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THE UNION TIMES ... VOUXXVI.?NO- 14. UNION, SOUTH (CAROLINA APRILS, 1895. $1.50AIEAR. < f*' ' yf y . * - . . "... yff BJJSIN ESS_M RECTORJL D. E. Hydrick, J, A. Sawyer, Spartauburg, S. C., Union, S. C. pjYDRICK & SAWYER, Attorneys at Law, Judge Townsend's 0!d Stand. & MUNRO, Attorneys at Law, N?. 2. Law Bang*. - V"^N^ C7 'a7sTC*RS. ' ^ rv^/ Attorney at Law and Trial Justice, Office Rear of Court House. J C.WALLACE. Attorney at Law, No. 3 Law Range. gCHUMRERT & BUTLER, Attorneys at Law, No. Raogs. DENTISTRY. H. K. SMITH'S Dental Rooms over A. H. Poster ft Co'a. storo. Coodine mod in extracting teeth. UNION MARBLE ?AND? Granite Works. GEORGE GEDDES. P. M. I ARK, GEO. MUNRO, I'rtsideut. Cashier. Merchants and " Planters' National BANK, OF TTUSTIOlSr. Capital Stock $00,000. Surplus $60,000. Slocklio'ilers liabilities, $ti(>,000?Total? $170,000. Officers?F. M. Farr, Ibes't. A. II. Foster, Vice l'res t. Geo. Munro, Cashier. J. P. Arinr, Assistant Cashier. Directors?W. If. Wallace, A. 0, llice, Win. Jcftcries, T. 0. Duncan, J. A. Faul, J. T. Douglas, I. G. McKissick, A. II. Foster. Bsa>"AVe solicit jour business. CITY OYSTER SALOON. I am now limning a first class Oyster Saloon where 1 will serve ojstsrs fresh from Norfolk to both gentlemen and ladies every day. The ladies,ore invited to call 1 have a first ciass cook, everything is kept neat and clean, and his slews and fries are very tempting. 1 have the finest line of French candies and plain candy in town. I have a full line of fine cigars and tobacco also cheap cigais. Can sell you four cigars'for fic as good as you can get f r double ;th? money elsewhere. The ,'Siaboaid.. of which 1 urn the agent, is the bfr>:t ">c cigar oil the market. FRUITS AN If ' ON FECT10>. Kit IES. Flour, Sugar, Ccfl've, Meal, Lard, Soda, Starch, a full line of Canned Goods and a general line cf Groceries. The lurgest stock of Pickles in low a. The finest Pork Sausuge, ?lc. Poliit attention lo customers guaranteed. Give me a call. JOHN. R. MATHIS. GUANO! GUANO!! Acid!! Acid!! I am prepared to meet any body's prices on Guano and Acid. Liberal cotton option given. ?See me before buying, L. P. MURPHY. I sell only the best manufactured by the Chicora Fertilizer Company. \ on can buy 40 yards of (loud Caiico #t l'UHCKI.L'S for H5 cent?. Capt. Douglas On Tub "Forty" Convention. Oim reporter met Capt. Douglas in the office of the Clerk of the Court Monday morning. He was having some papers fixed and seemed to be in the biggest kind of a hurry On being asked if he eould spare a. moment or two, he said: '-No sir, 1 lwven't time to talk "No sir, I leave for my farm in a lew minutes and will he gone until Saturday night." But he was seen anyway. *'What about the convention last Wednesday?" 4kOh yes, the convention. Well we did the best we could and I believe it's going to turn out alright. I have never before seen a convention so unttanimous on anything as this one was >on ptace. The conservatives were [ willing to make concessions and acted [ fairly and squarely, and oua people met them quite half way. The fact of the business is there was not eo moot difference between us anyway.-1 The mm\n point that the Uefonaers ineigtsd on was some measuroto insure white supremacy. We believe that this is a white inans goverment and that it ought to be ruled J by white men. There was no difference of opinion however on this point. "How about the point that was raised by Mr. Sligh?" ''Oh that was nothing, Sligh thought that we were encroaching on the powers of the Democratic Executive Committee, but that was all a mistake. We were and are acting under the Executive Committee. We are doing a work that the Committee could not do. Extraordinary diseases call for extraordinary treatment. Our work was a little out of the ordinary line but it was none the less in subordination to the regular Democratic pary." "What do you think of the interview that Senator Tillman has given to the public, which seems to be an ? .1. l. ,i.? i-* )> il l lath uu uiu ?ui k ui nil' \ uu \ in liuii : "Well, I'm somewhat surprised ut Mr, Tillman. 1 saw him only a short while bcfoio the convention and his expressions to,me were almost identical with the ideas intertained by the convention and embodied in platform adopted by the convention. I believe he did say something about the candidates' position beingtknown, but I told him that the people would attend to that. Of course they would insist on knowing a man's principles and what lie was going to advocate before they would vote for him. Mr. Tillman docs not make many mistakes but I think he has made one this time. You see our object is to get the white people together and this 'forty" move was started for that purpose. Wo saw Mr. Tillrnan and thought that ho wa9 in sympatny with everything that the convention was doing, so much so that it was said on the floor tha; Mr. Tillman was in favor of such and such parts of the platform as they were under discussion. So I say I'm surprised that he should now say anything against the work of the convention. He would not go into the convention but lift Columbia just before it convened." "Do you know anything about the plans for nomininations, election and etc.?" "No that matter is in the hands of each county and I