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TplE UNION TIMES.' VOL. XXVLNO-40. UNION SOUTH '^AKOLINA OOTOBBE i, 1895. $1.50 A YEAR. BUSINESS^ tfeCTORY. ? * * i ^ "1 ' D. E IITPRICK,1,! J, A. Sawyer Spartanburg, Si, Union, S. C. JJYDRICK& 8AfcR, Attorneys at Law, Judgs Towns* O'AjStand. ? jy|HN?OtMONK<| "4 torneys At Law, No. 2. Liitanfo, ^ S STOK1H, Allot HOT ?t 1.4 w 4n.'?:?l 'LT,<?ilu ? I?*. v ?c .-v. . O? J? Hear of Oil Mouse- t? *. J&J)^ gCHUMPERT k BUTLj., -p* A>rneysat Law, No. 8} Law fop. i ,<o? ' < DENTISRY. u H. K. SMITH'S Dental Rooms over , H. Foster & 1Jo'j. store. Cocaine ueeiin extractor eelh. DENTISTRTi' QR. J. C. McOUBBINSi Office on the corner of 1 slain and dge.nont Streets near the Cart House. Bridge rnd t'nwn work ane when sired. Call and see me. UNION MARBI i ?AND? Granite Works, GEORGE GEDDR3. M I'ARU own """H.I ? Merchants and . Planters' National iJANK, of TJisrxojsxCapiiai Stock $60,000. Surplus $?"?0,000. Stockholder* liabilities, $C0,O00?Total? I? 170,0*10. Olfiorrs?F. M. Fsrr, I'res'i A. U. Foster. Vice 1'rei t. Uoo. "unro, Cashier. J. D. Artnr, Assistant Cashier. Directors?W. U.WoTare, A. 0, Kice, Wni. Jefferies, T. C. Duncan, J. A. F ut, J. T. Douglas, 1. O. McKissick, A. if. Foster. ?ar We (solicit your business. ICE CREAM AND SODA WATER PARLOR. S tDo Oyster season i* now over, I .1. luvo converted niy Saloont into an ICE CREAM PAKLOH. And ? adieu and gentlemen ore respectfully it vited to call ou mo wh^n tliey waul a eool and refreshing drink. Orders for cream by tbc gallon will receive prompt and careful attention. t i r ur. * j i . 1,1 l uan'u uirj ??i iiiu ii'iuai. ojud ruUIJ tains iu the up country, everything shall bo kept tidy. Indies aro invited to make my place their headquarters while chopping, stop in and r.-st whether von wish to buyo* not. If'you have a head aohe fry my WINK COCA :t will cure t every time. Yea will a'ho find at my place the large-.t -ind tine-j*. assortment of func? and plain candies, cakes and crackers, fruits canned goods and general confections also fimily groceries. 'r:\anki:ig my customers for thoir kind and 'iberri p.V.r nayc 1 *?t Summer I sp ' ullj rolcit a continuaDCs of th< ?amc this fhiuimer; guirrantet,inj. >roui,it and poiite al ontioii to au. JOHN. R.MAT HIS. | 10 Per Celt Discount! During October! WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? It Means? That wo Lave some back , dues en our subscription bjoks? j Some have forgotten it? others ' have just neglected or put it off ami . others hare been unable to pnv. We WantAll subscription accounts sottled and are offering the above discount on all accounts for subscription paid during the month of October in order to get them settled at once. Money?. is what wc want, and time is money. If we take the time to go around and see every one it won It. cost us considerably. Our agent will go around, but we want to save him as much work as possible. Wc don't offer you a cheap almanac or foreign journal, but a net discount in cash. Wc will enlarge our paper this month and will be needing fundi. Besides it does not. pay the subscriber to get behind and certainly does not pay the publisher to allow it. Save money by settling this month N. B. This offer applies only t? subscriptions. Call and see us during Court Week. THE UNION TIMES CO. ?-??' i1 A Hiflr , i Sir. KiIiUm i Carlisle may l?o behind in some things, hut how ahou' tie following for an up-to-date name' A little negro walked in the store i day or two ago and L asked hint li.? name; this is what ho auswend. "James l'inckucy \\ illia.n hi i ene* l>cnjamin franklin '/heha-ivi 'i ay lor Millard Fillniove franklin 'i c Abraham Lincoln Andrew J dins ?? I lyases o. v.lrant lluJicrford 15. IIayes VV. IT. Sims I) whins th.* was all said as glibly as if lie wire reciting that part of the niu'ti,.iiea tion table known and beloved of all school children as "10 tunes one arc .10". When tlio young "suffrage problem" presents himself for registration about lhOo, what do you suppose the supervisor will say"' Twenty t?;.\ in itils in cue name, who can beat it! Av. Another Raid. The town police made a raid last Pn 1 ii i-i 1 it v. 1111 r it wns :i d i ffio'cii! K ii.it I from tliose which we liave heroine ae customed to. This time it wis a gambling den instead of a hiiml t i-i n O den. In the southern part of town, on the outskirts, is a two room house b longing to Cudozer Hampton,colored which the police have had under suspicion for some time as being a gambling den. It is occupied l>v a negro woman. They got definite in formation that there would hegamh ling at the place last Saturday night Accordingly, Chief Cttlp, with In.two as.