The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-01-30
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total for his two years of Office of eiSb,
hundred and one
=, The Cumberland Gap Cement & Limo
company has been organized at Cumber-
iand Gap, with G. G.. West, president.
ana }: F. Grant, secretary. This com.
Pahy Is reported as to cxpend $25, COO i'm
ueVeioplng the cement rock and lime
stone quarries near Cumberland Gap.
In t!e Legislature Wednesday ioint
resolution was passed to postpone action
on the bill appropriating $3.50, 900 to
make an exhibit of Tenncssee's resources
at the Colombian Exposition at Chicago
IN 1893, until the fipal disposal of the
Lodge National Election bill.
Ihe Newport News x Mississippi Val
Icy and the Louisville, New nrispns d.
their new passenger depot Sunday at
Memphis. 1t is handsome structure.
Minneapolis, MINI, parties arc report
ed as endeavoriDg TO purchase the iron
and coal mines in McLemore cove, near
Chattanooga for the purpose of building
new town on the property.
GEORGIA.
There were eleven legal executions in
the State during 1870.
An clipping couple from Pike county
skipped to Columbus Wednesday and
were married. After the ceremony the
parents were notified by telegraph.
countryman, Lee Grant, was robbed
of $500 at Augusta while riding on an
electric car. He had it in his pocket
when he got on. the car, and discovered
when he got off that it was gone.
The Georgia newspapers report in.
9ulres as to Georgia from all parts OF the
North and West. The result will proba-
bly be great number Of new settlers in
1891.
The sensation of the day in Savannah
is tine defeat of Mayor Schwarz for re-
election. The vote stood: Schwarz 1. :.
295, McDonough 1879. Mayor elect
McDonough was born in Augusta, has
served Chatham county in the tegisla-
ture of 1928.
The Board of TIade of Americus is
moving in the matter of establishing
glass factory at that point.
Brunswick has received an addit;ona,
$4,000 to assist in the survey of the outer
bar Colonel Lester secured this amount
which makes 81, 900 in all which has
been appropriated for the work by the
government. This action results in a
saving of $4,000 to the taxpayers of the
city.
1t is reported that $4,000 glass fac
Tory will be erected at Savannah by Nj. j.
Solomans and others. :
The clerk q Epi!3a..s sesaty M ;issss;
TUESDAY, he was asked to record a mort
gage for $15,000,000. The mortgage,
which covered fifty pages of the record
book, is the s15, 900, 900 mortgage, or
deed of trust, given by the East Tennes-
see, Virginia and Georgia Railway Com.
pony to the American Trust Company, of
New York. The mortgage is to secure
that sum in per cent. gold bearing
bonds, dated December /, 1890, and to
run until Demcember I, 1910, a period of
fifty years.
FLORIDA.
Only two men were hung according to
law in the State during 1890.
The Indian River State Bank, of I'll.
tusville, has just paid 16 per cent. annu-
al dividend, besides adding to its sur
plus account.
The articles of incorporation Of the
Florida Rice Manufacturing company, to
be located at Kissimmee have been pub
lished.
F. w. Hoyt, of Fcrnandina, chairman
board of county commissioners, will re-
ceive proposals for $4,000 twenty-year
8 Per cent -bonds.-
The skin business is big thing at Kis-
simmee. One dealer alone bought last
week 200 or 800 alligator hides, 1900
pounds deer skins, 152 otter skins and
76s coon skins. representing about $1,-
200.
A Lake City special says A. A. Ross,
agent of the Southern Express Company,
was robbed of 5000 at an early in the
morning. The robbers attacked him in
his office and after beating him into
sensibility, carried off the money.
In the last year there have been bA
in La Villa, suburb of JacksonvilA :
within stones throw of Bridge street
fourteen brick buildings, costing from
81, 500 up to as high as $25, 200 each.
DR.. Frank Fremont Smith, of st. Au.
gustine, who has just returned from Ber.
lin, where he has been since December 1,
in an interview gives very hopeful but
conservative estimate of the curative val.
ue of Koch's lymph, based upon personal
examination of nearly six hundred cases
under treatment. He brings home a sup.
ply Of the lymph for the Alice Hospital
in st. Augustine. Dr. Neal Mitchell, of
Jacksonville, at present in Berlin, has al
so sent supply of lymph for use in the
Frenkie Schumacher hospital, Jackson.
vile: Both these physicians report All
opinion prevalent among German physi.
clans that the climatic conditions in
Florida offer the best field for successful
treatment with Koch's remedy.
OTHER STATES.
The Etowah Alliance Manufacturing
Co., has erected an oil mill and put same
into operation at Gadsden, Ala.
Gen. James Longstreet is quite i'll at a
hotel in San Antonia, Texas. He is suf-
fcring from an old wound. .ss
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