The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1890-10-31
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F G. 8. Taylor, e. A. Hass and others, of
chicago, H., have secured over $1,000
acres of minerafand town lands i'm Unicoi
county, and will build q new town 70 be
called Unicoi. A boiler and engine
works is reported as to be established
Green county will vote ON November
18th $780, 900 'bonds" or "no bonds" to
aid the projected railroad from Paint
kotk, N. c., via Greenville to Kings
port.
Gov. Robert l.. Taylor, Secretary of
State Miller, Adjutant General McCord
and several other Tennesseeans attended
the Texas State Fair at Dallas, Tex. on
Tennessee day, October 25. Gov. Tay
lor was one of the orators.
The American Humane Society met in
Watkins Institute Hall lecture room at
Nashville, nearly all the states of the
United States being represented. Among
the topics discussed were the following:
Humane Education" Humane Work"
~A'1ect OF Humane Society,n estate
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Against Cruelty" "Dehorning of Cattle"
"Clipping and Docking of Horses"
'IIorse Shoeing," "The Present and Fu-
turc Progress of Humane Work in the
Vest The session was very harmo-
nious.
Tuesday afternoon while Andy, son of
Wash White, was sitting in his wagon i'm
Ncedmorc, 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 maimed
others, and has been dreaded for num-
Der of years. He is tall, slender, pale
faced, keen-cycd man of about thirty
who always attacks his victims unexpect-
cdly.
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. II. l..
Gouldin, secretary of the Chamber.
W. b. 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 2Sth.
In Houston superior court nearly 100
witnesses for the defense were summoned
in the case of the State VS.. Rev. Henry
Fclder-arson. Fielder was charged with
burning crib in New Hope last summer.
The case was continued to the next
term.
Bailiff. Timmons had to pay fine of
about s$4S, in Early court, for taking the
sisSsse = e..
With negro fofssssilo = bad ~
warrant.
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 adj.
dress by Senator Joseph f. Brown, in
which he announced his retirement from
public life mt the expiration of his pres
cnt term rs Senator, March 4, 1891.
The next Legislature is typicalIy Geor-
gian, prcsuming that there is really some
ample, are found Il Williams, two Smiths,
II Johnson, II Johnston, Brown, a Hill;
with not II name in the lot that can't be
found in every town Of 1 200 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"mastcd schooner, Howard
smith, OF Portsmouth, loaded with rail
near Doboy. The captain and crew were
taken from the rigging the next morning,
and taken to Daricn by the tug boat
Crescent City.
OZHER STATES.
Mr.. f. B. Sackctt 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 trcc) to the agricultural depart
mcnt at Washington, for s. pound
Oranges are being o forwarded at the
rate of about ten cars n week from Lis
bon, two stations from Eustis Fla. They
are still green, but the owner is receiving
81 so 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 Mobile and