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

Robert Bland shot and'a Killed James
Legg, of ofFanquier county, Tuesday night.
The Carnaval dc la Mer opened in
Richmond Tuesday to continue ten days.
Sales of leaf tobacco at Danville for
Harch, $4,000 lbs. sales for the first six
,aonths of the present tobacco year, 3d.
0Oo, 900 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 barkentine 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
10 standard guage at once and increase
'he rolling stock.
Judge Brooke, of Norfolk, granted a
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
tmum capital stock is $1,000 Hon.
Barton Myers is president.
7. b. Proctor, of the Parlor Car Com
fany, was run over and killed Tuesday
by passenger train or the Richmond.
Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad
within few miles of Milford Station.
He attemptcded to cross the track short
distance ahead of the moving train. He
~as AZ years old.
NORTH CAROLINA.
A brick and tile manufacturing COM
oany has been organized at Rocky Mount;
capacity 10000 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,
Tuesday, esday,.--~-..-.-,-.,y--
their labors April 1st. A suite of offices
have been fitted up for. them in the first
floor OF the agricultural building, at Raj
eigh.
A postoffice has been established at
Arcanite, Randolph county.
The prayer book of Lietenant Charles
r. Haigh, of Fayetteville, who was kilt
cd May 10, 1864, has just been returned
20 his relatives by d. F. French, Quincy,
Mass.
The largest mortgage deed ever record
ed in Forsyth county was recorded sever
al DAYS since. 1t was for million and a
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 $35, 900. This pays
for eight ranges of barracks, 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 Ashviiic, excepting th'
Vanderbilt palace.
"Uncle" Billy Todd, of Charlotte, Gel
sbrated his ninety-third anniversary las
week. He was deputy sheriff when tn
old colonial courthouse, built of logs ant
raised on posts, stood in Independence
| Soua:,. MIR. Todd is 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 a
around ten per cent.
The bank of Georgetown has been i,
corporated, capital $50, 900.
On Thursday night two colorcd mel
Henry Nesmith and Fowler Prcssle
went fishing with net in Wilson's lax
Williamsburg county, and were browne
The Charleston, Sumpter and Mort
cru Railroad has been inspected al
opened for traffic as far as Lamar in Ds
Ington County, and it will soon 6
through to Darlington, g. II. Son
Benuettsville" is now the watchword
the company.
A military company has been organ
ed at Williston with Sid Hair as CAPITA
|. and are drilling for the Columbia ct
T. teouial.
j. A great religious revival is in progr
at Ieesville, Lexington county, condu
9 ed by Evangelist Leitch.
& The congregation of Grace Episcol
II church, Anderson, which was injured
Z. fiie lately, will build a new church inste
" ~ of repairing the old one.
:. superintendent of Education Maybe
~ has received handsomely framed dip
.. ma from the committee on premiums
~ the Paris Exposition. The diplo
~, gives the information that the .educati,
" al exhibit of South Carolina in 1889 at
Exposition has been awarded this pre-
ay aud 1d,n.s ,ans the seal df the committee.
n SaturrIsw which NJ. s-sss.- -1ss
$ We tns., = the most imnoco nS Completed
Il South CaroIiDa II tho industrial bisto,'' eve
: are much ua mi..a,nce since the war s,oIy ",
too senso stass.s consequence sRa, to u, not pro,
~. TENNEssEE.
: ,ne presidential Il cIaaa Ia.,an has been raised
.iIls ISlseVeSn,ty.ive employee.
.hons o q Chattanooga q Sc OF the Nash.
rps at =, Nashville have BE- bs,n louis railway
.onpes, ans Chattanooga Cha Union '1 ni discharged
0'l' railroad in tho tho Units% UhaiiisTay, the