The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-08-14
The News From North, East, South
and West.
dispatches Received and Recorded
Fresh From the Wire All
For the Dear Reader.


depression, the Birmingham, A Her.
aid reports that over $50, 600 were IN.
vested in new buildings in Birmingham
during the month of July.
Roanoke, Salem and Vinton, Va, have
been trying to relieve the midsummer
dullness by agitating the idea of n tri-
partite consolidation. The three towns
consolidated would make city of 30
900 people.
The phosphate industry is booming in
De Soto county, Fla, where solid bed
of phosphate has been struck few feet
below the surface. Land has advanced
from 81 to $40 an acre, and there is con.
siderable excitement.
The engineer corps engaged in run
ming the route of the Norfolk, Whining
ton & Charleston Railroad is reported to
be making steady progress through the
Great Dismal Swamp of Virginia and
North Carolina. When last heard from
the party was nearing South Mills, from
whence probably two routes will be sur
vcycd, one via Elizabeth City, the other
farther to the north.
The agent aud operator of the GEORGIA
Carolina aud Northern railroad, at Fish
Dam, about forty miles from Columbia.
committed suicide Thursday afternoon
by b'owing out his brains with shot.
Gun.
The big Worlds Fair building will be
a mile around.
Texas has q Fat Mau's Association, the
initiation fee Of which is cent pound,
Men who weigh less than 225 pounds are
ineligible to membership.
The old-fashioned Russian wagon
driver, who carried passengers and
freight long distances in his rude, self
contrived vehicle, is still competing sic-
cessfnlly with the steam horse i'm the
land of the Whits Czar.
In tha 1Iaited Statca oyppges aud lem.
4 Florida. The orange crop Of the iattcf
Is practically out OF the way before. that
of the former is ready for the market
The California orange is of slower growth
than the Florida product and docs not
decay so soon.
Congressman McMillin's Tennessee ad.
mirers are making an active for their fav.
orite for Speaker of the next Congress.
The Canadian Government has re ceiv.
ed information that, owing to the great
promise of the crops in Manitoba and the
Northwest, the Canadian Pacific Rail
road Company has orde cd fifty new To-
comotives and one thousand five hun.
dred box cars to transport the seasons
harvest to the scaboard. 1t is estimated
that it will require ten trains daily for
seven months to move the crop,
Henry Exall native of England, and
the first architect to open an Office in
Virginia, died suddenly in Richmond,
Thursday, of apoplcxy, aged 70 years.
Toe labor trublc In Omaha is spread
ing. More bricklaycrs have gone out for
seven hours on Saturday with eight
hours pay.
Editor George Jones, of The New York
Times, is seriously i'll at>Poiand Springs,
Me. His advanced age seventy nine
years makes his complaint more serious
The White Star line steamer, Majestic,
arrived at New York, Wednesday, hav-
ing crossed the Atlantic in five da s,
eighteen hours and eight minutes, beat
ing the record by fifteen minute
The coal mine at Walnut Cove, okes
county, N. c., recently opened by the
Greensboro Coal and Mining Co., is in
the famous Dan river coal field There
are several seams, but development began
80 recently that none but surface co |
has been taken out. This is semi-b -bitum-
inous, burns freely, giving out great hest
and leaving no clinker.
At the annual meeting of the State
Horticultural Society of Georgia, held
last week at Quitman, there was dis
play of fruits that the delegates pro-
nounced the finest ever made in that
State. The floral exhibits were numer
Gus and most attractive. From the Ala
bama experimental farm, located at Au.
burn, splendid collection of grapes was
received.
At Winston, N. c., Friday, the home
club scored another victory in conte, t
with the visiting team from Washington,
i ID. G. Runs, 9 to Q.
The two post Offices, Winston and
Salem, N. c., will be consolidated and
the general free delivery system applied
to both cities.
AT the meeting of the State Horticul.
t,Tal Society at Greensboro, N. c., last
Wednesday night j. Van Lindley was
reelected president; DR.. G.. X. Faust
vice president; @. f. Surburg, of South
ern Pines, secretary, and j. A. Linebaek,
ofSalem, treasurer.
Hon Thos. S. Bocock, prominent
Virgins legislator died Thursday night
in his residence in appomattox county,
aged 76. -
Fifty.one new industries were estab-
lished in the South last week, although
i was the dullest commercial period Of
the year.
Savannah's first bale of cotton Of this
seasons growth was received here Thurs
day, clsssed middling, and sold for 10
cents per pound, wei he'd 558 pounds.
The second bale arrived in the afternoon.
The Atlanta Piano Manufacturing
Company was closed last week by the
foreclosure Of a mortgage.
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