Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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TliE UNldN TIM'M F 't>Wi 13 " t * = ? ? i. ---1 i Bt '!? j? ! .I1 "^=afc?B?. VOL XXVI.?NO- :W?. UNION SOUTH CAROLINA AUGUST :!(), ISilA. ; 1.50 A YEAR. ?' - ? ?? ? -- S - ^r ~ I.I SINKS!? DIRKOTOIIY. D. 10 II V DllK'K , J. A.S.WYYl Spnrtanlmr<r. S. ( . Ctiioti, S. J ^YMUICK & SAWYF.L. Attorneys at La ludge K<>wiim n i's (' d ^Stand. TytUNKO \ M lT NIIO, Attorneys ?t Law, No. 'J. Law Hinge. S. STOKFS, Attorney at Law and Trial .lits-tiee, tMlice Hear of Curt llv ii>e. OCHUMPKHT \ BUTLKK, k> A tlui t.i'vs at Law. No. Law I'l'inj!!. itKN_risTi;v. I^U H. K. SMITH'S Mental Loo ins over A. it. Foster Cos. stoic. Cocaine used in cxtrnclii Iceth. DENTISTRY. J^ll. ,J. C. M< CI RUINS. Ollice on the corner of Main at dgcnicnt Streets near the Conit lion? Bridge an J Crown wotk > I 11 e villi ( sired. Call and see :11c. I MOX. MAR1.I.K ?.\ .> u? (xi'tinito W oi'Iis ur.oma; gi:di>i:s. _ M. FA Kit, UFO. Mi NIiO. President. Gas-hie Merchants and Planters' Nationa IiA> K, OF UNION. Gil{ it:\i Moik l.t",M?. Surplus '.<? ?> u Stockholders liali.iiirs. $mi.SMO?Total f 1 (ilfioers?f. M. I'urr, Pie* i. .'v. 1 Foster. \ ire 1'rc- I. Goo. Muiiiv. Oi-.i.c J I>. Art nr. A->iMun! t usbicr. I'ircctors -W. 11. Wallace. A. G. !Iio< Wm. JelVoiics. T. G. l-'unoan, .!. A. I'aiit. . I. Goi.plas, I. (i. McKissuk, A. si. 1'ostei tetf We * licit your l-u-iiio**. ICE CREAM -\NJ) SODA WATKU DA\l\A )\l S tin* ()yMer season is now over, i li ive converted my S:il > out into :i JCK CRKA.M I'AIMiOIS. Am] tl adies nml gentlemen arc r? >|icctIn!Iv i viteil to call on rue when they want cool and refreshing drink. Orders li erc iiu hy the gallon will receive proni] nml careful attention. 1 have one. <d tho lines' S ?d i low tains in the up country, evi ry thing situ bo Jv< pt tidy. Ladies mo invited make my place their lieadijuartcrs win rhoppiug, stop in and rest whether y wish to buy or not 11'you have a hce aolic try my W INK COCA it will en i every tini . Vou will a's ? find it my place the la ^v'st ami liiR-st a*.?or(incnt of fancy a; plain candies <. ikrs and crackers. frui f.niH'il ooods iinl genera I ( <>t?!i t i< >m i;so family "ropcri s. Tlmfhm* my cu-t niior.x i >r ll.eir kn and UWai palr?>rin*r?* lri>t Summer opcctfully solicit a <: ntiiiuaiict ol' tl umiic this iijiiiiii-r; jru*i rri'i? Ti iro.npt and p 'lite attcnt. >11 to an JOHN. R. MATH IS 0>MINii CON V10 NT [ON. ? - 1 i nal strength uml other mailers Of lUtfUSt ek From The State of the-<?th. s? (\ The interest of tiie people of the lu State is now centered upon the eighth ],. Constitutional eonveiition that the to Nv State has e\er had which is to assent- lu tile m the hall of the House of liep- t], resentatives here exactly two weeks ,, from totnotrow at the hour of high ;lI noon, to he called to order l?y See rotary of State Tompkins. The eon (0 vention is now praetieally at hand, t|, and any iuiormation prelcuiinary to j? the assembling of the convention i- 0jread itli interest hy the people. The election I'M* delegates to the convention t}, lias been held ati'l at present it looks t|j as if there will ho n<? contest in any j?. of the counties. Secretary Toiupki11 ^ has not appointe I the time for en the assembling of the State hoard "t* <|r canvassers to canvass the retains ami in, 'leelare tise results in tiie several ar counties, hut the law rcjuires that tr; the meeting shall be held within tif- ..p teen days after the eiee;:on. This tj(, meeting will scarcely mahi any ehang- j, l!s? cs in the result. Till: 1 ACTION \l. .