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. k ,>,. , ?r aiATss rwxpT it rous. *7 UlMuroui, April 4.?Daring the lest * two days South Dakota and Minnesota have been swept bj a aerie* af wind storms J which hare caused hundrada af thousands * of dollars damage to preperty aad lha loss af several livaa. Tha atom started Monday Bight and swept arer a large area south , of tha Northern Pacifio Railroad in Dakota and extending in the southern tiers of counties io this Stats. The great eat damage . y has not been caused by the wind alone, but ia many places Ares fanned into, fury by ' tba storms have wiped out of existence people are wiiht?,. ^ dt"0,"k*d and 100 HsfoS "a wv? SSfflii fiy last night. N. h?m b,0*n ???r .u- "uman power could v|> ui? uauico, ma in no nour iut Deal portion of ths pl&ca was one groat raging firo. Nearly two hundred families are homeless, and the loss will fcot up $200,000. Four largo elevators and the Milwaukee dopot were destroyed. Near Dlunt one man lost five hundred head of sheep which were ( caught in a prairie fire. Several head of horsoa were saved by swlnomiog a river. In 1 many places the crops were covered by loose 1 tana and dust and will have to be replanted. Travel was suspended on some lines of road. So great was the force of the wind < that clouds of dust prevented the engineers' i from seeing the track. A report from Oary says the sun was almost totally obscured and the superstitious thought the end of the world had come. Farm houses and barns were swept away and horses and cafc>- J tie were burned to death by sjaftSr"'? ' Near Millbank 50 he^J ~flt^liTS stock are reported lost andjjyg-fi7e swept over twenty ^?j^^Jj*J2^lrJ^caueing immense losses. ^^^^^"TEeTformhls abated somewhat but the wind < is yet high enough te keep the fires burning , fiercely. A dispatch from Yanton, Dak., says: The records of the signal office show 1 * that during the prevalence of the fires in I this region the humidity wa9 but seven per i cent., a condition of dryness, Sergeant Os- ( wald says, never before attained in this region. The maximum humidity is 100; mean annual here 70. This shows that the atmosphere was almost devoid of moisture. 1 The velocity ofthe wind was forty-six miles ( an hour. The lessee in South Dakota will , foot up $2,000,000 at a lew calculation." St. Paul, Minn., April 4.?A Pioneer ' Press T.ake Benton, Minn., special says : I "The most devastating ptairie fire ever ( known raged over the prairies west and north of Lake Benton Tuesday. The wind was a hurricane for nearly Iwcnty-fcur hours and swept the fire along with resist- j lets force, passing the widest fire breaks as , nothing and leaping plowed fields with a ' Hound. It licked up bouses, barns, slock and in some places human lives. Ihe greatest destruction of property and loss of life is in Dakota. Kce Heights, a town west on the Northwestern road, is almost destroyed. Dempster Station, on the Watertowajirancb, is reported destroyed. Spauldings ltancbe, near there, is also reported consumed. Crossing into Lincoln county, over a tract of land comparatively liulc settled aud covered with a heavy growth of grass it swept on with renewed severity. AJgckson, Minnesota, special says : The prairie fires prove more general than at first believed. Additional losses are reported from all directions and messengers bring news of stubborn fights to save endangered property. Fires were ragiug in every direction, and each seemed to pursue a distinct course of its own. Afire which would have swept this village from the face of the earth has been traced to its origin. The search culminated in the arrest of James Travoick. >Vben arraigned he pleaded guilty and was sentenced to pay $25 and costs or in default thereof tiO days in jail. Much dissatisfaction is folt at this sentence. Public opinion is that ln?i>c: hz." feces too highly tempered ,-n with mercy. No prairie fire in the history of this part 1 of Dakota equals that of Tuesday. In this v ccuoty the leases are much less than in the u counties in the west. 1 :?- . ? V What Doctors Sat.?Have used B. S, 8. y iu treatment of blood taint with remarkable succes. J. Wilit Quilliaxs, M. D. Easley, 8. C. ? 1 have used 8. S. S. for some time in the treatment of blood poison without disappointment. Physicians will be compelled ' to acknowledge its -merits. ( N.L. Galloway, M. D., Monroe, Qa. I have tried Swift's Specific in a very bad case of Blood Disease, and take great pleasure in saying it Nvas a perfect success, producing a complete cure. 1 have also tried 1 it in many other cases with good results. i J. 11. Yeijion, Millsap, Tex. j 1 have used Swift's Specific in my prac- j tice for some time, and find it to be all that , the proprietors olaim for it. D. M. McK,mgut, M. D., Magnolia, Ark. 1 1 have taken Swift's Specific for Secondary blood taint, and derived great benefit. It 1 acts much better than potash or any other remedy that 1 have ever used. , D. P. Wikufield, M. D., Richmond, Va. Swift's Specific is entirely vegetable, and cures by forcing out the impurities through the skin. Send for book on blood and Skin Diseases, mailed free. I THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO. | Drawer 8,. Atlanta, Ga. . . '' ' i 1 Dbinkixo Kuirbd Him.?Washington, April 4.?A braver soldier ilian Marcus A. lleno never graced a battlefield. But the mail who esillll f?