The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-03-13

oOO by the general government. A bill
ordering this has passed both houses OF
Congress and been approved by the Pres.
ident.
Tlmbervlle is new town on tho line
OF the Broadway & West Virginia
railroad that is soon to be constructed.
1t Is the centre of the great forest regions
or North mountain and Brooks Gan.
The North fork of the Shenandoah river
runs through the town.
NORTH CAROLINA.
Sam Jones has been invited and will
conduct evangelistic services in Char
lotte shortly.
The legislature passed the bill appro-
priating $4,000 annually for geologi-
cal survey of the state.
The vacancies in the state bond of ar,i-
culture We're filled by the legislature as fol-
lows: First.district, j. B. Coffield, fourth
w. F. Green, eighth, s. F. Patterson
On Tuesday night, David Jones. of
cape Lookout Saving station, about a
mile south of the camp, found in the
wash of the sea the dead body of a man.
The body was without clothes of any
kind. The arms were off at the shout
ders and legs off at the hips.
In the state senate Thursday bill to an
propriatc $25, 900 to secure exhibit at
Chicago, failed to pass; this raised n
great howl, and at night this action was
reconsidered and the bill passed the SEN
ate unanimously.
The census officer announced the pop.
ulation of North Carolina races AZ fol-
lows: whites, 1,040, 0,101; coiored 267.
ITO; Indians, 1,571; Chinese, Is; total,
1917, 947.
The agricultural areAMRAttMAat e4Psf}htRt Aataslopss a.;
Spartanburg, Darlington and Columbia
have been sold. They brought $5, 900,
30, 500 and IS, 500 respectively.
Senator Edmunds. Miss Edmunds and
other distinguished tourists were in Co
lumbia Thursday en- route to Camden.
Branches of the Atlanta Building and
Loan Association have been organized in
Yorkville and Florence.
Thos. N. Berry and L. D. Childs, of
Chester, have been appointed as dele
gates from this State to the Right Wor-
thy Grand Lodge, I. o. G. r., which
meets in Edinburg, Scotland, in May.
Robert Mill has has prepared plans
for the erection OF church at Spartan
burg for the Baptists to cost 100000
The students of the South Carolina
College for women visited the State
House Tuesday afternoon. They were
evidently delighted with their visit.
The erection of the $4,000 school
building haa -haen- at New
berry.
The Anderson Building s. Loan Asso-
citation, which will wind up its business.
will declare a dividend of about 65 per
cent.
Gaffney City has voted to subscribe
$40, 600 to the projected Cape Fear and
Cincinnati Railroad.
GEORGIA.
Wade Hampton will deliver the ad.
dress at Augusta, April 81, at the reunion
of his old brigade.
A correspondent says that large por-
tion of the peach and plum crop has been
killed or badly injured in the vicinity of
Davisboro.
Georgia's pension laws went into effect
March I, and from that date the widow
of each Confederate soldier will get an
annuity of 800. Alabama has also at
last recognized their claims, but their
share will scarcely be half so large.
The John p. King Manufacturing Com.
pany, of Augusta, has made direct ship
ment of cotton goods to Manchester,
England.
Governor Northen has instituted a re.
form in the management of the Georgia
prison camp that will meet with the
hearty commendation of humanitarians.
He has ordered that hereafter male and
female cOnvicts must be kept in separate
apartments, and that no communication
must be allowed between them.
TENNESSEE.
The legislature has passed bill to
build a monument to John Sewer, the
first governor of Tennessee.
The bill authorizing the issuance of
$500, 600 of bonds by Knoxville has pass
ed the legislature and become law.
Three men were killed and thirteen
wounded In an accident at Whltwell, on
the Tennessee Coal Company's incline
railway.
A printer employed on The Chattano
ga News, Jim Compton, shot Harry Her
bert in the neck. The wound is proba
bly, fatal one.
In the senate Thursday the bill creating
bureau of labor, statistics and mines,
with commissioner at salary of 81, 500,
whose duties are to inspect mines, mills
and factories and gather labor statistics,
was passed, only two negative votes be-
ing recorded.
Nashville has but few runaway we'd
dings, consequently social circles were
J startled by that one which occurred
Thursday, whom John Means Thompson,