-I U ! . N i; I'll. There are 1 <?0 delegates.' < ?ftho>e '[*) only l" are Conservatives and elected t)M as sucii. and'! are llcpuhlicans. All wj of the Republicans are negroes and 'j*), j they are the only negroes ia the m, 0 convention. There are in the con- :j^ . n vention, however, a great many very ;lt, conservative Reformers. hut even if Cl>. they vote with the Conservatives 1V, granting that the Conservatives vote Jt, solidly, on important ?niostn ns. there j;?. will hardly he a suiliejcnt number to j-.(i . defeat any of the net schemes of the slli leaders of the dominant element, j,, : For this leason it may be safely pre- ^tr J dieted that the sessions .'ftheeon- j v ?' vent <?n v-?11 not l?e very l"n_' unless (.Vl a "ivatdea! of time is consumed in talk. uj( Ni-.ii:oi.> ,,NM. nj I Heaiilord sends a solid Republican y, delegation of negroes, and ?ie>i_'c- W()l town sends the other Republican. , ? I' who was elected 011 a compromise 1 ticket. T|, W 111',\ei' c MI; v N-iit:\ \i : \ ; r. ( harhstoii \sa> the only count. in ihe State to-end a s<>!id t .u-ervativo * . 4' '* I delegation. 1 he counties ti.at -ci. i ,|(I| the t 'oiiserva11ves, eieeteu u di? . r. , . , J' \ i.-ion agreement tiekets. arc a- ! i- i lows: Abbeville. Chester, Chester- !: ^ lit hi. Colleton. Kd^eiield, < ie-'im'cr-iwn t(.;i tireenvil'e, Hampton, H-rry. I.< x- j .:|(i in_M<>n, Marlboro, Newberry. ?'eoinv | , . 1'iekeiis. Richland. Sumter. \\ illiam--' huvo and >i ork. * ; , c ..... . ^. ........ i ' 1 11 r.. I? v 11 u r. i > iiii. < 'v' ' i. ? i CAi jj 11 will be a matter of general inter- t..|r ost to know licit there will he oiih j1(( t\\? members of this convention wlm " >at in the List, constitutional convctilion in |Si?s. They art lichen (| Smalls, tin- *" < i: 1 la 11 Statesman, ami \\. .1. \\ 1111'| of. In,>tli negroes. ' It may he interesting, t<><>. to know , i that the last convention wa> called t |(, order hy Tini??i!iy Hurley, ?.}' P.crk* ( lev: that Senator 1. ?l. Kobcrt.-on <>l this city, v,a- made temporary chair-! man and that Albert MaeLey wn j r" ,l president. There is a great amount! r o|' speculation as to \\le? will he tciu, . i i- ., lie! ,l jiorarv eliairnian ol the coining convention and a~ lo who will he prcsi i ident. 1 he name ol ('ougressma n ( ,111 Talbert i> mentioned in eonneetiou ,j. t(i ^ with both ]h sitioiis, a- i.-> also that, ol ^ i Sneaker Ira l?. .lours. j' Tin \\mi;k ?>r i in: i .,\\ i n i n?\. : Mm il has been -:ii?1 :i< t<? what the ' convention oii'jflit to aid will <Io, hut r,J tin* following Summary of Senator Tillman tlr.' otiior <l:iv pretty weli r I'dV.'i's the ?i111< 1: "The main ~111?- jj,( iJ jeets t-' lie iliseus-eil are sulllajje. (S ilivnrce. schools, aid ijucstions as to iS how the eoiirts -nail he bound; ,},, ' whether the judges are to he elcctnl (..,j j hv the people or the Legislaturenor.\i:i.i: m i:mi:i;i*. . ' A mope i)M. notable members o| |M,| u' 'he convention will he Senator Till- ||l( ' ? i Man, <" vener Kvans. ('on^res-man uj| l all-ert, on ('onjrcssnnn < ( <?. i1||( j I'll Inn n aid < ?* ?