The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1889-04-19
NEWSY GLEANINGS,
RUSSIA has 1873 vessels.
AN ice t7rust is the lateSt

AN ice trust is the latest.
FLORIDA has fresh pineapples
PROFOUND peace reigns in Samoa.
In America there are 500, 600 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
6118.
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 7O5O miles of pipe lines in
the world.
LOUISIANA Strawberries are in the New
York market.
Cincinnati is paving its streets with
Georgia granite.
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
2OOO million gallons.
THE Hessian fly is destroying the wheat
| crop in central Illinois.
GAS wells are being struck along the
| Rocky Mountains slope.
| FARMERS are paying high prices for eed
wheat in the Northwest
A BOOM is on in the City of Mexico and
prices of real estate are high.
ALL the election cases in Indiana have
| been quashed by Judge Woods.
IT costs two cents per car per mile to run
electric cars III Now York city.
In five years there has been coined in gold
s163 775, 900, silver $685. 952, 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.
l. FLORIDA has sent 9, 600 900 Young orange
trees to California since last September.
THE Indiana Legislature refuses to allow
natural gas to be piped 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 $1,OOo0O0 in her streets and
| sewers.
THE Spiritualists of Boston recently cele-
brated the forty first anniversary of modern
spiritualisnn.
NEARLY two hundred thousand barrels OF
apples are lying unsold in tho northern part
Of New York.
ALABAMA got the first Postmaster ap
pointed in the Southern States under the new
administration.
TRorTING 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 are ordering sup
plies from abroad
The Chinese are getting ready to build 65,
miles of railroad, ,5u locomotives, $50 coache
and $50 cars. All American make.
!. A MEAT syndicate, to be known as tn
American Meat Company, has been organ
lzed in Philadelphia with a capital of Sos,
O00,0
Mr.. KEELY, of motor fame, announces tina
he has found the missing link necessary +
make the yibratory resonator and ethera
generative eyaporator success.