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a??? i&ht ttDlethly Sition ?imta R. M. STOKES, Editor. UNION, FKIDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1880. BPB8CRIPTI0H??2 00 PER AHNPM. ADVERTISING. All lejal advertisements are pubibbed at tlie rates prescribed by law. The Cotton Markot. Ustos, Feb. 18. Sales for tho week G23 bales. Trices; Stains, <( >'/ ?> low middling, luiddllog 8; good I middling 8.20. What about tho Steam Fire Engine T Union ought to possess cne 1 Si- After Court adjourns we shall reduce I our subscription list by cutting off all names over six months in arrears. B?- We understand that the Town Council I of Joncsville have indicted sevoral parties for selling whiskey in that town. pajf We are requested to stale that the Concert for the bencht of the liand of Hope will be giveu in tiie Court House this (Friday) evening instead of "duting Court week.*' Ut^,. Mr. William K. Davis, and family, have goue to Florida. We are sorry to hear of Mr. Davis's removal from this place ; but we hope it is the beet for httfr, as his health has almost eiveii awnv. Our beat wishes follow them in their new home. Ha>" Among tliej'Proticients ' reported in the Sophomore does of the South Carolina College, we arc pleased to sec the name of our talented young friend, A. F. McKissick. Foster is a good boy, ii good student and has all tho qualifications in him to make a good and valuable citizen. I?. A bunch of keys, evidently belonging (o a M.'.M.*., has been left at our office for the owner. They were found by a colored man on the cottou platform at the railroad last Tncsday. There are two keys and two Masonic emblems on the ring. On one of the latter is stamped the name of a hotel. war Our energetic young merchants, Messrs. Sartor & Arthur will again "coine (o the front" to-morrow or Monday, in their new store upon the old stand on Main Street. You can't keep such young men in the rear very long. Fire can't keep them down, nor can you drown them out with water. The fact is, they are full of business from their toes to the top hair on their heads. o Mr. Thns. II. Core has been appointed by the Governor a Notary Public. This gives brother Gore a little advantage over his competitors in the matrimonial nice, for he is now ariucd and equipped, not only to serve a friend at a moment's warning, but in ease of a good offer lie may invite the girl to the floor and tic the liyincniat knot hard and fast for himself, before she has time to give a sober second thought upon the risk. B?5U While we are always pleased to meet friends and visitors in our sanctum, particu' JiininrH. r \imm" 11 * > and (anting, i Vint era cannot talk and set type at the same time. Of course we do not object to any one calling en our employes on business. What we ask is, that they "transact their business promptly and go about their business." Persons calling to pay their subscription are always welcome. Oo to the Coneert. IV c hope there will he a large crowd in the Court House to-night, to hear the delightful Concert to be given by .several of our moat accomplished lady performers and singers. We know it will be a charming entertainment, for we have been listening to the rehearsals, and we further know that the Indies who aro managing it never engage in an inferior performance. The programme will be varied and intersperscd with interesting recitations. Personal Mention. Cant, and Mrs. J. W. McLure have gone on a visit to Chester. Master llobert Munro lias returned home from Columbia. lley W. Funt was in town this week. Ila >? representing a Drug House in Charleston. Mr. Ueorgc II. Oetzcl has gone to Brooklyn, Net* York, on business. Conrt Week. Next Monday the March term of Court for this county will be con/ened?11 is Honor, Judge J. B. Kershaw (o preside. We hear of ouly one cose of homicide to be tried, but there are a number of exciting coses of Jcsser grades of orime on the docket, from nearly all parts of the county, which will, no doubt, eompsll a eery large attendance during the first week. If possible, we shall give full reports of alt the important oases tried on the sessions docket. Ho More en Credit A few in outl)8 ago we indulged four or fire persons by senditiK tliein the Doner on credit under ibe promise that they would pay ua aa soon an they sold cotton. In nearly every instance these gentlemen have kept their promises, in whole or in part, very satisfactorily to us. 