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 Chaff
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.
large dish factory is being built in
Courtland, Southampton county.
Ing setves tawsFa RaE
colored college in that city.
1t is reported that the late Mr.. Lekies,
OF Norfolk, has left a bcquest of $40, 900
to Randolph Macon College.
The Scaboard Land and Investment
Company, of Norfolk, has been chartered
with capital of 100000.
The trustees of an estate left by Con-
necticut lady to charitable institutions,
proposes to donate s., 1000 to the 'Home
for the Sick" ut Petersburg, provided an
other S., 600 is raised by the citizens
Gen. NJ. La Rue Harrison, who died at
his home near Ft. Mycr, Va, last week,
was, by date of commission, the oldest
inspector of the Postofiicc Department,
having been placed in charge of money
order inspections soon after the establish
ment of the system. He commanded the
L lrSt ArK;tnSaS 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 n corporation recently or
ganizcd to develop the mineral wealth of
a, 600 acres of land in and around How
ardsvillc, Il station on the line of the
james River division of the Chesapeake 81
Ohio Railroad. There they propose to
create manufacturing center to be called
Logan City. In connection with this site
they arc arranging the purchase of from
III, 900 to O,OOO acres mineral and timber
lands, containing valuable deposits of
manganese, slate, marble, building stones,
marketable clays and other minerals. The
capital stock is $2,O0O,OOO.
NORTH CAROLINA.
Gov. Fowle has accepted an, invitation
to preside at meetings in Philadelphia at
which Dillon and O'Brien will make
speeches.
j. w. Hodges was appointed postmas-
ter at Ramboca.
Fully 10000 people flockcd to Char
,4otte to sec. Barnum's circus, which showed
t7o@d rs trse 3s1r= =5raIs:~ ~r.ssFs-
ter showing in Danviife, 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 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. If. The ccremO-
mics were under the auspices of the Grand
Lodge of Masons of North Carolina. A
Masonic oddroee dali..a.ad Inv Hon II
D. Vance. of hSh"villo, and an education
al address was delivered by eX-Gov. Thos.
j. Jarvis, of Grecnvillc.