Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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I , ' WjM I STHE TOWN0_FUN,OH MA? J| tH * ~W~ BI ^ 'V T "m ~T y-v -r ? ? ^ ? __ TOW^ OFiUNIOH HAS ffi Two Cotton Mills, ono the H I I 1 I I 111 H 9 m ' 9 9 aBl /|h ill J ? . The largest Knitting Mill and W 13 largest in the South. Two Fur- M g] . M J j ^ g M ffi | m| | Ik / SI |$jj (( Dye Plant in the State. An Oil ftf | niture and Wood Manufactur- ) ) H H H H ^ , III III I I 1B/ I H | i [(( H,,<1 Munufucturing Co, that ffi ,jj iug Concerns. Ono Femalo H II I I J I J I* 1 a V ' | | I 1 V U N I I k | muUes t?n unexcelled Guano. )n ,, J Seminary. Water Works and ft M. JL _M_ A X \ \^r X 1 M 1 W A ((( Three Graded Schools. Arte- ft | Eloctric Lights, |i| ? ' |jj aian Water. Population VOL. XLiX NO. 4'.). UNION. SOUTH CAROLINA. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1899. #1.00 A YEAR. * 4*^ 4** T F. M. FARJv President. | GEO. MU,NI<?, Cashier, J | Merchants' and Pla | OF" tJNI L Capital Stock y Surplus $ Stockholders' Liabilities ^ Total jfe Dikf.OTORS?J. A. Fant, ^ X T. O. Duncan, J. T. Douglass, J Win. Goloman. We Solicit ^ * -MK-C::-4ft-4ft-4K-4* #5--Hr'ifrM'4ft4ft-44, * Local Market Report. Union market changed every two weeks by the Union Cotton Mills Department Store. Bacon 6\' Mums l-S Shoulders 8>i' Breakfast Strips ID lour 4 50 a4 75 M*?t W) (Jrtst -it Rleo ?S Smrar ? S. Colfee.... 10ix 40 I^ard... - 8 Molasses... 25 a 00 Tobacco..., iVi'fi 75 Kerosene Oil,,^ 15 Chickens....,, ll'o 17 vap.. 2<a25 unioFcounty news. Items of Interest Gathered from Various Sections by our Correspondents. Snntac Sifting*. 4*The tissue of the life to l?e We weave with colors all our own, Aid in the field of Destiny We nap as we have sown." Frosts begins to stand high of mornings now. Pid Prosperity byiug every funiily $ big Thanksgivings dinner? Time is gearing when many J fathers *iU have a regular "hug killing time. Just three weeks to come boys? th?*n what?- It will be Christmas, oh! Mr. M. 11. Jeter. U. S. R. R. mail clerk, has moved his family into the Baptist parsonage, for some months. Welcome. Mr. Jos. W. Jones, who has now a position as guard in the Penitentiary, was in town a few da\ s last week. Mies Forest Bailey, ol Union, vi>it pd ber friend iss Minnie Stokes last week. Miss Pearl Humphries who is teaching school on Tinker creek, was at the Baptist church Sunday. Mr. Kemp Thomas, a salesman for the Union Hardware Company, was in Saiituc Sunday. Mr. Leon Built r, of Locklia>t, panned through town yesterday on ; nis way to see bis parents. A young couple from Union, cauic down here on Nov. 2tiih and took upon themselves the marriage vows, Magistrate B. G. Gregory officiating, The contracting parties being Mr. duo. C. Conner and Miss Dunby Wuljccf. Dud Ogglesby, u negro livin, some miies from here, had a cow to go mad or crazy last week. After throe days of roving, bellowing, homing and pacing anything and everything almost that she could get to, she wus shot and her troubles ended. A hot supper, under the auspices of ihe Methodist church, was given at tha residence of Mr. J. W. Gregory on tho night of Thanksgiving. It was reported much of a success. It was strange though that there "were some who never heaid there was to be a supper. There are some citizens who are jpouch opposed to people paying negroes out of the chuin gang, thus making offenders snap their fingers at that constitution. v> lien they are convicted and sentenced, why let them 6erve their term. Would it be well for Magistrates to sentence them wirh no proviso as to a flue? The town council ran afoul a batch , of negro gamblers Saturday, and proceeded to interrupt the game, by $p^ttcring the participants and citing tbem to trial, bnt one recognized hm own beligerancy by doing some big talking, wbereupon bands were laid ? \ v **4 t * t 4 A ' A. !1. FOSTER, Vice President. f . D. ARTHUR, Assistant Cashier. ^ I inters' National Bank | M.O^ ! \ $00,000 J 50,000 J 00,000 f $170,000 | iV. II. Wallace, Wm. Jeffries, & K. P. MoKissick, A. II. Fo3ter, ^ four Business. | >> -M- ^ -at- 4K- -t* * v upon bitn an J ho wa* lodge! in tl.c c-.liboosc and no doubt he was brought down a peg. That is right, break up tho dens, if possible, but K.' Sir lit mirtil tl?o ? n/\ ???