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The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1893-07-14
Port Royal,s Dry Dock.

PORT ROYAL, s. C.-Owing to the
earthquake and extremely high tides the
Golfer dam to the dry dock became weak.
ened and crevasse appeared on Friday
night, through which the river water
flowed and filed the dock. The Golfer
dam is being rapidly repaired and
strengthened, when the dock will b'
pumped out and work proceeded with
The water in the dock can do little dam
ACC. as it is built to hold water.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1893-07-14
When General Dodds. the snccess,n

When General Dodds, the successful,
French Commander in Dahomey, re.
celved the brevet of General during
the recent campaign he was unable,
says Paris correspondent, to procure
there the four silver stars which,
stitched on the uniform, are a sign of
that rank. 1t was suggested to make
them with silver coins. AS the only
ones that could be found were English
shillings, the stars bore the head of
Queen Victoria, the Generals original
sovereign.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1893-07-14

In spite Of the fact that emigration
sst year was against the Argentine Re-
public, and that the country was un-
dergoing financial depression, the total
area under nrnps- wss-e ,ooa, eee-.rrrv
egsinst { ~, 600 acres ID; 1891 AN in.
sorease within year, OF 1876, 900
acres. The only woods which come to
the United States from the Argentine
are the Cordova carpet woods from
native sheep, shipped mostly to the
Boston mills.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1893-07-14
HUNG AN INNOCENT MAN.
Suffered Death for Murder That Was
Never Committed.

Never Committed.
FAYETTEvILLB, ARK.-Saturday's de-
velopments have rendered sensational a
supposed murder case that has long been
disposed of by the hanging of an in
nocent man.
In 1865 George Watkins, with come.
ly young wife. moved from Kansas to a
county adjoining this and settled on the
homestead of Andy Hedgepeth, a
wealthy planter. Watkins soon became
aware of unholy relations between
Hedgspeth and Mrs. Watkins. The two
men went to market in Hedgepeth's
wagon. Hedgepeth returned alone. The
sudden absence of Watkins excited sus'
picion and Hedgepeth and the woman
were arrested
The woman, at the trial, stated thai
she and Hedgepeth had agreed to kill hel
husband, but denied any knowledge O.
the murder. The evidence was circum
stantial, but in strong and unbrokel
| chain. The case was carried to tho Su
preme Court, reversed, and at the secon'
trial Hedgcpath was again convicted ant
hanged. 1t Is learned by Hedgepath'
counsel that Watkins is living in his oil
home in Kansas, where he has been a
the time since his disappearance.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1893-07-14
Says Once A Week: s'The wear 1879.

Says Once A Week: 'sThe year 1881
was one Of the worst years ever known
Iii the iron and steel industries OF
Great Britain. Attention will be di-
srected at once to the building of rail.
froads in India and to the DEVELOPMENT
sof the resources OF that country. 1t
is In order now for us to devote all our
energies to the development of our
new States and Territories, and to cul.
tivating closer commercial relations
with South America. The develop
ment of India, forced at last upon
Great Britain as commercial and in.
dustrial necessity, will mean shor'
Old World market for U.s."
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1893-07-14

A timber expert makes the interest.
ing statement that the spruce lands OF
Maine are to-day worth mere than
were the pine lands of fifty years ago,
mainly because of the development OF
the pulp business He estimates the
value of wild lands at 500 per acre,
reckoning only eighty-five cords to an
acre. There are nearly $500, 600 acre,
of wild land in Maine, and assuming
that only quarter of this is covered
with merchantable growth, the total
valuation would be something like
S47, 100000 Some idea of the i'm.
mense extent of wild lands in Maine
may be gained from the statement that
they would make State twice as large
as Massachusetts, twice as large as New
Hampshire and Vermont combined
aud thirteen times as large as Rhode
Island. In Aroostook County alone
there are nearly 100000 acres, while
in Piscataquis, an adjoining county
there are over 1000, 900; in Washing
ton, another adjoining county, owe
500, 900; in Somerset nearly 1000, 600
|. and in Hancock about 400, OOO acres
Penobscot the most thickty settle
county in eastern Maine has over 500,
900 acres.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1893-07-14
Justice Blatchford Dead.

