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THE DAWSON TRAGEDY^ th< WMAT WAS DKVKLOTED AT THE COBOXKK'S IX- Wl OUK8T. 901 wa lb' Chablutox, March 14.?The inquest on #r the bod j of Captain Damon was held to-day. drenching rain and wind atom, which has prevailed since the night of the murder, prevented the gathering of a crowd and probably saved the murderer from lynching, q, He was brought out of the jail About 11 a. m., j>( and placed in a pelioe patrol wagon. A III, guard of four policemen and three special | Deputy Sheriffs accompanied him. it Ah request, he was first-driven t^ Toe office of |,0 bis counsel, er A.G. Magralh. His counsel, however, did not accompany :a; him to the inquest. jc The inquest did not develop anything j,, startling. Only three witnesses were ex- jt smined. The first was policeman Gordon, t|, whose testimony was substantially as follows : He had been detailed to watch for a negro who has been for nearly a month at walking about the Western portion of the 4, city insulting ladies and girls by an ex- (t posure of his person. On the afternoon of j3 the murder he wao in the vicinity of the p Jl scene of the murder. A negro hack driver ^ told bin that he had heard a pistol shot in h McDow's office, lie went there and saw (l Mrs. McDew leaving lier house with ber child. Then he rang the' office bell, and j aicyow openoa tn# aoor, out only tar ^ Mionrhlo enable him to see who was at the t :^JeIil^'He asked MoDew if anything was'the , matter) and was answered in the negative. ( j^^^^^MoPowsbut and locked (he dooV, and Ihe j ? ?'hing, ioj? ( McDew refused to make ? The jury rendered the following verdiffti 5 "That the deceased came to his death by'*a gunshot wound inflicted by T. B. McDow, and that Moses Jonson (the negro coachman) was an accessory after the fact." The prisoners were then remanded to jail. In explanation of the verdict it is said that tliorj is evidence, not yet published, which will show that McDow used bis coachmon to carry notes to numerous women with whom he had been carrying on intrigues. It is now probable that tho body of the murdered man will bo exhumed for the purpose of holding a post mortem examination. It is noticed that the physician who examined tho body did net make a post mortem, but only probed for the ball, which he failed to find. Id view of McDow's statement that his victiiu lived for three-quarters of an hour after he had shot bim, and that he lind stent part of that time trying to revive bun, the theory is now advanced that the woand might nit have proved fatal, and the murderer in order to seal the lips of his victim, might have administered morphine or some ether deadly drug. All the circumstances surrounding the case give color to this theory. McDow admits that his victim lived for over half an hour after ho was shot, and that ho remained with him, with his victim's head in his lap until he died, while the murdered man's wife and child were within the sound ef his voice. McDow in a statement to a reporter of a city paper, admits that his fondnces lor women was his one sin. The French maid who wss the moving cause of the tragedy, is still at Capt Dawson's house Her statement has not yet ' been given to the police or the public. She. was brought from Lausanne, Switzerland/" 1 by Mrs Dawson several years Mr. C. D. Ahrens, Dow, had lived with his daughter and her ' husband until last Christmas when he sudi.f. ?J * uvuijr ink huu went 10 a noiei, wnere lie baa 1 since resided. lit refuses to speak about | the matter. It is rumored that the cause of his leasing sens that he had been informed that his sen-in-law had intended to do away * with him, so S3 to get possession of his estate. Mr. Ahrens is a rich merchant and highly esteemed. Having made a fortune , at the grocery business, he retired after his j daughter's marriage. It is said (hat after leaving his daughter's house he had changed bis will, and had willed all his property to < his daughter, revoking the provision whieh 1 made McDow his executor. ] The report of the policeman who shadowed Dr. McDow and the girl is looked for with interest. It is still in the possession ] of the Chief of Police, who declines to give it up until the trial. j. a. m. SENSATIONAL DEVELOPMENTS. ( Charleston, March 14.?The murder of Capt. Dawson excited such intense interest, followed so soon as it was by his funeral, that the public generally lost sight of the \ details of the shocking tragedy, while they \ hastened to the house and the church te pay a last tribute of respect to his memory. In every quarter from friend and foe alike, 1 comes tlie sentiment : "The pity of the taking off of Buch a man by such a creature 1" The police and the Coroner however, have a not been idle. The details of the tragedy are simply sickening. Here are some of them as given by the World this morning. c There is now no questioning the fact that lJr. McDow attempted to bury the body of v Captain Dawson nfter the shooting on Tues- ' day night. The tragedy?so terrible in h that it was a sudden shock to the communi- j, ty in the Inking awny of one of the most prominent figures in the politics and * commercial enterprise of the South?is made 0 more shocking by (he fact that an attempt O was made to hide the body away in ? horrible Utile