The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1889-07-26
,Naws from .North Paeolet.

News from North Pseolet.
ETA JAMS, July %. The weather for the |
past week has been very hot and dry. Our |
farrners are getting through with their work. I
Many bf them will hardly find their cotton
at picking time, for the grass, and with some |
the cosn tops win scarcely be above the
.wceds<at fodder pulling time. That's the
wsy some people farm, though.
lSCi In speaking of the Thomson Mill some
tine ago we were made to say 40 to 42pounds
of ssheadr Hour 10 tho bushel, when it should
lshaye been good -FOUR
Rev. +. G. IIickson preached at Abingdon
Crock last Sabbath from the text "ThcS fool,
| this night thy soul shall be required Of
Ethcc, Luke II
| They have n ilourishing Sunday School at
Abingdon Creek. The right kind of people
have hold of it.. There is vim and energy
in their leaders. If all our schools had such
/ a corps of workers we would have fewer Of
Bro. Gilbcrt's Holsters TO be swimming back
ward all the time, instead of forward.
/ It's no wonder Bro. Stokes loves to brag on
| the Union School Girls, of whom Miss Matte
! NlcCulloch and Misses Inez and Annie Sar-
ratt are specimens He is not yet too old to
love beauty and appreciate intelligence
by n long sight.
/ We had the awfulest row in our family
last Sunday that has taken place in our abb
sencc in long time, if ever before: Mrs. Vox
found "Pilot' snake gliding around in
her closet. She raised the YELL and the
faithful old Aunt Tidy Lipscomb came to the
rescue. The closet was cleared of its con-
tents leaving his snakcship "quiled' up in
one corner and in undisputed possession of
the premises. Aunt Tidy gave it q bath of
boiling water. Its experience was some
what similar TO that of its renowned ances-
tor, and il shot through hole in the floor,
followed by a sizzing stream of boiling water,
while with its candal appendagS It waysd Ta,,s q
came across il in the cotton patch and fin-
ished up the work so cleverly begun by Mrs.
n Yox and Aunt Tidy.
This circumstance will furnish us an ex-
cuse TO keep a little snake bite medicine on
hand.
& Now that the TIMES has been reduced in
price and opened its columns to the Farmers
Alliance, there is no excuse why il should
not be welcome visitor in every household
in the county This new department will
succeed with such man as N G. Littlejohn,
Esq, Mt its head. Vox.
A CLoUp-BuIsr IN WEST VIRaIXIA.-Pits-
burg, Pa, July 19--The greatest disaster
which ever befell the Little Kanawha Valley
camo last night in the shape Of a terrible
cloud-burst, which has completely flooded
the county, destroying many lives, carrying
off thousands of dollars in property and
running crops for many miles. The deluqe
fell hero about dusk and continued to fall
in torrents, doing much damage in the city.
The worst Of the storm struck the lower
side of the Kanawha filing tho small tribu-
tares from bank to bank and ending in the
worst Hood within the recollection Of the
oldest inhabitants. In three hours the Kan
awha was raised six feet and ran out
with such velocity that il carried every
thing before it. AT this point thousands of
logs and u number of boats went out or
were sunk.
At Ches:orvillc. n small town about ten
miles above, half the residences were car
ried off bodily aud left in he corn fields.
1 he worst story fall Genes from Morris
town. a small village near the head of Tuck.
, er Creek, where the cloud-burst concen tra-
ted in all its fury, coming down in the vii
,lage about midnight, totally destroying it,
together with many ofits people. The first
y report gave the loss at eleven, but later
, news seems to fix the loss at greater mum.
Der. The houses Of the citizens are said Ia
| have been picked up and hurled against
' each other ia such q short space Of time
. that no chance to escape was given 10 thu
d people.
voSiisi I'm Ill fiiS csfjTsio I
Q River at this poiut is thirty feet high and
1 rising. The low lands nrs oil inundatec
and crops are entirely destroyed. The dam.
> age to the cotton orop alone in this county
is estimated q. half million doiiars
People arc moving to the high land
Q expecting to be washed olt every hour
n | IL has been raining here for three week
!, One foot of rise more will cut off railroad
= Communication.
Reports coninuc t. come from tho sur
/ rounding country regarding the high water
Lives are known to have been lost Infor-
4 nation comes OF the drowning Of l. boy at
Lcaky. Two men attempted TO cross til,
u Dry Frio AMI were drowned on Saturday
e Both of the Frios ars higher than ever be
fore and the destruction of property il
II great.
SUICIDE OF YoUNd WIFE. .-Ashe ville
July 1S.-A sal suicide occurred her,
yesterday. The body of Mrs. Fulmer, th,
. wife Of Engineer Fulmer. on the Duoktowt
branch of the Western North Carolina Rail.
read, was found in pond in the suburbs
OF the city aud near the Fuimer residence.
$ The deceased, young wife. conceived the
idea that her husband did not show the
= same attachment TO her that he formerly
did, and leaving her room about midngh
she threw herself into the pond. Tho coro
5 ner jury returned verdict Of suicide un