The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, October 25, 1889, Image 4
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THE BLACKSMITH" AND THE D
Adwdr tin' daisies she nmliil down.
And. plucking one tiny hud.
Khe peeped through her lashe* of
At It* beautiful crimson horeL^fred
Then shaking the dew from iyjr
% Hhe IiTunI it up to h*r \\\r*Jtr
And whispered his name blond
As tho bloom on Its fj^^outfc;
Jlflirn*'!! hand
"t lore. J lovy* nmrffU.th.
As the breeze hpn the brown hand twined
1 love, LlovoU^pf l?.r Kiinny hair;
WW" raiiK tho t< !!?< wind,
of the whispering rair.
Ttirou^^
'"TlHyllflhy wns borne away
XfldTihiftorlrio girlish brvai U
^Tmtigh smith amlhil its It coyly lay
^fTic crease of Ills 0|s-ll vest
It were gracing the loneliest place
the forgo where lie gnyly toiled;
(^*1 It smiled through tliu smoke with Its sweet round
' I Till Its leaves were all smenri d and soiled.
Up went Ills sledge with n right good will.
Then down with a merry clang;
Louder, and "louder, ami louuer sun.
^ A* ho whistled the times she san^.
lie tossisl his crisp lock* as ho fondly cried:
.. "How lm|>py tills lolling ulll^e.
When you. love, aro tending our own in^leslde,
. Aral waiting, my darlinjt. for inol
"TlironRli the lights ami shadows of forty years
1 see you with wrinkled lirow;
Ah. lovelier far: though your face appears
More Krhve and more thoughtful than now.
I steal to tho window, and softly tap,
Wlill*you smile in your low rush chair.
In your modest kerchief, yoiw smuv white ca;\
And your halo of dear i;ray hair."
A rush of wind, and the daisy lay
'Slid the dust on the smithy lloor.
Never to welcome the soft eyed day.
Or the i:o:ijj of the hlaekldrd more.
But the tiiaeksmltli lifted the faded Ihlnj;,
8a) in;;- "Little I thought thai litis.
The most common (hover of the field, could I.ring
Such a vision of perfivt litis* "
?Fauny Forrester in (.'handlers" Journal.
("1111 llwellers.
One of (lie most attractive portion?
of Colorado, if not iii tlio entire west,
is that part of llie stale in which art
found the clitV dwellings of a lonjr ex
linel i"icn Tlio ilislriot ill wliiel
those ritiiiH are located rovers imi are:
of nearly (l.Odt) square miles, chiellj
in Colorado. but which includes liar
row liolts in the adjacent territories o
Hotv Aloxitvt, Utnh and Ait/ona*
T\io ruins of this icjpoq, like nms
others of the oxlremo west and south
uro tho remnants in a i*roat mea'c.m
of stone slructurt s. ft is evident
however, that a k'real eoition of tlx
villa,tos ami dwolliinrsol the lowland;
which comprise this district have hen
of material other than stone. Ire
quenlly, donhth ss, of rubble am
adoho combined.
Tho eliIT liotiscs conform in shape h
the tloor of the niche or shell' 01
whieli they are built. They are o
firm, neat masonry, and the niaiiuc
in which they are attaelx d or en unite*
to the eli lis is simply marvelous. Thei
construction has cost a * ;>'; t deal o
labor, the rock and mortar of wliie!
they are built having been bron?*h
hundreds of 'oet up tho most preeipi
tons places. They have a much mor
modern look than !!: valley and rav
remains, and are probably in yema-a
mom recent, belon^inpf rather t?? lit
close (ban to the earlier parts of a Ion;
period of occupation.
. , .?? ?J miv nun injtucriotr
burlaw places of tho northwest. 15uti
is quite improbnblo that any dertaij
lipfit will ever he thrown on (ho,orif*ii
ot this curious raco whichl has jusi
been described, or their 'history.?
Cincinnati Commercial Osteite.
p.L y
It Wtkn a JoUcu: :.
Saloon Keeper Michael MeUugh, o
G."S Washington avenue, Brooklyn
received a small packngo froin a boy
who said he was asked to deliver,iib t<
hi:n by a man who met him neap tin
saloon. On opening tho packngo Mr
McIIugh di covered a cigar !.ox will
n sliding lid. inspecting lhat it wa.<
unitifcinal machine, lie laid tbeb<>>
aside without attempting to move th<
lid. Francis Stone, a vonng customer
however, picked up 11 so box and gent
ly moved the lid. As lie did so ther<
was a spatteringof exploding matehi"
in the interior, hut nothing mounter
riblo than thi cccarred. There \yer;
pieees of broken glass, cotton w.t t(
ami what s-eined to i e powder in tin.
box, and also a small vial tilled witL
some black snlv.tarce. having a nivs
terious wire attachment. Police Captain
Kennv became the custodian of
tlio mysterious box for the night, and
nej:t morning it was placed in thy
hai>ds of L>:\ Kent, the chemist of the
board c.f heallli. .\n examination
showed that the black stnM' it tlie vial
was iincturo of iodine, and the s;ij>posed
powder (lis? s;T.;pin^s lumi
emery paper. The 11*11ii:?. was entirclv
harmless. A note I.? Mr. Meliusli,
which ;:!?; ..11i?d t!t? iio.v,
was signed ".lark l! i?ip; r." New
York Sum.