hole in the ground. ^he-office In which thw shooting occurred of.' a into a hallway. In this hall there is c< a stairway to the floor above, which is in i ttfh nlinno ITw/Iaw * ? * ' * ii?m 01*119 iniru 19 a closet, the door of which is little more than , three feet high. There arc many fact9 which point indispitiably to the conclusion that Dr. McDow fa iitteropted to dig a grave for his victim un- in der the slairway in this little cloiei. There i" a apade, which wna found eaked with jusi the kind of soil as that which is found be- 0> 11'i.th this floor. There is in the closet un- co der the floor, a hole which shows signs of 8ti having been recently dug. . Another strong proof that Dr. McDow 1 had been in the closet during the afternoon Pa was the fact that the crown of his hat was el ghtly ciusbed in and bore tangible evidence of the fact that it had been ia contact with a whitewashed woll. The only (), piece of whitewashed wall in the base.cent, be 11s staled before, is that on the under part mi of the second section of stairway. Dr. ATcDew was seen by a gentleman, Wr. Jjiiflito, when he walked out of his office shortly after the shooting, whioh walk will bo explained further on in this account. ?0' fin accosted him With a remark calling his 8P* attention to the fact that his hat was dented cbi and there was whitowash on it. Dr. Mc- \yj Dew thanked him, took eflf his hat, straight- . ened it and brushed the whitewash frcm it. Another evidence if the fact that Captain ,0 Dawson's shoes show evidence of Imvina mn * "v I ?eu ill figged. The back of (he heels are j8 rnU etl, anil on one of tbem is quite an ^ abrn^ion. At tlie bottom of the pit therejwero found '>0< footprints of a man and a woman. Only poj m foot of each had boon put in tho sand. Goo 0 moasuro of each was carefully taken by < 1 Coroner, who also secured olots of what a supposed to bo blood and sand. This >ms to point to the fact that Dr. McDow Pos a accompanied by a woman. Whether 8 C e cams in while the grave was being dug. wh, afterwards, cannot be told. While tho examination was going on out the offioe Tuesday night, a search was atituted for Captain Dawson's hat, which tha is missing. It not being found, Private prc irdon was sent to the jail to request the .. >ctor to send his bat, thinking probably at ho bad put on Captain Dawson's. Ilis t remained missing until yesterday, when dal outenant Ileidt found it. It was at the wo ttom of the vault in the back yard. Afteriding it Lieutenant Heidt rode over to the il and asked Dr. McDow what he had t0) ins with Capiain Dawson's bat. He un- cai mitatingly told the officer, and said that & , was thrown thero in the excitement of e hour. en The question had been asked a thousand vc mes on the street: Why did Dr. McDow foi tempt to hide the bodyf and this lias one more to prejudice his cause than all >e rest together. The explanation of this i not hard to find. It is the natural im- to ulso of a man when reason is dethroned th y a sudden shock. The Doctor declined jj, imself to make any statements in regard o the matter. A World reporter called on the Doctor ,0 mmediately after the facts stated above had fo >etn ascertained 10 De tacts, out do aecuoeu a talk. He said that be could only repeat trftat be bad already said: tb*t bad shot laplaln Dawson in eelf-defehse, and because ie was attacked. He bad no quarrel with tl 'tfqwson and certainly would never gUmn^^knot myl e an attack t< ^Jo7s*^heary as a policeman's club, baf.WheittaVon up is as light as if it were made of paper; yet a good liek could be hbbwith it. i PPi)r. McDow hoped that the publio would at least do him justico. He asked for no more, feeling satisfied that he was justifiable in the shooting. Chief Golden stated yesterday that after hearing the pistol shot, ho remained sometime in that neighborhood, and that presenty Dr. McDow came out of bis office aad walked to the corner shop on Kutledge street, near his house, and purchased two candles and some apples, and returned immediately. It was then that Mr. Lafitte accosted him with the remark about his hat. It was later that Mrs. McDow came out with the child and went down Kutledge street Miss Smith, it is thought, came out a few minutes before her, and went to Mrs. Gaillord's. It is surmised (hat these ladies in the upper part of the house, hearing the pistol shot, rushed down to the office snd found the doctor and his victim. MiDow's bouso is in the hands of the polico. After the murder was committed McDow's wife, with whom he had a serious quarrel on the day of the tragedy, fed from the house, taking her baby with her. flic IDcelfy Union Hiities R. M. STOKES, - - Editor Friday, March 23, 18SOSUBSCRIPTION, S'2.00 PER ANNUM F08T OFFICE DIRECTORY. Tlio P. O. will be opened for business from 8 A. M. to 6.80 P. M. ' " Tha-Money Order Department will be '" m 9 " *' i? * M. TTjVTjjPimtfcDtiou or irregularities should SJjwported promptly to the P. M. i>?, J. 0. HUNTER, P. M. -ji 8SSF>lUcy. N.vil. Woods, poRtor of the first "5(Ksbytcrian Church of Columbia, | 8 ins accepted a call to the second l'resby- ^ crian Church of Memphis, Tenn., suhjeot ' o the consent of Presbytery. &C&- A man by the name of Johnson L. idnms, confined in the Macon, Qa., jail, a "or embezzlement, actually starved himself n