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

',l an uh hciai trial over the meas Ircc
course bctseen Cape Ann aud C.65e
4 pofroiSe, a distance of a fraction To-,
ban A knots, averaged the hitherto u6r
precedented speed of 2a.s7 knots an,
u thou-. -. -. -
i 10 ca'awba county, N. C, last Sur.
day John tWacaster, lad of 12,yc rs
plsyfu'ly s. appc his pisto, at his little
eous n, Priscilla Hudson. aged 10 wears
She sail, Don't do that" "scc !ssaid
he "ius q 1t 'aded," aud he snapp I'd
fasaiu. But itwss, and was DISCHARGED
ana the bsl entered tho little ai,ps
brain and killed her.
Senators Jimes z. aSorxe of Mss;s-
sippi, and A. II. ColquitA. OF Georgia
ana ex-senator S u. Maxey of Texas,
all OF whom were officers in the Confed
crate army are on the Mexican pens ion
roll. Gen. j. b. Kershaw, of South Car
DINA, was a VETERAN of the Mexican war
Ladies Of the Fonr Hupdrcd, of Baiti-
more, haye o;ga1i1ed ssCan on Flannel
Y l---a
CLUB, = The. .Fnrpotc. of ita .msnbsrs, wh6e
include nearly all the young l,dics of
the most cris:ocr. society of Balti-
more, is 10 supply tho poor with articles
OF wear OF cantoa funnel. The elder In.
dies orgaoiz' d the club, and their
daughters do tho work. Each member
brings with her 10 the meeting place
qusn'ity of canton flannel, which is fash
ioned into underwear, light garments,
and other things for children as we'll ss
adults. 1t is found that there is an al.
ways existing demand for canton fan.
mel. aud that it is impossible to supply
ing of wool on the free list are being
circulated and 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, 1O1, died in the Raj
'egh, N. c., poor house within q dav 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 10 old diggings and gold de-
posits known 10 exist there. Colorado
mi6iSg caplialis!s and capi1sIis,s IIoi !
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 compel.
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 a
twenty acre prunc ranch Washington
grower obtained this year forty tons of
dried fruit, which he sold in Portlond
at $3.50 a ton.
A mau in Amer;cus, Ga, is playing
the business of peddlcr under free
license granite by the Sta.e TO wounded
Confederate soldiers, and cking out a
subsistence with pcasion he draws rs
an ex-UIion soldier.
T Q NJ rioa Street Methodist church
at Colum' ia, 8. c., was sustained by the
Conference last week in cxpelling Walt r
KirHland because he was employed as a
c.cIk in the connty dis ,,ensnry. There is
no appe f0r un individual member from
tie decision Of the Conference.
T. X Bruncr, who was connected
with the exhibit at Chicago, says that
tho North Carolina agricultural exhibit
had received OF awards up to the time
Of his leaving Chicago, while that of
South Dakota, which was considered one
OF the finest agricultural displays, had
only 18
o. p. Ransom, grocer olumbia,S. c.,
was closed out Friday by the Loan &
Exchange Bank.
john NJ. Longstou, the cultured Wy
ginia mulatto, and formerly minister tc
Hayti, in recent lett ture on the emanci-
patton of the negro in tue Latin coun'
tries Of America, said that "the brave
deeds of the slaves who won Hayden
independence were monument to the
ability of the colored man to better hi:
own condition. Revolutions were fire.
Quent in Hayti, but no negro would evo'
sell the independence of the country
The disturbance in the government nevc
went farther than the disposition OF 'h'
rulers. The negro in Hayti and SAT
Domingo had emaucipated himself. bu