.\ llrcum T!i:it W.i i ! nliiUet!.
"Talking of dr< am > :i I a jfenflonwti
the oilier <1 y, "i ! ! a <1 ream
which, wliilo net eiu ii.n > i:i it a-if, revealed
a singular s< ,;? ?>f thou ;ht,
an unconscious c< retention, if 1 may
so speak."
1 dreamed (!.;.! i ! ;o': my wr.leh out
of my pocket ! > !. > k :.t t lie Imnr and
found that it had .1. ! < \amincd
it and di-.-ovi rt ii 111.:L the main
spring was hroken
There v.. ; i..?i*.t .* ;eninrka'. do in
the dream, hat ti.i : \ as in tin: sequence.
lu ti.o men.he; v hen I
looked at i iy wal'-ii > n the dressing
ease it had stopped at : .:e h.our of II.
I had retired at 1'. and 'dm in :in sprint;
was broken.
1 had wound my v. a.teli ju -t before
retiring. 1 am a t lotaler and inv
l. i i.. 'r*. .
iuiiii i i . V.' V. . > ii<; I II*.
or intimation to make irrdtva:;! t,l*;??.
event v.n.? so rare, am! I ennin<t
understand !) w l!:e coiueidrneo
penod. \\ lial 1 would lik. to know is
whether tin* dream occur:vd at tlio
same hour the 1 ir. t of lay * loop?
when the watch slopped or how hit
mind was put in eon.innnbulion w'.tli
an event that in my busy life was almost
r. calamity. I have tins interpretation
of the inv Irry to (he society
of psychical research. - Ivtroit Free
1 Yeas'
Important Kvlclonco.
A man in New York who was badly
mussed up and disfigured in a street
row had a photograph taken of himselflwliilo
in that plight to present as
ovidcnco beforo tlio court. There is
no inoro veracious witness than a photograph,
and after scanning the pic furo
of a badly misused man it did not
tako tlio jury long to decide the r u.?
in liis favor. Photography is a useful
art, and it ia constantly realizing new
possibilities,?Chicago Herald.
ORY OF TELEGRAPHY.
^ ^rlral rhfnnmma Noted n. C. COO.
'^eproRrcM of Discovery?Tho Telephone.
* Six hundred years B. C., Thnles, of
Milctc, noted tno electrical phenomena
and developed by friction upon
amber; 200 years later Plato theorized
upon electricity, and A. D. 1522 Martinigo>
a Venetian, tho engineer in dofenso
of Rhodes, npplic<l 0110 end of a
drum head at tho end of his countermino
to discover tho vicinity and
direction of tho enemy's underground
galleries, an.l thus, by utilizing tho
molecular disturbance of tho earth in
sound waves, conceived tho lsisis of
telephony. It was not, however,
until A. I>. 1000, that Von Gucricli
made f!ie first maehino for generating
frictional electricity, nor until A. I>.
*i...< n-?i <i?> r..?i Hi?.*
fractional electricity would pas*
through i\considerable length of \virt>,
and could therefore l?o utilized for thO
transmission of signals. To Wood, of
England, is therefore duo the honoi
of lirst suggesting tho feasibility of
electric telegraphv.
/V. D. 17115, Mursrhenbrok, CJc*many,
invented tho I>oydcn jar, by
wliirli means fractional eJe^rieity
could bo stored for experimental ]>urIioses.
A. 1). 1717, Pr. Watson, Engami,
erected the first telegraph line
between Shooters Hill and London,
and A. I>. 17511, C. M. (believed to ho
tho initials of Charles Matthews) nublislied
the manner in which ho had indicated
tho letters of tho alphabet
through a system of twenty-six wires,
by fractional electricity. Paring tho
latter lialf-of tho Eighteenth century
inventors of all nations endeavored.
by means of two or nioro wires and
fractional electricity, to transmit intelligence
between distant places; but
it. was not until A. P. l)?tX>, when
* Yolta proclaimed his own and Clalvani's
prior experiments in the produe?
lion of ehemieal electricity, that electric
telegraphy. as now developed, bci
eamo practicable.
i A. I >. 1811), Oersted (Denmark) discovered
that, a freely susnended tna<r
neti/.ed nccdlo would move to the
f right or luft, i'1 accordance wit It the
polarity of u current of electricity
t through an adjacent wire, A. D.