o death, as, he claimed, atonement for his f :rime. He neither eat nor drank from the g 15th February to the 14th of March, when o le died. s ... b Terrible sacrifice of dents, Touths and , Joys clothing at FLYNN'S. The State Sunday School convan- a ion will meet in Charleston Tuesday next, a he 20th inst. il The following delegates from this county " vere elected at the last county convention: V. II. Miller, J. u. Jefferies, S. I. Stokes. * Alternates?1). N. Wilburn, W. II. S. * larris, J. II. Randolph. a Unparalleled bargains in Winter Clothing a nd nil kinds of heavy goods at FLYNN'S. ? g&f Nearly twelve hundred bales of otton were burned last Friday at Oreen- t( ille. A spark from a shifting engine on he Q. nod C. road set fire to a bale almost i the centre of Cely'e platform, and in an w icrodible short time the whole platform j 'as in a blaze, with the Inrgo warehouse ^ djoining. Loss. $52,000 ; insurance, $48, aj W>. BC ; . FLYNN is closing out his entire stock of 1 Winter goods at less than manufacturers be >91. * lit ' * bu Last Saturday morning two freight sins on the Air Line railroad oollided, at f6 loi c Clifton depot, killiog two men outright, tally wounding the third, and seriously juring three others. The names of the ^ lied aro George McDnffie Biggins, white, >n| Blacksburg, and William Rogers, a . lored braketuan. The track was literally ^ rewed with the wrecked cars and mer- ^ andise. The loss to the Railroad com- ^ ny will be heavy. ? < THE DOW LAW COTTON PLANTER A' Is acknowledgod, by all who have used f?m In hft oimr,! ? el-? * *" .?, -- vv .<?> IIIC (lirrsi, UIC st and greatest need saving I'lnnter now Oil ide. They are for sale, by iut 11 -3t FANT&BRO. ?#| WaX" Mri. Vioeent has presented our ctr Bd looking Foreman wiih a handsome wr icimen of those beautiful silk handker- *'D iefs alio has just brought on for sals, and 'nP Hie is awful proud of it. Well, it is truly Pr' ndeomoand Willis knows how to wear it ?r * "1 the best advantage. It's the way the rid is wagging : The Foreman's proboscis encased in handsomo silk, while the P08 itor blows his horn through a 16 eents l'10 on rag. So much for being young and f tular among the Ladies. Jer d Railroad Im> Oar BUoksburg correspondent gives ering news te onr render* along the pro. ed line of the Augusta division of lb* '?. road, and b* is in a position t* know at be is talking about, and will always e tbo unvarnished trutb. Ve have felt confident for a long tint* t this division would b? built, as it w*uld. iv* an important and profitable feeder to i great main line of that road. No doubt i deoision of th* Supreme Court, in Vailing the township bonds, delayed th* irk, but to a oompany controlling almost limited finanoial resources, the loss of th* irnship bonds would b* but an iasignifif,' nt ebslacle in the way of securing such rory important adjunct to the magnificent terpris* in which they have already In-, ated millions of dollars. As our well formed correspondent says, the Augusta vision is a necessity to the 3 C's. road. Now, what are the people of Union going do, in order to reap the full benefits wbioh is increased railroad faoilitlcs will give em T Plainly speaking, does the business me here, warrant the subscription of the wn 10 the road? If we are not misinrmed, Union being an inoorpsrated town, is deeiaion does not afTeot the subsoripon voted bj us to the road. Practically, railroads are only channels trough which communities secure facilities increase and. improve their burinesh^in* rests; and any Community that will not i?tk< ififltfii'' 'he^lQilUies ^hicb ! railroi^ ' will nut heO^^N|HM|^te attractions that wil ring increased populat ion, thrift, pros erity and wealth. In some important localities, ii s true, railroads have slowly, but ory slowly, aided in increasing the topulation and business. It was so a Columbia, Greenville, Spartanburg and Charlotte. At all those points, however here were, in advance, great central one ducational attractions, whioh gave then >rominence ; but for many years after rail oads were built to them they stood stag l&ted, and not until the introduction of nev ndustnoa and a liberal, determined spiril if enterprise and progressiveness wti iroused among their citizens, did thej nove forward and attain the prominen >ositions they now occupy among thi lourishinir. urotrreosive hnninMii ? he country; It is a peculiar foot that sinci he new railronds have bsen built to thosi ities there h?u been do increase in their ed icational enterprises, but rathera decrease vliile many new industrial enterprises havi ieen established and are inereasing yearly ;iving, wherever located, increased popu ation and business, and carrying will hem convincing proof to the citisens that i hey would make their town prosperou hey muet, each, according to his ability :ontribute of their means, and persistent!; idvocate the establishment and support o tew home industries, for the advancemen if all interosts in the community. And to it will be with Union, even will ho anticipated in or ease of Railroad fa lilities. Wo must do something witbii mionlrea>_iX. pJUr? TT we remain idle, wait og for the C- C. C. road to bring ua thrii jusiuc83 end prosperity, our people ma; est assured that nothing will point ou vhere Union stands is on