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THE UNION TIMES Published Every Friday. ?ijv the? UNION TIMES COMPANY Rooms 1, 8, 5 and 7, Bank Building. L. G. Young, Manager. Registered at the rostoitice in Union, S. C., as second-class mail matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES One year ------- $1.00 Six month* ------ SO cents Three months ----- 25 cents. ADVERTISEMENTS One square,ffirst insertion - - $1.00. Every subsequent insertion - 50cents. Contracts for three 'months or longer will be made at reduced rates. Uoipptrd TYiiinii-vrlnt will not he re turned. Obituaries and tributes of respect will'be charged for at haif rates. UNION, S. C.. APRIL 20, lfKO. Better think over this bond issue business before you east j-our vote. We have the electric lights and the water work", and they should bo mado efTicient, but are we ready for the expenditure of twenty odd thousand dollars for sewerage and town hall? Think it over. The storm that swept over Northern and central Mississippi a few days ago was the most disastrous that has occurred in many years. The loss to property will amount to many thousands of dollars also a considerable number of lives have beon reported lost. The first Annum musical resuviu of the Limestone Choral Society, of Gaffney, S. C., will take place in thattown May 8th and Dili. They have a very elaborate program and a fine corps of musicians who will contribute to the success of the occasion. Reserved seats for sale by AV. It. DuPrco, GafTney. It begins to look very much like the interference long hoped for by the Boers is about to come to their aid. It is stated that Russia, Franco and Germany are preparing at. ultimatum to England which says if she does not conclude hostilities within a week in South Africa Afganistan will he invaded with 120,000 troops. It is high time. "A young soldier in tho Philippines was saved from death by b"*vf ' ^ . - . , . pocket, tho * P1."? ?U9teiK-k him burying itself in the weed instead of in his heart. The moral Is obviously favorable to tho users of tobacco and the preachers must try again."?Charleston Post. The preacher will very naturally reply that a pocket bible would have afforded even greater protection than a plug of tobacco. AY abater Davis, assistant secretary of tho Interior, who has just returned from the Transvaal, has resigned his place and will tuke the lecture platform in the interest of the Boers. In his first speech in Washington he scored tho British for the manner in which they are conducting their war against the Boers showing up some of their actions in a very bad light. Mr. A. C. Jones, chairman of the Stute Board of the Prohibition Party, in a tftlk with us while in Union last I week, said that the Prohibition ] strength in the State is, in his opin- , ion,'greater than ever before. lie i says the vote at the last election < ist r for Featberstone is an illustration of 1 the strong sentiment in this State ? in favor of prohibition. i He says tho prohibitionists are not ; making much fuss but that they are i sawing wood, and that while it is not < yet definitely known whether a can- < didate will he put up by the prohibi- 1 f i An no i' K o ^?/vhtk!i!.-! < " * v.v?.? ptnij, uiv {jruuiuil lU.'liSIS Will J 1 not support any man who is not in I sympathy with their platform. The r Executive Committee, who have this matter in hand, will meet soon to consider the question, among other * things, of putting up a candidate. 0 They will do nothing to conflict with ' the rules of the Democratic party. s Mr. Jones is for Featherstone, if he '' can Do prevalcd upon to make the '' race, and thinks if Feat herstone is nominated for Governor lie will carry ^ the State. If a candidate is put up;'' ho will be nominated as a prohibition , Democrat. j" Mr. Jones thinks that should tlio s' executive committee decide in put- 'e ting up a man, the selection of a w manager of the campaign should bo left to the nominee. ?' Mr. Jones is an enthusiastic advocate of prohibition and is a hustling and faithful worker, looking forward ?' to the ultimate success of the effort, ai to elect a Governor of tlio State of 'J< South Carolina, who is a prohibition- ^ ist in principle as woll as iu name, n UNION THE HUSTLER. "Hon. A. N. Wood spent yesterday in tho city of Union on business. Union is a pretty good town bub it takes a hustler like GnHney to keep Mr. Wood in it