1820, Arago (France) discovered tliat
j wlien a bar of soft iron was wound
with a copper or insulated iron wire, it
j became ainagnet whenever a ctirrcntof
electricity traversed the wire, and was
i immediately demagnetized (or nearly
!- so) when tho wires wi re disconnected
1 from the source of current,
A. 1). is:w, Faraday (Fnglnnd) disi)
covered that when a coil of insulated
ii wire was placed adjacent to, but not
f connected with, another coil of wire,
r [ through whieh an intermittent current
1 of electricity was passed, induced curr
1 rents of increased intensity and alterf
' nuting polarity were developed in tho
ii ! imattoeneil eoil. Also that the movet
jnentof a perinanent har magnet withi
in a coil of wire, or the movement of
0 :m elect ro-magnrt near tlio poles of a
permanent magnet, woidd develop cur
1 runts of electricity. To the foregoing
o rudimental discoveries of Galvani anu
r Volta, Oersted, Arugoand Faraday is
tho world indebted for the, numerous
s nun \ v < 'oils' ftrst concept ion of nil
t' elect ii>-tclegraph, A. I>. 172(>, more than
ii h century claused before Oooko and
IVVheatslono (Knglmul), A. ]>. 1837,
t adapted (Vrsted's discovery of A. D.
- ??jU>, to tho first practical and cominorcially
successful system of what
Inay he termed visual electric telegraphy
; anil some months later Morse and
f< Vail. I niteil sa-pM-, adapted Arago's
, ! jliseovery of A. I). 1820, to the first
, 1 fcvstem of recording electric tclegraj
j bhy, VnU being the inventor of tho
j dot and dash alphabet,
A. 1 >. 1 S.'ts. St. inbiil. (Jpriiinnv.
i kdaptcd ( lorsted's discovery to (ho Hi st
i* recorded system of sound or aural tcle:
i- graph v, s.ml lint iitili/.cd tho earth in
3 i. lieu of a second wire or all meUtllio
circuit. It is by no moans certain that
' ' there is any cleetrio current (lowing
3 | through a wire, or that n wave of
, electricity, like (lit* waves of sound, i
traverses it. It is simply a customary
, expression to indioate a dilloivneo in
3 and around a w ire to the conditions in
, which said wire was when no elect rie,
ity \>as present in rl.
A. 1 >. Wheatstono invented
the step hy sten:t 1 j>11;tl> *tieal indicating
I telegraph; anuA. 1>. 1S|S, ] louse, England.
invented the alphabetical tvpo
, | printing telegraph, which was suhse,
rpientiy improved upon hy Ifughes,
Kngland. A. I >. blti, Maine, England,
invented (ho eheniieal dot and dash
recording telegraph, w hicli, combined
with "VVheatsloiie's automatio transmitter,
is the most rapid method of conveying
intelligence in present operalion.
Finally, A. 1\ 3V^T(*, Moll, United
States, invented (lie telephone, and by
accomplishing th < lectrical transmission
of speech, thus attained possibly
the highest degree of perfection in in1
tereoniniunieation of intelligence.?
V. W. Crisbonie.
Tlie Newspaper of Japan.
A Japanese newspaper is a very
difl'erent thing from what we are accustomed
to liml on our breakfast
tables. Our last page is its lirst; its
columns onlv run half the length of
(lie page; it has no such thing as head
lines or ''scare heaths" and its titles
run from top to bottom instead of
across; it lias but a few rough [illustrations;
it prints l'ew advertisements,
but 1hoso are paid for at a comparatively
high rati?; its price is low,
ranging from 1 to 2 cents a cony
ond from "5 to f.o cents a month;
j and it knows nothing yet of sensa,
tionnl advertisements or limning
! i. ..t - i; > ?
i . r> ?.-? uiLiis luui iiuiiMir iicre? 1
' tug do." In general, its scale is much
more that of tin; French newspaper
than of the world moving monsters of
! London, New York and 1 'hiladelphio.
The only evidence of it that one sees
| in the streets is the newsman, troti
tin^? along with a bundle of neatly
folded papers under his arm and tmliouncing
his oassage by the incessant
tinkling <,f ji liitlo hrnsi bell tied to
his wjustband behind.?Henry Nori
nuui in Philadelphia Times.
Thunder was a Confederate i
prison at Richmond during tho civil
war, in which civilians who were suspected
or known to he in opposition to
the insurgents were conlincd. The
building was originally a tobacco fac- J
tory, and was burned early in Septciu- i
her, lST'.b
William C. Fiskc is to resign his seat
in the Stock Fxcliango uud sell tlio
same to pay a claim of $f>,00U which
W. (}. Fish holds against him.
A SHORT LIFE AND A HARD ONE.
flow Car Home* Are Bought, Broken,
rutrtu-d Up and Retired.
