The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, September 21, 1894, Image 4
Wood rierelii? Insects mid Birds.
In the fifth report of the United
States Entomological Commission,
by Dr. A. S. Packard, may he found
a full description of most of our forest
pests. More recently the subject
was treated by Prof. A. I). Hopkins,
entomologist of the West Virginia
Agricultural Experiment Station, in
the official bulletins for last January
and February. Considerable time
^ was given to discussing wood-piercing
insects and birds during the
scientific meetings in Brooklyn in
August; both in the botanical section
of the A. A. A. S. and in the American
Forestry Association, in which
Mr. Hopkins, Hon. (?. W. Minicr,
M ajor Jed Hotchkiss, Hon. B. E.
Fernow, and others participated.
What is now attempted is merely to
put in a popular form some of these
scientific facts and conclusions.
Every thoughtful person must feel
a degree of alarm at the rapid disappearance
of our American forests.
The ax, the torch, and other foes that
might be named, will soon disrobe
our hills and compel costly expedients
to be resorted to in order to replace
what is being so recklessly destroyed.
We should welcome any
information that will help us to maintain
our natural forests, or to plant
successfully cultivated groves, or that
will augment the utility, beauty or
value of our existing woods. Beetles
and grubs mav not make the sensation
caused by a forest conflagration,
nor do they endanger human life.
Yet the reports show that these minor
causes destroy annually many million
dollars' worth of valuable trees and
lumber. For instance, only four
years ago, the pine bark beetle invaded
the pine lands of Virginia,
and the result now is that hundreds
of thousands of acres of forest are
killed as effectually as if it had been
done by a conflagration. Similar
devastations are reported from portions
of New York, New England,
and the Maritime Provinces. If is
high time for us to pay attention to
wood-boring insects and their enemies.
There is a difference in the hahits
and methods of these insects: some
attacking the healthy wood of thrifty
trees, others the substance of injured
trees, and others, again, only dead
wood, or logs and stumps. The sop
wood alone is perforated by certain
species, while others pierce the sound
heart of the tree. The wormholes
vary in diameter from the one-hundredth
of an inch to an inch or more,
and in length from half an inch to
many feet. In many cases they are
subsequently enlarged by wood ants,
or by the process of natural decay.
Minute perforations called "pin
holes" are often found in otherwise
sound oak and chestnut wood, which
are a serious injury to square timbers,
planks, staves and headings.
These are made by larva? armed with
horny gouges, the young <>f certain
winged beetles. They pierce through
to the heart wood, while other kinds
stop in the sap wood. The latter are
ii - .1 iii
usuauy tne aauits, nowevcr, msteau
of the young, the tiny hectics burrowing
nests, or even extensive galleries,
for the purpose of depositing
their eggs. The brood remains imprisoned
till matured, when it
('merges to repeat the work of destruction
on new material. Ilow
great that destructive work is in the
aggregate it is impossible now to say,
owing to our meager knowledge of
facts. By some the depreciated
value of the annual lumber output is
estimated at fully fifty per cent, and
in some cases it is said to reduce the
cash returns below the cost of production,
while others report comparatively
slight loss from the causes
indicated.
I bit the important and hopeful
thing to l>e said is that, by simple
and comparatively inexpensive measures,
a large per cent of this immense
hiss can be prevented. Experiments
are being made as to the introduction
<if friendly parasites that shall rid our
woods of hostile insects. Suggesti'ins
have been made as to steaming
the infested timber, and other direct
modes of attack. But meanwhile
much may be done, in a preventive
way, by improved methods of managing
standing trees, logs and stumps,
and manufactured lumber.
It seems to be generally conceded
that forest beetles will not deposit
their eggs on sound living trees, but
only at places where a tree has in
some manner ncen woukuom. i ins
indicates that they may he repelled
from such places hy suitable applications.
But this is at present practicable
only in groves under cultivation.
