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Til* Origin, Condition and ProspeoU of tho T
, Colombia and Islington Wats*- _
towor Company.
Tho Executive Committee of tho Columbia and j|
Lexington Water-l'ower Company submit to tbo n
people of the State tbo subjoined statement of r
the origin of tbo Columbia Canal Commission, *
and of Ibe manner in which the rights and ,,
franchises of Messrs. Thompson & Nogle become (j
the property of the company uow organising.?
The Executive Committee also describe the plan (
of operations, and makes a rough estimate of
the probable income of tho company. There is
ample margin, as will be seen, and the sale of
water-power can be relied on to add euormously
to the revenue of the concern. We commend
the clear and convincing aHtfement of the Executive
committee to the favorable consideration of
nil South Carolinians:
Columiia, 8. C., March 23, 1881.
To the Editor of The Alois* and Courier; ?
The movement recently inaugurated for the development
of the "Columbia Canal," and the
? definite shape which this enterprise lias assumed,
renders a brief statoment of the facts touching
this groat work of public interest.
The development of the water power at Colombia
has long been the dream of our people,
and as early as 1868 it was hoped that this
work would prove successful in the hands of the
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Mom. upis^uc, greav iuiuiu tuuiururs ui '
Rhode Island. This, however, in consequence 1
their misfortune, foiled.
Again in 1878, when the property had passed
into the hands of the Canal Commission, the t
hope was revived, and a lew citizens of this
place, to breathe new life into it, contributed
and secured the services of Mr. Holly, a promi- 1
ncut Hydraulic Engineer of Rochester, N. Y., '
to make surveys of the river, and report the J
most practicable mode of development ; it then '
befog expected that tho work had to be accom- ]
pi is lied by home enterprise. 1
Mr. Holly had been engaged in this work 1
about three months, and. had made very satisfactory
progress, when Mr. Thompsou of the I
firm of Thompson & Nagle, engineers of l'rovi- 1
dcnce, R. I., on a tour of inspection through the
Kouth, attracted by the natural advantages of 1
this place and the surprising wonders of tho 1
"water power," sought the "Canal Commission,'' '
and at once opened negotiations for its development
upon a plan which would render it, as he
has always expected it, "the greatest work upon
this continent." In this Mr. Thompson contemplated
combining the powers of two rivers,
the Broad and Saluda, by first damming and
utilising the waters of the Congaree upon the
line of that river, and in time the waters of both
the llroad and Saluda, by a different system of
dams and canals, and thus realizing no less than
thirtv thousand horse nower. all of which could
bo utilized within a utile of the present limits of
the City of Columbia.
Te accomplish the work as then proposod by
Mr. Thompson required a very large capital,
which lie seemed confident could be raised North;
and to ha?e the power developed upon this
grand scale, by which one million and a half of
dollars would be brought amongst us, those who
had taken the initiative consented to abandon
their modest purpose as it then progressed under
Mr. Holly, and to bend their efforts to secure
from the Legislature the necessary rights
and privileges required by the plan of Mr. Thompson.
To this end a petition signed by the citizens
of t olumbia was presented to the Legislature of
1879, nskiug the passage of an Act authorizing
the Canal Commission to dispose of the water
power and property of the State, known as the
Columbia Canal, to Messrs. Thompson & Nnglc
on certain terms and conditions. The Act
passed, authorizing the conveyance, and vesting
in Messrs. Thompson & Xagle very valuable
rights and franchises, including the labor of
two hundred and fifty convicts for the period of
three years ; aud on the tenth day of February,
1880, the final contract was entered intobetween
the Canal Commission and Messrs. Thompson &
Nagle. By this contract the entire properly of
the State, known as the Columbia Canal, was
conveyed to Messrs. Thompson & Nagle, together
with the use of two hundred and fifty convicts
for three years, and the right to improve
said water power by tho construction of a dam
or dams across the Congaree or Broad Rivers ;
and, in consideration of these valuable rights
and franchises, Messrs. Thompson & Nngle were
required to develop 15,000 horse power of water
power, upon the Canal at Qervais street, and
have in operation one cotton mill of at least 16,.
000 spindles, within three years from the date of
said contract.
Mr. Thompson regarded this a most valuable
franchise, as in reality it was, and commenced
his great enterprise with a most elaborate Prospectus
of their proposed work, prepared at great
expense of both time and money. This work
can now be seen at the office of the "Columbia
and Lexington Water Power Company," and
affords an earnest of both nbility and sincerity.
After one year's constant work in behalf of
Iiis enterprise .Mr. Thompson failed to interest
Northern capital as lie had hoped. Confident,
however, that his failure was to he attributed
solely to the political excitement growing out of
the Presidential campaign, and still hopeful of
his ability to bring capital with him, Mr.
i iiuinjisuii itsKcu ui uur 11131 Lcgisiaiure nil extenlion
of the time within wluoii they were required
to complete their work ; and it woe not
until lie had failed in this effoit that he abandoned
the hope of carrying out the work as
originally contemplated.