<"? Ihn nm.nl> 1-t " without flinching fell before a coinmea i enemy. Drink ruined him. Iu 1876 he was with the Seventh Cavalry iu the battle of the Big Horn, in which Custer was mas- ' sacred. Because he failed to cross the river 1 and go to the rescue of Custer charges of cowardice were preferred against him, and he was tried by court-martial but honorably ac- i ijii.tted. frhtn this tttrie dates his down- 1 tall, which has been almost us rapid as his i pi emotion. lie became dissipated, and i % hile diunk insulted the wife of an officer i t the post where be was stationed Chsr- ' t*s of conduct unbecoming an officer and a ptutlemau were made, and he was dismissed Horn the army April 1, 1880 Since his last i dismissal from the service Major lleno mar- i i .oil a charming lady at Jlarriiburg, l'a, hut she could uot tolerate his drunkenness :>nd cruelly, and the mairiage was severed i v a uivorte. Aiiuougn ins ueain is attni uud to erysipelas, pneumonia and cancer, tie physicians do not conceal tho fact that tt.r reul cause was oser indulgence in liquor. A Ookstion or Ltncu Law.?Columbia, S. ( . ApVl d,?R- A. Lynch, Ksq , librarian of ti>i' Supreme Court aud the Kditor of the t;? umbia Kccord, will bring suit for libel hgiunrt the News and Courier for $26,000. 'li.c ill eged libelous words appear in an edit i ni in the News and Courier to-day. Afier eii.tit'g that Mr. Lyneh has been librarian oi the .Supreme Court for number <t years the article saya: "We beii? i* that in the course ef his prefaaaional i?i? he has nerer pleaded a esse in court.? > asr.ijj/ /A fimtltt Vs errm i * A 1 ft km shoops Fbsiqiit W beck.?Nash v l.o l e:m., April 4.?a collision between lieipbi cars occurred Ibis morning at liri.aii ? Ours Road, three miles from this c.t; . eii the Nashville and Decatur Railroad. j?utii n ginss and sixteen cars ware totally ? inked. Kroesl C. Green ar.J M. L. Eby, ? !? > ? en, were killed. Albert Fiocb, firetu-.u v. ;n severely hart. The collision was e*Ub??rb|^inituadersu&ding of orders. tlnion limes Editor 1 12. 1882. svbscrirngar, 12.00 per annum vm OFFICE DIRECTORY. The IY O.J Will be opened for business from 8 A. M. te 6.80 P. M.1 n i The WoDf^Pfaer opened for business from 0 A. M. The Northern end Southern mails will both oloee promptly at IP. M. Any inattention or irregularities should be reported promptly to the P. M. J. C. HUNTER, P. M. A meeting of the Board of Pensions will be held next Monday the 15th of April. We do not presume to be a prophet sr the sun of a prophet, but we predict uin in fa? ? ?1 1 ? l. ?.4 r ?- *? ?VU %*mmj Of ?uu IUOU 1UVE UUI> J VI A long spell of weather too wot for farming. For the best and cheapest line of Dress Goods, white goods, trimmings and laces, go to GRAHAM & SPARKS. > SECOND-IlAflD JUTCHES.?i' have just rsceiygjpf lot of good second-hand WtTfches. in good erder, which i^will Bell cheap. K. W. TIN8LEY. H-3i - ' ' ? We hope our new correspondent, May," will often giro our readers the pleasure of hearing from him. lie is a good miter, and is always on the progressive raia. It may do some good if our people were taught to by those living at a distance tee themselves as others see them. We are requested to announce that Messrs H. hi. & J. Cohen have arrived with in extensive stock of general merchandise, nhioh they will epen up in the Colton store :e-morrow Saturday. They propose to sell at be very lowest prices, for oash, and invite everybody to call and see (hem. Mio. ?,?ll 1 ?? Messrs OH AH AM & SHARKS, has astonished the ladies this season with low prices. She can suit any lady in a hat, and will guarantee her prices as low as any in the State, call and sec her. 8Qk_ We are always thankful when a lubacriber calls and pays bis subscrip* Lion, but when a man sends us a draft on a banking house in some distant city, for the unnll sum of $1.50, upon which we hare to Jay 25 cts to collect, our thankfulness is at least 25cis short of its accustomed quantity and quality. ?# Kir Scourged Savannah ! Hardly had he embers of the terrible fire of Saturday lied out, when another fearful conflagra ion aroused the people of Savannah. On Tuesday afternoon about 3 o'clock, the Sa rannah Cotton Mill caught fire in the male oom, and in an hour nothing but the bare vails cf the building wcro left. Loss $100,KX); insurance $49,000. Mr. W. Fowler Hobo met with [uite a seiious accident last Saturday, rhich may result in injury for life : He vas coming to town it) a buggy when the oule ran away end threw him out. On Tuesday Mr. llobo was in town complaining cry much of his side paining him, and ras fearful that he bad received some inernal injury. We sincerely hope liis fears ire gruuuuiess. ? > To get the prettiest and cheapest line of nillinery goods in towu you should go to illAHAU & Sl'AUKS. . . ?er For a few days it seemed that March had determined to invade the prerogative of April and intended to "0111 up" its blustering didos during this month, as if it was sorry for behaving so quietly during the thirty-one days allowed it for such antics. Last Saturday and Sunday it blew an almost continuous gale from the Northwest, making it very unpleasant for any 0110 to be out doors. It did no uiscliief, however, but coming from the great snow itorin in the N. W. of tho day before, it was uncomfortably cold and disagreeable. Last Saturday, during the heavy ^ale of wind, a fire started in the most business part of the city of