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THE UNION TIMES. i| 1 ' '|| VOLXXV1I.?NO-'13. UNION SOOTH . CAROLINA MARCH 27,1896. $1.50 A YEAR. f. M. FARR, GEO- MUNRO * President. Cashier. mtil Stemtournll i OF UNION. , :o: i Capital Slack $60,000. Surp'us $'>0.00 1 9 stockholders liabll tiea $60,00?Total? , $170,000 Officers?F. M. Farr, Pres. A. II. Fob- ] Itr, Vieo Pres. Qe^. Ma mo, Cashier. J. D. Arthur, Assistant Cashier. Directors?W. II. Wallace, A. 0. Ricet Wm Jefferies, T. C. Dunoan, J. A. Font. J. . T. Douglas, I. 0. McKissick, A. II. Foster. '"VWe solicit your business-^ 1 . gIMS & DIXON, Ally's at Law. All business placed in our hands will i e scire prompt attention. Office No. 1 Law Range. I gCHUMPERT, BUTLER & MoOOWAN, Attorneys at Law. Al C. C. Culp'b old Office. D, K. Hydrick J. A. Sawyer. Spartanburg. S. 0., Union, S. C. jJJYDRICK & SAWYER, Attorneys at Law, Judge Townseni's O'd Stand. M UNROAMUNRO, Attorneys at Law, I . , N?.2. Uw # k'". ?v * g 8. STOKES, f Attorney at Law and Trial Justioe, Office Rear of Court House. DENTISTRY' ?JR. H. K. SMITH'S DtnUl R'?ora over A, II. Foster a: . Co'# store. Cocaine used in exit acting teeth. ? DENTISTRY. QR. J. C. McCUBBINS, Ofiieo on the corner of Main nnd Judgement Streets near tho Court Mouse. Rridge and Crown w^rlc done when desired. Call ?nd see mo. f UNION MARBLE -ANDOranito Works. GEO ROE G ED DCS. SURVEYING. 1 am in Union prepared to do any surveying that the public may dosiro. Call at (he Union Graded Suboot or nt Mr. Jacob Rice DAVIS JEFFKRIES. t riTv 1 ; OYSTER SALOON. Remember that you can got a nice stew or fry of Fresh v Norfolk Oysters at JNO. R. MATH IS' OYSTER PARLOR. i (Next door to McLaughlin & Brown.) FOR 25 CENTS. Also a fresh line of , CANDIES, CAKES and crackers. The finest in j , town. Canned goods, Fruits, I | Peanuts, Tobacco aud Cigars I >; general line of 1, | Family Groceries II CITY OYSTER SALOON. f 1 ^Telephone No. 07. I BY DIRECT VOTE. Favorable Report on a Conatltntional Amend* ment to Piovide for the Election of Senatore by a Direot Vote. Washington, March 20?The senate committee on privileges and elections this morning made a favorable report on amendment of the Constitution providing for the election of United States Senators by a direct vote of the people. The report is very voluminous. Among other things it says: "In the judgement of your committee nny movement that looks to the right of the people to be heard directly in the election of senators eannot but result beneficiary to all concerned. The adoption of this proposed amendment will, in the judgement, of youi com mittee, bring the senate into more amicable relations with the people. It will relieve prejudices now existing which are deeply and dangerously fastened upon the public mind. It will invoke a spirit of mutual forbearance and respect between the senate and the people which unfortunately does not now exist to that degree that is desirable. It will restore confidence. It will tend to elevate the character and dignity, increase the usefulness, extend the influence and justly mugnifiy the power of the senate, nndat the same time, promote the welfare of all the people of the republic. The tendency of public opinion is to disparage the senate and depreciate its dignity, its usefulness, its integrity, its power. If there is any cause for this tendency in the public mind, it should be removed without delay. Although the senate of the United States should be, and in fact is, the most dignified as well as the most important legislative body in the world, the tendency in public journalism and popular mind, is in a large degree to detract from its importance, mimimizc its dignity and power and cust the spirit of obloquy over and around .it and its members. While committee are of the opinion that the impression which leads to all this is to a very great extent, as least not well founded, yet it is a fact that cannot be ignored, that it exists." %<Unc weighty and principal objection to the present system of electing senators by the legislatures of the respective States," the report continues 4*is that the power and right of the individual voters are hedged about and circumscribed, his will is manacled, his volition paralyzed, lie cannot vote for his choice, lie cannot in lact, vote directly at