The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1893-11-17
VOL. XXIV.--NEW SERIES
PITHY NEWS ITEMS.

more Of their countrymen to arrive this
month.
Snap beans and green peas formed q
part OF the cargo of the steamer Neuse,
which sailed from Newbern, N g.,
Wednesday.
A little II month old child OF g.
w. Stockton, of Lattimore's, Cleveland
county, N. c., fell into the fire and re.
ceived burns from which it died.
1t is estimated that $500 people from
North Carolina attended the Worlds
Fair.
Cut gems from Mcdowell county, N.
c., obtained the prize at the Worlds
Fair; the collection was made by Col.
Fl. G. Demming, and he says 800, 600
was offered for duplicate and 1t could
not be found in the world.
Tha artesian- wall sunk by Aiken. s. c..
has proven success, water being found
at 175 feet to 200 feet Jelow the surface.
Arrangements will now be made i'm
mediately for the entire equipment of q
water-works plant.
A. French and john NJ Patterson, both
OF Pittsburg, Pa, were in Charlotte las
week. They are visiting the State pro,
pecting with view to the erection of
large iron working machine plant.
A bank has been organized at Sum
merville, S. c.. to be called the Bank of
Summerville, lis capital is to b. -a5, OOO
At Winston. N. c., Ollie j, ;
woman of questionable character, was
stabbed by brick mason named Joe
Lewis. She will probably die. Lewis
skipped, but the sheriff has gone in pur
suit.
In the United States Circuit Court at
Norfolk, Va, Judge Hughes dismissed
the case of the American Drier Compa-
ny, of Louisville, KY, against J. c. EN-
erson for an alleged infringement on a
patent for lumber drying kiln.
}. c. Blank is lodged in the Rich.
mond, Va, station house, charged with
forgery and passing checks of small de.
nominations, purportins to be drawn by
q. ID. Pearman, VIM. H. Briggs Bros,
and others of that city.
d. A. Goodwin, practical tanner of
Salisbury, N. c., now running a tan
yard there, it is learned, has procured a
patent on an ingenious process of tan
ming leather. lie was offered SiU, 0oD for
a halt interest in his patent bv Balti- |
The Confederate monument question
has been decided in Raleigh, N. G. 1t |
will be built Of North Carolina granite,
and will stand at the west gate of the
Capitol.
Lizzie Sm'tty, white girl II years
old, who claimed to be from the Brushy
mountains, Wilkes county, was placed
in Jail at Sparta, All'gbany county, N.
G., last week for stealing a horse from
from James Landre'h.
The Lyc>um Theatre Of NJ emphis,
Tenn, WAS u's'royed by fire Tuesday
night, with three adjoining buildings.
a fireman was fatally injured. The to-
tai loss Is cstimetsd at 1860, 600.
The bar of Daaville, Va has endorsed
Judge B"rry man Green, Of that place,
for United states Circuit judge.
w. NJ. Smith, lawyer of Concord,
N. c., is IN receipt of some letters which
indica tie development of North Caro-
lima. One letter is from parties who
want to locate an English colony, and to
negotiate for the purchase of a large
!ract &C Land for their uSn. Another lot
ter is from a Northern syndicate, which
wants to purchase IS, 900 acres of hard
timber land and TO- 600 acres of short
leaf pine land. Still another is from par
ties who want to bug 10000 acres of
land for grazing pu,prses, their plan be.
raising industry.
Governor T.llman q: otT3,cd a reward
Of $3.50 for the arrest and conviction of
the parties who shot j. ID. IIsjrs.one at
his home in Goldvill", $. c., a few
nights ago.
One Of the large turkey gobblcrs at
! the Columbia, S. c., Fair, it is said de-
| liberately comml'tcd suicide by fastca-
ing his head in the wire netting. He
had not yet been judged.
The best native COW ad 'gcd to be
at the Columbia, s. c., Fair was orc
exhibited by j. H. VIII rton. Of Iyurcrs
This COW also won The milk test p'iz" Of
$500, making record of 37t ou ds
The rice planters of Gcorget own n
county, S. c., have formed the Rj,e e
Planters Association for. the purpose Of
advancing the culture of nce and the