The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1892-11-18
DIXIE NEWS. !
The Sunny South Cleaned and Epito.
mized.
all the News and Occurrences Printed
Hero in Condensed Form.

The Governor OF Louisiana has assum-
ed control OF New Orleans.
The total mil age Of South Carolina
railroads is s,5S1.9S.
A new cotton mill hes been incorpor.
ated to build mill at Dillon, =. c.
The new Pilot Point cotton mills at
Raleigh, N. c., will begin operations
Jan. 1st.
The Alliance Tobacco Warehouse Co.,
at Amherst, Va, declared an annual div
idend Of so per cent.
A German Insurance Co. has been or.
ganized by Charleston, 8. O., Teutonic
citizens.
A collision Thursday night, near Babo.
Miss, between two freight trains in
stantly killed the two engineers. Both
are said to have been asleep.
A bill has passed in the Georgia Leg.
islaturc endorsing the efforts of Thomas
p. Stovall, ]. w. Avery and q. p. Good.
year in establishing direct foreign trade
and urging citizens and railroads to help
the project and aid in building up profit.
able and permanent lines of steamships
from foreign lands to Southern ports for
dire Southern export aud import trade.
At Orlando, Fla a party while drill
ing q we'll for the ice factory, brought up
quantity of pebble phosphate rock. Tho
specimens averaged about G5 per cent
phosphate. The depth ut which these
deposits are found is 1876 feet, almost too
deep for profitable mining unless found
In large quantities.
A Knoxville, Tenn, wholesale mer-
chant, who deals almost exclusively in
srs7rs Uf Nv7 @ sai vaiwis; ip {ha
bama and in Texas, says That the mot Of
his goods arc manufactured from North
Carolina clay, and he has us nice line
of goods rs anyone in the country. Why
then should we not mine our own kn0lin,
manufacture and Use our own ware, in
stead of paying tribute to tho railroad
companies and the States Of Ohio and
New Jerseya
A frcight-car famine Is bothcring the
Southern roads, and it is stated that
about the only places that have all the
cars needed are the Florida citi g, to
which large numIcr have been sent TO
await fruit shipments, aud New Orleans
The shipments of cotton. lumber, pig
iron, molasscs and sugar have nll been
rushed upon the Southern lines to such
au extent as to be i'm measure rcsr onsiblt
for the delayed traffic.
The citizens of Abbeville, s. c., by
the display of liberal and progressive
spirit, have added the important indus
try Of large railroad shops I, their thriv:
ing town. The shops will be built by
the Georgia, Carolina & Northern Rail
read, which is part of the Scaboard Air
Line sy yStpm md will IL 10 thouUht
nccessitate an outlay of about 800, 900.
The Monticello Wine Co., OF Char
ottcsvllc, Va, has made the largest vim
tagc in its history this year. The total
amount of various wines is SO, 600 gallons
against 80, 600 gallons, the greatest in
any preceding year. Nearly $5, 900 has
been expended in purchasing new casks
The work of bott ing and racking is now
in process.
Richmond, Va, merchants have been
swindled by female shoplfters.
Jsmes w. Earle one of the principals
in the shooting s"rapc ut Hollands store,
Anderson county, died Friday after.
noon. This is the third death in tho
case, and the negro that was shot is
seriously hurt. james r's Earle was n
| young unmarried man, AL of excellent
| character
1t is reported that during the past
year the Kissimmfc Land Co., rcclaimin9
| over 500, 900 acres OF swamp land in
Florida, and that even more will be re
claimed this year. They have op ncd
navigation from Kissinniev, by the wa,
of the lakes, to the Gulf, distance OF
800 miles.