all, but must content himself with casting a vote for members of the legislature who may or may not properly rcpre sent his wishes in the vote they may cast for senator. If carries with it implication that the people, the qualified voters of a State, arc for sonic reason unfit for the full exercise of the elective franchise, except in a qualified and largely restricted sense. The present system is in practice, purpose and effect a declaration that for some occult reason which is in no way made manifest, it is unsafe and prejudical to the public interest to commit the election of senators to the vote of the people. The committee points out that the material interest of the States suffer by reason of protracted senatorial contents that are of frequent occurrence. Instances in New York, Oregon, Washington, Montana, Idaho, Wyoming and Kentucky are cited. The recent contest before the legislature of the State of Delaware, says the report, uis fresh in the public mind, resulting in the claim now pending oil Mr. Dupon to a seat in the senate, while the daily reports of the interminable contest in the legislature of the State of Kentucky with no results, many weary months of fruitless balloting, adds strength to the proposition of your committee." In conclusion the committee says: "The people demand a voice in the election of senators and such demand in the judgment of your committee should he respected. So, whatever may he said to the contrary, whatever may he thought of the sancitity of the Constitution as it stands, it must be admitted by all that the people are becoming restive under its restraints on the rights of those entitled under the Constitution and laws to exercise the elective franchise. The movement of the people in the interest of the people, as on many other questions, is stalwart and uni versal and the sooner this great fact is recognized by the represcnatives of the people the better." OUR SCHOOLS. An Interesting Arliole Whloh 8hoal< Be Bead by All. There is perhaps no subject Jiat has given our people more com em than our schools, the prime ol ect of which has been to make and m in*tain ample provisions for the *lucation of our children. But thefuct stares us in the face that the nfans ' have fallen short of the aim in ^ew. , It would seem that the provilons ? made by law were ample but jfien J we are confronted with the fact|hat , the schools throughout the coifctry ( are unable to continue longer infcach ^ year than three months, shows that ^ the means are inadequate to me the > demands. When we read tht law, ( beginning at the constitution at the laws enacted by the General A em bly in conformity with the con: itution upon the subject of public sclools ( we are impressed with the ideuthat { the law is a good one, in that itikkes ample provisions and establisls a t system apparently good and sufhlent, form which we are constrain! to ^ from the conclusion that it is it so c miinli in I Yin la mntinca r\F tliD Inula in uiuvu j u wuv> iuiiivii vuu vi iiiv iunn jii j a n o n- c o in p li adce withjind due execution of its provisons. ettoo <( often blame the law with being foie, ' when really the blame should spelt j to the execution. With all duiro spcct to the school commissioner we will give our views of the dutiedc volving upon them. The dutie inposed upon the county School ( pi,- ^ inissioners by the law is not as ilit f as is generally supposed. A ^?ict c compliance with it leaves thecomis. sinner little time to devote to (her | matters during his tetfm of office.' We are of the o p i n b n Jj that a school commissioner sty Id q first acquaint himself with the |cation of every school house inihe county and visit the same at pst once during the year, oftener ifbssible, the visit should be made d^ng t( and while the school is in .ty/ion, ^ the commissioner should hemic to judge of the efficiency oi the tychers j in charge of the schools. Its not ^ enough that a person be well ?licat- 1 cd to fit them fur teaching scho, the ^ teacher should possess the art 'imparting knowledge in a clea and ^ comprehensive manner, makin^lain and simple to tlie pupil every rob' ^ 1cm. These and other lequisitsokjual |j importance should be consided by j. the school commissioner; and ab the moral character of the applicaj, for f a position as teacher