"I should r.ot havo thought It would
havo paid to work cripples." I romarkcu
to tho driver of a Third nvenuo
car on which I rodo down town a
few evenings since. 1 referred to the
near liorso's hind legs, ono of which
was ornamented witli a hugo flannel
bandage, whilo tho other foot seemed
in tho dim light swollen to on abnormal
si/.o and to bo parting from tho leg
at tho hock.
"lie's not lamo," returned the driver
nlTably. "That's a. boot lio's got on
his near foot. He's had a quarter
crack, and tho thrush, too, but ho
came out of tho hospital a week r.go,
and it don't seem to troublo him much.
This road don't work no lamo horses.
Just ns soon as tlioy show any signs of
weakness tlioy nro sent to the hospital,
and tho best veterinary surgeons in
.1 . ,_i? ? r ...? ?
uiu ?-<mmry [miviiva vjii up.
"I supiioso tlio hospital is nearly always
well filled,** I suggested.
."Why, of courso it is," said tho
driver. "This work's tcrriblo hard on
a horse, mainly becauso of these
cursed stones. Our teams don't have
very long trips and they'ro not pushed
hard either, but tho stones wear 'cm
out in a few years."
"How long docs n liorso last at this
work?" I inquired.
"Thrcoyears, about," was tho reply.
"Some of 'cm go on for five years
with patching up, but that's tho extreme
length of timo that they pull
cars. Wlion tfcoy have been about
two yeni-s at tho work their feet get so
sore that they have to bo turned out.
Tho company has a stock farm In tho
country where tlioy aro taken, tlioir
hoofs are pared, and after running
around nwliilc on tho soft ground they
get hard and fit to corno hack to tho
stones again for a time."
"Where do railroad horses como
from?" I asked.
"Mostly from tho west," said tho
driver as he put tho brakoon hard and
cumo to a standstill whilo tho original
fat lady from a Bowery museum was
hoisted on tho car and paid her fivo
o mortnl r\f nWlinOl'V ftmi'l*
dupois. "Hut they buy horses all
over," he resumed, as the car started
again after a huge straining of tho unlucky
quadrupeds who felt tho increased
weight"No,
there aro not many really
sound horses come into car stables.
Tho buyer in tho west takes a carload
of horses, and after picking out tho
few good, sound, business liorscs, selects
a lot of good horses with just
some trillo wrong with 'cm, which ho
calls 'st rectors,' and sends them on to
tho city for tho cur companies. Then
a lot of horses are pickecl up cheap because
they have somo small ailment
or blemish which tho vetcrinarics succeed
in curing. They build 'em up.
jus you might say, as good as sound
'una."
"How aro tho green young western
horses broken into car work?" was my
: next queryt and the driver half sighed
as ho replied, "Why, right hero in
tho cars. Haven't you over noticed a
toftirwy *V; ?? * tttWBoy 1 Hrcon "horses
aro awful scared of tho elevated road.
They'll keep looking up and staring
all around to (Ind out where tho noise
comes from and sometimes they'll
just stand still and shiver with fright."
"How long docs it take to get them
used to it?"
"Oh, about two weeks. A car horse
ought to be pretty handy at the end of
that time. It'll tako 'em six weeks or
two months to know tho hell, but after
mat taov ll opoy ttic bell quicker than
a green driver. You'll seo a now man
fail to put the hralco on quick enough
sometimes when the bell sounds, but
his horses will stop and tho car will
run right on to 'ctn. Ilorscs nro quick
enough to learn, but I guess their days
nro nearly over. Electricity is bound
to do away with them."?New York
Herald.
Oriental IJrljjnn?la.
Wo have before referred to tho caj>turo
of brigands in tho mountains of
tho Juchow Prefecture, Jviangsi, and
their conveyance to tho capital of tho
province, Nan-ch'ang Fu. Of these
prisoners, one was a brigand "lieutenant,"
another a sham "sergeant,"
whoso cvidonco was very useful, as
from its strictly corresponding it was
certainly not made up by them. There
was also a little silversmith's apprentice
only 11 years old; this hoy was
employed in a shop at Ilut-pu Shi,
and his master on joining tho Koloa
Secret society took him with him.
gavo him a letter and a dagger, and
sont him homo to -^lis father ami
mother to tell them that now he had
joined the llui, they need huvo no
that soon (hero would ho a great rebellion
and (hey should lay their plans
and bo ready when it came.
Tho boy was intercepted by tlio
agents of -tho government wlnlo on
this errand, and his father and mother
quickly hearing (ho news caino weeping
to Nan-chang Fu, and saying
(hat of four genera(ions (his lad was
(ho last and only descendant and had
been inveigled into tho conspiracy
through his ignorance. Another prisoner
was a tailor who worked for
junk and sampan men, and against
whom no true evidence was forthcoming.
