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THE UNION TIMES Published Every Friday. by the? UNION TIMES COMPANY Room8 1, 8, 5 and 7, Bank Building. L. G. Young, Manngor. Registered at the rostofllce in Union, S. C., as second-class mail matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES One year ------- $1.00 Six month4 ------ 50 cents Three months ----- 25 cents. ADVERTISEMENTS One square, first insertion - - $1.00. Every subsequent insertion - 50 cents. Contracts for three months or longer will be made at reduced rates. Rejected manuscript will not be returned. Obituaries and tributes of respect will"be charged for at half rates. uprroN, s. c.. may 4, mm. Wonder if any of our readers remember that there wna published in Union in the sixties a paper of the name "The New Kra?" Also one of the name "The Unionville Press.'' The largest, diamond in the world Is now on exhibition at the Paris Imposition. It is insured for and has four policeman guarding it. It is a product of the Kimberly mines In South Africa. "The richest."heiress in the world is going to marry a man named Safe." ?Spartanburg Herald. W e wacrer lie will be readv to rc celre any deposits she may feel inclined to make. The Secretary of the Treasury has sent, in reply to a resolution, n statement showing tho amount due the State of South Carolina from the government growing out of tho claims of the Indian and Florida wars to bo $178,938. It is reported that Dewey is going to take the stump. lie had best take a reef in his top sails and go into port, unless he desires to face a torm the like of which he has nevei encountered on tho high seas. Don't you Dew-it Dewey. The Kimball House of Atlanta, changed hands Monday. Mr. Joseph Thomson retiring and .Mr. James K. Miokey taking charge. It is said that Mr. Ilickey is ono of the most popular hotel men in the business, having had charge of some of the largest hotels in the country. The tirst casualty of the Paris Ex position occurred Sunday evening resalting in tho death of nine sight, seers and the injuring of forty more. A temporary bridge collapsed. The bridge had been condemned, but the crowd had not been kept from undei the bridge. The largest crowd was in attendance of any day so far. Th< accident throw a pall of sadness ovci the happiness of the immense throng An effort is on foot to coin a new word in the Knglish language. Ii seems there is a necessity of n now pronoun which will do away with tho use of the words "his or her" and "himself oijherself'a monotonous rep etition of which appears in catalogues . etc., of all institutions of learning where there is co-education. The word suggested is "Thon and would be used "Thonself" for "himself or herself" and "Thon" for "his or her." It's a good idea, let it come. "The Biacksburg Cotton Si ill, of Biacksburg, hr?s filed notice of n decrease in its proposed capital stock from $100,000 to $50,000.'?Ex. This is the first instance we have noticed this year of a proposition tc decrease the capital stock of a cotton mill, they are nearly all doing the other thing. Hut if Biacksburg will put the other $50,000 into some other new industry eho will not be the loser. Diversified industries for tho towns and diversified farming f<>r the country, Is the open sessatno to the throe i'.'s, Prosperity, Peace and Plenty. Committees representing the telegraphers have been in consultation with the prominent members of the Order of Railway Telegraphers in Chicago and elsewhere looking to a sympathetic strike should it become necessary. .Members of the Order of Railway Telegraphers say this is the first strike of importance ever authorized by the Order and the men arc determined that it shall succeed, as the life or the death of the organization depends on the result. More than 47,COO railway telegraphers in the United States aro members of the Order. A sympathetic strike may he ordered on all important railroad systems east of the Mississippi river. UNION'S NEW INDUSTRY. lluvc you been around to the Bailey Lumber Company's big plant, since they have got their machinery in operation? If not it will bo a surprise for you