Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page. It is also available as plain text as well as XML.

_____ __ ' _ _ * ' ' gtuotcd io 3>ijri(ul!urc, IjorliftiUurt, goniifsiic dfyonomj, Jlolitc J'ilijratttrc, JJotilics, and flic Current gjcujs of Iht gag. ' V YOL. XIV.?New Series. ^tJNION C. II.. S(7uTlFaAROr,lN^.Jt;i<frl^ 1883, ~ " MUMPBR>22.' ^ : , The State of South Carolina. couxti of uxrox. Court of Common Pleas. Spcnccr M. Uicc nud John] <^"py Summons. "W. McLure, partners dealing | under tUe firm name of Ilicj | For Helief. & McLurc | Plaintiff s ( (Complaint a;/a 11st, | . Itcubon Gilliam Defendant J Served.) To the Defendant llculicn Gilliam : VOU arc hereby Summoned and required to JL answer the complaint in this action, of which a copy is filed in the Clerk's office and to 6erve a copy of yo'tr answer to the said com plaint ou the subscriber at l#s office in Union, S. C., within iwepty days after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service ; and if you fail to answer the complaint within the time aforesaid, the plaintiiTs in this action will -stpply to the Court for the relief demanded in the complaint. Murck 2l*18Mr n_ v.- ?.. ........ - ->)! t, ? ?' " Plaintiffs Attorney. < ) Jamf.s Mi'.vnn, * ! seai# > Clerk. To the,Defendant, Ucuben Gilliam : Take notice that the complaint in this action was tiled in the office of the Clerk of the Court for Uuion County on March 21, 1883. J. (\ WALLACE. Plaintiffs* .11turner/. April 20 lb tit Now is the Time TO BUY A STOVE JUST RECEIVED TWO CAR LOADS Cooking and Heating Stoves, Whicli will Be sold at Rock Bottom Prices. A Good Cook Stove, Complete, <*- "\vrcii'^ ? -pieces, ior $>lo.uu unit upwards. Every Stove Guaranteed CHEAPER THAN EVER BEFORE " GALL AND EXAMINEJAMES H. RODGER Nov 10 45 tf GO TO E. W. TINSLEY'S ? i m. -ro:t VOL !l WATCHES, CLOCKS, AINI) J EWEL'RY. Feb 10 7 If B fci Ej(ni<1<i-nm r1x8, copyrights, etc.,for N j {*1 tko United S;.d; j, anil to obtain pntWJ&OW cnt? in Canada. England, Franco, B Bk>J? H (Sormnv, and nil other cmmtrioH. ?*Ksacy Tlili-i yourpractico. No chargo fop examination r.f modela or draw Ingfl. Advico 1 ?y mail frr >. v Patents obtained through 110 nro noticed in tlio SCIENTIFIC AJIKliH'AV, which has tho largest circulation, end is llio most inllu011 till new-paper of its kind published in tlio world. Tlio nil vnntngos of such a notice ovory patontoo understands. This largo and splendidly illustrated now* pnpcrispublirlicd V.'i'n.ii r.V at ij:5.2()ayoar, and is aoioittod to lio the best p?p? r dovotcq to Boicaco, mechanics, inventions, ingineorine workn, ami other departments of industrial progress, published in any country. Singlo copioa by mril, id etuis. Sold by'all newsdealers. " AddroBB, Mnmi A Co., publishers of Sciontifie American. '.Ml I tread v. :y. ew York. Handbook about patents iiiail?U Iroo. \ \ " FOSTER & WILKINS / liavc just recicved their STOCK OF SPRING GOODS, i y They were selected by one ot < the linn, in person, and bought 1 /V .1 ill 1(31' 111C 1 DECLINE IN PRICES, FOR ! /?^ We can sell a great many goods AT AND BELOW : t what they would have cost * t EARLY IN THE SEASON ! IN THE I Bortiiern Markets.; Our Stock is complete, and we can Safely say that we are pre- ? pared to > Sell Goods as Low: * as similar goods can be bought in 1 this or any ' NEIGHBORING MARKET. 1 < Wo request all in want of goods to look at our Stock before purchasing. , No Trouble to' Show Goods. ; May 11 19 tf I READ AND DIGEST. i I take tliifs mctnod of returning thanks to my customers for their liberal patronage bestowed upon nie sii ce I commenced busi- . ness 011 my own account, and I i flatter myself that the patronage thus bestowed can be attributed ' in a great measure to my desire , and aim to deal strictly upon the , Basis of Fairness and Honesty to , one and all. ' i i My goods arc marked down at j i the lowest figure and thereby com- < mend themselves to all who pur- 1 chase. In these days of close competi- , tion 1 make it a rule to keep , abreast, of the times, and not only keep a large and attractive stock of GENERAL MERCHANDISE, hut mark tliem down at Rock bottom prices; and while I do not j make if a rule to undersell, yet I know that my jirices are as low I )l not a Little lower than than