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V f|^j TH E UNION TIMES 4 VOL. XXV1I.--NO- 4. ' UNION SOUTH CAROLINA JANUARY 24, 1896. $1.50 A YEAR. ' 1 , i r. II. FARR, GEO MVNRO, President. Cash let. swwi StaMtpasiU H3tfU& OF XT 1ST TO 1ST. Capital B ook fSO.OOO. Surplus stocks >lders liaou-...-H $00,00?Tutu I? 9170.000 Officers?F. M. Fa r, ?'re?. A. II. Foster, Vice Pres. Geo. Munvo, Cashier. J. !' Arthur, Assistsii'. Cash'T. IMreotors?W. II. Wu lice, A. (I I!ice. Wm Jrfferite, T. C. P anc?\o, J. A. K.mt. .1. T. Douglas, 1. G. A. H. I?Y <vwe SOLICIT YOUR BUSINESS vi. gllis & DIXON, Atiy'sat Lay. Alllusiness placed in our hands will it ceire prompt nUentiou. Office No. 1 Law li*p<r<\ gCHUMPEHT, BUTLKIl .Si McUOW.W, Altornfys a' I.uw. At C. C. Cu'p'n r'd Office. 1), E. Hydrick J. A. >nv)o''. Spartanburg, S. (J., Uuiou, S. (' U ydrick & SAWYKit, Attorneys at Law, Judge Townsend's Old Slund. M UNRO& MUNRO, A T n?e nnui ucj a ai iLiti if , No. 2. Law Range. Attorney at Taw m ' :il .'ii-:rc . Office Hear of Court House. DBNTiSTRYJJll: II. K. SMITH'S Dtoinl li iosu over v. !!. i r Co'e !?tcro. C e t;>o ' :u I teeth. DENTitt PUY QR. J. 0. MrCL !:!i! Office on to-* r. v ' Judgement Strcns n- . i u LSi idg c and t'ruv.i i"; sired. Call an-! - i : UNION Ji.UiiiUK ?AM) v GKOtUiU 0 S U K V K. V .I'v'b. 1 am iu Union ni-nt i? >' -.ny i ve^iug ILhI il'o |-n* : in >y ?? -.> ' I at the Unicn G.i iK li-M.' i .i ' r. Jr. t? * Bice's " CITY ' OYSTER SALOON. ^ - Remember that vo?: e-.n get C a nice stew oi fry of Fresf. J Norfolk Oysters at : JOHN R. M A THIS |OYSTER PARLOR. Jg Next door to 5lctift ughliu u Ma* Brown. I FOR 25 CRNIV. 1 >Als? aTresli lino of Ly CANDIKS', CAKKS crackers. The linest i: = < M Canned goods, FrdtI ?a^uts, To bare.? and 1/general line of I ft Famiv Groce!. I' : CITY OYSTER SALOtsX. y yelephcne i\'o. l>V FARMERS' MUTUAL Fire Insurance Association "(Jo It Alone." - ? 'ihe incotiug iui\iday--Tkey will apply for u (liar tor. The Farmers* Mutual Fire in9uranee Ass :cia;iun of this county held a lie eiiii^ ;: t in lay and perfect? ed ai ran^ements wiiereby they will coniiuue their urbanization as an indepeudeni enterprise, without any connection whatever with the state association. This coarse was practically determined upon last fall when the unsocial ion hy a vote withdrew iVoni tiie tAate Association. They n i? (1 to get a charter at that time but H'Uhl not a> their company was not Mu.ti a oiu a i c uhl be incorporated urnicr the t-'.anne by the Secretary oi'." ii'. i . ; y ha ve considered them:i< 1 < { i i'ten? oi'tlie State Asa;. vwer. since that time ? ! i:: . Jus. Sanders, local a... ask.'i; ?';c :ai\;cc of the meetiug jib' i {>: .*i / certain commission, { ? -it die withdrawal last fall | sit;-: trial. t. t ho state agent, they ! 1-ei'l i. a,c agent had no ; tight 11 commission. They ' i v.CiO wi ?> ; I > j ay for what station 1 i 'y h.id I i \i iuniished hy the state ' | a j. ai. M'\ nders was commended j J r i'l.' ;i ;:iuIuos.h wtn wmcu r; < I ha \ Ac; . i iiisiiutv asagcnf, an i ' v.:. ; tin: agent of the ne*' 1 ; a oc'..;,i . v th thy sauie commis - ' i si >ii i >11.; : iy, namely, one fourt i ! ??1* one in r cvt t. j A i i. iiii.;*. wad appointed to at ] J tend io ti;- m..lice of incorporating ( the ins' iuiit n. ! At impouant resolution was intrc j duced and carried ivjuiring each i mouther of i.e a sociation to pay an ? iiuuui ; ,.;o du?u of Olio Dollar pt .* ! thoi! < .1 < : all idBinancc carrie<?. I This . iv.i i i<> the surplus fune. * The <?o ! > i 1 a rs and a half pt * J ti.oii.