The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1890-08-01
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

- Henry ~. Stanlcy's manuscript
Is very lcglble, and scarcely IN altera-
ton is made i'll folio.
A woman buried ut New Madrid.
Mo, Il few days ago, weighed $50
poun's. There were 16 active pail
bCarc $.
One of California y pretty hcir-
csscs is Miss Grace McDonough, who
Will inherit Il fortune Of S3.O0O,00
from her mother.
Senator Wade Hampton has Mt
last shaved off the side whiskcrs
which he has SO nssiduously cult
vntcd for 10, thys" many years.
The estimated expenditure in tho
British navy for the year will be,
froia all sources, Ci9,263.633, while
that of the army will be tl9,0i7,S00.
The Emperor Of II lssia, Alcxnn-
der Ill, has Just had 1000 phcasnnts
sent FROM England to his shooting
place. on the Gulf of Bothnin, mt nm
expense Of n guinea each.
"A report having reached the ears
80 narnnn, tthat the grave of
nantiy denied :iis5aXSa S iAasaesaieaitantS u &
| strewn with flowers every day.
Great fears prevail all over Eng
| land than the harvest will be total
failure. and the archbishop of Can
! ten bury has ordered prayers for fine
weather to be offered III nll the
churches
- Experiments prove that the At
liant rc breakers have II force of three
tons to the square foot; thus II surface
of only two square yards sustain II
blow from heavy Atlantic breaker
equal to iiItyfour tons.
According TO the statistics gath
| cred by Mr. Il. Payson Porter, sta
tistical secretary of the international
Sunday School convention, there are
III the United States 109,252 Sunday
Schools, with S,643,255 scholars and
lib, 100 teachers and officers.
In the course of his successful
career, Capt. McNlickan, at present
the commander of the Cunardcr Um-
hria, has made 47S passages across
the Atlantic, carrying 1G5,57O pas.
scngcrs, and sailing on all voyages
over distance of 2,129,S00 miles.
The Rev. John Prince, u Metho
dist clergyman, aged 80, and Mrs:
Cynthia Wood, aged "a, were married
recently in Montreal They were
lovers in childhood and would have
been married sixty years ago, but
their parents prevented the match.
james Melvin, of Concord, Mass.
has for IL years lain upon q bed with
out changing his position The os-
seous portions of his body have
united into one piece, and from the
crown of his head to the soles of his
feet there is not Joint responsive to
his will
"A German of Detroit tried to
figure the height of 100,O00,000 silver
dollars if placed one on top of the
other, and because he couldn't get it
within foot or two he jumped off a
wharf with suicidal intent. Although
he never had Il pile foot high he
wanted to be exact about other peo-
pies money.
John Mcrriman, of Rhode Island,
called himself a humanitarian and
brought up lot of old horses anu
turned them out to pasture TO end
their days in peace. He had got
about thirty and the papers were
sulogizing him, when his wife got a
divorce on the grounds of extreme
cruelty. She proved that he almost
starved her to death.
In speaking of Sam Jones's SER
mon ut Oxford, Justice Lamar said:
1T was striking in many senses.
Parts Of it were likes Pullman palace
sleeping capable of being hitch
ed to any train, going in any direc-
ton, at any timc-titting anywhere,
acting automatically, and capable Of
cmanatins from no brain other than
that of the original Sam Jones"
In an interview with the Roches-
ter Union Dem.) Bob Ingerson says:
II believe in protecting what are
called the infant industries, but after
these infants get to be six feet high
and wear No. IL boots it is about
time to stop rocking the cradle, es-
pccially when the infant tells you
that if you stop rocking ho will get
out of the cradle and kick your head
| off.