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


The bank of North Wilkesboro 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.
lzed movement again:t the saloons.
The State Sunday School Association
meets III New Berne March Goth.
Average death rate in eleven town, OF
North Carolina is 1910 for the whites per
1000, and ia 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 at Haw River, where
his aged mother is quite sick.
j. d. Bridges, dry goods merchant of
Shelby, has assigned. Liabilities about
$4,000; assets $4,000.
The First and Second regiments of the
State Guard are to encamp in July at
Wrightsville, the Third and Fourth regi-
ments at Asheville.
DR.. Albert B. Hart, professor of Amer
ican History ut Harvard University. is
delivering series of lectures at Chapel
Hill before the faculty and students of
the State University.
Governor Holt offered reward of 5000
for II. l.. Askew, white man who in
Bcrtie county murdered Charles Hardy.
also white. 1t is believed Askew fled to
Virginia.
In Lewis Fork township, Wilkes coun-
ty, Amos and Matt Handy got drunk
and had row. The latter received ten
knife wounds and will die.
Rev w. S. Plumer Bryan, pastor of
the Presbyterian church of Asheville. has
received call to Cincinnati with sal.
ary 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, OSO. 95
He is the fifty first sheriff t, settle iu full
Jaunty Crank6eld, of Wilkes county,
dropped dead the other day, aged 80
years. He made request sometime be-
fore his death that his body be buried in
Republican graveyard"
Geo. A. Shuford, of Asheville. the
newly appointed Judge of the 18th dis.
tiict, vice Judge Merrimon, resigned.
was born in Henderson county, and is
about forty years of ago. He studied
law at Dick and billiards law school At
Greensboro, and after obtaining license
located in Waynesyiile, Haywood coun.
ty, moving to Asheville in 1889.
Castor Popo, Of Batt'eboro,
went to New York to buy ssgreen
goods" and got scooped for
$500. The scoopers generously gave him
Si6 aud no got home on 1t. He Is pros
trated with griei.
The sale of hickory timber at Rock.
well, Rowan county, has amounted To
nearly nine thousand dollars this winter
This industry has brought lot. of monev
to Rowan. The timber Is shipped to
various points in the State, and is used
In making spokcs, handles, etc,
SOUTH oARnLINA.
The year book Of the City of Charleston
Tor 1890 has just been issued
Governor Tillman 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
new county out Of portions Of Orange
burg and Berkeley county with Holly
Hill as the county seat
There was "scrap" on Washington
square, Charleston, between Probate
Judge Magrath aud Mr., Bissell, q plum.
Der, the difficulty arising out Of busi>