'ihis leniency on onr part opened the door for a number in those neighborhoods to get upon our books under the same promise, but I we regret to state the result has not been ut 1 all saiisfactory, nnd having to tarry so many old names on our books who nre greatly in ' arrears we are unable to increase the load by addiug to the list, part payment, nt least, will be required from all new subscribers hereafter. A Good One-horse Cron. Our friend J. V. Franklin, of Cross Keys 1 township, culled at our sauctum a few days ago and, like the progressive farmer that he is, reuewed bis subscription to the Timss, making us happy to that amount. In course of conversation, we drew from him the result of bis last yetr's labor upou the one-horse farm he cultivated, which we consider far above the average and shows that Mr. Frankliu is a working liveat-home farmer. The following is bis orop, made by himself without hiring any help j 18 bales of cotton, 11 loads of corn, 60 bush- I els sweet potatoes, 36 bushels wheat and 160 \ doa. bundles of cats. ?- - Mr. Franklin told us that he had not bought I porn hut ono year sinoe the war. , i An Old Railroader. F. II. Couuts, our exoellent Agent at this place, is perhaps among if aot the oldest railroad man now in harness in the State. He has been continuously in the service of the Spartanburg and Union ltailroad Company for the lost twenty-six years, eutering the service of the Company when a boy of sixteen years, in I860, as assistant agent at Alston. He was appointed agent at that station in August, 1861, which position he filled uutil January, 1806, when the freshet auil Sherman's raid deseroyed that portion of the road between Alston and Shclton. In February, 1865, he was elected Secretary and Treasurer of the Company to fill the vacancy caused by the death of J. D. Kecnan. wnicli position he filled until February, 1872, when the 'Scott lling' purchased the 1 roul and moved the office to Columbia, Mr. Counts being then appointed conductor. In August, 1872, an injunction was filed against the Scott ring and the Company placed in the bauds of a receiver. The late lamented ex- 1 Got. Thos. B. Jeter was appointed receiver, and look Mr. Counts into his office as Book-keeper. In Feby. 1873, the Company was again sold and purchased by McAden, Intnatr and Austell. The new organization elected Mu.l.'ouDti Secretary and Treasurer which positionlie held until they leased the Uoad to the Clyde**Cyndicate in June 1881, when the Companies were consolidated. Mr. Counts then accepted the Agency at this place made vacant by thcrfcrmer Agent resigning. Mr. Counts says there have been many changes in Railroading since he first entered the service. It then took from ej^to ten days to get goods from Charleston to Union, whereas now they come from Chicago and New York in from five to seven days, .lie thinks the writing he lias done iu the past twenty-six years would be equal to a "double track" around the globe. ? Boston Soldiers Paid Off. The visit of the National Lancers, of Boston, to the city of Charleston last week was one of the nustbrilliant and pleasant episodes in the history of that proverbially hoapitnl city. After the Lancers "fell iu" just before leaving Charleston they were paid off in the following manner: Ciiaulkston, S. C.. February lit, 1880. Gmrral Orders No. 13,743 : The time of service, in the State of South Carolina, of the National Lancers of Boston being about to expire, the quartermaster of the command will be furnished with funds to pay the officers and men. By command of tlie CITIZBN SOLDI KitV OF CH AItI.TSTOJi. Approved: 11. 6. Y. C. The funds which, by the wny, were furnished by Major E. Willis, were thereupon-distributed by Mi?jor Emery?each officer receiving ?500 and each private ?100 in bright, crisp treasury notes of the Confederate States of America. Fire in the Country. 1 Mr. 11. F. Kay, who lives near Padgetts Creek Church, in Cross Keys Township, had the misfortune lust Sunday morning to have his dwelling, smokehouse aud lumbcrhouse burnt. It seems that Mr. Kay had kindled a fire just before leaving and lucking up the house went up to the yhurch jftirMfrWf n lir ereJ to be ou tire by a lady living oear by ; but before assistance could arrive the houses were all burned down, and with them four bales of cotton. This sad occurrence is a heavy loss to Mr. liny, and our sympathy goes out to him in his trouble. We did not learn whether Mr. Kay was insured or not. The Census Bill Constitutional. Mis. Editor:?Thus far, there being no further development of the third division, I return to the second, which claims 'that the bill is not only unconstitutional but is not as effective in point of time, &c.' The constitutional objection being investigated under the first division, there remains to be noticed the objection in point of time. This objection seems to hare originated from the belief by some that the apportionment could be lawfully made in the Spring or early enough to liavo the representation of counties in the next