But it has also been observed, by
Mr. Hopkins and others, that the
beetles will not lav theireggs on dead
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trees, logs, or stumps from which the
bark has been removed. Lumbermen
know perfectly well that trees felled
in certain months will lie for years
without being infested by insects;
while others felled at a different time
of the year will be worm-eaten at
once. I sually, even ipiitc intelligent
lumbermen will attribute this remarkable
difference to the mysterious
influence ot the moon. But the true
reason, and that of w hich due advantage
should be taken, is that while
trees felled about the time when the
beetles are laving their eggs are
almost sure t<> be attacked ; those
felled a little later will certainly
escape tor that year, and will probably
offer no attractions to the invaders by
another year, owing to their changed
conditions. The rule as laid down
by the West Virginia Agricultural
Bulletin is:
"Take the bark from all logs and
felled trees cut between October and
April 1, that will have to lie more
than one month after the latter date
before being converted into lumber,
and from all cut between April 1
and October, unless they can be
made into lumber immediately after
the trees are felled."
It might be added that stumps,
strippings, and other rubbish of the
logging camp, or the clearing, should
be burned as soon as possible, for
the sake of the livimg trees in their
vicinity. Adherence to these simple
rules would save our country millions
of dollars' worth of timber everv vear.
by preventing its destruction or
deterioration.
Among other methods that have
been suggested is the fostering and
multiplication of friendly birds that
arc known to feed on the hostile
insects. These allies are especially
valuable in warding oft* those forest
pests that are known to attack growing
trees. No one can doubt that
the woodpeckers, for instance, obtain
a large share of their food from the
insect world. Hut, on the other hand,
it is asserted that the woodpeckers
fail to discriminate between pernicious
insects and their parasites. It
has been determined that the Cleiid
beetle is the worst enemy of the
European bark beetles, and also that
the woodpecker is the greatest foe of
the friendly Clerid. Hut, after all,
the conviction is firm in our minds
that the birds arc among our best
friends as insect destroyers, and ought
accordingly to share our protection.
Their mission in the economy of
nature is to thin the ranks of a vast
army by which, without their aid, we
should be overwhelmed, and our forests
would be hopelessly ruined.
Some highly suggestive facts have
been brought to light by recent investigations
as to the conditions of wood
resulting from the work done by the
Columbian timber beetle. It seems
that this insect prefers to attack the
healthy sap wood of living trees,
where it excavates its galleries and
develops its brood without affecting
the vitality of the tree. The result
of its attack on the oak, birch, tulip,
and other trees is of economic interest.
The wound made stains the
wood above and below it. In white
oak the stain extends only a few
inches, while in tulip trees the stain
may be several feet in length. The
stained wood is not unsound, nor is its
quality impaired even for a century
or more. The stained is caused by a
colored liquid proceeding from the
wound made by the beetle, and is fully
effected within twelve months. Singularly
the result does not f? Mow the
wounding of dying trees, even when
their wood is sound; which shows
that the movement of the sap promotes
the spread of the coloring
matter.
The observations made by Mr.
Hopkins as to the habits of the
woodpecker, commonly called the sapsucker
(I'icus pubescens), have convinced
him that he peeks the bark
altogether for the sap. The punctures
thus made at different stages of
the tree's growth correspond to the
succession of elevations and depressions
visible in the annual layers of
woo l. Th is is the cause of the beautiful
bird's eye poplar. If a lumberman
wants it, let him select logs
whose bark shows the most work
done by the sapsucker.
Possibly the bird's-eye maple is
due to the same cause. At least it is
well known that the sapsucker is
extremely fond of the sap of sugar
trees, whose bark it pierces bv numerous
rows of holes for the purpose.
A single bird has been known to
make a hundred punctures in the
same tree in one season. Sometimes
this wounding causes decay. Jhit if
otherwise, it is possible that the healed
cicatrices arc what make the curly
maple. The subject is certainly of
sullicient interest to demand further
investigation.?in n. iiovky in
Scientific A merican.