Savannah and was not got uuder control uutil it had destroyed more than a million dollars worth of property. The historic old Independent Presbyterian Church, built about the yoar 1755, and rahnilt in 1818. aud the beautiful Odd Pel. lows Hall, almost new, were among the most noteable buildings of the many which wero .destroyed. The fire started in a show window in D. Hogan'a dry goods store, No. 1G3 lSroughlon street. One of the clerks stepped into llie window to light the gss. As he did so a gust of wind blew the flame against same light material. It ignited and in almost a flash the entire window was in flaires. The window pane was broken in the effort to stop the fire. The wind fanued the flames and carried them into the store. In a moment the entire front part of the btore was ablaze. Thero was a rush for the doors. No time was to be lost, but all of the employes got out, lu ten minutes the4 flames had communicated to the second story and then all hope of saving the building was gone. The detailed accounts of the Are occupy from two to three columns of our daily exchanges, and is quite too long for publication in our weekly, thtrcfere we can only give a bare statement of the tad calamity A Pbominkkt Mason Hanos Himself.? Eaton, I'a., April B.?Jacob Bandt, Eminent Commander of (be Hugh He Payne Comroandery Knights Templar, committed sui oide at his homo hero this morning by banging. The act is believed to have br^n dup (o melancholy over the return oJKn old sicknets. lie was in the grocery business, and was one of Eaton's most respected citizens. Di'cklbm's Arnica Salvk?-Tits Dxst Salvk in the world for Cuts, Bruises, Sores, Ulcer-, Salt Hbeuro, Fever Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands, Chilblains, Corns, and all Skin Eruptions, and positively cures Piles or no pay required, it is guarantied to give Psrfeot satisfaction, or money refunded. Price 2* cents per box. For sale by Posey & flro. Feb. 10, ly. .... . v. *2- i. / . V v' V- .' A;V. "if* Doiage Around Towm. Three ciioles of the order of King*! \ Dauglilere ha?o been formed by the Lediea of the congregation of the ohuroh ef the Nftlivllv tnH from ?K?I ? * ? v " ? n w V?u 5?*U?I , IIVU1 private "graveyard" talk, they hare "oul out" a good deal of good christian work for each member. * Wo attended the solemn tervloes of Baptism and receiving into full memberohip Ol the Freobytorian cbureb, eighteen persona i last Sunday week. It was truly s solemn ofe. casion, and made very impressive by Uh ' fact that S. am- Weber, Ihi beloved venerable Paktor of the Methodist church, and Rev. B. C. Lampley, the eloquent pastor of the Baptist church assisted their younger brother, $ev. S. R. Hope thi Pastor of the Presbyterian church, in the interesting services. It was an occasion that deeply impressed itself upon out heart, and made us feel that "it was good for us to be there." Last Sunday Dight Rev. B. C. Lampley baptised, by immersion, twonty-four new members to the Baptist Church, before one of the largest congregations that has assembled in this town for years. We regrot that we were unable to attend, for we feel a deop interest in suoh important oooasiens, as they give the best ejtdenee of sfe increas_ing sound -feligioua sentiment in the communiiy. Mr. Lampley is becoming very popular with all denominations here, and wc think he will do much good for the cause of Christ and in purifying the moral atmosphere of the community. ) f The Clifford Seminary la steadily tnoreaJt ing in the number of its pupils. We see new faces brightening its columns every week or two, as they maroh before our door to ohurch, or around the campus for bsalth and recreation every morning. We wish it had, as it deserves, a hundred bright faces in its raaks. ?i . i ... I.S_J AUVIO 10 UVk O UVUDV VI muj A1UU UVff being built in thia town, and if it was net for the necessity of taking down a part of the front of Dr. Gulp's former office to make it Becure, we don't think there would be heard tho round of a trowel or suffioient work tt keep two good oarpenters at work in the town of Union. The present fino weather for firm work keeps tho thrifty and honest farmers from the tewn. consequently our streets look very much liko Sunday all the time, and the merchants are looking sky blue, but hopeful that in six month* from now they will be busy again, gathering in the shekels from their country customers. From what we hear we are ne worse, in that respect, than almost every other town in the State. Scarcity of money and business awful dull, is the cry everywhere. Perhaps Union will have a boom when work commences on earnest on this division of the 8 C's road. We are watching for it, and intend to do all we can to catch it at the first bounce. At present, like everything else around here, we ere forced to etend still, or give force tc thegenerel exclamation, "Oh! bow these Editors are given te lying." We have not heard anything from the Doard of Teachers Examination, but suppose it wus aii rigut and all the teachers were satisfied, if the Board was not. B>Op~ The County Farmers Alliance had a full business meeting lost Friday. Not being of the initiated, of course we are net permitted to know what was done. We have no objectioa to thus being left out ia the cold, so long as the farmers hang together te help themselves out of the slough of debt and despondency in whioh tbey have been floundering