The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1893-09-01
PIrHY news ITEMS.
mostly Concerning Our souther,
Country.

Il SOntharr
| Country.
Dispenser jackson Cartlcdge was OK
PEELED from the Marion Street Mcthodis
church of Columbia, s. O., on sunda,
last in meeting of the congre CATION, be-
cause the laws of the church forbade tn,
manufacture or sale by church member:
OF intoxicating liquors to be used as 8
beverage.
Assistant Secretary Curtis at Washing
ton has Instructed special Treasury
agents to construc as literally as possible
the laws as to tho packing of cotton on
passenger steamers. These instructions
nave been sent out as result of recen,
hearing On the subject by delegation
representing Mississippi river interests
.. F. Lane. of Longview, Tex, arres
ted in Springfield, O., on charge OF
robbing his father of s1e 600, committed
suicide in Jail Wednesday morning.
work on the proposed cotton mill at
batesburg, s. c., tegan August IA. 1t
Will be erected as soon as possible and
will be equipped with the latest improve
ments in textile machin cry.
Two recent sales of land in eoutb
Carolina were tracts located near B,rn.
well, on The Port Royal s. Augusta Rail
way. They were of 1000 aud 600 acres.
rcspec lively, and were purchased by the
railway company mentioned.
IL. L.. odiornc is running the EN-
pire Cotton Mill at Florence. 8. O.,
and is also pres;d dent Of tl,o newly or.......,
lied Florsposr Cotton SrArC0. This lat
ltee,ee,ppesystaxs bean sgits succcssfsslS
Su bsoriptions thus far, and
when 500. 600 stock has bsen taken.
Northern capitalist will add $3.50 600
m,king a $3.50, 600 textile establishment
A syndicate of West Virginia capital
lists recently purchased the Adams gold
mine Weldon, N. G. They hive organ
lied company to b, known as the West
Virginia Mining & Milling Co. Mach
incry has been ordered for the purpose of
developing it.
w. r. Whiison, of Asheville, N. O.,
is engineering big plan to build a
large knitting mill there. The wafer
power of the swannanoa river will be
used.
The North Carolina Railway has
hitherto been exempt from taxation, as
much of its. stock Ia n,nn4a17-i J--r,---<a4--.a
The board of directors at recent meet
ing passed resolution surrcndering the
Hereafter the North Carolina
will be taxed just as any other line.
The Newberry Cotton Mills, New
berry, s. c., will double their capacity
when their new building is completed,
the erection of which has just been com-
Sunday, Aug. 27th, was the second
anniversa of the railroad wreck at
Bostian bridge, near Statcsville, N. G in
which % persons lost their lives, and the
Landmark says that Col. Beneh,n Cam.
eron has presented to Trinity Episcopal
OF that place, handsome
memorial window as thank Offering for
his dcliverance from death, in memory of
those who died, and in gratitude to the
State vile people.
A memorial marble to Jefferson Davis
is to be placed in the rotunda of the
Georgia Capitol at Atlanta, ON the spot
where the body rested before being con-
veytd to Richmond for fina, burial. The
badge of the United Confederate Veter-
ans, triangle and bar, will be taken as
the motive of the memorial, which is to
have height of about four feet. The
badge will be represented on the four
sides of the marble, and on the bars
suitable inscriptions will be made.
John Wingler, postmaster at Wake
land, Ind, took peculiar method of re-
signing his office Friday. lie boxed up
what government property he had and
shipped it to Washington. He is Dem.
ocrat and has been postmaster for ten
years or moro. Growing tired of his job,
he several times sent in his resignation,
but 1t was never acted upon. Winger
says that his last method was the only
one that woald relieve him from the
cares of office.