It was then that he modified his plans so as
to bring them within the means of this community.
aud as thus modified he presents them for
our use and consideration.
As now proposed it is a grand conception
surpassing anything of the kind upon this continent,
and susceptible of extensions oven as
originally planned, when the means of our people
shall admit.
Mr. Thompson returned to Columbia about the
10th of the preseut month, for the purpose of
submitting his plans to the people of tho State.
On the evening of the 17th inst., his plans
wete considered by a few of the citizens of Columbia,
culled together at his request. This re- 1
suited in a temporary organization of those I
resolved to forward the work, by whom the ne- 1
cessary committees were appointed. Terms I
were readil/ agreed upon, by which Messrs.
Thompson & Nagle have contracted to transfer to
a company now to be organized their rights,
privileges and franchises obtained under the (
Act of the Legislature, and their contract with 1
the Canal Commission ; and within one week
the committees find themselves prepared to open
book9 for subscription to the capital stock of the
company.
Time not permitting the delay incident to
incorporation by an Aot of the Legislature,
these gentlemen have applied for a charter un>
dor the general laws of tlio state, and as thus
incorporated will take an assignment of tho
rights and franchises acquired by Messrs.
ThornDson & Natrle. under the Act of the Lends
Ulure which in ample tn All ila provision*.
The plan as at present proposed by Mr.
Thompson, though not as yet fully decided upon
by the new company, contemplates Jamming
the Oongareo River at the Penitentiary, a point
opposite the business centre of the oily ; from
thence the Canal passes through grounds of the
greatest natural advantage, reaching thelooation
of mill sites in less than one-fourth of a mile, at
which point 15,000 horse power Is developed. '
On Ascount of the many advantages of this '
location for both dam and canal, it is estimated <
that the cost of developing the water power '
will not exoeed $'200,000. To this add the oosts
of one mill of '20,000 spindles, whioli is estimated
at $100,000, and we have the entire oosts
of mill and water power not exceeding $80 per
spindle ; which with proper mansgement will
admit of a handsome interest upon the entire
investment front the net income of the single
mill.
Tho great soqrae of revenue, however, to this
company will arise from rents of water power,
of whioli they will have at tboir disposal 12,f>00
horse power, after all other oontracts are
All I L. ! -t. _ a (P I A I - its
hiih<i, which m hiu p?r uuwmi power, will
Amount to the sunt of $12-j,000 per annum, wban I
all shall be in use. I
Messrs. Thompson & Nagle bare also seouro<l I
the right to TUmliM* At A price a vcrjr t
aluable tract of land along the Hue of the proose
I canal, containing many eligible mill aites, 1
rbicli interest passes under the transfer, and
n the near future must become eery valuable
nd prove a great aouroe ot revenue to the Comany.
The charter, for which application is made,
rovidea for a capital stock of one million of
iollnrs, while the work, as at present proposed,
till requiro the sum cf six hundred thousand
lollars. I
The people of Columbia are in earnest, and
he promptness, energy and liberality with |
rhich they have taken up this enterprise is
vithout precedent. In less than one week, and
>efoiy.the subscription books could ^e opened,
tf^urOs of one hundred thousand dollars had
)eet^>le'dged.
The work, however, is one of great magnitude
ind involves expenditure beyond tho ability of i
his community. Nor is the interest merely losal,
but reaches out to every part of the State. 1
iVe call, therelore, upon all, from thr mountains
o the seaboard, to take part in this great cen- I
ral development, involving not alone the pros- ,
lerity of our capital, but, in its ramifications,
itfeciing the prosperity of the entire State.
Opportunity will be afforded all to become
>artakers in this great enterprise.
V. B. Stanley, Nath'l B. Barnwell,
T. A. McCreery, J. S. Coles,
V. A. Clark, Ceo. A/Shields,
John. C. Seeders,*
Executive Committee Columbia and Lexingon
Water-Powcr Company.
An Anti-Kent League in Brooklyn.?Brookii...l
o? A .1 ? ?
jrn, iiiMvn ,?j\ lungs meeting was nem mis
iftcrnoon at Cermania Hall for tho purpose of
forming a permanent organization of rent pacing
citizens of Brooklyn to prevent the contemplated
increase of rent from May 1, and to relist
all unjust demands of landlords for the future.
About ftvo hundred rent payers were
present including many Socialists and Communists.
The speakers were Socialists of more
or less pronounced type, and their denunciation
of landlords and declaration of Socialistic doctrines
led to frequent and rigorous outbursts of
applause. William Waguer, chairman pro tern,
said that the landlords had made an unjust demand
fur an incrcnse of from 30 to 50 per cent,
on and after tho 1st of May. The question was
whether the working class would submit to extortion.
There were no grounds for this increase,
for the laboring men hare not felt the salutary
effects of prosperity. lie warned them that
they would all be compelled to pay higher rents
if they did not comtino to prerent it.
Osborne Ward declared that organized resistance
to the tyrannical demauds wus the only
hope tor t e workingtnen and poor classes.