/>.?., * X* 1 . ... Ui.uu milt 1IU UlllUUUt (1 IUW, morals, preaching nor persuasion, (an break up the mania for gambling and often white men degpuerating to gamble with them; aiding and abetting, by harboring ilens. La-t Thursday being Thanksgiving day it ace-und that almost everybody wai tr\ ir??r to turn the world upside down, or President McKinley had moved his one great achievement, the Philippine Mar around ' among rabbits and birds Every , i negro, nearly, of course had to take f Thunksg ving tne way or another, oven tho women and d >wn to tbo ' McKinley piccaninny, named in honor of their President, because forsooth that dignitary made the ( proolimation, and the man who did not ol serve Thanks-giving was not ( obeying the commandments. Oh yes, there must be a etopage, no | natter l.o*' low the larder, or what ( pressing needs. Wonder if there w as ( enougli bacon round about to season | the pots of rabbits. Jack Daw kins, an inoffensive j negro just middle age, was killed ( lust Saturday morning near Carlisle by a through freight train on the Seaboard Air line. Jack bad been * to Carlisle and was returning h"rao. , wlicn about one and a half miles t fro to town and while crossim? tb? n ~ \ Ingti trestle over Cox's Creek he | was overtaken by the train bound north. The approach t?> the ttes le was or. n down grade and just past a cur/e, and the train was near the man before either he or the engineer J knew it. The engineer tried to stop ui d Jack tried to tnake terra firma, but was struck while thirty feet high and thrown ofT. llis arm was broken and his skull crushed. lie lived several hours. There were eye wit- ' n? sses to the accident. ( IIey Denver. j Sedallu Sittings, 1 A large- area of wheat has been < gov 11 in this section, j Notwithstanding the short crops ( and good weather for gathering, it l looks as though some cotton will i bo in the field Christmas. Some of our big cotton farmers, who have been holding their cotton I for eight cents are now putting it on j the market at seven and one quarter. I Thanksgiving was very generally i observed in this community by some i going to church, others going hunt- i !. J ' ii.g aim one young gent spent the i day with his best girl. Mr. and Mrs. C. T. Boyd of ?e- i didia, spent Thanksgiving with Mr. I i Boyd's father, ltcv. D. P. Bo^d, of 1 Cray Court. ' | Mr. arid Mrs. J, C. Mitchell, of i \ ork, spent a few days recently with Mrs. Mitchell's parents in this sec- ] tion. Mr. It. W. Chancy has returned hotue afier a weeks' a;ay with his sick father in the Ninety Six section, Greenwood county, and reports his father convalescent. I hear of a few marriages but UD" fortuiiately there has been none in ibe Sedalia boundary. It becomes my sad du*y to chronicle the death of Miss Mamie Bailey, which oceuired November ii7th. Mamie was just blooming into beau tiful womanhood, was a consecrated Christian, a joy to her immediate family, and a light to the community in which she lived. Bright, checiful and loving, but she has gone to her reward. Iter's whs the third death in that family in a month. Mrs. Arthur Bailey, then her sweet prat EYES TES ir YOU CAN ?OT ACAD THIS TYPi (ASHY, MOCOIKG tHI Y)^e have purchase J a $100 * * ing the eyes. With tlii: We sell ouly genuine Crystal S one tested before sold. 'They a /e very little higher * but they are worth many 1 are unequally grained and soon Without Sight Life Remember we test the eyes f of a Doctor instead of Spec THE WILLI ling daughter, Myrtle, two weeks later, and ??nly u short while later Matnie. The bereaved fumily has the uos*. ] r .