The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1893-07-07
THE NEWS In BRIEF.
The Latest Happ snings Condensed
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Prof A. NJ. Muckenfuss, of Charles
ton, s c., hs been elected professor of
chemistry at Millsap COLLEGE, Jackson,
Miss. Ho graduated at wofford in 1889.
Prof. w. II. Hand, superintendent of
the Florence S c. 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. NJ. Roach has been elected
county dispsnser at Columbia, 8. @. The
following prices for liquor are announced
there: X rye, 90 per gallon, 76 cents
per quart, Az cents per pint, 30 cents
per half piut; XIX rye, $3.50 per gallon,
90 cents per quart, As cents per pint, 25
r:nts per half pint.
MIS- Stoncwail Jackson is at present
visiting in Farmville, Va.
There is house in Salisbury, N. c.,
owned by Frost, butt by Fries, tho
lumber of which was furnished by Snow.
u,ckburn s. Willctts, truckers at New
bcrn, 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 surprise and a
disappointment to the Georgi, politicians
Some months ag) they had him dying,
and now he announces thlt be is can
didatc for re- 'ection. He will not have
walk over, though. for Governor Nor
then, cx Congressman Henry G.. Turner
and Speaker Charles +. Crisp are all
anxious to fill the scat held b. him
There i, some talk Of running Secretary
IIokc Smith rs Cleveland candidate.
None of the other candidates takes any
decided staud in regard to silver, though
they all lean towards free coinage.
During the single yen of its cxistonce
The Young Mems Business L"agu', of
Memphis, Tenn, has succeeded in secur-
ing four new factories for the city, pay
ing 800, 600 yearly in wages and adding
500 to the city's population.
The grain elevator which the Chesa
pcake & Ohio Railroad has contemplated
erecting at Richmond, Va, will soon be
built. The structure is to be 4Ox1OO
feet in size, 1OS feet high, and be built
If corrugated iron and mineral wool.
William ID. Mccoy, ,colorcd, of Indiana,
Uuitcd States Minister TO Liberia, is dead.
He is the fourth Minister who has died
at his post in Liberla during the last 12
years.
The newly-completed Great Northern
Railroad has created a 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 tho
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 filled with some of the
ablest men in the Southern Church. The
seminary will open next fall.
August % is colored peoples day in
the Worlds Fair calendar, and $50, 600
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 63t cents, and
the legal tender quality of that coin is,
therefore, made up of less than two.
thirds of intrinsic value.
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 bo made. Aii the
faculty promptly handed in their re-
designations, except DR.. James p. De-
pass, director of the experimental station
and professor of agriculture. He refuses
to resign and will force the trustees to
remove him.