What is Hard Wood !
A recent is-nie of the Timhcrnnui contains
the following legal decision in regard to
what constitutes hard wo.nl." A certain
man had a contract with a railroad company
to deliver "hard" cord wood, an I he delivered
poplar in part fulfillment of the contract.
The roilroad company objected, hut
the contractor won his ca-e in court in con
sequence of the judges decision that hotanicilly
any tree that ha I a leaf as dDtinguishc<l
from a needle w is a hard wood; regardless
of what the actual texture of its lihre
might he. This is strictly in accord with
other decisions based upon the technical and
commercial nomenclature of the wood.
There may he n<> particular reason for saying
that Lonibardy poplar or hasswood or
Cottonwood is a hard wood, hut Mich it is
commercially aa decided by the curls. If
this new decision, l?a?cd upon botanical considerations,
is sustained, ii will merely add
strength to the old position.
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What Has Bwu Won.
Western democrats have told
wherein the tarift' bill is a disappoint- '
mcnt. The great American privilege
of letting men who do not act 1
en the square know what we think
of them has been exercised against
those who spoiled the house bill in
the senate.
There is the difference between
democrats and republicans. The
Mclvinley bill was privately denounced
by Blaine. Senator Plumb
voted acainst it. But the voice of
o
protest was instantly silenced by
parly machine, and the western republicans,
who had been forced by
the trust-bought managers t<> eat
O o
their words and abandon their interests,
have either said nothing since
or have sworn by all that was sacred
that the Mclvinley act was the best
tariff law ever passed or proposed.
Republicans have learned how to
give up the right of free speech for
the sake of party. Democrats never
have learned and never will learn to
surrender a single manhood right for
the sake of party and politicians.
We have spoken our opinion of
the senate bill's shortcomings. We
have also an opinion to the effect that
our representatives and senators collectively
have, at the cost of unstained
labor and in the face of unnumbered
difficulties, passed a bill which
is so much a relief that it is a revolution.
The influences which withheld
much good which elevated eivic wisdom
would have bestowed were protection
influences. They constituted
the remaining strength of a long
pampered aggregation of interests
which the democratic majority in the
senate was not large enough to dislodge.
The merits are the democratic
part and they are many. The democratic
heroes in both houses deserve
the highest commendation; for every
reduction was a battle with desperate
and well-armed partisans of protection.
Fifty per cent, of McKinlev taxes
have been taken from most of the
articles of common consumption.
Woolen manufacture, which has lan riii<bi>d
in snitc of almost unlimited
protection; will be expanded through
access t?> the world's wool markets.
We shall have cheaper and better
clothing and blankets?and we can
at last get pure woolens of American
manufacture. Steel and iron will
preserve a healthy level of prices,
instead of being the plaything of alternate
scarcity and overproduction.
Cotton ties and bagging w ill not be
monopolized whenever there is a good
crop of cotton. Tin plate duties are
fifty pei cent. ics.l.
In woolens and knit fabrics the
reduction is from one hundred per
cent, to an average of thirty-live per
cent. This is of great significance,
not only because it will cheapen
these absolutely necessary articles to
the consumer, but because it will
stimulate trade with (Jcrmany, Belgium,
France and England, where
o 1 ~
the demand for our meats, Hour and
grain is the largest. The protectionists
may ask how foreign trade can
be stimulated and home woolen manufacture
enlarged at the same time
The answer is that consumption w ill
increase with great rapidity. Among
three-fourths of our people far less
of good woolen clothing, carpets and
blankets is used than the users would
like and would Ifave if they could
pay for more. Enlarge their export
markets and they 111 enlarge the
home market.
Our new tarilV w ill have a good
effect on business and production.
Southern and western democratic
members have done their host, and
have a great public good to show for
their year's labor.
Send to Washington a larger majority.
Confer upon the democratic
party power to change specific to ad
valorem duties, so that the inventions
which cheapen goods everywhere
may go to the benefit of tinpeople.