suppose we will hear from the committee indue time. I haven't time to talk longer. Good morning." rlllK IN HI. AUUUM In l'?. A destructive fire occurred in St. Augustine, Fla., on the 28th., March. Forty-six residences and stores and many other buildings were distroved, rendering in the space of four hours, about 100 families homeless ami leaving many boaulcrs to seek shelter elsewhere, many of them with only the clothing that they had on. MAKE TRUTH AGREEABLE. Sel?otod "Whoever makes truth disagreeable commits high treason against virtue," said a good and wise man, and when the majority of men and women are Convinced of this fact the world will have taken a long step towards ihc millennium. Human nlture can be attracted much further than it can be driven, and in its natural pervorwhich force the failure to sliow the beauty of virtue more than counteracts zeal to expose the ludcousnoss oi vice. Truth is not only a great virtue in itslef, but it is the foundation of all other virtues. Nothing is good that is not true, and no matter how fair a seeming falsness may put upon itself, it is none the less a vicious principle. But human nature is so constituted that it is attracted by the beautiful and repelled by the ugly, arid this in tiaUera moral as well as matters physical. To repel is not to gain, net to convert; to take away the beauty of virtue is to rob her of her power. Tb? world may be full ol pleasant and plausible sinners: but, unfortunately, it has also its share of disagreeable saints, and it is not ?piite easy to estimate which class does the more harm. To rouse rebellious feelings, to harden and disgust, is simply to drive away from virtue, and when one is driven from the right there is oitlv one oilier d; reef ion for him to take. Many are actually more repelled from virtue than they are tempted to vice. There is a class whose members pride themselves upon their rigid adherence to truth, and in this inflexible devotion they spare neither man, woman or child. They denounce all thelittle amenities of social intercourse as fnlshoods; thev brand ordinary social conventions as shams: they call a reserve upon disagreeable things, deceit and an avoidance of wounding topics hyprocrisy. They huullv proclaim that they are perfectly candid, and so they are. hut their candor is brutal. 'J'here arc some truths so bitter, so sharp, so wounding, that they require tie tenderest handling; in the hands of this ruthless class these truths are so many weapons to cut ami bruise. Genuine truth is not a thing to be proclaimed out of season in this way. It is always linked with charity; it is amoral sunshine irradiating iit'e; not a blinding lightning, scorching and ruining. It is most important for character and for morality that truth should be honored, admired and loved; make it ugly, censorious and hurtful, and it censes to he truth. REVOLUTION IN CUBA. The spirit of freedom which has been growing in Cuba for the past twentv years has at lasr hurst forth 9f 9/ and bade defiance to Spanish tyranny. The whole region round about Pcuio Principe seems i t b in arms, and from the best information obtainable the patriots have been successful in several engagements with the Spanish regulars and are more than a match for them. Spain however will not loose her hold on Cuba unless some outside influence is brought to bear.. Said Premier Canovas del Castillo on the 28th. March: "Seven thousand troops will start for Cuba tomorrow and two thousand will In* rcadv to follow them. hi six months twenty thousand more will he ready. Indeed we arc prepared to send one hundred thousand if need he for w e must end this struggle once for all." It issaid that preparations arc being made in Cuba for the formation of a provisional goverment and to organize against the Spanish forces. # . Don't forget the Sunday School mass meeting ai th Methodist Church, next Thursday evening. DOSVN ON PRIZE FIGHTINGOof. Hitohell S*y? It ihould B? StoppedGov. MitcheP of Florida, in his message to the Legislature which qonvened at 12 o'clock on last Tuesday, has the following to say about prize fights, a matter about which that state placed itself in a very ridiculous position last year, to wit: "During the last year a most disgracpjul and brutal fight of . this cir.iractcr tooK place m tne city ot Jacksonville, and partleft who resort to this lawless occupation as a meads of making a living without honest 1?bor, are boasting that there is no law in this State to prevent such disgrac eful contests, and openly boast that another one will be "pulled ofT" at Jacksonville next September, but, gentlemen, you ha\citin your power to prevent this by proper legislation. "1 recommend that these prize fights, or glove contests, be made felonies by statute, with such penalties attached as will cause these puglists to respect the law-abiding, God-fear ing people of this state in the pursuit of all their rights as citizens. The law should authorize sheriffs and those acting in their aid and as sistance, when they have cause to believe that a prize Tight or glove contest is about to take place, to enteany house enclosure, or anjr other place wherein they may have reason to believe such contest is to to take pdacc, for the purpose of ar *: A-1 i i . ? resting mose engagcu or aooui10 engage therein. Also, that all persons who may be present at such contest, in anywise aiding or abetting the same, by betting thereon, or by being present threat, shall be deemed guilty of felouy, and upon conviction be punished the same as the principals." n IIKS "FREE SILVER" TROUBLED US NOT. A. E. Anderson, of Arkansas, asks the Chicago Free Trader: "Were coon skins evot used as money in the United States? If so, where? and were they a legal tender?" The following acts of the Legisla ture of Franklin (now Tennessee) will answer fully the question which M r Anderson asks: "He it enacted by the Gonerl Asse mhly of the State of Franklin, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same: "That from the 1st day of Jani a y 1780, the salaries of the officers of the common-wealth be as follows. 