The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-11-13
THE LATEST NEWS.
Interesting Dispatches From the
North and Our South.
The Points Of the Compass are Pretty
Well Covered by the Following
Condensed kilograms.


The Texas State Fair closed after a
very successful season, lasting sixteen
days.
The first blizzard of the season is re-
ported in North and So.th Dakota and
Minnesota.
co,I,4a The {enaSt.a aar.han9lze g. -
county, Missouri, seems to have been the
genuine article.
Ex-Governor Albert g. Marks, of Ten
nessee, died suddenly in his room, at the
Maxwell House, Nashville, at an cary
hour Wednesday morning.
A pistol shot fred as a Joke at Chilli
cothe, Mo-, caused one of a party of
Halloween jewellers to, die in few minutes
from heart failure, caused by excitement.
The experiment of sending a, message
by relays of bicyclists from Hartford,
Conn, to New York City, distance OF
122 miles, was accomplished in eight
hours and twenty-six minutes.
Shows are reported along the Allie
ghany Mountains from Pennsylvania to
Virginia. The earliest snow in years fell
at Charlottesville, Va, and four inches at
Winchester.
The Tennessee coal miners who released
800 convicts at work in the Bricevillc
Coal Mines Friday night did not hurt
anybody. Sheriff Rutherford has gone
to Chattanooga, having been warned to
nor Buchanan is determined to uphold
the law.
The purchase of 5000 Texas cattle in
seventeen train loads cost Dave Rankin,
the cattle king of Tarkio, Mo, $2s2, 900
besides the freight expenses of $50, 900.
1t has been calculated that the right
hand of good compositor in taking
type from the frame to the stick while
setting up 9, 900 ems in eight hours GOV
crs distance of 26, 900 feet.
About 800 of the old timers of Atlanta
have organized under a constitution and
bylaws. An old-timer in Atlanta is q
man who has lived there since 1850 and
stands we'll in the community.
One of tho arguments of Minn eapolis
against Paul is that by building an ice
palace as an advertisement is attracted
attention to the frigidity of the climate
and checked immigration to the North
west.
The bootblacks of Atlanta have held two
meetings, and have decided to raise the
price of shine from nickel to q dime,
pie three times dry in Charlotte last
week. was the driver of public dray in
his native town before he became
preacher. His outfit was small, rick
ETY., rafting, ramshackle of wagon and
an old sorrel horse. He was q familiar
figure at the railway station, and his most
profitable jobs were hauling drummers'
trunks to the hotel.
A plague of locusts has been worrying
the farmers in the Argentine Republic
this fall. Late reports state that the To-
Gusts have completely destroyed the flax,
wheat and potato crops in San Geroni-
mo and santo Tomas. The extent of
plantations destroyed covers 10000
k lometres.
Gen. Jackson's old kitchen at the
White House is now used as an elevator
engine room. But the old-fashioned ovens
arc still there and the niche in the wall
remains where the big crane was suspen-
dcd in tho old days of primitive hospi-
taiity at the Executive Mansion.
r Ex- Governor David Meriwether, of
Kentucky, recently celebrated his 92d
birthday, and from all reports he was the
most active man present at the gathering.
He was blithe and gay and sat down to
dinner equipped with IN appetite that
would have done credit to boy.
Some years ago American cotton seed
was planted in Turkestan, and the devel-
opment has been something phenomenal.
In 1884 about $50, 900 pounds of cctton
were exported, while the product for this
year is expected to reach $500, 900
pools, or about 1913, 600, 900 pounds,
MONTGOMERY, ALA, Especial. This
was the sixth day of the great Southern
Exposition, and en- immense crowd was
present. Jerry Simpson, os Kansas, was
the orator Of the day, and among other
things he said that If the farmers could
not get their rights out of old parties
ihcy would take care of themselves This
sounded like independence to all Demo-
Gratis.
MUsKoGEE, i. THE fling of peti-
ton in equity for a number of Cherokee
Indians asking the partition and the al.
lotmcnt in severality of nearly IA, OOo, 600
acres of land of the Cherokee Indians, is
creating quite stir among the Indians
of the civilized tribes. It is thought to
be the largest land suit ever instituted in
America.
Ex-Prcsident Hayes was in Columbia,
8. c., Wednesday, together with his son,
X. p. Hayes, and DR.. L. M. Curry of
Richmond, in the interest of the Peabody
fund. Sec'y Of State Tindal gave them
reception in the evening. Mr.. Hayes
talk was merely on the object of his visit,
and expressive Of the pleasure he was ex-
periencing in seeing that city and the