The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-07-03
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These Late News Notes Wt;l R,.
fresh You.
a Digest of all the Princ;,., H.
pening in Our Galaxy of
Southern States:
VIRGINIA.

mill is being built at Covington. W !"
, A charter was granted in r.v,cbh,u
70 the Southern Electric Comnonv
Inc City Point Land Improvement
EomPany have bought 5000 acres q
mno nnn In Prince George county for 5000,
aH ssaua1un s9a gbst e .5a Pr
an infant in its cradle Wednesday.
At Lexington "Stonewall" jackson,
body was removed Thursday mornins
from the grave where it had dTested since
1874, and quietly placed in the yaul
punt Tor 1t. over which the monumen,
is at once to be erected.
Two new summer schools are to he in.
sututed at the University of Virginia.
Charlottesville, this year, the schools OF
medlcine and modern languages. Each
oi inc new schools is under the guidance
| OF competent faculty, and will no
doubt be as successful as the older
| schools, those of law, engineering. etc
Several hundred students are expected
10 be in attendance all the summer.
The earnings of the Lynchburg and
Durham Raili Dad for May, 1890. as com.
pared with June, 1891, showed an increase
OF Just 100 per cent. at the meeting in
i!ynchburg last week. At this meeting
the restriction requiring the president
and vice-presidents to be residents of
Virginia or North Carolina was removed.
andAW G. Houston, of Philadelphia'
was elected president to succeed p. ].
Otey. Messrs. Otey and j. s. Carr were
elected vice presidents, and board of
10 directors was chosen. The board of
directors were instructed to consider the
construction of an extension from Dur
iam south to connect with the Raleigh
and CASTOR railroad.
NORTH CAROLINA.
The Forsyth Savings Bank, of Wins.
ton, has declared an extra dividend of
J per cent.
One more cotton mill for Concord
this being the sixth. 1t is proposed to
start with $75, 900, 50,000 of which is
already subscribed.
The North Carolina penitentiary is not
only self-supporting but is every month
paying something into the State Treas
ury.
James M. Moring, ex-Speaker of the
his home in PittsboFs Thursday. y.
Forty.sev carrier pigeons were re-
lessed at Winston, Saturday, for their
home in Newark, N. j.
Notices are being sent to each of the
campment at Wrightsville, July 29-Aug-
ust 1. It is roughly estimated that half
the number will attend. If so it viii, be
notable gathering. q.
The seat made vacant in the directory
of the G. F. & Y. V. railroad by the death
Of Col Gray, has been filed by the ac-
tion of the board in electing r.. Percy
Gray a director. At the same meeting
Dr.. w. A. Lash, Of Walnut Cove, was
chosen president of the company, and r..
Percy Clay was continued in the posi-
tion of assistant president.
The merchants of the State have con
tribu cd to fund and have employed
Hon. George Davis and Mr.. Rouu',ee, Of
Wilming'on, who have brought suit in
The United States District Gourv for the
| Easter District Of North Carolina, be-
fore Judge Seymour, TO test the constitu.
tionaIity OF the merchants purchase lax
SOUTH CAROLINA.
| $100 was raised at Greenwood for the
Jefferson Davis Monument fund.
Gen. Hnguenin says there will be nc
summer e1canpment of state troops.
st. Johns Day was celebrated by
picnic at O-augeburg by the Free Masons
An estimate that is considered fai
one by rice men, places this years croI
in South Carolina at 1 200, 900 bushels.
Governor Tillman delivered an ad
dress on Wednesday last to the pupils o
Cedar Springs Institute for the Deaf snt
Blind 1t was very eloquent and i'm
pressiveS says the News and Courier.
The State Board of Canvassers met al
Columbia and disposed of the Probate
Judge contest by deciding in favor Of th
contestant, Green, who had majority o,
the face of the return.
Coosaw settlement and the surround
ing Glands were visited Monday afte,
noon with very severe blow. and th
numerous truck farms on the island wer
severely damaged. Hail fell with th
rain, and the lightning was so blindin
and iucessant that the heavens bad th
appearance of being ablaze with elet
uicity.
At Silver Grove, Putnam county
James Mitchell and Oscar Plunkett she
and Eilled each other Sunday.
T,ipoE has beel found underneath ii
"white oak slashes" of Lew:encebur;
; This substance is used as polishin
powde', and lives is name from Il
No:sh AfiIan county in which it WI
first discove. cd ald utilized for polishin
stones and metals A company has bee
O ia lized TO mine and make. the Law
rencebu.g tcipoli.
James Lane Allen, authe- o. the tw
|. famous SORES, s'S,s.er Do!o, osa an
"Flu C ald V'ol'o," de.iye ed the anu
sl add cys at Nsadeob,lt Unive.sk
/. at Nashville. during which he ST.
IS ms. S.owc. might hsyc. beea a g.ea
a w;ter IL she had ancld Ia mind that q
MayHower sailed from the landing Of {!
Pi|2:ins 10 the the purchase o. ca-t
l. Of slaves on the sbores OF Africa. Sla
: Pe.y Is not VIC c,imc Of the Sou b, but
, tho whole Union. The responsibility
!" in pert on the South, in part on Englan
10 In mart IN the whole nation and in Di