the Lowest, taking as my motto, that old hut practical maxim, "SHORT PROFITS and OUICK SALES." Kspeeial attention is called to my IMMENSE SPRING STOCK, now on hand Those goods have heon selected with great care and embrace all the NO VET .TIES OF THE SEASON. Tin- young Gentlemen in my employ are ever ready at llieir post, anxious to sljow goods, and consider it no trouble but a pleasure. Soliciting a continuance of your kind favors. . liespeet fully 4. !v CO I/PON. I April 20 JO ft' Written For the TIumw. REVOLUTIONARY REMINISCENCES. James Meek was a soldier of the revolutionary war, and resided on Bullock's creek, in York County, S. C. lie served under Marion during the war, and suffered all the hardships and privations of thnt partisan oflioer. On one occasion he was captured by a squad of Tories commanded by Capt. Mayfield, of Union County, S. C., nnd for fear ho might make his escape, they pinioned his arms with ropes nnd drove him before them like a dumb brute to the slaughter pen. They had a rM'er to cross after they captured Mr. Meek, and finding no boat or oilier means of conveyance by which they could cross the river, after looking around they at length found a large hog trough, which they launched into the river, ami into which they placed their prisoner and ferried him over the stream. They reached Mnytiehl's house ahout noon, where they halted for dinner. They .u?w. iw. ??ui? in. tlm i-Aiul. and placed_> 'rnHwel iwom ?airT? -^rv mo ilarai in case of danger. Mrs. Mayficldjiastily prepared dinner for them, and while they were snjoying their repast the sentinel cried out: 'Yonder comes Marion's Men." They oil lropped their knives and forks?leaving their 511ns?and made their escape through a back loor and tied to the nearest thicket as fast as heir legs could carry them. With Marion's nen there was a man by the name of Ilood, 'ather of Abner Hood, who once resided in IVinston County, Miss., who, 011 reaching MaySdd's house and finding his friend Meek with lis arms firmly tied behind him, out with his tnifc and cut the cords that hound him and tarried him safely back to Marion's catup. Many years after the close of the war, and after lis children had grown up around him, Mr. Meek started to Alabama to attend the land laics at Cahawba. His body was found shortly ifterwnrds 011 the Seneca river, in the Northwest pail of S. C., where he was drowned or> svas murdered by highwny roboers for bis noncy and his body thrown into the stream. His remains were buried on the premises of Colonel Anderson, near the Seneca river. Ilo el't many respectable descendants, bis son Eli lied in Northern Mississippi; Am/.i, Jas. B. md William B., die ! in Louisville, Miss. ; Abler died in Attalla County, Mhs. ; one of bis laughters married Chesterfield McKcnny of lluthcrford County, N. C. TUSa oonlnin Unvfii.l,! rnct.ln.1 i.. ?1,a Iioodof Josiali Culbertson, in Union County, S. LJ., ami among his lory friends were such men is Bloody Bill Cunningham, Sam Brown, Sam Smith, who married Sally White, and others. During one of their tory raids they captured Benjamin Savage and endeavared to make him lake an oath, "to be true to the Uoynl cause;" but Benjamin refused to take the oath, so they hung him until he was nearly dead and then &u l him down 4 but he ft ill persisted in his firm resolution and told them that ihey might kill nco, II n,||| I yfiiTiT May field married a sister of Charley Crane, a sterling whig, of Union County, S. C., who (ought by the side of such men as Con. Thomas Brandon, Col. Jo. Hughes, Josinli Cnlbertson, Wni. Kennedy and others. Although his sister married the notorious tory, Cajit. Maylield, yet she was a true whig in principle. The tories were in 'he habit of meeting at Mayfield's house it right, to consult and make known their plans lo each other, as to where they would go and what whig families they would mob and kill luring the next few days, and then disperse to uiuui .11 ii ui'i 111:11 uvni^u.iirM 1'i.icc. .