Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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. rn wrn :T7 itVait "" rr ^ ii'r i-i s~J yW?,?8,g?Hggg I * " '; J, TVrt r??rinn ^lltls?, ope -the tjff* ; U A. I S R I M . 3 . ? ra ' H H m /B W I 1 L 1 *? The largest Knitting Mity end w | I |-| ? i \ j 1 I \ I I V1 H. ^ | sr::s?^fc f -iftllM;-.-fOtpfWl'TTOn* - 'Fein.h. ? ,' .. I I 9 I 1 B " Xl 1 V T? 1 H V I I > J L 1 ? >n>ku ?n unMctWjOuono. 8 , J[ wftirn?ry. Water:Works and f( - J|- A ^L_ ^ 1 -H EL ? JL~A S% Three Graded SchoolnU Arte"*' jr J>|jght*7. 11-1" : ^ v jj Water. TopulaHon 0,500. g ' VOL. XLIX. .NO. 44. ; UNION, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER- o. 1809. #1.00 A YBAR. -iM AiA. -UA AAA AAA Jtl. AI# AM. ??i r' : >. v T P. ^t; PARR, Pr?ld??t. T OBO. MUNRO, Caahler, J. ' I Merchants'and Pla .1 OF UNI X Capital Stock J Surplus ?I Stockholders' Liabilities g. Total * Dikeotobs?.1. A. Fnnt, > X T. O.Duncan, J. T. Douglass, T Win. Coleman. I We Solicit V ?*-?* <* 4* 4* *9 ***?-??";? I * Local Market Report. Union market changed every two week* by the Uuion Cotton Mills Department Store. Raoon 6'tf Ham* 12.S Shoulders HS Breakfast Strips 10 flour ? Klo 1 75 M?ti . eo Grist t* Kloe M'i Kunr ('off** lOa*o lard 8 . _ Molasses - 26 a 60 Z * *^rr^ Tobacco. . so ? 70 V. - Kerosene Oil 15 Chickens ll^Tl?' Stisp 2 h 2") UNION mm NEWS. Items of Interest Gathered from Various Sections by our Correspondents. Etchings from Etta June. Etta June, Oct. 30?Mrs. Aleiracnia Orr, who has been s ck for pome tiuie, we are glad say is much bei'eri A week ago she was not expected to live. Your correspondent attended the Fjnod of the Presbyterian church at Newberry last week, where we founu n ori#l U'uLvimo r a . I a UiUOV uvrp vuu.v W??W IIV*VV1MV v ception among the people of New|>erry, as well as along the road. 1 le ffcade the trip through the country by j'tivate conveyance. To those with whom he came in contact and wlio.-e hospitality and kindness he so much enjoyed, his heartfelt thanks are due. Especially would I remember the kindness of Mrs. 11. L. Coleman and her family. Also my old at my comrade, J. M. Mobley. "Diet" is the same o)d Confederate, with whom I was so intimately and affectionately associated during the sixties, lie is a wholesoul fellow and much of a gentleman. To Dr. Robert II. Jeter, of Goshen Ili 1, I am especially grateful for his courtesy and kindness. lie is a pqn of my old army comrade, the late dohn It.- Jeter, of bantuc, than whom Lee's army had no bettor soldier or more of a gentleman in its ranks. The Dr. is a chip off the old block. He has for his life companion one ot the best girls ever reared in Union? Miss Agnes Coleman?the accomplished daughter of my esteemed ifisnd, the late Col. R. L. Coleman. met many of "Tho Times" friends and readers who were anxious to know how Mrs. Vox was getting along. From the number and nature of these inquiries I was led to believe (that which I already knew) that she was one of the most popular and best women in the land, although, poor woman, she is )ik< thousands of others ofhercex, she ha iuyh a poor ekcuse f r a husband. Several of our neighbor boys arworking on the Lockhart Railroad In fact they have a full deb'ga'ion from Cherokee county who arc <>h the lines near the residence of A. G Bentley, Es?{. Mrs. John Henry Fowler 1 at i sorry to say is <juite unwell. fcT.o was taken sick last Friday. Our farmers arc taking great pains in putting in thoir wheat this ? a.