should beare. ... fully considered. ? \* | The school commissioner shdd be {j fully informed of tlie number.ages j and sex of every school, so'that* hen > he is asked to recommend a teller j. he would he able to place a teller , having reference to the pupils ithis respect. When the majority the pupils were large boys and nail A girls a male teacher, large girlitid small bovs a lady teacher? is I ? r think wou.d more generally me the ^ approval of parents; 1 will conclude this subject ian? t other article in this paper. Yours respectful J no, P. G/i. Union, S. C. Mcli. -3, Ud. "1 ??? COUNTY MEU1CAL ASSUl'lAliU The call of last week for a nt.ing of the Physicians to organ) a County Association was nnswci by '!*? a majority of the physicians the County and a permanent organi;ion $u e fleeted. wl 0dicers elected, Chas. T. Moby fe M. 1). President, Theodore Njro m M. D. Vice President. JohiM. at Lawson M. D. Sec. and Treas. in Utiles, by-laws and regulatit of : m, the previous County Associatiuroiv B< unanimously adopted, except to .vj, date of meeting which was clmed M from first Monday to the thirties- ca day in each month. A call nioig on was ordered for first Monday in rii hli for the purpose of electing delites to the State Medical Associat to be held in Spartanburg in Apri The subject chosen for disj^ji at the next regular mectii ,nis ( Pneumonia, and all menbt ace ^ liable to be called upon by tb of- . ident to participate in the disc*u. p0 All members arc cordially in* > jn bring interesting eases befo ftj,) to society at all regular meetings for 1 effort will bo made by thesoumi "h induce the iStato Medical Asst ,,,(i thi to meet here next year. (* The members present and i no, * tercst manifested was greatpby iOT could have been expected f short a notice. xvr i I . , I SOUTHERN EXPOSITION.! A Convention to Held at Spartanburg to Arrange for Bepreaentatiou at the Southern Exposition to be Held at Chicago. The following circular lately received explains itself. ebitor Times: A convention composed of delegates from the Southern States and Cities, was held in Chi cago in February to consider the ad disability of holding an Exposition of Southern resources and products in that city this year, and to devise ways and means for covering the cost )f such an Exposition. The convention resolved \\ ithout a dissenting voice that the Exposition should be held. The City of Chicago pledged itself o undertake the whole expense of jrganizing and maintaining the Ex msiuon. The several Southern Stsitcs un lertook, on their part, to provide the exhibits, and to pay the expense of tcllecting, arranging and organizing heir exhibits. When the delegates from South Carolina metin Chicago, it was deem id advisable that if the Legislature ailed to make an appropriation to dace before the world the products ml rceources of our various cotton ml other industries at the Exposition n Chicago, a trial should be made to aisc the necessary funds from other ources. The Legislature you are O J ware, did nothing for the end in iew, and it now becomes my duty, y the authority of the Governor of he State, to invite you to attend a onvention to be held at Spartanburg u Wednesday evening, April loth. BUG, for the purpose of providing a Ian by which an Exhibit of the inuxtries of the State shall be made at Jhicago. It is hardly necesiry for tc to place before you the imperative casons why we of this State should rnke the best exhibit. The great development ofour Cot >11 factories, the natural advantages e have of climate, water power, and otton raised around the Mills must ivite the attention of capital, there y making our State not only fore lost in agriculture, but also in Cot m fabric industries. In no other way can our farmers c more judiciously helped than by iving them a market, we might say, ear to each and every farm, thereby liking together agriculture, inanuicturers and commerce. I request, therefore, that the Mayrs and Intendants of the Cities and owns in the State attend the Con? L-ntion at Spartanburg, and app. int tree delegates front each of the Oil's end Towns to represent their srval municipalities in this Convention. >r tlie purpose of insuring an Exhibit y South Carolina at Chicago. I request that each of the Cotton , anufacturing enterprises in the tate appoint representatives to at. . ml the Convention in Spartanburg. ' i also request that each ?