The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-04-10
HkHE NEWS OF A WEEK.
Southern Men And Measures
Photographed.
Newsy chit-chat and Teleeraphic
Dispatches From Many Points
In Our Own and Adjoin-
ing States.
VIRGINIA.

The Finance Committee of Danviil,
mas recommended high license aud want
TO tax each saloon $500. &
Simon Seward delivered a war addness
IN Petersburg Thursday night before the
-. +. Hill Camp of Confederate Vet
l. Grams
Robert Bland shot and'1 Killed James
Legg, ofFanaaisr county, Tuesday night.
| The Carnaval de Ia Mer opened in
Richmond Tuesday to continue ten days.
| Sales of leaf tobacco ut Danville for
| Iarch, As, 900 lbs. sales for the first six
.aonths of the present tobacco year, g.
, oo,00O pounds, an increase over. the
corresponding period of last year of about
5000, 600 pounds.
Nearly twelve hundred barrels of
Spreckle's sugar were delivered in Alex
andria Wednesday.
The Old Dominion steamer Guyandotte
landed at Norfolk Thursday the captain.
two mates and four seamen rescued from
the sinking barkentinc Addie p. Gould
SIX miles from Winter Quarter.
AT meeting of the Albermarle and
Atlantic railroad directors at Virginia
Beach it was decided to change the track
TO standard guage at once and increase
'he rolling stock.
Judge Brooke, of Norfolk, granted
charter TO the Lambert's Point Knitting
Mills Company. The company Is per
mitted to manufacture and sell wooden,
hemp, flax and silk fabrics. The max
i,num capital stock is $780, 200. Hon.
Barton Myers is president.
7. B. Proctor, of the Parlor Car Com
5sny, was run over and killed Tuesday
by passenger train on the Richmond,
Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad
within few miles of Milford Station.
Hc attemptcdcd to cross the track n short
distance ahead of the moving train. He
vas AZ years old.
NORTH CAROLINA.
A brick and tile manufacturing COM
oany has been organized at Rocky Mount;
capacity 40, 900 per day.
John Steele accidently shot himself in
the knee in Lincolnton, which has neccs.
Stated amputatiou.
a young man named Moore was shot
and killed from ambush in Pitt county,
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their labors krri! 1S.. A suits of Offices
have been fitted up for them in the first
floor OF the agricultural building, at Raj
eigh.
A postofficc has been established at
Arcanite, Randolph county.
The prayer book of Lictenant Charles
Il. IIaigh, of Fayetteville. who was kilt
cd May 12, 1864, has just been returned
20 his relatives by ID. F. French, Quincy,
Mass.
The largest mortgage decd ever record
cd in Forsyth county was recorded sever
al days since. 1t was for million and
half dollars. The mortgage was given
on the Winston Wilkesboro railroad to
the Richmond and Danville railroad.
The building for Bingham's school in
Asheville will cost $4,000. This pays
for eight ranges of barracks, a mess hall,
kitchen and gymnasium. The contract
calls for the completion of the buildings
for occupancy October 31st. This work
will require more brick than any contract
ever vet given in Ashviilo, -onoopting tho
Vanderbilt palace.
"Unclc" Billy Todd, of Charlotte, eel
.bratcd his nincty-third anniversary last
week. lie was deputy sheriff when the
old colonial courthouse. huilt of Log; aud
.aised on posts, stood in Independence
Square. Mr. Todd is a robust old man,
and has never worn glasses in his life.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
The salaries Of the Public School teach.
ers of Charleston have been reduced all
around ten per cent.
The bank Of Georgetown has been in.
! corporatcd, capital go. 900.
On Thursday night two colorcd men,
| Henry Ncsmith and Fowler PRESLEY,
! went fishing with net in Wilson's lake,
Williamsburg county, and were drowned.
The Cha! a!leston, Sumpter and North.
eIu Railroad has been inspected and
opened for traffic as far as Lamar in Oar
lington County, and it will soon get
through to Darlington, G. II. son tt
Bennettsvillew is now the watchword o
the company.
4 military company has been organic
ed at Williston with Sid Hair as captain
aud are drilling for the Columbia cen
leouial.
A great religious revival is in progress
at Lccsville, Lexington county, conduct
cd by Evangelist Lci;ch.
The congregation of Grace Episcopa
church, Anderson, which was injured b,
fire lately will build new church insteat