The only tariff which does
not reijuire tinkering every session
is an ad valorem revenue tariff which
adjusts itself to the needs of government
and the conditions of production.
We want no specific duties,
which put low grades of goods under
the same charges as high grades, and
which keep the same tax in force for
years even if invention reduces the
natural cost ofan article to one-tenth.
The next two objects of tariff reform
are free raw materials and ad
valorem rates. The people have but
one avenue to the reform-?the election
of democrats.?Sf, /,,oni* />'<public,
Wliere Sonic <;<>.
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the wagon of any one of (ho several
hundred ragmen who pass through the
alleys with their monotonous cries.
These gatherers of old rags take them to
warehouses where they are thought in
hulk, and then assorted hy girls according
to quality. There was a time when
most of tho rags were sent to paper I
mills. Now a very small proportion of |
rags are made into paper, straw and clay 1
iM'ing the chief ingredients. Fine linen
paper, so called, is made of rags. Ninety
jut cent, of the rags collected, however,
go into tho manufacture of "shoddy," of
which cheap ready made clothing h
manufactured. This stufl is now made
up into the brightest and most attractive
patterns, and can only he told w hen now
from wool bv the expert, and hy experience
with the wearer.-- Clothing Man in
bt. Ja'UC tiJobo-Vpniocrnt.
Labor and the Sugar Trust.
The Sugar Trust was formed for I he purpose
of limiting production ami increasing
the profits of the owners of the ictiucries.
It joined in the general pretense of protectionists
that the tariff tax was for the benefit
of labor, but its performance is more significant
than its words.
It began by closing down nine refineries.
These refineries had a producing capacity
of about 11,000 barrows a day. within 1,0(K)
barrels of thiTdaily product 'ixdL/.-t wo great
llaveuieycr refineries in brooKlyn, which,
working tngoiher. produce nearly twice as
much as any o.hcr refinery in the country.
All the men employed in these closed
fuciories, in number more than those now
employed by the llitveuioyers, wcro thrown
out of work. Not only that, nut the falling
off iu the deiiaud for labor reduced the
wages paid to those who retained their employment
in the refineries.
The clrunc er of the work cnubled the
refineries to employ the cheapest kind of
lubor. Most of the workingmcn arc l'olcs
and Hungarians ; a few are Hermans. They
:ire obliged to work twelve hours a d?y for
SI."JO. 1'his is equal lo $1 for a day of ten
hours, or 80 cents for n day of eight hours.
The work is of the hardest and is done
under hard conditions. The heat is terrific,
ranging on the first floor up to loO degrees,
the average being 125 degrees. The men
are victims of frequent prostration from
heat and tiie ambulance service of neighboiing
hospi'als is constantly in demand.
One man who jumped from (he window ol
the Havemcyer \ Klder refinery is said to
have been crazed by the heat. The Sun, a
1'rotectioD newspaper, on June 15>, 18H4,
had this to say of the condition of labor in
the Ilavemeyer & Elder refinery :
The excessive heat is causing much suffering
among ihe thousands of employees in
the Williamsburg sugar refineries. Already
there have been many prostrations. During
the corresponding hot spell last year
there were, it is said, more than a thousand
cases of prostration from the intense heat
in the buildings. The ambulance service
became practicilly useless, and n'l that
could be done was to carry the victims out
of the refineries and leave them in the
street to get home as best they could. Many
of the victiu s die l.
There is nothing to be added to this picture.
The employer of these unfoitunatc
workingmcn is the trust that begged for
legislation in their name and fina'ly purchased
from both patties the power to limit
production, to distress labor and to declare
dividends of from 75 to 285 per cent, on i*s
investment.?Ex.