All of them declared that they
* ? ? *.i >.v y
wcTunoi. jilhjui'.iuu'u wmi <.>110 uiioiner.
?Shell Vtxo.
1.4-stcr Wnll.h-'.'s (irrnl Memory.
Somo time after mv father's death
I was requested to play Don Ckesnr,
a character ho had made peculiarly
his own, and of v.hieli ho was tli'o
original in the English language. It
was fourteen or Jifteen years since I
had plaved it. and 1 said to Mrs. Waliaclc,
"flcforo I look at I'd ; part again
I want you to soy if I remember anything
of it." I not only recollected
the words, but I did not miss a syllable.
She laid down the book in porfcct
astonishment. It seemed to come
upon mo directly, as though 1' had
performed it the night before. This
gift of 1 icmory lias been always of incsti
tnablo service to inc.?I xyster Walluck
in Scribncr's.
A Sijtilrrrl IImiiOiij
t.Wnvell Wbi'more, a C'ojorckio
farmer, has a remarkable eat wliicls
s""u -. to bo an unusual and valuable j
o-e\ It not only catches rats, mice,
bird:-, eie., but slaughters such g^hie
ai eliipuiunb.s, gray squirrels, rabbits
and iiiu.d;r<ts. 'I lioeat lias been named
".Mike." Tho other day Miko brought
to tho b<>u.so a lai ,0 livo snako about
tit t < oatid oiio-lial I net long, liamllingit
with apparent ease. ? Albany Journal.
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FULL OF THAHKFULNE8S.
Tho BaMlwt TofU Why *11U Hevt U
lliifTlntrt Mth Qntltiidfc
"Thankfull _Gh, m Tve got a i
heap to bt^$kqkfnl for. I'm just 1
biling over with gratitude," said a Bon '
Joaquin rancher who had just stepped \
out of a lawyer's offloo on Montgom- i
cry street "Look bore, young man, i
did you owr try to run a ranch with
ono pair of mules anrt a mortgagel
i No, Is'pposcd not When 1 took up
my quarter section I had to mortgage
it to start The first year was a bad
ono and tho-wheat crop failed. Thon
I had to go into dobt for seed and
grub, and fiio interest piled up on the
mortgage. I've been wrestling with , ;
that mortgage ever since, but it downs
mo every time.
"Last spring when tho wheat conio
up it looked first rnt?, and my wife
and I watched it growing as you'd
watch a youngster, if you had ono.
Wo worked hard, got along without
holp most of tho time, and went to bed
Eluinb tuckered out every night. Wo"
oped to get a little ahead of tho mortEgo
this year, but it would have to
a big crop and a big pricQ to pull us
?? ~r t\,? iw.l?
VUW v/l fcliu ll\MV.
"Well, tho crop was just fair, ftags
cost n good deal more than anybody
had a right to charge. taxes were
high, and 1 have pot only a middling
prico for my wheat. While wo were
waiting for harvest time wo used to
figuro up once in u while to seo how
wo'd como out. My wifo would be
tired most to douth with her work, for
you must remember that a woman's
work on a ranch whero sho does all
tho cooking,' washing and mending,
and takes care of two or thrco children.
isn't any picnic, and my back
would bo aching liko I was breaking
in two, but wod just sit down and
figuro. It was closo calculating, but
wo allowed that a good price for the
crop would just about ruako both ends
moot for tho 3*oar.
"When a letter enmo up from the
commission man telling in ten words
that all our year's toil was going to
bring us only debt and tough wrestling
for grub over again, wo just
lookcfl r\t our . roughened, stiff-jointed
hands and wpudcrcd whether It waft
worth whi 1,0 raising stuff for other
folks to cat, and going hungry our
selves.
"It just meant that our backs had
aclicd that SQmebody elso might hike
things easy. It meant that the kids
would havo to get along with tho same
old duds for another yoar. Do you
know, it seomed to mo for a moment
that it I took a shotgun and went out
on the stago road 1 wouldn't be doing
any more than tho chaps who livo on
mortgages do, and, mobbo, it would
bo just a littlo squarcr and more manfashion
way of getting what doesn't
belong to one. Still, as I wasn't
brought up to that business, I didn't
think of it long. ,
"You work hko a Chinaman nil the
year, work till you acho all over, raise
wheat enough to feed a small village
for a year, and then find that you've
dP'tfOTihlfaifcot any
use to anybody, hand over to him the
money that your wifo and children
need, almost get on your knees to beg
him for tho favor of being robbed by
his mortgago for another year, ami
tell mo if you /eel your heart just
burslincr out of Votir shirt. witli r>iv?- I
miscuous, all round gratitudo."?San
Francisco Examiner.
