The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1893-03-24
money is an established industfy ID 80
Burcn, Missouri. = -

49,
Burcn, Missouri. 50
The city of yicksburg, Miss,zwiify y6d!
veil splendid monumcnt8o fhe Coufcd.
crate dead.
Work has begun OF tho new $500, ,O0G
cotton mill at Columbia, 8. G. 1t is 10.
Gated on til canal.
Business at the Charleston, s. c., Gus.
tom House is dull-oply eight dollars
were collected last week.
Willis Watson, who broke out of the
Jail at Kinston. N. G., through the roof,
Sunday night of last we X, has not been
heard from sncs.
Sumter, s. c., is to have fine hotel
and.opcra hou The first is ojcctcd
by General Moies. which guaran ccs its
success.
John Shull. brakeman on tho East
Ten esscc and Wcs;cru North Carolina
railway, was accidcntly killed Monday
ar Valley Forge.
Hamlet, N. C. has its indust les
Since the Cotton Compr IS $ ut down q
20 acre chicken farm gives impetus to
the development Of the resources.
The municipal election in Laurcns, s
interest, very large vute being cast. L
w. Siukins was elected mayor.
Chester, Spartanburs and Columbie
are aspirants for the location of the South
Carolisa Girls Normal and Industrial
School, with the chances in favor of the
latter.
Ninety two of the students of David
son College, N. C, are working two
hours n day on dam for lake there, on
which they will place some handsome
boats.
A charter was issued to the Carolina
Manufacturing and Reduction Comdany
of Blacksburg, s. c., with a capital Of
$1,000, 600. The purpose Of the company
is to do general mining business.
Mrs. Helena Brayton, of the South
Carolina board of women managers of
the Worlds Fair, is organizing band of
negroes to sing plantation melodies at
the expo siticn.
,Gcorgi, began paying pensions Wednes
day to 5000 veterans and widows. The
latter will get 800 a year, and the veter.
ans will be paid according to a sliding
scale.
prize o. 81 900 will be awarded the
best drillctr company at the international
competitive drill between the national
guard of the several States during the
naval rendezvous in April, 1898, in the
city of Norfolk, Va.
At Hampton, Va. Friday night Captain
James Shelby, we'll known horse dealer
was shot in the neck and killed in True
!ood's saloon while trying to get a pis
tol from Richard Trucblood, the propri.
etor of tho place.
The Grand Camp of Virginia. Confcd
crate Veterans. has been invited t. meet
in Portsmouth on the 18th of May, on
which occasion the annual Memorial Day
exercises will take place, and the bronze
statues on the Confederate monument on
Court street will be unveiled.
John McRose, aged eighty. Two, the old
est citizen of Dickinson county, Tenn. was
married tc his y, ung and pretty neigh
Dor, Miss Giccra Rcccc, at the residence of
the bride. Mr.. Rose is the father of nine
teen children By q former sparriage, all
of whom are married.
The Charleston News and C6SnIcr's Co.
lumbia correspondent says: 1t sccm, to
be pretty generally und rstood iu political
circles that Ex Congressman George d.
Tillman will be factor in the next Guber.
Material contest. The chances are alto.
gethcr favorable to his becoming candi-
date for Governor. -
The yellow jasrrf# will soon be in
bloom at its nrrthS4 limit, possibly a5O
miles south of New York. II is the mar,
vel and charm of theyfar Southern spring,
and it is said to bo we'll authenticated
that the pollen Of the blossom has blown
from Georgia into Virginia days b. fore
the plant had bloomcd in the latter
State. N. Y. Sun.
A Wilkes county baby, now FIVE weeks
old, weighs only 2a pounds.
A jealous girl in Richmond, Va. stab.
bed her lover wi h hat pin d married
him on his death bed, as was supposed.
but these is n fair chance OF his recovery.
There is a letter held for postage at
the Lake Maitl,nd Fla, postoflcc be.
cause the writer put on n Florida fcrtili
zer inspection s'amp in place of the ew
Columbian postage stamp, which is about
the same size and color