if you will step over that way and take a look about you. Mr. R. L. McNally will take pleasure :n showing you around. They are now thoroughly equipped to do everything in the building line. Such an industry is a great help to the town. In the first placo they have a pay roll of about one hundred dollars a week, which money is turned loose in the town by tho hands. Then it is a convonienco to those who wish to build or repair, or have a piece of furniture made, no need new to send otr for your mantles, scroll or fancy work. Xo trouble or worry about finding a man to do little repair jobs. Write down what you want and hand it in, that is all you nave to do incy uo tne rest, in tact they look after you from the cratlle to the grave, they build your house, paint it, put up the guttering, furnish it and turn over tlie keys. They have the largest stock of lumber, lime, cement, shingles, doors, sash, blinds, etc., e\er seen in Union, they have several buildings full of lumber and material and have rented the large seed room at the cotton soed oil mill, which they are rapidly filling up by unloading several cars of material into it, it is doubtful if this additional space will furnish sufficient room. Mr. W. B. Cooler, whose reputation is too well known to require comment here, is in charge of the cabinet and fancy work. We give this space and prominence to t his infant, though rapidly devcl. oping industry, of which Messrs. T. K. Bailey and K. L. McXully are the , proprietors, from the simple fact that , we believe in the establishment of a variety of industries in the town, and believe that they will lend more to rapid growth than anything cd.-e, and we are ready to lend our ai 1 In their establishment. There is plenty of room for other minor industries, 1 let them come along. It is not the largest manufacturing establishment every time that pays the best dividends. $30,000,000 FIR1Z; 15,000 HOMIiT<FSS It was a terrible lire that occurrec in the cities of Ottawa, Ont.. nn> Hull, <khie., last Thursday. The twr towns being separated by the Ottawn River. The loss of property will foot up to something like $-10,000,000 The town of Hull was almost entirely destroyed, a fierce wind was blowing at. the time which caused ihc 'lame.' to leap across the river and soon boll cities were burning cuusing a sigh! awful in its grandeur. The body o flame was said to bo four miles Ion; * and half a mile in width. 1,11111 * ber companies lost 2oO,OGO,000 fee ^ of lumber. Half a dozen lives wer r lost ana ninny tnous ma maao nouic less. Tlio .fire originated from i burning chimney about a quarter o ' a inile from Main street in Ottawa The casualties arc summarized as fol ows: Five square miles of territory burned over; more than 2,500 dwell ings, factories, mills, stores ni.d otlie buildings destroyed, entailing a losi estimated to reach $20,000,000, ant between 12,000 and 15,000 men, wc men and children homeless is thf rough estimate of the tiro at Hull am in Ottawa. Most of the lumber piles in Ottawa and Hull, half a dozen churches am schools, many mills, the Hull water works, the Hull court house and jail the post oflico, the convent?almost ( every business place, and about 1,00< dwellings and shops in Hull dost royed Indeed, practically nothing of Hull Jleft hut a church and a few hoti<c> heyond it. In Ottawa it is estimated that, he sides the tnill, factories, etc. burned I,.">00 residences were destroyed. Loss estimated at $1 .">,000,000 and the in sur.mce at !j52,r>00,'(H)O. All previous records of the post a service of the United States has heei passed, and this year will show s greater amount of business than ha* ever been handled heretofore the re port of tho post office department at Washington nays tho issues of post ago stamps and ot her forms of postage will exceed if1051,000,(XHi for tho cur rent fiscal year. The last quarlei showed issues of $20,280,7(57, which is more than $ 1,."><)(),OUC ahovo the record of any previous quarter. 