The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1894-06-29
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AnOtner Blk mlll ls TO % Duilt NJ
Fredericksburg, W..
Iron ore is now beng shipped from
Danbury, N. c., to Richmond, Va.
An ice factory is to be erected at
Henderson, N. G.
The citizens OF Front Royal, Va,
have voted So, 900 for an electric light
plant.
The new addition to the Reedy
River Cotton Mill at Reedy River,
S. c., is about completed.
The Double Shoals Cotton Mill,
near Kings Mtn., N. c.. w. A. Mnuncy,
manager, has been completed aud COM
menced operations Monday.
The Kershaw Mfg Co., Camden,
s. c., will probably soon equip their
cotton will building with machinery;
5000 spindles and the requisite looms
and other machinery IS to bepurchascd.
Rev. n. NJ. Jurney, OF Mt. Olive, N.
c., raised this season on a quarter of
an acre of land 33 barrels of Irish po-
tatoes, which left him net profit of
S76.s5 after all expenses had been
paid.
The B. f. johnson Publishing Com
panv was chartered al Richmond, Va,
with minimum capital of $50, 900, to
issue histories and other works salts
factory to Southern schools.
The Supreme Court of Georgia has
decided that law of that State oblig-
ing railroad, telegraph and express
companies to gn in writing a reason
for the discharge of any cmployc, or
pay 5000 to the discharged person,
is contrary to "the general private
right of silence" and "is utterly void
and of no effect"
The drug store of DR.. Cristie, al
Uarrnbella, Fla, with $4,000 insurance
IN it, was burned recently. Three of
;he most prominent men of the town
IRE now under arrest charged with
robbing and burning the .Jre. Not
content with the result of the robbery
they proposed to blackmnil Cristie
put of his insurance money.
Learch & Son, of Petersburg, Va,
!iuNC DetH uWuTutu Tue 1OI
furnishing lumber and piles to be used
III trcstling the belt line of railroad
around that city. The amount of con-
tract is $1,000.
A charter has been granted to the
Wilcox 4 GiEbcs Guano Co., capital
stock paid in $500, 900, with Office in
Charleston, S. G.. This company is
plant at Charleston has Just been re: re:
ouilt after being burned.
Northern sportsmcn have incorpora-
ted the O'Kcetee Club of Hampton and
Beaufort counties, S. c., to purchase
lands, swamps, waterways, etc, for the
purpose of preserving thereon wild an.
imals and game of all kinds, etc. The
capital stock is S45, 1000.
A noteworthy growth in the iutro.
duction of the telephone system in the
smaller towns of the South is to be OBJ
served during the past year. This
wide spread application is indicative
of the increasing cosmopolitan growth
of business conditions. and is only il
line with the demand for celebrity il
business matters occnsioncd by the
expanding and diversified nature oi
the volume of trade
Ex-Postmoster General James, o.
| New York, in Chattanooga, Monday,
said, in an interview, that he thought
| Robert II. Lincoln would be the Re
| publican nominee for President ir
| 1896.
The salaries of the faculty at Wake
Forest the Baptist college of Nortl
| Carolina have been reduced 10 PEI
cent.
Rev. DR.. r. H. Griffith, the aged
Baptist minister, who died in York
vile, S. c., was buried ut Charlotte
~ c., Tuesday, where he once VA
pastor.
During the past twelve months tn
gain of the Knights of Pythias mem
bership in North Carolina is 1000
making the total 5000, and the gai,
Of lodges 13, making the total l5.