>. John-tone. ex- ,. j (loyenor Shcjumvl ami olheis. Tin* Duty Ol'fho State-. Dr. Parkhurst on compulsory education Kven .luring the hard financial rain of the j>a>t two.years the great j ajority of those who have suffered < ive been those who have never hecn j light to do anything, or at least I ver heeii taught w ith a thoroughness at makes instruction convertible to terms of dollars mid cents, bread id butter. The generic problem of the race is | keep soul and body together, and ! j e school problem is first of all to j . it the rising generation in tlie way 11 making the junction of two pos>le. So long as the State assumes 1 e eare of paupers it is the duty of e State to use its best means to \ event the existence of paupers, and i? oi tlu? om?' diroet ) > tli-it il is 11> see t * it that all the cliil(ii in the State ate thoroughly -tructoil iu reading, writing ami i ithnictie, ami are substantially! ' i i J lined in the pratiee of some form j remunerative handiwoik, writes ' I liev. Charles 11. i'arkhurst, 1 >. j '' , in a vigorous article <>n "Coin- j Ision in Child Training," in the ' ptember //*///#?.? >founr.tl. iere is work enough to he done in is big world by people who are II i 11 g to work and who know how. ie idea of innneii-e wealth secured ! some process of linaneial legerde- lili has go pervaded the general j , nosphere that a sullieieney has ; jo tsed to satisfy, and a young man ' olves either t > speculate his wav | ' fortune, or to steal some one's else j 1 tunc, of if liolu these expedients ; !, to turn professional i ller ami k isist on charity. The it.eentive j 7 -ulstantial e<piipnient for the, ^ uy^le of lite is tnus withdrawn. If, uto the S'ate 1 vonld compel 1 , 1 . < ! try chil l to aco'ii1-" tin- humus ot I f, h ?nest 1 iv *ii!i "ii. even at the risk the whip, and then if, having aered that menus, he failed to avail ' t to his own mainteiiatiee, I aid eonimit him t ? the worklu u-e ! I keep iiiin at hard labor there til! ' , . Oli i xncricher i a elian^o ! in art. ,1 ! in ere no la-peeta oe * tisistes;.-v j weeli .Stall eare ' I tlie pool' ..i. I ' , ite - neglect of -f.uiji nt mean.-! preventing the existence el' :;.e ?r. 11 a _ \ eminent o.iylit to ! <. j itenia 1" ti.i extent I I'ee.iinjy ipers it ;;_!it : ? ] a: -inai u i 1 extent of oh!p >--;i?le m- , ? din^j paupers t. be able t 1 c I j u ni.-elves. The root d'lieulty in .iil ! Ui - matter is t!..- .ndisp -iti n ol i ,l! el it - and "I her c- ?l i -1 '.tilt ed a at In a' to niat.e -cri'.-a< i.ni~;i < it !a\- ' ' ?li!>sta'itial 1 nitiuatiot.s >ii tuo iy yfsirs el our youn^ |??. ?)?lo. ,v > ami jiil'ls. i hie ei' tin- fliirf;"" iTfrs el misery allien^ iIf work*- l elasse- i.? tin* wile - i^ii.?i*.i::* * of; unties 111:it licletij; t<? her. > Is? , ''' ^llelllllt el tllelll heea Use she liar- U" id' Keen eonipeilnl to iearn tlifiu. ! " v.f eotihl split hull el' our pianos ; 111 it ki11< 11 i11_C wooiI an I plurU the ; 'u inirs out of throe ipiaitTs ei' our ; ;,l ps ami banjoes, ami set out" youn^ j xv |s to the praelieal task ol hefoiu- I ''' r proficient in a sell-siMniniifjf | 01 v upon seine hue or oiher ol renin ! xx .itive imlustry, it wouhl lie a I ''' at hi nisoii to soeiety in oeneral | whatever direetiou we look ami,"' atever itiiprovem.eiit we seek to ' et. we eotne hack to it ajfaiu all 1 1' tin that the eml is i!eteruiiue<l hy 111 l)("_finninami that the I'oitn la !> h-of all puMic hetteriuent h ive In- lai'l in /lie ehihlren. O \ n efVort is iiein.i nuole to have i . P. II r.., .. . l r : I t I ' M 1 I \ I 9\ I II < I I I I I * 1 II' 'III 11.^ | tinjj ]?I ;i i ?* nt I'liil.nK'! j'liin to ti l;iiii;i, tli*. !"? t<> on i xliiiiiriuii j l> rin^ tlir l'\|H?itiou. An ;ij>| ii_ ; ? ion lias l?ro<l unuli* '>v citi/.i'lis c an injunction to restrain tin- li 'ill authorities Ir<?i11 lvniovino tin* i li II IV?>1)1 1 t??li*|?fli?lt*ln* * Mali. Il ' v jifofccilino- arc iltsinisscil tli<* In li I II l>o at tin* exposition ami will nl | >< I iM'flv 1111? 