The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1890-11-14
ALL THROUGH DIXIE.
What Has Transpired Since Last We
Greeted You.
all the News of the Eastern Section Of
OF the South, With the Chat
sifted Out, Presented Here
in Neat Form.
VIRGINIA.

Contracts for sixty buildings were
] awarded in Glasgow Thursday.
Alfred Madison, of King William. was
accidentally shot and killed few days
ago.
A large dish factory is being built in
Courtland, Southampton county.
Ing actively
colored college in that city.
1t is reported that the late Mr.. Lekies,
OF norfolk, has left bequest of $1O,O00
to Randolph Macon College.
The Seaboard Land and Investment
Company, of Norfolk, has been chartered
with capital of 100000.
The trustees of an estate left by a Con-
necticut lady to charitable institutions.
proposes to donate 5000 to the ssHome
for the Sick" at Petersburg, provided an
other $5, 900 is raised by the citizens.
Gen. M. La Rue Harrison, who died at
his home near Ft. Mycr, Va, last week.
was, by date of commission, the oldest
inspector of the Postoffice Department.
having been placed in charge of money
order inspections soon after the establish
ment of the system. He commanded the
First Arkansas Cavalry
Sale of 100 lots of the West-End Land
Improvement Company took place Thurs
day at Petersburg.
The Virginia Steel, Iron and Slate Co.
Is the name of corporation recently or
ganizcd to develop the mineral wealth of
4,OOO acres of land in and around How
ardsville, station on the line of the
James River division of the Chesapeake &,
Ohio Railroad. There they propose to
create manufacturing center to be called
Logan City. In connection with this site
they are arranging the purchase of from
10, 900 to 90, 900 acres mineral and timber
lands, containing valuable deposits of
manganese, slate, marble. building stones
marketable clays and other minerals. The
capital stock is $2,OOO,OOO.
NORTH CAROLINA.
Gov. Fowle has accepted an invitation
to preside at meetings in PHILADELPHIA Mt
which Dillon and O'Brien will make
speeches
j. w. Hodges was appointed postmas-
ter at Ramboca.
Fully 10000 people f1ocked to Char
3otte tosee. Baynum,s circus, which showed
sstjns.ed the
'tey showing IN DanVllle, Va., the circus
disbanded for the season.
Evangelist Fife has just closed his meet
ings at Mt. Holly, after wonderful sue
cess, resulting in large numbers of con-
versions. About 40 joined the Methodist
church, 40 the Presbyterian, SO the Bap-
tist and 10 the Lutheran.
The grading of the Egypt Railroad, a
nine miles feeder of the Seaboard Air Line
System in North Carolina, has been com
pleted, and the.rails are to be laid at once
This road is to extend from the Egypt
coal mine to a point on the trunk line
some three miles from the town of San
ford, at which place the Cape Fear and
Yadkin Valley Road crosses the Scaboard
Air Line.
The cornerstone laying of the new
main building of Trinity College took
place on the campus of the colleges new
site at Durham, Nov. II. The ceremo-
nies were under the auspices of the Grand
Lodge of Masons of North Carolina. A
Masonic "ddrooo dali..a.ad ny Hon r
-B.-Vnnoo, of -Aahayillo, and an education
al address was delivered by ex-Gov. Thos.
j. Jarvis, of Grecnville.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
The annual Conference of the M. Z.