for years. Gentlemen, you are doiag a noble work, not only for yourselves but for all classes and conditions of your follow-oitizens, and that not only for the present but for all future time ; and when you die your children will not complain that you left them a heritage of debt, barren old fields and slavery to capitalists and soulless combinations. Raise all the supplies that can be raised on your farms, bring your store trade down to a cash basis, and you will cut with a many-edged sword, t. t,, buy cheap, control, in a great measure, the price of your cotton, reduoe the price of money, force capital into public enterprises, restore confidence and inaugurate an era of sound prosperity, in wbioh all men of thrift and enterprise with limited cash capital will be able to participate and enjoy as well os the moneyed men and men of extensive credit. You are on the right track now, and we hope yon will keep it. Let honor and integrity be the corner-stone of your organization, and "weed out" every mother's eon whose conduct, either in or out of the Alliance, would cast a shadow upon your good name, and you will do more to cerreot the political, social and business evils new existing than anything else we oaa think of. . Prize Declamations. The scholars In the High school and Grammar departments of the Male branch of the Union Graded School* will give a public exhibition in dooiamation iu the Court House, this, Friday, afternoon, at Z\ o'olock. There are a number of good declaimers among tbe boys of the Graded School, and Prof. Rolfe bas taken great pains io train, ing them in this very important accomplishment in every American boy's Eluoaiion. Prizes will be awarded by a competent and disinterested committee of gentlemen, to the best declaimers, and the boys are doing their "level best" to "make their mark" upon the rostrum to-day. Nothing would give the boys aod theii able and faithful teacher more pleasure and encouragement than a full bouse to wiinesi end epplaud their effort*, end we hope thai every person io this community who feeli an interest in me education or tbe youth o tbe country, and can possibly ba there, wil entourage them by their preoence. A Smash in Shirts.?New York, April 6 ?Complete surprise was occasioned among merchants-engaged in tbe sbirt trade thii evening by tbe announcement cf tbe fail ure of i?owns A Finch, shirt manufacturer! at 48 and 46 Leonard Street, having tbrei large factories, one each at Jamesburg, por dentewn and Heightstown, N. J. The firm was regarded as the leading one in the man' u fact are of fancy shirts in the United States Tbe liabilities are slated at between f400,. 000 and $600,000 and assets much greater, The threat fiiBM of ^fig&swe. . * Mr. Charleo 8tate. Or. ganiser of the S^HAteaperatroe, paid j i Union Divielon ^MPViiit last Monday ( i evening. Ho JHn pivioion was the f t Banner Division BPjbU. both In the t eharoetcr of Its tnflHuii In Its work, j It |ives as plsoo^P^^Ho that the Division hero is UaflMjj^^H oondition. At , ' the last quarterly of tho offioore { eleeied are youn^ I^^Mch speaks well for oor town;and-I^^^Hlg men should < > receive everjrOiicolMBut at tho hands Intemperance ^^^^reat?t evil with ' whioh the ohUrob r?d Society havo to oon- ( i tend, and Ufe orOr^wsy to annihilate it, is j i by inoolootingt^Mperanco prinoiploe in the ( rising geaeraion; and one of the meant of j accempliehbg this is to throw a sooial re1 straint awund them, by giving them eome place of tJWing resort that is attractive and ( free frcA otil influences. You as people are bound to havo amueo- , ment.^Ud ir they cannot find it in In* soeial oircl^ they will seek it elsewhere. Oftentime# young men fell into vice for the want | ef proper inftoenoes thrown around them ( awii congenial places to meet- socially once | ink while, and ft know of no organisation ' eotslde of the sacred pal* of the ohnreb, that is better site to exert this inflnenoe than a sooiety having for its object the in-, culoating of ttu^erauce. It aannot be denied that ninc-rafitbs of the failures in life ' and business oanjbe traced, either directly 1 oriqdifectly^ uClye J every organliauef.tbat has for IxWlyect the suppression of intemperance aiiould meet with the hearty approval and enoouragement of every christian man and woman in the community. /. A puree of fifty! dollars, by private con Iributions from mfmbers of the Division and th? citzeos generally, was raised and turned over to Mr^ Douglass, te be appropriated in organising Divisions in this and other oountiee of; the State, aud shortly a County organiser will go into the field for that purpose, in this County. 1 ?. BA, Last 8u&day while Miss Bessia Farrar's Sunday Sohool was in session, about miles from her residence, in Pinokney township, the school was enteredby one George W. Fowler, of this oouaty, and a man by the name of Perkins, from Virginia, who attempted to take from the sohool by fbree om?- of the soholars, a boy about 12 years oil ] the son of Perkins, who, with his two sisttrs, sometime ago ran away from thtir father, because of ill treatment, and pat themselves under the care of their unele, Mr. J. C. Farrar, who is also their trustee. The boy stoutly restated, and declared he would "rather die than return to his father." Mr. 8. 