The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1890-10-31

"Horse Shoeing," "The Present and Fu.
turc Progress of Humane Work in the
West" The session was very harmo-
nious.
Tuesday afternoon while Andy, son of
Wash White, was sitting in his wagon in
Ncedmore, near Whitesburg, Dan Reid,
Jr, surprised him and fatally shot him
in the breast. White ran around a store.
but received another shot in the thigh.
Reid is dangerous character who has
killed one or more men and manned
others, and has been dreaded for num-
Der OF years. He is tall, slender, pale
faced, keen-eyed man of about thirty
who always attacks his victims unexpect-
Eed1y.
The Chattanooga Board of Trade, 200
strong, accompanied by ladies, went to
Fort Payne, Ala, few days ago, as
guests of that city, where they were Civ
en- gala time. Several; trains were
placed at the Chambers disposal and
each member supplied with two tickets,
the party being in charge of Capt. r. L.
Gouldin, secretary of the Chamber.
WEB. Higher, of Franklin, Ky., stab
bed and instantly killed his wife at Leb-
anon, Tenn, Thursday. jealousy of the
intimacy between George Dittmore, a
wealthy farmer and Mrs. Higher, was the
cause.
GEORGIA.
The Georgia Sawmill Association held
its annual meeting in Macon, :. Tuesday,
October 28th.
In Houston superior court nearly 100
witnesses for the defense were summoned
in the case of the State VS.. Rev. Henry
Felder-arson. Fielder was charged with
burning crib in New Hope last summer
The case was continued to the next
term.
Bailif. Timmons had to pay a fine of
.sl2 sReSt sS4S, iA IEasly court for taking tho
warrant. ~ 80 &
A writer in the Houston Home Jour
nal has been trying to locate the mean
est man in Georgia.
The feature of the opening of the
Georgia State Fair at Macon was an .atls.
dress by Senator Joseph E. Brown, in
which he announced his retirement from
public life at the expiration of his pres.
ent term as Senator, March A, 1891.
The next legislature is typically Geor-
gian, presuming that there is really some
thing in name. In the senate, for ex-
ample, are found a Williams, two Smiths,
a Johnson, a Johnston, Brown, a Hill;
with not a name in the lot that can't be
found in every town of 1000 inhabitants
in the state. Then in the house another
johnson, two Davis's, three Smiths, two
Hills, one Jones, two Browns, two Jack
sons, and three Harris's; with the rest of
the list something in proportion.
The four~masted schooner, Howard
Smith, of Portsmouth, loaded with rail-
road iron for Brunswick, was wrecked
.ssssss Dokoyst The captain and crew were
taken from the rigging the next morning,
and taken to Daren by the tug boat
Crescent City.
oZHER STATES.
Mr.. f. b. Sackett of Heath, Fla, ar
rived in Titusville last week. Mr.. Sack
EFT says he has sold his crop of coffee for
this year, (Which will be about five pounds
from. one tree) to the agricultural depart
ment at Washington, for. S. a pound.
Oranges are beings forwarded at the
rate of about ten cars q week from Lis
bon, two stations from Eustis, Fla. They
are still green, but the owner is receiving
$50 per box on the trees, and the party
who is buying says he takes them to New
Orleans, colors them and makes money.
Most OF the oranges in Lake county have
been bought
The freight depot of the Mobils and
Birmingham railway at Mobile, Ala, was
totally destroyed by fire. Loss. $40, 900
on building. Fifty quarter kegs of pow
der exploded, blowing out the brick
walls, two carloads of jute bagging and
seventy mine rolls of white paper consign-
ed to the Register were destroyed, also
some sundry freight. The wind was
blowing quite gale from the south, and
the flames spread rapidly. The loss on
freight is $4,000.
A colored exposition was held at Eu-
faula, Ala, last week, whose exhibits are
the products of negro labor, and whose
management is composed entirely OF
members of that race. A. model of a
stockcar that has been invented by Bir-
mingham negro was given prominent
place. 1t was said that northern cor
| porFtion had offered the inventor $50, 600
j1f0xshis patent