*110. ??ihj * field, during tlicir consultation, would manifest a perLect indifference as to their conversation and plans of attack upon the whigs; but, so soon ns Iter husband and his lory gang would leave, and she could get her children safely locked in thearins of Morpheus she would mount her pony and ride four miles and back, under povcr of night, to inform her brother, Charley Crane of the plans, &c., of the lories. The Lories at length made a prisoner of Charley and informed hint that unless he took an oath to support th" ltoyal Cause they would put him to death. Charley, knowing into whose hands ho ha<! fallen, and dreading toiy vengeance, reluellantly took the oath to save his life, lie Boon returned to his whig friends and offered to hazard his life in the cause of liberty. Tltcy asked hint, whm was he going to do with his oath, lie replied : "I only took the oath from my lips out wards." The above mentioned items of information 1 obtained from the descendants of das. Meek, Sr.. i f Vork County, S. C., and from the Hughes family of Union County, S. Ci M.%.. 11.1. i 4'HI is\11 iu .?i u j i '( ii KH">. Wm. T. LKWIS. .Mi:. Kimtor : ? If you consider the above sketch worthy of a place in your paper, yon can insert it. If you -publish this I may write you nuo.her sketch, about old Win. Kennedy, Gen. 'I'hos. r?randoii and others. My wife is a great grand daughter of Win. Kennedy who married a sister, of Gen. Thos. Hrntidon of revolutionary memory. w, t* i. A Word roit Tiiut'm.w. ? Don't kill the crows'. It is only within a few years that speakers n^ the various meetings had the courage to say a word for the crow, but now if is admitted ilia' his character is not so uniformly black us bis plumage. In N rilicrn gardens, the white grub is, on tlie whale, ih'J mo-l injurious insect, when we consider the gt\a vari-ty of plants .t i an mi f from i/rass (> nurscrv trees and that it' work, being beneath the surface, is not suspected until tin? injury is d >nc. The c.t'tt lins ii keenness of sense that allows liiin to ileteel the unseen presence of the white-grub* aiiil a fondutss for a fat morsel that induces hi in to capture it. A few years ago, we hid a chance to watcli the operations of an assemblage of crows on a grub-infested lawn. t heir skil' in fin ling and dislodging the g.'uh should have been witnessed by all opponents of the crow. ?I inrrirun Aj/ricitltur/xt for .!/</_?/. u When lite \v ish'TWdtii in rails Ibr n ting man > linen. ! (ii.it make Lor a slut t Pallor ' Set k-1. ^ WATi MEMORJE. I often ..jmljr mother loves to creep Up tq.llte garret Whore ? cupboard stands, And sitr'upoo the musty floor aod weep, 11 oldijag o baby's dresses in her hands. I often ^bndeir grandma loves to sit .Mono, where hangs & portrait on the wall? A liandfome, haughty face', whereon is writ The phantom of a love she would recall. I wendpr, too*4feat sister, pale and sad, Waitcat the gate and, waiting, seems to hear The footfall of the blare, heroio lad Who nevermore inay woo her waiting there ^ KXVOI. The littft lips ia voiceless death arc scaled? The tjkughly squire, sleeps now h lasting sleip? V The lover's bones blench ot tho battle field ? Ans^br >kon hearted women live to weep. TTL ^-rjTTrr: * * ViTt^m^hr.-vBc*u FaOLIO.?Tho Charlotte Journal Qbzcrvtr gives tho following account of the railroad rioting by tho whiskey laden participants going to Statcsville. The cxcursiouists going in both directions seemed to have imbibed plenty of fighting spirit during their stay in Charlotte : The train that pulled out for Statesv lie held the crowd that took the cake. A good many colored people wercaboard with n large party of young men. I'he cars suiellcd so strongly of whiskey that the people living aloug the railroad were made drunk as the train passed by, and the atmosphere was blue with piofunity and thick with flying lists. A man could hardly stand up before he would be cuffed over aud jammed undef'thb scats. Eyes that wero bleared and pnfl'ed from drink sceuicd to be the favorifo targets and the rapidity with which they were closed aud tied up in crape was astonishing. Every other man had an eye in mourning, and those who cauld keep their troth in their mouths considered themselves fortunate. Till. (Vrhfimr mrr.v.vod down in nn issue bctwcon the blacks ai??l the whites, unci when the train reached lluntcrsville open buttle was declared. The white men drew their pistols and fired in'o the crowd standing around the depot. The Gring was commenced just as the train moved out of Hunters viile, and the