8. Farrar, ihe little boy's cousin, happened te be in the room at the time, and I wham Fowler attempted to take the child he interfered and foroei Fowler oat of the house. Finding, tbemaelTes foiled in the attempt to kidnap the child, they got into their buggy and drove off at a rapid pace. The excitement in the school was so great that it had to be dismissed, and Mr, Farrar auu his sister returned Home, with the frightened child and bin ajptee. - ? .* " j %e are told that PewTns and Fowler were intoxioated at the time, and one of them used very profane language in the preeence of Miss Farrar aod the children of the ohool. If all is true that we have heard absut the affair, it was a great outrage, and the parties ooneerned ia the attempt to kidnap the child and disturbing the echool should be made to suffer the very extreme penalty of the lew for euoh offences.'; Personals. / Mr*. M. L. Gage, her daughter Miss Blauehe, and her granddaughter Mis* Bessi* i Roberaon, have returned trove a very pleasant trip to Jacksonville *nd Ft. Augustine, Florida, much in proved in health. Mr. Geo. W Meacher, of Charleston, is visiting the famil/W Mr. J/Q. Buebheit. Mrs. J. D. Arthur returned home fron Rook Hiil last Saturday. Judge W. If. |Fall*ee, left for Aiken last Sunday whsre he opened oourt on Monday, Miss Annie Jeter, of Meador's, was in town this week visiting friends and relatives. Harry Thompson of Spartanburg is visit iog the family of Mr. II. F. Scaifo. Her. Tboa. II. L?itoh, ?id Mr. Marshall, i passed through tbis place last Saturday, on their way to Spartanburg. A large crowd of ladles and gentlemen Were at the depot to greet them. Mr. David Greenwald, of 8p?rtanburg, was in town Tuetday and Wednesday, displaying a fine lids of Gent's clothing snd Famishing Goods. Revs. B. G. Clifford and 8. R. Hope and Mr, W, A, Nicboleoo. are attending the meeting of hqw in seer sion at Spartanburg; _ Hkavt 8sow 8roew?.?Pittsburr. Pa., Aprilfi.?The heaviest snow storm "of the season is prevailing in tbis section. It bo gan about 10 o'eloek laat night and has been snowing erer sinco. Tbe snow fall is about eight inches up to o'olook this morning, but in tbe mountains the railroad men report front eighteen inches to two feet. Charlc/ttsville, Va? April 6.?A hoary snow storm is prevailing here, accompanied 1 by thitadsr and lightning. Charleston, W. Va,, April 6.?A snow storm prevailed here last night. To-day beary snow is reported from the mountains. Beady to Mass Piss Straw Baooimo.? Mr. J. 1). Stanley of Eaetorer was in tbe 1 city yesterday and stated that he had so far i perfected the machinery in his mill there that he was now turning out a ton of pine straw fibre a day. Tbe fibre Is ready after passing through his machine} to be worea f into eotton bsggtug, "?(?., dbd one ton of I fibre wilt produce ab^ut a thousand yarda of bagging when wotha. Mr. -Stanley already has several looms ready to begin operations end will s*oa bars' several mora. ' Kach loom aan turn out about 600 yards of bagging per day.? Rtgiitef, 71h. A Salsno (Col.) paper says :&Tbe strain are literally awaruilag with eea Hone, and tbe fishermen aro having % hard struggle with them. Out of sixteen salmon la a net Tuesday only tws war# (Seared by the fisherman, tbe tee Hone eating up bofura heir eyes the ether fourteen, besides teartng tbe net to pleeea.. 7 - ; m ^ 7.,.y. y.y* , Jonesville News Johbsvillk, April 8ih.?Our town is eery lull just now; owing to tbo fiat weather hs country people Are very busy with their hrms. The merohantlikes to sse the Owner ufl his farm at this time of the year, preparing and sowing, that he may reap tbundant harvest and be able to meet him eilh a smile on bis cheek and his peoket wok in hand in the fall. Well, this is all right and proper, for the good book says, no man llveth to himself." 1 intended to write of the late Sunday < School Contention jfcdhe Bapii?t 4>h.urch in ^ tor town, but the Secretary gaee a full aosount of it last week. The Secretary of the loneention did meet Telephone and shake Ills hand more than once. I attended the :oneentloa from the first to last and enjoyed it very muoh. Especially did 1 enjoy the preaohing of Mr. Lampley, the Baptist n inister of your town. Mr. Lampley is a man >f fine intellectual ability, with more than jrdinary physical force and the two combined makes bitn a power in the pulpit. He iiu not attempt to preach flowery or eloquent sermons, but simple, plain gospel truths; neither did he preach of himself or the creed of his ohurch, but Jesus crucified. Such a man is destined te do muoh good for his Master's Kingdom. Once more in regard to our publio roads. [ think the better plan for working them would be by taxation, or in other words levy a tax and hiro the labor to work the roads. 