Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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, "W* THE UNION TIMES. - !?* v < . . J ? l?l?U ' ' H' ' ' K. ; ?- XJ?.A- .. = J J. . .. . ... I . ?' - =? 11 VOL. XXVI.?NO- 18. UNION, SOUTH CAROLINA MAY 3.1S9N. sI.NO A YEAR. BUSINESS DIRECTORY. l>. E. IIYDRICK, J. A. Sawvkr, Spartanburg, S. 0 , Union, 8. C. J; JYUUICK 5: SAWYER, Attorneys at Law, JuJga Townsend's O'.d Stand. jyjUNR()& MUNRO, Attorneys at Law, ' No.i!. Law ll?ngc. g S. STORKS. Attorney at Law a':d Trial Justice, Office Kear of Court House. JC. WALLACE. ;sqi Attorney at Law, No. 8 Law Range. t gClICMTERT & BUTLER, Attorneys at Law, N\>. Law Rings. DENTISTRY. ^R. H. K. SMITH S Denial R joins ov?r A. M. Fouler & Co'i. sloro. Coctline i in extracting teeth. UNION MARliLE ?AND? Granite Works. GKOKGE GEDDKS. F. M. FARR, GEO. MUNKO, President. Cashier. Merchants and* Dl on+Arc' Na + mnsi I ia11 IUI o muuw11ui BA>K. OIF* XJlSTIOlSr. .Capital Stock $u0,('00. Surplus froO,t"??0. Stockholders liabilities, SCO,000?Total? J17U.000. Olficers?F. M. Farr, Pros'I. A. II. Foster, Vice Ptes't. Geo. Muuro, Cashier. J. D. Artnr. Assistant Cashier. Directors?W. H. Wallace, A. G, Rice, Win. Jeflcries, T. C. Duncan, J. A. Kant. J. T. Douglas, 1. G. McKissick, A. li. Foster. DiitfWe silicit your business. t ' ? Tr"^? r i 1 A * i i i t ! < E UnJcjAiu AND SODA. WATEU I 'A D LOUI \S the Oyster season i? now over, I , h ivi; converted tny Suloin intu an 1CK CUKAM I'AltliOK. And the adieu and gciitleuirn sire respectfully invited to euil on hic when they w.mt a cool and refreshing drink. Orders IVr cream bv the gallon will receive prompt ond careful attention. I have one of the finest Soda fountains in the up country, everything shall ho kept tidy. Iridic* aio Mivit-d to make toy place their headquarters while shopping, stop in and rest whether you wish to buy or not. If you have a headache try my WINK COCA it will cure it every time. You will also find at toy place the lar gest and finest assort hi rut of Inney and j.lam candie?, cast s and cracker?, innis cniinci) coods and general confections, also family groceries. Thanking my en*t oners i-t their kind and liberal p'llripin^o la*-1 Summer I aspect fully solicit a continu'.cc of the same this Summer; guarraritet iiig prompt and polite attention to nil JOHN. R. MATHIS. BELLE BOY3). Th-1 Famous "liebel Spy" In ow a Resident Of South Carolina. ? The Yorkville Enquirer makes public the fact that the celebrated J3elle Boyd is now living at Camden, *3. C., and recently lectured in York Vlllf ? ??! f i"? i*f :i i n I ii it !? lnvirr. o n <1 i ?->i w?<> a " -"vo~ v/w With a highly realistic and dramatic O f narrative of her advc utures and achievements as scout a nd spy for "Stonewall ' Jackson in the famousShenandoah Valley campaign. The speaker commenced her story with the occupation of Martinsburg, Va., her native town?now in West .Virginia?by the Federal troops. She managed to slip out of the town, gave Jackson information as to the numbers and intentions of the enemy, w 7 and got back without being suspicioneU. Later, the Federals discovered her identy as a spy, managed to capture her. and sent lier to the Old Capitol prison at Washington, where she remained for nearly seven weeks, and was iinallv exchanged as a pris unci ui war. x \% ice sue \\ us senienceu by the Federals to be shot, and both times her life was saved by threats of retaliation on the part of the Confederates. In she was sent by Jefferson Davis 011 an important mission to London; but the blockade runner on which she sailed was captured by a Federal eiuiser, and site Was brought back to 2Nc.v York. In the meantime, a FederaJ lieutenant named Hardin had fallen in love with her, and she agreed to marry him if he would effect the escape of her captain, give her a copy of the signal book of the Federal navy, and i'dn the Confederacy. The lieutenant accepted tlie conditions carried | them out and the two escaped to 1 London: where they were married in j the presence of the l'riuee of Wales. 