The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-01-02

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buAding a factory in Rfistoi, Tenn, @
hrauufactnring medicines.
The warehouse and distillery of Ste
phens & Co., near Cartner's Station,
Greene Co., was burned Tuesday night,
together with $50 barrels of whiskey.
Loss about $1s, 200 on whiskey and Sc, :
600 on house and machinery. Insurance
on whiskey, $4,000. Fire supposed to
he incendiary. The Government revenue
tax on the whiskey destroyed would have
amounted to about $2s, 600.
In Blount county, about 12 miles from
Maysvillc, Friday night, man named
Morton, prominent citizen of the coun-
ty, was shot through the right breast and
killed. He was sitting by his fireside
when some one unknown entered and fir
ed the fatal ball, and escaped.
1t is said that there is more money in cir
culation among the farmers of Warren
county now than at any time during the
last four or five years -McMinnvillc
Standard.
A Chattanooga special says Tin plate
has been made in st. Louis by the Gran
itc Iron Rolling Mills, the sheet to be
dipped having been rolled from basic
steel made by the Southern Iron Compa-
ny. Of this city. st. Louis men write that
they are delighted with the materials II
is excellent for the purpose, and they
propose to use it steadily. Tin plate from
Chattanooga steel means making the fin
ishcd article here in due time.
A Knoxville dispatch says: There was
decided earthquake shock here Tuesday
Persons i'll the surrounding country re
port that the shock was so severe that
houacs were shaken and dishesrattled In
this city persons were reused from their
sleep and much startled.
FLORIDA.
The orange crop is turning out fair and
good prices realized.
Alach,a has hundreds of acres planted
in lettuce.
A fresh watermelon adorns the window
of the DcSotoicounty court, at Arcadia.
Safc-blowers got in their work last
$50 from the safe of the Cypress Lumber
company,
Two convicts, one murderer and the
other burglar, escaped from the Dunnel-
lon mines last week. They were hunted
with bloodhounds, but the dogs lost the
scent and freed an innocent colored man.
Along the st. Johns river, Strawberries.
cabbages, caulitlowcrs, celery, and in fact
al! varieties of vegetables are in a flour
ishing condition
The Florida Young Peoples Society of
Christian Endeavor is making preparations
for the state convention of that organiza-
tion, to be held the 18th, 10th. and 18th
of January, 1891, at Orlando.
New Smyrna is putting her best foot
forward ,and.will petition Congress to have
her harbor opened and improved There
is now about twelve feet OF water on the
bar and from sixteen to twenty feet inside
up to the town. Three years ago there
vera sixteen feet on the bar.
OTHER STATES.
New Orleans is making extensive pre-
parations for the celebration of Mardi
Gras, which comes on the 10th of Febru-
ary. The carnival will be on a grand
scale, and the New Orleans papers assert
the pagcants will eclipse in briiliancy any
of its predecessors.
Representative Lanham, reelected from
the 1lth Congressional district of Texas.
represents nincty-sevcn counties that a.c
said To exceed in area ten States. One of
the counties in his district is I, 900 miles
by rail from his home.
Mrs. jefferson Davis is now at the home
OF an old family friend, DR.. j. Harvie
Dew. New York. Her time has been oc.
cupicd to some extent in revising tho
proofs of her biography of her husband,
which is now in the publishers hands.
The steamboat Lake Washington. plv-
ing between Monroe and points on the
bayou dArbonnc, Louisiana, was burned
Friday morning with five hundred bales
OF cotton. The cargo was valued at $a5,-
600. The boat wa, -ya,'' ant s;,S,G,qsaL !,
with insurapce. 6 s s"1kne', Aa' a.,. NJ =. h.,
Two Charleston -Gfucd at $fo,