-: . d . .it jia.d heretofore bee i ' , jjoij: i i., . rue sc-retarv is aid in y<> th; .uit i, 1 u this way it ? ( .v. ill i e aeeuinulat ' e<t .1 i lea hind not on! - 1 :!':i' i \ i ordinary ex- ( <;. . cm r small lossc \ 1 it: . i.a the i csolutio i .lad -'go it alone ' ' a ..-.ly. Thet : j o i j.!' minli . ill.:. . log the vcw 5 < ; i to i!i? farm ' !; < 0-" of Bumneia j ' ma le up his i ' . J ! .St Of I j ill t C'11 j * i i!- and deputy ' i al w. nesscs i. i ' i i idled States ' and brought ( t. In dismiss* ' in the I nitod 1 i > i yesterday, ITikfll 'iliOtll for ( :v a;' IV" in these i io?vd of j imps ' t ' ..s so long pol ! ! .s \. is strong and I': c, hut it fitted * . exactiy descriptive Mid SOW ices of tllOM? ^ : .io ! Nine tenths 1 .o .;ji hy the com mis , i:y marshals were ; .hi jury to he with - 1 .r: din1 re Hrawley's ' a o' o half of 'he i 1 , : .Senion 3,-42, of ' ,i - Statutes, in the :?:.11 liiMv nine tenths ii. r lower tier of ?ouii : ic ;;y:.ieil or jivoniot-- J ni ii >!. \ marshals. " A i " .?<!/!(/ Courier. j st "J A NO! l! : ' I * \\\ t .. . ; v? t he iat titers cf, f mv ; lie well know it j j 1 >;*u. > . i / i . i u 1i/c t's. * t j'ii u o / ibl -) On an o,' * -ci ; Phosphate, ? n; ule l;y til : j ( . a & " rr. C'C. I '< r I I .ant Eros,;: TOO MUCH COTTON DOES'NT PAY. ??? A Small Crop And A BigPrice IsTlie Idea. The Convention of C otton Producers called by IIou. llector D. Lane. President of the American Cotton Growers Protective Association was held in Memphis last Tuesday and was largely attended by _. i . 1 _ a r 11 .1 prominent planters irom an over ine South. It is estimated that there were fully one thousand delegates present when the convention was called to order. The feature of the convention was the address of Pros ident Lane. We haven't space lor the full address, so we will have to content ourselves with some extracts. After successfully combatting the various arguments against the attempt to organize tho farmers and reduce the acreage, lie turns his attention to the annual surplus and says: "The annul surplus that we have been usually making is the most effective instrument used by the cotton 'bear' to depress values. Wrench this weapon away from him and henceforth while he hibernates he will have to lunch on his paws: "Overpioduction fosters manipulation. Without a surplus behigpioiuccd above the actual demand of consumption there would be no sujK thing as the manipulation of a mar ket. Tho law of supply and den ant which is the natural and honest regit lator of prices, would control. Com petition would intervene and the cost >f production of an article which i: I the fairest standard of its value wmlc be its price mark. ' The world spends annually about 1 MOD,000,00') for cotton good*. ifwt send out a 0 500,00vJ-bale crop wc ! jet this money for ik. and the con miners will compete .mono them- 1 wives for our product, and the pr)- J lucer substantially dictates the p iee ] If we send out a 10,000,0<>d-baU j : uop, as we did in 1804, they j uy 1 the same or less, and leave us to com- : pole among ourselves for the p. ice. 1 >nr labor and expenses running tin 1 ja:ue. < The world has to be clothe* i'nt 1 consumption of cotton is ne.ir.y in- 1 flexible. Tlie production is iie.vbU. iVi.h this conclusion it reserve* it : self into the question, * J i <?\v u\ v?