The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-01-16
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VIRGINIA.


VIRGINIA.
A little girl was accidentally shot and
killed in Fairfax county q few days ago
by her brother.
The Port Norfolk Land Company, has
been organized by twenty-five Baltimore
capitalists. Friday they purchased for
$100,000 valuable Norfolk water front
land.
A Merchants Association has been or
ganizsd ss o,leAIsteHi ia RsaaeHHille. Non=bil payers
Mayor Ellys6n, of Richmond, has sign
ed the ordinance which gives the jeff
Davis Mansion to the Ladies' Confederate
Literary Association for the purpose of
making it a museum for the preservation
of confederate relics.
Portsmouth had delightful sensation
Thursday morning. Miss Ada c. Tabb
and j. G. Hudgins, both of whom arc
Just 1S, escaped parental watchfulncss
and boarded train for Halifax, N c.,
where they were married.
Gen. Charles b. Peck, late general
manager of the Atlantic and Danville
road thinks the counties a1d towns in
Virginia subscribing to the company's
stock will lose their money If they do not
DO something at once to protect their in
terests. General Peck claims that the re-
celvers appointed represent only the Eng
lish interests, which have rs yet been on
ly partially paid for, while the Virginiaus
have fully paid for what stock they got.
Jacob w. N. Keeling was found dead
his in 81
bottle of whisky lying beside him. The
deceased was 72 years of age, and was at
one time practicing physician in Nanse-
mond county.
Reports from the bay say that the oys-
ter gunboat Chesapeake is making it hot
for the dredgcrs. During fight near
the Maryland boundary line several DAYS
ago between the Che :apcakc and the
schooner G. w. Reach, sailor on the
latter, named Albert Ketzman, was badly
wounded. The schooner was not can
tured, but another vessel, the Joseph w.
Brooks, was.
NORTH CAROLINA.
An important measure introduced in
the Legislature is a bill to redistrict the
State, both Congressional and Senatorial
dirtricts.
The Office of the Argonant and Warren
l.. Pitts's large store at Rocky Mount,
was burned Monday. The fire is report
Scd to be accidental. Loss several thous-
Ncaf Failston, nine miles from, shx.S.s
John Beam, seven years Did, fell in the
fire during the absence of his parents and
was so badly burned that he died in half
hour.
At the opening Of the Legislature all of
the fifty Senators were present and 106
of the 100 members of the House. Nearly
all the members arc of middle age and
are substantial men, mainly farmers.
Richard A. Doughton, of Allegheny
county, was elected speaker of the lower
house.
+. X. p. Osborne, late owner of the
Charlotte city railway, has failed The
assets and liabilities arc not vet known,
but the latter greatly prcponderate. AL
ALBANIA land speculation was the cause.
Governor Fowle, in his message to the
Legislature, recommended that increased
provisions be made for the public schools
of the State. He also advised that the
proposed system of tonnage tax on fer
uilZers be adopted.
Enoch Wcllman, a well-to do Cleva-
land county farmer, was robbed of $500
one day last week. During the absence
of the family some one entered the house
by cutting a hole in the floor
SOUTH CAROLINA.
The legal executions in the state dur
ing the year were eight in number.
DIR. Kinloch in jected another small dose
OF the Koch lymph into the negro man
at the Charleston city hospital upon whom
the experiment is being made. As far as
judged the lymph is having the desired
effect.
When the appointments of guano in
spectors were made some time ago Gov.
Tillman and J. f. Wannamaker of Or
angeburg, were empowered to select
fourth inspector. The appointment has
been made, w. A. Mackay, of Orangeburg
being the man.
One of the plans of the trustees of the
Clemson College, as described by Pres
ident Simpson, is 'to keeb large num-
ber of sheep on the College farm, from
the sale of the wool of which it is pro-
posed to furnish clothing fund to aid
poor young men, students at the College,
in supplying themselves with clothing
Governor Tillman has offered reward
of $50 for the capture of Alva Scott, who
is wanted in Marion County for the muir
der of Fairlee Hall on Christmas eve.
Prof. F. G. Woodward, of Columbia,
in recent address, said that the south,
and America, in fact, are too young to
have n literature. When England had
been founded 800 years, she had hardly
the beginnings of literature. He init
mated that it would be generations before
our writers and their books cut much of a
figure in the world of letters.
Capt. George ID. Wallace, who was killed
by the Indians in the battle of Wounded