'I he threo quarters ending March Ml showed issues of about $751,000,OUO, Tho quarter ending Juno MO is likely to add $27JH?0,000 to this amount. Tho postage collected on peril dicals in tho fiscal year 1SD8 was >(u,?01,2Gil. WHAT'S WRONG All for IT? "Hero, Newberry Observer, what's this? V "Our contemporary of thc\Chestci Lantern should'be a little lncredu lou.s when sonio of his frienU come around and show him so-calffti orlgi nal copies of the New Yorlt Heralt containing an account of theWsassa nation of President Lincoln, or thi Ulster County Gazette, containing at account of the death anil burial ot George Washington, or even tin Yickdiurg paper which was printoi on wall paper during the siege of tha city by Gen. Grant." etc. What do you mean? We sail nothing about any of our rrlouds?n enemies either?showing us sue! papers. We don't remember to hav seen anything of the kind."?Chestc Lantern. It seems the Observer forgot to not f Uo rvo r\Ot? O o rl o a /il I t ?' v.? v, p,i|ni iiq ui.mu lau aus&i and made a guess* at it, and missed But suppose tho Ledger had been th right one, what is wrong about it Why should it ho incredulous? 1 there any bogus papers of this klm lying around? We cannot speak fo the wall paper business, but we hav in our possession a copy of the Ulste County Gazette containing an ac c onnt of George Washington's deut or burial, with the column rules al turned in regulation style. Does th observer mean to say such copse are a Laud? UXPRECEDENTE I) RECORD OR STRIKES There seems to be a perfect ep demic of strikes throughout tii country. Telegraphers, railroad mo in various departments, builder: miners, plumbers, and half a do/.e other organizations are striking t\ higher wages and less hours. \\ lind strikes reported at the followin places on May 1st: Chicago, IviIk Unions; St. Paul,- Plumbers; Mil nenpolM, 800 wood workers; Phil: 1 delphia, ll.OtK.) builders; Cincinnat Si) architects; Toledo, section me on tiie Pig Four; Young-down, 1,(.H ' plumbers; Springfield, the core ma5 ers; Akron, (500 boiler men an moulders; Puluth, carpenters an painters; Ludington, 200 freigl handlers; Omaha, carpenters; ICai sas City, 1,000 contractors and U< biieklayers ; St. Louis, 1,000 builders Pittsburg, 1,000 bricklayers and J>( . hod carriers; Seymour, 11,000 sect in I meu, and train men expected to fo j low; Atlanta, o' -r1-1- * * *? , factory; Savannah, 800 builders. ( It seems there is a general an wide-spread dissatisfaction amon the laborers in every branch of bus . uoss. They claim they are entitle , to a share in the general prosperit , anil are going to tight it out. ! ISN'T THIS A WFUL? I The famine in India is causing c J awful state of affairs, there are :5< 000,000 people in the famine strickt t district, and they are even sellir 0 their children to secure a little foo The girls are being sold at 510 cen II each, there now beimr no market f f the boy children, they are turn< adrift and allowed to look out f " themselves or perish. It is horrib to contemplate. Money is beii ?' sent from every direction, but ml " lions will perish before help can a r rive. England is held responsible fi not heeding the warning sever ' I months ago and taking necessai " , measures to prevent tho present sta . of affairs. A correspondent says < 1 ill./. /...--.I ~it /.K:I.I-/.? . - : i in; unst-ua wtuiuri'ii . "These cast-offs congregate a hot i (ho doors of the grain merchant shop I and (he only way the proprietors ed set. rid of them is to throw out lntn< fills of grain, scattering it wido. Tl children pick and pick all day and i t night perhaps are rewarded by bavin ) collected a single handful." i We not ice that games of base ha * were played last. Sunday betwee Cincinnati and Pittsburg, Chicago nr - ?' Louis, Milwaukee and Chicag< , .Minneapolis and Kansas City. \\ npf> not. nnnosoil to Ivnn Pill n? j game, and think it is fine sport, i?r j an excellent, method of develop?.r i the muscles of the players and it fu ' nishes amusement to thousands, at 1 a good, gontlcmenly team is a ho] ' and a credit to any town. Jlut v 1 certainly draw tho lino at playii base hall on Sunday. We think it " a terriblo desecration o.f the holy Sal hath day, and wo hope that no Soul I crn team will so far forget I hemselv* or allow their enthusiasm to so fi j run away with their better natur. 