The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-03-06
NORTH CAROLINA.

lie as suitable man for KailFAs66l s66l-c9W -c9W.
EssSss and - Governor
Jarvis. $50 ~
Raleigh offers IS, 600 for the retention
of the Deaf and Dumb Asylum, and
Thomasville 100 acres of land. These
places are the only bidders so far.
Harriet KcKesson, colored woman
living on Johns river whose husband was
in the Federal army, drew $500 back
pension last week. A part of this she
immediately invested in real estate near
Morganton.
The solicitors salary bill has been de-
featcd in the Legislature and the States
attorneys will hereafter be paid as here.
tofore, by four dollars contributed by
each person convicted, or by two 6ars
by the county in each case where the
four dollars cannot be made out OF the
convict.
The Charlotte Consolidated Construc.
tion Company has given out the contract
for making brick and building hand.
some pavilion in their new park, and
awarded the contract for the power sta.
tion and entire electrical equipment
for their electrical railroad to the Edison
company.
w. -.,. rs.a,uIo HIS Ut last located the
Agricultural and Mechanical CulIege
a; Louispurg, that town having offered
Sc, 500 in cash and lands stated to be
worth 81 10, 900 and the necessary bnild-
ings. The college is to remain at shaw
University here until the builds"gs at
Louisburg are ready for occupancy.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
The report is verified that Chew & Co.,
of New York, are in treaty 20 place a
81, ,eGG. 600 mill on the "1sland," near the
southern terminus of the Columbia Canal.
Secretary of the State Tindal appointed
Jas. NJ Cooper. Of Sumter. as assistant
agent of public lands. The appointment
was confirmed by the commission.
In the Circuit Court at Charleston
Wednesday an order was signed appoint
ing Governor ID. III. Chamberlain per-
manent receiver for the Three C's Road
which will now be operated in connec-
tion with the South Caroline Railway, of
which Gov. chamberlain is also receiver.
w. j. Rcdding, of Charleston has p,r
chased the Anderson granite quarries in
Fairfield county for $24 ,G1O and will de-
velop them.
The executive committee of the State
| Teachers Association, of which Prof. d.
B. johnson is chairman, is now consider
ing the time and place foI the next annu-
al meeting of the Association.
In the United States court at Charles
ton judgment was rendered i'm favor of
j. p. Dickerson. OF New York, for So
762 against the York township, in York
county. The suit was brought to force
the payment of the coupons of bonds is
sued in aid of the Charleston, Cincinatti
and Chicago railroad.
| merchant in Columbia last FRIDAY
found live cat packed i'm a crate of
crockery that he was opening. The
crockery was shipped from New JERSEY
eleven days previous.
Miss Ella Davidson, of Yorkville ha,
offered herself as foreign missionary.
and she may be sent by her church to ia
pan at an early day.
A special from Greenville says: Shcr
i'll Griffith early Tuesday morning cap
tured Little Bill Howard, a picturesque
mountain character, who escaped Jail las
November in his wife's clothes. Howard
was convicted here last summer of tn,
murder of Ben Ross, in the mountains o
this county, in February, 1888, and wa
sentenced to hang.
GEORGIA.
The town of Wadley boasts six artesial