the lino but a wa; taUon, while on either sida of us vtil [uickly spring up new and flourishing towns rith enterprising populations and variet ndustries to attract from us a large share o! he business we now have. If the business men of the town of Unioi re anxious to keep, if not inoreose, the busi less they now have, they must do some aing 10 prevent a urge part of their trad< oing to the one or two embryo towns lying n the C. C. C. road, that aro even aow asuniing considerable business proportions, efore the road passes us. We must not orget that these towns will then be ia a osition to compete with our merchants; nd if they slioujd be peopled by suoh men 8 those who have made Qaffney City what t is, we shall have more vacant stores than re have now, and much less business. Ivery thing appears to be going on briskly rith us now, while we are sending out ragen loads of supplies daily, but in a lonth from now, when the merchants, lerks aod everybody else sto lounging bout, waiting for a stray customer, we ill hear the cry of lamentation go up, no business doing," "Union is a dead jwn." Well, whose fault will it be? The following go-ahead towns have ich an organized Cotton Mill Company, ith capital stock ranging from $60,000 to 100,000: Chester, Laurens, Winnsboro, oartanburg Greenwood, and Ninety-six. In 1 the abeve places tbo stock has been subribed, charters obtained and work on the tildings will commence in a few weeks. We lieveall these milla aro to be run by steam, te the ene spoken of some years ago, to be ilt in Union ; but it is confidently excted that all of them will be in operation ig before the first installment is paid to>rd the Union Mill. Don't be too sure of that, gentlemen. If ? people of this little town should get it O their heads this Spring that a cotton 11 must and shall be built, they would shit through, if no proviso prevented, ey're hard to start, but when they do rt, they, well,?they start. Sorreetioii. In a note from the writer of the art iole in r last issue, headed "A few hiots to the rls," our attention is eallei to the follow. ; error, which the talented author says. iianges the thought I wished to convey end tainly are not my sentiments. What I ote was, "Sensible woraon dislike the e and oak theory of married lire, prefeff; to be led rather than t? lean; but the nter made me say; preferring to lead raththan to lean." t will bo seen at a glance tliar our giftcorrespondent has been placed in a false ition, and it gives us pleasure to make correction. 'LYNN is now selling ladies wraps and seys at less than half price. The Work of t^e Evangelist. Never befogs kw Union experienced uch i (tairtl k4 solemn religious revieel as kas beetK, aroused kj Ike earn eel, eloqaent sad i Spiring presekiag of ike Evangelist t. In Leiteh, who hu labored constantly and fiik untiring seal for three weeks in tke Ststhgdlst ohnroh; and we send tke gral ffjVoR news to every true christian in.thAh|^^1bat Qod has abundantly MeSscd ^yj^ T>ora and through kin brought w3|y|Eili'ts tke foot of the cross, con feseffl^^fi*. sins and professing Mb in the Saviour, Jesus. Oboist to save. j Day and night the church has been crowded .to overoowipg,. sad the interest in the services jrfrows more intense and ferveut as the servlose continue. There appears to be no abatement in the earnest working of the great Evangelist, or the solemn interest felt by the large congregations who daily listen to him. Ti^yrfaasy we believo that Qod is in our midst, calling sinners to repentance, and many hjgeanswered ^"JLord what shall I do to benitved." We rtgrel to ieara that the servioea will elese'noct Sunday night, as Mr. Leitoh has other engagements to fill. Qed grant that the g^jatgTjoO^^ ho has commenced may grow ii Mrendkdn every heart until all who ht^JSjflllsed, and. oall themselves - chn^|^^^^Bfa|ajled to their final re-. have 1 ^W^^tieitch htut' done glorim^wen^^^nT^lown of Union,' for his Lotp and, Master for whioh he can 1 only recoils the tali measure of his reward, when Gol shall say to him, "oome up higher." I i | I After Twetty-Eight Tears, , Sheriff ??ng rsceivei a despatch from 1 Sheriff Pemon.-of Madison Co., Teon., on i the 12th., asking if one "D. E. Jeter was - wanted for murdering his brother-in-law, - Busby, near Saniue, in Union Co., in 1861," r as he was then ib jail t>t Jackson. t After proper investigation, Sheriff Long found that Jeter'had been guilty of the r crime, bat escaped, and returned the folloWf t jng to Sheriff Person: 9 "Hold Jeter till J come with requisition t. -from the ciavaanor. nf South Carolina." - u J ? ?: J- G- Loi,a9 Sheriff Long is now swelling the necessary paper* from the Governor and will probably go fer Jeter in a few days. 8 We learn there are only two or three ' witnesses to -the mnrder now living, and it is doubtful whether there could be ^ sufficient testimony found to oonvict Jeter, although there are hundreds in the county 3 who remember (he murder. The account ' in the Jscksen Timet of Jeter's arrest, rep^ resents him as a desperate character, and his arrest was accomplished by strategy ; the officers pretending they arrested bim ^ under a "peaoe warrant," for abusing his step-daughter, Mrs. Ira Lee. Ia * ~ that we hasVfljrSS county^ "fib1 1 for the office of y. S. Marshal for this f Slate. Wo learn that Mr. J. L. Strain has 1 sent forward, his application for fhe posiV tion, endorsed by some of the best men I in the upper part of the State. Mr. i Strain would fill the office well, and we be' lieve his appointment would give satiafaof tion to the people, if President Harrison decides not to reappoint the present in' cumbent, who .has so faithfully and satis factorily filled that important position the past four years. , ?