1 IShortlv afterward, her husband died. ami after lite proclamation of a genoral amr.esty. >ho returned to America, settled in California ami was married to a Maj. llanunoml. After the death of Maj. Hammond, Hie i was married in Texas i ? Mr. Nat. J lv. High, Iter present hit-hat.d. with whom she is now traveling. Mrs. High is imw o 1 years of age, retnakably well preserved for a woman of her years, i> >tili good looking and talks in .-neii a realistic ami dramatic ; style, as to chain the attenth n and arouse the enthusiastic admiration ??f her audience throughout. She an- ' peared before the audience in \ ork- i ville last Friday night in a plain black silk dress; but it i> her custom she says, to appear in the original iinilonn sin* uso'l to wear when :i member of .Jack- ?n > stsiil. This, i howevw is it in ?i n?x repairs tp *t now, an I sin- wiii not have it ag;.;n for several days yet. She railed attention to tint fact that sinee tin* war there have heen a i nuuiher of Imgu-^ iJrlle !?< 'd* v.ho have greatly embarrassed her hy posing helore the pooler as t;1e original. She however, has ceilifieat* > as to her i?lc-ntitv from W . !'. We. <i cx-kecper of the <>ld < ':i|?it ?l prison at Washington, Senator ('has. .lames Faulker. of West Virginia, (uuieral .Ino. I >. Kennedy, of Camden S. < whose knowledge of the i'aet< in the case tin.1 whose standing i> odiiricnt to settle all iloiihts. She ha* leaded ' a house and taken up her residence at Camden, and i> now up hi her lirst tour o! the South. Curing tiie war her name was a household word 1 in neariy every Southern home, and often, with praver for the suleiv of the annie- ?-1 In ami .Iacl\>oti. we linvc no il >uU wont 11] special >up- 1 ]>iii*;iti?>ns l'<>i* the preservation tI?f!I j l>oy<l. Now tiiat she isajriin anions | the |I? lor whom <he once risked ami saon!iccil so niiteh. it i.i to he hope?| li ,t'v these sain Southern people will pi? vo h"f her ' here'.e service h.i> Hot lx . 11 \ ; /.. . ; Fain h" no show with I>r Mites' i' on 1' * ! The AVI lite Boys Were Not Idlers Before t he War. The ltcv. JVC. Ilidtn, of Richmond, Ya. thus reviews the Rev. Edward Eggloston in the Chicago Standard* "Not long ago I read a charming article from the pen of the ltcv. Edward Eggleaton. It was one of the Forum series on 'Formative influences.' In that article Mr. Eggleston said: "My father had been bred a oiwl rtf i?nnr?:e M ' handed stranger to ail manual labor." Mow, Mr. Eggleston's father was bred in Eastern Virginia, and when I read that "'gfcntencc 1 could not help thinking.how strange it would be to many a planter's son who was bred in the same region. 