Legislature according to an enumeration after the manner of the Constitution. This is the strangest objection of all. Whether it arose from the desire to take from Charleston or to give to up-counties at the earliest period possible, I canuot conjecturo. The constitution reads, as we have seen, that the representation shall be made in a certain proportion 'by act of the Geucral Assembly, at the session immediately succeeding every enumeration.' According to this it could only be by an extra session unit an apportionment could bo made, so that each county would have a correct representation at the next regular meeting of tbe Legislature. This, however, could be done witb the United States census as the basis of apportionment ; for the United States census is already taken, and if there were an extra session it would only be necessary to use the United States census and make the apportionment as in the former caseTherefore, Mr. Editor, I will say of the bill which makes the United States census as the basis of apportioument, that: 1st, It is codsfitu- j tional; 2d, It is etfsctive in point of time; 3d, i It accomplishes the enumeration at the least cost possible ; and dih, It accomplishes it as 1 correctly as possible. This writing about the constitution is not | only unnecessary but superfluous to the learned; i but it is not written for them, it is written for ' the honest voter who docs not know about the j couswiiiuoD mat iie may not De misted by those ( who wish to make political funds out of the ictions of the last Legislature. M. Cross Keys Farmers' Club. Mr. Editor.?A few of (he farmers of this i township met at Cross Keys on Saturday, the J ?Otli., for the purpose of organizing a Farmers' < Club. , On motion J. I>. Graham was called to the chair, and C. B. Bobo was requested to act as \ secretary. I The chairman briefly rtated the object of the meeting. A constitutiou was then read ] and Tl names enrolled. { A permanent organisation was theu formed by electing C. B. Bobo I'rcsideut, J. F, Bailey lstjVico I'res., 11. H. Stewart '2nd Vice Pres., 1 P. B. Bobo Sec., Y. S. Bobo Treas. An ezccu- t live oonimiltee, and delegates to the eounty 1 club were appointed. Tbo club will meet at Padgett's Creek on I Saturday, the Uth of March, at 1! o'clock P. M. < U. Bono, Bee. pro Urn. r Uvi-a-Humj 1 Prtuhtri and Wimmins' A-Bainln' Union! Mutkr Editi r :?If you won't tell on me, I bought I would seat myself nnd drop your paper a flic linee; but I am mighty skoered lett ' tome of them fellers ill Union might find me out, I ind then they would git mad at mc, and then I his would hurt mo mighty much. Folka what I rites for papers tells me you lias to tell the Editor who you is, but he nint oblight to tell ncnody who it is, nnd I knows you haint a-gwine ter tell. Now, I aint no merchant, so if they Iocs find out nobody can't come in mi sware they aint a gwine to trade wid mc any more, lud just wind up tlieir account and move off forever, so I aint skeercd about that. Well, 1 wish I was a Treacher, so 1 could show 1 aint skeercd of no body's saying they won't go to hear mc no more; an' you know that must hurt a Treacher mighty, an' make him awful pertjcular, an' feel all the time like a feller a-settin on pins, an' it might make some preachers quit. Well, my son John goes to Union, he is a good boy, nnd he tells me a good deal about the town, and ho says they hav grog shops tliar?one in the hotel building whar Mister Wallace use to keep his store, an' one lower down, and one on a corner, an' one by the rail rode, an' things are getting on mighty bait; an' ho iicam ot a tug man down there what said : The winimms and preachers is a gwinc to ruin the town.' My Lord ! thinks I, wimmins and preachers min tho town ? Why, I never heard of such a thing. 1 know there use tj^be some mighty piity an' mighty good wimniin in Union, an' I did not think them wiiniuins could be the mothers of such chillerns as would ruin a town. An' the preachers a-ruinin' a town ! Well, well! 1 just laffed at the idee. I knowed the old man what preaches for the Methodists a good wliilo, and 1 nerer heard of his hurting anything good, or of anybody's saying they would not hear him preach, till he got to Union, then I heard sich. Thinks I, so much worse for the man who shcls hlsself off frotn such a good chance for hearing preaching. 