Early fall is an excellent time to set out
small ft nit >-atvl provide agaiust that lack
of them which we felt so keenly during the
heated term. Raspberries, blackberries and
en rants are all deservedly popular and
licaltby food, and they possess the great
merit of requiring very little cultivation.
lilackberr.es and raspberties may be
grown on any soil except a very heavy clay
or one that is liable to remain water-soaked,
i'iicy are generally propagated by cuttings
and should he p anted so as to allow* the
roots to grow before the ground freezes. Ii
is considered bcnefical to cut hack the
canes to within s;x inches of the irround
after planting. The earth should be pressed
firmly about theiu so that the so 1 and
roots may come into close contact.
ltaspbcrrics shou'd he set about four
feet apart, and b'.uckberries six or seven
The red varieties of raspberries are not so
hardy as tlie black or the blackberries. All,
however, require to be heavily mulched
with manure before winter, if manure is
not accessible, an extra amount of earth
should be placed ab ut the plants, but it
must be removed in Ibc spring lied raspberries
wjll yield excellent crops for eight
years, and fair ones for another eight, while
blackberries wi'l last even longer.
A raspberry bed m iy be formed in the
full with a little care, so as to give fruit the
next year. This is r.cc inplishcd by digging
up plants with a quantity of earth
about them and ca:efully ns-tling and
watering tliein. The tips must then be
shortened in and half the f.liuge removed
from the ciucs, which should be left about
three feet in length.
Currants nnd gooseberries deserve to be
much more extensively grown than tlicy are
at present. They are tare annual an I
abundant bcireis, arc grown wi'h little
trouble and require only to be kept ftce
from weeds. Currants are propagated with
ihe greatest ease from cuttings, which
should be less than a foot in length when
set. They should be insert el blunting, s<?
that only the top hud is above the ground.
They will do well on any kind of soil, but,
as a rule, the richer the s >i s and the better
the cultivation the heavier the crop and the
larger the berries l'.enty of moisture is
required. The pi i.its need renewing every
six or tight years.
Gooseberry cuiiings also root easily, I ut
many prcfir :ayeritig. The gooscbuty is a
gross feeder and requires a rich, moist
loam, hut ti< t too we'. They will not stand
drought or crowding. A little shade i? a'so
essential When grown in the full sun the
fruit is apt to mildew < n ihe sunny side.
The general cultivali u is much the same ntiiat
of the currants, hut more care is rc
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Wasiiikuton, D C, Spt. 17(li.?Since
the adjournment of Congress, and the deJ
part lire of the Knights of Pythias, the Capital
City has beeu quiet. The early weeks
in September, however ore generally the
dullest in the year.
Congressmen who were renominated arc
in their respective districts on their bicnnicl
campaign.
The Cabinet officials, except Secretary
Carlisle, have left iheir portfolio's with the'r
assistants, either for recreation or outside
work, .-ecrctary Herbert, of the Navy, is
expected to return iu a day or s> f-oin his
annual tour of inspection. Many of the
Chiefs of Departments, are also at their
voting placer for the primaries. While the
busiuess of "Unc e Saiu" moves on smoothly.
The Democratic and Republican Campaign
Committees arc busily engaged in disiributiug
literature a id iu arranging details in
the CongrcsM- i.al districts. The Popu'ist
are not very aggressive, but are looking for a
chance to fuse with ei'lier party.
Secretary Carlisle and Public Printer lienedict,
say that "to the victors belong the
spoils." Changes have been ruadc in tlieii
departments t > suit many democrats win
nvis T?1? ill'g IU1 1 IIC iva'CS 10 Hill.
A statement issued by the Treasury l)e
pnrttnent shows that the amount ofni >ney in
circulation September 1st was Sil.ORi.GTl.dHl,
or at the rate of $23,'.W per capita ol
population This is a decrease of %?:34?t>,
(HK), as compared with September 181)3.
gold coin and bullion in the Treasury Sep
tcmber 1st was ?121,51)0,142, as ngainsl
?120,88-'>,801), the preceding month. In an
editorial on the South's possibilities, the
"News" of iliis city, con'aiucd these en
couragiog words; ".Men any talk as tnucli
a* they choose about the nation being confronted
by the perilous possibilities ot land
exhaustion, but their words are vain as long
as the.South contains s) many possibilities
of land improvement under the li<?iid of intelligent,
in lu-tiious and patient men, win
realize that no one is more independent than
the possessors ami worker of small farms.