\ to destroy this annual surplus;' Tl. * jnly sale and practicable wa ' s , jested is by a judicious doet use of ^ tcrcagc, say -o per con/ ; we won! 1 1 hen reali/" To per cent. increase in ^ :ho price, ami sull have o.O'.'U.O'Jd i teres of land (o raise loo t crops u < j )n, which, if raised in suiiieiem < - i ity on the farm, iustcad of being jhased at long-time prices, with col i ton as its unccilain security, wi.'l i ? nuke another Icgiiiiiiati difiereueo i'.t * avor ot the cotton grower oi "0 per 1 ;cnt." "There can bono plainer object les 1 son portrayed than that of this lust 1 icason of the result of decreased pro- J luction. As another lesson, as to the jfiieacy of the decrease of production is a stimulus to the increase of price, ] ive will cite the history of the cotton t narkct in the year 184o. The average price of cotton that year was ; J'iie production was decrease.! I lie 1 next year by general consent about 1? i >er cent, and cotton values rose in i lonsecpiencc thereof to 7.87 in 1840 " "The idea that lias been advanced o deter farmers from decreasing their ] icreagc, to the eifeet that it woul 1 ' itimulate the production of other * :ountries, is a 'delusion and a snare fnis question has been setl'cd some i me since to the satisfaction oft iio-e vho have put themselves to the j rouble to investigate. t "The East India crop that in l87o uul 1870 amounted to 1,200.1)01 tags, amounted in 1804 to 700,000. flic Egyptian crop amounts now tc ibout the same it did then. Brazil i 1 las fallen from four hundred an.; ! wo thousand down to one hum.red i housand /ast year, and aundries. > 1 hat is to say, and other courti.ics. ! .avo fallen from two hundred . e' ' ( wentv thousand to . ic hundred j md the entire loreigi pio'.bu .i>> a i. ' ] mnints to on/v one tnu.ion liw I u i , j I red and seventy-live Air.er cs i 3 tales. Thereforowe have little to ft ai V tin foreign countries". "By a reasonable curtailment ?v" : rottoii acreage, and piantiug tin ' iiuue in home supply crop, it 1'gur 3 [ cs largely in reducing the cost of the production of what cotton wc might raise, in that we can raise bread and meat very much cheaper than wc can ordinarily expoct a mcr. chant to supply tlfe same, taking the risk that lie is obliged to take in having cotton only as a security, which is subject to be cut off by seasons, and if not curtailed by seasons, subject to the greater uncertainty of being able to get any thing for it, it seasons are propitious and a large production follows. On th c oilier i hand, decreasing the acreage is an j lmfillll^f* 1 AlfOfil (rnlx/tn I uiuuiiiu^ a?v?i111 i aii7iii^ vaiuui. DISAGREEABLE MAN'S WILL. ift? Hkntfed to Put Sting Into Etch On# of His Mequcftto. While Judge Carpentor-was spending a vacation up in the country, he bad oooasion to look nt some records, i and his attention was direoted to a J whimsical will. He arrangod for a oopy of it as a litorary ouriosity. "Imagine the satisfaction with whioh Mr. Darling proceeded to libel all his relatives and insert a sting into eaoh bequest, woll knowing that before their anger bogan to rise ho would bo whoro even a capias in a suit for damages could never reaoh him," commented tbo judge, as ho gave it to a reporter to copy. Tho testamentary clauses of the documonts are as follows: "I, William Darling, in Orantncs., in the township of , county an 1 distriot of , western Canada, enquire, boing in sound health of bod;, and my mind just as usual, whic 1 my friends who flatter mo say is i. > great shakes at the best of times, ? ) make this my last will and test mont as follows, rovokincr. of oourst . all foriuor "wills: "I viave Iho property of Grnn ness, and all other landod proper 1 * 1 may dio possossod of, to my sisici > Ellen and Betsey Darling, tl:; former beoauso sho is man iod to t minister whom (God lielp him) ah i bonpoeks, the lattor booausj she : i married to nobody, nor is h! o lik >1 * to be, for she is an old maid and 2it ; market ripe. And alio I ioave ; ? them and their heirs my share t S the stook and implements on 11 j farm, provided that the inclos n > around my brother's grave bo r 3orvod. And if either should