Joseph A. Mailer and Win. A. Horane were
chosen secretaries, and read in English and German
the plan of organization. The name of the
organization was declared to bo "The Just Kent
League of Brooklyn." The object of the League
is to unite all inhabitants of the City of Brooklyn
who are at bis time compelled to pay rent
to prerent any further increase of thereat rate,
the main purpose being the reduction of reut to
a just amount, which would be the aggregate of
taxes, repairs and fire insurance. As a means
to carry out its object the League will resort to
Boycotting, binding tliemselees mutually not to
maiutaiu any social intercourse, do any business
whalcrer with, buy anything from or sell anything
to any person who refuses to accede to the
demands of tho League. Only tenants who do
not owu real estate can become members, but
house-owners who possess but one house in
which they live may be admitted. After the
plan had been read Joseph Frans made a violent
Socialistic speech, saying this should be an antirent
movement, nnd that no man had a right to
charge rent fur what should be common to all.
Florricn Tmill, a German Socialist, nml oth
era followe<l in the same vein. Finnlly (he suggestion
of Frnnz was adopted, and the nnnio of
the organization changed to the Antl-Itent
League by a large majority. The plan of organization
as read was then adopted unanimously,
and an executive committee appointed.
Enticing Away Laborers.?We have been
asked so many questions about tlio recent legislation
upon the subject of contracts, and there
seems to be eo much misapprehension on tho
subject, tlint we again publish the late Act,
which is as follows :
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of
Representatives of the State of South Carolina,
now met and sitting in General Assembly, and
by the authority of the same, That any person
or persons who shall entice or persuade, by any
means whatsoever, any tenaut or tenants, laborer
or lnborcrs, under contract with another,
duly entered into between the parties in the
presence of one or more witnesses, whether
such contracts be verbal or in writing, to violate
such contract, or shall employ any laborer or
laborers, knowing him, her or them to be under
contract with another, shall be deemed guilty
of a misdemeanor, nnd upon conviction thereof
shall be fined not less than twenty-five nor more
than one hundred dollars, or be imprisoned in
the county jail not less than ten nor more than
thirty days.
It will therefore be seen that (he new law
imposes no penalties upon the laborer of any
kind. It simply gives the contractor the right
to indict and punish by fine or imprisonment
the person who entices or persuades away the
laborer, or hires him, knowing him to be under
contract. This is in addition to the common
law right of suit for damages. It will also be
noticed that the remedy is given not only where
the contract is in writing, but also where it is
verbal and entered into in the presence of one
or moro witnesses. In order to prosecute under
the Act, it is, therefore, necessary to have one
or more witnesses in addition to the parties
making the contract. The laborer is made liable
to punishment for the violation of written
contracts by the General Statutes, though some
Judges have pronounced that part of the law
unconstitutional. The new Act is constitutional,
and, if properly enforced, will remedy the evil.
The third persons enticing away laborers or hiring
them when they know them to be violuting
a contract with another are to blame for the
greater portion of the derangement of labor,
and as soon as a stop is put to that practice the
greater portion of the evils from unsettled labor
will pass away.?Anderson Intelligencer.
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Fur the Jenkins Memorial Fund.?South
Carolinians will remember, that a day or two
ago, Col. J. P. Thomas, of the Carolina Military
Institute, wrote a letter to the Charleston News
Jf Courier, advocating the erection of ? monument
over the grave of Brigadier Genernl Micali
Jenkins, who fell at the head of his brigade ai
the bnttle of the Wilderness, on the 4th day of
May, 18G4. Suiting the action to the proposition,
on yesterday a gentleman raised by private
subscription, and forwarded to Charleston, the
sum of sixty-five dollars, as a nucleus for the
Dronossd fund. The contributions were maila
almost exclusively by South Carolinians, who
apo now resident in Charlctte, and was obtained
in an hour or two. The sum might easily have
been made larger, but only South Carolinians
were solicited, and many of them were not approached.
The testimonial is complimentary to
the State pride of South Carolinians.?Charlotte
Obterver.
A Laugh Cotton Firk.?Norfolk. Vs., March
26.?A Are breke out at 7 o'clock this evening
In the eotton compress of Jos L. liarway, situated
on the Roston Steamship Company's wharf,
ind rapidly spread to the cotton shed adjoining.
h i res sprang up in other parts of the oily and
uterine anxiety was felt, but they ware soon got
inder control with no loss. The losses are as
'ollows : llarway's oompress and ootton shed
(38,000. Kight hundred tyiles of eotton belongng
to the Greek cotton house of Rattl Bros.,
(40,000. One hundred and fifty bales of cotton
>elonging to the Greek cotton shipper, Negro>onte,
S7/,00. and tamngo to the Boston Wharf
ud Warehouse Company's wharf 920,000. All
he losses are oovered by insurance.
James Grant, of Union, has the eontraot for
he erection of the Cowpens Monument. He is
isre now and will commence work at once.?
fie presence gives assurance that the work will
>o well done.?Car. tyartan,
SPhe "MuWii Union Sinus. '
R. JIU STOK.KH, Editor* 1
UNION, FbTdAy7 APRIL 1,1881^ " ]
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One square or one lucli. first insertion, - - 91.00
Each subsequent insertion, ------- 75 <
Liberal discount made to merchants and others adrerIsiiiK
for sla months or bjtthe year.
