The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-04-10

iasbeen soM to New England capital.
SIS. This road, 80 miles long, makes
connections with every industrial estab
ishment inthe city and its suburbs.
While large class of Young ladies' of
he Girls High School. of Knoxv;,le
we're collecting botanical specimens, Miss
'iary Plummg went too near the edge of
, bluff and fell sixty feet She was bad.
ly injured.
Representative Boyle has the credit of
occurring in the Legislature the restora-
tion Of the name, 1tCity of Memphis.
lie did it Mond,y in the closing hour.
and the Governor has signed the Bill.
The organization of . cotton compress
Company with capital stock of $iOO.
Vo mas been effected at Chattanooga. All
!he stock has been subscribed and a site
'or the building selected. The promoters
ot:the enterprise btlieve that this is the
aisst .steP toward rmeiing Chattanooga a
great cotton markettA .-.-.-,,.,-
The Todts Tor eSSD 6hattanooaa q
arthur Railroad has been surveyed from
oookvi!le to Chattanooca. and from the
latter point to Arthur, where it will in
.lersect with the K, @. G. & L. and the
Harrowgate extension. This line will
shorten the distance by rail between Nor
iolk and Memphis several hundred miles.
GEORGIA.
The U. 8. recruiting station at Savan-
uah has been closed and Lieut. Terrett
gone back to Augusta with his two ser.
geants.
A milinary company has been organ
'zed at Fort Valley.
Quite a sensation has been created at
Hillman by rumors Of buried Spanish
treasure. A Spanish priest has written
letter of inquiry.
The daughters Of Rev. T. A. Harris,
OF Winterville, have bought all the outfit
Tor hennery and rabbit farm.
(. The city is clean, the citizens have OH
their holiday suits, and everything Gocs
merry as a marriage bell, says an Albany
paper.
councilman Henry II. Hicks, of Au.
E"sta, convicted and sentenced to pay IL
iine OF 5000 in the city court last week
ior Keeping gambling house, has ap.
pcaled for new trial.
Charles Bondo, a German citizen, was
assaulted by footpads, at Atlanta, Tues
day evening, and was knocked down.
lie died Wednesday.
Cordele added $50, 900 to her banking
capital Thursday. The First National
bank. was organized.
Floyd and Wilcox counties will both
erect new Courthouses.
more generally observed funeral never
occurred IN Rome than that of Augustus
X. Wight. The stores closed, and hun
drcds througed tie First Baptist church,
and there were many who stood on the
outside Anahlc tp- asscpEe seats k-v-wr-vr-
Florida's law-makers willVon be as
sembled in Tallahassee. y
AS faras heard from, nearly very mem
bcr of the Legislature is goingto Tallahas-
see loaded with land assessment reform.
The Florida Indians will be given lands
in severalty.
Hon. jefferson B. Brown, of Monroe
county, will be among the most promi-
ncnt candidates for the presidency of the
Florida senate.
Acts were passed at the 51st Congress
for the erection of public building at
Tampa Fla, and to establish light
station at or near Hillsborough Inlet.
A contract was signed by Contractor
James McGiffin, Of Fernandina, fol
erecting wharves and buildings for the
fifty thousand dollar phosphate plant
near the present fertilizer wharves there
The Carnival began at Tampa Apri
the 1st and continued days. The frs
day there was grand firemen's tourna
ment; second day, herse- tscing; thir!
/ day, annual regatta ON Rt assBay =fourt
day, grand tournament for prize cup, an
races.
A large number of orange and vegets
J bic growers of Orange Lake, Mcintosh
Boardman, Evinston and Micanopy, mt
and named delegates to appear before tn
interstate railroad commission in jackson
vile to present their grievances.
OTHER STATES.
, A Texas postmaster has committe
| suicide because he was indicted for stea
ing 40 cents.
. Alabama has undertaken the VOL
of laying out route for railroad fro
i, Florence to Mobile, and any compal
;, will be free to consturuct the road. MI
thousand dollars we appropriated by Il
= legislature for the survey.
Ex-President Cleveland has just Civ
his check for handsome amount in a
u of the endowment of the Southern +
= male University at Florence, Ala. T
~ ~ Rev. DIR. Bass, president OF the Univ'
~ sity. saws: 'I was much. surprised
u the courtesy extended me by Mr.. Cle'
land. Thia contribution is another I
II idence of his interest in education"
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