Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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' . i.V" ? ? *; * ' V? - i jCpfcti?> V < ! 1 ?f #P?, , ? . ,U .?? ' > / TIIK UNION rnmm. V0L.IXXVI.--N0- 13. UNION, SOUTH CAROLINA MARCH 29,189',. $I.r>0 A YEAR. BUSINESS DIRECTORY. D. E. IIydrick, J, A. Sawyer, Spartauburg, S. C., Union, S. C. H YD RICK & SAWYER, Attorneys at I.aw, Judge Townsend's CVd Stand. jy/?UNRO& MUNRO, Attorneys at Law, ISo. il. Law Knnge. g 8. STOKES, Attorney nt Law uuti Tiiul Justice, Office Hear of C urt HoUtC. T C. WALLACE. Attorney nt Law, No. 3 Law linage. gCHUMl'ERT & BUTLER, Attorneys nt Law, No. 2] Law Rang*. DENTISTRY. J^K. II. K. SMITH'S Don(>il R ?oni9 over A. !I. Foster & Co'a. atcro. Coclino use.I in ext meting teeth. UNION MAUIILE ?AND? Cw 1*2111 i to Works. C HO it OK G Kb DCS. ? - ? F. M. FA UK, GKt). MUNKO, President. Cishicr. Merchants and Planters' National OF XJlsTIOlSr. Capita! Stock $00,000. Surplus >.Y.i,wOO. Stockholders Imbiiiits, ^'t'0,000?T? Oil ? $170,000. Officers?F. M. Farr, 1'ies't. A. II. Foster, Vice Fies't. (Je?>. Monro, Cashier. J. 1). Artnr, Assist nut Cashier. lJircc'ors?W. II. Wallace. A. <5, IJ ice W in. J cileries, T. Duncan, J. A. I'?n?, .1. T. Douglas, I. 15. McKtsMek, A. I!. Fo to. J6?aJ""We solicit yoi.r busiae^.s. OYSTER "sALOOH. 1 am new ) mining a first clnsa Oyster Saloon where I will serve <ysters iri-li fioni Norfolk to both gentlemen ami ladies everyday. 'J'he Indies,!, re invited to eal. 1 hfttc a first class cook, everything s k fj*t iM'ill niui clean, ami Ins stews and trios me very tempting. 1 have the finest lire of French candies and plain candy in town. 1 have a full line of lino eights and tobacco a.so clfhp cign;r. (':>n sell you four tignrs'for oe as good as ymt can ge: for double ;_t!te iiit-my e sowbctc I'bc ,'Si aboard,. of which 1 am the agent, is the best <">c cigar on tlie markc. FRUITS AM) ' ONFKCTIO.NFKIKS. Flour, Sugar, Ccffee, Meal, I.aid, Soda, Starch, a lull line of I'nttitnd (too ls and a general line of Groceries. The largest Block of Pickles iu lowti. The tin est Pork Sausage, ?tc. Polite attention to custamcts guarauttcd. Give me a call . JOHN. R. MATHlS. GUANO! GUANO!! d!l xa.v/ivi;; I am prepared to meet any body's prices on Guano and Acid. Liberal cotton option given. See ino before buyintf, I1\ M UK PH Y. I sell only the best manufactured by the Chicora Fertilizer Company. / A REAL PEOPLES l'ARTY. Col. Cardan Civcs Notice Tliat He ^vill Organize One Ho Says That It Will be a Populist Party in Every 8> ns3 The Notice that Ha Serves on the Public. Krctn "i'lic Sia'e. For several years past the organization of the People's Party in iSouth Carolina has been looked for and confidently expected. South Carolina has had for a long time such party in nearly all but name, but it has never shown its head under its real name except in the last 1?.. . l ... l ..l ? * * ... vr ... i i njMuuiiuiii election. riow, However, comes Col. .John L. Dargan. the Populist, who gives warning that us soon as the Constitutional convention fight is ever he will undertake the organization of a bona lide People's Party in South Carolina. There has been considerable quiet talk about such r.n organization for sonic time. Here is what Col. Dargan says. Sumter, S. C., March 21, 180.~>. To the editor of The State?1 think it proper lor me to let it be known now that as soon as the great "convention fight" is over I am go: . * _ 1. A- Tt i ' iiiin wuik to organize me leopio 8 Party in South Carolina. I cannot consent longer to sit iilly l?v and see this great party sutler for want of an active body of brave and faithful exponents. It is the People's Party in fact- as well .as in name, siiol it needs but to hsiv its noble principles and purposes set properly before the people to sweep over ail opposition to victory. V.'hile all who know '.no at all, ' now 1 have long Uui ati open an earnest Populist. 