1 know lie is mighty agin the old sarpent an' had fit him all his life, and that he has done n world of good, an' was a eloquent an' powerful man, and 1 just could not see for my life how lie is a-ruinin' a town. And then thinks I, 1 never herd anything in my life agin a Carlisle, from that one what used to write an' was so famous (Mr. Editur, is he ilcad, an' didn't he live in your country T) down to these ones here abouts. And then 1 always thought that ull good Methodists built up towns. Now, 1 don't know the man as well whats at the Baptist church, hut I know the church is a building up, an' 1 gits this mighty strait, and all 1 hear good people say of him is lie is mighty plain, and awful down on wickedness of all kinds, even to the terrible ain of misbehaving in church ; and I don't know a greater disgrace tm?, fnt nnwhnilv In misbehave ill God's house : I never done it but once in my life ; nn' I won't forgit that night aiul that preacher, soon He was a little Methodist preacher, mighty smart, a grmderntc of Woft'ord Collcdge. 1 tell you, he could talk. 1 wants a preaeher to be plain. Well, says I, that man is not a ruinin' the town. Well, 1 has licarn that man preach what had that pirty church for the Presbyterians built, nnd 1 don't think there is anything about him to ruin a town; but what 1 hears about his skool and the awful pirty girls there, thinks 1, that man is a powerful help. He aint u-ruining anything. And the 'Piscopal preacher, 1 hearn they're got a new one, and 1 (Inni think he has been ii i l iinw k ubnV want to ruin towns. Then I thinks of my powerful old friend what is boss of the public skools?my good, jolly old friend, and 1 just laffs to think that he would ruin a town. 'Well,' says I, John, if you can spare the critter 1 will go to Union.' So I goes, and I goes to see what is wrong an to find out what is ruinning things there. Well, in two or three hours we got there, an' 1 hiched the critter an it was not long before I sees what is the trouble. It was more than a year sencc I was in the town. Then 1 saw eight or more hans a working on the streets, nnd a tall man with his buggy an horse standing near, and some strong fat mules nn carts just a haulidg pirty w hite sand and a putting it all over the walks, an the shovels just n-flying, and tlicy all worked like we do in fodder pulling times. 1 did not sec any body drunk either, iiut this time says 1, 'My, my John, this aiut Union.' I never saw a han 011 the streets,though 1 looked around generally, and everything looked so old and worn out?the town looked so sick and like it wanted a doctor. On the streets I saw in front of the corner barroom up and down the streets a crowd what looked like carron crows, what's eat as much of a dead critter as they c?a hold, and is a jumping and a picking at each other; and * Happing their wings and a puking and a gaping around. 1 won't write any about white wine aud red wine, an some other bad things what is known about these bar-rooms. Hpeakin' of white wine makes ma think of what 1 herd of a tipsy feller sayin on the train tother night. He said he got some white wine outen the rail rode bar, an it was the best corn whiskey he ever tasted. He said he asked for whiskey at the hotel bar-room and the bar-keeper told him, 'there is a doctor, he will give you a subscription,' and he got one for a <|uart. Tho bar-keeper told him he could take half now and come back for the rest. Now, this is just what he called them, ' bar-rooms ' and 'bar-keepers.' It aint the pirty, sweet wimmins, nor it aint the preachers what is a ruining Union, but it is the awful whiskey shops which have been so unlawfully opened in the town. 1 wants the preachers and all the good people to cry aloud and spare not: I have hearn whiskey men soy ninny a time that preachers ought to let politics alone nnd preach the gospel. Jest like preachin agin whiskey wan't preachin tho gospel. Of course (hey know what the gospel is. 1 says, aint there no men in Union but what will jest set down and let the town be ruined? Where arc the Uity Fathers? Why don't they close the barrooms? That's what we country folks wants. If Upion don't chango it is gwiue ter ruin the preachers and wjmmin and chillern, instead of they ruinm the town, ir its present condition tint n strong argument en favor of prohibition, then you may shoot me. Perhaps the (Solicitor iiul Grand Jury will look inter the matter at next week's court. I hope nobody will git mad at this letter, as its the truth. I wants ter write ngin soon and fetch out some more things. Uncus St. Bantae Farmers Club. Ma. Editor.?At the call of the President fro (em, Mr. P. C. Daris, several of our farmers net and organized the Young Farmers Club of ilantuc, on the 20th inet. The meeting woe tailed to order by Mr.'Davis, and J. D. Fleming vas chosen secretary pro (em. After opening the books for subscribers we vent into an eleetion of officers, which resulted is follows : J. W. Gregory, President, Kddie Jeter Vioe ['res, J. H. Randolph, Treasurer, J. D. Fleming Secretary. Executive committee., the President, Wee President and Secretary. Dr. J. P. Thomas, J. C. Sartor, James Jenlins and the President were elected delegates o the meeting at (Jnion on Monday, 1st of March. The meeting then adjourned to meet ne^t laturday. We hope to report one of the larg, Mt clubs in the county soon. J. I>. i'utuiuo, Seo'ty. Fo* the Tl*n?. "Watchman. What of the JVI^t?" A third of a century ago, thti producers of Union Count/ gar* me their truil, and made 0 me their Watch and Ward, in the ^gislatura of D the State. When I returned Mil Colttaehfaa, j, lait Christmas eve, to acquit myself to them of ^ the trust they bad so long confided to me, the , question whioh heads this article was put to , mo?"Watchman, what of the Night?"