The recent iv organization of the Richmond
ami Lbinvi le tailroad, as the Southern
Railway will prove a boon to the South.
Its operations are exclusively in the South,
and embracj 4,.700 miles of roadway, representing
in -rc than a hundred million dollars
cap1 tal.
Washington is a greit educitioml cen'er,
there are various institutions here, and
prominent nniong them is ilic Windsor College
of Phrenology. with Prof. Wm. Windsor,
L. L. b. P. II. 1>. as president, and, Madame
Lilla Windsor, vice-president. The College
is in its sicond year and the classes are
flattering. Pro'. Windsor is ajso President
of the Winds-r Scientific, Religions and
Renevolcnt Associuioti of America.
ISy a recent act of congress ollicia's of t-he
government occupying judiciary positions,
can give their bonds through orgauized
surety companies. This is desirable since
otlicials will not be o impelled to resort to
special friends to sign their bonds, to whom
they would nntura ly feel under obligu ions.
South Carolina is well represented in this
city, but compared with suae other states
its ipiota is not full. .Much interest is manifested
here in 'he campaign there. Senator
Puller's lone Sl-l-vieo ill I 111. Sen,.la ti.iu Ilia,la
?-> -~~ *"v ^v,,,,vv """ """ "v
lii 111 many friends who hope for his return,
while Gov. Tilliuin has followers who wouM
linil liis cutting with pleasure. The l'nlmetto
State is the only i ne with a negro representative
in congress, and it is hoped that her
efforts in this campaign will give her a solid
democratic delegation.
Southern Governors arc much displeased
at the course of 'lie linglish committee to
inves iga'c Lynching* in the South. Your
Governor expressed himself very erelitaby
on the que tion, while Mr. Frank Httlledge,
a'so of your Sta'e, said a few nights ago at
the "Normandie in this city that,'' it is the
rankest piece of impudence, the most consumnte
cxliibiton of Ihitish gsll that
modern history has a Horded. Such a cour.-e
is founded on ignorance of our laws and institutions.
They will liud out their mls'uke
before many days uf investigation."
The Louisnna sugar planters arc much
frustrated over Secretary Carlisle's decision
against the sugar bounty, while the consumers
arc pleased to know that the ] rice
of sugar will not lie inatoiially advanced.
Taylor, the negro llecorder of l)eeds, is
in troublous waters. It is expected that the
President will ask for his resignation on
account of violating civil service rule*.
The Sovereign Grind Lodge of Odd Fellows
has been invited to hold its next session
in this oiiy.
The action of the president of the Cable
Car Company of this city in refusing to
obey the order of the commissioners to suspend
the movement of Cars 011 labor day,
during the parade, will likely cost hint Ins
position. The labor unions are very pronounced
in denouncing ld< course.
Among South Carolinans visiting the (ity
the past week we are pleased to note : Win
A. Nicholson. I'nion: W. C. Cievelnnl, Mrs.
Willie C. Williams, Miss Annie Norwood,
Geo. T. P?urr, Greenville; W. S. llun'er,
Seneca : Geo. T. 1> nighty, Chester ; I,. W.
Wh te, Ahbevi! e. II.
1 - _
: FANT BROS.
HEADQUARTERS FOR GRO
CERIES.
A LARUK STOCK OF
M KAI,,
FLOU1I,
Mi /V* X>I\,
SALT
AND OTHER OUOfKlurS ALWAYS 0>
HAND.
Tlii' Heirless Mapnlia Hams,
AND 15EST 100 PER (-KNT
F L O U R .
SUGAR.
COFFEE,
TEA,
? AND ?
