The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-01-16
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lhe president has nominated Laura H.
Wilder, of Forsyth, as postmaster.
Atlanta is to have new station house
for city prisoners.
A photographer pitched his tent in
Monroe Monday and that night some
mischievous boys cut the ropes. The
wind blow the tent away, and the pho
tographer, thinking it was warning to
quit, fled the town.
The death of the little n-year- old
| daughter of John Brantlcy, an engineer
of the Savannah cotton mills, was a sad
| and terrible one. While she and several
other children were playing brush fires
her clothing caught fire and she was
| burned to crisp.
Governor Northern has written letter
TO the secretary of war, asking that Lieu
tenant c. B. Satterlee, of the United
hs dssBEsa " iHstsss4S5 ees
r. t. Mullikin, who has been MISSING
from Walton county for about ten davs.
was found dead in creek near Richard's s
store, in Morgan county.
A company was formed at Cordele TO
| buy out 1000 acres of land at the junc-
| ton OF the Savannah, Amcricus and
Montgomery and the East Tennessee, Vir-
Sinla and Georgia railroads. The com
| pany commences business with paid -up
| capital stock Of 300, 600, and will com
| mcnce business at once in the new town
| of Helena.
TENNESSEE.
f. S. Peck, of Frankfort. Kansas. has
been appointed receiver of the Farmers
and Merchants bank, of Clarksvillc.
Governor Taylor appointed Hon. John
4. Moon, of Chattanooga, Judge of the
| fourth judicial district of Tennessee. to
fill the vacancy created by the death of
| Judge ID. ID. Trcwhitt.
There were five men executed by law
in Tennessee during the year 1900.
The American Dialect Society held a
meeting in Nashville this week. The
people who feel so much interest in dia-
lcct are the very first to turn the cold
shoulder to those who speak it.
The funeral of Judge Trcwhitt at Chat
tanooSa Tuesday, was attended bv a
large concoursc of people. Few men in
Chattanooga had more warm personal
friends than Judge Trcwhitt.
In clccting presiding officers for the
two houses, says the Knoxville Journal,
the Tennessee Legislature seems to have
made good choice in each instance.
men of character and ability.
Twenty y-sevcn of the worst prisoners in
the county jail at Chattanooga, who had
rcvollcd and refused to enter their cells
from the corridor, nave been starved into
submission. At II o'clock in the morn
ing twelve submitted, and at ) O'Clock in
the afternton the other fiftsen, hungry
and cold, gave in. The janitor and as,
sasaa slsssnss its. armed with Winehsstsrs had
gang. was headed by Bud Gordon who
murdered Deputy Sheriff Gordon, and
several of the convicts would stop at
nothing to gain their freedom.
FLORIDA.
The Masonic grand lodge of the State
of Florida will assemble in jacksonville
Oh Tuesday.
Florida is to contest with Chicoro
team for superiority in live bird shooting
and The Times Union predicts that Florio
da will win.
The annual meeting of the State Teach
crS' Association which was to have been
held i'll Tampa next month, has been
postponed until March.
III. A. Tanner has sued the CITY of De-
Land for s., ZOO damages He fell from
sidewalk several months ago and has
been LAM ever since.
On Arbor day, January 9, Il new Uni
ted States flag, presented by DIR. Chase.
was hoistcd, with suitable ceremonies. on