-o> . I have never seen better prepaid lands for the small grain crops than ^ wo have this year. Dr. S. S. Daniel, dentist of Spartanburg, was in this section last week on professional business. The Sarratt Brothers have hi <1 the Thomson mill house rebuilt am will soon be in readiness for the m i Chinery. ' . W'e have had no killing frost i" yet. Potatoes and turnips are st I growing but needing rain. i Y A. II. FOSTER, Vice President. J , D. ARTHUR, Assistant Cashier. T nlers' National Bank * ? OX. ?, c\ | $00,(HX) i 50,000 J 00,000 $ $ $170,000 | V. If. Walliwe, Wm, Jeffries, ? E. P. AlcKiseiek, A. II. Foster, ^ tjf 'our Business. ^ i_ I spent the night with my friend I). G. Gallium last woek. "Dan" is a hustler. lie and''Jock" Goings are running a public g nnery and doing a g ?od business and giving ...... _ T? ilium i kdtuiir'is s himjcnon. l ea Ridge hag nb Infer fellows than "Dan" and "J ?ck" are. I um very Korry to learn tint Miss Iluasio Dentley is sick with the fever. She is the daughter of on * esteemed friend and comrade Lr. A. 0. lientley, with whom I fully sympathize, llopc she will so>n recover. I find that there is a great dei 1 of late cotton in the field that wiil not open unless the feather is extremely favorablo. This added to the already short crop and low prices works a hardship on the farmers in this section. Mr. I?oyce Whisonant, of Wilkinsvillo, is attending the Rock Hill High School. Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Es'es visited friends and relatives at Shiran last Saturday. From all accounts J hear, and what I see there will not be many more weeks pa-?s until there are some weddings in this secction. My best wishes attend the contracting paitien. I had the plonure of mooting Rev. \V. I. Herbert and his family during my attendance upon SyuQ I at Newberry. 1 am glad to jnote that he is very popular with tho po >pie of that city, both as a minister ami a citizen. Vox. hock hart Locals. I.ockliait Shoals, S. C. Editor Times:?Last w.*ek 1 nog lected to write the usual Timfs lett*| ami (lie reade.s at Lockhuit who not slow to notice tin fact. I have no railroad news as business I men aie not in a hurry to tell their busi I ncss. I suppose that the grading on the wes t?rn terminus is progressing nicely, Further it is more than proh ible that tb? load will enter Lock hart from the Soutl. instead of from the north as tlrat surveyed. Clarence Wijbum, of Cross Keys, ha' c:vst his lot among us. Marion Grittlu attended the TJ 8. States circuit court as a witness u a counterfeiting affair. Wedding bells will soon l?e ringinj and what will be Lockhart's loss will b Sharon's gain. The Sharon brethren and sisters won down in full force Sunday week. Theoc casion of the visit was to attend preach ing by Kev. Grice, of the Associate he form I'resbyteriuiuchuroh. The foundation of the Baptist chord will soon be laid. The church will b located in the lower part of town. Bicycling is not as common on on streets as it was some time ago. In fac it is almost one of the lost arts. Mr. Webber, of Jouesville, has givet up his contract of carrying the mail from Jonesville to Lockhart. Mr. .LV Askew now tills that veiy impoitati nosition. llovo. .1 RUMJMSC'fihfCli OF \SHn. ''tied Shirt" Recount* Incident* c the Days that Tried Men's Nerves?Took the How Mil. Editok : l'lear.e allow ni j paco in your paper to write a littl v Miiiniscence of the Red Shirt tinu'i On a November morning in ISSt *uen the Radicals ruled in Bout Carolina, tin; day before the cleetio tl.e Red Snirts were on hand in th t??wn, ready to go where they wou! 1 ho called. 1 remember that I was u ember of the Mount Vernon Den o -ratic club. That morning it wi thought best by Col. David Join son, then the chief Marshall of tl Red Shirts to detail three im n fio I each club to remain in I'nion u I night and the writer was one of tl men from Mt. Vernon Clu Homes were provided for all ll < men who remained in Un:on th 1 night. Tlie writer and two oth men were assigned to Dr. lleni II Friendship Hi I From 15c to J HH Ster We engrave them THF.WIi IJ JEWEL !P. S.