d. 1 without issuo tkon the other she. ! inherit the wholo. "I leave my brotlior Andrew :: r big silver son of old James, as tl 1 ro* esoutativo - of the l'amilv. ? would havo left, it to old J;;nu , himself but ho would molt it dov, . [ > make tomnoraneo medals. ar 1 tha* would be a sncrilugo. Howovo , [ leave him my big horn snull'bo Lie can only mako tomperanco ho: spot is ci' that. "I leave my sistor Jessie my Bibl? imu when she knows as much of tl; i spirit of ;fc as alio docs of tho lotto , she will bo another guise Cbriatii. . thai! she is. "I leave my late brother's watc. to my brother Jerry, exhorting hit? *t tho snrao timo to givo up Whif jury, radicalism and all other sim> that do most easily besot him. "1 leave my brother Andrew m / big silver snuffbox, as I am infurmc ! tie is rather a decent (Jhristiun, wit i a jolly face. "I loavo Parson tho snuft'boc 1 got from tho militia, as a sina i token of my gratitude for tho aor\ Icos ho has dono tho family in taking a sister that no man of taste tvouhl lu.v'o taken. "I loavo John Carson a silver tor[iot, to tl o end that he may drin : tea thorofroin to comfort him uiult r .ho oilliotiou of a slatternly wifo. "I givo my silver oup, with a ho\ *roign in it, to my sistor Jnno, In ;auso hIio is ail old maul and piom : Uho my grnnna's snuffbox, as :t uoks dooont to soo an old woina i ;uking snuff."?Philadelphia Pres.-.. (turn to l)o Xtuu, "Vou know, Goorgo," bho was o::- ! plaining, "I was brought up wit. - ; out any oaro." "JJarry mo, my darling," sa i George, "and you shall bavo not. lug but euro."?Wostchorter Glob . Tho Tin t Mea of in the J is a pr grosaivo transition from ono ai-v another in uuy coui: o. If in tl . ri^bt course, it will bo tho tri method; if in tho wrong, wo oas u< 1 hopo to progress.?Coleridge. llori'i ohomlsts nfl.rm that tl .: Ideal ii k oonaisVs almost oiolusiv ly of gaPato of iron and that rl j a oar or tho liquid approaches ins substanoo tho xnoro povfo* t tho in k \ / I J WM- A. Nich BANK. xrisrxoxT Respectfully solicit you REPRESENT COMPANIES WITI ?-?1 *???ASSAILING OUR LANGUAGE. j It* Pronnnclmtlou ? Mat tor of Uewlt.'?.? ' went mud Krrak*. ? A writer in Tho Atlantio Monl 'r ^ fleroely attaoks tho English langiv :j 1 as being the freakiest and most .1- 1 reliable of any in oxistcnoo. -Io f says: The words of our langu r>> 1 might indeed bo compared to (io * oountless leaves on the millions of 1 trees in the world, eitoh one of < whioh is to a cortain extont a law unto itself and devolops individual poouliarities. I believe it never happens with any other tongue spol ju . on this globe that people of cult.ro and even learning aro in doubt as to ^ tho propor pronunciation of any word and go to tho dictionary to ^ settlo the matter, finding often enough that dootors disagree. I * have givon somo time in my life to ? the study of foroign languagos and ^ know that in all of them cortain in flexible rules govorn certain combinations of oonsonants and vowols, so rarely, if over, departed from that it is possiblo at loast to ap- ? proach from books alono a corr ^ pronunciation. But in English v bo ever knows from its snolling how a Q word will "got itself" pronounced? NVoo to tho misguidod foroigucr who should attempt to learr? \o ^ sj.ttak our idiom from tho primed g page only! I know of one such c : >, attended, as might bo supposed, v.li most disastrous oonsoquonoos. ^ was that of a German who on xo hare during tho war, and having ; o ^ in ana culistod in a German ?\ ^ mint, la the loisuro of camj .3 ho und' -took to learn Engksh ^ himself liy roa ling Dickens. tint, yo god3 and httia fishosl ' > this day this man, who, it mo:;' j ad i ittcd baa exceptionally ' o o; or..