The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-01-16
UNION G. H., SOUTH G.
GEORGIA.


Wilder, of Forsyth, as postmaster.
Atlanta is to have a new station house
for city prisoners.
A photographer pitched his tent in
Monroe Monday and that night some
mischievous boys cut the ropes. The
wind blew the tent away, and the pho
tographer, thinking it was warning to
quit, fled the town.
The death of the little ten -year-old
daughter of John Brantlcy, an engineer
of the Savannah cotton mills, was q sad
and terrible one. While she and several
other children were playing brush fires
her clothing caught fire and she was
burned to crisp.
Governor Northern has written a letter
TO the secretary of war, asking that Lieu
tenant G. B. Satterlac, of the United
States army. be detailed as instructor and
Inspector oil inc georgia volunteer forces
r. T Mullikin, who has been missing
from Walton county for about ten days,
was found dead in creek near Richards
store, in Morgan county.
A company was formed at Cordele to
buy out 1000 acres of land at the junc-
ton OF the Savannah, Amcricus and
Montgomery and the East Tennessee, Vir-
glnia and Georgia railroads. The COM
pany commences business with a paid-up
capital stock of 800, 600, and will com
mcnce business at once in the new town
of Helena.
TENNESSEE.
f. S. Peck, of Frankfort. Kansas, has
been appointed receiver of the Farmers
and Merchants bank, of Clarksvillc.
Governor Taylor appointed Hon. John
a. Moon, of Chattanooga, Judge of the
fourth judicial district of Tennessee. to
fill the vacancy created by the death of
Judge ID. ID. Trewhitt.
There were five men executed by law
in Tennessee during the year 1890.
The American Dialect Society held a
meeting in Nashville this week. The
people who feel so much interest in dia-
lcct are the very first to turn the cold
shoulder to those who speak it.
The funeral of Judge Trcwhitt at Chat
tanooSa Tuesday, was attended by a
large concoursc of people. Few men in
Chattanooga had more warm personal
friends than Judge Trcwhitt.
In electing presiding officers for the
two houses, says the Knoxville Journal,
| the Tennessee Legislature seems 10 have
made a good choice in each instance.
men OF character and ability.
Twenty-seven of the worst prisoners in
the county Jail at Chattanooga, who had
rcvolfcd and refused to enter their cells
from the corridor, have been starved into
submission. At II o'clock in the morn
ing twelve submitted, and at 5 O'Clock in
| the afternton the other fiftsen, hungry
! and cold, gave in. The ianitor and as,
isss Sisssn.s armed with " iashss.srs, bad q
gang was headed by Bud Gordon. who
murdered Deputy Sheriff Gordon. and
several of the convicts would stop at
nothing to gain their freedom.
FLORIDA.
The Masonic grand lodge of the State
of Florida will assemble in Jacksonville
on Tuesday.
Florida is to contest with a Chicapo
team for superiority in live-bir shooting.
and the Times Union predicts that Flori
da will win.
The annual meeting of the State Teach
| ers' Association which was to have been
postponed until March.
II. A. Tanner has sued the CITY of De-
Land for $1,000 damages He fell from
sidewalk several months ago and has
been lame ever since.
On Arbor day, January 8, new Uni
ted States flag, presented by DIR. Chase,
was hoisted, with suitable ceremonies. on
the Observatory of the Graded High
school building at Ocala.
The casting of q turn-table plate for
| the use of the $. F. railroad at Kissim-
mec was recently successfully accomplish
ed by the South Florida foundry in Or
lando. The casting weighs 2, $50 pounds.
A mass meeting to organize the phohi-
bition party in the State of Florida has
been called at Ocala by Samuel Dickey
chairman of the national committee: i
Lloyd Thomas, secretary of the national
committee; and I. Mcqueen Auld of Or
lando, chairman of the State committee.
Productive and Abandoned Farms in