-found sympathy of this entire community. Who ever heard of a swarm of bees being caught in a rabbit gum? William ? tames, Jr., in getting up his last winter gums recently l'ounu one ihut was inhabited by a swarm that had a nice chance of honey. We should quit complaining about hard times when it comes to catching honey in a rabbit guin. A young man should not he dissourag-d even if his plans miscarry, rather if his prisenta are miscarried, there is nothing like persevering, and joining to bring things that are likev to be missent again, but it puts a el low in an awkward position when he little rorvant is sent to the buggy for u basket < f nice fruits and walks rack in the parlor with not only the fiuits, but a d spensary bottle partly iiled with uTill|QaQ S red-eyed overoy." Voung America surely is deCeneiating. "It's an ill wind that ) own no good " But when it coirn s o blowing a fcilow's hat oft' repeaiedy when ho is liuitrying to be off viih his best girl so that other i'el..... ? ? -i - _i i 'J n nuuns IIUl IlttVf 1(10 pleasure, lit* :ati't bee the good in that blow. B. B. BETTER FROM SEAT OF WAR. t Union Boy Writes an Interesting Fetter of His Trip to the Philippines, San Franeisco, Cab, Nov. 2ti, '5)0. Dear Mr. Editor: Thinking souio )f the boys of olil South Carolina would like to hear from me, I take :he liberty of addressing you, hardly knowing who the e litor is. but well know there still exists a "Times" iu jur good o d town. Well boys I am just oack from a trip to Manila. 1 iid not get to go to the war so I thought I would go sight-seeing. 1 mailed lrora San Francisco lirst to llonolu, Japan, from there to the! Philippine*. Went on the steamer transport St. Paul. The trip wi^ uran'l as the St ^aul plowed through the deep watt * on aud on until the eve could behold no hing save the mighty water and the blue skjo with nil its gandeur. Every now and again a home sickness w ud crop over a lone boy like myself, and 1 would itlmost wish I had wings even of a buzzard to fly back p? the o|d liftme, bur new sceneries mid the eagerness [.< got to cur do? ination would soon ilrive away Home sickness, but when vie leached Manilla I felt like (,'oluuibus, sajing land, land. We roturned by the nay of Au tralia. 11 ?ys, you know there is an old saying that a "rolling itono gutters no moss," so I haye pot sayeu much lO'-ney, but I have seen as much as any boy in die South at my ugo. I have not been siek since 1 came west, | I weigh 150 pounds and weur a num" her seven shoe. San Francisco is a a ?? Muu V'iMUll Jf klUlllU JJUI t"1 IM IIUU'll for gold. Th(re arc ti great many pro^pe Uora kero who get rich while others get broke. 1 was where a post was being put in thp ground and eawr sompihing shining us large as my thumb and found it was a gold nugget, took it to a j? weler and he gave me twelve dollars and t<?r y-five cents. Phis is my only luck in the g'H line. Vlenty of deer here, often sec them TED FREE. : u inches men the eves too need ousso." .00 Test Case for accurately testis method mistakes cannot occur, pectacle Lenses, each and every in price than tho3-$ usually sold :im3s more, for the cheap glasses ruin the sight. is not Worth Living. ree and if you need the services 'tacles we will frankly tell you so, A MQnw r^r\ I in the morning and afternoon. Ms friend Bob ou^ht to be here, he would find something to kil. A friend of mine killed a huge buck a few days ago. Well I am going to fettle down and save some money and sometime in the future turn homeward. There '8 no place like home be it ever so humble, and the loved ones there will be waiting to welcome the western boy ba?k. Good bye boys. Your friend. J. Franklin Bi.air. WASHINGTON LETTER. (From Our Regular Correspondent.) Washington, Jan. oth, 1SD9.? Circumstances have brought the expansion question very much to the front, in Washington. President McKinley'a speech at Atlanta, in which he asked ,kwho will haul down the fl ig ?" is regarded as committing hiui in favor of expansion, aud of retaining the Philip- i pities, and it hasentlmed the expansionist! in Couaress, and out of Congres-. Then eamejkol. Bryan's visit to Washington for? h<v double purpose of try ing to prevent Senators of his party opinio.? the ratification of the treaty of peace. ] whion he says should not figure in the light against expansion, and of so.inlying his party in both branches of Congo ss against expansion. lie succeedtd so well in the first that it is now genei- , ally exacted Uiat the treaty will b- ratified