The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-01-02

, The Blown Manufacturing Co, are.
puhding q factory in Rfistol, Tenn, .
manufacturing medicines

L, The Blown Manufacturing Co. are
buheing a factory in Rfistoi Tenn, .
manufacturing medicines.
The warehouse and distillery of Ste
phens a& Co., near Cartner's Station.
Greene Co., was burned Tuesday night,
together with $50 barrels of wi,iskey.
Loss about $1S,0 on whiskey and sc. :
600 on house and machinery. Insurance
on whiskey, $4,000 Fire supposed to
be incendiary. The Government revenue
tax on the wniskey destroyed would have
amounted to about $2s, 900.
In Blount county, about 12 miles from
Maysvilic, Friday night, man named
Morton, prominent citizen of the coun-
ty, was shot through the right breast and
Killed. He was sitting by his fireside
wien some one unknown entered and fir
ed the fatal ball, and escaped.
1t is said that there is more money in cir
culation among the farmers of Warren
county now than at any time during the
last four or five years. rs.-McMinnvillc
Standard.
A Chattanooga special says Tin plate
has been made in st. Louis by the Gran
lite Iron Rolling Mills, the sheet to be
dipped having been rolled from basic
steel made by the Southern Iron Compa-
ny, of this city. st. Louis men write that
they are delighted with the materials. 1t
is excellent for the purpose, and they
propose to use it steadily. Tin plate from
Chattanooga steel means making the fin
ished article here in due time.
A Knoxville dispatch SAYS: There was
decided earthquake shock here Tuesday.
Persons in the surrounding country re-
port that the shock was so severe that
houacs were shaken and dishesrattled. In
this city persons were reused from their
sleep and much startled.
FLORIDA.
The orange crop is turning out fair and
good prices realized.
Alachua has hundreds of acres planted
in lettuce.
A fresh watermelon adorns the window
OF the DcSotoScounty court, at Arcadia.
safe-blowers got in their work last
week at Apalachicola. They secured 81
800 from the safe of the Cypress Lumber
company,
Two convicts, one murderer and the
other burglar, escaped from the Dunnel
lon mines last week. They were hunted
with bloodhounds, but the dogs lost the
scent and freed an innocent colored man.
Along the st. Johns river, strawberries.
cabbages, caulihowers, celery, and in fact
al! varieties Of vegetables arc IL q -four
ishing condition.
The Florida Young Peoples Society of
Christian Endeavor is making preparations
for the state convention of that organiza-
ton, to DC iieid the 10Th, 10Th. and 18th
of January, 1891, at Orlando.
New Smyrna is putting her best foot
! forward and.will nnfition Congress to have
her harbor opened and improved. Their,
is now about twelve feet of water on thu
bar and from sixteen totwcnty feet inside
up to the town. Three years ago ther,
vera sixteen feet on the bar.
OTHER STATES.
| New Orleans is making extensive pre-
parations for the celebration of Mardi
Gras, which comes on the 10th of Febru
ary. The carnival will be on grand
scale, and the New Orleans papers asser,
the pageants will eclipse in brilliancy any
| of its predecessors.
Representative Lanham, reelected from
the 11th Congressional district of Texas
represents nincty-seven counties that az,
said TO exceed in area ten States. One O
the counties in his district is 900 mile
by rail from his home.
Mrs. Jefferson Davis is now at the hom
of an old family friend, DR.. j. Harvi
Dew, New York. Her time has been oc
cupicd to some extent In revising tn
proofs of her biography of her husband
which is now in the publishers hands.
The steamboat Lake Washington, ply
ing between Monroe and points on til
bayou dArbonne, Louisiana, was burne
Friday morning with five hun dred bale
OF cotton. The cargo was valued at $25
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