1 deem it honest ami vvi>e to <leclarc now that i am also g??ing to become a working Populist. The first end to he uchii veil is a free ballot and an honest count. No man who is, for the sake of any party, factional or rata* riuiuph, willing to commit, or en courage others to cmmm irauu or j erjury. or resort to any t I? c*ii??11 (.ricks of any kind need expect lradv '. siiiji in this party in this Stale ? net at least while I am above ground i?esjicct fully, Joitx 1 aN*. C nin-: AT HOCK HILL !; !; !i;!I had two lives la -I week. : liaih Thursday hiorhivr fee was .1; T 1 ; . i? a..... A.. t ... .. ..u. . ... ...v ...... .. .. ........ , Stove. A * the store was ia I lit* j luisinrss ji< rtion of town much |- ] In 11 was f it. Aldermen Yv'atcrs, 1 ow.'Vt'l', lis**! the j iv.-n.ee > I '.anal t<> order that a!i <1 ?...s ami window . !<? kept dosed until the lire engim eouhl l?o pit Jen to work, which wal.ala i'e v a ii.ut. -. Speak in;;; of tinwork of the lire company th : //" ' i! !' //./ (/ '.' "A few Minutes ;jf:cr f ch.ek the ?*Iarion done; whistle ihiimmccd her read hues for the h'.ty. tile i>:.ck a ;<l 1" >.11 d w.^i i f the -'.or.' room were opined ami | Jit; coniI.at between I'.oodaml lire began i?tit, m>tv. ithstataliu inucli water wa thrown, the niiijostie iittle steamer was an easy vietor. In a halt'Imtir the ilanies verc subdued ami all thinner oi'a disastrous eunllagation was averted. I'll" iiremeu stood to their posts heroically ami managed the lire with tact and good judgement." I.o s mi the stock est minted el Li-dO.IH partly covered by $!.?<? > insurance. Loss on building fdmnt fully covered. The origin of the lire .is not know a. <5m triday morning :t btmivung liou.-;' ca While sti'i'rl Wii- litinir I tin; ;;vu,Hi?l* Iioss on leu; ? aad lurnituru about .;<Iuoo wilh$.V>0 insur aneo. ? A 11:11ii*!';11 lii-PU'tall!" i :i m<> bora Ionia <l ,a I'nris v ;lli r\-i Yria'aT iiOHDOl !>S )') ( : i'lt'Ml. i ll" it'll tM lias already 'JUDO members. THE BLIND TIGERS SHARP, BUT CONSTABLE LANGSTON SHARPER. For some time Constable Langston lias had the belief jthat liquor was being shipped herb regularly to the "blind tigers," and ^ ita? been on the lookout for i'u Not until last week however, was be able to net on to their trick. Net was under the impression that it had been coming in a trunk, and sC> tlic trunks were the object of his closest attention. Last Thursday be observed a rather suspicious looking trunk in the baggage room, which on examination he found to be checked regularly as if it were the baggage of some traveler. lie took hold of it and shook it and felt at once that there was some kiud of casket in it- Then he put his nose dow n to a crack and gave a sniff. 11c was satisfied. In that trunk there wnsan empty rundlet and it was going Acer *blind igor" liquor. lie watched the trunk un-" , til it was carried off by the up train. lie felt sure that it would be back in .. .1 l *i._ ?t uiijr vi iwu (Uiu uit* IJUUBMUU \\a^ how to bo sure of it when it did come. Fearing tlmt it aught be ; ut off at Jonesvillc or Calhoun he decided to meet it on the way? So Friday evening lie boarded a freight train and went to Jonesvillc. There ho waited for the down train. When it came lie went at once to the baggage room and one i f the first things that greeted liis eye was hi5 trunk, old and worn out but securely tied up with a rope. I hero wa'? 110 ehcetv on it this time, and no mark whatever to indicate its destination. Of course the trainmen would not have known where to put it olf('t) so Icmgston being well ao '(iiainted wiih it and knowing where it came from jest kept in iglit of it so as to ted iheai where to uuioad it. '! in.- train -11 *? j? "1 a. (Job 11 biu liangston \va 0:1 hand and he : now 'Ilfll III:' 'fill! . i r. I f iM'.li ! what wer they stop! : d t ,. \ del not .? :t tin: Ini11u < ., 111i; Iji'wiiif it on to I nivii. 'i 11try would have tarried it further {.) :?o doubt ;n there Wii** no nnrk on it. but in 1 e instable j knew llnit it belonged i.i'tv, r-o ji*_ had it taken (?u opening it he found ihe"blind ti;n r"?lot '.vwii t wenty-iiv find (bitty gallons'. i ie I'ill' il it for <' ? luinbia :il eneo, but i: Inn! no I . S., stamp on it, so next :si ,*11inbtfiro tin. train canie it \v:s t by the !; deral authorities. A hour twel ve o'clock ? > br< : ;ht up town in a wa'^ojj folio?. .a! i?y a lot >1 : ::j ll hoys aim lodged in lb .'h.'riM ollioe v> here it "would not turn to water." (1 >nv.nissioner !