1 as to ever allow them to attempt tl pluying of base ball on Sunday. . A movement is on foot among tl . .citizens of Eastover near Columb ' j for the erection of a cotton mill j j that place. It is proposed to form company capitalized at $100,00' i Several prominent parties in Colun 1 bia uro interested in tho movemen SORRY' YOU DIDN'T GL 1D THEY 1)II)(?) i Editor Aull, of (lie Herald and f . News is such a jolly, good natured L-i?w1 nf n Miiill driver, that ho takes - tho world as it comes, and docs not ' stop to cry over spilled milk. The . following rather startling paragraph ! appeared from his pen in last week's f Herald and News; he proposes to bo 3 glad, fodder or no fodder: } "I am sorry Newberry did not win in tho inter-collegiate contest in , oratory at Greenwood last week, but am glad tho Due West .voting man r f ttaiKed orr with the medal." e| r, J row some or Tin; GAMI'S WENT. r I n Clean Ball Being Played This Season?South Carolina, North Care olina and Georgia College Boys. ? s Charleston, April *28.?Davidson [1 College base ball club was scalped r twice today. Tho Tar Heels lost a game to tho College of Charleston e this morning, which was deferred i' from yesterday, by a score of 11 to I. >. The Citadel cadets defeated the North ^ Carolina boys in tho afternoon by a I score of 15 to 8. e * In the game between the Wnke s j Forest team and the Atlanta Techs j last Thursday at Atlanta the Wake j Forest boys wor.l down nursing a , goose egg Tho score was !J to (.) in j favor of the Techs. ! TSio game between WolTord and Clemson, at the Clomson Co'logo ie I grounds Saturday, was surrendered n J to WofTord to the tunc of (? to 0. It is said of the game that, it was a great game, and one of the cleanest ever n witnessed on the college campus. >r The Clemson boys said it was an e | honor to he beat by such a fine team ,r [ as WolTord lias, and llioy would feel ? j proud of it except that it. would have u . been so much greater honor to have ! gained the victory over them. a-! i ! The game Saturday bet ween CJeor' j gia and Carolina at Brisbrine I'ark, " i Atlanta, Saturday, was a hot one and ' said to he the prettiest game of the ! season. It seems from all reports i(i i that very clean ball is being played (j this season at least by the teams of Georgia and the Carolinas. The score was 7 to 7 in this game, both i- sides, however, claim to have won >0 the game. ' The Wnko Forest, X. C. team went 1 up against the Mercer, (la., team at Macon, (la., Saturday, ami got an1 other licking, the score being Mercer ^ Y Wnko Forest 2. Wake Forest seems to be coming out. at the nttie Gnd of the horn in her Georgia round of games. o i?mi?? Joneaville Jottings. ul ^ Joncsville, April 30th.--The month closes with lovely weather and ever\ 1hv.Iv is ei joying! it. Farms s are losing no time, they have deserted the town and are putting in full time in the held. One farmer was in town to-day hunting cotn ton seed, he had sokl out too close and didn't have enough to pi tut his crop. >n Tnere is some line wheat patchesaround Jonesville. Mr. C. C. Alexander has an lo acre on which he is working for a prize. J- Mr. 1J. F. Webber has a prize acre a Is > ts and both of these patches are tine. Mr. or J. L McWhirter has two acres for w hieli he is contending for a prize an 1 it ii the linest wheat in the country. lie has Id or acres besides his two piiz > acrei tint ile very line. Mr. MeWherter will have his roller mill in lino condition for tin ^ wheat crop anil lie in ikes the linest il- patent Hour. r. The brick machine on factory hill hanot got to pat in full time for sev. ral ai days hut it is in full blast to-day turning ?1 out about twenty thousand per da/. The ry woik on the factory hill is lively and progressing well. Mr. F. l\ O'.Shields has some r'po strawberries and wi 1 login io ship his lienies in ah >ut a week. His berries are jf line and lie w ill bo able to ship a great many. Messrs. W. A. McWhirter and Mil . urtun, uoni across mo lMcoua hi i;iim: kee county, were in town to day, they i?10 port the I.in It badly washed I)/ the lite rains