* 1 . We had a. pleasant visit last Satur day from Mr. John Bishop, of Qainesville, i Fla., son ef our esteemed friend, Jesse Bishop, of JpansviUe, who was on a short k leave of fibeen&, to visit his parents. John is holding a position on a railroad and ttena to think F]prt4a U destined to be * greet State, Notwithstanding the eerioue aet-baek it bad-in a few pleeee leat jeer from Yellow feter, tQu Lest Sundej night Dr. Meedor wee disturbed bj hearing en eotmel groaning gear the bouse, end after satisfying himself that it was net in hie horee lot, he retired; but the next morning he found a mule belonging to Capt Parr, Ijing dead in the yard. Hew be got there ia a mjsterj to the thoughtful; bat it ia thought the animal must hero had the toothaohe. and went to the doctor for relief. Pbayinu Foil Jfc Qood Crop or OrriciHs. ?Washington, March 19.?A peculiar scene was witnessed here to-day. About four hundred raeniber* of the Foundry M. ?. Church held ad assembly in the churoh and devoted *11 to prayer, asking that the President be guided in making gesd appointments fe fill the local offices. An evening, paper commenting on the incident says : "it fs the custom in a great many parfa of litis country for people to congregate at' the churches nnd pray for good crops. In Washington there is but one crop. Offices compose it, and it occurred to thd1 ladies that it would be a good idea to follow the example of tbsir country ooustna. 60 they prayed long and well that the President might be inspired in bis appeintmeots, and it is expected that the crop will be gojd." J -W Tiim Stawpkdb of the Bcomers.?Chicago, March 17.? A speeial from Oklahoma, Indian Territory, aajs : "Tha bsomWe ara roulsd. Liaut. Carson, commanding troop O of the 6th, cavalry, arrived bars to-day from Fort Reoo. Tha would-ba nattlan were warned of the soldiers eoining and Had in ovary direotion. Several hundrfd, bowevar, wara surrounded by iba troopers,- who drove them before tbem like satMe^^ag, - women, children 'and teamsters^n^BW**, tents, dog out claims, foundation!" ikd marks vera destroyed. It is said that Hill bas been arrested. The relit oftanparty will bo oenveyed to the Kansas Una and there dismissed, though their property may beoonfises'ed. Capi. Hayes with a troop la marehing southward from Kansas, and will take all the boomers who may fall iato bia bands to tha Texas line. Tha boomers are damoralized, but it la feared their leadere may rally them, and they outnumber the troops. Serious trouble might ensue." . ' . Kiwi flrom North Futlit Etta Jans, March 18.?Tht equinoctial gale passed o*er this saotion last Friday, and sinoa than ws have baan having Spring weather. BTOrytbiog that oan hold or pull a plow has plenty to do now. . The housewives are no less interested in their horticultural matters. Every ounoe of human brain and pound of musole should bo brought into requisition to tenure the advantages their judlolen* application. w'U afford. The next six weeks will, in great measure, decide the fate of this year's crop. Our people have never gone to work with mora ml ?<) ??? ? 'v ? ? -? ' "" ' ? ?? ? imu a?w. tut IOW prices of everything (hi/ need (uirutiH on opportunity for thorn to got out of debt, hoold they make good crop* aad get fklr prioee for it. Merchants and creditor* hare ooTor shown suoh lenity as now. While we are an orthodox Allianoe man, we are free to admit that the merchants, in many instances, have been the oeuntry's best friends in time past. Tbey hare invested and reinvested their money and staked it upon the worst disorganised system of labor the world ever knew, and have oarrisd men ever year after year in the hope that they would get out some time, Initead of pressing them down and breaking them up. The honest, bard working man was in the same ship with the lasy indolent maq, who oared for nothing bat the presont, to get his living. The Allianoe has brought about a state of affairs in whloh every member is, to seme extent, his brother's keeper, and it mestio enemies.* . < Fools, demagogues, and those who have axes to grind are crying out, "down with the merohant," initead of elevating laber to that honorable plane to whioh it belongs where it can command the respeot of oapitol and go hand in hand with it in building un the oonntry However the meaning of the word or the objeols of ike order may be perverted, the principle of all true men will remain the same, and we hope they are in the majority. Mention was made some time aero about the futility of the stock law. It appears that for at least four mouths in the year there is nothing in it that thq average oiti en is bound to respect. The "oattle of a thousand hills" are collected in this aeotion, and among them some first-elass sky rookets. The farmer whs sows wheat or oats in the Fall invites this torment and, as a