The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-03-27

noffsat at Bolivar, w. ~. - I0s5i
and comfortable quarters have been pro.
vided for them. Tho fire destroying the
entire west wing Of the Nashville asy-
ium necessitated the removal. Five
charred and unrecognizable bodies have
been recovered.
Greene County has subscribed CSC, 900
TO aid IN building the Unaka and Nois
Chuckey Railroad. This railroad is pro-
Jccted to run from Morristown, Tenn,
TO Erwin, in Unicoi county; thence east
wardly through several counties of North
Carolina to some prominent point of con-
Dection with the Cranberry orc deposits
of that State. Should this be accom-
plished, it will become valuable feeder
70 the Morristown & Cumberland Gan
Railroad. Work on the latter road is
making good progress.
GEORGIA.
Jere Halls has been appointed Inspec-
;or OF Oils for the Macon district, vice
Hon. Tom Hardcman, deceased.
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no. e an sppysbepslze s se4 saeae Isls, aEs
rs the steady westerly winds Of the past
several days have driven the water out.
Maj. E. l.. Tyler, general manager o,
nc Atlanta and West Point Railroad
was at Atlanta elected president of the
Atlanta and Florida Railroad. in place of
President Robert Maddox, resigned.
savannah's cotton receipts passed be-
'ond the 1000, 600 bale point for the
season Thursday, and the cotton men en-
Enthusiastically celebrated the event by II
banquet.
There are no delinquent subscribers in
'sumpkin county, says the Atlanta Con
.itutlon. Every farm in that section
las gold mine attachment. Even the
editors are growing rich.
State Commissioner of Agriculture Mes
hit, assisted by DR.. Hunnicut, is prepa,
'nS book designed to be a source O,
general information about the state fo,
general distribution both at home ana
abroad.
The completion of the Gainesville
-ratGrwnrks- nt-a Sast Of Ssi ,eaa, ,es, ytvus
hat cntcrprising and growing city a wa
cr supply system equal to any in the
south, the supply being at least 300, 600
gallons per day.
Mr. b. +. Bibb, of the Folsom stock
iarm near Adairsville, has among his herd
OF Jerseys sixteen months old cow that
gives three gallons of milk, and about
one pound and three quarts of butter
daily. This beats the record.
FLORIDA.
A $50, 900 National Bank has been or
ganizcd at Green Cove Springs.
An artesian we'll is being sunk at Live
Oak
The great meetings of Rev. Sam Jones
at Pensacola have come to close Three
meetings were held daily, aud the aver.
age attendance was 5000.
The case of Alexander Campbell, in
dicted for the murder of Miss Mamie
Joseph in st. Augustine last September,
has been set for trial in Jacksonville at
the May term of Court.
A bill passed the 51st Congress for a
,urvcy and estimate for railroad from
the mainland to Key West and for ca
nal connecting the same with the Johns
river for military and naval purposes.
A Tallahassee special says "Ncws
has been received here of the burning OF
large saw mill at Carrabelle belonging
to the Carrabclle, Tallahassee and Georgia
Railway Company. Two million feet of
first class pine lumber ware also destroy
ed The mills, machinery and building,
were also destroyed.
The Alabama, Florida and Western
Railroad has been projected to start from
Quincy. a town on the line of the Florida
Central & Western, run ,S,SSdl SssSSdly Y due north
to Bainbridge, on the Savannah q FrorI.
da Road, and thence northwesterly.
The U. S. Government has presented
the town of Tampa with the Fort Brooke
military reservation for the benefit of free
schools.
The Quitman & Tampa Railroad has
been projected to run between Quitman,
on the Savannah, Fic-:a: 3 Western
Railroad in Georgia, aud the city of Tam
pa. The proposed route is an air line
some $50 miles long. passing through the
orange belt and some of the richest phos-
plate deposits yet discovered in the lat
ter State.
OTHER STATES.
Captain Charles Fowler, agent of the
Morgan steamship line in Galveston, is
dead He was widely known and DIR