-istants, l'orter and Isrel. wen down to stop it and arrest the participants. It was al out 1 _ o'clock when they got down there, the', had not belt misinformed, gamhlin.; was going on in both rooms. Then o n wore twelve men engaged in it. a I negroes. The police went in at onri and arrested nine of them 'fheothc three made their escape by jumping from the window and ruurn^. The\ were arrested on the streets Monday. They wero tried before the Mayor and convicted. Eleven of them w ere fined So.00 each. Cvlo/ev Hampton th" owner of the house was tin;. $10.UO. Seme of f hem ] aid tin* lines. Others are v iking them u on the street j. OOtf si IT U T I ON A I, jMNVKNTION, ;?l At Work. Nodiviico it. this v tateThis is the fourth week of the Constitution"! Convention and the body scents >o be up to its eyes in work, bnt the end is not yet. Indeed it scents not to be anything like in sig it. (iovcMor I*]v:ins wits taken sick with lever on Sunday und was not aDie t<? jnesuie. \ tec rres. 1 albert OCCtipiuiHlio chair. The <piej?ti? u of u .\v long the convention will Inst is bo ginning to he a i . i I matter of interest to t!ie convention, as well as to the people. It is haroly pos-nhie that the work that is in sight can he finished under six weeeka and the probability is, that unless it i? rushed through, it will take mfcch longer than that. A recess has been talked some and the matter has oo no up before the convention. Most of tile t csuluti nis submittted and considered s > far follow very much in the track <>;' ;h u. l c eistiiution. Among the matt rs of interest brought upon Ton lay was a resoldlion hy Mr. < > Is t ? abolish the fee system, pay tiie ent ity and s:a;o olficcrs salaries, and have the tees turned into the tivn-cries Aa objection however < o he ground tluir no resolution t oiild he n w introd te ed excejit from a e an nit tee the iin . f r went ?ver i > ap;.i m ia the report on miscellan'*.- u . i..nt ers beetlen ten of the veoorltn* ti : < aauntiee on ini-cellnneoit?? r lining o ilu- rights of i i i i i i w >:n n vra.l :is lo'.o\\>: "Hie (a ci; ami |icr.s >;mi f?i*oe V: '!m f.llu: ot Her maniai. tV.r iii.it which she imiv thcieil ti i;ic. either I?y inhere >i vise or other ?vis , snail in to levy :i11 1 sale I'll* lit", h iti - ! 1) it.lies- h ' heioWII tie; >li?. |?i sr ? - htV-ell !l!ll)l l liereli? ? , lillr. stall I ? In I- sel.erat ,?r > i rt> .in s!ie <.u I liar e all tli I i. -I b ill! ill' . ID 'ill- .-.'till..1 t ) W ll'c i i ii'.iii ;ti rie i ivoinii;i or :i man is en - i 11. ?I. . lie shall tnice llie ]in Vel't-. i-ilKUiei a.nl ii e 111; :to;e< 1 W'i Ii lit ilie sain inaiiie r a- if he were mi married Mr. .:taiivarn WV.-oji oiVerc.1 at a Jieliihiiein m\?.i I ii; ili.it she shall tint haive (>i\\. i t i act as sine ? I*?r her hii-haml. h'lf on ins own -lit; oeslion, the wh >le m itter was jm-se I 'ivi-r Ihr the time. The In at lit.ii ; on tin* ojx n.ng of I he night .-ession w as a resolution ot ferotl l?y Mr Ivlerhe; Uosolvotl that ill's em veiitinii a j?>uru on the 4th 'lav ol (Jetoher next, in meet on Tims lav. tin- 14111 day <iiFebruary. Mr. i*III*t1?o i?ke.i *li:ii hi< resolution le uadothe >jtee.al order !'or 1 uesils v i' i li ii ,:'ni'!x The article ai- ? ;t nun ed women eaute ii > ayain :r niyV. ! here \ver? a O'Ual man v -n y^rcst e 11 atul speeches but I lie article nav- 1 Mib.>tantiall' .is reported. 7rlieie was a 1 and splendid, disetisd at o| the jii<"i >n. l)ivore? r no divotve. I he adjoiirnuic.it found the ijue- i '.. si!1 unsettled. 'If !.-!> \ V. I'.n>d.i" will h. tan."inhered for the hot ihha;e < ii tile divorce tjUCS? lion and the vte which divoiecs and d'Voiee laws are proscribed i'ii -.lie sentiment has liven a^iinsi liv trees lor \ e n - a.i i tiie indications ire that it i; n >f undeiyoino anv change on ilia1 >uldp 11 was the lire. matt, r called lip ,1 l... ,i ... M.. it i II Illt l.lll I <||||. 4*11. ? 1 I I 11 \ K 1 .>1-111 falk-tl a * t im i t i.?11 i > l lie la.t tl at inur f.a^c was a c.iaiiacl. \\ liriv tlivrc w :is a wriii!; i 11 11 -hou'il lie a rir'.iir.lv. A?lnlt?-i v was a vi I ifion ol ilit! tiiiit i:r?;rc ft ait rut! ;iit<l was a ?*mit tt*r<H|tf. Thvivlniv t'lflf" sliotlld lit' sotm: lvtiii'tlv Iff the injured parly. !k ( were al?)o speeches <... the su'-jeet, , >i iJj turt-s. 