bullets intended for the negroes *\ ent wide of their mark and struck into a crowd of spectators standing near the depot, two of whom, both studeuts going to school at lluntcrsville woro, wounded. ~~/7r truilot paagtrt-unwyrst tnrougn "Uic lot t foot of Mr. Julius Potts, iuflictiag an exceedingly painful wound. Another bullet struck Mr. William Worsliaui in tho lcti shoulder, making n serious wound. The bullets wore extracted ly the local physicians. Who the parties were who fired the shots is. of course, not known, and it is not likely that they will ever he brought to justice. A Qitkkii Gamk or Bai.i..?Philadelphia, Ma^ -3.?The Snorkoy and Hopper Base Ball Clubs, composed respectively ofotioarined and one legged men, played a match game of hall to day for the cripple championship. Four of the Snorkoy team hat an arm off at the shoulder, one had a paralyzed arm, and each of the rest of tlie nine was minus a hand. The Hoppers were in even a worse trim. Their first baseman had an artificial leg, the center and right fielder: chased baits on crutches, and the others of tin nine traveled on peg legs. The two-legged, one armed sid" had an easy victory over the twoarmed, one-legged crowd, the score standing 3! to 11 at the end of the filth inning, when tin game ended. o Outkauks in LKXixuroN-?A reliable citizen of Lexington brings intelligence of dastardly violations of law in the lower part of that County ^specially in the neighborhood of Bull Swamp He states that the opposition to the stock law it manifesting itself afresh in a violent manner Where farmers have l*^fi their crops open nn<i built pasture fences tlie fences are biirucil down graves dug close to houses and threatening let ters sent with pictures of coffins to the farmer who persist in enclosing their pasture lands Several fights have also occurred. These out rages can only result in the severest putiishmen known to the law if the depredators arc artes ted. ? Col. lltyixltr. lit vino :t Farm Witii Tomatoks.?TheSavau nah Time* of the ibid instant says : "We wer shown this inorning a variety of tomatoes growt upon the thunderbolt road, upon a tract oflam wli'ch has not been under cultivation for a iiuiu her of years. Soino of I heso tomatoes were a! large as the Corwan apples, and brought cx ceedingly good prices. 'Iwcnty-t wo boxes wer shipped this morning by special order to n larg j restaurant in New York. The parly, a colore man lias cleared enough off his torn <t.? patch I i buy the land, which has been rented for i'i pn*l year, and been planted by him since !.;? (>ct ober," A Chicago i>?ii < i say- that a printer i : t>.iit city lias been cured by pr.iyjr. i , does nut say whittlio printer vv.is cured i>' i ll lie v>as cured ??t" extracting the word i | a paragraph on wliic.i a joke hinges, an subsl i I ll I in ; a Word of bis own "to uiak iMmsi;." sir ,lie puts it. we will indorse ill prater euro and jjjivo it a live inch electr ' ad. I've one year, top column next t reading mat or. All omissions and wmn insertions to b; tuadu ^ood at end ol Con tract ? T'.tilii Si/filr/s. Afcotrr Nct Grabs?Tbta is the worst enemy in the shape of"MTpublesoM?yeed" that the fanner has tttcooteBcf;^tflfVAn* nual weeds or grasps <?an be craai^fcjft.by cutting tfiern down flowering, >nd thus destroy the supplypNI^cd. But thlr is a perennial, neyer dying out, recruiting i and multiplying ar/f extending in all directions yeas-by year. The tuber of one season is the pltrcnt of a dozen or more for the next, aud so they go on incroasin^o^ t?ifinitum. Hogs arc fond of the nuts (when they can find nothing better,) and will find 1 occnpatiou'for several months in a nut grass field rooting and turning up the surface, mellowing the ground and leaving nuts enough always to make a fine crop next spring.? \Vc have seen fields that had boon throw* ' nut nf rnltitfnffQn qq ^rppnl^ ^ and allowed to irrow unthicWIv in nines, so as to completely shade the ground, and after ten or fifteen years cleared and brought into cultivation. At first the tubers came up sparingly and feeble, but the warm sun and mellow ground soon give them heart, and at the close of tho scasou the grouud is pretty well infested again. Various plans have been suggested and tried for destroying nut grass: 1st. Tho application of salt heavy enough to penetrate the soil many inches. This will kill all the roots in reach, but it kills the land also fur a time, until rains wash out the superfluous salt For small patches, and wliou salt can be cheaply had. this plan may be effectual. 