The Charlotte Democrat., 1896-07-30
Union County News.

WoLFEsvILLE, July 27.-Owing to tn
great amount of rain for the last mont
farmers are later than usual in finishin,
their work, but are about through now
Crops in Union are fine. The threshin,
of the small grain crop has also beel
somewhat retarded and is yet unthreshe;
10 some sections. The largest crops tn
writer has heard of here or elsewher
are 600 bushels of wheat made by Mr.. r
| b. Redwine, OF Monroe, on his farm q
| Wolfesville, and 5000 bushels of oats By
Rodman and Bivens, near Waxhaw.
With the finishing of farm work comes
picnics, campmeetiDg and so forth. Th,
friends of DR.. W. r, Mccain and sister
Miss Laura, will enjoy themselves pic.
nicing at McCain's mill in Jackson town
ship tomorrow. There will also be ar
educational rally and picnic at Sandy
Ridge, Sandy Ridge township, the same
day. DR.. John r. Brooks of Charlotte
also Rev. Mr.. Turrentine and others are
expected to make addresses. Prof. Chss
R. Clegg, of Pittsboro, who will have
charge of the first annual session of the
academy at Sandy Ridge, will also be
present and meet the people. Un ion
County is moving forward along educa-
tional lines. Two new high schools
Weddington, the one above mentioned
and Wingate, at Ames, begin their first
years work with the fall term. These
two run the number of high schools in
this county up to eight besides nuns
ber Of private schools.
Prof. NJ. G. Long, Of Unionville, is
teaching penmanship school, at Pleas
ant Grove.
Rev. Parks Holmes, of Matthews, pas
tor of Sandy Ridge circuit will begin a
protracted meeting at Union church,
Wolfesville, next Sunday.
Camp~meeting at Pleasant Grove this
year will, as usual embrace ths third
Sunday in August and at Antioch the
Sunday previous. Pleasant Grove is the
Mecca of all camp-meeting goers for
miles around and is topic of absorb rbing
interest, especially TO the young people
who go mainly for the social feature of
the meeting.
The 38th ennual meeling of the Tirzah
Bible Society was held at Tirzah Presby-
terian church last Saturday, Prof. R. T.
Nesbit presiding, and DR.. Harrel, of
Mint Hill, making the address. Over
500 was raised for the society.
The Populists of this county held their
township primary convention to nomi
nate county and township officers last
Saturday. The meeting in this town.
ship was a peculiarly populistic one.
Mr.. 8. w. Stewart, the ex-"Ham, of
Mecklenburg," was chairman and Mr..
James N. Price secretary. Messrs W. I.
Blythe, K. r. Gordon and S. W. Stewart
are the nominees for magistrates. Messrs.
w. NJ. Parks. of Sandy Ridge, Henry
Dry, of Goose Creek, and A. J. Price, of
Buford, are the choice of the township
for county commissioners. The dele
gates to the county convention which
meets at Monroe, next Saturday are in>
structed to vote for J. N. Price for rep
resentative and A. NJ. Howie for sheriff.
Both these men are of this township.
One noticeable feature of the primary
was the endorsement of 0. NJ. Sanders,
who represented this senatorial district
in the last General Assembly, for county
Treasurer.
A resolution condemning the present
Democratic administration "from presi-
dent down to coroners," was introduced
by G. c. McIlwaine. Strange to say, for
populistic gathering it not even having
a second and McIlwaine was laughed at
for his pains.
The sentiment of the convention seem
ed to be in favor of straight ticket in
national affairs and we don't know how
they will take the action of the st. Louis
convention