Obituary Notices of lendkea or lees, inserted froe. |
" , * orer fish lines, charged as Advertise- ^
B to Oredilors and | j
Notices of Final Discharge must be
paid for before they will appear in 1
our columns. 1
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Oar Cotton luktt. |
The receipts of cotton in this market are growing
less weekly, while prices undergo but little
change. Sfnce our last 100 bales have been
sold at about last week's quotations, sis: 0010
cents.
B?Qu Dr. Rawls is putting a room with a largo
bay window to the West side of his store.
We regret to state that Dr. A. W. Thorn
on is sick and confined to bis bed from pneumonia.
. _
BQu On the 22d of last month snow fell in the
upper portion of Kershaw Countj to the depth
of three inches.
BQU We call the attention of tax payers in
the tow^ of UniqB *? tl>? Ordinance to raise supplies,
published this week.
Four white and eight colored convicts
from Spartanburg passed down the road on
Tuesday on their way to the State Boarding
Ilouse.
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The Union boys are rising. Last week
Mr. D. A. Thomas, formerly of this County,
was elected Intendant of the town of Gaffney
City.
JOT" Tho election in Greenville Inst Saturdsyi
to decide whether the County should subscribe
$50,000 to tliu Laurens and Greenville Railroad,
resulted in a majority for the road.
Col. John L. Young is the Agent of the
Columbia and Lexington Water Power Company
to reoeive subscriptions in Union County to the
capital stock of that Company.
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BQL- The broke-bone" fever is prevalent
throughout this County and one or two eases are
reported in towi^. Where proper care is taken
the disease seldom proves fatal.
Wo regret to learn that Congressman D.
Wyatt Aikon is lying dangerously ill at his
home near Cokcsbury. He was taken sick immediately
after his return from Washington.
The past indebtedness of Spartanburg
county, for school claims, has nil been wiped
out, and on the 1st of January last there was
$4,000 in the Treasury belonging to the school
fund.
.
The Airline Railroad has been leased
to I he Richmond and Danville Railroad company,
the latter to pay 7 per cent on the debt of $1,750,000;
C per cent ou $150,000 income bonds .
5 per cent on $1,700,000 ot stock.
BQU Capt. A. If. Foster left for the Northern
Markets last Wednesday. For some weeks he
has been receiving the new style Spring and
Summer goods, so that if the weather should become
seasonable his customers would bud him
ready to supply their wants in llint line.
ffitJCt- R- R- Rawls, Esq., has gone to Aslieville
to assist in putting the Swannnnoa Hotel
(of which lie is part owner) in perfect order for
the Summer travel. Reuben says he'll make
the Swannnnoa the most desirable stopping place
above Charleston, if money, good eating, splendid
sleeping rooms, good servants, most courteous
treatment and electric bells can make travelers
comfortable and happy. And Reuben is
the lad to do all those things.
Returned.
Mr. Culp and Mr. Jns. Maxwell have returned
from market and tell us they hare bought the
prettiest and cheapest stocks of Spring and
Summer goods ever seen in this county. Their
goods are arriving tut last as the railroads can
bring them.
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Admitted to Bail.
Mr. Walker Long, who killed a negro at
Jonesville last week,'was taken before Judge
Hudson, at Spnrtanburg last Monday, under a
writ of habeas corpus and through his attorney,
Col. I. Q. McKissick, was admitted to bail in
the sura ot $2,000, which was readily given.
Caught at Last.
Our old friend S. Morgan Dawkins has get
caught in the meshes of the matrimonial net at
last, and by a widow, too. Mrs. Ligon, daught
r of Ilev. James F. Smith, is the happy bride.
The fatal knot was tied on Tuesday last, at Spartanburg.
Quarterly Conference.
The second Quarterly Conference of the Methodist
church at this place will be held on tomorrow
and Sunday. Services in the church
this morning at the usual hour. The Presiding
Elder, Rev. J. M. Carlisle will preach oji Saturday
and Sunday.
Croanat. Base Ball and Llekt.
We ere our enterprising friends Drs. J. W.
Posejr & Brother here just received a supply of
Croquet and Base Ball bats and balls and Ihe
largest supply of Kerosene Lamps ever brought
to this town. They hare got latnps from 25 cts
up to any price your pooket will allow.
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A Cotton Factory at Gaftiey City.
The enterprising citizens of the new town of
Gaffney City have subscribed $40,000 towards
building a ootton Factory at that place. Compared
with the subscriptions for a similar enterprise
in .1 oily with twenty times its inhabitants
and a hundred times its wealth this is a remarkably
liberal one and shows a spirit of interprise
worthy of emulation.
Oln Hoise and Contents ^nrnsd.