>f the ' ailroad companies doing business the Mate will appoint a roprcsm j tivo to attend Hie Convention. i I shall be obliged if yon will in;, rm ine at yourcarlirst convenience 1 ie names ot the delegates veil have ] .pointed in response to thin address. Very respectfully your*-, K. L. Itoi'ii:-:, ('onn.dssioner IV. m S. C. i - O C i Mod oil 1 ho Third Monday in \ pi-iI. r On sulesday in April. ISbtJ, tbe * rvivin^ sohlicis of I'nion county lio were in tbe service of the Con ^ derate States, are authorized to ^ eet in convention in tbe court bouse ^ II a. in. for the purpose of elect- ^ % two of their members to act as j embers of the County Kxniuiniu*; g Dird of Pensions. The said pen- t in board will iiaet on the third c onday in April; therefore all appli ] lions must he filed w ith said board i or foelorc that day. Application ^ inks can be had at. the court house. ? J. II. Haktlks, " One of the Ih ard of Pensions. * ? i Kntlrely SnprrflnotiH. t "Papa," said Mr, Knjones' young- I fc, loaning over his chair andstrok- "! g his iron gray hair, "you'vo light bicycles for tho others, ami upht to lmvoono. I'mbigonougb ride it now." "H'm!" exclaimed lior father, ow many machines havo wo in f o family?" 'Only four." j 'Only four, hoy?" roplied Mr. Kn- 1 ies. "Only four! Do yon know, r dear, tliero is nothing in tlio rid quito as useless as a fifth leol?"?(Jhioago Tribune. ? v. i ' - ? -fr I Ofri Wji. A. Nich< - BANK TJXTXOIT Respectfully solicit yoi REPRESENT COMPANIES WITI THE BISKRAN OASIS. A Small but lleuutiful and Ilusy Spot la . the Saliarii Donert. , J Tbo Biskran oasis, with its 150,000 1 troos, is only about two miles long, , anil extends in half a dozen littlo villages by the Oucil stream. Tbo ; 1 Arabs, in their noetio nlirasoolocrv. : 1 ' i r stylo it variously tbo Desert Queen, i tho Quoon of tlio Oases and tlio ' Pearl of tbo Desert. Soon after two * days' journey through barron, trco- * loss wastes, with its waving palms and brillaint vorduro, it is a sight difficult to rival. Biskra has sovoral c lino buildings, of which tlio town * ball, built in tlio oriental stvlo, with c c gloaming cupola and a forost of dainty pillars, is tlio gem. It cost ? ?0,000, and is choap at that figure, but, of course, labor hero is had for a song. Tho Oued Biskra flows through s the oasis, and causes much of its ? prosperity. Tho chief industry is , date raising, and nearly all tho inhabitants own a littlo plot of ground v devoted to this purpose, and generally their only source of revenue. Biskra owes much to tho Compagnio i do l'Oucd ol R'irli, who bored arte- y sian wolls and laid out vast dato c plantations. p Tliey also erected a fiiio casino, n and constructed a tramway to tho eelobrated Hammam Salahine, about h six miles distant ? springs well a known to tho Romans, whoncoBisk- s: ?.no /.nlln.l A .1 T ? ! ? HO bllllUU X UlalllJ. Ill UUI1- U sidoration of nil tho.so benefits tho company was gran tod various privileges. They aro to enjoy for 99 years ? tho profits arising from tho sjirings ^ and from 300 aoros of land, besides n a largo town plot. Biskrn is practically tho "toy to Q, tho Sahara," and honoo over sinco tho Fronoh entorcd, in 1811, has cbeen an important military station. n] Tho lovor of orientalism will find it ^ hero in .a much purer form than in j semi-Europeanizcd Algiers, and can also onjoy an almost perfect cli- jj. mato. Tho district, however, is not .-j( rainless, as is often supposed; on ^ tho contrary, in winter tlicro is a (n fair share of rain, though not so ni much as in Algiers, whoro this is n< tho woak point in tho climate. Like KC Algiers, it is beautifully mild, thoro is no snow, and for.tho majority of tho winter there is brilliant sun- a( shinn and a verv even tomiini-jifum - ?? L.