2d. Ploughing deeply in winter so as to expose the tubers to frosts. If douc repeatedly mai|y aro killed, but there arc always enough left for seed. 3d. Hoeing over the surface six days in the week through a whole scasjn has been tried, but though cut down constantly tho tubers arc not exhausted at the end of the season and will recuperate for next year. 4th. Spading up the ground and picking out carefully the nuts; may be done on a small patch, but it would cost too much on a field. oth. 1 he most effectual plan for destroying (or at any rate greatly weakening) it in a fit:hi is by a rotation of oats and cow-peas continued forscveral years. The oats should be sown early, so that by spring the ground is well covered and shaded. The grass is then kept down iu feeble condition. As "utu am h urs*i>?^?il nlmiull iin ai. once and plant cow-peas. These grow off rapidly and shade the ground before the grass has had tiuic to recruit. If this rotation is repeated for several years it oonics nearer to destroying nut grass in the fields than any other process. The leaves shoot up in early spring from ' the tubers of the previous year, some attain1 ing lull height. There is then an apparent cessation of a while, until the flowering stem starts. Hut the rest and inaction above ground is made up by activity beneath. Small thread like fibres push from the roots in all directions, and at the ends of those the tubers are formed, aid mature in the course of the season. These threadi like roots run down to a foot or more in 1 soft nndlow earth. When the tubers mature they die out, so that is impossible to draw the tubers out by the rootlets. Along our seaboard region, on the old I settled plantations, the grass is a terrible f> scourge. When is lias taken possession of a field it becomes impossible to eradicato it i nt anything like a reasonable cost. It. would ' cost nioro than the land is worth. It is scattered and propagated in many ways by the tubers. s? th it th >se who wish to keep J 1 their fields clean must he very vigil mt.? I The tubers are a favorite food if the wood , rats who collect and carry them oir for their winter stores. We have seen a quart or s ; more of the nuts dug up near an old stump. ' Cattle and h"gs also carry the nuts by their t bonis from one field to another. Ploughing the land invariably spreads it over the field, as the nuts are carried by - (heir long fibres and dropped by the plough. 0 Such a terror is it. that those who have 1 none of it on their lands will never use po' tato seed, strawberry plants, cabbage plants, shrubs or II overs ili.at have grown on nut gras< land, for fear of their carrying the nuts c iii their roots The experience of planters c in the low cuuii'ry is that whilst seriously il imp iii iug th - value of lands for cotton, it ? vvi.-ss ii j'.rious t. corn, except that it ' i r.a paired work and more Ircju.'lit ' Ci'i'.-S plnl!_'hil|0. t The niiu urass shoots up a flower stalk like all similar .grasses, a11d bears flowers ol' " 1 a ilii k ciicsimt color, but. like Bermuda ' ! cuss, ..no not mature seed in this latitude. It spreads alto^e'.heY by the tubers ? IJVr/rn (y X' ich. AS.vakkT.u k. ?W II. Whituiire, who 0 lives a short distance from this city, shot 0 a rattlesnake in his yard the other day, ? the dimensions of which were unusual.? I The serpent was five feet long, three and ; a half inches in di iui -ter and one foot in | ~ circumference. in its s'om :ch a laf^e partiiooo was found. The reptile had j twelve rattles ?-(i rrrnvillr A firs An Industrial Revival?Anderson* is on a boom.-, In a period of si?ty duyw'.herw ft wiJ^baVo bcen^tnricd by private enterprise a cotton seed ftfttfkill and a door, sash and bfyiiifuctotyjhfcvd corporate bodies, a Build* ing and lK>oft&&*ssociation, wittilt enpUui stock of $10O}$OO and a cotton factory with a capital stock ofnioro than $100,000. In addition to this, another cotton seed oil mill is almost gcrtaiu to be undertaken before full. The lnuU!