ADoui 12 o oiook on saiuraay lui a largo Uin
bouse on Maj. J. B. Rleedman's plantation, near
Birasville, on the 8. U. ft C. R. R., oaugbt fire
from a apark from tba engine and in an incredibly
abort time waa, with ita oontenla, entirely
destroyed. The engine escaped injury, but a
Gullet Gin, a Morris Gin, a new ootton Press,
a fine corn Mill, 1,600 bushels improved Cotton
Heed, 2 tons Bone Dust, a lot of Lima, Salt,
Gearing. &o., were totally destroyed, and a new
60 saw Winsmlth Gin greallj- damaged. The
loss is estimatod at from $1,900 to $1,600.?
{s'o insurance, "
rhe Columbia Water Foweri
According to promise we publish the circular
Issued by the Executive Committee ot the Columbia
and Lexiugtou Water Po ver Company,
rhe Circular no doubt sets forth the aims purposes
and prospects of the Company with suffi:ient
explicitness to satisfy the Committee and
the people of Coltinibia} but. like the advertisement,
it leaves outsiders still in doUbt whether
the money they are asked to invest will be expended
in merely developing a magnificent water
power for oapitalUta to rent and build factories
upon, or in building a faotory. The very
large amount required, as appears from the cir.
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jni?i, uciuro mo power can u? miue ?i ?4?
tradable ($200,000) is calculated to so startle
any man in South Carolina who has $1,000 or
let* which he would like to invest and the prospect
for receiving any return so distant and
unreliable that we fear there will bo but little
enthusiasm created for the enterprise. We also
fear they have put their pegs too high?started
on too grand a scale. We think a little like Senator
Brown, "A million dollars is a largo amount
of money." We, however, are pleased to see
that the committee consider the subscriptions
to the stock very encouraging. On Monday lost
$111,300 had been subscribed and very "encouraging
advices had been received from various
sections of the State."
That Columbia possesses greater advantages
than any other point in the South for Factories
and industrial enterprises of almost every
character no one, who is at all acquainted with
her central location, her railroad facilities, her
magnificent and never failing water power, her
unsurpassed health and beauty, will doubt for a
moment, and we have no doubt that eventually
it will be the great manufacturing centre of
the Cotton States. What we wish to see is
the people of the Stato securing to themselves
all the benefits of these natural advantages, by
a judicious and careful investment of their capital
in developing them. Wo have no millionaires
among our citizens, and cannot afford to engagein
magnificent schemes of enterprise, however
certain auocess may appear to be in the distant
future. Experience has taught us the fact that
all "grand enterprises" in this State, established
by the voluntary subscriptions of our citizens,
are sold out by the Sheriff or iu some other way
fall into foreign hnnds?at abeut one-tentli of
their cost?the people who built them losing
every dollar of the money invested. We have
lost all faith in "grand schemes," in which the
people are calloi on to invest their money for
tKt public good. We repeat, the Columbia and
Lexington Water Power is on loo grand and extensive
a scale. If they will call for 5300,000
or $500,000 to build a Cotton Factory, there will
be no trouble about their getting it. They had
belter go back to the "modest purpose" initiated
under Mr. Ilolly. That will insure success,
and with success will come coufidcnco and
with confidence they can command any
amount of capital. We like the way the Charleston
people have gone to work to build a Colton
Factory to be run by steam. Before the
dam of the Columbia and Lexington Water Power
is built, as now proposed, the Charleston Factory
will be paying handsome dividends to its
stockholders.
Wait and See, Gentlemen.
Nearly cveiy Southern paper we have read
since President Garfield's inauguration has expressed
a belief that the South will receive more
just tMid favorable consideration from his administration
than has been given it by any
preceding Republican President. We cannot
see what they base that hope upon. We have
had fair promises made to us, on paper, by every
Radical President, but when it came to fulfilling
those promises the influence of such men as
Blaine, Conkling, Logan, Sherman and oilier
lenders of the parly, has proved loo powerful
against doing justice to the South for them to
resist. Those very tnen are still leaders of that
party, and we have seen no satisfactory evidence
that Uarfield has a stifier back-bone than either
of his predecessors. Wait and see, genllenieu,
what he will do before you cover him with soft
soap. For our part wo believe that the present
administration will be just as willing to place
every Southern State under negro and Carpet
bag governments again as either or all ot the
previous Radical governments were, if such a
o jursc should be considered necessary for the
success of the party in 1884.
The danger to good State governments at the
South lies in the press and people accepting
thus early the fair promises of the Federal ad
ministration as truths to oe relied upon and
under that delusion becoming weak and inefn
cient democrats. Of course the Radicals wil
present a fair and pleasant front to us now.?
It is a Btroke of policy, llut wait until Ibt
campaign for the next Presidential electior
opens, and if you don't see and feel the old
spirit of hatred and persecution as unrelentingly
revived, then we have not gained any wisdon
from past experience.
A Sever# StormOn
Tuesday last one of the most terrific
biuriub oi hiuu iinu rain passeu ovor mis town
and ricin?ly that we have experienced for many
year*. Its direction was from North-West tc
South-East, and it arose so suddenly that it created
considerable alarm among the people. We
do not remember ever seeing more dense and
awe-inspiring clouds, while the wind was terrific
blowing the rain in sheets, as it were, prostrating
large trees, fences, and blowing down cabins.