1 am of the opinion that the lax ihouid be raited both by a poll and property , ta&; thesf it would bear equally upon Slr^-ag.r us?upon the poor man only by his poll, and the property owner by both poll and property. It occurs to me that one dellar as a poll and a light adralorem property tax would hire the labor and keep the roads in much belter condition than they are. I expect there are some who will differ with me on this subieot. but we are not all of one mind and it is best that we tfte not. One night laat week some ef the young folks and a few of the elder ones had quite a nioe little mqsioal entertainment at Mr. T. L. Haines's. It ie wonderful to hear how much music the boys can get out of the little Frenoh liarp, especially when it is put in combination with the guitar and reed organ. Mr. W. S. Foster, of Cherokee County, Qa., is visiting relatives in Jonesville. Kev. C. R. Willeford and his kind social ybung wife remained over from the convention during last week with friends in Joaesville and vioinity. Mr. "Seaton," from Paoolet, one of the Timcs correspondents, was in Jonesville yesterday. Mr. "Seaton" really has a han-. kering for Jonesville, and who blames him ? A drove of Texas ponies passed through here the ether day, and Messrs McWhirter & Crawford bought two of them, and sueh another time they had lassoing them. It was such fun for the boys. I just thought they would never break those ponies during life, but before night Jim Deroh was riding them through town as though they had been ridden all the way from T*tu, The Texas Pony seems to be gaining faver in this country. I shouldn't be surprised if twn ?r three of your enterprising citixsns bought up a drove sosn. XaxsraoMS. m Hows From the Pea Ridge City. Keltom, S. C., April, 9.?There is not much news in our little viilstre this week. The merchant* are beginning to sit in their tore door* and giance anxiously up ond down the Road for a 'stray customer" and the farmers of our vicinity are very busy preparing their lands for plauting. Have not heard of an y one planting any cotton seed here yet. A good many of them have planted a portion, if not their entire corn crop. Our Kelton "doctor" is looking rather "blue," from the fact there i* at present, very little or no sioknes* in our community. Our young fiiend J. J. Spears, wh* ha* reoently been appointed a notary public, performed his first marriage oeremony last Sunday afternoon. The happy couple who wer* joined in the hely bonds of matrimony were Mr. James Fowler and Miss Sallie F*wl*r, daughter of the hbnored Lem K. Fowler. May joy, peace and usefulness attend the happy parties through a long life. Rev. D. P. Boyd delivered a very earnest and able sermon, last Sunday morning at Foster's Chapel; taking his tsxt trom Nehemin, ehap. iv, and tenth vers*. "The strength of the bearers of the burden is decayed and there is much rubbish." Mr. Editor, we are very much, "hop* up" with the prospect of the Augusta Division oftheSC's Railroad being speedily built. We hop* there will be less talk and more work. "Cata." Sooiety Hot** of HeltonAlthough the Union Timss has two or three correspond en ta from Kelton, yet I friief f h A P.ditAP will ma If ? rnnm fnr anath ae who wishes to make knowa some of th? lit* era;;, ??>?? and official proceedings noreabouta. The yoiyig men of the peighborhood have organized a Literary Sooiety at the School House. One of your I^elten correspondent*, J. T. Allniano, is President; Mr. J. II. Foster, rice-President*, Capt. J. C. Otts, Secretary; and h|r. J. J. Spears, who is also a Nofary Public, treasurer. The sooiety meets semi-monthly. They met last Satur day night and discussed the Lien Lew. One of the first official nets of Notary l'ublie Spears, was tying the hymenial knot. Jae. Fowler, Esq., and Miss Sallie,youngest daughter of L. K. Fowler, Esq., were the oontraoting parties. The happy event ocourred last Sunday at the resideaoe of the bride's father, Another one of Pea Ridgo's young., men holds a public oommission. Oar euergetio yonng friend, Capt. J. C. Oits, has been appointed deputy organiser of the Stats Far a 1ST ntt /I ?-t J * a ui?ra Aiiiauu*. aiio i/spiaia piwca inrougn Kelton one day last week. He didn't tell hi* business, but we understand since that he organised a Farmer's Alliance at Pinckqey, with Mr. J, A- Chambers m President; Mr. J. D. L. Qoing as Secretary. That's right Captain; don't atop until you get erery worthy farmer in the county into the Alliance. Ksi/ros. .. v .... '''* ~ / Kiwi from North Paoolet Etta Jams, April 9.?Row. J. W. Query will preaoh at Salom nest Sabbath, 14tb inst?two sermons. We are glad to learn that Mrs. T. 1:K Uughea, who went to Atlanta a few weeha ago for treatment for eanotr, is getting along all right, and expeota to be home eooner than aha did whan ahe went there. The cancer la aloughiog oat and glees bar leaa pain new than formerly. May her brightaat hopea be fully realised ia our earn eat wish. We have received aa a present, half -a bushel of "Hollla'a Storm Corn." May the donor lire in peaoe,~ plenty and pleasure until hla bat orewn oawee in and maahea every bone in him. Our Sabbath School at Salem (Presbyterian) Church re-organised last Sunday and began work with the old oorps of offioers and teachers. The same seal and Interest that has been se oonapiouous heretofore was plainly manifested at our first meeting. A contribution box will be opened in this achoel for the benefit of the Thornwell Orphanage at Clinton. The noble work of this institution commends it to alt Christian associations, where they can cut their bread upon the waters and gather it after many days. me wwmer at present is oooi ana arj. Wheat and oata are needing rain, and the ground is getting hard. Our farmers are generally well up with their work, and a large area ef eorn has been planted. The recent cold snap hasn't hurt the fruit, yet. Vegetation' la growing off ftnpVjy^ TKa'lTHl HDip-po6r-will'of 1 The season announced hia presence laat week, and the cooing of the dore reminds us that planting time is here. The Fowler boys are putting up some splendid buildings on their "King place." They arc