1 knew a great many planters' sons, for I was one of them, and I have known scarcely one who did not now and then take a hand at plantation work, raking, binding and shocking wheat; dropping, thinning, ploughing, eutting, shucking and housing corn: worming, hoeing, stripping and prizing tobacco; chopping wood ?all these things have a perfectly familiar sound to the ears of thousands of planters' sons, who, on plantations swarming with negroes, were not too whitehanded'' to Jo any, or oven ail. v?t" them when occasion iv<|ttire<l. Si , far as my rather extensive pers nal knowledge, experience and ohserva- tion go, the idea that the sons ol' Virginia nlanters were a white hand- , o _ i ' ed and idle arisroeraev, who seorned . to work with niggers' in the lield, is pure romance, frite. we did not eat with the negroes, nor did we i sleep with them: httt we went to . church with them; we sat under the same prachers: we hunted, fished and frolicked with them. 1 have -at on the banks of 1.ic n v classic ilapidati j with ucgvoesSlf Jly* long, iisiiing. j . before and si nee emaneinalion. and I it never oceureti to me tiiat i wu> < (loin;i a *i_ytiling improper, iron peeuiia:. There may l> ;!i<>so who 'j think it appropiata here to ipioto f l\>o s splendid lines: an i imuml ii'ioni in* s.'iiiii' ij..? e'li'v, I'liiit l)h:*ln l :in 1 it.no.in* I. I?'iui u ?Iiin-i ? i i-inlnTtfil -I yy, \ i M" llie i.|il li in- I'Mi -in| "i>nt in untnv lines of work no- , jrroes are even now umiuIIv ami deeidodlv ' referred in \ iroinia ami in other pans of the South. In our | # .ill . li unest noteis iiu- waiters are u>iu?iiy . all negroes. Negro barbers. it -killfull, ran usually bold their own against white e >iiinetitor> in any (( eity, ti>\M?. or village? mi' the South. v How Mr. Kggleston ever lull into >o j manifest an ci'imi' is one ofthe strange t things in liunian life. There i-> no j good rea-on for siisjieeting loin oi , any intentioiiai perversion of the v fact-. 1 le was simply deluded. Some (ierman writers 11 :i\? of late been , lining t heir ho-M to < let it* t heir em tut ry - j t men I'roin em grating the 1 niled States: ami one of tlmir iirguinen.- i. is. tinit on I !:; ];'. .1 i r i? u'thr .M :- i - - . si| j?i \ alley im .j,e ,, laonkcy - dovoar the erojx a ?.i >!i a> tle-v mature e in the liehb- 1 no.-e ailtl oi's are <( writing about subjeet . upon which ,, . i :.. i ,ii i:. :. i i i UHT. I\ MOW nHlllfl. o (i w enville. April -Tliv wo- " man s sulVra;:e eainpaiirii ini*t*ti11 la-t liiL'lil niiil ImMU.IiI liavv l?(V). ' largely altiMnleil l?v iIk* Ik-si |>< ??]?!? in tin- ci ly. A i i - -t Ya:es (T Alaine, N Mrs A mil.:: of S< u;!i ('aiulin.i. Mi.*s Lew is of North (Airoliua, Miss ('lav i !\enim kv ami Mrs, NrMctt of Smiiii ('arolina. arc tin* speaker-. ' Those hollos have boon heart! with re-p < ami pleasure. l-.it not many reuwi i.< havi- boon reported. Tlit- iiiisl<iviinic i'l |?i*<*j!! !;? < is 1 iiat we iii-1 i ?*: ?*1? iti-?ii- we have Ill'vol" c.\ .1111111 (" I. ami Oil'." in. Ill lire' , i |>rovi'iits us Irani 111v? sIlysilmy llioin. ' j.( Suoii men arciiioaj al'lo of j?ro^i\s>i.(ii | ('oiumoii soiisf s.iys oxamiiio all I,^ limits, invosiiyato o?vry |i.ostiuu ' prosohio'!, ! toll I last t.? 11.: 11 wliioli i. , | |>( njool l! a' wioli is nnl. Men I ,, vli > ar? ^ovoncil l?y !' o.r j.j. j.ailr. j i"i . i? : tli- : M nt'iioi-, alii! |f, ii< ;ioi- lv v. . / iu> i ?>!' i j hollo 1 i /'< ' J Dfi'N Ill'u fJ, !)('. A 1 I KKMIT'S rii( )PILK(,V. Over 40 years ago an oM German hermit published in a Barvarian paper a curious prophecy, in it he foretold the Australian Russian ? j *1... i/ i? ? *i.? it I 111 Hit* l I.uuiri au ?n mv; death of l'ope i'iu> and the TurcoItussian dehate sit arms, lie said that Germany would have three cm-] pcrors in one year before the end of the century and indicated the death of two I inted States presidents by assassination. All things have coine to pass. In the same article lie said that when the twentieth century opens great seismic disturbances will take place which will cause the submersion of New York city and the western half of the city of Havana. Cuba is to break in t\\?