The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-01-09
FIRST EVENTS OF 1891.
A Careful Compilation Of Southern
State News.
The Year is Very Young, But the
Indications are That it Will De-
velop with Lively Occurrences.
NORTH CAROLINA.

will commence mlulng the coal on Iown
Fork at an early day.
The Duke Cigarette Company of Dur
ham arranged d Christmas surprise for
their employees. Every employe was on
amount of his or 1ek her weekly tHshls ea4ai1tSs the
The total pay roll was $1,000.
J. A. d. Stephens, Esq, an accom-
plished mineralogist of Statesville, is pre-
pairing cabinet of North Carolina miu-
erals for exhibition at the Columbian Ex-
position at Chicago in 1892.
A -year-old child of David Clapp.
living near Raleigh, was burned to death
Wednesday from its clothes taking fire
while its father was burning brush.
The Female Academy of Tarboro.
Prof. D. G. Gillespie, principal, was des-
trayed by fire Tuesday
The Peoples National Bank of Fayette-
yille closed its doors Wednesday at noon.
II was organized in 1873 with capital
stock of a hundred aud fifty thousand dol
lars.
DR.. Won Ruck, of Asheville, reports
favorable progress in the condition Of the
young lady patient who was iEoculated
with the Koch lymph recently at his san
itarium for Tuberculosis of the throat
All symptoms as previously outlined were
apparent.
A few months ago Joseph Berry, who
lived near Connolly Springs, was induced
by Mormon Missionaries to sell out his
farm and go with them to Utah. Last week
he returned to Burke, saying that he had
enough of Mormonism.
President Charles f. Taylor, of Wake
Forest College, reports progress in his eff
fort to raise an additional $1,000 for the
college, which amount, if secured BY
March 1st, will be supplemented with
$25, 900 by Mr.. Bostwick, of New York.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
Col. r. G.. Watts has been elected to
the House from Laurens county to fill the
vacancy caused by the res gnation of Sen.
ator-elcct Irby.
A large new plat of land in the north
western portion of the city of Sumter will
soon be laid off and opened to settle
mcut.
1.-The gamblers must CO." is the, edist
& rsmbSns si Siscss Cd tSas g fSsff fssss 8
will Ss-eaftAr be- raided by the PolicesHs
fSand doing business.
The Secretary of State has issued
commission to the Great Fibre Company
Of Charleston. The capital stock is $780,
600, and it is proposed to manufacture
| into marketable shape marsh, grass,
rusbes. Spanish bayonet, bear grass, pal
| mctto and tillandsia reneoides, commonly
called grey moss.
The whole amount of cotton received
at Charleston is now over 10000 bales in
| ..xcoso of the amount of the same time
the previous year.
Another new bank to be known as the
Exchange Bank, with capital of 500,
900, is about to be organized IN Cnarles
ION II is said that Major George 5. Ed
wards is to be the president of this bank
Senator Irby will be the youngcs
} among remarkably large number OF mel
under SO years who will sit in the mex
Senate. lie is only SO. Delegate Dubois
elected the other day as Senator fror
! Idaho, is not yet forty. Other Senator
80 wears old and under are: Wolcott, AZ
Gray, so: Higgins, SO; Spooner, AZ; a
drich, 40; Pettigrew, 20 Dru % So
!. len, As; Faulkner, 4s, and kenna' 30
Two Charleston capitalists have mad
. big purchase, for big money, LAND
: Columbia, near the canal. Besides tn
y s;te the capitalists have bought anoth
y extensive tract, on which it is reportt
u will he erected phosphate mill or an {
- mill. This is only one of great NUMB
~ of Investments in Columbia real esta
)" made recently. The Columbia Land al
y Improvement Company has invested hea
;. ilv On one of the recent purchases IT.
~ u,nnosed to erect $500. 600 cotton mi
.. An this means hrppy new year Tor I
y lumbia.
"A n GEORGIA.
m Dr Jefferson Heard will build an
H. Urinary in Athens, which is TO cost
IT. 600.
lie lie The work of opening the, tine sla Chatsan Raa
isc chez river between West foint ano rra
me lin progresses, and boats will be rum
&c, betweeu those points by early spring.
tas ;ss Miss Allie Peach has come all. the
l,e ~: from England to Albany to become
IT, wife of w. T. Lloyd, a young I
1;r 'ir ploye of the Albany Electric Light q
ide pany. Love laughs at winds, waves
mt distance.
hat The American Association of educa
ono of colored youth convened at Atlanta
,rn: Tncaday. A large number Of promi
doc hut especially from the South, being
ie." emf. Addresses were delivered by NJ
on Glenn, Prof. Kelly Miller, OF Wash
uch ton. and others. Steps were taken
INK the establishment of Chautauqus
here mental and moral culture somewhe'
the South.
Gov. Northen has vetoed two
new bills passed by the legislature
OF which was resolution asking
the President Of the United States TO pa
all prisoners confined within the
=. of for violation of the internal revenue
|. ~ os New Years day the State execu'
.'ea M. the Suwanee Canal Company q det
, 'hos the lands embraced In the Okefel
y y 90 90 swamp and It's vicinity, sold to the
LII .nu pany under authority OF an act o
sn;ns saUm legislature, 100000 acres OF land o
aS at est cents an acre.
re- the The gold fever is starting up ae
nj SanQt(