The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1892-02-19
NORTH CAROLINA.

The bank of North Wilkcsboro will
open up March 1st
Salary of the mayor of Winston has
been increased to $1,000.
The new Atlantic Coast Line machine
shops are to be built at Rocky Mt.
Salisbury is about making an organ
lied movement again't the saloons
The State Sunday School Association
meets III New Bernc March Goth.
Average death rate in eleven te wns of
North Carolina is 1910 for the viii $ per
1000, and II 4 for the blacks.
Jno. T. Patrick has been notified by
the Commissioners of Agriculture to
''move his plundcr' from the Agricultu
raj building at Raleigh.
Governor Holt is ut Haw River, where
his aged mother is quite sick.
j. ID. Bridges, dry goods merchant Of
Shelby, has assigned. Liabilities about
$40, 900; assets IS, 900.
The First and Second regiments of the
State Guard arc to encamp in July at
Wrightsville, the Third and Fourth regi-
ments at Ashcville
DR.. Albert b. Hart, professor of Amer
ican History at Harvard University, il
delivering series of lectures ct Chapel
Hill before the faculty and students of
the State University.
Governor Holt offered a reward of 5000
for II. l.. Askcw, n white man who in
Bcrtic county murdered Charles Hardy,
also white. 1t is believed Askcw fled to
Virginia.
in Lewis Fork township, Wilkes coun-
ty, Amos and Matt IIamby got drunk
and had row. The latter received ten
knife wounds and will die
Rev w s Plnmer Bryan, pastor OF
the Presbyterian church of Asheville, has
received Il call to Cincinnati with sal
AIRY of $4,000. lie has it under advise.
ment.
Sheriff j. B. Smith, of Cumberland.
completed his settlement of State taxes,
paying to the State Treasurer 80 ESQ. 95,
lie is the fifty first sheriff t. settle in full.
Jaunty Crank field, of Wilkes county,
dropped dead the other day, aged so
years. lie made n request sometime be-
fore his death that his body be buried in
"Republican graveyard"
Geo. A. Shuford, of Asheyllle. the
newly appointed Judge of the 12,h dis
tlict, vice Judge Merrimon, resigned,
was bern III Henderson county, and is
about forty years of age. He studied
law at Dick and billiards law school at
Greensboro. and after obtaining license
located in WaynesviIlc, Haywood coun.
ty, moving to Ashcvile in 1882.
Castor Popo, of Batteboro
went to New York to buy green
goods" and got scoopcd for
$500. The scoopers generously gave him
$l5 and ne got home on it. lie is pros
trated with grei.
The sale OF hickory timber at Rock
well, Rowan county, has amounted to
nearly nine thousand dollars this winter.
This industry has brought a lot of money
to Rowan. The timber is shipped to
various points in the State, and is used
in making spokcs, handles, etc.
SOUTH cARnLINA.
The year book of the City of Charleston
for 1890 has just been issued
Governor 1illman offered reward of
$50 for the capture OF the person who
burned the barn of j. p. Cook, in New
berry county.
A stage line is to be established be-
tween Orangeburg and the nearest sta.
tion on the South Bound railroad.
There is movement on foot to form a
! new county out of portions Of Orange
the ND Berkeley county with Holly
and our prices.
lei. K. SMITH Gshington
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