>ut!er tool: einivye of it on Tile lav, and shipped it to the Koderal an' h orities at ('olumbia i ho rogistrai on just closed in Topoha Kansas shows a larger n.miher of women voter? than itavo hecn on the lists sineo 1 '1, tin* \ oar of the light oftiu; \V. \. 1 . against the republican (.anidate for mayor, There has hecn a like inetM.se of leniale ro^isiranoii in out r 1.1 Ijcvenworth Ihere arc three hundred more women with their names on the registration 'nook than ever hclore. !; issaid tlr.it most of those registered arc fori i;r:i horn and colored women. Tin latest lvwa from the China? Japan war is i! at Japan an I Uii o.ia have join d hands, Japan v oneeiiinir oneCoree.n port to ilu in, with richt of way to the Trans-Sihorinn railway and the use of Japanese dock yards and eoiii stations, ilussia in turn atxreein / not to >iv.>se anv cession of 1 1 * I Chinese territory t-> Japan. If liii he true i:. pliers Japan in a much freer position thai; site as keen !i< r. {of,ire, sini she nn\ 1.??\,* i /no; e an\ sn<: ? st'u na os demand ; olti'vai llrl'ian on hehal! ? f ? liina, in tin l 1 peace negotiation n >w :n j r oyivss. HERE Aft D rl HERE. Blacksburg lias a steam laundry, just completed. There is talk of a now cotton mill at Walhalla or considerable addition to the present one. Walhalla is to have a largo shuttle and bobbin factory. The order for machinery has been nlaced and the work will begin at once. The Woman's Missionary Society of the South Carolina Conference will hold its first district meeting at Callney, oth. to 7th. of April. Sixty-eight Military Companies have enlisted under the New Military Act. Of these Union furnishes two, the Johnson Rifles and the Pea Ridge Rilles. There were eighty-eight companies before the reorganization. Spartanburg is to have a new bank, the "Central National" with a capital strck of $100 000, Mr. J. Choice Evans, cashier, and Mr. W. A. Law president. The business will be conducted in the Savings Rank building. A fatal fire occurred at Denver, t/Jol., on the night of the --3rd. . in which the St. James Hotel, valued at $100 000 was burned to the ground. Four men, all firemen, were burned to death and several more seriously injured. Tin4 (riij}ni'>i fji'iljci' says that a Miss .Jolinswii wiiolives several miles above (j! a fluey, washed and brought to market So,00 worth of inona/ite in one week without ass is taneHave you any monazite <?n your place? A large amount of cotton lias been destroyed l>y (ire in the past few days. First a iiro occurred in New Orleans in widen about 20,000 halA u re burnt, and in >re recently the news that 000 bales were burnt or badly damaged at the wharf at Savannah. IVof. IF Sams, as age.it of the South < hirolina Sunday Sehool A<soeiation. is n >w on h;s tour of the State i:i tiie t-itert i < tlse Sunday Sfhool \Y o i I.. Tilt' CXt'i'Mti .'C 00111Tii.11?noted wisely in seleetilio 1'vot. Sams t.> in ; iiiiport r.l lie has i'.v-al we': v >'.slc';; -r.i'l '.vj saav 'Xpert '.'vo l I'i'SlliIs IVotll ill- Wol'lv. Yoi'kvilL' Y.-tcs "N(\" Some had hri/liL fa eon and s^ino Ion;* sat! lata-' after tin* clee'ion i'-.v lispoiisir.'V ""Vis" tji*<ti<jM'nsavy w;i dot id. d Saturday ami inlavo:' oi "no dispell ary" Wo ln?jto now tiio winners \\ 111 ;;'> ! the Mind timers on!, or perhaps iliov think like* smiie we lionl of. saying they were done now ami Inn! nothing to In with the Mind timers. Arc we not just as responsible I'oi tin* illioit whiskey sold now as w.' wimill hnvehoeii hail liio disnonsa ............ I rv can it* I The ones who voted "no dispensary' l?id just, the same a > voting lor the blind tiyrs it'thev malm no effort to y t clear of thcin hut time will tell, we will wait a while ami see what the consequence will ho, The total number of votes cast was -do. of which I i*<> wore against the dispensary and for it. giving a majority o| S:1 against tin* proposition to establish. Ten more votes were found in the box than the poll li-' railed lor, and this number was drawn out. After the result of the election became known, a one hor.