long at a time, so bo came homo yesterday evening." ?GnlTney Ledger ltlth. We are glad to have tho good oitizons of tiaffney visit our city and would be glad for them to make their stay long enough for us to show them the town. We hare no doubt that it was a matter of regret to Mr. Wood that the nature of his visit did not allow him more time to remain and take in tho town, lie was on his way to Columbia to visit a sick child when he received a telegram here, thnt his child was better and he did not go further. GnlTney is a sprightly child, and has a live and wideawake paper in the Ledger to pu>h it along. We wish for the little town continued prosperity. Rut wVen the Ledger speaks of Union as n "pretty good town" he don't half express it, and it makes us smile when Rro. DeCamp attempts to hold GntTney up to Union as an example in the hustling business. If our esteemed contemporary will compare the Union of today with the Union of ten years ago, ho will sec that Union is tho pilot, and hustler in the broadest acceptation of tho term. Keep- your eye on Union for points, brother, in the hustling business. Judging from I ho reports published in tho newspapers regarding the telegrapher's strike and the unblushing statements made by both sides as to the effect the strike is having en the Southern Railroad Company's business, we are forced to the conclusion that there is some boss lying being done liv somohodv. We understand! Hint the brotherhood has a number of men going over the road with hundreds of dollars in their pockets ready to furnish money to any operator who went out and needs money, and in many instances paying and operator's salary for a month to i/iduce him to go out. If the money holds out this is going to count without doubt in favor of the ultimate success of the strikers. We are not in a position to know the true situation of affairs, but if it is true that the operators are only asking for the privilege of being heard by the road officials in matters of grievance, and that a schedule of honr*. catafilished 11 Jus^ nn(* equitable remuneration be allowed for overtime, we cannot but say this is a just demand. All other depart merits of the transportation service are allowed so ' much per hour for overtime, the engineers, the conductors, the firemen, train hands and flagmen, and why is not overtime allowed the telegraph operator? It can hardly he because lie is already receiving too fat a salary. They are surely the most poorly paid men in the railroad service taking into consideration the grave responsibilities that rest upon them. It .strikes us that the fight to the finish is being made by the railroad authorities, more for the purpose of breaking up the order, than as a resi-stnr??> r\f 1 ' ? *.? liiv scrim ngiy J list JUKI moderate demands cf the telegrapliers. The Atlanta Journal has changed hands. The purchasers were Messrs. II. M. Atkinson, Morris Brandon and 1 Inmoi It. Gray. Mr. Hoke Smith (lie nojority sto'-k holder realized for 1 | >n his stock and the other stock 1 udders received 2A for I for their ' stock. This an evidence that one ' lewspaper at least has made money. ' Ur. lloke Smith will devote his ent ire ' ittention to his law practice, lie re- 1 reived for his stock $ir>0,0t>0 the entire ' stock brought The Kditors lave been asked to remain and the 1 aaper will no doubt be kept up to its ' ligh standard. It is one of the best icwspapers in the South. The State has perils!cnlly held on < o the spelling of Puerto Rico instead ! f Porto Itieo, nearly all of his eon- I emporarios to the contrary, notwith- j j landing, and ho has pretty good J ( acking, as it seems the Geographical i j >oar.l at Washington declares that to v o the correct way, however the e Linerican way of spelling it "Porto ? iico" seems to be the way adopted d y ?;ongros< and it has been mod !