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N -/ -if 1 t : 1 -? \.:c -i-c . I ' ,i . W kf f . . / + ? w j/ t ; UNION S ADVANTAGES. TT T T mT T jm T T "11 M" T1 O POPULATION OF UNIONTwo cotton mills (total capacity 100,- I I?I I I I I I I I I IM/I 000 spindles-one mill thei latest in the ] 1 | ^ I I I jl 1 VI likl U. S. Census 1890 1,670 South) one oil mill, one knitting mill, 1 i W J 1 ^ \ FflUl IV | | J L J| Police Census 1896 2 990 one brick plant, two banks, ten churches, ? Ji?^ -A- w ^ 'ML. w M WM -A- w r\?' V Police Census 1897 4 679 five schools, artesian water. & 1 VOL. XLIX. NO. 13. UNION. SOUTH CAROLINA, yIDAY, MARCH 31. IS'.K). *1.00 A YKAK. CLOSING! Having determine mercantile business, entire stock of goods ONE-HALF NE' This is no liumbu get the advantage of REMEMBER 50 CENTS WIL vnn 11 or i ? VV 41 I P. M. C Next Door to Allan Ni ATLANTA'S NEW DEPOT In Nearer a Kcnllziitlon, Owing to Action of City Council. The Atlanta, On., city council, Thursday afternoon, agreed to accede to the conditions named hy the railroads as necessary to he settled before any move could be made toward building a new depot. The city lias designated its willingness to co-operate in the erection of a passenger station on the present site, with elevated tracks and lowered street crossings. There is still a slight difference between the roads and the city, however, relative to the clearance under the raised tracks at the central crossings, but this is a mere detail. In the resolution passed by the council it is especially required that the clearance at Whitehall, Pryor and Loyd streets shall be twelve feet. The railroad companies had calculated on only an eleven foot clearance at Whitehall street, which would give a 1 per cent grade for the tracks, and a fivefoot excavation for the street. The city agrees to the excavation, but requires another foot of c earance. In order to make the twelve feet under the tracks it will he necessary to raise the Broad street bridge and to begin the raised tratfks at a point sixty or 100 feet west of the point it would have been necessary to start with an eleven-foot clearance and a 1 per cent grade. The main object for inserting the twelve-foot clearance clause was to let the street enrs pass under the tracks. The property owners along Whitehall and Pryor streets are said to be heartily in favor of allowing the cars to pass on these thoroughfares. It would bo impossible for an electric car of the present type to pass through an elevenfoot clearance. It can, however, pass through a twelve-foot clearance. In enso the roads agree to build the depot with twelve feet under the tracks at the central crossings, the Consolidated street railway will in all probability run its cross-town cars under the tracks at Pryor, Whitehall and perhaps Lioyd streets, instead of having to go three or four blocks out of the way over the Broad street bridge no in | ?i cncu i The aetion of the council is considered most favorable for n magnificent new station. The city lias agreed to make certain sacrifices in order to secure the depot, and the success of the venture now rests with the railroads. WORK OF FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Knrolllni; Clerk Piatt Shown Wumber of Itllln Panned Itv Itoth llounen. B. 8. Piatt, enrolling clerk of the sonnte, has prepared a st%ement giving in figures the results of the work of the last congress. The statement shows that 1,457 hills and joint resolutions became laws out of a total of 18,40:1 introduced iu both houses. Of the measures introduced 1*2,608 were presented in the. house and 5,855 in the senato. Of those which became laws,942 originated in the house and 515 in the senate. There were only two direct vetoes during the congress, o?e of these applying to a senate bill and the other to a house measure. There were in addition to these, four bills which failed to becomo laws because they were not annroved hv the nresident, ? _ * i %r x The record shows that the senate passed 1,173 of its own hills and that the honse acted favorably upon only 517, or fewer than half of them, while the 1,0H1 house hills passed by the house the senate acted