The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1892-09-16
THREE STATES BRIEFS.
Telegraphic Dispatches From Many
Points of Interest.
The Fields of Virginia, North and
South Carolina Carefully
Cleaned For News.
VIRGINIA.

A great religious revival is in progress
at Appomattox.
Joe Searles, aged 10, was riding colt
at Christiansbury which threw him, frac-
turing his skull aud causing instant death.
The Free Masons have laid corner
stone ut Staunton for the Methodist
church, for the third time on the same
spot, 1884, 1859, and 1892.
,SssJ..I. .Biglsgs ,drappad- -dead san---4As
sstreet at Salem, aud the coroners jury
found that the cause.was "dropsy of the
heart, aggravated by too much tobacco"
Two Russian Jews Of Norfolk, were
arrested Friday night at the instance of
DR.. Thorn, quarantine officer, for at
tempting to smuggle immigrants from
New York into Norfolk. The immi-
grants arrived on them. Y. p. and N. rail
road, and arc now Quarantined at the N.
Y, p. and N. wharf.
j. w. Grant, farmer near Clarcmont,
beat his wife and daughter, and they
fed to neighbor's Grant q few days
after rec lived notice signed "White
Caps" which gave him warning that if
he was still in the county at the expira-
tion of ten days he would be visited and
roughly dealt with He needed the
warning, has sold out his crops and gone.
NoBTH CAROLINA.
The fox hunters of Goldsboro have al
ready brought in twenty five brushes
this season.
The project of establishing line of
freight steamers between Wilmington
and baltimore is assuming share.
The Swannanoa river is nearly dry and
Asheville is threatened with q water
famine.
Isaac Osborne was killed in Mitchell
county by moonshiners, upon whom he
had reported.
Massachusetts capitals who own TO-
600 acres in Madison county are develop
ing the tract and building q railroad
through the property from Hot Springs
Rev. II. d. Lcqueux. formerly pastor
of the Baptist church of Hickors, has re-
nounced his allegiance to that faith and
has been ordained mipistcr ia the
Presbyterian Church.
The directors of the Atlantic & North
Carolina Railroad have declared . per
cent. dividend on the capital stock of
is the first dividend the road has ever
SsS SsSn able t9 asslaFS s2a = essries saA
George Harper, John Aaron and Fl.
Mills, three desperate colored criminals,
escaped from the Jail in Halifax county
Harper and Aaron were recently con-
victed of brutally mutilating Richard
Burt, and sentenced to fifty years each
in the penitentiary.
Senior Jose Falius Santos, Of Havana
Cuba, is in Raleigh. He cime to learn
the English language and to find out
something about American business meth.
eds. When he arrived he knew not
word of English, but he is learning zap
idly. He expressed himself pleased with
our country and people. -.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
D. A. Chandler was shot and killed by
w. b. Boyd, his employer ut Sumpter
Wednesday.
Fire at Marion, Wednesday, destroyed
the dental Office of Drs. Hamilton s.
Gasquc.
Columbia now uses filtered water, the
capacity OF their new filters being 3, 854,
$40 gallons of pure water per day.
Gov. Tillman has rcspited until Oct. 2
Williams, the negro who murdered Mayor
Hcnncman, of Spar,anburg.
Jonas Robinson aud j. l.. Trammell.
two local sports, of Greenville, have
agreed to fight to finish, with five
ounce gloves, in II m ,nth, for $3.50 aside.
The Republicans carried Vermont last
week, electing Fuller, Governor, by 20,-
600 majoii ty.
The Confederate monument at Green :
.,s L. ~c 81 .t A.xI1
in the South was unveiled on Sept 18th.
Military from all over the State were pres
ent. The monument is the result OF
years of loving labor by the Ladies Mem
mortal Association.
Governor III Imam, has respiteo until
October 7th the death scntence of Milly
Brown, a fourteen year Ol negro girl,
who was to have been hanged Friday
for numbering baby.
A. Foster, who killed his rival and
Andy Jeffries who killed white man.
two negroes, were hung at Sparta,burg,
Friday.
OTHER STATES.
The Convention of Stationary Engi.
neers, in session at ATLANTA, Ga, have
adopted resolution in favor opening the
Worlds Fair on Sunday.
The body of mulatto boy, arrested on
Tuesday on suspicion Of burglary and in
cendiarism committed ut Waldon, Fla,
was discovered hanging from a portion
of the cold storage building in the heart
of the village. There is no clue to the
lynchcrs 1t is said the boy confessed
the crime.
Female suffrage has at last won a vic
tory in Mississippi The first election
perhaps at which women ever voted in
the South is that on stock.law question
just closed in jackson county. Only 20
few exercised the privilege. The law
says that all persons who are household-
ers and none other shall vote on the fence
question. This admits; nll women who
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