The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1890-07-18
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


Ala, propose to start bank there,
owned otliccrcd and patronizcd by
their own race, with q capital of $50
900. q,
The newly appointed woman
deputy factory inspectors for the
State of New York will receive sal
ary of $1,000 year and their OK
pCnScS.
DR.. Meredith, n Brooklyn preacher,
has established second reading
room FOR WOrklngmCn, where no re-
5triction is placed on smoking cigars
and pipes.
"A huge tower, eleven stories high,
is to be erected ut South Kingston,
Il. l., and dedicated to the advent of
modern spiritualism, by Joseph u.
Hazard, II wealthy spiritualist of
that place.
| George Eliot made S75, 900 by
her great novel "Middlcmarch." " That
is much moro than Gen. Lew Wal
lace has yet realized from his very
popular ben Hur" George Eliot
also made S35, 900 by her "Romalc.' y
| "A ot. .icJcrSDurS doctor il stUlI,o1
late ut night by II policeman, who
asks why he is out so late. ITO ut
tend Mr.. Popom, who was taken ILL.,"
Did he have permit to be taken
suddenly ill.," No" "Thcn you
will have to go to prison. Detroit
Free Press
DR.. w. Gilmore Thompson, of
New York, has made several success
ful experiments in tranSplanting brain
tissue from the head of one dog to
that of another, and from cats to
dog = heads. He is now considering
the practicability of transplanting
human brains in the samo way.
Augusta is having warm fight
| over the confirmation of Postmaster
DcnninS. He is opposed on several
| grounds, including physical disability
| and II charge that he once ''rniScd'
AMI approved bill against the city
and collected on it several hundred
| drollars more than was due him.
In the Louisiana parishes SO far
heard from tn" cvnSdS shows the
whit" increase of population to have
! been greater since 1850 than the
culor"d increase, and to such an OK
tent that ii the parishes yet to be
heard from turn out rs expected Lou
isiana will be white" by 1861 ma
lUrlty.
During the fiscal year Just closed,
the pension Office issued l5l ,G51 Ger
tiiicatcS. The number issued during
| the preceding year was 1I5.292. OF
| the number issued during the past
year, GG,G37 were original pensions,
which is an increase of nearly $4,000
rs compared with the number issued
! during the preceding year.
A special to the Chattanooga
Times says it has been found that the
collapse OF the Brlscoc building in
| Knoxville was caused byn cave under
the building. The centre support
| dropped into cave of unknown
| u"ptn, not yet explored, but II stone
dropped into it can be heard to hit
the bottom "away down.
| "A curious fashion has come into
vogue in Paris. In all the cemeteries
metal boxes with Il slit in the lid are
| placed on the tOmbStOncS to receive
the cards Of visitors. The relatives
| of the deceased are thus enabled to
| see who among the living still cherish
the memory of their departed
| friends.
1t is stated that German artill-
cry officer has succeeded in making
Il acw explosive from carbOlic acid
that II shell filled with this material
| possesses II power hitherto unobtain-
| cd. Experiments made with these
| shells thrown from mortnrs have all,
it Is stated, proved highly success
full.
| During Il dispute over II calf Mt
| CamaS Prairie. Oregon, recently Ed
| Rinrhmdt hit Holm N"Cnnn"ll ON
the head with II heavy plug of to-
bacco. In order to prevent Il suit
| charging him with assault with Il
| deadly weapon. Rinchardt paid $40.
| besides giving over the calf and the
| plugOf tobacco.
There are only five States in the
| Union in which II schoolmastcr can
now legally iloS pupil. In all other
States II pupil mcnaccd with corporal
| punishment can arm himself with amy
| secret weapon and use it as he best
| can. Massachusetts teachers ilOg an
average OF two boys per day per
| capita.
| The guests III an uptown res
taurant were considerably shocked
| and then amused the other night to
see Il we'll dressed woman pour water
from Il tumblcr into napkin and
| deliberately wash her face and hands
She didn't seem ut all disturbed by
the sniCkcring, and paid her bill rs
indiilcrcntlv ~ if it had been for n
Turkish bath.-Ncw York World
During the eleven months ending
May 3lst. the European immigrants
arriving in the United States mum
bcrcd Il fraction over OO,OOO-morc
than equal to the number of inhabi-
tants "f any one of the twelve States
of the Union. Nearly one half came
from Great Britain and Ireland, the
others from the cOntincnt-Italy.
Hungary. Poland, Germany, Hol
land, etc.
Sam Jones on Public Men.