NEWPORT, r. I-Justice Blatchford,
Of the United States Supreme Court, died
Friday night. He was very able man
and one Of immense physical proportions.
Mr.. Blatchford was appointed to the
Supreme Court bench from New York In
1882 by President Chester A. Arthur.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1893-07-14
The 1talian, imalia>--I-r-.'5
eIsV6faI bankers who lately testifie

= AiO 4taAAtsx1' Iln = -
Z pt0z6v6faT bankers who lately testified
beiore Congressional Commission.
send $40, 900, 900 year back to Italy
for the support of their relatives, or tc
pay their passage to this country.
"For all this" observes the New York
Independent, "they have paid an am
pie equivalent in work which has en-.
riched the country more than the
money they send impoverishes it, not
to speak of what they earn and spend
here. And it must be remembered
that considerable part of what they
send comes back again: and greatly
increased in value, in the person ol
other immigrants, even if we put the
value of free men no higher than the
old valuation of slaves"
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1893-07-14
A Town Sergeant Shop.

A special from Keysville, Va, says:
Town Sergeant v. s. Almond, while at
tempting to arrest negro burglar was
shot through the shoulder. The negro
then escaped to the woods and is being
pursued with dogs. II caught he will
doubtless be lynched.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1893-07-14
Fatal Fall From q Car.

RICHMOND, VA.-H. Lee Rarnett.
about 20 years of age, fell from car and
was killed, while the car was crossing a
trestle about sixty feet high on the Seven
Pines electric line.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1893-07-14
A Gun Cotton Factory Blown Up:


NEWPORT, II. L-Fire broke out in
tho gun cotton factory at the government
torpedo dosA>Aiv--.--s.'S-S Ss-.., - :
movsl Was complete the fire reached o
small quantity remaining and it exploded.
Frank Laughlin and jeremiah Harrison,
employees in the factory, were killed, and
Michael Reagan, John II. Harrington,
Ensign Capehart and several others,
whose names have not yet been learned,
were hurt. Cipehart's injuries are not
serious. All the other injured and the
two men killed are citizens, employees
and residents of Newport.
The gun cotton building was leveled
to the ground.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1893-07-14
A Conference On the Silver Situation

BRUSSELS, Cablegram.-The Belgian
government is reported to be about to
convene the Latin Union States Tor the
purpose of considering what action they
shall take in view of the recent fall In
silver. This will precede the reassem,
bling of the international monetary con-
ference.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1893-07-14
An Absconding Sheriff.

WHEELING. VIVA. Joseph L. Curtis,
exsheriff of Brooke County, this State,
who disappeared from his home in Wells
burg. is said to be short in his accounts
about forty thousand dollars. He left
home on Monday afternoon, telling his
friends he was going to GAINESVILLE, Ohio,
and has not heen seen since His bond
does not cover his liabilities.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1893-07-14
There are ten Cinnamon in this
country to every American in Chine
'ne hsures are eleven hundred against
one hundred and ten thousand.

Switzerland is veritably the land
moving with milk and honey, and
cattle upon q thonsend hill." Great
attention is paid to apisries; the honey
y famed Tor its aroma and delicacy |;
though some tourists are disposed to
doubt If that which is on every break
last table is all the product Of the little
busy hymenopter.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1893-07-14
r;rds Rslirion. but Loses His Wife.

BosroN, Mass.-Because his wife left
him after he joined the Methodist church,
both having been Catholics, Thomas F.
Ryan asked divorce, saying: "she de-
,erteS me because I love my Saviour bet
er than I do her." His suit was dis
| missed
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1893-07-14
SMASHING ! Jul. POWER.

wsdsssdsy ]. q ~ ls.s<ss a. !. !.s.s:. !.
the reverend gsafieman camc upon the
handsome whisky exhibit made by Sir
John Powers, OF Dublin, Ireland. Sud
denly he raised heavy hickory cane he
was carrying and smashed away at the
bottles arranged in the form of famous
round tower of Ireland. Three times he
smote the exhibit, bringing down about
twenty bottles and spilling the liquor on
the floor of the building. Then he was
seized by the guards and the club
wrenched from his hand. A patrol
wagon was summoned and the Clergyman
given ride to the patrol barn, where he
admitted smashing the exhibit. He was
kept prisoner while a warrant was
being produced, ard he meanwhile wrote
out long statement of "Why 1 struck
the whisky power" saying that it was
because Jehovah told him, and he didr.its
ON the Fourth of July as an appropriate
day.
CHICAGO, ILL Rev. John T. James,
of Virginia, who smashed tho whisky
exhibit of Sir John Powers in the Agri-
cultural Building on the Fourth of July,
got off easily in Justice Porter's court.
The prisoner refused to make any state
ment and acted SO queerly that the
justice allowed the charge of malicious
mischief to be changed to disorderly
conduct. He then fined the reverend
vandal $25. Mr.. James declared be
would 60 to Jail and pose as martyr for
the demon, drink. Then the judge re-
mitted the fine.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1893-07-14
A Rival for the South.