4^H is Excellency, the Govenor, per annum 1.000 deer skins. 'His Honor, the Chief Justice, per annum 500 deer skins. "The secretary to His Excellency the Govenor, per annum, 500 raccoon skins. "The Treasurer of the State, 450 raccoon skins. "Each County Clerk, 300 heaver skins. "Clerk of the House of Commons 200 raccoon skins. "Members of the Assembly, per die in, iliree raccoon skins. "Justices ' fees for s:gnin?i a waro n rant, one inuskrat skin. 'To the constable, for serving a wa rrant, one mink skin. ' Enacted into law the 18th day of October, 1780, under the great seal of the State." l'OST OFFICE ItOHltED. The post office at Springfield, Ills, was robbed of about S 8000* on the ilrd Apr. by some clever rascals, who represented themselves as lawyers, took wax impression of the keys of the office and thus made their entry easy. The Nicaragua Cannl scheme is again receiving official attention. The President has appointed a Hoard of Engineers whose duty it will be to investigate and report upon the feasibility, pevr.anency and expense of the canal over the route, proffered the construction company. HERE AND TH^RB. The dispute between Mexico and and Guatomalo about a boundary line which came near precipitating serious, complications some time since, has been amicably adjusted, honorable, and with satisfaction to both coutries. Mr. Charles J. Foster, a distinguished meohanical engineer, who in allied the machinery at the World's. . Fair, has been engaged tod? the same work for the Cottoh States and international Exposition. He begins work at once. Official! in Washington have boon infonnetl from sources which the/ deem entirely reliable that a prominent Eastern ship building firm has agreed to furnish the Cuban insurgents at an early day with a torpedo boat, or a steam launch,for the purpose of destroying the Spanish war vessels now cruising in Cuban waters. It is also proposed to equip this craft with a full supply of torpedo tubes and start her immediately to the Cuban shores. Thore is a possibility of trouble between England and France growing out of the disputed right to the valley of the Nile. England claims the Nile basin as a part of her African territory. France docs not rocognize England's supremacy, and te add to the complications it is understood in England that a French licet nasbeeu sent to theNile to invest the territory in dispute. Both countries are cry ing "1'eace," "l'encc," yet neither seems willing to relinguish. its demands orbudgofrom its first position In adding Sousa's Bund to. the list of the great musical attractions, to lie given during the term of tho Cotton States and International Exposition, the management has secured for the charm of the visitors, what is probably the finest musical organization of its kind on earth. Beginning with the 18th. of November, Sousa's Band will furnish the music for the I vast auditorium of the Exposition, until the close of the great Exposition on the 31st. day of December. During this time, millions of people will listen to this famous organization, and it will materially play its part among the pleasure giving feutures of the Exposition. In a letter discussing public questions, Colonel A. K. McLure, the ictuuii vuitui ui liii; a lJllttUl'1 puis Times, who is on a Southern tour, commends the Cotton States and International Exposition as follows: 4*I hope that Florida nill make an earnest and united effort to aid the Atlanta Exposition. It should be a landmark in the history of Southern progress, and every State south of the Potomac should make common cause to aid in the great work. Great has been the advancement of the Southern States during the last dozen years. You hnvo hardly reached the beginning of Southern development, and the Atlanta Exposition should be made the mrst successful ;ii. JIIUObltUIVMI VM 1)11 itics and achievements in its reconstructed state." WHAT CAN A WOMAN NOT DO* Miss FA7,a A. Garner who was candidate for the oflice of county school commissioner in 1888 and 1800, during the past year did all her cooking and house work, took care of the poultry and bees, grazed and fed five head uf stock and cultivated a small farm, doing all the planting and most of the plowing and gathering; making 18 bushels of whVflt, 11 loads of com, 1.500 bundles of fodder and 24 bushels of shelled peas, quite a large amount of labor for one woman to perforin, especially the first year at farming and after teaching school twelve years. It is well to be nble to conform to the circumstances of lift.