The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1892-08-05
GENERAL NEWS BRIEFS.
Short Items Of Interest From Here,
There and Everywhere.
Telegraphic Dispatches and Cuttings
Embracing a Comprehensive
News Summary.


the city Jail at Danville, Va.
Fire destroyed M,ller's planning mill
at Alma, Robson county N. G. Loss $1O,-
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The Homestead (Pa. mills, of Carnegie
Phipps & Co. are again running, manned
with non-union men.
Charles G. Poske, wei known Balti.
more travelling man died of sun stroke at
Richmond. Va, Tuesday.
The Third party convention OF the
tenth district of Georgia has re nominal.
ed Tom Watson for Congress.
The Normal College building at Ora
ham, Alamance county N. c.. was burn.
ed with all its contents last Friday night.
1t is probable that cx- Senator Malone
OF Va, will be appcinted permanent re.
ceiver OF the Rich,nood Terminal at sal.
ary of $5, 900 per year.
The U. s. Senate has reported favor
ably on the purchase for $4,000 of the
Temple Farm at Yorktown, Va, where
Lord CORVALLIS surrendered.
Tuesday was the hottest day Philadel-
phia has had, save one, in fifty years.
The temperature, 1C0 8, was the highest
from the heat and there were many pros.
trations.
Letters of incorporation are being got.
ten up for "the Ocean View Hotel Com.
with the object of building first
ass hotel on the surf side of Bogue
Banks, opposite Morehead City, N. C..
The building is to cost $3.50, 200.
A desperate fight occurred at Fiat Rock,
Somerset, Ky, Wednesday after
bet Seen Deputy Sheriff Sellers and
Coffey, in which both were killed.
.ers attempted to arrest Coffey on
harge of adultery, when the trouble be.
gan.
A Wilmington, Del. lawyer has reciv-
ed draft for $500 from Berne .Switzei.
iland. which WAS the amount of the in
fiemnity paid by the Canton of Berue for
the false imprisonment for five davs OF
live Americans who had been arrested ms
pickpockets
The campaign was opened in the VALLEY
of Virginia at Luray Monday. Colonel
Alexander, of Winchester, spoke, an
nouncing himself candidate for Congress
in opposition to Colonel O'Ferrall. The
Peoples party also orgauized, and will
have candidate for Congress in. that
district
Two Roanoke College students from
Mexico. Emilio Robert Cara and Ang
Vetez, are spending the summer in Sal m
Va. Another young man from Tampico.
Mexico, is expected to arrive soon to en-
ter college in the fall. 1t is ais probable
that number of students from Corca
will be among the foreigners at Roanoke
College next session.
The appeal made by merchants of the
South to turn the stream of immigration
down here is having its effect in Eng
land and Scotland, large number of
immigrants arriving at New York on the
steamer Gallia. The Gallia started Wed
nesday for South Carolina and other
Southern States.
Both {. pumps at the Staunton, Va,
city water works are in such bad state
of repair that they will not work. The
reservoir Is empty and with the thermom
eter at SO the town is without water.
The springs in the suburbs are the sole
supply. II will be several days probably
before the famine will end aud the pumps
get to work again.
Governor Buchanan, of Tennessee, has
been defeated in the Democratic prima-
resin that State in the canvass for the
gubernatorial nominate IN by Judge Pc.
ter Turney, but declares that he will not
enter the field as an Alliance or indie
pendent candidate, and will do all in his
power to hold Tennessee in line for both
the national and State tickets.
The board of trustees of the Union
Theological Seminary, at Hampden Sid
ney, Virginia, at meeting Wednesday
elected Rev. DIR. Peyton II. Hoge, Of
Wilmington, North Corolina. to the va
cant chair of the English Bible and pas
toral theology in the seminary. 1t has
not yet been learned whether or not he
will accept.
The Dismal Swamp Canal, which cost
$l,500,00O, and which was sold recently
AT public auction for SIC, 100, was author
lied to be constructed by the General
Assembly of Virginia December 1, 1887.
The canal is 23 miles long. and connects
the waters of Elizabeth river In Virginia
with the Pasguotank river in North
Carolina. 1t is bclivcd that the canal
is destined to play an important Fart in
suppl ing the city of Norfolk it'll drink
able water.
The President has issued proclama-
tion requesting the observance Of October
S1 as q general holiday in honor Of the
four hundredth anniversary OF the dis
eovery of America.
The recent British elections have cost
ti2, SOC, 900. Every shilling has to be
accounted for in sworn statement. Cor
ruptioa of voters has boon rendered al
most impossible by the stringenoy of the
refossned elections iegislation.
The contract for the foundation, stone
and brick work, etc., OF the public build
Ing ct Tallahassee, Fla, was ava ded to
: Chicago firm At ef2.72s.