The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1893-07-07
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
The --latest Happenings Condensed
and Printed Here.

Inc Latest dapp sulng9 COndeu used
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Prof A. NJ. Muckenfuss, of Charles
ton, s c., his been elected professor of
chemistry at Millsap College. Jackson,
Miss. He graduated at Wofford in 1889.
Prof. w. II. Hand, superintendent of
the Florence G. schools, has been elect
cd principal of the Chester. graded
schools. He is native of CASTOR county,
N. c., and graduated at Chapel Hill.
j. M. Roach has been elected
county dispenser at Columbia, 8. g. The
following prices for liquor are announced
there: X rye, 90 per gallon, rs cents
per quart, 40 cents per pint, 30 cents
per half pint; Xxx rye, %. so per gallon,
90 cents per quart. AS cents per pint, 25
cents per half pint.
MIS- Stonowall Jackson is at present
visiting 10 Farmville, Va.
There is house in Salisbury, N. c.,
owned by Frost, built by Fries, tho
lumber of which was furnished by Snow.
u,ckburn s. Willetts, truckers at New
bern, N. G, shipped few days ago,
$500 boxes, five carloads, of cucumbers.
A dispatch to the New York Tribune
f,om Honolulu says tho adhercnts of the
provisional government arc beginning to
look to England to annex the islands.
Senator Colquitt is u surprise and
disappointment to the Georgia politicians
Some months ag, they had him dying,
and now he announces tint he is a can
didatc for rec 'ectiou. He will not have
walk over, though, for Governor Nor
then, ex Congressman Henry g. Turner
and Speaker Charles r. Crisp are all
anxious to fill the scat held b. him.
There i, some talk Of running Secretary
Hokc Smith rs Cleveland candidate.
None of the other candidates takes any
decided stand in regard to silver, though
they all lean towards free coinage.
During the single yer OF its existence
the Young Mems Business L"agu', of
Memphis, Tenn, has succeeded in secur-
ing four new factories for the city, pay
ing 5000 yearly in wages and adding
2 500 to the city's population.
The grain elevator which tho Chesa.
pcake s. Ohio Railroad has contemplated
erecting at Richmond, Va, will soon be
built. The structure is to be 40x1O0
feet iu size, 1903 feet high, and be built
If corrugated iron and mineral wool.
William ID. Mccoy, ,colored, of Indiana,
Uuited States Minister to Liberia, is dead.
He is the fourth Minister who has died
at his post in Liberia during the last 12
years.
The newly-completed Great Northern
Railroad has created sensation among
its competitors in the West by announ
cling 5000 mile tickets, good for one
year, for $75.
The increase in attendance upon tue
Worlds Fair is so rapid and marked that
the bureau Of admissions is confident
that the daily average will soon reach thu
300, 900 mark.
The executive committee of the board
of education of the new Presbyterian
Theological Seminary at Louisville. KY,
concluded an important meeting last
week. The faculty has been completed.
the chairs being filed with some of the
ablest men in the Southern Church. The
seminary will open next fall.
August 25 is colored peoples day in
the Worlds Fair calendar, and $50, 900
Afro Americans are expected to pass
through the gates during the four days
of the convention.
The bronze replica of the statue OF
Columbus in Madrid has arrived in New
York and was privately inspected on
Saturday by the Duke De Veragus, his
brother and Gen. James Grant Wilson Of
the Lincoln Bank.
The silver in the standard dollar, ac-
cording to the price Of the last purchase
of bullion, is worth about 83s cents, and
the legal tender quality of that coin is,
therefore, made up of less than two.
thirds of intrinsic value. s
The trustees of the State Agricultural
College of Florida have requested the re-
signation of all the members of the
faculty of that institution. A complete
reorganization is to be made. All the
faculty promptly handed In their re-
designations, except DIR. James p. De-
pass, director of the experimental station
and professor of agriculture. He refuses
70 resign and will force the trustees to
remove him.