( lat way in the tariff b'll and the ! ? gnaturo of tho President. makes i! j gal, "Porto Rico" then is tho legal (] aj'. Under the circumstances, j| owever, wo don't look for Ihe editor <j t the State to drop "Puerto Rico." t Tho Paris Kxposit ion was formerly t period last week and many visitors j, o arriving, It will bo a month yet jfore all exhibits will be in poSttion. n isitors from all nations aro arriving j. ipidly. g CUBA. THIKI) 1XSTALLMKNT, CONHNCED I KOM LAST WKKK. (ienorul Gomez now occupies Ihc old Governor General's summer palace, a .placo which must hnvo been grand a few years ago when Spain was in her glory. The building is similar to the other government buildings, but tho grounds arc more spacious and beautifully laid out. Cactus and inangrovo make a hedge around tho grounds, the Royal Palms f)0 to 75 feet high form beautiful avenues, the walks are bordered with smaller shrubbery with marble statuary at most of the angles and a small fish ponu to nnisn oir the grounds?all now in bad shape and much in need lot a gardener. * * * * Colon Cemetery is a terrible place for contemplation. "Six feet of earth make us all of one si/.o" everywhere else save here. The church places a tax on the dead body and unless it is paid every quarter b}' endowment or friends, the dry bones are cast not into outer darkness but into (ho broad light of day, to be gazed on by any one with such a morbid curiosity ?of course our party were not in a morbid state but as we went to see everything, wo took an old metallic coffin that hud been thrown out and using this as a ladder wo climbed on the wall of the bono yard and saw a mass of human bones and skulls that had been accumulating for years. (1 have a very good photograph of those bones on exhibition in Tin: Timks office together with several o'her scenes around Havana, call and see them when in town.) in contrast with this glaring disccration of the grave arc some of the finest monuments over erected. The bones of these men are now safe for the United States government has forbidden any more consignments to the bone yard ; but had the endowment funds, left by them, become lost, ihrnnoli iihIiii-I/v investments or otherwise the bones of the men to whom monuments costing hundreds of thousands of dollars had been erected would have bleached iu the enlosure for delinquent grave tax payers. * * * * I was struck with tlie contrast between freedom and despotism, bruto force and libertj*, when seeing the happy, contented peoplo under the at rang arm of the Americans, and thinking what must have been their condition under the iron heel of Weyler. Surrounded by impregnable forts, as far as the Cuban army was concerned, he issued his rcconcentrado proclamation concentrating all the country people, who obeyed, in the city to sturve and murdering those who remained without, after deviating their homes, if lie could catch them. So well were these orders uiirntu out mat there are villages near Havana as large as Union with not a soul there now?whole families have been exterminated and the U. S. government is now in possession of real estate for which they can tind no claimant. I was told the pitiful tale of the condition of these poor help- ' lesi creatures, hurdled together on i the side walks starving to death, even j ' after the U. S. army had entered tho j ( city and begun to feed tlsein. An | oliicer, who was on duty during those [ times, told ir.e his provost guards | ( would have to use groat care to keep ( from stopping on them and every ' morning tho wagons would bo sent 'j through the parks and streets to gather up the dead and haul them otl". ( i i)ur people think they had a hard * Lime when Sherman and his raiders v devastod our State and when Cham- I berlain and his gang wore hunting | '' down and driving from home our host' ' " i * ritizons under the cluirgo of being 1 t Ivll KIllV 1111 r. ne ( nmnonn.l 11? ! ' Cabanas with quarters for 4,000 to 5,000 soldiers, and in a push two or threo times as many. Tho bombproofs seem to the novice safe, but I was informed that the fort could have been demolished and forced to surrender without any great sacrifice tho place has plonty cannon of lifo on our part for though they are of ancient make?muzzlo loaders and smooth bore. Our fleet could have anchored oil shore out of rungo of such armament and at their leisure shelled her into subm'ssion. Fort Fun to on right of entranco is much smaller and of courso would have fared similar to Cabanas but boing in a thickly settled part of the city much damage to property would have resulted from a bombardment and those in authority adopted tho hunters plan of treeing the o'possum and catching him alive instead of perforating him with shot. While in Cabanas I was shown what is known as the dead line, a long mark on a straight wall, along which the prisioners were made to kneel and a s juad of soldiers a few paces back soon put them in suitable condition to be