?And j( replied to tho 1st of Jan. last. When I had ? hoped for the dawn of brighter days, sbadowe , fell, and in place of the light of morning, ^ darkness gathered and thickened over the coun- j oils of the last General Assembly. For the ? first time, the mandates of the constitution in t this State, the will or tbe people plainly ex. preesed end the principle* of constitutional right ignored, as in one of my previous communications has been indicated, as also tho remedy therefor. We cannot hope that though the ehadowa hide, tho good angel will guard and protect.our future. Qod help's them who help themselves. The producing classes (farmers and mechanics) must help themselves by organization and unitod effort. They must rouse themselves from tbe slumber and the dreams of n quarter of a century, break the ohains which have, and are now fettering them, rush up the high grade which separates them from other purst^* and professions and stand abreast if not in front of the first and foremost among them. Our remedy is self reliance. Confidence in self is the vital want of tho farmer. He has been so accustomed to receivo and submit to the treatma&t of a poor man at a frolio, and look on to the sceuo of passing events with open mouth and gullible simplicity that he has ucv/uuiu Tcrjr uucu Ul Ull nuio i luon lioa BliTO to frivolity and impertinence. From this do- i graded acquiescence in inferior position he i must rouse himself to the assertion of his man. , hood, his importance, his usefulness, his pros, idence, his indispensible necessity to the movements of society and the eery existence of civilization, and place himself in the attitude of a thinking, intelligent and irropressible element and factor in all the relations of life, instead of the submissive creature, beast of burden-like, yoked with the brute and fettered to the soil. In life preservation of both human and animal creation, liow long would the world exist without the farmer? Not only the sound of the telephone and the flash of the telegraph would cease but the breath in the nostrils of its operators would stop, and many of the be tats of the field and the birds of the air would fall down forever. Again, let the reflective observer turn back through the tide of time and mark its revelations. They will see that every amelioration and liberation that has relieved humanity and disenthralled servitude, has proceeded from the roused up enorgies of that honest, humane and conservative class. Tho followers of Alfred the Great, the Karons of ltuunymede, the Ironsides of Cromwell, the followers of Washioglon were all of that class. They all submit??.t ? ?? 2..1-1?ui vwv4 ?v m vugo uuui m vu^o nviv IIUUICrAUlOy they (lien asserted their rights and, as they thought, scoured them by charters and constitutions; but human inslitntious alas are perishable. And human oaths and human obligation* Farmers of Uniou, behold your oondllion now?make the application of the proceeding teachings of history to yourselves. Are yon not in want, fcre you not dependent, is your industry rewarded, are your rights of property, are your taxes just; are not your public servants your masters, are not the great ourses of humanity, ignorance and poverty, impending over your children? Aud who is to blauie ? Whose fault is it ? It is not only the officers of government, but it is the corporations, and associations aud professions.and all the artificial pursuits of men recognized by legislation ; each and every one engineered by a wiley and unscrupulous agent; each and all living ou the same victim, the farmer ! lie knows it, but not to its full extent; neither does he think of his remedy and his power; nor has he resorted to it. Is it not time that he had? Can b* not profit by the example of others ? Can he not be impelled by the same faith that others are ? Can he not be fired by the same love of freedom his fathers were? Can he not be supported by the same hopes, and inspired by iho same Qod, feeling as he must in his very soul that he is innocent and honest, and knowing