sons, one fatally, and doing other damage
A company of Northern men, with $780,
OOO capital, has begun work on the finders
Flat sulphur mines in Louisa county, Va. A
large force of hands will soon DO employed.
The passenger traffic on the Norfolk and
Western Railroad IL larger than has ever
been known before Eight trains a day are
all SO crowded that IL is difficult to obtain a
seat.
"A big summer hotel will be built at Three
Forks, Upsbur county, w. Va, and will be
In operation next season. 1t will be connected
with Buckhannon by narrow gauge rail-
road, twenty five miles long.
Work on the Norfolk g. Carolina rail-
road, from Tarboro to Norfolk, is progressing
as rapidly as the high waters will permit.
1t il expected that the road will be open for
traffic late in the coming fall.
The Baltimore and Ohio Company have
concluded to do away with their present
electric light machinery at Grafton, w. Va,
and put in a larger and more powerful plant.
capable OF lighting the entire town.
Point Pleasant, w. Va, bas been asked
to purchase an interest in the electric light
plant at that place to help pull it out OF n
hole. The town is liable to go without light
unless this is done.
- Will Harper, n ten-year-old son of w. H.
Vyla nd "
while examining pistol was accidentally
shot, the bullet passing throu h his body ct
the left OF the navel.
The colored Are ffend, Ciffee, who de-
Stroyed the residence and the lives of Rev.
+. G. Clarke and four of his family. has been
Princess Anne, Va, and sent on to the Sep.
tember term for trial.
"A barn filed with forage and farming
ute, siIs. belonging TO Mr.. Joe Pitman, near
Salem Church, Princess Anne county. Va,
was fired by an incendiary and totally de-
stroyed. No Insurance..
A dead whale, sixty feet in length, came
ashore near Kitty Hawk, Va. The monster
was cut up by the people Of the peighborbood,
and a large quantity Of oil extracted from
the carcass. The bone saved was also valu.
able.
Two negroes were killed by lightning at
Blackstone, Va, while sheltering themselves
under q COW shed. The shed was struck IN
five different places, but no marks were found
on the victims.
Charles Camden, died at Lexington, Va,
of a cancer, which In one year literally ate
away the lower portions of bis body, start
Ing In the legs. The case resisted the treat.
ment of the most eminent surgeons.
The recent thunder storms have been
wonderfully fatal in feet In North Carolina.
At Cata wba station, Miss Ada Reed and Mr..
Jam.s Froilinger, were killed, and at Lentz,
Mr.. Rainey had two horses killed and his
barn, wagon and farming implements burned.
David Bellew and wife, charged with the
murder OF their tive-year-od child. at Ashe-
vile, N c., eight years ago, and the secre
ton OF it's remains-which have just been
d scovered-under the hearth in his sitting
room, have been delivered to the autl critics
of this tate by the Tennessee officials-
Fire destroyed c. l.. Barkers livery
stables nd some adjoining property at Romes
Ga. The stallion Captain Sam Morgan, per-
shed in the flames lie was valued at S5,OOO.
Total las, $4,000.
The olice OF Greensboro, N. c., arrested
negro man who confessed that he had been
stealing from the Richmond g. Danville Rail-
road company Tor the past three years
About $50 pounds Of brass and other articles
were found in his possession.
The number OF cotton mills now I'm the
South as comDared with 1880 has been dou-
bled, while the spndes and looms has more
than trebled, the tendency being to build
mills OF greater capacity than formerly
At leust thirty Ave oil wells are dowD,or
are drilling, in the Monongahela county field,
on the West Virginia side OF the state line,
and some of the wells are big producers, one
going $50 barrels per duy. Many other holes
will shortly be drilled. About $50 men are
employed i'm drilling.
ALEX. McCutcheon, who lived near
Au,ted, Favette county, w. Va, while en-
gagged in sliding logs down a mountain side,
was caught between two logs and so badly
crushed that he died in less than On hour
after the accident.
Miss Mary Reed, residing on Spring
creek, in Writ county, w. Va, was bitten on
the ankle by poisonous snake, supposed TO
be a copperhead. The limb Immediately COM
menced to swell, and before medical aid
could be summoned the young woman died.
Two years ago a vsice was stolen from
n b. & o. passenger car at Grafton, w. Va,
while its owner, Joseph Kellar. was eatipg
his supper. The railroad detectives have pu.
sued the matter ever since, and succeeded In
recovering the valise and arresting five men
for the theft
Alfred Vaughn, eight years old, living in
Greenbrier county w Va went with his