Oriental Economy,
The okl Mussulman Justice, tho justico
of tho "Arabian Nights," was administered
by a cacli according to his
innnto notion of the fitness of things,
modified or confirmed by a more or
less appropriate text from tho Koran.
In criticising native Justice wo must
bear in mind that tliif system existed
in Egypt within tho memory of a middle
aged man. In Bowring's report
upon Egypt, published in 1810, ho
gives various instances of this,
and exemplifies Oriental notions
of justico by a conversation lie
relates between a Mohammedan
and an English traveler: Governor?Is
it true that you in England
send your tliiovos and rogues to
a distant country? Traveler?Yes.
Governor?And what mav bo tho cost
of sending each ? Traveler?Perhaps
?100, or 10,000 piastors. Governor?
And what is the cost of a saber? Traveler?About
?10, or 1,000 piasters.
Governor?And what is tho cost of a
hempen rope? Traveler?Almost nothing.
Governor?And you call yourselves
n civilized and an instructed people,
you who can get a saber for 1,000
piasters and a rope for almost nothing
?a saber that would behead many
rogues and a ropo that would hang
many thieves?and who pay 10,000
piasters to get rid of onol This is your
civilization. ?Tho Fortnightly Review.
tor Xicld'H Co!:'.,
The winter waves have laid bare nn
old wreck on Seven-milo Beach, which
tho imaginative pdopli/of that charming
old island tlnnk may be ono of tho
late Capt. Kidd's fleet. Somo sanguine
souls aro devising a sclicmo to
dig about the old sand preserved skeleton
on the slv. in hopes they may unearth
somo of tho long sought doub- ,
loons said to liavo been buried about
tlio island hv that well renowned
myth, the pirato Kidd. There is evi
uence 01 some tugging during me pre- i ,
vailing moonlit nights. A heap of j
romanco clusters about the old
weather beaten cedars, sand hills and
valleys of this famous beach.
From Cold Spring inlet to a point
off the Sea Breeze hotel there are tho
remains of seven seagoing vessels.
Some of them yet have their masts
standing, while tho hulls that support
them arc buried in tho sand.--Cor.
Philadelphia Times.
An IClcctrlo Accumulator.
Tliogrowth of tho olcctrical industry
in a direction in which less has been
done, perhaps, than in some others, is
shown by tho formation of tho AngloAmerican
Electric Light Manufactur- ;
ing company of Now York city, for
the manufacture of a storago battery
i which they believe to havo many
j merits. It Is claimod that tho nccumu- j
lator they aro making requires no i
; washing out from tho timo it is started
till it is ready to bo thrown asido; that i
it will last livo yeara, which is guaranteed
by the company; that it will yield
I 90 to 92 i>er cent, of tho current put '
into it; that it will not bucklo or break,
and that it requires no expert attend- i
anco.?Scienco. * i
TAX NOTICE.
[WILL o^en the D>oks nt my Office, nt
Union C. II., S. U., on the 16th day of
October, 1880, for the collection of the
r?xes for the fiscal year, conmieuciug Norember
the 1st, 1888, mid will remain there
mtil the 21th day of October, after which
ime I will be at the following named places,
it the time designated below:
Union C. It., Tues lay, Oct. ^loth to 24th.
West Spring*, Friday forenoon, Oct. 2otb.
Colciaiuc, Friday afternoon, Oct. 23th.
Gibbs'T Saturday forenoon, Oct. 2'olb.
Cedar ICulf, Monday afternoon, Out. 28th.
Cross Keys, Tues lay. Oct. 29th.
Minler's Store, Wednesday forenoon, Oct.
SOth.
/<?1._.. 11:11 r..,Un.,n? n?i
31st.
Fish Dam, Friday, Nov. 1st.
Sauluc, Saturday, Nov. 2d.
Union C. II.. Motnl iy, (SalesJoy,) Nov.
1th.
Mt. Tabor, Monrhcal's Store, Tuesday,
Nov. 5th.
Kclton, Wednesday, Nov. Otli, and Thursday
forenoon, Nov. 7th.
Gowdrysvide, Friday forenoon, Nov. 8dt.
Kendrick's ShAc, Friday afternoon, Nov.
Hill.
WilkinsviMc, Saturday, Nov, thli, and
Monday, Nov. 111It.
Draytonvile, Tucs lay, Nov. 12th.
Timber llidge, Wednesday forenoon, Nov.
13.
Asbury, Wednesday afternoon, Nov. loth,
and Thursday forenoon, Nov. 11th.
Jonesville, Friday and Saturday, Nov.
loth and 1 'itIt.
livery male citizen between the ages of
twenty-one and lifiy years, except those incapable
of earning a support from being
maimed, or Irom other causes, and except
those who ate n-1 exempt by law, shall be
deemed taxable polls.
