The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1893-12-08

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ssm NeelS selorsd, boy j bSlsiiss & ii
was hanged ct Dallas; II. t;, Friday.
& savannah and Jacksony;lie have
raised the quarantine against Bruns-
wick, Ga.
Charles and WIN Owen were Ar.
rested for stealing horses from 6. w.
and A. Y. Tedder, of Chesterf,eld
county, 8. O. The Charlotte, NJ o.,
police Captured them ih Befryhili
township, Mecklenburg county.
E. 3. Thompson, Of Frederioksburp.
Va, Who is walking on wager to Bo-
gotta, South America, has, arrived at
the City of Mexicu. One condition Of
his trip Is that he must not carry
money with him. He has been hospi.
stabiy received in Mexico, but he near
ly starved in Texas. 81
. Arkansas hns,. 10000 fsrms which
produce 600, 600 sliale OF sSattoni 80NOS.
600 sbpshels Of sweet potatoes; Z !. .OO0. ).
OO0 pounds sef tobacco, 43,d66. 900
bushels Of corn and 2 200, !, 900 busSels,
OF wheat. From the Arkansae fnresln
are cut over $40, O0O, 900 worth Of lum-
Der every year. :
Gen. John Gibbon, Of the United
States army, retired, delivered lee
ture at Winchester, Va, under the ana
pices of Christ's Episcopal Church.
and for the benefit of the poor. His
subject was: ''My life on the plains.
or what know about the Indians"
A report is current that Major Turs
ner Morehead, who has been In Europe
several months, has effected a. sale of !
the Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley rail.
road to syndicate OF English capital
lists.
DnPlin county, N. c., will renew its
attempt to have the courts declare the
present methcd c. d;ss..z distributing i;5buxsinx the
public school taxes ,unconstitutionaI.
another suit a9NnBJ tine
State Board of Education. At present,
the counties collect and keep the
school fund, but the Duplin board
wish it all to go into the State Treas
ury and to be thence distributed per
capita.
A huge bear was brought by express
from Havelock, in Craven county, to
Newbern, N. c., Tuesday. It was
killed by three sportsmen-two of
them Northern gentlemen-who had
gone out deer hunting. It was killed
at Great Lake below Newbern, and
few miles from the Atlantic and North
Carolina railroad. The bear was
specimen, six feet in
length with glossy black coat of hair
and great rolls of fat when dressed.
His estimated weight was 450 pounds.
The three principal agricultural ex-
hibits ut the Georgia State Fair at Au-
gusta were won by women, Misses Zoe
Brown, of Hancock county, NJ. Ruther-
ford, Sumter county, and Annie Den
mis-, of Talbot county.
While Governor Reynolds, of Della
ware, was in his private Office at the
State house at Dover, some unknown
person hurled two huge rocks and
stone cuspidore through the window,
with intent to either injure or kill.
The President made his Thanksgiv-
ing dinner off a 27-pound, pink and
white, plump variety of turkey, ship
ped from Westerly, Conn, by Horace
Vose, who has selected the presidential
bird since Grants time.
L. Bertram Cady, a swell Fifth
avenue merchant tailor, while at the
theatre in New York the other night,
spied through his opera glasses, Albert
McNfillen, who had stolen $500 from
him in 1889 and escaped. A policeman
was summoned, and the thief arrested.
Luella Welz, pretty typewriter of
Cincinnati, sued Will Syberly, rich
shoe mans son, for breach of promise.
and the jury found that she was damaged
$40, 900 worth.
The Spartanburg IS. C.) Spartan
says: Charlotte has started it's seventh
cotton mill. This one is for weaving
towels, counterpanes and the like. All
that Charlotte now needs is good
soap factory to go along with the
towels.
The will of the late Alfred w.
Shields, of Richmond, Va, leaves his
farm to his two colored servants, and
an estate of $1s, 900 to the University
Of Virginia.