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.THE UNION TIMES. J VOL. XXVI.?NO- 34. UNION SOUTH CAROLINA AUGUST 23, 1895. $1.50 A YEAR. vj BUSINESS DIRECTORY. D. E. Hydrick, J. A. Sawyer Spartanburg, S. C., Uoion, S. C. |_?YDR1CK& 8AWYER, Attorneys at Law, Judge Townsend'e O'd^Stand. jyjUKRO & MUNRO, Attorneys at Law, No. 2. Law Range, g 8. STOKE8, Attorney at Law and Trial Justice, Office Rear of Court House. gCHUMPERT &, BUTLER, Attorneys at Law, No. 3} Law Hangs. DENTISTRY. J"JR. H. K. SMITH'S Dental Rooms over A. H. Foster & Co'*, store. Cocaine used in extracting teeth. DENTISTRY. pR. J.C. McCUBBINS, Office on the corner of Main and dgement Streets near the Court House. Bridge and Crown work done when esired. Call and see uie. UNION MARBLE ?ANU? Granite Works. GEORGE GEDDES. W. FARR, GEO. MUNRO, President. Cashier. Merchants and Planters' National BAMi, UNION. Capital Stock $00,000. Surplus $60,000. Stockholders liabilities, $110,000?Total? f 170,000. Officers?F. M. Farr, Pres't. A. II. Foster, Vice Pres't. Geo. Munro, Cashier. J. D. Artnr, Assistant Cashier. Directors?W. H. Wallace, A. G, Rico, Wni. Jefleries, T. C. Duncan, J. A. Fant, J. T. Douglas, I. G. McKissick, A. II. Foster. ttT-We solicit your business. TfvI? PPT? AM ll.'U ViliJIlilX AND SODA WATER PARLOR|S the Oyster season is now over, I have converted my Saloon*.into an ICE CREAM PARLOR. And the adies and gentlemen are respectfully in vited to call on mo when they want a cool and refreshing drink. Orders fcr cream by the gallon will receive prompt and careful attention. I have ono of the finest Soda Koun tains in the up country, everything shall be kept tidy. LadieB aro invited to make my place their headquarters while shopping, stop in ami rest whether you wish to bay or not. If you have a head aohe try my WINK COCA it will cure t every titn ?. Vmi toill n'ari fiml.-if mu nhiri. 111.. I ?? gost and finest assortment of fa icy nod plain candies, cakes and crackers, fruits canned goods and general confcctioDH, also family grocerns. Th inking my cu-t oners i r their kind and liberal patronage la.~t 8uminer I upectfully solicit a continuance of tlie f ni# this .'ummerj guaranteeing p-O'Dpt and polite attention to an JOHN. R. MAT HIS. ~\ ' v* Let's Try Tobacco. There's Money In It Mr. M. C. Dcaver of Santuc brought us a sample of tobacco last week at which we were somewhat surprised. We had thought that tobacco could be raised with profit here, judging from tho appearence of the soil, but had 110 idea that anyone was trying it. Mr. Leaver has in several acres and the leaves that were brought us were taken as a sample from a barn that was cured lust week. The leaves were large, well shaped, of excellent fibre and fine color. We pronounce it good tobacco. We believe that tobacco could be raised with profit all over Union County and would be glad to see a good many of our farmers put in say two or three acres each next year, or even more than that. It is an excellent money crop, and especially so to a man who raises cotton and corn, because the money for the tobacco comes in at a time when it is most needed and hardest to get. It can be raised along with cotton and corn without curtailing either of the other crops to any great extent. It does not require so much work as care. Everything must be done at the right time with tobacco, and it the right way. And on that account those just embarking in the business have generally found it best, and indeed almost necessary, to employ a hand who is well acquainted with all the details of the work, both cultivating and curing. Tobacco is not the difficult, disagreeable crop to handle that some have imagined. It is much easier than cotton in at least one respect, and that is you get it housed so much sooner. It is much more convenient than pither cotton or corn because of the greater value in smaller bulk. With good luck you cat; * v\kc more money cn three acres of tobacco than 011 fifteen of cotton, and lmve all your crop in and your land ready for grain by fall. The farmers of York County arc raising tobacco with success and in view of the success of Mr. i-leaver wc veniuieto induige the hope that the farmers of Union wili at least give tobacco a trial. We need another money crop. There's no money in cotton at the pi ice it brought la.st fall. Down On Prire Fighting, This country is making it a little warm for the prize light rs. The authorities of the law have long been after^hem and more recently some of the leading papers are showing light. The Charlotte Ok.tzrver of recent date pays the following tribute to prize lighting, and Messrs. Corbett and Fitzsi-nmons: ' It is hard to understand the character of the mental vision which throws a sort ol glamour around prize lighters *nd such cattle as that. They are all tirivd with the same stich; they are brute and blackguards every one of them, and most of thcin are cowards. Jt appears in the diflieuity in a I'h'lado ! )hia hotel last] Saturday night between Corbett and Fitzsiminons, the former, without provocation, puilo?I tlie latter s nose anil spat full in Mi lace, and