favorably upon 940. A larger number of bills were introduced tliau in any previous congress. AMERICANS FACER FT SI CLARE. Rebel Riflemen Give Kigliteentli Regiment n lint Reception. Details of the fighting at Iloilo on March 16th show that 400 rebel rifloA JUT SALE! sd to go out of the I will close out my i at W YORK COST. g offer. Come and ' my Bargains. i nnv illmit tun oner L DUI wnm WILL blid I ELSEWHERE. JOHEN, cliolson's Book Store. j men from Pania were met by seven companies of the Eighteenth regiment 1 of United States infantry ami a battalion of Tennessee volunteers. As supports these troops had three twoinch Hotchkiss guns, under General Miller, north of Jaro, across the river. The Americans met with a heavy lire. One of the men was killed and fifteen were wounded of the Eighteenth regiment, and there were several cases of sunstroke. General Miller estimates that fifty rebels were killed and 0110 hundred wounded. ALUKIt BEACHES HAVANA. Transport ItiRallK Whd Loot at Sea Fot Man)* Hour*. Secretary of War Alger aud his party arrived at Havana Sunday afternoou on the United States transport Ingalls, after having lost their way at soa for several hours. It seems that the Ingalls was making very good time Saturday, and was likely to make Havana by night if she kept on a straight course. General Alger suggested waiting awhile at Key West, oiui i? i my ineie -tu it Me to roach llavonna at 9 o'clock Sunday morning. The Ingalls put into Key West, and General Alger wired General Brooke to expect him at that hour. The Ingalls left Key West at 11 o'clock Saturday night, and the whole party was up for an early breakfast Sunday morning, after which all went on deck to wait for El Morro to loom up. Nine o'clock came, but there was no sign of the castle. General Alger, getting a little imputient, sent to the pilot house to inquire when Havana would be reached. The reply was: "In about an hour." An hour and a half passed, with the Cuban coast on the left, and Havana was still unsighted. Toward noon the roofs of a city could be mado out, and General Alger, calling for a glass, took a close look. "Why, that is Matanzas," he said, and just then the (ugalls began to turn around. The navigating officer was all out in his calculations. Ho thought ho was west of Havana instead ,,r ???< Menu while (leneruls Brooke, Ludlow, Lee, Bates, Wilson and Hashrouek, with their staffs, had rizen early, hoarded a tug and had been cruising outside the harbor, waiting for the Ingalls. All the officers were | in heavy blue cloth in honor of tlio secretary of war, having laid aside their khaki duck and flannel. The generals kept going in and out until noon, then lunched at a cheap waterside restaurant and returned to their cruise, going outside the harbor for another look. About 11 o'clock they saw the smoke of a steamer going down the coast, but as it was in the direction opposite from that which they expected the Ingalls they had no suspicion that it was tho transport, and, therefore, returned to La Mnchina wharf. But the Ingalls it proved to be, and in duo timo she entered the harbor, but without the arranged reception. Shortly after, however, tho generals went on board and had a brief conference (lin anoroloi v U'lu. nfrnnmi.l to meet them again at 10 o'clock Monday morning at the hotel Troeha, Governor General Brooke's headquarters at El Veadao. General Alger did not land, flaying that he preferred to remain on board tho trauHiuyt. CAMPBELL'S BONlV REFITSEI). Contractor** Sonnnl Offer To (>o On Fuyne Mmire'a Itmul Ti.rix.il A New York dispatch says: Neil Campbell, the contractor who was once rejected as bondsman for Mrs. Fnyne Moore, went to the district attorney's office Tuesday and ngain presented himself to qualify as a bondsman for the woman in SI,0(10 in which she is held on the charge of stealing silverware. l>istrict Attorney Gardner refused to accept Campbell's bond on the ground that he had been rejected once. AMERICAN FORCES ADVANCE FILIPINOS RESISTING DESPERATELY AT ALL POINTS. INSURGENT CAPITAL IS REMOVED. I City of Bomt? Captured- Our Troop* Suf- * f*r Under I a tense HeatBut Are Iu Good Condltra8$|||t'> . A dispatch to the New York fWt' nal, dated Manila, Wednesday, 1 that Bocave was taken by our tv66|>* ag during the morning. The raiirotrf lr bridge is uninjured. At the time the P dispatch was sent General MaoArthur J, wttn wivuiu oigu( miies 01 xuaioios, toe . Filipino capital. A 1^ CnplUl Kcported Moved. v . 