thrown over the walls to feed the sharks, which were thick in those days being fed regularly on massacred patriots. Tho signal station and light house aro also on Morro aiul I found the chief both kind and obliging and apparently a very intelligent man though he could not sp ?a'c or understand a word of English, lie and his assistants are on duty night and day and on the approach <?f a vessel signals | the proper authority in the city a: d the port ofTieia's nro promptly on hand when the vessel arrives. E. G. Y. (Continued next week.) IS TERESTISG LETTER FRO M FTTA J A NR. A Trip to G reea ville? Fa r titers I* eg in Planting ? Compulsory Vaccination?Death of Mrs. Jane Ilishop?Delegates to Louisville From Cam> Jeffries?Ladies' Memorial Association Meets May 3th?Personal and l.ocal News Notes. Etta .lane, April l<i.?lly si me means om lafct letter didn't aiptnr in Tiie Timics. 'J liis 1 as bwn the case only a few times Ik fore. But I trust your readers lost little or nothing 011 that account. Yi.ur correspondent stent iwst of lad week in Greenville attending Enorce Presbytery. Dining my stay in llio city 1 met. among others, n y young friend O'iver Goimr, formerly of Union county, w ho is now hvmg in Greenville and d- ing well Oliver is a chip iff theo!?l block? a son of our old and worthy comrade in arms, W. G. W. Going, ?>f Mt J. v. Our meeting was as jovous as it was unexpected. Parsing along one of the. crowded streets of that bust iuir cilv I heard some one call out. Hello Vox! faking the hint and looking round wh did 1 liud but Oliver Going. O.iver i>a Iirst-class gentleman. Our fanners began planting this a. n\ I Some have not prepired their c ?tu n laud vet, and will not plant before the I 2.">ih lust.. others Ixgin to-div or tonior- I row. I hope for a good spell ot' weatlur for tin m. Our county i< greatly agitited over the Mnall lHi.v fcare, and compulsory | vaccination is now tho order of tiicday. Mis. Jane Bishop died at the home of S. K. Kstes last Thursday morning in il.e 8<> year of her age. She was l?crn it Il< pkif s county, Kentucky, in 1S1 I J She was a member of the Pre.sby- i ei iati church from oailv life. She was | nr.?d i t Sa'em last Friday. ) < 'amp Jtffi ies United Uonfederat Vet- I nar.S met at Wiikinsville last Satmdnv f iikI r. oigani/.ed by electing its old ? Hi- f :?rs. Capt. (1. W. MeKown, coin- i uandcr, and lion. Win. Jt (tries were \ leo'.ed de!( g ite.i to the Louisville (Ivy.) I' union. t Hi v. S?;i dcis K/ 11 pleached at A1v i gdi n ('in k jcstenlay, and Rev. .1. 1'. [, daiion at Salem. ? Next. S.dtha'h the Salem Sahhalli Vlieel wi'l decide upon the time it v. il | < i:iv?' it's Children's Day, and all tin j hi di.n who will take pait in the exer- . i-.es kre veipiest-d to he present. The] ' hind iy School proposes to make the lnldrcnks d iv an appropiiate benedieion to the I'.nh century and a Mutable 'Ingram wiil Ik- prepao'd for the occasion Tine Timks will l>e welcome. We hiive plenty of fruit left after sevirt! 1'rubts. 1 regret to liud that Mr. and Mrs ,ot-pi itch, founerly of this section, but o\v of tialTiiCy City, are IkjUi tick, \vi;b .a gi ippe. Tho i?idies' Memorial Association . ill met t at Llbetliel chinch at 2 p. in , alurday May otli, a', which time the ccoration of ttic graves of the Ckinf. .1- V rates will take plaiv. Camp Jcdlnes I f. C. Veterans will ids ? inti t tlitre t the same time and all members of the " amp w ho are in arrears will please I e * i liand at that time with the aiuount f their dins 1"> ivnts?Id cents for the biiimal Federation "inl edits for the j tde Division U. C. Veterans. Ms. 1{. Ross 1 hiitton in Ring very iw at this lime. Dr. T. S R. Wood, f llickoiy (irove, is Inr physician. Win at is looking well. The ncent 'low* rs have rn ale gn at improv* ments n it. OatJ, wheie they are not killed ut, lixik very will, esjHCidiy the fall >*ing. My old fiiei.d an! army comrade, .J. l*e:-!ey MeKown attend the funeral of >r. .1. F. McOluney, at Salem, on the th ins.t. lie Is erjojii g good health ml 1h always a welcome visitor to our I'Cliou. Yox. ? , ??o vuiii|/aivu nun 1J1U j 1 iufieriiiof the Cubans they were en- j ' oying only tlie fruits of high cluss j civilized warfare. j e * *k * I _ 11 If one thousandth part of the 11 nonoy expended in fortifications in ' 3uba had been spent on internal im- j irovements and education, Spain s vould have pos.ses.sod a colony