ODESSA, RUSSIA. The minister OF pup
lie domains has under consideration
plan for the cultivation OF one million
acres of cot on in Merv.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1893-07-14
G. H., SOUTH CAR0k,
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
The Latest Happenings Condensed
and Printed Here.

Tho Latest Happenings Condensed
and Printed Here.
Rioting has boon going on in the Lssir
quarter Of Paris aud many students and
clerks have been killed and wopsded, :.
ts-ssvuvoOrfms-ruucSU rec1xetx6iaot
frye .t iss own home. At Blowing Green
KY, Saturday last, after one of the most
exciting elections in the history of that
city. the ''drys" won by majority of
twenty-eight votes, aud for tho next
three years local option will prevail.
Throughout the day prayer-meetings
we're held, women stood around the polls
and the church bells were ruug.
The report just presented to Governor
Carr, of North Carolina, by the States
geologist shows that the work of the
survey is being pushed actively in several
different sections of that State. One
party is examining the clays of Harnett
and the headstones of Moore, Richmond
aud Anson. Another is examining the
geology of the Great Smoky Mountains.
Another is studying the serpentine rocks
and associeted min erals in. Macon, Jack
son and other counties. The forester of
the survey is examining the timber inter
csts in the Black Mountain region.
Jas B. Marshall, a prominent citizen
Of Richmond, Va committed suic,d at
his residence Thursday night. He was
found dead in his parlor with a-pistol in
his hand and bullet hole in his head.
He had been i'll for some time past.
The 17-year locust made their appear
ancc in surry county, N. c., Sunday,
July @ These are the first that are heard
OF in this section.
J. s. Armstrong, of Culpcpper, Va,
is in Wilmington, N. c., for the purpose
of organizing another bank. He is ex.
perienced in the business. He will take
$50, 900 stock if the people of the COM
munity will take the same amount.
n, The erp rp9liticians now say that Secretary
New York as Govefp0.- I,.-- OF !
sor.
1t is highly probable that President
Harrison will become n permanent resi-
dent of California. 1t is now very well
understood that if he is pleased with the
surroundings at Leland Stanford, Jr.,
University when he delivers his series OF
law lectures there next fall that he will
have the opportunity of becoming the
president of that institution at big sal.
ary.
John Wannamaker was SO much pleased
with Washington that he is now thinking
of making it his winter home. He is
seriously contemplating the opening of q
large store there and has agents now at
work trying to secure the necessary lot of
ground for the building that he wants to
erect.
DR.. J. A. Hodges, of Wilmington. N.
c., has been elected to the chair of
anatomy in tho College Of Physicians
and Surgeons, of Richmond, Va, and
has accepted.
The Knoxville, Tenn, street car line
is in the hands of a receiver who an
uounced Monday that no negroes would
be allowed to ride on the care yesterday;
the 4th of July. The negroes announc-
I'D their purpose to ride and clash was
expected.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1893-07-14
iHE cofr5s 4
en:ssss elaa.ss as rsdx:

Seszz9t - - 60. Is,
i ExrxRrNxsr STATION, RALxreu, II
o.-Every season as soon a. the hot sir,
weather begius in earnest the Expert
ment Station receives complaints OF tn,
damage caused to cotton plants by ,
small rod mite which most farmers cal
aiouse. This Is scientifically known a,
totranychus tolarius, It's t,ue init,
which lives on the under surface of th,
leaf covered by white silken web. I,
inserts its beasS ::.i;o the veins of the leaf
and sqcks out tho sap, causing the lcal
20 turn red or brown In spots, producing
whsti 10 ofton called tfust. . The Leaf
.exssssellywithsrs sskai fSlssssr: s,as&i.
Notice aosir its presence e q d 7mBsaas xsssaf
by the rusty appearance OF the cotton
| leaves.
Remedies: Probal ly the most salts.
factory rs,nedy is to seLd mon through
the fields with baskc's or bags and pick
OF all rusty leaves, carry them away
with their infesting mites and burn
them. As they live on tho under side of
the leaf it is difficult to use stray against
them unless one has nozzle that will
throw the spray upwards. Such noz
zle attached to T rod is made by the
Field Pump Co., of Lock port, N. Y. A
reliable ready prepared emulsion can be
bought Of W. s. Powell & Co., Apnapo-
lis Junction, Md, as cheap as any one
can make it.
The tobacco decoction will also de-
stroy these mites. It is made by boiling
tobacco stems or powder in water for
half an hour at tho rate OF one pound of
tobacco to three gallons water. 1t will
be more powerful II sulphur is used in
connection. Mix five pounds of flour of
sulphur with ten pounds Of fresh lime
and boil together in five 10 ten gallons of
water for half an hour. Add this, boil
ing hot, to twenty gallons of diluted to-
bacco decoction and use at once. In.
stead OF boiling lime and sulphur, sui
phide Of lime may be bought at the stores.
One pound of this powder should be well
mixed with one quart Of ordinary soft
.oap and the whole then stirred into
twenty gallons Of the hot tobacco dc.
coctiou and used at once. Should the
weather turn wet those mites will soon
disappear as they are unable to with.
stand much moisture.
oA1sS->-- sssuv~v,io ucn cuCIaI
sects, lady bugs, are already destroying
tho lice, and hence it would scarcely pay
to purchase spraying outfit at this date,
GERALD MCCARTHY,
Entomologist. N. G. Experiment Sta.
tion.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1893-07-14

