The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1893-12-08

yves haheed 81 Dallas, h. C., REislay.
Savannah and JacEsoaviIie have
faised the quarantine against Bruns-
wick, Ga. 80 5 - - -.
Charles and VIII Owen were ar-
rested for stealing horses from s. w.
and A Y. Tedder, of ChestArAsld
county, 8. @. The Charlotte, n. o.,
police captured them In Bsffyhill
township, Mecklenburg county.
E. = Thompson, Of Fredericksburg,
Va, Who is walking on o wager to Bo-
gotta, South America, has arrived at
the City ofMexicus One condition OF
his trip is that he must hot. carry
money with him. He has been hospis
'tabiy. received in Mexico, but he near
ly starved in Texas. s. s.
+ Arkansas hasx. 10000 fsrms which
produce e00s 900 q6dlss 81 SSaktons 800&
600 Sbushels fsweet ,pot see, 1sl)0fss
0O0 pounds ssf tobacco, Go y l)36
bushels Of corn and . % D, 600 b1ba ~
of wheat. From the Arkansas fcretfs
are cut over $50, 600, 600 worth of luua-
Der every year.
, Gen. John Gibbon, Of the tinted
States army, retired, delivered lee
ture at Winchester, Va. under the aus
pices of Christ's Episcopal Church,
and for the benefit of the poor. His
subject was: ''My life on the S!!.inp,
ca wnat 1 know about the Indians"
A report is current that Major Turs
ner Morehead, who has been in Europe
several months, has effected a. sale of
the Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley rail.
road to syndicate OF English capital
lists.
Duplin county, N. O., will renew its
attempt to have the courts declare the
Present method of distributing the
public school taxes, -nncoustitutional. )
instituted another suit agsInbt tine
State Board of Education. At present,
the counties collect and keep the
school fund, but the Duplin board
wish it all to go into the State Treas
ury and to be thence distributed per
capita.
A huge bear was brought by express
from Havelock, in Craven county, to
Newbern, N. c., Tuesday. It was
killed by three sportsmen-two of
them Northern gentlemen-who had
gone out deer hunting. It was killed
at Great Lake below Newbern, and
few miles from the Atlantic and North
Carolina railroad. The bear was a
magnificent specimen, six feet in
length with glossy black coat of hair
and great rolls of fat when dressed.
His estimated weight was 450 pounds.
The three principal agricultural ex-
hibits ut the Georgia State Fair at Au-
gusta were won by women, Misses Zoe
Brown, of Hancock county, M. Ruther-
ford, Sumter county, and Annie Den
mis-. of Talbot county.
While Governor Reynolds, of Della
ware, was in his private Office at the
State house at Dover, some unknown
person hurled two huge rocks and II
stone cuspidore through the window,
with intent to either injure or kill.
The President made his Thanksgiv-
ing dinner off 27-pound, pink and
white, plump variety of turkey, ship
ped from Westerly, Conn, by Horace
Vose, who has selected the presidential
bird since Grants time.
l.. Bcrtram Cady, swell Fifth
avenue merchant tailor, while at the
theatre in New York the other night,
spied through his opera glasses, Albert
McMillen, who had stolen 81, 800 from
him in 1889 and escaped. A policeman
was summoned, and the thief arrested.
Luella Welz. pretty typewriter Of
Cincinnati, sued Will Syberly, a rich
shoe mans son, for breach of promise.
and the jury found that she was damaged
$40, 900 worth.
The Spartanburg IS. C.) Spartan
says: Charlotte has started its seventh
cotton mill. This ono is for weaving
towels, counterpanes and the like. All
that Charlotte now needs is a good
soap factory to go along with the
towels.
The will of the late Alfred w
Shields, of Richmond, Va, leaves hi
farm to his two colored servants, ant
an estate of $1S, 900 to the UnivoTsit,
OF Virginia.