as he does that he has the power to enforce his will and overwhelm his enemies whenever he will unite with his brothers of the some calling. Farmers, think, resolve, act, organize, urge, compell a convention of the solid men of your State. Demand a new charter of your rights, a now constitution to suit your own race, your own color,your own condition, true and faithful, which belong to you by inheritance, sanctioned by the deeds of your fathers, and a sacred deposit with you, to transmit to your children. I atn tempted to notice the comments and suggestions of the newspapers and their correspondents? "M," for instance, which may Binuu tur oiinion, oiyimiuon. uoea lie noi know that the constitution of the United States provides spheres of notion for each separately and independently, and what the constitution of the Slate demands that of the United States eanuot countermand or oxcuse the fulfillment of, and that taxation without representation is alike abhorrent to both oonstitatlons, and the creation of a priviliged class guarded against specially by both, and also that where tha rights of the people are involved the saving of expense in their defense by the aid of a friend ' instead of an enemy. The tender can never be sufficient excuse for any one to whom a public trust is committed to turn from a path or move from the post cf duty. Of "Calamus" and his communication, I would say that his nom dt plume reminds me of Calamm, as a remedy for cholic in children, nnd bobarigimy generally, and U alao too if. nificiot of downfall and disaster as well, and his igorance of Mr. Calhoun's place of education aa his sublime flight of higher education, loftier tliAti the siars, and only coaoeifable in the unfixed dreams, in the dreams of a learned visionary, couvinces me that be Is a Utopian professor of lost employment in some denomi. national college of learning. The rose-colored idea of farmers' clubs having nothh% to do with politics in so inoonoeivably absurd and ridiculous and no transparently the wish of those who are not their friends that no comment frpm tne is required. D. 11. Kick. \ Oyster Supper at the Uqioq Hotel, Tuesday, March 2d, at 8.30 P. M. I * Subscriber' to Joxssviu.it, Feb. 2 *, 1886. Editor Union TSmot:?It would seen to a Ions obeerrer that your correspondent II.'s' a oat prominent faculty is that whloh lmpe<?| dm to giro nomoo of ridicule end sarcasm to hose who bore chosen to disagree with him on he oensus question. This time he calls them n Howling Mob!' . Or, what is about its equleaenf, he says their opinions are snch as one night expect from a howling mob. It would be roll for 'M's' spirit of fairness if be would tell mur readers that this 'Howling Mob' is com>osed of a majority of the best journals in the ' Itate, together with Senators and Repreeenta- I t i e m vi nt.. tiL I itm, among wnom is our own u. 11. iuot, wnn in experience in the legislation of the State of nere than twenty years. For perspicuity ef style your correspondent loes not regard himself with confidence, for it sill appear on examination that his last article s a recapitulation of his first, with a few quotaions thrown in to save appearances, while both lis articles leave everything about as ' clear as nvd,' except his proposition, and that is relied n great obscurity. There are but three points which have been leveloped in this discussion by those to whom >ur friend refers in such dignified terms: ! ITiat the Constitution has not been complied with, by reason of the failure te provide for taking the census. 2. That tuch failure of compliance was due to sectional Tnfluenoe. 3. That ibis influence was exercised with a desire to maintain uniue advantages. Our friend takes issue and claims that the Constitution has been complied with. We will now take his arguments from the labaryntb of obscurity in which he has placed them and subject them to analysis. In the first place he says ~a great deal about some bill being passed by the Legislature enabling the State to adopt the United States census. Will our friend inform us where we may find such a bill ? We know that the Legislature passed an act providing for an amendment to the Constitution authorising the apportionment of Representatives on the basis of United States ceusus. This, theu, must be what he means when he says so much about a bill, for 1 take it for granted that he knows the difference between an act providing for an amendment to the Constitution and a statutory law. Well, taking this view of it, how docs his argument stand T It is as follows : The Constitution has been complied with, because the Legislature at its last session provided for an amendment to it, winch amendment, when sanctioned by the people in general