The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-03-13

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Timberville is a new town on the line
| of the Broadway & West Virginif
Railroad that is soon to be constructed
1t is the centre of the great forest regions
OF North mountain aud Brooks Gap
The North fork of the Shenandoah rive,
runs through the town.
NORTH CAROLINA.
Sam Jones has been invited and will
conduct evangelistic services in Char
lotte shortly.
The legislature passed the bill appro-
priating $40, 900 annually for a geologi-
cal survey of the state.
The vacancies in the state bond of agii-
culture were filled by the Legislature, rs fol-
lows: First''district, j. B. Coffield, fourth
w. F. Green, eighth, s. r. Patterson.
On Tuesday night, David Jones, of
Cape Lookout Saving station, about a
mile south of the camp, found in the
wash of the sea the dead body of man.
The body was without clothes of anv
kind. The arms were off at the shoul-
ders and legs off at the hips.
In the state senate Thursday bill to ap-
propriate $25, 900 to secure exhibit at
Chicago, failed to pass; this raised n
great howl, and at night this action was
rcconsidcred and the bill passed the sem
ate unanimously.
Yhc census officer announced the non.
ulation of North Carolina races as fol-
lows: whites, 1,O49, 9,19l; colored 267, =
10; Indians, 1871; Chinese, IS; total,
1894
The agriealtHFsl leA1nRtt1{ s4ps4lMtaRt Atsu6us~s;
Spartanburg, Darlington and Columbia
have been sold. They brought So, 900,
$4,000 and IS, 500 respectively.
Senator Edmunds. Miss Edmunds and
other distinguished tourists were in Co
lumbia Thursday en- route to Camden.
Branches of the Atlanta Building and
Loan Association have been organized in
Yorkville and Florence.
Thos N. Berry and L. d. Childs, of
Chester, have been appointed as dele
gates from this State to the Right Wor-
thy Grand Lodge, l. o. G. r., which
meets in EdinburS, Scotland, in May.
Robert Mill has has prepared plans
for the erection of a church at Spartan
The students of the South Carolina
College for women visited the State
House Tuesday afternoon. They were
evidently delighted with their visit
The erection of the $4,000 school
building -laaa-heen. commenced at New
berry.
The Anderson Building & Loan Asso-
citation, which will wind up its business.
will declare dividend of about Go per
cent.
Gaffney City has voted to subscribe
$40, 900 to the projected Cape Fear and
Cincinnati Railroad.
GEORGIA.
Wade Hampton will deliver the ad.
dress az augusta, april ~, ct the reunion
of his old brigade.
A correspondent says that large por-
tion of the peach and plum crop has been
killed or badly injured in the vicinity of
Davisboro.
Georgia's pension laws went into effect
March I, and from that date the widow
Of each Confederate soldier will get an
annuity of $1O0 Alabama has also at
last recognized their claims, but their
share, ,1gjQ scarcely be half so large.
The 555nnp. King Manufacturing Com.
pany, of Augusta, has made direct ship,
| ment of cotton goods to Manchester,
England
Governor Northen has instituted re-
form in the management OF the Georgia
prison camp that yill meet with the
hearty commendation of humanitarians
He has ordered that hereafter male and
| female convicts must be kept in separate
apartments, and that no Communication
must be allowed between them.
TENNESSEE.
The Legislature has passed bill to
build monument to John Sewer, the
first governor of Tennessee.
The bill authorizing the issuance OF
$500, 900 Of bonds by Knoxville has pass.
ed the Legislature and become law
Three men were killed and thirteen
wounded in an accident at Whitwell, on
the Tennessee Coal Company's incline
railway.
A printer employed on The Chattano
ga News, jim Compton, shot Harry Her
bert in the neck. The wound is proba
bly, fatal one
In the senate Thursday the bill crcatin:
a bureau of labor, statistics and mines
with commissioner at salary Of 81 800
whose duties are to inspect mines, mill
and factories and gather labor statistics
was passed, only two negative votes be
ing recorded.
Nashville has but few runaway wed
dings, consequently social circles wer
! startled by that one which occurred
Thursday, when John Means Thompson