first rate workers and hare made a fine impression on the people of this community. Such people are always welcome in our midst* The tempest atill rages in our matrimonial tea pot, and the indications are that it will continue, for awhile at least. Our friend and neighbor, Mr. W. C. Kirby, has the finest cow we know of. He haa refused $40 cash for her. She is a amoke house within herself. Mr. Jerome King, of Wilkinsville, at well as C. M. MoK., in last week's Times, has answered our problem of two weeks age ?6 6-0 is the answer. In what part of the old Testament is the 1 scriptural quotation found in this week's International Sunday Sobool lesson T Some of eur Qreenville friends are cackling over a large hen egg they hare found We have had scene in this county equal t< that, and haven't made a bit of fuss about It, either. Our overseer, Thomas Millwood, is tlx champion snake killer of the season. H< slaughtered two "big una" in one day, and it a poor day for the business. Vox. Mtrmoxu Among Us. Obimdall, April 6- ?Through the median of our valuable oounty paper, I wish to o?l attention of the good people ot this oounty to those scalawags oalling themselves Mormons, or Latter day Saints, who new infest this portion of the oounty, endeavoring tc make proselytes among the uninformed and oredulous part of our oltisens. We hare been hoping for sometime to gel rid of them without saying or doing any< thing, for we did not think that any would give oredenoe to the flattering lies they teach ; but such is not the case and we hear they are making some converts. Suoh a thing we cannot stand. Tb< infamous scoundrels are walking about ih? county imposing themselves upon the poor people, who have to make their living by hard manual labor and buy on time what they eat. The example they set before out young children, and their infamous treat ment of the women that join their so called church, is enough to rouse the indignation of all good people, and we, Mr. Edi i?r, propose o siana 11 no longer. Among us we have churches, schools and everj other facility for the worship of Qod, th? training of our young ohildren and thi protection of the virtue and honor of out women, and wo need none of the lying la' famous Mormoqs auioug us, whose preach ing and teachings are as widely different ai the pelee of the earth. Nobtu Pacolkt. Wedding Belle at RiversideMb. Editor.?Mr. L. Askew, the Mt Tabor merchant, was joined in the holj bonds of wedlock on Sunday last, to Mist Lila Baldwin; Rev. Raohford officiating Miss Baldwin is a very pretty young'lady with a sweet disposition and attractive man ners. May a happy and prosperous futurt be their lot. Mr. Frank Ivy was also married to Misi Francis lialue (be same day; Mr. W. M Vanderford officiating. Now I bear that Aunt Jane and Use!. Vard are going te marry, after living to gather fox 30 years. Aunt Jam ays she has tbe -ligon' now and will maki Unele Vard a true and devoted wife?sh will be what a good wife ought to be. Tbii seems to tiokle Unole Vard very mach, and he says it takes two to make a match. A heavy white frost on tbe river threaten tbe destruction of the fruit orqp, Jos. #. Rookk A. Paroa a Dsvrrss.?Columbia April 4.?The Abbeville Mediuas of to-de; gives editorially tbe following iatereatinj account of the manner in whioh Gen. Roge A. Pryor, who is new predicting the Re publicanism of the Southern States, hap pened to relinquish his Southern oitisen hip. "A short lime before the fall of Peters burs he oame to the nloket line of MoGow an'a brigade aod croaaad over, pretanalvelj to gat nana about tha Yaakaaa. II* watec a nawspapcr at a Yankaa oAoar. Tha/ ma batvreen tha linaa aod ooovaraad for torn lima. Pr/ar looked arms with bim an< walked into tho linaa of tha eoemr. Hi turned hia back on #14 Virginia, hit am Stata, and ever/thing Southern. Ha la? hia paopla in the darkeet hour in tha faoe o tha Anemic, who ked their qannou traioo>1 on the any, where ha left hia wife. W< knew tbia to be true, for the editor of tb< Medium wrote eat for Oeo. Lee the full par tioulara of ble deeertien aa it waa narrate bj Lieut. Boeder, ofOrr'o Hi flea, who wat in command of the pert of the pleket lim where the deeertlon teak piaoe." "?HIW??n?s m as i b Our Hew York Letter. Nsw Yokk, N. Y., April 9.?When a person baa been residing for a long time in one email onmmuniCy, nrr.>iin<}ed by the toniliar landmarks of childhood, jogging contentedly along in :be old ruts that Grandpa's wagon made (and some of us wear- . ing Grandpa's bat, too,) it is a revelation ' as well as a surprise to go abroad, seek socae large and modern city, pull out our spyglass and "take in the situation," as it were. To a groat many of very good, honest, going people, Dnieb is the oenter of the JJoireroe, and everything of leaser itaper- ^ taaoe revolves around it. J As a good old lady down on Browm'8 Greek onee remarked, after she had been having some misunderstanding with her neighbors: "Union is the worst State in this % country, certain I" However, I know by tk.t Ike Unawanl aI.I |IVr9UU?l OA|>m IQUVV, ?h?? ?uy sgeevaweaaw ??? lad/ was mistaken in mora ways than one. Bat bless you I you oen't imagine how small aid insignificant wo all are until you put on a pair of long distance spectacles and gasa in on dear old Dixie through a North* arn window. I know one or two men who often made the remark : "0, Union never will amount to anything, so I'll invest my money In a Spartanburg factory." Or "Union is a good enough place to live in, and that is all we enght to expect." Those men are the bar] naoles of prosperity! 