I'ersons who wish to pay taxes on property
in different Townships, will please so
Btotc when they come to fay their taxes,
and thereby save trouble.
1 would finther state that on information
obtained from ntr Honorable llepicseutatives,
their wiil not be any ?Ktension
of time for the collection of the taxes
this Fall ; therefore, I beg that all of our
citizeus will cotuc up promptly and pay
ihcir taxes before it is too late.
TAX LEVY.
Tor State Purposes f?l Mills.
For Ordinary County Tax DJ Mills.
For Fust Indebtedness...... .. i Mills.
For Interest on K. 11. llomls, 31 Mills.
For Itct ring ' " 1 Mill.
For School Constitutional tax, 12 Mills.
Total Levy .. lf>.{ Mills.
Hcspcstfully,
J. U. T. SCOTT,
County Treasurer.
Sep 1'0 :*?S 7t
J. V. POSEY 4 BE
? . M A4 a? w a H ??
PURE MEDICINES, DRUGS,
CHEMICALS,
TOILiT ARTICLES
TIIUSSKS. SIlOULDIIlt 11 ItACKS, &C,
READY MIXED PAINTS,
VVIHTI* liKAD, LINSHhlI) OILS,
TURPENTINE, PUTTY, WINDOW GLAS,
PAINT BRUSHES,
CIGARS AND TOBACCO,
LAMI'S, and LAMP GOODS,
CHANDALIERS,
PUKE WINES AND L.IQUOKS
for Medicinal use.
Careful and courteous attention to each
customer.
? -?
FHFSCllll'TlOXS CA Hi:FULLY COM
ROUS'DUD AT ALL HOURS.
m
We select ??ur goods witlt greatest care,
buy tin hi us low as they can be bought
for cash, and sell thein ut Lowest Living
l'riccs.
J. W. I'OSEY & BKO.
March 'J2 1J ly.
ANNUAL MEETING.
f h'i'll'k iii ClU-vtv cllmmi-sllivvik 1
Cm.in CnrsTY, S. ('. <>ct. 1st., l^b'.L )
rnilE annual meeting of the Hoard of
1 county Coininissioncrs for the fiscal
year ending November 1st, will be held nt
their otlico on the first Tuesday after the first
Monday of sai l month, it being the "itli day
,.? V,.u..r..K^r. ?ovl
AH persons holding bills, accounts, < r <1 emands
<>f tin;/ / i ii 11 against this ('utility, which
have not been before presented l? the Hoard
of County Commissioners at special meetings
during tlie lineal year, are hereby required
to deposit I lie sit me with the Clerk of the
Hoard, on or before tlie first day of November,
so that they may he examined at their
annuai meeting.
l?y order of the Hoard of County Commissioners.
CIIAKI.ES HOLT,
Clerk of Hoard.
Oct I 4<r 6l.
FIDELITY
LOAN and TRUST CO.
? o ?
SP.NKTANItUltti, S. C.
CAPITAL 1'AIU IN, - $W,0(K>.00
orncKii.M.
President, Ueorge Coficld*
Treasurer, - - W. B. Burnett.
Attorney, J. I!. Cleveland.
HI It K< l olls.
dosepli Walker. .1. It. Cleveland.
\V. S. Manning. <Jeo. W. Nicholls.
P. B. Converse. ; W. K. Iturnell.
T. C. Duncan. Ueorge Cofield.
Interest allowed on deposits at the rate of
four ]>er cent, per annual, an I added to
accounts semi-annually.
July l'J TJ \y
FALL SEASON
A Suit of Clothes,
A pair of Shoes,
A pair of Suspenders,
A -Neck tie,
A Worsted Drees. 1
A pair of I ndies Bui ton Shoes,
A l)o*. La i i s Handkerchiefs,
A Wool Shawl. J
And many other bnrgaius too numerous to men
Anybody purchasing to the amount of $5, or o
at the Dry Goods Kni|orium of
HARRY M.
April ID 10
"THE LITTLE Tl
Is Headquarters for Confec
Fancy Groceries,
TOBACCO, BACON, !
CIGARS, I.AItl),
SNUFFS, FLOUR, 1
CIGAR E'IT KS, MO I .ASSES,
STARCH, COFFEE,
TEAS, CHEESE,
CANDLES, HAMS,
SHOT, BOW DEB,
CART RIDGES, SAUCES,
And a great many oilier tilings too te.lious ' i
Thanking the public at large for past piuxonn
in the future, I am Yours, very
Aug 31 35
BIG G
gun
Having given an ltnp>rt Order for my Gun<
cost of them, I challenge the Slate in prices.
If you want a n co Gun como to see me.