-Wehavea few filled Watches be that we will sell fc Beaty's. My. comrade, John Davi*. jrvfered a room in the Union Hotel; then under the man igeraent of Capt. Giles. Ou the tnorning of the election 1 aro-e very early between o and 4 o'clock and made a lire in the street in front of the hotel. At divlight we got orders to go at once to 8antuc that the Radicals was going to take the Santue box, so Capt. Gilliam Thomas told his men to fall in ami wc were ready to go. We went to Sheriff MacBeth's office laid in a large supply of John Burly corn and cartridges?I tell you we were well supplied and if we had come in cmtact with Grant or Sherman they would have been in great danger. >?o braver feeling set of men ever went forth to battle than this little bund of red shir s. Capt. Thomas and Lieutenant S. II. Cunningham called for tner to volunteer to go to Santue, out of seventy only seven, teen answered to their names. 1 will give vou a list of the names he-' < io?r. " |; When we arrived at Santuc we 11 f und one man alone, with a red shirt on, standing on a goods box J cursing the Radical negroes tilling , them that the white man would i rule this country. That man was ' Mr. Oulff Rishop. There were about 800 negroes at the box when | j. we arrived, Capt. Thcmua gave the l re?| shirt yell and charged for the polls and we captured the box. We 4 had a grand old time. Mr. Editor, I want to tell you of - a delicate young man we had in the crowd?he was -a 4r.?ve t-oldiei*. (* About 1 o'clock <3apt. Thomas told . us we would go to qinper by reliefs. It so happened that 1 went with the i delicato yourg man to dinner. Re ing somewhat familiar with his "delj icate" appetite, and being hungry as a wolf I had some misgivings and ? begged liini to go slow and give me B a showing. We sat down to a table t, that was fortunately well loaded with . good things, prepared by that e*cel lent housekeeper, Mrs Ij. Crocker, * who knew so well how to prepare n meal for a hungry man, and these e arc a few things that this young man ate : corn bread, beans, banon, cabI' bage, chicken pie ham, sausage, Turw key, preserves, cake and a few other t.hiricr* ill rplll'll in tnoanlimn I s had eaten until I felt ashamed and looked across the table and lie was ll pullieg down ?. stupk of potatoe custards, for a now beginning. This v is more than I could stand and I u j beat a hasty retreat. I Before \vc left Santuc we bur1,d ! old Garfield in ffi _'y. ]).*. Bark 0 ' 'bourns give us a farewell add-n > 1 when we left and told in t > g) hor-e s,! ft our wives and sweethearts. t or iy l brave captain has lopg since pr. '??d b 1 a vr.y, but bis memory ij <-i!U fees'. i iij I mi our hearts, he wan a brave 'ol Ivr j, [ e id true friend, li" w.v true to Id j 1 s oountry and had littto iho (or j d 1 n en who would not stand up f tt. ] their rights. is 1 The followirg is a list of the net. [) who went to Sent-ic : 1(3 Capt. Thomas, L'eut. T IT. Cm;ul i ningham, John Kison. Joh i l?r?ri' don, Sr. S. C. 1? irrett, Wade Craw ,c 1 f>r 1, Levi Edge, Georgo Chandler ' ' ! .ifiliTi K *: i V* l wi .fnli*i tl.mnilan . ' e 1 lt' U| Young. Theo>.bolus llison. .1<h ll' j JoVv, C. C. <a'i<.'h m?<l r> f-w '*'! there whcae nnoi 3 I do not i?o rj ' emember. liui> Shim. arts to Born j 75c H I ling: Silver. I Free - of Charge. 1 ANSON CO, I JHRS. | Elgin 20 years gold B >ught before the rise E >r - - - $13.00. I ^ASIIIKGTON LETTER. (From Our ltegular Correspondent.) Washington, T>. C., Oct. i?0tli, 1 tfU'J ?Uncle Sam will help John Hull, if he s atuiekeil hy any Furopean nation ahilo lie is engaged in lout South African var. That is. stripped of all verbiage, he Ftttn and substance of the opinion ield by n'rout nine out. of every ten men ii Washington, including the members >f the diplomatic corps. And the je.y act that, such an op'-mou general is in I self sulllclrat to oiike unv nation think, sot twice, let' several tiiu?.s, before bonding that the p re.se ut is an opportune .ime to even up any old scores with rent Britain. It must not be inferred rom this that any member of the alninistraiion has licen "leaking" ;i3 to .he intentions of this government, inrase there should tie any 1-luropean ?tack on Great Britain. On thecontraiy, -very member of the administration lias efused even to dis.uiss ilie jkisabilities ti that line. It, is not l^cau-c of any* hing otlicially stid that the opinion of the willingness of the V', to help Great Britain, \f help iui needed, is so irnnueo luit l?.u?.?n?n t'eif ?j !?