election, will make it lawful to adopt the United States census as the basis of representation. Did anybody erer see a more illogical conclusion than this ? That to provide for an amendment to the Constitution is equivalent to compliance Kith an explicit requirement of that Constitution ! And yet this is just our friend's conclusion when .1.: i I,, .v..k.Y.:i._._a. ti.t. OI?l|ipcu vi ho uvouuuug uounouivina. auio id like declaring tbat a debt baa been paid because some change baa been propoacd in the stipule, tiona of tbe original contract! Then, again : Our friend, with a ahow of argument which is absolutely overpowering, gives us a quotation from the Conatitution on this point, either overlooking j$e /act (l^Ut desand spikes hlv oann?p, or'-supposing that his readers would fail to sea it, aorrounded aa they are by ao vast amount of smoke as he has in some way succeeded in producing. We will repeat bis quotation, and see how it servos his argument: ' An enumeration for this purpose (apportionment) shall be made in 1865 and again in 1885,* and shpll be made in th< course of every tenth year thereafter as shall be by law provided.' By this clause of the Constitution it will b? seen tbat the census should have been taken and apportionment made in 1885?last year. Tbe faol is, the census was not taken then because the Legislature failed to make tbe necessary appropriation. In the face of this fact out friend concludes that the requirements of the Constitution have been complied with because the Legislature has provided an amendment to the Constitution which, in ease the people should sanction it, the United States census may be adopted and apportionment made about the year 1888. Our friend saysig his first article, mod repeats it in his second, that the Constitution is definite as to the time of taking the census, and knows that the time has passed and that the census Ass not been taken, and yet claims that the Constitution has been complied with I llut then there has been an amendment proposed ! 0, my 1 It is amaxing that a writer with so little logical acumen as our friend has here manifested should have the audacity to apply such an epithet as 'Howling Mob ' to each men as our venerable representative, who has more than twenty years experience in the halls of the House of Representatives, and to Statesmen and Editors in all sections of our Commonwealth who have complained that the Constitution has been disregarded, and a breach made in the wall which is the only safeguard to human noeriy. Subscriber. Jottings From Kelten deatu or A good han. Mr. IlRmpton Huckeby died Sunday, 21st., about 10 o'clock a. m., and was buried at 8kuil Shoals on Monday. The funeral was preached by Her. H. K. Ezell to a large and attentive congregation. Mr. Huokaby was 76 years and 10 months old, and died within a mile of where he was raised. He was a hard working substantial citizen, who thought that to pay one's just debts was preferable to trying to keep pace with style and fashion at the expense of seme one else. lie provided well for his own hoase, was benevolent and a good neighbor. He leaves a second wife and daughter, and many near relatives, with whom their many friends north of Pacolet, and elsewhere, will deeply sympathize. krltox farmers ci.ur. Last Saturday, 20th last., the farmers of this section met and organised the Kelton Farmers Club, and elected the following offioers. Dr. Robert Little President, T. N. Kelly Viee ('resident, J. II. Spears Secretary, A. A. dealt Treeiorer. About 86 nones were enrolled, and many otbere will yet, no doubt, be added, ae the matter was not generally known and understood. The next meeting will be held the let Satur. day afternoon in March. Mr. Howell, of the firm of our enterprising young merchants. Spearj k Howell, te now In his new house, with his new and accomplished young wife, apd he smiles and looks kappy. Of to market goes the cotton, and back oomee tha guano. It teems that the people are geing to try oottea again eyeu at the low prices. Si near. ? b ~r Hymen, born# qn wings ef deftness; pall Our little town a visit a few ds^fs since. Ma J. S. Crawford, fornferly of Union, B. C., bulj|(ow of Bon bam, Texaig made a to bis i|tive town, and while Iherc conoluded not to return alone, and took from our midst one of tbe best and most popular young ladies, Miss Louis Littlejohn. Words are inadequate to express tbe regret wbioti her many friends feel on losing suoh an eslimnb'e young lady. Tboy left for tbe "Lone J*tar" State tbe 19th. Our beat wishes attend them. Mi#? Carrie Sartor, of Sanluc, bos been spending several days with Miss Lula, and is now visitiog her friend, Miss Nannio Wood, ef Pacolet. , Miss Sallie llix, of your town has a