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
Here in Condensed Form.

The Governor Of Louisiana has assum-
ed control of New Orleans.
The total mil age of South Carolina
railroads is 2,531.9S.
A new cotton mill has been incorpor.
atcd to build q mill at Dillon, s. G.
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, s. c., Tcutonic
citizens.
A collision Thursday night, near Bab6,
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
islatnre endorsing the efforts of Thomas
p. Stovall, !. w. Avery and G. 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
direct Southern export and import trade
At Orlando, Fla party while drill
ing well Tor the ice factory, brought up
quantity of pebble phosphate rock. The
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
5TS1rs UT 71cTr1 Ta1ui1 GS5sgrH, atE afhe
bama and in Texas, says that the mot Of
his goods are manufactured from North
Carolina clay, and he has as nice line
Of goods rs anyone in the country. Why
then should we not mine our own kaolin,
manufacture and use our own ware, in
stead Of paying tribute to the railroad
companies and the States Of Ohio and
New Jersey9
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 s, to
which large num'!cr have been sent To
await fruit shipments, and New Orleans
The shipments of cotton, lumber, pig
iron, molasscs and sugar have all been
iuoilCt upOii poutllCii liuCS w SUCH
au extent as to be in measure res, onsible
for the delayed traffic.
The citizens of Abbeville, S. c., by
the display Of a liberal and progressive
spirit, have added. the important indus.
try of large railroad shops t. their thriv.
ing town. The shops will be built by
the Georgia, Carolina & Northern Rail
read, which is part of the Scaboard Air
Line system, and will. it is thought,
necessitate an outlay of about 800, 600.
The Monticello Wine Co., of Char
lottcsvillc, Va, has made the largest vim
tagc in its history this year. The total
amount of various wines is GS, 900 gallons
against $4,000 gallons, the greatest in
any preceding year. Nearly IS, 900 has
been expended in purchasing new casks
The work of botting and racking is now
in process.
Richmond, Va, merchants have been
swindled by female shoplifters.
Jsmes w. Earle, one of the principals
in the shooting s"rapc at Hollands store,
Anderson county, died Friday after.
noon. This is the third death in tn.
case, and the negro that was shot is
seriously hurt. james w. Earle was n
young unmarried man, and of excellent
character.
1t is reported that during the past
year the Kissimmec Land Co. rcclaimino o
over 5000 acres of swamp land in
Florida, and that even more will be re
claimed this year. They have op ncd
navigation from Kissimmep, by the wa,
of the lakes, to the Gulf, distance Of
800 miles