consequence, Fall sowing has nearly played out. Hon. A. A. Sapratt, of Skull Shoals, has 60 acres of oats, sowed last Fall, which affords his seolien fine gracing. We suggest that every man or woman whe has a cow sow at least 6 acres of eats in September, or Ootober, at farthest, and then we will have winter pastures right. Our last problem should have read 2J per cent, for dust and waste. Thinking that this week some one will answer the Scripture questiens given in our correspondence of two weeks ago we withhold our answer until next week. Mr. Editor, your giving the "lesson helps" to the International Sunday Soheol lessons weekly, should make your papers - .?si?w mvi} child of such a great treasure at suoh ao insignificant cost. If there is such a cheap man in our county, or anywhere else, 1 would beglal to know who he is, and we will ask the prayers of God's peoplo in his ueuair. We ere glad to note that brother Leitoh'a mission to Union has not been in vain. We have too high an opinion of the people of Union than to think that all the seed sown bj this good man will fall elsewhere than npon good ground. Should we live, we will use our best efforts to get him to vilit our rural seetion during the summer, and we guarantee bim a fair field in which o labor. We feel that ho and the cause he represents will be received with open arms by a grateful people. In his work be has been successful in pulling dewn the strongholds of sin and has ereoted family altars that burn bright with Heavenly light. That this work may go on and on until "Jesus Christ reigns King of Nations as He now reiirna Kin?r nf 8?ii>i? " ?? - ? m? D ?- m out pmjvr* Mr. Leander Prttj and Miss Nannie Worthy were married yesterday, by Jas. L. Strain, Notary Public. This is the fourth time Mr. Petty has been married, and he is not more than 45 years old yet. Widowers, don't be disheartened?patience and perssreranee perform wanders. Vox. Personals. Maj. D. A. Townsend went up to North Carolina last Tuesday on important legal business. Mr, F. W. Moore has gone to Blaokaburg, to risit his brother Thomas, who is leachiog a flourishing school at that place. Mr. Clarence Jettr, of Fish Dam, was in town lost week. Dr. H. K. Smith, who recently graduated with much distinction from the Dental department of the Baltimore Meaioal College, is now among us. We are glad to see you back Dr., and hope you will deoide to looate in Union. Miss Lillie Funek has just returned from Baltimore, where she has been bujring her Spring and Summer s tec it of Miilioery Goods. She kindly showed us through her department, and we have never seen a prettier liae of ladies hats, ribbons and trimmings in our life, tier stook is so complete that Messrs Graham & Sparks wers compelled to move their office from the reer of the store to the front. * Mrs. J. D. Arthur, who for a month has bsen visiting her parents at Hook Kill ? turned home lest Tuesday. Miss Eana Strobls, of Chester, is risiting Judge Wallace and family. Bucxus's Abxioa Salts.?Thb But Salts Id the world for Cots, Brut see, 8oree, Ulcer-. Rait Rheum, Peter Bores, Tetter, Chapped Hands, Chilblains, Corns, and all Skin Eruptions, and poeitttely eores Piles or no pay required. It is guaranted to site Perfect satisfaction, or money refunded. Prise 26 cents per box. For sale by Poeey h Bro. Peb. 10, ly. You can buy a pair of six dollar blankets now fer Three fifty at PLYNM'8. f i * ' ' Km from Sprightly Idtei. Kbltom, March 1*4.?Well, after * hui of wot and slosh, we have weather for wor and the Farmers are taking advantage of to finish sowing oats. Now yon oan he< the g?e-haw in erery direction, preparii the land for oorn and ootton. Farming 1 this neighborhood is earlier this Sprln than last, and from what I see and bear, think the Farmers hare determined to mak greater efforts to make good orops and r does their expenses to the lowest poia They will dispense with pi any luxuries thi heretofore they thougbtr-jrere neoessarie and will lire economically until they has paid their debts and hare their supplies o hand for the next year. Then, with cai In hand, they will see what luxuries the can afford, and be mora careful in buyto) I hear that the amount of fertilise! brought into this vicinity is muoh less thai for years pa?t. Many farmers say the will not use a sack this Spring. They hav more home-made manure, and mast of then will return the ootton seed to the soil t enrioh it. This is a more that will enriol bath the farmer and his land, >n the nea future. Wheat is baokward and don't seem t< grow off well, but that is no sign, at this time, that we shall hare a poor orop. Fall sowed oats look fine, but not man] ware put in ; but a large quantity of Sprin, oats were sowed. ' I think it a good idea to adopt a jrotatioc of feed crops?corn, oats, rye, Kaffir ootn it^will give more fee<\ than two of other oori You oan plant it four times 'as tbiok an the head is almost equal to an ear of ethe oorn. It will grow da land that would ni produce nubbins. Hogs and poultry ar fend of it. Try a patch this yoar. Who the heads get in "roaaling ear" cut tbei off, then cut down the stalks and fee them to tho slook. Permit me to call our worthy Oouat Commissioners' attention to the crossing i Israel's Creek, on the'Skull Shoals roai oomeoody ought to