80 long as they flourish the town wilt deoay. Do you know that enough Unien county capital is invested i in Spartanburg factories to build a cotton fkatoryin your own town ? Union is undeubtedly "a good place to live in," but "living" is very little compensation to a . mm who wants to thrive; Our merchants 1 and farmers don't want morely to eke out - nwo/sftfintlm litinw ihntr utntt# in mairn ?m provements, inorease (heir facilities for trade and production, and better their conditions bj uuooessful efforts. You can giro some colored men (and white men, too, to their shame be it said) a "jailer" hound dog, meat and bread for subsistence, and a bale of coiten to spend at Xmas, and, in ins opinion, he is "wealtbj and prosperous," but always on hand again the first day of t January to be "run agin on de orediek." Got. Lee said lately in this city (and created i a great deal of harsh comment) that "this is a white man's country;" but it bide fair * i to beoomo a "poor man's country," if we don't help ourselves more; and you know i poverty knows no distinctions ! I see that Abbeville and Laurens are going to build small factories to begin with. I think this the best plan. I am confident enough capital could bo raised in Union > County to build a yarn mill, and eventually t it could be enlarged to any sise that its future success might admit. Several Northj ern men of capital informed me recently, i that investments in cotton mills in the South [ were considered very profitable, and stock was not readily to be obtained on account of the great demand; but they could not be expeoted to go down there and inveit in 1 factories unless certain of the full co-op era ' tion of the oitisens of the South, and sufficient contribution of capital from them te show an evideaoe of "meaning business." It is hard to believe that millions of dollars ' are lying idle in savings banks up here, bearing from 8 to 4 per oent. interest, when money is hard te get at 10 per oent. in our own section. ?viiu proper iaducemenl and enoouragement much of this capital will some day bo infested in Southern an* I terprises, and Union must be en the alert ' to receive her proper ratio. I will close by just stating the fact that 1 Harrison's inaugurstion has not heralded ' in an era of prosperity yet, bul there is no reason to believe that his administration Will have any appreciable injurious effect on Southern prosperity. On the whole, no ' ? must credit Mr. Harrison with "shelving Blaine," ^jad if ho is independent enough to face parly disapprobation in that score, it is not to be feared that he will be influenced by the "bl >ody shirt element." At ? all events the South will "wait and tee"' ' and hope 'or the "good time coming," ' political schemes to the conirsry octwith- j ' standing. Jav, " r Swtrr Justik in York. ? Yorkviile, A pril *.?unaries Colston, John C. Fenster nod 1 Charles McManus were tried to-daj for the murder of Mr. W. C. Abernalliy. The c?ae was submitted without argument. The jur y remained out six minutes and returned a rerdict of guilty as to Charles Colston and J.obn C. Fesster ; not guilty as to Charles Mo.Manua. r Jackson Harnett, the other York Cxinty , prisoner, brought from Columbia yesterJay. pleaded guilty of an assault with criminal intent. The Jenkins Rifles guarJed the jail ail last night, aooompaaied the prisoners to end , from the Court House te-aey. But liit'e danger ie apprehended as the people ere satisfied with the ve rdict. 1 1 'JL K Tick OaasTesr Anti-Psrioiho known iq the medical profession is quinlue, the hose t of which is the Calisayabark of commerce, . This berk is gathered by the natives of 9a.|(i. - 1 a a- j uvutit awvuvttu vuuuutvn uua jHjriru ' all parts of the world for Ibo manufacture >' of quinine. "The servant ii n>t greater 0 than his master," and it stands to reagia , that the extiaot has not the eur^i^tra pow* . era of the original. There }s no more ef- gt fective remedy for malarial disorder* fl known to the world than Dr. Weetmore, ^ 1 land's Calls?ya Tamo, wbioh oiotains a safn floiency of the f arsst bark, and all dleordera ef the system arising from a diseased liver readily succumtf te Its Influenee. l'hls great medioine is for sale In every drug ? store in the town at 60 eents and $1 a bottle , f k ACONVMTTOTBt JltWIV* FA|m.-~-C<>V abia,8.C., April 2.-~Miaa Camilla Plexolto, * the pretty thirtoen,year-old daughter of a wealthy Hebrew here, eloped last April with William. A MoCartha and wu married, ha hies by a Baptist preacher. The girl wan . the pride of her family. and was as earned r by them as dead. The bousa was drapsd I in mourning and her funeral aerrio.-s cow. I dueled. MoCartha' consented a few days . ago te join his wife's church. and 1 o'oloek I yesterday bo did so. Kabbi B. Ruben, of t Charleston, officiated. , Last night he was remarried to hie wife I In the honee of the bride's father under the t name of Abraham, and ther# was great re-. I joioing among her people and many were ejk , the wedding feaet. '? w *1 Soddbx 1) math .?-Anderson,, it C.; Apr) I A %l-i ? ? i,?m^jar revrera a rroafotol eitiiau of i thia oeunty, dropped dead a few miles below I here yesterday afternoon. Heart diaeas* was the oaoae.?Q****viUt Newt.