MCY GROCERIES.
BAGGING. TIES, ETC
i>i:ntihtkv.
toAni. ?
DR. H K SMITH'S
DKNTAIi ItOOMM
<?v r.n- A
II FOSTER & CO S STORE
COCAINI; i si:i? IN i:\ri;\? 11NO IT.I.TII
i
Jau. 0-1-ly.
II E A V V
FANCY GROCERIES.
FLOUR, MEAL, MOLASSES,
SUGAR, COFFEE, BACON
LARD, AND
SALT.
; Best Banquet Hams.
KEROSENE OIL, MACHINE
OIL, ETC.
11AGGING AND TIES.
FULL STOCK OF FLU (J AND
SMOKING TOBACCO.
: PLANTATION HARDWARE.:
Fresh supplies of everything in the
Grocery line always on hand
at rock bottom prices, at
W. II. SARTOR'S.
? ON THIS COKNELt ?
Pop 11 o7 1> e. 1.
i> TJ li
OFFICE
: has been overhauled
and enlarged.
We are now
prepared
to do
JOB WORK
'vj I fc/
IN ALL ITS BRANCHES.
PATRONIZE HOME INDUSTRIES
AND BRING
YOUR JOB
WORK
TO
THE UNION TIMES CO.
IF YOU WANT AN
?10 ix c; x > 10 ?
YOU WANT Till: 11KST, TIIKN 15UY A
? T O Z E IFt , ?
An 1 you will have the engine bui t. I
tumiif cturc three style.", 1MI{TAI1I,K,
SBMll'OKTAULB AND STATIONERY.
The TO/Kit litis stood the test foryiars
and never tailed to give satisf ction.
They use about .J the fuel and water ol
other makes. Steam is easily raised in from
'.Jtt to :!() minutes. Full line a'ways in etoik.
Write for pr'ccs.
? kki'aik wohk rttoMrri v t:\r.ct rr.n ?
J NO A. WILLIS,
Columbia, S C.
Aug. IT Hoe 1.
: "N1GL STOCK AND FINE WORK"
THAT IS TUB VKHDKT OF OUR CUSTOM
BUS.
MONUMENTS
' ^ TOMBSTONES
, Best of stock and line vrotk at BBSS ('< 1ST
than any cunpeting house in tlie South.
C3- E O . GEDDES,
? t'nion MAitnt.r work* ?
O. L. SCI 11< it l-.i-II'T. T. It. IHTLI'.lt,
SUICITOR ;fH CIRCUIT. U. S. OMMHthX F. R
SCHU1VIPERT & BUTLER,
' ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
3 1-2 LAW RANGE,
UNION, S. C.
Dusinev. intrusted in our hands wi 1 rei
cive our immclia<e a t uition.
March It>-11 -If.
IN o (icMi.
"J^TOTK'B i- hereby given tliit we will
it npp'y ,0 'he Uencral Assembly id
South Carolina, at its next sei-sion, lor a
charter iiiCnrporu'ing the t'hi<?|ir and
tireenville II i ma I Company ; sail mad to
be run from Choice, S. C., to Oreenville,
? S, C., hy the niosl praelieabje route
C l? I \ II It \IJ, Ag'l
I'or Orporuior*.
I Auj ?A ui-OWI'OIOUI.
MASTERS SALES.
i'tii! UUTOBEK. 1894.
The State of South Carolina.
COUN rV~OF UNION,
la the Court of Common Picas.
Win. A. Nicholson, Plaintiff,
vs.
A. L>. Swell aud J. W. Sweat, Defendants.
IN obedience to an order mnde in Iho
above sla'ed cise by IiU Honor Judge It.
C. Watts, 1 will sell at Union Courthouse, on
Snlesd iy, 1st. October 1894, during the li g?|
lion s of sale, the following described lands
to wit :
All that |iareel or lot of land situated in
Union Cuuu y; iState afore-mid containing
one huudrvd a id forty-three acres, more or
lesj, bounded by lands off. N. Kelly, Is?nc
Knox, East by /act; Johnson, bciugthc tract
purchase! by lvizihetli f. Sweat from James
Eaves.