Yours, very rcsp
Stop ani
?i?? ... _ ^ UTt'p I it anu g 17
looted Stock of New Goods that are now ari
DRESS C
Our Stock of Dress Fabrics is complete
Henriettas, Cashmeres, Mohairs. Plaids, Fa
We wish to call the Ladies' special atti
latest styles.
B 0 0 T SAN.
Our Loot and Shoe department consists
to the Public. Our large Slioc trade is proo
we represent theui to be.
CLOTHING! CLOTHIN
In this department we have purchased
now ready to supply the demands of every o
suit to the old man in his sober suit of blacl
HAT>^ ATM
We ask you to examine our 1 ir^re am
(Japs, of every shape, quality and style. W?
ance" llaf.
We have a polite corps of Salesmen whi
through our Stock. Alt Goods sold at the I
March 20 1
The Largest, Tie Bet
STOCK o
DRY GOODS, MILLINERY
HOOTS AND SIIOl
We are prepared (his season to show ymi by far
in all its departments, that wo have ever had, at j
J KAN'S.? Don't fail to examine our slock of Je
save you some money in this line. Call and see tl
UOC>T? A\1J
Our stock of Hoots and Shoes is much larq
DI'taiM'thO ID Piiun. iiv/vu ?v .
MILLINERY, IV
In lhi< department our stock is about twice as 1
to the bottom. Ladies Hats from 1 "> cents to I he
incut von will tind Miss Kstelle Ditlende'tfer an I
ready lo welcome you and show you through our >
Hi member, our motto is always the best of
the lowest prices.
Thank 11 ;r :1m? i ii*?*i? fur lhi?ir vitv nilrn
continue 'In' same in the future.
Kespect fullv,
GRAHAM
b'ept I I .'?7
NEW JEWELR
NEW
.11;si' i;i:c;?:i vi;i> at v. o. tkkkzkk
and most choiee seleetiun of Jewelry to In; fou
WATCH i;s, CLOCKS,
KA15 III NOS, KINO Kit 111 NO
SILVKit AND SILVKit
ALL KINDS OF FIN
wlitrh in* iiitoinis to soil lower than ever.
After eighteen xour.s experience in tlie busii
manner ?>| work in his lino with skill mil
warranted.
Sept C 30
OF 1889-90. :
Worth 75, f
Cv *<;
For f5.
Worih 54 60, ,
4For
ft '25.
lion. or,
will recoivo a nice bundle strap,
COHEN & BRO.
At Oblton's old stand.
ly. -%
lEEf FRONT"
itinnArifis Emits and
as follows :
SUGAR, VINKGAH,
PICKLES, NUTMEQ3,
KPPEIt, CANNED GOODS,
SPICKS, CANDY,
NUTS, CIlACKEllS,
SODA, HA KING POWDERS,
MACARONI, LAUNDRY SOAP.
PIPES, TOILKT SOAPS.
MUSTARD, MATCHES,
ncniion.
pc. and hoping to reco:vo a larger share
' respectfully,
J. B. PORTER,
At "The LitUe Grcoo Front."
O
UNS!
8! '
GUNS!
^
i, which implies a greet saving in the
ect fully,
W. D. BEWLEY.
_ T
) JUUUK,
0 a rooK at tlio large and well-SC iving
daily.
JOODS.
)j\n every particular, consisting of
rm ('loth, &e.
cntion to our Dress Patterns of the
I) 8 H O E S.
: of Goods that we can roc Minuend
f enough that our Goods arc what
G! CLOTHING!
a larger stock than usual, and nro
ue?from the litilo boy in his first
v
> CAPS.
1 well-select* d Stock of lints and
} call SDOcinl attention ti? our'< VII*
i) will tak? pleasure in showing you
lowest prices f'or(l ASII.
RICE & MCLURE
3 tf
it, Tin Cheapest *
F
CLOTHING, MATS,
as. IN UNION.
ilie largest ami most complc'c s'ook>
>rices <lint speak for themselves,
ans before buying, for we can certainly
tern uml get our prices.
r?IIOKS,
;er than usual. We have.some It IQ
11LLINERY.
argc as it Iih.s ever been, and prices cut
fine*! Hat or Ilonnet. lit (hi* departMiss
Carrio .lame , wlu wdl be ever
ilauinioili Stock.
(ioods, hottest and fair dealings, and
mage in the past, wc kindly ask you to
& SPARKS', ^
CHEAP CASH STORE. W
tf
Y !
JEWELRY !
S Model Jewelry Store, the 1 irgcst
intl in the upcountry ; consisting of
BREAST PINS,
S, CUKK BUTTONS,
l'LATKI) WARE.
E STATIONERY.
itC-s, l.c is fully prepared to do all
despatch. All goods and wotk
F G TREFZER.
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