>. while Florida and Lower California are to sutler tota 1 extinction. The shock ofthesc earthquakes will raze buildings to the I ground in almost every city <>u the continent. Millions of lives and Millions ul uouars worm 01 property will bo lost. There is to he a ehatnje in the economic conditions of cvcrv civilized nation. lie foretell- tin* :;rowih of n democratic spirit in Kn^lamt which in ill result in a revolution that will tverilirow the present form of pe.erninent ami make tlie eountrx a republic, lie says the last ruler of Kntrlaml a ill be the best the e. unify ever had uid the lir-t president of the new nation w ill be one of the royal family. tjueeii Victoria is by lontjodds the >est ruler England has ever had, and n a recent speech the lTineo vt \\ ales ! >aid it m his desire to live to see Hug- i i republic. According to the hermit, llu-da, 1 i'rance and Italy will form uu nlbanee 1 uul will enter war with Turkey. J This war is to ho the outgrowth of j Turkish persecution of I'hristain >:i'?eet. This triple alliance v.il! conpier the domain <>f tiie rich man ? ! lie east. At the expiration of the var complication will arise wiiieli vi 11 plunge Italy ami 1*'raise into var with dussia. T'iic result will >e t'.iat the two countries will he ' rubbled up by the northern p over I iiul will cease to exist as independent : lations. While war b heing waged ictween tliein the pope will move the | I- . ?_.i. 5: ... i? ... . . i;i t ui v^.n in iici^iii 41 v 111 i t | omo town in southern Ireh.ml. A | ehellion will take i?laco iu tin- 1 mil > ?fShamrock. in which the country | 1 k ill hccotue in?lcj?cmloht ol Lii^'laml. j riic a cotilliot will arise hotwooii j < lie ultra ('atlmlios < ! tho s uth ? I 'j relainl ami the- ultra I'ruiostants .1 , im north, in which tho - i , ill l>o victor*. A kin^'I' iii will ho! stahlisiio.l. ami it i* j:r?-;Ii?.*I*. ?I that j ho rci^n of tho lir>t potentate will i ' loooino historic for his t\ rat:ny. | ( l ite prophet j?;?i11- a Uariv future ' r the 1'iiitcil State*. lie says ai ' he close .tj' ;he eoiitury a feeling ol 1 ill ? ?! will -oi/.e tlu' )ifnj'lr. I I.is reliti;* w ill l?r tin- ouliiTnlli <>j' unequal iic:al and ci'iiiKUiiic ciuidilimis. lie c 'f. diets iiiai tin* twenty- lil'th ).rcsi- " i".i' will In- tlic Ia<! c\(Viiti\c ill-ad " t' tiii I nitcd Stall's. Darin*.; his '' dniinis!ration tin* discontented mass- 11 < will lireah into open rebellion. and in established I'ofiii <)l ;:*>vi'nnucin ill i?t' o\frllirown. i in* I nitcd talcs wii! In* rent asunder, and n?r year ?'?r wmrc anarchy will prevail. 0 \ lien <irdi'i' shall be t?i**?iiit?i! nut < i hue.'*, six republics will be termed. j. nil ejijiitals ai tiic iiiilow ini; eiii' s: ( an ! ''raueiseo. Denver. New Orleans i i. l.iMiis, \\ ;is!iiii^rl??ii and II. : >n.?- v / '/V . / - II w Tin* ofii'.inl Tivn-Uivr >i;i!(Mi,nt ' I' tlic linti<mal i*:mi -lit lor tin* -t t,'tl IIKHltllS, Willi I \\l? ll.IVS csti- ct makes l!i, ri'CCijits s!;iihI ii'i'i.o 10 ainl lli,* f.\|?"iiililnrcs Si S-JiMI.IMli 1,0'ill. or an (,\it,s ii| c\ mlilnro^ over riv,ol .