II;UMS OF S\LK.
Onc-lia'f cash. bil: nee iu one year, willi
interest from day of sa'c. secured by oond
of the parcha-cr and Mortgage of the premises.
t'. II l'KAKK,
Master for Union County.
Master's Office, Sep. I I, lH'jJ.
Sep. 1') 37 -It.
SHERIFF'S SALES,
1*0II OCToBKK, I MO.
BV \iitue of an execution to nte directed,
1 will sell before the Court House
door, in the totvn of L'niiii, on Monday the
first day of October next, during the legal
bouts of Sheriff's Sales, the following described
propeity to-wit:
All the interest tint James (!. Love owns
in the tutneial in one tract of land shunted,
lying and Icing in Union County, cmttainng
one hundred and forty-four acres, more
or less, bounded on the north by the Kennedy
dower t act, on the east by Broad
Uiver, on the south by other lands of Jatues
G. Live, on the west by the flint 11 <11 tract.
Levied mi and to he sold u< the property
of Jauies G. Love at the Mi l of llion an 1
Mclvis-ick I'iu ntitl a against James G. Lore
LUfeudan'.
J.G. LONG,
S. U. C.
Sheriff's Olliec, Sept. lOilt Lv'4.
Sept. ll-:57-:Jt.
Spectacles mill Eyc-Gkisses
FROM 25 CTS- UP.
j CARRIAGE
PAINTS 50 CTS. A CAN.
A FULL LINE OF T ATIONERY.
> - :?
I'cH'iiiiiery, Famy Tuilcl Soap,
DRUGS AND DRUG SUNDRIES
TO SUIT THE HARD TIMES
UNION DRUG CO. ^
July 2u--'J-ly.
BUY BEST MATERIAL
TO YOUR ADVANTAGE
r ius.U
FLEMING CEMENT & BRICK
CilMPANY.
HEADQUARTERS FOR ALL MASONS' SUP
PLIES.
270 EAST BAY. Charleston, S. C.
LIME, PLASTER, HOSESDALE,
i:N(.hlSll l'OUTIi.VNI) CK31KXT,
ALL IZES TERIIA COTTA PIPE.
rim: muck and ci.ay. iiaiii. muck,
TILLS, LTU.
MIXED LOIS. CAR LOAD LOTS.
Agent for the Oe^brated
Roi k Wall Plaster.
LARGEST DEPOT IN THE SOUTH.
WAREHOUSE ON R. R. TRACK.
? whin: Fun ruiuvs ?
BUILDING BRICK A SPECIALTY.
Sept. 7 G'i tint.
/f/'.'X
TIRED, WEAK, NERVOUS,
Could Hot Sleep.
' Prof. Tj. r>. Edwards, of Preston,
Idaho, says: "I was all run down,
weak, nervous and irritable through
overwork. I fluttered from brain fatigue,
mental depression, etc. 1 became
so weak and nervous that I
could not sleep, I would arise tired,
discouraged and blue. I began taking
Dr. Miles' Nervine
I and now everything is changed. I
sleep soundly, 1 feel bright, actlvo
and ambit ious. I can do more in one
day now than I used to do in a week.
For this great good I give Dr. Miles*
Restorative Nervine the sole credit.
It i Cures."
* l)r. Miles' Nervino Is sold 011 a nosltlT?
I guarantee that the llrst ln>ttIo will oencflt.
! All <lril?KlStH sell it lit CI, fl bot t les for or
> ? .1 .V K,rnl i ,>r^P:kl''1 on focolnt of prlro
l>y tlio Dr. bliicd Medical Co., Elkhart, liid.
-rumr*** _ JCT"-" ,
* Ji' sal^ by 14. T. l'ysoy, Druggist, ^