The atmosphere suddenly became very
cold, and North of this we learn they had a
hail storm. We are also told that snow fel
early on Wednesday morning. The first fen
days of March were mild and lamb-like bul
the month left us roaring like a lion.
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Death of Mrs. Minter.
After ten day* of intense suffering from the
injuries she received in attempting to rcsoat
ber child from the flames, death came to th<
relief of Mrs. Fannie, wife of Mr J. H. Minter,
on Thursday evening, 24th ult. Thus, in the
short time of ten days has death taken from a
united home circle two of its most precious
jewels, destroyed all the bright hopes and joys ol
a devoted huabaud and father, and robbed five
dear little obildren of the unselfish affection,
oars and guldanoe of that beat and purest
of all sarthly beings?a kind christian mother.
May Ood be with them in their deep affliotion.
Gbouxdbd in tub Rcdimbnts.?The Marlboro'
paper says : "During the preliminary invest!
Ct ion la ibe eleolion cases before Commissioner
dd. George W. MeLood. Jr., said that h? was
born on the 31et day of May, 1868, at Ian minute*
past four o'olook in the afternoon, and
knew It to be so, because he wrote it down in
the Bible, flather early to commence writing,
but hardly loss remarkable than some other
KlM!?*? *nd teatifled to hy th* witnpasfi.'*
Another Railroad ProjectWe
are informed that the amount requireddo
make the preliminary survey for a Railroad (
from Laurens via Cross Anohor and Cedar
Springs, to Spartanburg, has been subscribed
and a surveying corps will immediately go upou
the line. A survey has slready beeu made be*
tween the above terminal points running by
Woodruffs, a few mile* North of the Cross An* (
chor.llne, and It U confidently expected that a i
road will be built on one of'those routes at a
vary sarly day after it has been decided which
of them oflfere the most practical advantages.
A Card.
Mb. Editor :?Will you please give us a small
space in your paper to say a few words in reference
to the sermon preached by Ilev. N. H.
Turpin in reply to the presentation of a set of j
Lamps presented to the A. M. E. Church of this
town, on last Sunday evening, at 8 o'clock. I
Prof. W. A. Qood and C. W. Foster mnde the
presentation in a few brief words and read the
list of younir men who were conncctod with the
donation, as follows:
W. A. Good, W. 3. Sloan, I. T. Woodson, C.
H. Lee, A. Johnson, C. W. Foster, I. A Keennn,
A. flf. Keenan, J. E. Lipsey, J. I. Hardy.
The teat was from Gen. 1?8 :?."And God
said let there bo light and there was li^ht."?
In presenting the leaobings of this text, the
minister referred to the light of God nnd His
relation to the earth, and then to the solid light,
the light o( the Gospel and the human mind ;
and lastly, with great effect, to the light of Education
and scienco and the great need of it
among our people. In treating on the latter
portion of his sermon, he made an earnest appeal
to the young men to continue in the work
of building up the young people of Union ; and
to the parents to continue to encourngo the great
work of education.
We hare organised a Young Men's Social and
Debating Club with the following officers :
Prof. W. A. Good, President.
W. 8. Sloan, Vice-President.
C. W. Foster, Secretary.
" BLACK-DRAUQHT" makes chills
and fever impossible.
Sold by J. M. GUIDES. &Co.
An Error in Juikimrnt.?The real sentiment
of Southern llcpublicunism is thus expressed by
its most iufluencial organ, the Louisville Commercial,
in commenting upon a communication from
Mr. llacon, of Geogin, in the American :
"The young and ambitious men of the South
will not be patient with this state of things,
and, realising that tbo Democracy can never
again prevnil in a National election, and that by
acting with that party they are practically debarred
from any influence in the National councils,
nnd any participation in offices in the distribution
of the Government, they will inevitably
cut loose from the party as Mahone has
done."
Judging by its own principle, doubtless and
hy observation of the Southern men who have
joined its party, the Commercial deliberately
oiy o iun? iiiv una nmuiiiaua uicil UI lliC
South will desert their parly nud its principles
and join another party with opposite principles
for the sake of place and pntronngc under the
government. That statement is fulsc, and a
slander upon the young men of the South.?
They are the very class that stands most loyally
to its allegiance. Franklin J. Moses, John F.
Ilobbes, Mahone, Mosby and a few others who
can be counted almost on one's fingers have
deserted to the enemy for hire. The scorn and
hatred folt and freely expressed for them by the
mass of the young men of the South is in itself
sufficient to disprove the Commercial'* prophecy.
The young men have borne the- brunt of
Mxt -hirttiiltnitlob and bribery have both
fuilcd to shake them. That they will continue
true no one who knows them can doubt. Aside
from that, they are generally too busily at
work in their farms, factories, stores and olfices
to be so ambitious for a place under the general
government as to sacrifice their manhood and
; honor for it. Those who have political ambition
, gratify it by seeking advancement from their
people?not by being paid trnitors at the mercy
of a capricious, exacting and insecure party.
