The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1895-02-08
STATE NEWS IN BRIEF.
Interesting Notes from Various So,

interesting NOteS from various sour
ccS.
Beaufort.
"A woman's exchange has be-
opened in Camden.
The subject OF cotton factory fvr
Yorkville is bcing discussed.
johnson, Edgetield County, has 10
dlspensary by vote of IS TO "A.
Mr. Summit, of Yorkville, killed Il
hog few days ago that weighed 371
pounds net.
Sumter has taken steps toward
continuing the three C's road from
Camden to that point.
Rev. II. @. Pearson, the noted
evangelist, will begin a series of meet
ings In Aiken about March /.
The work of laying out the el,c-
trio railroad from Beaufort to Port
Royal will be started in the near fu-
tucc.
South Carolina's corn crop last
year was lS,72S,Sl9 bushels, valued by
the Department of Agriculture at
Sl2, 49, 1872.
The work of building the New bcr-
ry cotton mill chimney from I26 feet to
l56 feet high is being pushed with all
poSSlolc us patCn.
Mr.. Eldred Addison, of Nincty-Six,
Abbevilic County, shipped to New
York recently forty lambs, for wnich
he received $40 apiece.
Superintendent of Education May
field reports fine progress in the work
on the buildings of the Women's In
dustriai College.
The hog cholera has appeared in
places in Chester County. Mr.. NJ. f..
Write has recently lost eight Of his
best hogs from this disease.
Suits have bccn brought against
the Bank of Barnwell and the Peoples
Bank OF Denmark by one OF tncir Gus.
toners lor usurious interest.
The Cooper-Lmcstonc Female In.
Stitutc ln9Spartanburg County will be
opened in March. The buildings are
being thoroughly repaired.
The board Of trustees OF the South
Carolina College, through It's cXccu-
tive committee, has determined 20
nave summer school against this
year.
The Edgefield town council fined
Mr.. Is. Is. Evans SO and Capt. Jim
Tlllman S2S for the scr;.pc they got into
some weeks ago, III which each shot
the other.
The Orangcburg police seized
three small boxes Of cans labelled Ito
matocs." the boxes contained sixty
quart cans filed with whIskcy, and
twelve cans of tomatoes.
-Thc registration books will be
opened on the first Monday in Feb
ruary, March, April, May, June and
July and also durin., the first eighteen
days In March III each county.
Some of the ladies OF the several
Camden white churches have organi-
Zcd wives aud sisters prayer-ucct-
ing, ana hold weekly prayer meetings
AT llrst one nome and then another.
Tho Camden Baptist Church has
called the Rev. james Ten Brooke, OF
Burlington, VT, and nc will enter up
on his labors about February l. lie
comes highly recommended ;,s IL fine
pastor anu orator
-Recently a good deal OF the tim
bered lands Uf Collcton County
have been developed by the cstab-
lishmcnt of4 saw mills and turpcn-
tine stills thereon, and profitable sales
are made by local capitalists.
Tho dispcnsary question was de-
tcatcd III Greenwood by Il vote OF - to
10. The chances are that the town
will have metropolitan police to sup
port, and Il dispensary just outside of
the Incorporated limits Of the town.
Rev. G. &. Brown, of Sumter has
prepared Baptist map Of South Car
Ollna, and IL is now in the hands Of the
printers. Some valuable information
Is given also. There are S5j churches
and about SI.5lI members and only III
parsOnaScS.
There is still another effort on foot
to secure the establishment of Il dis
pensary in GOrkvillc. The informa-
ton is to the effect that within the
next few days the town council will be
presented with Il petition for the call
ing Of another election.
The first term Of court over which
Judge Joseph III. Earle will preside
will be iE Camden. He will preside
at the February term OF court for that
county, which convened on the 18th inst.
There are three murder eases to be
disposed Of 1T this term, two white
men and one negro.
The Secretary of State has recciv-
ed letter from ~. Cunningham, of
the Chicago and Burlington Railroad.
asking for the latest railroad mpp of
South Carolina. Inquiry reveals the
Tact that no correct map ha, been is
sued in years, in which time numerous
roads have sprung up, and the Old
maps have become useless.
The roll OF the Equal Rig hts Asso-
citation of South Carolina has been in
creased by four names Of ladies in Ab-
bevillc, one Of them being the bcauti-
iul Mrs Hannah Hcmphil Coleman,
who was on the State commission sent
North in 1891 to formulate plans for
the Girls Industrial and Normal Cot
lCgc.
Governor Evans has appointed the
historical commission which is pro-
ridcd under the Act passed at the re-
cent session Of the Legislature. The
commission as appointed consists Of d.
ii. Tompkins, cX-oli:ia chairman,
Henry MCivcr. w. G. BGnct, w. \.
COurtCnay, Prof. H. Means Davis and
j. f. Tindal. The commission is cX-
pcctcd to collect data relating II the
history OF the State.