The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1892-02-12

Pcuueo operations. Only those which
employ Italians are still at work.
Col. Earle, of Grcenville, will not this
year enter the rae, for the Democratic
nomination for Governor.
Capt. w. III. Green, the able general
manager OF the Richmond 81 DanyiIle
system, Is likely to again take up his
residence in Columbia.
McCreery and Chew, aficr having
made thorough inspection of Broad
river for about fifteen miles above the
Canal dam, at Columbia, have decided
to put on line of small steamers. with a
view to promoting river traffic.
Governor Tillman appointed s. l..
Altman trial Justice Of WILLIAMSBURG.
also appointed Leonard Williams expert
accountant aud agent to examine the
books OF tho auditor and treasurer Of
Union county and instructed him to re-
port ss TO any shortsgc or irregularities.
The pEcmisms offered by the coium.
sbia Phosphate Company Tor the largest
yield made on one acre on which their
fertilizer was used were won by the
Good Brothers, of tUnion, 1st premium.
and Il. McIver Williamson, of Darling
ton, 2nd premium.
An eight months old child of #. w.
Wood, living near Pelham, in Spartan.
burg county, was burned to death on
Monday night. 1t had been left near the
fireplace by its mother and while she was
absent it crept into the fire.
AT Charleston, Tuesday, Collector
johnston gave check for $1O,5OO to
Gen. I. A. Huguenin. as agent for the
Southern Construction Co., in payment
for two granite piers of the Custom
House Wharf This is the largest amount
ever paid by a Nursing officer at the
port of Charleston.
The annual State. Convention of the
Young Mems Christian Association will
bc held in Spartanburg during the latter
part OF April next. 1t is expected that
the Rev. DIR. II. j. Mcbride, celebrated
Virginia divine, will attend the Conven-
tion and deliver the annual address.
Mrs. Dempsey Adams, widow lady
DO years of age, living in Edgefield
county, was burned to death Tuesday.
She was in the house alone, when her
dress caught. She ran aud covered her
self up in bed, thinking by that means
to smother the flames, but she was burn
ed so badly before assistance could reach
her that she died a few hours afterwards.
OTHER STATES.
A rice mill trust has been formed in
Louisiana.
A Savannah dispatch says it is learned
there that Samuel Spencer, formerly pres
idcnt vi the Baltimore aud Ohio system,
but now in charge of the financial inter
,sts of Drexci, Morgan s. Co., is booked
for the presidency of the Richmond and
Danvillc system.
The Georgia State treasurer has begun
tue payment of the Confederate widows
pension. The tax upon the State, au-
thorized by the Legislature, entails upon
the State an annual tax of $500, 900.
There are 1000 widows on the rolls.
The payments will be kept up until the
appropriation is exhausted. :
Johu j. Brcslin recently visited an in
significant town in Tennessee, and was
astonished at the contcntment of the
people. To use his own phrase, he did
not hear the word dollar during his
whole stay. He finally asked some of
people If they stood in need of anything,
and on their replying that one of their
few public buildings would be the better
for tower he subscribed the sum neces-
sary to supply the need. The village
has the distinction of possessing an Epis-
copal clergyman who declined bishop
ric on the ground that his plain duty lay
with the smalfvillage parish over which
he was and is set as rector.