11 it 11 South ( ';i i' t ni either on route t ?, or a-; it i> ii iny carried hack IVoin Atlanta. t -*' I ?3* oc W" A. Nich. [ HAXK (, UNIOII, f Jlrs|>t*ct 1 tilly solicif yo REPRESENT COMPANIES WIT HMatawiaBanDBM Tile St ml! i N < >1 A !< >110 The South has been roundly nuscd time and again lor the lynch j ugs that take place here, mainly he | ausc most of the liends lynched in ( lie South happen to be negroes. ( Other parts of the country, how* ver have certainly been doing their liare of the lynching this year. A dispatch from Yreka, Cal. Aug. ^ '? tells about a wholesale lynching s t that place, done on general prin? v iples. I'our white men charged ,, ith different murders wi;re taken ] <>m the jail by armed ami mask ~ t] 1 men and hung to a rail, suspended p etwfen two trees. The first j, ictim was a man who had stabbed S( is wife to death on July 1>S. 'I he |, ?1 was a man wh i shot and kill- || 1 - A. 1 t * 1 . ? 1 1-1 .I' 1 ( iiikuikt on .\pru _ i. aim mo iiiiru ad killed a man on tin* 111 Aii^. 'I'lio last aiol youngest victim was nlv l'A years old. Hi* had also ta^ w on the life ??1" his followman on the tli in-it. Tlicy wore swung up side y side on the rail where they were ()j and hy the sheriff, almost hv the k, n.e the last of the mob hail gotten j lVa>' tc Kentucky also talcs a hand , i the game. Some of her cili/ens T H I) 1 nch a man?even a negro man. .V spatch from Springfield, Ky, ugust :J'?, says: Shortly after - o clock this morning a moh composed ?() a do/on men. took Harrison Lewis, * ie man who murdered .he* 'hooks, ^ ' - colored, last Friday night, from : iejail lure and hanged him .n 'lie i (1| nirt luinse yard. j , The iii>?h did its work in a ijun t j vioi iv way ami st'C wie t to lie tiio: ' jt i^hly ;u-'|;i;ii:i:0vl wills t!.*.- >;irr and- (i' ~. I tli 1 hoc arc :: .1 - m ,.rv simtanoi ?. ; . ' 1 till it aft taken lr isn tlio d'..-patoises oi i ;,K' ,< day. VI.!. M ANT OFFICII. N"\\ p.at t!io oniistitisiiuiial ivnveir ' it .> ;:i:n -t in >i_dit Slii-sv iiro 1,11 iii i?'o<l> 'i hungry oinco <vi.or?; 11111:._r j ' aii'l 111ov arc mak Mil i , tal 0 Mll-fl'IOC t ' iIJIO pi J.IO Wlll'ill i , > lot rv think uiivo :i;i..i ?< i* o! nosit. ?'i~ j -soul 1 lit 1.? tiio faitht'li. Kni- Hi. ' iiioo iiiv V ttormy iioiioiwl isas eoi\ r 1 hot A eeli seVelit v?h?*-" it lilt it hundred applications lor poiti.mis tiic emjjrosdn^ department iiit foilvt iili 'ii. itfally j on- i-Sf' Mieii tiiiny. N.i jis*. i -,..n ' 1 11 i- iiiaile tor anv suoli de mi'.mv'.il ' id tlif Attorney (ifiifial iia> aiisti j' trlv iiothiipr lo do with it and j ' nee 11;i^ 11 ? positions to yive. i! ! 1 ijilicaiiis will hear this in mind thoy < ',l ill save thftiiM'lves troitoil- and 1 " -appointment. 11 tlifi'o is to hi* an 1 1 i^rossinjr department t ho ooit\ en I ion j 1 ? i'l liavr toinovidf lot-one and how i 1 c |M?siiit)ii> -iiiill lie tillril. 1*' I In1 \ltonicv ' iriu't ui, in >iir;ikin^ j 1 tin, (.".iLrf<)?iiiLr (li'parii'.u'iil. | i:it lir lui'l ahv:uiy t w? liuciivl an j !MI lications I'or jKisit lens in tlint ?l?,|?:irt cut (luring tin* sc^imi < l tin* tn"_' lature. 'l lu'vc ;iic only twiiv i" r jjiwii nut ami iiiit nl I Mr hatch ifl1'1 v>) liuirlrctl there a it exact iv ? !!?* | " Minimi a11<I richly live pc ?p.o wliu , ro ur<>1 iiif in Ik* left.? /I -( j in \\ A u ? / in- run I "l rut t nl Hi * I'l'. i U'oyal ilaol; ha> ! ^ti fin notified hi ilit' liii'Mii'^ <il tin' 'I.