by die Senate U. buv the close of tins se sion of Congres-., aitiiough it eannoi i U? sent to the "euate until tic* first week in Jam ary. lie wasn't so succssiui in bis other obje t. lie found numerous Senators and ll-pivsentulivos of hi* ' puty who told him plainly that they ami t ifcir constitiii JiLs brllsvcd that it was th- proper thing for tnis government U> ke-p all the territory it acquired hi th<war Willi Spain, and lti.it so ion/ as the adiniidsiratio i policy was leguitmue expaiisinii, and not imperialism, they e\l?ecud to cordially suppoit it. Cel. iiry <t i in i onversatnm with his friends thai public sentiment at the present tune i-> f ivo ab e to eAp.uisiou, but he aigued th l it wid soon be chtnged and will Suppoit the position he has taken. TUe Nicaragua canal bi\l cannot be said in have made tpiy real progress (luring the yyiplc', it has Iwen the* inIpiisiicd busintvw" of the Senate. NearU ail of ti o Senators c.ahn to favor the canal, but. the majority of th *ni apjiear to have dilYeieul id^as of ilie legisladon tnat ill best accomplish t.iat result. Toe consequence is a number of aun-iidtil Mil.> and talk (if several ln-.n.il mils. Senator Morgan says l\e doesn't caie whore bill is p<st*?l or what its exact lonu if, just the construction id tk\e can;;l is uuUioiijttd at this session o,i {'uugtesw The sentiment expressed by l'n siilenr. McK nley thar. the tune laid come when the United States Govtmuiont might to snare in the caie of the Conl'edeiate dead?found an in Cm gr. ss whe,, IGpiesentalivo Kixey, of Va., int,0. iiuccd a oil I providing that tl?A ffovruloent should al??? t?Uato in the car0 0f I living Ctmiodeirtlea, who am needy, py Piieiipig to ttieui ttfl Soldier's Homes ai,d other institution* maintained by the KOv. (nnneiit (or e.v^diers, upon the same terms that United Statos soldier* and sailors are admitted. Tbo gentlemen who are trying to bring about an extra cession of the next Conine ss for the sole pur|?oso of financial J legislation, have not succeeded ni getting J a promise from President MwKinley. but they are bliil liard at work trying to bring additional preij&uiu to btar ujion i nun. Sauie old Congtew; same old talk I aUnit working through the holidays; ' same old joint lesoluliou providing lor a i * 1 ? v/iu iM>inii? leuwj in two weens, iroui I lie 'Jim iust. An.en J la it not about time for David B. ili.i to quit sulking and act so as to niikj gool bia fam .-ua saying, "1 am 1 a Djraocrat? " I 5 Wm. A. Nicho M 2 ItESI'FCTFl 3 BANKING BUSINESS n | And promise you the be K3 o Ik Wei! Dressi raEsS- Whittem Tho Wor The only polish || that will not in-jF jure leather. Union Sh UNION, S. C. a *~w~* A rv * * /x r* *+ m V^/A I AKI it li^r- '-i" ^ V v *?* ^ w PR, H. <2^_DE Crown and Bridge Work. ADVERTISING. It Dai Revolutionised DuMlnesa n BeneGted IIumanit>-. Advertising Is indeed one ot' tbegn developments of tin; age.. It bus re' lutionized business and made it po* ble to accomplish in u few yours \vl otherwise would have takeu gene tlous to compass. Today the advvri er: through tiie medium of the pub (Jl 1-S3, tuu ILJll UlllH'l" IMS UI IILIL* lO 1 entire public utmost literally at hound. Such u servant ut the sellt elbow lias naturally mode buslm vastly different from wbut It was s oral hundred yours ago. It Is 110 longer necessary, us It v In previous generations, to cout one's commercial transactions to n II Ited area. In fact, the muuufnctu of today regards the world as Ids lit aud there are quite n number of p prletary articles, widely and favoral known In every quarter of the drills world, which have been introduced d lug tlie lifetime of their present p prletors, who are men only In 1 prime of life. Without advertising, by which It possible to reach and lutluoncc h dreds of thousands of persons slmul ueously, such a result could not be conipllshed in several generations. indeed it could be accomplished at Nor has this advertising benellted seller only. It has brought to knowledge of the buyer the liundn of Improvements and articles by \vh nr.. ?n.. 1. .1 - -.1 ???*.- mil ??.