anil farmers behind i:i their neigli'S Ixjrho nl. Hnne farmers have planted pirt of their cottoir crop and have a go > i stand j! while many others have planU <1 but httle and have none, up yet. n I see an uausu il quantity of Irish pataid toes in the stores and 1 asked a march ml ^ how it was and he said there were hat ,' few |m> atoes planted. The potato bugs v had to be so nnm-rout and destrn a tivc that the people had partially abandon1(| ed plant i' -g po'alms I i s> ne places t he bugs o mm with th-i potatoes ai soon athe pot itoes?get above I lie ground thy r- are covered with bugs. 1(] We have no small p ix in our town and , we are not inviting it but i > se miis likely '' tint it will come without an invitation TO Tltn lirvir/1 nf luioll li ??ol i ho I..WO ' i<r will do wli.it they can to keep the loathly Some disease away but it is Iteming us in very closely. &* Mr. .John I'i rkens one of the old land i- marks of the c mmuuity is <1 lite hick ,s with grippe. There was but little- interest taken ki t ir 8 it unlay in the iv-nrgauiz ition of tin's democratic club. Our people don't scoui 10 to care a straw for politics. Telephonic. io The office of County Supervisor of i" Xewberry county must offer a very tl tempting bait for candidates. Wo n notice from tho Newberry pnpors 0. there are seven candidates out for it so far, with possibly others to hear t. from. There's a Spring A real refreshing effect, in the beautiful line of WASH G Al! the newest and best mat nicely into Summer Waisti stuffs for graduating or closin the prices are right too?an in Close Cash Will do well t Eaeb May day of bright suii! summer apparels, and early comers a r im nous. i nese rare opportunities awi them before they arc all gone. Pretty styles in good wash color wide, sold elsewhere at 8 and 10c I Fancy styles in Shirting Prints, all in stripes, dots and figures, there Staple Gingham Checks, in brown, g apron kinds that wear, wash an< value 7c, our price Beautiful quality of white India La> sheer goods, will wash well, the 1 Very tine White Dimity in smal cheeks, very desirable for childrei the regular 10c quality, our price 10-ineh Summer Lawns, others ask The newest effects in Batistes and 1 width and line quality, worth loc "Fruit of Doom"-bleached Long C our price Fine quality Embroideries on M handsome styles, big special vain J^(9.i2X?).i9)(SL THE A H. F( |GREEN 6 p Do the Buggy || Union Co Get in line with your f Kg bors, come around I BUGGY, CARRIAGE Hi! ?arry a complett ife and "can suit you. M QUALITY an | "OLD HICKORY" WAGOI I CHATTANOOGA PLOWS YOUItS TO SELL A I GREEN & E E When you want a new m; one repaired. We arc fixi of odd jobs in cabinet wo thing that can't be had in also keep a big assortment ing material and the Best tive guarantee. BAILEY FURNITURE THIi PARLOR Huving recently purchased the'basli I am propnred to supply tho needs of you 1MION10 US Vi) nrul they will he attended to witli ALL GOODS rOKUl Gutter, Kggs jinil Vegetal i x K; 11 I :ST i?K For garden, farm and barnyard pi CHAS. R. sn X^liOIVJ ^ . ; Daintiness, t 9 # OODS t are showing.-? erials that make un 50 5 and Skirts. Pretty g of school exercises, and iportant feature. Buyers o note. shine hastens the needs for are certain of the best seleclit you at our store. Grasp Percales, 38 inches our price 6c. the good wash colors gular 5c goods 4c. reen. blue, pink, the lI keep their colors, 5c. iVn, double fold, very .24c kind, our price 10c. I, medium and dress n'sand Misses' frocks, J v>C. 10c, our price 5>C? Printed Dimities, full 12'Ac. ylotl), others ask 10c, 8c. uslin or Swiss, very 'esat 10C. ?dClxa DSTER CO. it BOYD 1 Business of i unty. H \4 riends and neigh- ?5l and buy a new * . OR PHAETON. | 3 line of Vehicles ?S We guarantee m d PRICE. MS, | ALWAYS 2? . . J ON HAND. |l ND PLEASE, " mj l. BOYD. 1 antle made or an old ed lor doing all kinds rk and making anyi regular stock. We : of all kinds of buildPaint sold on a posi& LUMBER CO. GROCERY. loss of tho PARLOR GROCKRY, ir tublo. UR WANTS > promptness and dispatch. [VERED FREE, >les always on hand. ICES PAID roduce suitable for table use. ITH, Mgr. LS 70. t'.v