The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-07-10

to collect funds and attend to the details
OF erecting monument to the memory
OF jefferson Davis, says that the commit
teee feels much encouraged at the pro.
gress of affairs About $40. 600 has
already been raised, but before actual
| work is commenced on the monument
tney expect to raise $50, 900.
The Flora Land Company, incorpo.
rated, is improving land and laying off
town site at Flora. Its capital stock is
1000. Several industries are already
under way.
The Memphis jury has found II. CLAW
King guilty in the first degree for the
murder of D. II. Poston
GEORGIA. !;
Athens and Clarke county went "dry',
by IA majority Thursday; 1910 votes
were polled. y
Right Rev Ethelbert Talbot was at
Athens elected bishop of Georgia to sue.
ceed the late Bishop Beckwith,
Wednesday morning at ANNA Uf3s'
k1ugsb' rry, the receiver for Stephen AZ
Ryan, filed his bond for 100000, and
took charge of the store.
DeKalb county will soon have a ma.
cadamized road from Decatur through
Clarkson to Stone Mountain. TIE county
commissioners have decided to do the
work at once.
The smallest "moonshine" distillcry
ever captured by the revenue officers was
found recently in Atlanta, md Sent
to Washington as curiosity. Its capac.
ity is about three gallons, it is construct
ed so as to be operated on an ordinary
cooking stove, and it is complete in every
detail.
The Middle Georgia Progress has the
following: "a female temperance Ice.
turer visited Valdosta last week. She
published pamphlet setting forth the
horrible effects of i.temperance, and ex.
empiified them in person oy getting on o
rousing drunk"
On Tuesday the corner stone of the
new Presbyterian church was laid at De.
catur. The building is to be finished by
October 10th, and the synod of Georgia
will meet in it in November.
FLORIDA.
Independence Day was observed ar
Fcrnandina by exciting yacht races and
brilliant fireworks.
Tampa parties have purchased from Fl.
u. Mcleod tract of phosphate land on
the Alafii river for SIS, 900.
Northern parties are investigating
with view of establishing in Fernaudina
car-wheel works, iron and brass foundry,
marine railway and machine shops.
Cocoa Public Spirit: Sona idea of
the guava jelly business may be had from
our amount Of sugar used. j. M. San
ders received this week four''tons of gran
1lated sugar and G. j. Suhoomaker has
two and half tons to arrive In few
days.
4 now .ollegc b''ilding for the FIofT
da Conference College to cost 5000 ha
been begun at Leesburg.
The Interstate Land and Construction
! Co., Of Tallahassee, has contracted I.
build the entire line and branches of tn,
Florida, Georgia g. Western Railway
Co, and is now at work. The road i
to run from Tallahassee Harbor, with 9
branch to the Atlantic coast.
The improvements and alterations @,
the Alcazar Hotel, st. Augustine, will
consist of changing the grand parlor from
the second to the principal story, facing
both the street and court, a large addi,
tion to the dressing room and the build:
ing of a fourth story Tho estima atcd
cost is from $S5, 900 to $40, 900.
We are pleased to hear of the proieC:
that has been started for the raising oil
cocoanuts on large scale in the State ol
Florida. The undertaking is both inter
eresting and promising, though, on &C
count of the slow growth of the cocoanu
tree, it cannot produce speedy returns
We import large quantities of cocoanutI
from tropical countries; we may hereafte
have full supply of them grown o.
American soil.
OTHER STATES.
G. j. Reeves, residing near Pert Glib
u Ia, mortally shot his brother-in
Id :, Isaac Rush. Family feud the cause
Mrs. Eliza Saunders, of Texas, is th,
owner of a pig; now four weeks old, thst
bears striking likeness to q miniature
elephant. There were nine in the litter
and the other eight were ju t ordinary
pigs.
The Illinois Central will shortly com
mence the erection of a depot at Ne,.
Orleans to cost from $500, 600 to S40O..
900. =
Natural gas and oil discoveries neal
San Antonio, Texas, are causing consid.
erable excitement there. The San Anto
xpio Times claims that the sdeposit, of ma.
; nj gas is the greatest ever discovered
) IT of the Miss,ssippi and Ho,,th of A.