>o wagon drawn hv an a^ed and wratherheaten ??x. passed no Main street with the colored bra-s hand in the rear. On tlie watron was a, table on lojt of whieh was a raiiin made of i?1;i ;k e! >' h. I'll e si 1 !)); ' I:i' legend "Old Dispensary Dead, I?ut May Hiso (Mi top of the eoilin was an evergreen wreath.while underneath the tai>l w as an old jug and sol no grave digging tools. This exhibition of glie on the ]?.?rt of tin vict'>i> provoke*. n- little amusement at tin? h ind ofsoin.? and vexation iit and had pit it ? n the part of others. A little fire works was all that was neede i to make a genuine gala oe: easion Yorkville Yeoman. UNION'S ENTEIiPfelSF. 9 WHAT OTHERS THINK * OF US. . > ! ? About Union'* Cotton Mill From Cno Who Knows. New Mill, Eto. Tho town of Union, S. C,. is an oh* one. Befo' the wait, wealthy planters from the low countav rami* there for the long summer season. They began the work of beautifying the settlement, which now will compare with any tpwn of its size North East, South or West in point of substantial ami handsome buildings, including both business houses ami residences. In embarking in a cotton mill enterprise, as she did last year, Union was entitled to a superior mill, it has one in successful operation It is known as the Union Cotton Mills, capital stock ?200,000, with lie following directors: A. If. Foster W. E. Thompson, J. A. Fant, Win. Munro, T. C. Duncan, \V. B. S, Whaley, B. F. Foster. Mr'Dunean is the courteous president ayd treasurer and gives the business his. active supenision. Mr.Thomson Is vicepresident. They chose wisely in making .) L. Hicks superintendent of the factory, for the cleari floors an'l clean everything else is Very noticeable all through the factory. The main building is 20.5x70 feet four stories high, and bears the imprint of a successful architects hand', which we learn was \V. B. S.' WHaley of Columbia, S. C. In tin. prepefution room we find T'tttcc cifds',' Woonsocker. intermediate machinery, theti i>raper warpers, Easton & Burnham spoolers, Knowles Stafford- looms, of which there are M40 and 12,702 hales A. Jcnks spindles. They think tltey ran si|itcc".e in 8 or. 10 more loom?, ami t iis factory will then he chock full. l>ui that is not the end. 1'iiey had hardly gotten their maehim ry all placed in this modern factory when they began to talk of another mill. This week the last spindles were filially got nicely adjusted auSi started humming. fnrnisliin?r yarns for remainding 40 -looms that had ham waiting. From the i00 looms already in operation the ' tiion Mills have heen getting a promo*. i ?n of 1^,000 yards per day, .cry loom coming up t<> the notch of 00 varils of 08 warp and 7 J pick goods, ii'J inches wide. It might ho ouesiionedas to whether "(iniintitv" 1 1 * like this would not vc.suIt in :i good uiiiny seconds, but utter u visit to the clotlt room the writer does not .think they average over d per cent, of seconds. We find an explanation of all this in a little bit of philosophy; cleanliness begets godliness, carefulness and a host of other desirable attributes The operatives all through the I tiioti Mills every one, except the darkeys at the furnace, appeared unusually neat, clean and tidy. In comparison with the Irish?Canadian Kreuch-1 lungariun operatives of the New iCngland factories, the bright native Americans in our Southern mills are a far more desirable force. About this new mill which the foregoing company will erect, the size is 4. 1.. i . U(U 111 SI VI-1 MIOWI), l)lll 11 Will DC il hii; one. ,-\ 11 lioii i.ru the plan has just been formulated lb>0,000 have already been suscribed, and an increase of the capital stock of the I'liion (hitton Mill-to ?00 >,000 may be looked tbr. We believe the new mill/will he a 4>\0i)D spindle one, weaving to nr..teli. and to operate on the same ela- ofgoodsnow pcing made. 1*11< bricks will be manufactured dut : '.? lsl>"i, and construction will com nenee early in lSOli, at the lateest. T. C- Duncan the president and J pr >tii-?tit of this large enterprise may I justly 1-e called one of the enterprisj ing men oft lie South. Textile .Kwelsior.