fix it, M it ii in a d ptorable condition. It is ono of the mo important roads in the County, and tl town of Union is deeply interested in kai ing it kept in good traveling order. Gur mails are very irregular. Sometim we don't get the Times until it is four da; eld. Whose fault is it? J. T. A. Matters at Melton. Kkltom, March 18.?As there are many of your subscribers giving their ide through your columns, I beg yen to spa me a short space, that I, one cf your su scribors, though living in a hole in the ba< woods, as ono would say if he should cor and see me at home, I am always eager see Friday oome for I know I will fi: something in the Timis to ohser mo, fro seme of the correspondents. Tho weather has beon fine and the far work has been pushed right square to tl front in this section. Un hill and in va we hear the gee-haw of the plough-bo sounding and resounding from tho ear 1 hours ef morning until the sun has foui his way behind the westorn hills. ' There.has been much said about the u V of guiano, but I. beinv no Vii-mar o*o'( r much about it. A short time ago I heard farmer say that he had not used any f several years, but he intended to use sot this, but he did not know how to get it, 1 1 he had not used any so long that he had i most forgotten what transaction be had go through to get it. Well, I will give hi this advice. It ho has been making i his oompost piles of barn-yard manure, oi ton soed, and pine needles, he had bett do that again. Mr. Editor, I saw in your last issue tk a County Alliance waa organised on the 9 inst. for the colored farmers ef tbe count I |H villi in an a ?Ki? * 0-?? -w bvw hiiv iuwtoujoui aiDVBg IOII for it brings them together, and in unii there ia strength. The colored farmers this section have been meditating on fori tng themselves into an Alliance, but thi have not as jet. Some of them saj, "if 1 form an Alliance we will be imitating t white farmers," Well, if the/ do Imita and profit hj it, I guess there is no obji tion, or there should not be: and as for in tating I can't see whj thej should not, our white friends are ahead of us in mi all things, and if we can profit bj it I o see no good reason why our colored Men should hesitate a minute about it, R. If. F. - -> - Mr. Editor.?Please allow me space yeur columns, to say that on yesterday, 17t lust., we had the pleasure of having wi us the Rev. Mr. Hope, of the Preabyterii Church in this town. The Rev. Mr. Lampley of the wlii Baptist Church had promised to preach fc us, but an arrangement was made betwec himself and Mr. Hope for the latter to fi the appointment. He was acooaspanied fa Mr Murphy, and both gentlemen were oot ducted byjhe Pastor into the ohuroh. Sing ing and prayer wasoonduotod by the Pastor after which tho Rev. gentleman read an expatia'od on iho 8-1 Chapter of St. John' Gospel, which he divided into three parts vis : The New Uieth. Faith and Sanotifiot tion. The disoturse was interesting, in struotiog and edifying. Our doors will b opened t> any of our white brethren at an time who would accept an invitation I "come over aud help t)i." In behalf o the ongroga'i >n we wiuld say to the Iter gentleman, dear Brother, "oome again. C. J Niouols, iMiur a. m. Xj. unurob, Union, 8. C. a Younq Whits mam mas his Throat Ct bt Nkorobs.?Memphis, March 16.?Wi Scott nnd a boy named Qeorge White, h?d row yesterday on the BUnton |Untati?i near Oreenrillf, Miss., wlih Isaao Woe<i and i we women, all oolored. The laUs were armed with knifes and rasors, an Seott bad a shot gun with which he she Woods in the leg. The latter seised him an ent his throat from ear to ear, Seott dylo in a tew minutes. George was also lerriblj bat not fatally hurt. Woods and the wone: were arrested. <e. You eon euro that ''dreadful cough'' by got ting a bottle of cough medicine from J. W Peeey A Bro., Druggiate. Ibey keep a oem pleto lino of pure tnodioinee and druga, an you ean get what you want la the drag lin from them. r -d Joe not the Man?A fioeno with a Cow--Mulo, Rivaa 8id?, March 18th.?Will you plot*, 14 Mr. Edif.v, t: ilhw me sptoe to pay my $8g|IKP&^P ir respeot to Mra. II. A. E., who bos set 90 "' "-^m ,g completely hemmed is under the "pigmy" in leaves of a "Georgia Collar J." J tut how ,g Mrs. M. A. E. maneges to got this aoribo Sap I connected with thia mammoth Qaorgia Col' - & .6 lard, wo aro certainly at a loaa to knew. j e. Tho idoa of any oao boasting on a 9 pound t, oollard 1 If wa had a garden filled with ^ 80 or 601b eabbegta, wo would, possibly, tf mako mention of tho faot. Yon jutTO abot 0 off at tho wrogg (bllow thia time, M.s. K. n Mrs. Joe is phrtioolarly fond of cabbage, ,h and says aha only wishes wo had some to j oat and not to boast of. j. Wo thought our friend' and neighbor .B would hare furnished answers to ??? ' t Vox's problems, bat suppose hs hss preb- '< j Isms of different character to work oat now. e And then, too, ho Is ono of thoss bashful a kind, who don't llko to bars his name In -v : 0 print. This gent isgpt out for onnnlng, I, and oannot be beetea, by say ordinary * r "clod bepper," When others wsre baying mules last year at high prices our friend , hit upon a solution of the problem by pur, chasing a cow, as he calls htm, to work a' * farm. The cow performed mighty # * . on an average. He would the sled, or