1 A dispatch under the same date to the New York Herald from Manila 11 says the insurgent capital has been 1 moved from Malolos to San Fernando. ( The insurgents burned* Bulacan < Tuesday nfternoon. The monitor 4 Monaduock shelled Los Finas south of Manila Tuesday noon. ' j Advices received at Washington ^ state that the engineers under General MacArthur are repairing bridges, the, fl rebels having failed to destroy iron works and the railroad is kept \ busy hurrying supplies to the front. The country around Malolos is level ] with occasional streams and patches of wood, but there are no more jungles. The American reports show that twenty men were killed and sixty-one wounded on our side Monday. The Dakota regiment lost ten men killed and thirty-seven wounded. According to prisoners in the hands of t.YlA A morioAno A orni nnl/ln'a flrannv. ala, Garcia, Tofreo and Pacheco, were with the Filipino army Monday and drove their followers into the first aggressive demonstration. *^he rebels [ attempted to charge across the plain east of the railroad, but the Americans charged tp meet.them and the Pjliniftoa t - uwmi gltvr a tew shots, leaving sev- r eral men killed on the field. i The Filipino prisoners further de- i clare that the rebels have lost all taste 1 for fighting and their officers have to < keep them in line by beating them ( with swords. ? One of the most brilliant and costly I achievements of the campaign was the i charge of Major Howard's battalion ( across the river. Advancing at the ( double-quick, they found the river be- < neatli them and splashed across with a i yell, swimming and wading, with bill- i let spattering in the water, and rushed ; up on the trenches. Ten men were t killed and eleven were wounded in the < charge. i Our troons rantured four Sitaniards i who were fighting with the insurgents, t General M no Arthur was under a 1 heavy fire Tuesday. < The prisoners say Aguinahlo has j deelnred that if the Americans can ] take the Filipino capital he will sur- 1 render. i General MncArthnr's inen are tired, ' but are in splendid spirits. The heat ( is intense, being 90 degrees on the \ coast and fully 100 degrees in the in- i terior and the Americans suflfer a great i deal. In spite of the heat, however, ] eveiy man is eager to proceed toward i the enemy. A detachment of ninety-six Filipino prisoners was escorted into Manila Tuesday. Their appearance aroused ' great interest as they were marched from the railroad depot to the prison. The rebels have unloaded about 500 : men from a train half a mile in front of General MocArtuhr's forces with ' the object of re-enforcing the Filipino ' garrisons at Bulcacnn and Guiguinto on either side of the railroad leading to MhIoIor. The fact that the railroad is in operation to onr front facilitates the ' transportation of supplies to the troops. War department officials have re- ' ferred to the disposition with which 1 the insurgents were fighting. It was tuken as an indication that they had ' staked everything on the outcome of ' this fight, and losing it, they would 1 submit rather than prolong a hopeless j struggle. In this view the fierceness ' of tho rebel fighting was taken as an evidence that "once whipped they 1 will stay whipped." ' F. X - (J0VKit>0It PI Kit PONT DEAD. I'olitlcttlly Known ?? tlie Father of West Virginia. Hon. Francis Fierpont, the first gov- , ernor of West Virginia, died Friday night in Fittsbnrg, Pa., at the residence of his daughter. Ex-flovernor Pierpont was the union governor of the restored government of Virginia organized in Wheeling at the outbreak of the war by the citizens o' what is now West Virginia, and who then Opposed the secession. He was the principal agitator of the division of the state before the war and a prime mover in the organization of West Virginia and has since been known as the father of that