* on I'd Hi' naval t'livliiK'f;> which ro?j la i-ntls examined ll.?' ilnoi:. ami noti ' o?l that lit* must make y"inl thciii"| els. ii tin* it.iff is ! : it (miii pi toil , , illi, '.lie Na\y I'opal liiio'.it w ili *1 J.i" lie work aifl will linl i t if contractor < " av lor theoo-t. '/ lie hoard i'<min? 1 :l lie (look "atcs cspccialls iiol>o!i\o. -X'I ii that 11 icy wore not strong en n_''i v ;l > w ithstand the hydrostatic pi cs^ui c. .vi' * OLSON & SON, 1 ers? j; ;; s. c. ur FJ11E ISUllANOE. H $10,000,000.00, OF ASSETS. 1 lere and There. The Futurity stake was run for at Shcesphead Hay last Saturday by the \vo>.ycar-olds. The handsome purse >f $t>7000. was won by llequittal, imc 1:11 2?o. Brutal Murder in KershawV. 11. Welsh the seventeen year old on of Capt. J. V. Welsh of Kershaw ras foully murdered last Saturday ight at llailc Gold Mine, by Chas. ioyd, a negro. One ball entered lie right side, another the left teni*. le, passing entirely through the cad. When the brute fired the i'coiul shot young Welsh was down egging him not to shoot again. The end deliberately put the pistol to ic young mail's temple and fired. A lie murderer escaped but they re alter him and if lie is caught lie ill probably be lynched. Ex*Senator Hansom of North Car lina, present minister to Mexico, as been the subje?t of a good deal F ollicial red tape, i lis appointment > the Mexican Ministry was made irly in this year and before the exiration of his term as Senator. Some newspaper editor pointed out lat fact and called attention to the i i t her fact that the salary belonging i that position had been increased vf/bg Senator Hansom's term of offi and that therefore the appoint ent was vjid. The matter came i lor the attention of the Attorney eueral and on investigation he de led that the newspaper man was ._ MM * .'in. j no nearest way out of the tlicii!;y. therefore, was t.> declare i humcr ntinent void ami ie_ 'point the i.\.Senator, \hich A\a-? eerdinyly done. . o ? The Texas sin rill'seems to have ix111 the instructions of tin (iovenr in leiMrd to l!:e Corhett. l'it/.>nn? its i nil, in earnest, and tin indiea" [ions are that lie does m l intend to \or tut* Texan -landard I'or eoure and bravery. He intends to be '! loi'tilied, however, before lie mi i takes the job i t * topping the mill. Attorney tieneral Crane" says a patch from Austin. Texas, "tliiit uiiio handed down his . pinion in Cor'belt' Kii/sinmn-n s prize li?:ht* t i ;i>o in r? j?]y ;.i an is.'err ^atory SheriU (,'aheii. of U.,ia? county, to whether lie ba ' any lej^t! ri^nt shoot down jieoph' while attempt* S to suppress the liyht. The at . .. 1 * I * - 1 |V nicy "jviierai s repiy is to IJIC eueci ;it the ]>vi/.e lighters, referees, ete, iistitute :i 11 unlawi'ul assemblage and statutes of the State make special visions for the disbandmeiit of eli unlawful assemblages: that the erilV is empowereil to summon a s-e or oven the milita to his aid d arrest in case the lighters will t cease their unlawful conduct: then at the statutes especially provide at homicide is just iliahlc when ah lutfly necessary to .suppress riot or daw fill Catherines. The attorney iieral concludes his opinion hy say < o that while he does not believe it * ! II !! !*! . . ? I er>sary, s<ih n u i*- necessary, nil! ututes provide that this shcrilV can e firearms in lishanding an nn. wi'nI assemblage. /lie Hepulhiean State Conventiuu >t lielil at 1larrishurg, IVnnsvlva a i*as a typical one. It started out wrangle hut wound up a love least, at tjnav i' chosen *ho>s. 1 liev :ne out nnetjuixocaliv for the sin. e gold staiiduiil.