The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1892-11-25

The schooner Mary, built by Captain
bettes at Clifton, on the Clinch river, to
carry a floating exhibit from Tennessee,
mas arrived in Chicago. It lis loaded
with products of East Tennessee, includ-
ing gold, silver, copper, zinc, fifteen
hinds OF marble, onyx and relics sfrom
tennessee battleields. The route was
down the Tennessee river to the Mississip-
Pi, then up to the Illinois, and thence
through the canal, making in all a voy.
age of 1000 miles.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
one OF the most interesting of the
curios to be sent from Columbia, 8. C..
TO the Worlds Fair will be a photograph
which is said to be the first taken in Am
eIica 1t is the picture of Major J. G.
uiooes, and was taken December is,
1904, when this gentleman had just re-
!uroea from Paris, where Daguerre had
just discovered his process of photo.
Sraphy. 1t is printed on the corner of an
oiu yellow sheet of writing paper and
mniie somewhat indistinct, the likeness
can be plainly perceived, The Women's
Central Worlds Fair Club has secured
many interesting Indian relics and other
curlos which they will send.
FLORIDA.
Florida's State building at jackson
FdIk, Chicago, is now under construction
anu work on tits progressing we'll. Foun-
~" ,ons arc mashed and the frame work
10, 'ne walls is being put up. Since it
is 10 be repro 1uction of Fort Marion MT
st Augustine, its unique architcc
and historical associations have caused
IL TO attract as much attention as any
othcr State building on the rraunds,
commissioners jackson will endeayor to
po.a'h =, at the coming Pensacola Tobacco
a'r some good exhibits of Florida grown
tobacco for the Columbian Exposition.
by request of the horticultural De.
Partment, Mr. Plant is forwarding from
the Tampa Bay Hotel gardens a Carload
OF choice p!aLts, and next spring will
SEND larger number. These, with those
already received or expected from the
fohce de Leon gardens, will make a very
beautiful display.
Mrs. Ellen Call Long, whose efforts to
introduce silk culture in Florida have
oeen untlring, has had made from silk
produced in Florida an elegant American
nay, ana mas presented the same to Mss
!, o'teI Palmer, the head of the womans
department of the Worlds Fair.
KENTUCKY.
me appropriation made by the lesisla
lure ior Kentucky exhibit is not vet
'va'lao,e Tor the purpose intended,
oMhS 10 constitutional point being
,',se" :; As TO Its legality. The commits.
smne at last advices had not determined
,s.,as. y nsS s1ats: ,, 10 take and will probably
- zS, ss..a s S:arsslis:lS-sasstuu
'The picture ofN fNAcadia--mL IN Lo1is.
ma will form a prominent part in the
States exhibit At the last meeting of
hp % Anvil
delegate from New Iberia, said she hoped
% have the pleasant life of the Acadians
we'll depicted in Chicago One of tho
o oms in the State building will be set
part for this exhibit, aud fitted out in
imple fashion like the homes of the
'easants, furnished with looms and
wheels. cards and cotton, the representa-,
ion being completed by the woman
'eavers plying the shuttle Part of the
oom will be converted into a BOULDER
ccorated with fabrics woven on the
oom, and other articles for use and orna.
lent will be shown. Mrs. Preston John.
on hopes to get lerm ss;on to use paris
t Charles Dudley Warmers articles on
ne Acadians, written in 1887, and wants
0 have these, together with parts of
and sketch of the Acadians,
ound in cloth woven by these people
nd ornamented by their artists.
The creole kitchen department will be
the hands of stock company and
ppehr as All annex to the Louisiana
ulding. The contract for the copstruc.
ion of the State building has been let at
cost of $l4,500. The Worlds Fair
association has decided to have the
rounds about the building beautifully
nd out and cmbellshed with all the
lants and trees and shrubs typical of
The structure will be frame
ne, and represents an old style planta-
ion louse, with the lower story cement.
d and ornament,d in characteristic
tyle. Fall columns, broad galleries and
my paues of glass will form distinctive
eatures Of the famous mansions of davs
one by.