un- j d qualed as a wealth producer. In- ! V tead of a liberal courso she "round I ;l town her subjects with the heaviest j c axes and whiio alio was thereby en- ! " bled to build forts that surpass the [ y magination, for permanency in their 1 S ay, yet in the courso of progress, in i tnproved cannon, could liuvo been '' 1 o uickly demolished ; she neglected to | each thorn to love her and no?v we | -s' ave the child happier and moro con- ^ enled under the enro of its guard- M in than ever with its parent. Tho fortitlcations around Havana j re strong, massive and numerous, .j Entering the harbor you find tho a xiin walls of Morro Castle und For- 84 YOU DO, D When you see a nice Titling made over a good corset, and y< way, don't you ? F. C.JCorsets; F. C. Corsets do not sti^tch. hold their shape. F. C. Corse and a neat striking appearance.you do not know the many goot Here are the styles fc THE PRICES ARE G TRACTIVE AS STYLE Ho?Is of good quality twilled of tWo colors, white with pi blue stripping, lace edge, > STYLE 00?Good quality of Surnmei ventilated notting, singh waist, five hook, regular ; STYLE 808?Is raado of a fine quality boned bust, and silk (rimtr clasp, an extra strong cors STYLE GO?Is made of extra heavy Jca with sat teen. lfas duul steels; boned bust, silk t ing. Extra heavy bone waist, five hook clusp, a STYLE 800?Is of very fine quality Sui cross boned bust, stripped waist, five hook, the warn STYLE 101?Young Ladies' Coraot. So soft bust, single Mrip medium waist. For Miss< STYLE 2.~)0?Very fine English sattcei two sile steels, silk trir short, medium or long wt STYLE GO?Is a French shape. Ma white, medium waist, four trimmed with I ace and rib two side steels STYLE 7o0?Is a high bust "Dress For ity white sat teen, medi measurements. The pro should be "Dress Reform' STYLE i)")0?Improved Corset Waist. teen, medium waist and expansion bust and tape f A model Corset Once .1 wearer of 1;. C. C friend to l'\ C. Corsets. We Union. THE ATTTF N. B.?Our store will close at ? September ist, Saturda I'GREEN < 1 Do the Buggy |j Union C< ||k Get in line with your KM bors, come around | BUGGY, CARRIAGI i>yg wc uaiTy a compiei and can suit you. f|| QUALITY ai | "OLD HICKORY" WAGO 1 CHATTANOOGA PLOWS (h YOU US TO SKLL 1 | GREEN 4 ? S E E When you want a new in one repaired. We are fix of odd jobs in cabinet w< tl"?inr? flint- />nii't- Kn lio/l II v*? biiub wuii b Aiau ii also keep a big assortmen ing material and the Best tive guarantee. ifllLEY FURNITURE rH K PARLOR Having recently purchased the busir am prepared to supply the needs of yoi PHON ^ US Y< ) and they will be attended to will ALU GOODS DELI Butter, Eggs and Vegetal I ] 1*1 I S IOST PI2 or garden, farm and lnirnyard pi CHAS. R. sn PHOIS 1 pp? * ** waist or dress, you know it's Du like for yours to look that ire the Corsets that satisfy. They fit; they wear; they its always give comfort, ease 1 f you have never tried one 1 features they possess. >r different figures. iUITE AS AT3 THE CORSETS: Jenne, in a combination ink stripping, white with *nluo f>Oo, our price r Corset, made of strong strip boning, medium >0c corset Coutil in white, cross ii ng, long waist, six book ot- . i 5^* ,ns in white and stripped bis zona and three side rimming ami hand dossil throughout, medium splendid corset inner netting in white, with satteen, medium Cftf 1 weather corset ft finished white sntteon, boning with silk edging, ?s 10 to 10 years old ii in white, boned bust, nmod nnd hand flossed, list 3>I.OO ^ ide of Bayadere cloth in hook clasp, handsomely bon, single strip boning, j qq m" Corset. Fine qualum waist and full hip per name of this style $1. ,oo Fine quality white satclasp front, new plaited astcned buttons on side. $1. ,00 orscts you will always be a have the exclusive sale for OSTER CO. iix o'clock from June ist to ys and public days excepted. &, BOYD } Business of ? ounty. i friends and neigh- a| and buy a new ? : OR PHAETON. | e line of Vehicles || We guarantee || -id PRICE. NS, | ALWAYS a > . . J ON HAND. H VXD PLEASE, 01 Ik BOYD. I ^ iantle made or an old ed for doing all kinds :>rk and making anyi regular stock. We t of nil kinrlc r\f ? ?... .. . ..v?0 W A. UUIIU" Paint sold on a posi& LUMBER CO. GROCERY. io-m Of tho PARLOR GROCERY, tr tabl o. Uli WAIXTS > promptness and dispatch. [VERED FREE. >les always on hand. ^ ICIC? PAIO oilucc suitable for table use. ITH, Mgr. L? 70. Lht