* and eqiully little amb; , ?p ap< aku oi tho ' wonly tuing" ji- i $1 do arid of tho"po\\blic good i uses a jr.rgon in general which i fl, simply wonderful any Anno i i j3 ml ill should grasp tbo moan ii : But, then, for tbo matter of i. , ? why, really, should it not s fa "wonly" and "powblie?" Can i ^ givo tbo slightest reason why v, . els somotimos have ono sound . . 1 sometimes another? A littio composition suoh as 1 . i shows t 10 iuystory of our pronvp ; ntion: "That day, having so iii chores to do and no choice abou! , j 1 went into too garden, but stop . i to listen to tbo oL jrus ur olioi . l'j *' bi.-ds, ulthough I had an ache in 5 >y ' stomach from eating too much si | ach and a pain in my head from .?i j heat. My ear iva.i not ailcctod, he \ - | si' ovor, and it being still early lt.iS i*i' down a ponrand round in i-, a poi i. th Otherwise it proved a disappointrnetit, which I loved not. It was somewhat tough and gavo mc a cough, and as I had not bought tho Ca lruit I lot tbe bough blip back. flioro was no. uao, th9u&[i, in br.y- ' u~ WINTER GOODS M OUT TO MAIfK! f>( STO All Winter G at reduoec X ?W\??S '1'SIK 0 T a COM if Q >*3%I IT" CM A 151 vi LO T OI* SiiOi.'- uarri \ i ? 8 < OLSON & SON, ERS i S. c. X r FIRE ISURANOK. J I 140.000.000.00, OF ASSETS. jig a sour soul, no I sot 6CT on ft litie Journoy, making ft tour of the pu-den. My wife had cot been able >0 low, yot I hnd intended to sow wine oorn, but a sow with her liftor lad oaten it, while the owl came lurth to drink from her bowl. It leing noar noon, I took out my book ie read, and having road soiuo time narked with a bit of lead such iiaswges as had tho load." the Vnltnrefl Wore Fooled. Somo sports recently took place at > station in Upper Burma, ono of he events being what is popularly mown as a "Victoria Cross race"? hat is, tho competitors bavo to rid? emo distanoo, taking two or thrc? mrdlos on tlioir way, to a point rbore there are arranged a number f figures in stuffed oases shaped like iupian bodios. They then dismount, re a round of blank cartridges, pick p a dummy oaoh and race back. In this caao after tho sports wore or tho dummies were loft on tho rounu, una in nnout iiiWi an Jiour fter tho ground was d?-. rtcd 1110leed a vulture settled or.' ground loso to tho dummies. i: . bout anther Ovo minutes moro th.-nub had ollected. Tho birds seomodmuoh puzaled as boy carol ally inspected '.oil lay guio, walking from nuj to the next 11 i long tho lino and eventual! A ftor sitting in a oir^lo for a rhan itne, Cow away. The birds must have diseovo rod he dumnHios by sight, though I avo often heard that \ ulturcs re iy n their sonso of smell as well.? oarson'f* Wcokly. Wlint Did no Two young gentlemen met Jn or.o f tho Pittsburg parks, according to ho Chronicle-Telegraph, Cr.o of 10m was v heoling his firstborn son. ".Ah, good morning .Jr. Ik'.Uw ald," caidthe jiroud fan :r. "Mow, n't thia ; pretty baby':-' "It is, indood," said Mr. L jlcMc 1 .L I Lave never socn your wile, out I 41%.. nVHJ) 1 A mo c^iiu iiiubb Uv?..) tv'i' -'3 otLer." _____ tVrfcctly Sutujii "Does yor.r wifo kuui ur'tLi;," jout finuneo?" Doesn't : ho!" Is sLo L^und on Vho f .'.vcr row?nr" .Mound r. Imrglnr. i-' f'* "vrit'i 0 spoons under her 2 ; ever./ "lit."?Detroit Frco Pi v. c During viio your, lee; [ , CdC p-u, oners died, whilu >.i roma:jd, tin) total number tit > , .. . ixu o rolls fietn onu or nu . . iinC (jr/Jiil. Monk mi haa only lployed ,u factories. > ^ Linen ts turning out i. i> > .;! d Ui '? J, *>0 4 ) iJ t J. If 1' a la &.: ^ i&iiL ri S UST BE CLG3ED >M FOR SPR.-IC. C K. oocis going i Prices. 'JfO ffi . . . U I C K. i.^v\rhirv*<? c.<;n vu about Feb. i ^. i **? H