The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1890-07-18
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"A Hungarian paper announces
the death OF veteran of Waterloo,
aged 1O5 years, in his native village,
Hatszeg, in Pennsylvania.
--Colored citizens of Birmingham
Ala, propose to start bank there,
owned, officered and patronized, by
their own race, with a capital of $780,
600.
The newly appointed woman
deputy factory inspectors for the
State of New York will receive q sal
airy OF $1,000 year and their ex-
penses.
DIR. Meredith, a Brooklyn preacher,
has established second reading
room for workingmen, where no re-
striction is placed on smoking cigars
and pipes.
"A huge tower, eleven stories high,
IS to be erected at South Kingston,
Is. l., and dedicated to the advent of
modern spiritNalism, by Joseph p
Hazard, a wealthy spiritualist of
that place.
George Eliot made S75,OO by
her great novel "Middlemarch." That
is much more than Gen. Lew Wal
lace has yet realized from his very
popular Ben Hur" George Eliot
also made $4,000 by her "Romale. "
"A st. Petersburg doctor is stopped
late at night by policeman, who
asks why he is out so late. "To at
tend'Mr. Popof, who was taken i'll. :"
Did ne have permit to be taken
will have to go to prison" Detroit
Free Press.
DR.. w. Gilmore Thompson, of
New York, has mado several success
full experiments in transplanting brain
tissue from the head of one dog to
that of another, and from cats to
dogs heads. He is now considering
the practicability of transplanting
human brains in the same way.
Augusta is having q warm fight
over the confirmation of Postmaster
Denning. He is opposed on several
grounds, including physical disability
and charge that he once raised
and 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 the census shows the
white increase of population to have
been greater since 1880 than the
colored increase, and to such an ex-
tent that if the parishes yet to be
heard from turn out as expected Lou
isiana will be ''white" by 1861 ma
jority.
During the fiscal year just closed,
the pension Office issued Isl, ,651 GER
titicates. The number issued during
the preceding year was 145,292. OF
the number issued during the past
year, 66,637 were original pensions,
which is an increase of nearly $4,000
as 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 Briscoe building in
Knoxville was caused by cave under
the building. The centre support
dropped into cave of unknown
deptn, not yet explored, puu u 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 slit in the lid are
placed on the tombstones 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
a new explosive from carbolic acid
that shell filed with this material
possesses power hitherto unobtain-
ed. Experiments made with these
shells thrown from mortars have all,
it is stated, proved highly success
full.
During a dispute over calf at
Camas Prairie, Oregon, recently Ed
Rinehardt hit Holm MeGonnan ON
the head with a heavy plug of to-
bacco. In order to prevent a suit
charging him with assault with a
deadly weapon, Rinehardt paid $40,
besides giving over the calf and the
plug of tobacco.
There are only five States in the
Union in which schoolmaster can
now legally fog pupil. In all other
States pupil menaced with corporal
punishment can arm himself with any
secret weapon and use it as he best
can. Massachusetts, teachers fog an
average of two boys per day per
capita.
The guests in an uptown res
taurant were considerably shocked
and then amused the other night to
see well. dressed woman pour water
from a tumbler into napkin and
deliberately wash her face and hands.
She didn't seem ct all disturbed by
the snickering, and paid her bill as
indifferently as if it had been for a
Turkish bath.-New York World
During the eleven months ending
May 31st, the European immigrants
arriving in the United States mum
bered fraction over ,OO0-more
than equal to the number of inhabi-
tants of any one of the twelve States
of the Union. Nearly one-half came
from Great Britain and Ireland, the
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