The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1893-11-24

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coutsc bctseen Cape Arm and Csppc
Pcfroise, . distance Of q fraction iS.s
ban A knots averaged the hitherto ud
tpreccdenied speed Of as.s7 knots an
!! aoas..s 80, - ~
Ia ca.avba comfy, N. C, last Sun
day John Wacaster, a lad. of '12ryc rs,
plsyfully 8 appc his pistol at his li.tle
COUSIN, Priscilla Hudson. aged ID yeara. |.
She sail, "Don't do that" ."scc pssaia
| he, "ips MT 'aded," aud he snapp I'd
faeain, But itNwss, and was discharged,
and the fb,l entered tho little gi,rs
brain and killed her,
Senators J smes 2. sdsorxe of Mss:s-
sippi, and A. II. Colquitk. OF Georgis,
and ex-senator s NJ Maxey Of Texas,
all OF whom were officers in the Confed
crate army, are on the Mexican pension
roll. Gen. j. B. Kershaw,, Of South Car
olina, was a veteran of the Mexican war
Lsdies Of the. Fopr Huudrcd, OF Balti-'
more, have .gspized . Gin on FLANNEL
Club. u The purpose Of its members, who
include nearly all tRe young ladies' of
the most cris.ocr .ric society of Balti-
more, is 10 supply tho poor with articles
OF wear OF cautoa funnel. The elder la.
dies orgauiz' d the club, and their
daughters do the work. Each member
brings with her TO the meeting place
qusn'i'y of canton flannel, which is fash
ioned into underwear, right garments,
and other things for children as we'll as
adults. 1t is found that there is an al
way: existing demand for canton Han-
mel. and that it is impossible to supply
ing of wool on the free list are being
circulated aud signed by almost every
one in west Texas regardless of party.
Two thousand people are interested in
wool in wet Texas.
Two centenarians, Mary Page, 104, and
Harry Mordecai, 101, died in the Raj
;egh, N. c., peor house within day of
each other last week.
Lumpkin county, Ca, is having an
exciting gold mining boom. The mines
are not new discoveries, but since the
silver trouble began attention has been
redirected TO old diggings and geld de-
posits known to exist there. Colorado
mining capitalists anu capltsIIsls from
other regions have been looking over
the Lumpkin gold fields during the past
two or three months, with a view to in
vestment.
Florida and California fruit is compet-
ing successfully with Mediterranean pro-
ducts in European markets this year,
and the shipments already are largely in
excess of those Of previous years. Sue
cessful experiments have a'so been made
this year with shipments of Californian
and Washington fruits to Japan and
other countries Of the Orient. From q
twenty acre prunc ranch Washington
grower obtained this year forty tons of
dried fruit, which he sold in Portlond
at $3.50 ton.
A msu in Amer;cus, Ga, is playing
the bus ness of peddlcr under free
license granite by the Sta'e to wounded
Confederate soldiers, and cking out &
subsistence with a pcasion he draws a.
an ex-UDion soldi,r.
T G NJ rioa Street Methodist church
at Colum' ia, 8. c., was sustained by the
Conference last week in cxpellng Walt
Kirkland because he was employed as
eek in the coanty dis ,,ensnry. There j
no appe | Cor an individual member from
tie decision Of the Conference.
II. X Bruncr, who was connecte,
with the exhibit at Chicago, says tha
the North Carolina agricultural exhibi
had received 81 awards up to the tim
Of his leaving Chicago, while that G
South Dakota, which was considered on
Of the finest agricultural displays, hst
only 1S
o. p. Ransom, grocer olumbia,S. G
was closed out Friday by the Loan
Exchange Bank.
john NJ. Langstou. the cultured VI
ginia mula,to, and formerly minister
Hayti, in n recent lc, iurc on the emanc
patton of the negro in tie Latin cou'
tries of America, said that 'the bray
deeds Of the slaves who won Hay''e
independence were monument to II
ability OF the colored man to better b
own condition. Revolutions were fr
ouent in Hayti, but no na9ro would G."
eel! :hc independents ot tue counu
The disturbance in the government nev
went farther than the disposition OF u
rulers. The negro in Hayt' and 81
pomipg 90 had emancipated himself b