fliat Fitzsinnuons bached off and showed (lie white leather. An attempt was made last week to make a hero of Corhett on account of his action at a lire. Sullivan was surrounded with a halo about a year ago on account of his action at lire. Bo'th a?e drunken thugs from' wliomtheirnviycs have had to get divorces (Jay infidelity in both ca-es and for brutality; i^ldyd in Sullivan's. It is a great pity thai there couldn't be a lav. ii this com. try lo license some people for the privi lege f living, as dogs are licensed, and to take them out and kill them when they do not pay the tax, as dog? are killed.' Curious Pranks Of Lightning. Lightning plays curious pranks, and the old adage that it never strikes twice in the same^ place has long since been shown to be false. The latest prank in this county was at the home of Mr. Tyre L. Williams, near Travelers rest, on last Saturday. Seeing a cloud approaching Mr. Williams, who was away aboutamile, hurried home to help take care of some fruit that was out drying, Mrs. Williams being sick. When he got home he found his little son Charley playing under an apple tree near by with his dog. lie warned him to come in as the lightening might strike him. The boy obeyed his father and prompt obodience saved his life, for before he got well in the house there was a blinding Hash and the trees were struck and set on fire. Then the current made connection with a horse trough nearby, shivering it completely. Then it ran into the well, splitting the curbing and dislodging the brick. In fact, the whole premises seemed to catch the current. Mr. Williams and Charley and a small negro boy were knocked down by a part of the current, which finally went up the stove flue of tho kitchen where they were, knocking off the bricks of the chimney above the roof. A A 1 .1 ?. vutsiuc ine casualties were worse. Two bogs were killed outright, and a young calf which was lying down attracted a part of the current, and had one of its hind legs split from the hoof to the hock joint. Mr. Williams was so stunned that he had to have the assistanae of his neighbors to help him put out the lire which the bolt had kindled. While he regrets the loss of his hogs he is congratulating himself that his son obeyed hiin so promptly and thus saved his life. The main body of the house had rods on it. and lie is willing to give the lightening rod man a handsome testimonial as to their efficiency. One curious freak of this stroke is that a tUirf nf thn /*nr**nnf ? A?^f v* fuv vun^ub MIJIIC ujinai Uvi. Mr. Williams is sure that if the downward stroke had been in the kitchen where he and Charley were they both would have been killed outright.? Greenville Mountaineer. \ A Word To Gardeners. l'rof. J. F. C. Dupre, horticulturist of Clemson College, tells hew the orchards and gardens there arc protected from mischievous insects, jay birds and English sparrows: We have needed and used very little and but few insecticides, except to test their relative merits. Small boxes, elevated on poles at the rate of live to the aero, have been the nesting and brooding places of the common blue bird and other insectivorous birds, and these, with the aid of cotmnom toad, have kept all noxious insects subjugated, except the harlequin bug. No bird or fowl, so farflS we have observed, will kill or cat this bug. Our rule is to encourage and provide for (by furnish ing places ami food in winter) all birds of every kind e xcept thejay bird and the socalled English sparrow. These two last we kill-on sight. The blue bird, catbird, and the old held sparrow are worth their weight in "silver7 to any gardener. The various cabbage worms are easily disposed of. Wheat bran, corn meal, gypsum, floats of any line dust, freely sprinkled on the plants when the dew is on, will soon distrov them. After the cabbage has headed, take a leaf IVom the bottom and lay it on the top late in the evening; in the early mor ni'i? ybu Will find most of the worms on the. underside of the leaf. The harlei'piin bugt is made of the sterner stufl". Next to hand-picking, the host remedy we IfttW found is to plant mustard or turnips near the cabbage the bug prefers theseand gathered on the.u kiil *'both" with crude petroleum or with cheap kerosene oil. J'rent and dimmer, : n -ill ?WM A. Nichc i BANK] , , XJiTXOW, *1 Respectfully solicit yo REPRESENT COMPANIES WIT New Electrical Carriage. Camden, N. J. Aug., 17 1895 ? A company of this city now has a force of men at work upon a new sort of vehicle that promises to revolutionize the popular modes of conveyance. 1 The new scheme is an electrical 1 carriage, a carriage to be built just 1 as carriages now are, but to be oper- k ated by a storage battery hidden in 1 the bottom of tho vehicle instead of l' by horses. Not only do those build- ? ing this carriage expect it to super- ^ cede the carriages now in use, but c they declare that it will in time take c the place of bicycles, and in their ^ enthusiam they add that they k would by no means be surprised if r' the trolley cars should feel the effect v of the new invention once it gets on J the market and people are able reach ? the price. 