' The very theory itself shows the Southern
* Republican idea of politics?"so many men, so
much money," "commercial methods," "principles
changeable as emergencies demand, and
used only as means to procure place and pelf."
? Greenville Newt.
Take *' BLACK-DRAUQHT " and you
will never be bilious.
Sold by J. M. (JIDBKS. & Co.
1 Kalloch
Acquittko.?San Francisco. March
i 24.?After being out twenty-four hours, the
k jury in the Kalloch case, this afternoon, brought
in a verdict of not guilty. Tho verdict was
1 received with much applause, and the defendant
was heartily congratulated by friends.?
> When Kalloch was discharged and got in his
r carriage to go home, an immense crowd took
' the horses from tho vehicle and pulled him to
his house, some three miles distant.
I It has transpired that the deliberations of the
jury in the Kalloch case were irainly regarding
I the six-shot theory ot tho defence, and that self
defence alone wns the ground for the verdict,
transitory mania being rejected.
i Comvkssiok or a Fkmalk Nihilist.?London.
I March 25.?A Petersburg dispatch says : "The
female Nihilist, arrested ye terday, is named
Sophia Pilofisky, and is the daughter of a couni
cillor of the ministry of Domains. She confessed
to having given a signal to Hartman for
exploding the mine under the imperial train
near Moscow ; and. also, a signal to Russokoff
i to throw the bomb which shattered the Csar'e
j carriage.
" BLACK-DRAUGHT " cures dyspep*
ala, indigestion and heartburn.
Sold by J. M. G1BBES. & Co.
Ihuiobation.?Twenty-nine new immigrants
, arrived on the Wilmington Railroad yesterday.
iiist?d 01 inom were iaxen oy air. ?. l' oiobiey,
of Fairfield, fifteen by Dr. J. A. Robinson, of
Due West, and three by Captain T. H. Clarke, ol
' Trenton. Fourteen more are expected to arrive
to-day. Applications for immigrant labor are
. constantly coming in and Colonel Butler is filling
them as fast as he can. He has sent to Pas'
tor Neuroan special applications for skilled lai
borers. Colonel Butler will probably go to New
York in a few days to give his personal attention
to the matter there.?Col. Regiiter.
A (nil package of " BLACK-DRAUGHT"
1 free of charge at
' Sold by J. M. OIBBES. A Co.
> ??.
t Court in Cukstkr.?At the Court of Sessions
in Chester last week the following sentences
were passed : Wm. Kitchens, while, assault and
battery, two months' imprisonment in the coun
ty jail and $'200 fine ; Kliia Jane Young, oolore-l,
r perjury, six months in the Penitentiary and $100
, fine ; Joseph MoWilliard, colored, burglary, one
year in the Penitentiary ; Hampton Mayrant,
oolored, stealing a hog, one year in the Penitentiary
and $6 fine.
- e
Forty years' trial is proved "BLACKDRAUGHT"
tho best liver medicine in
the world.
Sold byj. M. QIBDE8. A Co.
> A PatVATB Cottox Factory.?A survey is be'
Ing made of the Hampton mill plaee, five miles
below Columbia, preparatory to the ereotion of
a cotton factory. The water power was formerly
used for milling purposes, but the buildings
' were destroyed by Sherman's army, slnoe
pow*rhM idl?.? Col. Reciter,
^ - f
' MAlt RIKD.
~0lUFFIN ?MAURY". Married, on the 20th X
of March, 1881, by F. W. Eison, N. P.. Mr.
William GnirrtN to Miss Adclime Mauuy t
All of Jooesvillc Township.
KELLIT?OAULT.?Married. on the 27th ult., * *?
by W. II. S. HarrisJistj., Mr. Ueltosi Kelly to
Miss Etta Gault. All of Jonesville Township. ?
GOUDELOCK?WIIITLOCK.?Married on i,
the 30th ult., at the residence of the bride's parents,
in Pinckney Township, by Rer. C. T.
Scaife, Mr. Samvsl D. Goudklock to Miss k 'VBills
Whitlock. i
It did nrfl require a Whit more to make it a ' _ ui|C- , # ,
Cloud.lock for life. ' |
" bBITUART. * ' t;f
MRS. FANNIE DODSON MINTERwasborn . *%
Februrary 23d, 1846, una married in Lincolnton,
N. C? Sepi. lull 1868, and died at her house in
Union County, S. C., March 24th, 1881.
We cannot hope to do more in this shot t notice
than very briefly Allude to a life so full of usefulness
and a death so triumphant. Mrs. Minter
wan reared under religious influences, and when
about fifteen years old conneoted herself, by
formal profession of faith, with the Presbyterian
Church, in which communion ahe faithfully
lived until removed to the church above. She
was well fitted, both by her natural endowments
and educational advantages, for the important
work to which she was called, as teacher, wife,
mother and friend. The great controllingpower
of herlife was the religion of JesusCftrtist/
hence, in whatever sphere ehe moved and in ."
whatever work she engaged, he^influcnctf for" I .
good was felt. In her home, clfll^^Pfflmmu- | ^
nity, everywhere, the light of her life was seen 4
and fe't.