<jcnccr says : ' Ours is tho youngest city in the State, but she ilnod n.if infoml ti\ rnmain llii> Qinullnftt " Mr. J. N. Martin, ofNowborry, received a consignment of goods Tuesday fnjpi the ^ Poller Factory, and a oartaad wenl on dowu the road. The t\<Mk his not,as fiao a finish as-the Piedmont, bat is solid and S&b* , HNIflMHOkh r crtilw?m & MoGukin, of Anderson, has recently returned froo Cincinnati, Ohio, where he has baeu for two or throe weeks engaged in buying the necessary machinery for the establishment of a sash, blind and door manufactory in this city. The machinery has arrived, and within ten or fifteen days will heplaced in position aid ready for work.? Ever) thing pertaining to buildiug material in the shape of wood will he manufactured by this firjn. The Intelligencer says: "The movement for the establishment o! a cotton factory nt Anderson has at last taken shape, and we have no doubt that within thirty days the capital etcck, which it is proposed to pln-ce at a minimum of ouc hundred thousand dollars, will have been subscribed and the company be ready to organise and begin the work of crcetjcg the buildings before the summer is orer. Col. J. N. Brown is i? charge of the subscription list, which wili be kept at the Anderson National Rank, and his recognized judgment and financial' ability ensures the easy raising of the suui necessary to begin work. This is the most important cutcrprisc that could possibly be uud-rtiken in Anderson, and will return moro benefits to the city and surrounding country than our people can at first imagine. It will increase our population, will increase the size of our city, and will add greatly to our business. It will give a market to the farmer for his produce of all kinds, and will improve the Anderson cotton market. In addition to this, it umy safely be put down* tO nay .tllO. Stack ImhloraQ JuulaniCAr ?.* Jeast 1(1 per ccut, so that every interest connected with or affocted by it will advanced" A Human IIolocoaust.?New Yorkr May 23?A firo occurrrd this morning in the buiiding No. 190 Greene street. Soon the upper part of the house was in flames. Richard J. Sncadon carries on and manufactures artificial leaves and glass fruit in the building, on every floor of which a uuinbcr ol men and women were at woric. So time was given those in the two upper stories to cscipo by the st-airwaj and -a simultaneous rush was made for the windows and roof. A scene of indescribable excitement followed. Shrieking women and men maddened by fright crowded every avenue of escape, struggling for thoir lives. Assistance from without could not be rendered. In a few minutes all was over and those who could had found safety on tho roofs of the adjoining buildings by perilous climbing. Distressing rumors of numbers having been left in the burning house to perish flew from mouth to muu h. A woman whose name has not been ascertained was carried out unconscious, stiff seated the smoke. A police officer made his way to a burning room on the second floor and brought nut the corpse of a child burned to death. The inscusiblc woman was taken to the hospital but died on the way. The fircmeu succeeded in extinguishing the flames in half an hour. The upper part of the house was gut lid. Search is flow being uiadt) fur other viutit?3. vintues of'Tiudk ok India" as an lxsECTieum.?You can say to your subset ihers who arc troubled with the "green cab* bagc wor.."thit if they will make a strong t )u of the '-Pride ol' India" berries and leavi s by boiling, and apply itcold with a common watering pot, one application is all that is needed to effectu illy destroy the worms. In a low hours alter the decoction has bet u sprinkled on, the worms will chut .re to a whilis i color, and by the next d ly not a single live one left. It matters not on what side <>! the leaves they may he. This remedy days not impair the value of the cabbage in the least, as all can attest who have seen it used. I have been using it for several years it is one of the best insecticides I know of. 1 did not give the botanical name of the tieo named, supposing it would be more easily roeogniz- d by its com in'>u name It is known beto with us as the China, InJii, ami l'rido I" Ili'lia?T. J', in Wcrhly Stir4 tf Subscribe for the Timkh.