flourishing school here. Messrs. Crawford & Long have reoently opened up a new drug store. ."MlQNOXSTTS." [We hope "Mignonette" will give "looels" from Jonesville every week. En. Times.] Bucklkn's Arnica #alvb.?The best Salve in the world for Cuts, Druises, Sores, Ulcer, Salt Rheum, Fever Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands, Chilblains, Corns, and ell skin Eruptions, and positively cures Tiles, or no pay required. It is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction, or mouey refunded. Trice *25 cents per box. For sale by J. W. Tosey & Bro. July ly Sad Death or th? Wira or Prof. .Waldo.? New Ilaven, Conn., February i9.?The wife of Prof. Leouard Waldo, of Yale Observatory, while labor ng under a fit of temporary insanity this morning, escaped from her nurses and left her home on Prospect street. For a long time Mrs. Waldo has suffered from various troubles, and last night she passed without sleep until 4 o'clock this morning. She was first missed about 7 o'clock. A hasty search revealed the fact that the lady bad scantily attired herself in a wrapper and, with nothing but slippers on her feet, had left tho house. Prof. Waldo was informed and with his servants searched the observatory grounds. Dy 8 o'clock this afternoon nearly six hundred students and at least two hundred citisens were searching in ail directions for Mrs. Waldo. About 4 o'clock one of the searching parties found her at Pine Hock, a few miles from the Waldo residence. As the party approached her Mrs. Waldo was trying to ascend the foes of a rock whioh is nearly perpendicular, and they called to her to hold on until they could come to her assistance. At that moment she was seen to slip on the rock and fall headlong down the precipice striking among the rocks at the feet of her friends. She lived but a few minutes after being picked up. Mrs. Waldo was thirty-five years of age and leaves two young children. Look out for Counterfeit Silver Dollars. ?LaCrosse, Wis., Febuary 10.?Teller Henderson, of the LaCrosse National Bank, has discovered a counterfeit silver dollar that is pronounced by all bank people in this city absolutely the most dangerous ever seen. It is a standard silver dollar 1K81. Tho outside is silver and the die is in every substantial particular as clear as the original. It stnnds all microscopical tests, and the only possible means of detection is by weight, it being exactly forty-seven graius short of the standard, and is estimated about fortyithroe grains short cf tho average. married, kTtCHEN?McNEACE. Married, at the i residence of Mr. D. W. Owen, at Santuo, on T.iuraday. the 18th inst., by Rot. J. M.Friday, BUSIITEitLOCAU. Remember tlint J AS. II. RODQER pays the highest cash prices for dry hides. 1 > $ 15 will buy a first class No. 7 Cook Stove, complete, with 25 pieces, from J AS. II. RODQER. i ? ! . - - m . Yam Potatoes. A LOT of nice sound Yam Potatoes for sale. Apply to T. L. II AMES. , Feb, 26, 8 2t. SPECIAL NOTICE? DESIRING to make a change in our business we offer our present stock of General Merchandise at cost, to cash buyers, from this dat*. HUNTER & CO. i Feb 26 8 1m : "CONCERT! I AT TIIE COURT HOUSE, : 'FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 7.30 P. M. i _____ m By the Young Ladies nnd Gentlemen of Union. Admission, - - - 25c. >, t't i. Tickets for sale at the Union Hotel. i | _______ Meeting at Jonesville. THE citizens of JouesviUe Township are requested to moet at Jonesrille on Saturday ?to-in6rrow?*27th February, to organize an Agricultural Society, by request of T. L. HAM US. Feb. 20, 8 It. TWO YOUNG HORSES FOB SALE. I IIAVE two fine young horaos which I witl ell at fair prices for caeti or approved pap r. W. A. NICH0L80X. Feb 10 '7 " 21 Grand Republic, CIGAR ROW, OUR TRADE MARE, at A. H. STOKES k CO.'S, ' A lot of Very Superior Flour iliat roAnivml Km A II flTniTPQ U PO J . , vx? A*I KJ JL v/1 lVl'iO IV Wi The State of South Carolina, COUNTY OF UNION. By JAMKS M. GKK, Esq:,Probato Judgo. WHEREAS, John P. Thomas has made auit to ma to grant hia letters of Administration on the Estate of and effects of Elizabeth P. Slrlbbling, deceased. These are, therefore, to cite and admonish all and singular the kindred and creditors of the said Elisabeth P. 81 ribbling,deceased,that they bean a appear, before me. in the Court of Pvohoto So A be held at tJnior. C. II..South Carolina,on the 20ih . ( Jhj of March next, after publication hereof, at 11 o'eloelt la the foreaoca, to ehew oauxe, if any thej bare, why the spid Administration should not be granted. Giree under my band, this 2fcl day tf February, bono Domini, 188b, ' JAMIB M. ORB, Judge Probate. Published ou the 520th day of February, 1880, in the Weekly tJnlon Tlmee. * Feb 80' 8