On the 16th of March, the deceased was se- f
verely burned in trying to save her daughter
who had caught on fire, and from then until her
death she suffered much, but in her sufferings,
she was thoughtful, patient and resigned. JloW
beautifully the light of God's grace shone through'
her in those days of sorrow nnd suffering, none'
who witnessed it can ever forgtt. Iter expressions
of confidence in God, gratitude to Hiay 1
for all ilis mercies, her messages of love to ah''
sent relatives and friends, her earnest prayer* T
for them, nnd her exhortations and counsels tv
those present cannot fail to accomplish great
good.
The benefits of her life to the world can not
now be calculated, but she has gone to receiva
her reward "according to the deeds done in ^
the body." May the grace of God sustain the 9
bereaved husband and father in this his double
affliction, nnd may the see is of truth planted in
the minds of the children by their mother grow
up unto their salvation. ^
JNO. B. WILSON.
U&" Southern Prethyterian please copy.
MISS FANNIE DODSON MINTER
of Mr. and Mrs. J. K. Minler, was born July
26th, I860, baptised by Her. A. A. Jones, June11th
1871, and died from the effects of a burnv
March 16th 1881.
Our young fiiend's life was tehort, measured!
by the number of years she lived, bul viewed -j
in the light of her achievements, it was much
longer. She was remarkable for her quick
perception, clesr apprehension and patient investigation
of whatever she undertook. Uer
amiable disposition, her gentle manners, and
her loving, sweet spirit, like powerful cords,
drew to her all who knew her. Piety and intelligence
were alike prominent in her life.?
Having been piously trniued by christian parents,
dedicated to God by baptism in infancy,
and taught the Holy Scriptures from early childhood,
she perhaps never knew the time when
she did not love Christ.
Though the cause of her death was a sad and
pninful one, sho bore it with great patience and
resignation. Just before her death she talked
quietly and intelligently of her decease, assuring
her father and the friends present that she
was going to heaven. We are thankful to Ood
for the grace and spirit to sustain and comtort
His people through life and when dying. ,
(hex- sustain and - ?omfbrt the rcTtuirei ana ' **
friends of little Fannie until they meet her
above the skies. Jan. ll. Wilson.
BtaJT Southern Pretbt/lerian please copy.
w
List of Unolaimed Letters
Remaining in the Postoflice at Union, 3.
for the week euding April 2, 1881.
Alexander, Wm; Garnett, F. E.;
Burnett, Saul or Samuel Johnson. W. W.;
Chappell, Laban ; Johnson, Thomns r
C'happell, Laban, Jr.; Miler, Jnno, (col) f
Pn.l.i. . "- I a
* v0??i | viwigc i | rarner osni ^
l'arham, S. A. E.
Held for Postage?Mrs. S. Coakly, Warrensburg
P. O., Qreen Co., Tenu.
Persons calling for letters in the above list
will please slate that they are advertised.
JAMES II. OOSS, P. M.
Consignees per Express at Union, 8. c., March;
30th, 1881.
J. P. Cudd, Spears & Colton, J. P Mullinax,
R Fennignn, J 0 Rice, U Askew, J RThomson,.
Mrs, S M Rice.
F. II. COUNTS, Agt.
Hides Wanted.
BRING in your Hides. 10,OOOlbs. Wanted.?
Will pay highest price.
J. II. RODGER.
April 1 12 If
Stable Manure For Sale.
A ROUT 12 loads of good Stable Manure, at
$1 a load, for sale by.
M. SUOPPAUL.
April 1 12 3t
Bleached Sheeting.
OUR Stock of Bleaohed Sheetings :s large and
priocs very low, call and examine.
SPEARS k COLTON.
Merc i IB 10 tf
Parent*, Farmer*, mechanic*.
1^ EDUCE your Shoe Bill one-half by buying
JLU
Bay State Standard Screw Fastened
BOOTS AND SHOES.
1 We bare exclusive oootrol of these celebrate*!
goods in this market. J. T. HILL & CO..
April 1 12 If
' DANCING SCHOOL.
I
Day and Night Classes.
PROF. A. BERGER respectfully informs the
Ledies and Gentlemen of Union lhnt his
Day end Night classes ere now open el the Union
Hotel, where ell the new end feshioneble dances
of the dey ere taught. Pupils can join either*
Class at any lime. For particulars apply at th?
Hotel.
April 1 12
M1 SPRTWJ 1 ftfit
1UU1
J. T. Hill & Co.,' i
i 4: Respectfully
announce ta their cu?tom- ^
era end the trade generally that their aesortmenl
of
SPRING AND SUMMER
~w~ rare -m:w * -mar
JLJ JL JQL ?1 wjr v
75 COMPLETE
' And will be kept so through tho Seeeon. Their
' Stock is the Urgent in tcwn end compriee* every
grede of Ooode, from the lowest ta tue highest,
being sdspted to the wsnte of gvtrytwdr.
April 1 12 if