*? inly Icq/JoI attitude f??r this cuiuLt/ to JGOUpy at litis tiniH, owing tothefuneral reeling of gratitude to Great li.it.tin. for having sii<l, '"hands off," when several European powers wished lo interfile with our little scrap with Kpiin. If !_?i oat Britain is interfered with, it ail not be a question of what the present administrators of this government wiyn'.d like to do, hut of thiir h ivitg; to ntay the will of the A met pi. pi people. The rjtilippiiia Oounnissiou hel.l its hrat meeting tod iv, with Admiral Dewey, Col. Deiibyaiul I'roftssois Salurm.m and "Worcester in attendance. It is uinlerato^l tint du ly meeting! w.ll be held until a preliminary report his lieen agreed upon, and probable that i\ full report will not be m ide mit;l after another visit to the ishpids Uy the three civil commissions?jtishard-y likely that Admirui Dewey will lie asked to go there 4gauV. Although tho Pro-i.leut is very busy on his annual mesiage to Congress, he has arranged to take a day off, tomorrow, and go to Uichtnod. Va , accompanied by six members of his Cabinet to see the launching of tho torpado b > it Siiubrio. (len. Fitzhugh 1/se is in Washingimien route front Cuba, to his home in Vir, gmia. Ho is on furlough ipul will reiurn to Cuba portly. llo is looking well, 'oqt piiia' autly declined all invitations to discuss Cuban affairs for publication, further than to ray tint the Cubans, us a p>H>ple. are tatter than they aie generally credited by our people with being, llis son, Lieutenant George M. I.ee, has been ordered to accompany the 47tti infantry from New York to the Philippines, where lie will join his own regiment, the 30th Infantry. The Census llureuu will endeavor to make mining and manufacturing stasis, tics to Ihj taken next vea,r, pvo.ro complete thgn any oVor taken. Diroctor Meniaui'says the charge ihat these statistics will lm gathered for use in campaign documents of the I'lesidentiii Campaign could only have originated Willi some one who was ignorant; Ilia' tl"* work of taking this Census will not Ik ,111 until from 'In l~>;h * tl?? .'50'h oj .1 no, mil after t * :* inf'-'nn iti-jn is vj-.h 0? *! it will liv hi in un I oil ail> a: 1 print i., iii.iIm < it* u%o ii ?',? |>?'it' C. caip:?.i!;*i: h-vr. .*? ,r, into : o!t >. ire limn iwo tVuisioil s.-.vi.-'. agon . \\ I 1 jr e;?i| !t?ve?l t i e tu i this .:li-so i> oruiati >!? iii the 1, >71 ? i i"S ot ,h? e vintry. An esehrn^o say .his >s toe .en j ? i a lovjoirotivo is c .ilol "?he.' I A i'-y weir a j . .ft, an apron, shji .; i i3e ami 'Irujj a tnin heliin 1 th ui ' ev have a lip, nce<l jiu.le*, vii' ! v. hejls, will t.or. turn on. lor ;elc< <t ians an 1 sometimes refuse to wo. 1 t ey attract n en, are tonict-uo o con II avy ami it always takes a wan t i' anaje them. ? ? j Subscribe now and read In HI 1 iejs. 7,'wy i =? a ti NVm. A. Nicholson & Son, Bankers;1 2 2 RESTFCTFULLY SOLICIT YOUR g j BANKING BUSINESS AND YOUR FIRE INSURANCE, | 8 And promise yoa the best protection and the best serticj.' , 4 . >, it 4 nrvTimnn i nn iinnrYiTfiAwrMTfin ?IIMTliTO m lUWItNlMtWl WHEN YOU WEAR OUR' ; $3.50 ; Walk Over Shoes. UNION SHOE CO., UNION, S. C. Prudentialjnsurance Co., ?^OF AMERICAN? HOME OFFICE - . JOHN F. DRYDEN, Newark, N. J. ^ ^ President. .* Assetts, Jan. i 1899, - - - - - $28,887,196.42. Surplus, Jan. 1,1899, ----- $5,888,894.76J STRONG AS THE STRONGEST. :! Insurance written in 1898 - $164,694,784. Insurance in force 1898 - - $414,547,053* Income I898 over $17,480,000* 1 ^ | The Prudential has forged its way a head until it now . j. tands in the front rank of rh ? ;reat life insurance companies 1 f the world. It oifers rvd tl * is good in life insurance and r : .nder the best conditions. - | i JAMES 0. WVNN, Manage iouthern Dept., Atlanta, 1 " I ' I ^J>J>HORE3|S. <?* FLFCTRICS. ? ! j pr, m. x. smith, o | ~ " <k_DG ; i ist._^. I 5 Crown and * && , Bridge Work, Union, S. C?