a wagen, and might put behind him. lie Old uneO^' generally, ded to be hie ewn bess7aadlffl^^^W|l^|^^^H it spet, where he oouid, with comfort and do* ^HB 9 liberation, fan tha flies witk his magnifleent Q itcHchtr, andeOol his parohed tongue with ^^B n the clear water that sparkled beneath his j forksd feet. So, after pioking his ehanoe and on inding himself loosod from the y plow, he made a break, aod through the ootten and down the hill he went, with Mr. ja II., in hot pursuit. The blooded animal e_ had net gone a great way when Mr. H. 8t grabs him by the tail. Now they hare it, i, for three hundred yards and more, over r. ditches, cotton rows, logs and the like. The cow finding no way by which to loose him* ea self from hie determined boas,.hit upan a yt bright idea, and made for a big gully. Mr. H. seeing what was coming and where be waa going to, lightened his grip,'and Wing 4^**" a firm believer in "tail holt,*' want flying 80 orer tha gully with bis "bandanna" to the M braesa and his lags at an angla of about 45?. ro It ia needless to say that, Mr. H. oanse out b' conqueror in the and. Our old friend, Mr. W. J. Moorhead, for08 merly af Mt. Tabor, new of Hiokory Grove, t0 pai 1 us a flying visit on last Sonday. Mr. Moorhead mads no halt at our home, but m seems to bare bad butinui just a little farther an. May bright "jewels" sparkle en 88 his pathway. 10 o'elaak, p. m. good night. !> Jon. 18 It was our pleasure to attend Mr. Leitch's J* meeting at tha Methodist ohuroh on Sonday '7 araning last. We got in lata and found a Q<* orowded ohuroh, in the pews, tha aisles and everywhere, while qnite a number were 88 on tha outside. Wa pushed in, however, jr .uj uiausgen to get a vary comfortable scat 8 near the ohanoal. "r The sermon waa delivered with eharaoter1,8 islio force and to tha paint, and wa sit "it 'or was good to bo there." We enjoyed the 8*' proaohing much; the aengs too; but wha* *? did us more good than anything else was to m see tha noble, big-hearted young men and UP Ladies of Union eoming out on the Lord's ' ride. We ere told thet el thet lime eome r 61 hed decided tojoin the oharch. Mey the numbers be greetly inoreesed. The Lord of hosts is giving eer lo the preyers of the righteous, end Union is witnessing e revly vsl of religion not heerd of before. 00? Jos. ?n i ??? in Tbbbb Yocno Mbh or CnABunra ?Cherlotto, Msroh 16.?Three young men?Welter Brooks, Russell Williems end Jesse Csndle J ?beve jwst returned home frnm~iT 1WV~ re Tork trip whict* hss been e bitter experthe eooe to them. The yonng men bed been led to believe, from reeding eonfidenliel ciroulers end letters from e oertein New ie* York sherper, thet the trip to America's tl- metropolis would be ell thet wes necessery ft M to insure them their fortune. They hed v ... been eonvinced thet their men in tbet oily 'll aan1.| ..j 1j 1 wuiu nuu nouia HOIOkllJ ftVO thfn ODt an thousand dollars for oae hundred. This dt money they were (old was counterfeit, bat oeuldn't be detected even bj an expert, as it was made on Government plates The?e young men Induced many of their friends to resort to the sobetne of doubling their i? tn>aey, and they started on their fortuneh, hunting expedition with heavy > purses. (h Last week they met their man in New York, according to engagement, in a private room. In The nutrt-er and street the young men cannot remember. The money was all satiate fsc'ortly sxchsnged and the boys were very ,r well pleased over their big trade, but when they started to go out revolvers held by six !D men confronted them, and they were oom11 polled to give up their money and leave y quietly. They telegraphed firleode at home to send them money to oobm homo, ^ " <?w*m '* A Public Hardship.?Considerable in > coQTcmenoo n&a Deen oauatd recently by J the failure of (he regular peeaenger trait 8 on the Columbia ft Greenville Railroad te wait on I he regular train from Charleston ?H on the South Carolina lUtlwey. It la rad that if the regular paaaengar train on 4he i- South Carolina Railway is late fire ,e minutea or longer the Columbia and Qreaneille train learaa -Ce'.umbia, and ' the authoritiea refuae to ho'd the ? train until the Charleston train a-r'.yea f The Atlantio Coaat Line train ioe? not ipake a connec^en, and henee passenger* from Charleston te poinjs beyoi^l Columbia on the Coluaabia and Greenville and the Spartanburg and Union railroada ara com* polled to etay over in Columbia a day when the train on tha South Carolina Railway is it fle# minutea lata. Thla la a great inoeoveII nienoe, and ia hoped that the management * ~r >.? j - " - .?? amvivuuu i/idtiik BVrtom Will ?, look Into iho matter and have tho wrong Is remedied. Tht refusal on ?b? part of tho r authorities la charge ofiho Columbia and ? Greonrille and Spaitattbarg end Union dtj !, ? ^ lh* Uharlestaii trait. S uhieh takes puin|tn ererj da/ fbr tht t ud co u u i re. to tho ??? ?r . ..... a i 1 annoyance tod trouble end "it all on Id be n looked Into end remedied .?Sunday Newt. See per Ad. We mean whet we taj. We hare a eorapjete a took of drugg, nod, bealdee, a full Mack of Heady Migod I> ttta. Atf i- one ran apply lb em to kouae, buggy ev d wagon, make your buggy look like new f f e one dollar. Lamp, Lantern*, Lam ye eblmneye and fiurnera at J. W. P08BY A BBO. .../ I