*'lt!.tif)0 ! ?. Tin* in!' rest | a men's It llio (| r.il \ i*;ir I(> dale 11: \ ? I?? ?:? Si'!' (MM) j Ol" I I |US' (Tilt ol 11 IoJjiI ^( ' T. I)' :> ??! tl'C p)? ITll'.nUii. FREE SILVER. Free Silver seems to be the popular side for politicians just now. It is impossible t<> tell what turns may be taken but it is extremely probable that the Free Silverites will carry the election next tiuie by a large majority. Of course it is all too soon to commence the national campaign as it is now about eighteen months before the election, but the people have taken the subject in I hand and the press will no doubt teem with a war of words until the next election. Speaker C. F. Crisp is a Free Silver man and makes no secret of it. lie says that it is the great issue before us. In a recent interview given to the Associate Press lie savs: n ? ' it will lie the great issue and must be settled directly, not by subterfuge or evasion, but openly, so that the people may undcrstrnd it. It will not down. The fact that progress in silver rehabilitation lias been slow shoe,Id not be discouraging. This is a big country, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, with probably of the most civilized people in the world. The basis of all law with ns is tho will of the people. When alter years of discussion and often contrary action, they made up their minds lor tarilf reform, there was no power on earth strong enough to resist it. The sil ver qucstion is g>?ing through the same course of public discussion. 11 is meeting with detents and victories just in the same ratio as characterized the taritV tight, dust as in that fight, the silver men will have their battle royal; then the American people will award the victory. Thp majority of ti e American people in both political parties are in t.ivor of the restoration of the free coinage of silver. They are a eonscivative people, respecting all rights ami moving slowly that they may not disturb them. They may be repressed once in a while, but once they take ujt a ipicstion, there will he no cessation until it is brought to ? culmination. J lie American peo111.. t j ii hi v- lii't.iinl III- ,' ' .;i I I'm" I"v ",v ' " ... v. movement and tliey will jtusli it oil to suceess ami have silver re-ostahi.-lic.l to it> old equality with gold. When tlto people lake uj> a question, In' party succeeds which nas the hre?iglii and tin* w isdoni toeniistitute i*ol) tin* agency through which their lesires can he accmphslied. This ;uat financial question, wiiioli has Mine to si,Jo hy side with the aril! question, will he settled like\ischy tiie heiuoeratie party. hi lie in'\t campaign the rehabilitation ?f silver will he Hie main and eotilolling issue upon wiiieh the l>eii'-eraey w ill appeal to toe people, 'artv platform* should always he dam aud direct. I do not helieve ii tliose planks whiei: are so written s to eateii voters coining and going. Parties should hi lioiiest to the icople. \\ halever room existed for 'II, 1*1?! 11 i*i >iixl illi*: i r.isul ! 111 i , In ll \ ,ri i> i I I fd'ii should ii<> 1 <?it exist and !>: tliis j urpose tli:it to In* adopted i I s'.Mi should in- so plain that even sehonl Ih>v mold understand it. . ? . (.'harlc- ton. April lit'.?At a leeliutr<d ('amp Sunipter, (Jon fedrale \ eierans. iieid in this eitv toi^ht n xx.i^ determined in send a ii'go delegation I ? tin* reunion of on federate \ eteraiis in Houston, 'ex.. I'T the purpose ol inviting the eterans to hold tlie.r next annual leeting in tins eity. I he invitation ill In* supplemented hy another Iroin le liuivol- and eity enmieil. '1 lie ilief is expre sod nere that there iiihl he no more Miitahle plaee for ieli a meeting tlinn tin* " cradle oi recession." |)oii t f?.rget that M\<a Nates leeires !iere to-night, i: the t'oiirtim.se at S o clock. Nou will miss anclhinggned il'voii fail to hear her.