11 Two of the carriages are now be- } mg built at the works in this city, of 11 two different sorts as far as the nie- I1 chanical construction goes, but both t( are on the same principle. The J' difference is the method of operation, " and these differences represent the s views of an electrician in the one case v and of a machinist in the other. They are to be completed by the 1st., of 11 November, and will at once enter ? upon a race near Chicago to test the l! speed. They are being built of the V best material, and will be in every 1 sens# first class carriages of "trap" pattern and are expected to cost about ^ ?1,500 complete for the two. - * This cost, however, can be regula- u ted if the carriages do all that is 11 promised for them, and they can bo f' made in the future at almost any 11 price. In any event, the first cost will be the only real one, because they are to be equipped with a storage battery which will run the vehicle five hundred miles before requiring 1 to be recharged, and this at a cost of '' but thirteen cents for each fifty miles. 1 A speed of seventeen miles an hour ^ is promised for the new invention, and 1 some idea of what this means can bo 11 gained by a little comparison with an , ordinaiy horse. It would .ndeed be an extraordinary horse that could make a speed of ' twelve miles an hour and keep it up for five hundred miles, or for a little less than forty-two hours, without }', stopping for wind, water or feed. , This is what is promised for the ' electrical carriage, however. With 11 the use of this sort of carriage there w ould be no stables to be cleaned? " none to be used, in faet; no harness to be repaired or cleaned, no hay to (! buy and none of the expense incident * to keeping a horse.?iVi. Y. Herald. Greenwood. Mrs. N. A Martin, S! who lives a few miles from here, lias 1 kindly furnished two cannon to be " sent to the Atlanta Exposition. They have been in the possession of her family for almost a hundred years, anil wire used during the Revolution i ary war at the Old JStar Fort at Cam? n bridge. They are about 3 feet loiiit, i.-i y inches in diameter at the butt and w 5 inches at the end. 'Die bore is a . d bout 3 inches in diameter, and they si each weigh LOU pounds. They have oi been used as andirons. No doubt they li were set on lire with a pine knot, as I li that would be the most convenient j \\ lbnn in which to handle file in those 1 good old days. The arms on which they were mounted have been broken ! j. oft", if Gen. Green and Lord Kawdon | could return from the spirit land and ! ui see the mighty cannon used on the Jo Columbia and other handsomely ),, equipped war vessels they would j, blush to own these diminutive nr strumcnts ofdeath.?Pre** <m,i //,/;<-1 I. net ri ? 1 -KM-?1 )LSON & SON, I ERS. " I e. o. I ur FIRE ISURANOB. H $40.000.CG0.G0, OJ AUEiTS. , ? mtmmrnmmmmmmmmmammmmmmmmmmm Woman 8 aft rage. How its ..dvooates will work. ,Thc suffrag'".M ve been working rery hard In ci. r .ate ibr "VVomans ight3." Since t;.e movement was irat started, however their work has >oen conducte i very quietly. They esdlued v>do;I.: or the first speech >r two, t o vcnun of South Carolina u.d r.ot i.-nchlcr themselves in toiidage, ar.d w-r. n in .act very well ontcnded vi:a i. i'.v position in so? iety. Jlut it v as realized that now ra3 the opportunity of a lifetime in iouth Carolina, inasmuch as wo arc bout to mai.o a now constitution and rhich will no v..j: bt be our guide for ears and years t;; come. In view f this fact ihcvcjV.ro iney have not bandoned their work, :'to educate lie people " but have continued it i such a w ay a . not to incur the opinuitiAn Ar .-.1.* ? - -1 1 1 % votviVtk VI bltw * ' ? UU Luigiic oe aDie a give them trouble.' Their plan ow is to lobby t o convention and ave a wonuiub suffrage clause inerted in the new constitution. In iewofthc e:: -. dona given out by Dine of tr.u . i iaeat members of ie dominant j >\y it'is not iraprobble that they v. a bo very susceptde to the vr .-iiig arguments and lore winning of Lie fair lobbyits. It is eniu that Mr3. Iteblott, of rreenvilie, v.'ho is the recognized 1t<*eri?t tr. ' v. v in this jState,*^?sh? ? ~ i quire s: i: :g : . . m ee s, and does ol li.-si...' *. . .. oelief that ie sufl'.Mg' : . . vr ill mid a place i the new co? . ui. 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AbtiKl A willy reply is of> ??u noro effective i presenting tii<? truth than a long iseouvse, how v able. fi ho story iold that in a cor.am occasion hen a cum; .in i' persons were iscassing in n row wen mom sacred tbjccts aiel ee.. n prominent men, no sudden! . * ' n i: "i should he to meet, ilr If.shop ol Liteh? old; 1 d jm. a .. !,> . loii tj him that ould i?i'/;>.b- i t 11 Ycty v. . . :.d a vo'ccout of uothei ci " . , ' i ' v. !; vonr time v ~y >V I am lii" ' l? 1 '1 lie 11.an { tar tied ml take i a ?, i ut |> . * n11 y l'C* * >vereu ln'ii>; i ,-i a. .: "Well my ?nl, can vtii: i. , m ? ti e way to lavcn'r "Novltiii' < o ." a;>. \v< i ed tlio itfliop; vc.m l.av" ? .nv to ant to the glit and g > - " ;rl)' aheml."