state. ADDITION A I, MANILA NEWS. Drupcnte Knronntrri Still Continue With Rflii-l* Ketrontlnic. A dispatch to The New York Heruld from Manila, Tuesday, snys: "The gunboat LaOuna <le Day attacked the insurgents at Bulacau. Three Americans were wounded. "ilaeArthur's division has crossed the .Mariluo river and is advaucing northward. ' The insurgents attacked the Americys last evening at Marilao, but were rawilsed with severe loss. Our loss iive killed and fourteen wounded." ,Jfcneral MacArtliur's division spent BCpadRy night and Tuesday morning at B^ycanayan, the next station beyond Hflln A ffar ronnnnnifovinot Irpnshed along the railroad Tuesday kernoon toward Maloloa. If the statement of thirty-five prisiers captured is true, the main body the enemy lias retreated to Malolos. lit there are 110 more trenches to en(Inter, although over thirty villages, hiding the larger settlements of llacan and Gudguiuto, intervene. At every railroad station circulars >ve been posted, signed by the Filino commander-in-chief, Antonio ana, ordering all spies and hearers news to the enemy to he shot withit trial and instructing that all lootb and ravishers ho treated in the tne manner. Further, all towns landoned by the Filipino troops are fpt to he burned. While deploring the existence of iv^r, the circular maintains the undername right of the Filipinos to defend loeir homes, lives and lands ngainst "would-be dominators -who would kill them, their wives and children," adding that this motive ought to impel all Filipinos to sncrifice everything. The shelling of Paranarjue was not flU. ~ A A . I -*- X? 1 Laciuc\uiuicu. 1 lie mrrev Miip Ainnimlock anchored off the town and the ininrgents, emboldened by the long siljnce of the warships on guard duty, jpened fire on her with muskets, with Lhe result that one man was killed ?nd three were wounded. The Monadaock then destroyed half the town, including the church. SOUTHERN PROGRESS. rhe New Industries ilftportril In the South l>urlncr the 1'iut Week. 2The more important of the new iniij^*ie?.-ennrted during the past week >,onipri^ a1*7^7 onj it} Mnbanin; brick works in Georgia and iouth Carolina; a canning factory in rexas; a carriage factory in South Carolina; coal minea in Arkansas; a obstruction company in Kentucky; a iO.OOO-spindle cotton mill in Alaitma; three cotton mills in North Carilina?investments of $75,000. $150,100 and $500,000 respectively; a$100,100 cotton mill in South Carolina; two cottonseed oil mills in Alabama, two n South Carolina and one in Texas; two nunicipal electric light plantain Georgia; two flouring mills in Arkansas, :wo in North Caroliua, one in South Carolina and one in Texas; three furniture factories in North Carolina; ;rain elevators in Kentucky and Texas; i harware company in Georgia; ice :actories in Florida, Georgia, South Carolina and Virginia; a knitting mill in South Carolina; lumber mills in North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia; a machine shop in Kentucky; a phosphate plant in rennessee; a rope factory in South Carolina; a sash, door and blind factory in Virginia; a tannery in Texas; x wire fence manufactory in west Tennessee, and a self-opening can company in West Virginia.?Tradesman (Chattarooga, Tenn.) TO II0L1) GENERAL REUNION. OrKitiiiziitloim of the South Wll! Meet At Fill In Church, Vs. A general reunion of southern organizations in Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia is to be held at Falls Church, Va., June 7th and 8th. Preparations were begun Monday when committees from the Daughters of the Confederacy, the Southern Relief Society and the Confederate Veterans met in Washington to confer with W. Ij. Utley, representing the general management of the encampment. General Joe Wheeler will be requested, as representative of the joint committee, to call on the president md ask that he deliver an address. General Miles and Admiral Schley, Senators Daniel and Martin, ex-Senator Gorman, Bishop Penick and Governor Tyler, of Virginia, will also be isked to speak. WITNESSES ARE SUMMONED For the Quay Trial Which lfn* Roen Set For Tenth of April. 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