The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-10-16
AUTUMN wHISPERINGs.
Tell 1t Not That Our Southland Is
Prosy.
We Will Tell You About Many I'm
portant Happenings that Have
Occurred During a Week.
VIRGINIA.

better.
Negotiations are pending the erection
of $1U, 900 cement works at Savernake.
The anniversary german of the Peters
burg Grays was held in Petersburg
Thursday night.
of Saffoik, held a snccessful n cktic and
bonnet trimming party last week.
A dispatch from Tappahannock says:
Hon. John w. Daniel addressed at this
place an audience of about 1900 per-
sons. Among them were 200 ladies.
He made one of the happiest and most
effective efforts of his life.
F. w. Payne, clerk of the county aud
circuit courts of King George county, has
made an assignment for the benefit of his
creditors. His liabilities are estimated
at $40, 900; assets from $50, 900 to $685.
coo.
The fourth ann ual meeting of the
session at Norfolk last week. Reports
from the counties have been heard and
the outlook is encouraging,
The prohibition warfare in North Dan
vile grows warmer. Mrs. P. A. /.
Smith, of the Enterprise, the only woman
editor of the state, has been warmly ad-
vocating the temperance cause, and for
protection has been carrying a revolver
with her lately
Virginia coal has enabled ths. .stsam..
ship 1e~<cnso-e -fowcrt tne record fram
New York to Queenstown to 5 days, 20
hours and % minutes. The South is
fast taking tie lead in pretty much
everything, and this is but one more il
lustration of this fact.
Herbert Bryant has purchased from
Alexandra city the old Middle Point
property on the Potomac river for 81, ,0C0.
and will establish fertilizer factory
there.
A syndicate of northern capitalists has,
it is stated, purchased the Neck of Land
property for 100000, and contemplates
the purchase oil the James own Is
land to improve it and establish new
towns and industries.
The State Medical Society wound UP
its annual meeting at Lynchburg last
Thursday by grand banquet rendered
them by their Chill City" brethren. Two
snosdnis waias swfsE,1<syseea
took effectin Mrs. Campbell's head, and
the attending physicians consider her in
juries serious, if not fatal
The Norfolk and Western Railroad
Company has applied to the London
Stock Exchange for quotation of &c.
600, 900 additional preferred capital stock
At Roanoke, Tuesday, c. E. Herbert
and j. w. Camper, Of the Herald, and
James A. Pugh, of the Times, engaged
in fist fight, without serious injury to
either. The difficulty arose over some
newspaper publications and business
settlement that had been carried to the
courts.
Fridays Richmond Times, saws: II
was great day for the colored race in
Richmond yesterday, and they felt proud
of their achievements. The first annual
exhibition of the Virginia Industrial,
Mercantile and Building Association
took place at the Exposition, and in
many respects, the descendant of Ham
has right to feel proud. There are
many productions made each day -hp- tho
coIOreu man which were not to be seen in
the exhibition, but those DISPLAYED were
in many respects creditabIc, and told
better than words thar - ia. ;nat in re
Is time yet coming whrn the negro will
make sharp competition with the white
man in the manufacturing markets of the
South