The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1893-03-24

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Burcn, Missouri.
The city OF sVicksburq, Nissx win sun
!, veil splendid monumcn0<o fhe Confcd.
crate dead.
Work has begun on tho new $500, 0OO
cotton mill Mt Columbia, 8. G. It is To-
Gated on til. canal.
business at the Charleston, s. c., Gus.
tom House is dull-only 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 since.
Sumter, 8. c., is to have fine hotel
and opera hou The first is d oicctcd
by Gcucral Moies, which guarSn ccs its
success.
John Shull, a brakcm, IN on tho East
Ten essec and Western North Carolina
railway, was accIdcntly killed Monday
mar Valley Forge.
Hamlet, NJ c.. has its indust les
Since the Cotton Compr IS s ut down q
20 acre chicken farm giv,s impetus to
the development Of tho resources.
The municipal election in Laurcns, 8
c., took place Tuesday AMI excited great
interest, very large v"te being cast. l.
w. Sipkins 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 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, 8. c., with capital Of
81 ,O00, 900. 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 exposition.
.Georgi, began paying pensions Wednes
day to 1900 veterans and widows. The
latter will get $50 a year, aud the veter.
aus will be paid according to a sliding
scale.
A prize of 81 900 will be awarded the
best drilled company at the international
competitive drill between the national
guard of the several States during the
naval rendezvous in April, 1893, 10 the
city of Norfolk, Va.
At Hampton, Va, Friday night Captain
James Shelby, we'll known horse dealer
was shot In the neck aud killed in True
lood's saloon while trying to get q pis.
tol from Richard Trueblood, the propri.
etor of tho place.
The Grand Camp Of Virginia, Confcd
crate Veterans. has been invited t. meet
In Portsmouth on tho 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 to 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 marriage, all
of whom are married.
The Charleston News and Couricr's Co.
lumbia correspondent says: It sec ms to
bcprctty generally und. rstood iu political
CTcics tnat Ex-C0nSresSman George ID.
Tillman will be factor in the next Guber.
natorial contest The chances are alto.
gether favorable to his becoming a.candi.
date for Governor. 80
The yellow jasmine will soon be in
bloom at its northern limit .poaeihi1sssse,
miles south-of SewzY6ly< <. 3 Il e the naSll
vel and charm Of t)ls III Southern spYif1
and II - said 10 bozMcll authenticated
that the pollen OF the blossom has blown
from Georgia into Virginia days before
the plant had bloomed In the latter
State N. Y. Sun.
AWiikes county baby, now five weeks
old, weighs only "a pounds.
A jealous girl in Richmond, Va. stab.
bed her lover with hat pin ard married
him on his death bed, as was supposed,
but these is n fair chance OF his recovery.
There is letter held for postage at
the Lake Maitl,nd Fla, postofiicc be-
cause the writer put on a Florida fertili
ger inspection stamp in place of the rev
J Columbian postage stamp, which is about
the same size aud color.