The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1894-05-11
PITHY NEWS ITEMS

A pants company has been establish
ed at Elkin, N. @.
A 5000 spindle cotton factory has
been proposed in Laurinburg, N. G.
The preachers in Lexington, KY,
have united in the fight against Col.
Breckinridge's denomination.
Cleveland, Ohio, had small riot
last week, which was quelled by the
police.
The banking firm of Hinton 4 Dunn,
Petersburg, Va, is to retire from bus
mess -,,e.S ,,tl.zs ~
An ink factory and abarrel factory
arc to be new enterprises at Waynes-
Vile, N. G.
An Atlanta architect has completed
the drawings for the Newberry, s. c.,
proposed water works, and the cost is
estimated at $4,000.
A sturgeon which was 81 feet long
and weighed 800 pounds, was caught
Tuesday morning in Neuse river near
Kinstou, N. G.
Advertisement will probably soon be
made for plans and drawings for a
$50, 900 courthouse for Mecklenburg
county, N. c., at Charlotte, the county
seat.
The First National Bank of Sedalia.
No, has fuiied. Capital $3.50, 900.
Depositors will probably be paid in
full.
A company has been organized BY
Captain Pritchard ut -Tituspille, Fla,
for the purpose of erecting factory Cor
manufacturing palmetto fibre.
The Pine Lumber Co., at Newberne,
n. c., has lately finished its new saw
mill, and commenced operations about
two weeks ago.
Comptroller General Ellerbe issued
\ circular from Columbia, S. c., to
county treasurcrs ordering them not
to receive money rendered them for
state licenses to sell liquors.
Wednesday was the hottest May day
ever known in New York. The mer-
cury registered SO and there was no
abatement of the heat from morning
till night.
While the South is by no means free
from blame !" "Ian:gv"et.crs, YET in
such cases the Coyev my move.
ment it pr owes the rel soundness of
it's people by Its failure to take part in
any socialitt.c max. 'uts of trsmpa.
c. NJ. Braxton's bank and Office
building, which is nearly completed,
at Newport News, Va, is one of the
finest in the South. It is finished in
harlwoads and has the latest improve
mcnts.
Tuesday light George Gay Mrs. Clara
Sherwood went boating on the st.
James river at Jacksonville. The
next day their dead bodies were wash-
ed ashore. They were lovers.
Thursday Mr. Albert johnson, of
Raleigh, II. c., the oldest living
locomotive engineer in this country,
celebrated his S1st birthday. He is
yet in the employ Of the Seaboard Air
Line.
Application is to be made on May %
at Abingdon, Va, for the removal of
John c. Haskell and D. H. Conklin,
receivers of the South Atlantic & Ohio
Railroad Co. The action is made by
William MeGeorge, Jr., for himself
and others, and alleges that the road
is not being managed properly.
The hosiery mill in the State peni-
tertiary at Columbia, S. c., which
was destroyed by fire last week, will
be continued in new building already
secured. J. NJ. Graham, who has
charge OF the plant, has ordered con-
siderable new machinery, and will buy
more later on.
Col. Carter NJ. Braxton, of Newport
News. Va, states that representative
Of n Northern car manufacturing COM
pany have been in that place recently
investigating its advantages for the
location Of n car-building plant to
cover about thirty acres and to have n
capital of about 81 100000.
While in Raleigh, n. G., Mr.. Mich.
OILS, Treas. of the Dwight Mfg. Co.
Chicopcc, Mass. is-rar"rt Il to have
said that it is II matter eucssity for
some of the large pri mills to be
moved from Mnssach chusetts to the South.
J. S. Wynn", Scc'y and Treas. of
the Raleigh (N. c. Cotton Mills ad-
vocatcd the building of another cotton
mill there, to be erected on the install
ment plan. The suggestion took and
100000 local company has been
formed to carry it into execution. 1t
has already been named the Melrose
Cotton Mills
The new cotton mill to be built
at Tuscapan, two miles from Wexford,
s. c., 10, 600 spindles and the requisite
looms will be, at first, all the factory
will contain, but as time rolls on 80,
600 viii ne the capacity of that con-
Germ. The directors of that new enter
prise have been decided upon as fol-
lows: DR.. G. f. Flemming, Pres. Of
the Whitney Mfg. Co, Whitney, s. G. !;
ID. E. Converse, Pres. of TIE Clifton
Mfg. Co., Clifton, s. CD. H. Mont
gomery, Pres. of the Spartan and Pa
colet Mills, S. c., and J. B. Cleveland,