The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1889-04-19
NEWSY GLEANINGS,
RUSSIA has 13S vessels.
AN ice trust is the latest.

RUSSIA has 13S vessels.
AN ice trust is the latest
FLORIDA has fresh pincapples
PROFOUND peace reigns in Samoa.
In America there are 500, 900 Jews.
LOUISVILLE is to have natural gas.
FROGS legs cost fifty cents pound.
BOSTON eats fifty tons of candy a day.
CHICAGO receipts of hogs are increasing.
THE United States has ninety-eight vessels
EUROPEAN crop prospects continue favor.
able.
THE number of priests in this country is
611s.
MURDERS are decidedly on the increase in
Paris.
In Germany there are one million surplus
women.
A FOREIGN steel rail syndicate is being
formed.
A STRONG current of emigration to Chile
is noted.
In all there are 1850 miles of pipe lines in
the world.
LOUISIANA Strawberries are in the New
York market.
Cincinnati is paving its streets with
THE zouave uniform is to be abandoned in
the French army.
THE brewery combination in this country
has not succeeded.
MAUD S., queen of the trotting turf, is now
fifteen years of age.
THE annual production Of mineral oil is
1000 million gallons.
| THE Hessian fly is destroying the wheat
| crop in central Illinois.
GAS wells are being struck along tho
| Rocky Mountains slope
| FARMERS are paying high prices for S eed
| wheat in the Northwest.
A BOOM is on in the City of Mexico and
prices OF real estate arc high.
ALL tho election cases in Indiana have
been quashed by Judge Woods.
IT costs two cents per car per mile to run
electric cars i'll New York city.
IN five years there has been coined in gold
S163, 775, 900, silver S2G3, ,052, 900.
ONE THOUSAND locomotives and steamers
are now operated by petroleum.
ENGLISH and German bankers are gobbling
up gold territory in South Africa.
No Russian liable to military service is
permitted to leave that country now.
FLORIDA has sent 1000, 900 young orange
trees to California since last September.
THE Indiana Legislature refuses to allow
natural gas to bc pipcd out of the state
AN Australian experiment Of shipping
oranges to London proved very successful.
THERE will be about ninety vacancies this
year at the United States Naval Academy.
| DURING the last seven years Atlanta, Ga,
has put nearly $l,00O,O00 i'll her streets and
| sewers.
THE Spiritualists of Boston recently celc.
bratcd the forty-frst anniversary of modern
spiritualism.
NEARLY two hundred thousand barrels OF
apples arc lying unsold in tho northern part
of New York.
ALABAMA got the first Postmaster ap
pointed in the Southern States under the new
administration.
TRoTTING begins TO be recognized in Eng
land. A track for it is to be established jus
out of Liverpool.
A NEWSPAPER trust is being organized il
, England Newspaper men arc ordering sup
plies from abroad.
) THE Chinese are getting ready to build G5
miles of railroad, 81 locomotives, $50 coachc
, and $50 cars. All American make
A MEAT syndicate to bc known as tn
American Meat Company, has been organ
, lied in Philadelphia with capital of $25
000, 600.
Mr.. KEELY, of motor fame, announces tina
he has found the missing link necessary
make the vibratory rcSonator and ethert
generative cvaporator n success.