~ ? J). In tho summer, howovor, it is almost uninhabitable. No ono dreams w of staying tboro unless military or S(1 othor duty compels them. Tlio lioat K, is intense, tlio water noxious, and Sl, snakes and scorpions abound, whoso bite often proves deadly in an hour, jjj The country at this period is subjeet to plnguos of grasshoppers, tho ju ruination of all verdure and prod- cr uce. A very annoying malady called aI "clou do Biskra," Biskra pimple, aj. prevails, which is said to resist nost aj, treatment except change of air.? Westminster lioviow. Tho r?acemaki>r. S*' It was only a newsboys' fight, a nc Frequent occurrence on Park row; ln vuiso unknown. This time it was *n i thrco cornored alTair. Tho big boy ind two small ones were punching, co jiting and kicking each other to tho ? loliglit of a fast gathering crowd, yi L'ho big hoy was getting a little tho jl! jest of it when tlio good Samaritan li vith tlio lomr whiskers and cvn. glasses happened along and stopped n to protect tho weak against tho itrong. Firmly ho r aspod tho big yrant by tho arn ,d pulled him >1Y; intontion gooe; results disap)ointing. In tho brief moment that ollowod both small boys got in two iwift blows each, successfully closng tho big boy's eyes, and then ran way. Tho crowd jeered in a throat- I ning manner. Tho Samaritan lot go lis hold and disappeared in tho passng throng. Tho spectators quickly noltod away. Tho big boy groped ilindly about for cold water.?Now fork Tribune. jjj A Nice Drink. A.?Conio and take suppor with no. B.?I can't, old man. I'm justmariod, and my wifo expects mo homo o cofToo. A.?What, you drink cofTco! Why, always thought you drank lea at Mj light. J | B.?(hi, my wifo cooks it so that 10 ono can toll tho dill'oronoo.?Flio- > nudo Blatter. ? a ?5?M-?$===?-" - | OLSON & SON, I i ERS I s. c. J ir FIRE ISURANOI5. i I $40,000,000.00, OF ASSETS. Mo Affidavit III the Ilox. A friond of mine fold mo of an exaerionoo lio Lad tlmt was most peftdiar. IIo is n lumberman, and "was formerly engaged in business at Stillwator, Minn. A frosliot ocour ing, bis oilico building was swopt iway, and with it a wooden box containing a number of valuable paicrs. Ho advertised for thoir return, jfforing a considerable roward, but n vain. A few months later bo went o Donaldsonville, La., making bis leadauarters there while ho insnnnt. id tho cypress forests west of that )laco. Tho river camo up suddenly ino night, and tho water surrounded his house, keeping hiin a prisonr. Wbon, at tho expiration of a ow days, tho river subsided, among ho debris in front of tho house was ho box that had been lost in Alinneota. It had been lined with motal, nd this fact kopt tho contents inact. When opened, nothing had icon very seriously damaged by the fator.?Washington fetar. The Now Domestic* Housowifo (to now domostio) ? 'hero is ono thing I wish to say to ou. Tho last girl had a habit of oming into tho drawing room and laying tho piano occasionally. You . V over play tho piano, do you'? Now Domestic?Yis, mum, I plays, ut I'll liov to charge yer u shillings week aixtry if I'm to furnish muio for tho family."?London Tit iits. ' in Whiskers From the Sm. * Tbero is n marvelous marine ^ rowth caldcd sortularin, whie h has jo appoarauoo cf n delicato Ltbough its slondor stalks or fibers ' ro built up by thousands of minnte nimals, somothing as tbo coral olyp builds up coral. It is found in lumps and bunches on wreokago od stones and elsowhoro, and some* mcs it is torn looso in storms and rivon aslioro. Tbo many thousands I tiny creatures which have built up and inhabit it dio, and tbo 2nd bush is called a skoleton. Its hers shrink somo now, and so they o ovon finer than tlioy were. Thoy iay bo a foot in length, somotimes Darly two foot. Thoy nro brown, )ino bunches being dark and some : a light or shade. As tbo children of tho carpenter lorn themselves with shavings om thoir father's work bench, so > tho children of t ho fishermen ith tho scrtularia cast up from the a. Tls fibers are nretty nearly rnight, so thoy cannot bo made to rvo as ringlets, as early shavings >, but tho girls take tho longer, lcr hunches, which aro usually tho ;litor in sonde, and make of tbom ng brown tresses. Tho boys mako out iiiusraoiK s or tho sortulnria, ul flowing Dundreary wliiskora nl sohor benrils. In wandoring ong tho shorn 0110 might como ion a stranded boat hauled high kivo tho tido and with Lor side ovo in, perhaps, so that alio would >t float, but. occupied bj' a dreamg youth in aertulnria board and ustachos, who imagined her a galut shij) and himself her bearded minandor.?New York Sun. If IE IS PRICES. I'lti'l nn,l I ami.lain C4/?nfr i mi (UlU I UliijilllU OIWIY or iAVYANi) FANCY CROCERiES i VOl liS UiADK. 00LI WHiSOMNT, At (jrabam'a Old Staud.