The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1892-06-24
AT HOME AND ABROAD,
kilograms and News of Importance
From Everywhere.
Some Remarkable Events Happen.
ing Within and Without
the State.

Father MollingeS, the faith cure priest,
died at Pittsburg at so p. m. Wednes-
day.
| A horse breeders association will be
formed ut Raleigh, N. c., ON August 1S.
William Walter Phelps is now talked
OF for Secretary of State.
The Utah delegation to Chicago is COM
posed entirely of Gentiles
Congressman Stackhouse of South Cor.
olina was the eight Representative in the
present (52d Congress to die.
| Eighteen persons were prostrated by
heat in New York city Monday, and four
died.
The British House of Commons has
| added $50, 1000 to the fund for Euglsnd's
exhibit at the Worlds Fair, Chicago -
$500, 900 altogether.
Elk Congressman Jesse j. Yeates, of
the first district of North Caro- ina, is
very sick i'll Washington of Brights dis
ease and is not expected no live.
A very re narkable marriage occurre
near Allcndale, in Barnwell county, $.
c., one day last week. A man 81 years
old married little girl IA years old
An anthracite coal mine which has been
worked in Peak Creek mountains, near
Pulaski, Va, for several years, has recently
developed vein twelve feet thick.
The House has passed bill to declare
Indian children citizens when they reach
the age of twenty-one, provided they
have had ten years of industrial training.
The Kansas Peoples party State con.
vention met at Wichita, Thursday, and
nominated L. d yelling for Governor.
Mrs. Lease succeeded in getting
woman's suffrage plank in the platform.
One hundred South Carolina teachers
will attend the annual meetings of the
Southern and National Educational As.
sociations which meet in Atlanta and
Saratoga Springs, respectively.
blackburn & Willett, of New Bcrnc, N.
G., have thus far shipped 10, 900 barrels
of cabbage this season and have 5000
barrels more to ship. Their gross sale of
cabbage alone from their farm will amount
to $4,000.
The daily mortality from cholera at
Meshed, Persia, is now 400 The strict
-est sanitary regulations have been estab-
lished, and the Ameer thr eatens to be-.
head anyone who does not comply with
u
The Newberry Cotton Mills at New
berry, s. G learned last year 81 per spindle,
the largest earnings with one exception
among the mills of the State. A reserve
fund is being accumulated with view to
doubling the capacity of The mill.
The Russian government has approved
the proposal Of Baron Hirsch providing
for the immigration from Russia of
$500. 600 within the next twenty-five
years. The exodus for 1892 has been
limited to 5000, but the number will
be increased annually.
Elias Carr, candidate for Governor;
r A Doughton, candidate for Lieutenant
Governor; exCongressman w. r. Cox
aud III. A. Gudger, of Asheville, will par
ticipatc in the st. Johns Day exercises
at the Oxford, N G Orphan Asylum and
all of them excepting Mr.. Carr will make
speeches.
James H. Woodrow, son of Dr.. James
Woodrow, aud proprietor of the Presby-
terian Publishir z House in Columbia, s.
c., died last Saturday of typhoid fever.
He was thirty-two years of age and leaves
q widow and two children.
Senator Ransom had first one son and
Ihen uuOtncT loT private scCIeCaTy III
Washington. The second one looks so
much like the first that most people fail
to discover the substitution. The Sena-
tors oldest son is now practicing law in
Asheville, N. G.
The following are widows, living in the
South, of Revolutionary soldiers: Mary
Brown, Knoxville, Tenn. Nancy Cloud,
st. Paul, Va. Nancy Jones, Jonesboro,
Tenn; Rebecca Mayo, Newberu, Va. !;
Nancy Rains, Carter Furnace, Tenn :;
Meridy Smith, Newman, Ca; Mary
Snead, Parksley, Va. They all draw
pensions.
An offer to finish a room in the Vir-
ginia State building has been received
from the North Carolina Pine Lumber
Co., of Norfolk. 1t is the desire of the
company to finish the room in au artistic
manner for the purpose of displaying the
beauty and skill with which North Caro-
| lima pine can be used in various kinds of
trimmings.
John Smith, a prosperous farmer living
eight miles east of Admission, Ala, was
stuDg to death by bees Monday. He was
having swarm of bees when the limb on
which they had swarmed broke, falling
upon them In moment he was YER
| ed with the bees and stung so badly that
he died within few hours, despite all
the efforts of two physicians who were
called in to attend him.