The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-02-20
SOUTHERN STATE NEWS.
Happenings of Importance For A
Week.
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Write-Up Here Free of Charge,
and No Questions Asked.
VIRGINIA.

VIRGINIA.
Lexington has secured large plant for
the manufacture of edge tools The
plant to nc erected will cost $2NO, 900,
and will give employment to 800 men.
Everyone in business circles is predict
ing an unprecedented "boom" for Staun-
ton rs soon as the weather will permit the
building of factories, shops, houses for
hands, etc.
-IridtfRdl d riasxell ll3Ftct9 tAYynsssasiS
for boys, of the Protestant Episcopal
Church of Virginia, at Alexandria, fell
dead at the breakfast table Thursday.
The Hon. A. II. II. Stewart, ex-sccre-
tary of the interior in President Filmorc's
cabinet and member of the Peabody
educational board, is critically i'll at
Staunton and is expected to die at any
time.
Col. Richard F. Bcirne, formerly edit.
or of the Richmond State, died at his
home in Ashland Monday night.
During the first five weeks of its opera
zion the Bucna Vista iron furnace has
shipped l,500 tons of pig iron to various
Northern points.
A temperance crusade has started at
South Boston. The pastors of the Bap-
tist, Methodist and Presbyterian church
es are at the head of the movement.
NORTH CAROLINA.
Ten weeks free tuition, beginning
Mo.ch 18th. will be given by the State
University to teachers. Wutc 10 rrcsi-
dent Battle for particulars.f
The directors of the Atlantic and North
Carolina railroad have applied to the leg
isiature to so amend the charter as to cx-
tend from Goldsboro to Charlotte.
Raleigh has raised so, 600 for the In
ter-Statc Exposition, and it will he held
in that city next fall. Every county in
the State should help Ralci gh to make
this an affair worthy the State
Capt. II. r. Smith, agent at tn" Rich,
mond and Danville freight depot in
Charlotte, says that three times as much
cotton has been handled at the depot. up
10 the present time, this season, rs was
handled during all of last season. One
OF the Charlotte congresses has com
pressed so far SO, 800 bales, against So,
000 the same date of last year. The Nc
Faddcn press at the junction has handled
about 5000.
Everyone connected With the State
Just now sendins out, ,taSs ssor tisizer
bags; 100, 900 tags have been shipped
during the week. 1t will take 500, 600
tags to supply the demand this season.
The house of representatives passed
the railroad commission bill. 1t is the
bill with few slight amendments, that
passed the senate. 1t provides for three
commissioners to be elected by the Gen
cral Assembly, and they are given the
power to fix and regulate freight and
passenger rates, to regulate telegraph
and express companies, and to prevent
all determinations.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
The South Bound railroad is being
graded from Columbia to Grahams, Al
miles.
G. II. Blanken, of Charleston, has Sc.
cured patent and is now having his
Improved removable sidings for beds"
manufactured.
j. b. Williams, who murdered Major
w. A. Williams at Greenville on Friday
night, and has since been fugitive from
j"eticc, was captured near Wayncsville,
N. c., and brought back to Greenvi!le.
A reward of $500 was offered for his
capture.
j. L. Withers has resigned his place in
the agricultural department of South
Carolina. He did not desire to work un-
der the Tillman administration, by which
he has been retained as clerk of the board
of trustees of the department of agricul-
turc.
At the last session of the Legislature
the Kansas City, Birmingham, Macon,
Foot Point Railway system obtained per-
mission to enter this State. The road is
an air line from Kansas CITY TO Foot
Point. A construction company. with
John Temple Graves as general man.
ager, has already, it is said, began opera
lions on the South Carolina section of the
road, which will run through Colieton
and Hampton counties. The company,
1t is reported, has bought largely of land
npar Foot pnint