Prayer Answered While he Prayed.
AUGUSTA, Ga. The winds Of Thurs.
day nights storm settled religious
wrangle by summarily blowing down tho
house OF worship where the wranglc took
place.
For weeks the members of the Bro wn.
vile Baptist Church, in the southern
part of the city, have been engaged in
dispute ovcr choice of pastors. Through
trials and tribulations the Rev. White,
far removed in color from his name, did
t---;i-a Ai-i---l--.a-.-- -.--AAA----4L----i-~------
God stood complete, and the church
members pronounced it good, bright
mulatto theologian came to the neighbor-
hood, smiled upon The females Of the
congregation, and announced himself q
candidate Tor pastor. That this yellow
parvcnu churchman should receive any
favor from his flock made the Rev.
White indignant. He prayed that this
house OF worship which he with his own
hands, had built should be destroyed,
thus ending forever the audaciout
claims of his mu'atto opponent and the
wrangling of his ungrateful congregation.
Shortly before last nights storm, while
the clouds were growing dark and the
distant thunder rolled, the Rev: White
continued to pray. The fury of the blast
increased, the rain fell, the flood came,
TIE Rev. white stopped his petition the
church was destroyed. There was $16,-
900 damage. The negroes of that whole
lection are terrorized over the visitation.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1893-07-14

ana Merchants Cannot Main.
& 2sar Position Until Congress
slasvss the Situation.
xkNsxs BAxK FAILURE.

Jlts5@SrSAA, AAM@TwO KanBaa hank
I've elesed their doors. The failure, o
/ sne fanney county bank, at Gaeder
oty, was not unexpected, as the banl
mas forsome time been in bad condition,
Inc bank OF Leroy, Coffey county, wa.
! el.c c!csca.
PUGET SOUND BANK FAILS. s
+ EyERkTT, WASH. On account of thu
tnsn1lie 10 foslisS 4 d = secuf3siae. In.
,---~ -&'~---.s NIL 49,
has suspended. ~ I''."-'''
COUNTY MONEY IN A FAILED BANK.
WoRTHINaToN, MINN,-Nobles County
Bank closed its doors Thursday morning.
Its owner, Peter Thomas, has made an
assignment. Several thousand dollars of
county money are tied up in it.
A SAVINGS BANK CoLLAPsEs.
OMAHA, NEB.-Thc American Savings
Bank suspended Thursday with deposits
OF $4,000 and assets Of $3.50, 600. It
was involved in the embarrassment of tho
American Loln and Trust Company,
through the latter's enterprise, the Omaha
and South Texas Land Company.
sPECULAToR FAILS.
OTTuMwA, h.-A. c. Leighton, a
prominent capitalist and speculstor of
this city has assigned. His liabilities are
sk5rat: $ts8, GEO; assets $500, 600. "
A TEXAS LAND COMPANY ASSIGNS.
GALVESTON, TEX. Judge Bryan ap-
pointed II. Z. McGregor receiver of the
Omaha & South Texas Land Company.
The liabilities are $4oO, 600. No schedule
Of assets was fled.
THIS Is GRATIFYING
An analysis of the Statistics of business
failures of the United States for the past
six months by the Chattanooga Trades
man discloses the fact that the Southern
States have withstood the financial crisis
better than any other section of the
country.
DISTRESS OUT WEST.
TOPEKA, KAN.-The Findlay County
Bank, of Garden, Kan, has failed. State
Bank Commissioner Breitdcnthal is there
AMERICAN -NAqaoNAL BANK sUsPENDs,
..oD~r-.,rn1s 1r-o~.---s~.sr
are placed by the bank officers at 81, $780,
900, and the liabilities at $685., 900. o.
p. H. Baxter, one of the wealthiest
men in the State, is president. 1t is be-
lieVed that the bank will be able to re-
sumo business shortly, because its assets
are in good shape. There is no excite
ment among the depositors of the other
banks.
A BAD FAILURE.
DENVER, CoL.-Thc failure Of the
Chaffee County Bank ut Salida Saturday
proves TO have been bad one, and it
looks as though the institution had been
looted. Liabilities, o,0o0, and the
genuine assets only $4,000.
NORTH CAROLINA BANK.
WINSTON, N. C.-Thc FIRST National
DauK W fppeon- osov~SI- :<-l~o Lpl>...a-
day morning. 1t is believed that the
bank will be reorganized and that it will
resume business within month.
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M...v S.aa,r s.pel;utendent.