- 111 ?n n" lliuir JHl'.IMIIK, which the health can he preserved, palate gratified, the Intellect fed r satisfied. It is no exaggeration to say that force has conduced more to knit world closely together nor made < mutual Interdependence moreapparc "It Is but the simple truth to ussei snys a recent writer, '"that the loss the Information which the advert incuts furnish would he one of greatest imaginable misfortunes to < lllxutlou."?Self Culture. (around Floor Dcdrooin*. There is danger iu the porous chut ter of plaster ceilings, which ofteu very tliln Indeed. The ordlu celling Is "only a porous diaphra permeable by gases with eonsldera freedom." The vitiated air of sitt rooms therefore frequently flnds way through iuto bedrooms. The H ish Medical Journal asks any ske] to "compare his bodily and mental s sations after sleeping in such a rc and In one situated over a similar rc well ventilated and not occupied Illuminated hy gas during the u\ ing." The remedy, It says, is to h bedrooms on the ground tloor and ing. working and cooking rooms stairs. But how about noise??Lon Chronicle. SBOIMW Ison & Son, Bankers, 2 JLLr SOLICIT VOUK 2 AND YOUR FIRE INSURANCE, ? st protection and the best service. 5 id Shoe Makes The essed Man. |SPMi ore's Polish, Id's Standard tS^ii For sale at iRf| UNIONS' BIG BMV |g||jsHOE STORE, oe Company. FINE FOOTWEAR. ELECTRICS. K. SMITH, 2NTIST. ^ Union, S. C. THE EAST WIND. } nd You're coming, coming, lika the light And spreading o'er the La. 1 know there's dentil for so rue tonight, I ' but life and jay to me, ? 1 For you're the east wind, tsi- East wind that 1 love, ,at Tlio cost wind of the sea. ? } . j ra" |, nurtured on our sea (jirt coast, tta- ltnund roof and ro< h -. id tree, illC Drank in the food 1 I ie i the most, t 'l'h# east wind of the sea. a And midst the spray on ocean's breast, , ,r'8 While you whistled wild and free, I've kissed your check and sunk to rest, [>sb O east wind of the seal I'VBo, though 1 pray for iwso J'ou ,lftrm 1 And wish it mlgtit not be. fcvvt'i j> lit and Urin-f li:e old, old charm? * ; Sue brinjr it hack to mol llU- / . Kor you're tin ca-st wind, 1'Pr East wind >..1 1 love, { . . vj*r- 'Ihe east wind ol the sea. ?Boston Transcript, [}|y | A Gooil Shot. sed I ^ l?cal sportsman, who has the repuur. i tatiou of being n very bad shot, recent,ro. ly invited some of his friends to dine the i with hlin. Before dinner ho showed I theiu a target painted on the barn door, lH i with u bullet in the hullseyc. This ho uu. i claimed to have sliot at 1,000 yards' Ua. ; distance. As nobody believed him. he !lc. offered to bet the price of on oyster If supper on it. On one of his guests accepting tho d,e wager, he produced two witnesses, the whoso veracity could not be qucseds tloned, to prove his assertion. As they l(.|, j both said that lie had done what ho l,v i claimed he won the bet. At dinner ,l,*0 j the loser of the wager asked how his lIul host hud managed to lire such an excellent shot. The host answered, "I no shot the bullet at the door at a distance ll,e of 1.000 yards aud then I painted the t>ur target around It."?Cincinnati En,nt quirer. ft." Cnnifti* the Uencroi. of One of the regular army officers tells kp? a titrveo j\P liittir ^ Iia aIiI of i*I?v wAitf ai?m*r , ?? oiv/1^ ui Iiun IIIV VIIU Oil lu^uiib ui iksjf the regulations once went against General jlv- gcott. One wet afternoon that soldier was caught in tiie rain in Washington. He was in full uniform and was well known, so, no cub being near, he borac] rowed an umbrella. Arriving at his 11 rc* hotel, nn under Qflleer approached hint ari and calmly remarked: "General, you will consider yourself ' " under arrest for eight days for carry? . lng an umbrella while iu full uub rlt- form" _ ptlc A Scheme That I'nya. ten- A Cincinnati milkman Invites bis torn customers to have the milk which ho torn j serves analyzed twice u year at bis or | expense. The tests may be made at ren- any time, without warning to the avo i dairyman, his object, of course,- being liv- to prove that his milk is of standard up purity all the year round. lie does a don large business aud finds himself well ' repaid for his outlay for tbo analysis.