The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-03-27
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Vided for them. The fire DESTROYING tbe
entire west wing of the Nashville asv-
ium necessitated the removal. Five
charred and unrecognizsble bodies have
been recovered.
Greene County has subscribed $50 0OO
70 ald In building the Unaka and NoIa
chuckey Railroad. This railroad is pro-
Jecteo TO run from Morristown, Tenn,
" Erwin, In unicoi county; thence east
wardiy through several counties of North
carolina to some prominent point of con
pectlon with the Cranberry orc deposits
OF that State. Should this be accom-
pllshed, it will become valuable feeder
TO the Morristown s. Cumberland Gan
Railroad. Work on the latter road Is
making good progress.
GEORGIA.
Jere Halls has been appointed Insnec-
,or OF Oils for the Macon district vico
Hon. Tom Hardeman, deceased.
not at all prehensiye aba, s.ais d.
as the steady. westerly winds Of the past
several days have driven the water out.
Maj, e. l.. Tyler, general manager OF
'1c Atlanta and West Point Railroad.
was at Atlanta elected president of the
Atlanta and Florida Railroad, in place of
PRESIDENT Robert Maddox, resigned.
savanuah's cotton receipts passed be-
'ond the 1000, ,OOO-bale point for the
season Thursday, and the cotton men en-
Enthusiastically celebrated the event by a
banquet.
There are no delinquent subscribers in
'!uhpkin county, says the Atlanta Con-
,ut"tion: Every farm in that section
las gold mine attachment. Even the
editors are growing rich.
State Commissioner of Agriculture Ne,.
ut, assisted by DR.. Hunnicut, is prepa,
'ng book designed to be a source q;
general information about the state fo,
general distribution both at home and
abroad. "''
The completion of the Gainesville
Watcrwnrks nj q east of $9t ,eaa. .os,--tyus
hat enterprising and growing sity a wa.
er supply system equal to any in the
south, the supply being at least 300, 600
gallons per day.
MIR. b. F. Bibb, of the Folsom stock
iarm near Adairsville, has among his herd
ol Jerseys sixteen-months old cow thai
gives three gallons of milk, and about
one pound and three quarts of buffer
daily. This beats the record.
FLORIDA.
A $50, 900 National Bank has been or
ganized at Green Cove Springs.
An artesian we'll is being sunk at Live
Oak
The great meetings of Rev. Sam Jones
at Pensacola have come to a close. Three
meetings were held daily, and the aver.
age attendance was 5000.
The case of Alexander Campbell, in
dicted for the murder of Miss Mamie
Joseph in st. Augustine last September.
has been set for trial in Jacksonville at
the May term of Court.
A bill passed the 5tst Congress for a
survey and estimate for railroad from
the mainland to Key West, and for ca
nal connecting the same with the Johns
river for military and naval purposes.
A Tallahassee special says: "News
has been received here of the burning OF
large saw mill at Carrabelle belongings
to the Carrabelle, Tallahassee and Georgia
SoihpohNs wv IeeC OIL
first-class pine lumber ware also DESTROY
ed. The mills, machinery and building,
were also destroyed.
The Alabama, Florida and Western
Railroad has been projected to start from
Quincy. town on the line of the Florida
Central & Western, run pearly due north
to Bainbridge, on the Savannah q rf6ri.
da Road, and thence northwesterly.
The U. s. Government has presented
the town of Tampa with the Fort Brooke
military reservation for the benefit of free
schools.
The Quitman & Tampa Railroad has
been projected to run between Quitman.
on the Savannah, Florida g. Western
Railroad in Georgia, and the city of Tam
pa. The proposed route is an air line
some $50 miles long. passing through the
orange belt and some of the richest phos-
phate deposits yet discovered in the lat
ter State.
OTHER STATES.
Captain Charles Fowler, agent of the
Morgan steamship line in Galveston. il
dead. He was widely known, and dur
ing the war occupied prominent position
in the confederate navy.
The incorpo,ators of the Pan American
Transportation Company are called to
meet at Mobile ON April 18th, for the
purpose of organizing company and
electing directors. The books will then
be open for stock subscriptions.
No Legislative act was over more on
perfume than the Mississ'., Emergency
bill, which passed both houses of Con-
gress just before the final adjournment.
The $1, 900, 900 appropriated for (imme-
diate use enabled the Mississippi River
Commmission to hold itself in readiness
to fight the floods then impending and
which have since poured into the delta.
What It Costs to Murder I'm Tibet.
I had arrived at Kanze in an evil hour,
in the midst Of the festivities of the 18th
Of the fourth moon, when the people
from far and near congregate there and
the chiefs review their men, and when
drinking and fighting are the order OF
the day. In Tibet nearly every crime is