Mcaey Grior Superintendent.
WASHINGTON, D. C.-Edward e. Gads-
den, of Georgia, has been appointed
Superintendent of the Money Order
Service, Postoffice Department.
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The Gold Reserve Increasing.

WASHINGTON, ID. C.-The Treasury
gold has increas 100000, standing
now at 500, 97S,94
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1893-12-29

Whether gallantry is At all times a good
thing todisplay IN public Is a question that
was debated mentally hy d carfull of people
In Broadway Friday night, The car was
bound down Town, md at Fourteenth
street il was comfortably filed. 1t was
nearly II O'Clock, and the outpouring
crowd from the Star theater supplied
enough mora passengers to pack the car
from door 10 door. Three or four men
were seated. and half dozen women, all
young, yiyacious and apparently robust,
were standing Everybody was good ma
tured, and as the car bowled along there
was not the slightest manifestation OF dis
comfort But there was one very gallant
young man who could not let well enough
alone Hewas packed snugly between two
women, whose skirts almost concealed the
lower portion Of his body.
BY frantic efforts he extricated himself,
and with polite bow rendered his seat to
a young woman who was contentedly con
versing with some friends who were also
standing. She glanced at the vacated
seat, saw about two inches of space, and
smilingly shook her head. But the gallant
young man insisted, and, in an effort to
make another bow, knocked stout woman
with a bundle off her balance. The woman
fell into the lap Of an old gentleman ans
the bundle landed among the feathers and
ribbons Of a love Of bonnet" at the
other end OF the ear.
The startled old gentlemen, in trying to
assist the stout woman to her feet, lost his
silk hat, which, in its downward course,
swept apair Of opera glasses from the lap
Of the woman who sat next to him. Mean
while the gallant young man was trying to
apologize to the stout woman. He STUN
bled over the feet Of one passenger,
knocked woman's hat awry, and by the
sudden stopping Of the car involuntarily
embraced the maiden to whom he had Of
fered his seat There were muttered signs
Of discomfort, and the embarrassed gallant
would have left the ear but for the masses
Of humanity packed between him and the
doors. He therefore swung disconsolately
from a strap, humping against this one
and that, and listening to such feminine
calculations as "Well ! neverl'' For
goodness sakep' Gracious!" etc, And the
young woman did not take his seat.-New
York Times.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1893-12-29

Too much enterprise sometimes defeats
itself. The craze for advertising by means
OF big set scene in show window doubt
less has its uses, but it would shock the
great merchants who pay the bills if they
could see exactly how the scheme some
times worked such window had been
decked out the cther day-whether in the
capital or the metropolis makes no differ
ence--and before it were gathered repre-
sentatives, both small and great, of the
public who were to be captured by the free
show, What did they see? Not one detail
of the elaborate display prepared for their
benefit, but instead four huge sandwich
boards advertising the similar wares Of a
rival.
1t was not deep laid scheme on the
part Of the rival either. He had simply
sent out brigade Of such irresponsible
citizens as are willing to be employed as
peripatetic business announcements, with
instructions to keep where the largest
crowd was TO be found Attracted both
by the throng and by the scene in the win
dow they had placed themselves in the
front rank Of spectators, and by leaning
their boards In row against the glass,
had transformed the costly advertisement
Of the Weather house into u free boom for
the cheap one. Kate Fields Washington.