'aw, vt 'fi'.i'i' .it i v' at i 'i lu-iiijj useii IV-clj. Ait- * k ; i. f-r:itl t! at the WM A. Nicw BANK ' UNXOK, Kespectlully solicit y( REPRESENT COMPANIES WI > 1 < ?? i eloquence brought to bear was worthy of South Carolina in her palmiest days. After all tho fight, however, NO DIVOKOE wins. The vote was taken on Mr. iiowuian's amend' ment pronibiting divorce on any ground in the state. Yeas, Sli; Nays, i'J. Senator rilhna.i then offorel a resolution providing that the courts of the state should give full credit to the judgements of divorce granted by courts in other states, but it failed to pass, as did also another motion by Mr. W. L). Evans, which was sub stantially like Mr, Tillman's. After the divorce matter nad been laid at rest, the question of a recess winch had been made a special order was taken up by the convention, A vote being taken on Mr. Lee's motion to indeiinateiy postpone Mr. ISllerbe's resolution providing for a recess, was carried by a vote of S i to ill. The suffrage question has been more luikca of perhaps tiian anything connected with the convention. We cunnot publish all of the committies plan but will give those parts which will probably bo of most:* interest. .Sec. ion d reads as follows; Section 4. The qua'itication for suffrage shall be as tollows: (a.) Residence in the State for two \wii.c in ftif> eiiinrv mm in iluj, election district in which lie oilers 10 vote four months, and the payment, ol'u poll tax. six months before any eleciion: provided, however, that min is tors of the Gospel in charge of an organized church shall he entitled to vo e after six months residence in the State; if otherwise <|uulilicd. (Jt.) ftegistrauoii, which shall pro vide ior the enrollment of every elee t ,r once in ten years. (c.) Toe person applying for reg isriaiion must he ah 12 to read and write any section in this Constitution or must show that lie owns and pavs /axes 0:1 3300 worth of property in this State; provided that at the first registration under this Constitution .old up to January 1st, 1838, a:l male persons of voting age who can read a clause in the Constitution or understand and explain it when road to ; ill cm by the registration olHeer shall UNION'S NEWmtfl tS? SMrH& rJIO Here Yor Cft Find !; Bo(ksi Statione AT I^OWJ for foQs will bo sold CE \11 be for CASH ON] VIagazine3 JUST J W.TCH THI TEXT W DLSON & SON, I :eks? I s o 1 Dur FIRE ISURANOE. TH $40,000,000.00, OF ASSETS. be entitled to register and become ;electors. A separate record of all illiterate persons, thus registered, sworn to by the registration officer, shall be filed, on? copy with ihe Citrk of Court and one in the office of die Secretary of State, on or before Jan? uary 1st, 1SU8, and such persons shall remain during life qualified electors, unless disqualified by Section 6 of this Article. The certificate of uic uiorK or uourt or tnc secretary of JState shall be sufficient evidence to establish the right of said class of citizens to registration and the franchise. (<l.) Any person who shall a| ply for registration after January 1st. if oi her wise <p.miifi?d, uiuy be registered; provided he can read mid write any section ol this Constitution or can show time he owns and has paid taxes during the previous year on properly in tins Stale assessed at 3300 or more. , (e.) /Managers of election shall ie? quire of every elector offering to vote at any election, before allowing him to vote, proof of the payment of all taxes, including poll tax, assessed against In a for the previous year j (t.) Registration certificates when / lost shall be renewed if the applicant ' / is qualified under the provisions of this Constitution :>r if he has .been vd-fcittered provided in see tlOH "C. * * * * * / Section G. The following persons are disqualified from being registered or voting: First, persons convicted of biglary, theft, a"son, obtaining goods o monv under false pretenses1 porury, r< berv, bribery, adultery, ember|^* uicnt, bigamy, or crime agil'r election laws. Provi'^d th' , pardon of the Govern f shu'14 'c such disqualificatior " emmo Seem,I, po.wjJVo idiots, .sane, paupers ? P%Uut t|,e k. lie expense, an pers r l, . r,,. ' ns confined in any public pr??No provix>n 's i e , n. 1 ...f made for woman s suft age ex-P? i\r . . . . . fsee fitt -1 re? ' Municipal elections . c .n ardent owners of property of ieay , , rcinh ..J v,sured value ofS200 aie all owe ,l vt V STORE D 33 V V HOLSON ry jj Jewelry jj WST PRICES, [EAP, as our sales LjY. The Latest RECEIVED. S SPACE EEK. 3 3STO. SO.