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01 THE TOWN OF UNION HA8 | _ ? THE TOWN OF UNION HAs"! || Two Cotton Mills, ono the rr n t7i i t at t a rr i a i ti n The largest Knitting Mill and 3 hi largest in the South. Two Fur- III | |__| IJ I I | | K[ I | I /| IJ ((( Dye Plant in the State. An Oil III H] nlture and Wood Manufactur- ))] H H H II III III \l? | | | (11 and Manufacturing Co. that //, lit ing Concerns. Ono Female ... | I | II] 111 III \W | | I' | | 1 J L y ... makes an unexcelled Guano. ... ) S?mlnfry/, ^ater Works ttnd -I JLJI LJ x 1 A \_7 XI |L* A X f A JLIA P^/? ? Three Graded Schools. Arte- dt (jj hlectric Lights. ||| . S'Un ^atcr* l>0Pu'tttlon I'v**). ;|J VOL L. NO. . UNION, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDA^ JULY '>(>, 1900. #1.00 A YEAR. L T F. M. FARk President, j aco. MUNR^, Cashier, J. * Merchants' and Plai ! OF TJINK 2 Capital Stoek J Surplus * Stockholders' Liubilities t Total S Directors?J. A. Fant, \\ X T. C. Duncan, J. T. Douglass, ] t Win. Coleman. S - We .Solicit ^ ^ AAA Mi jy ^ W*J|L CAT APHOR E 5 i 5. DR, H. K. * ; ' <^_DENT Crown and ^ Bridge Work. ?. * 1900 .'JULY 1900 : Tik Wei Jh. FrL Sal ; IHiiSll1 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 ; ltf 16 17 18 19 20 21 , OOiOO OA ok an an oo ! HU UU (jO U (JI 60 I -29 W 3T . ' ( UNION COUNTY NEWS.: ( t Items of Interest Gathered from > Various Sections by our ! Correspondents. rx5l* . ' MABEL'S ADVENTURE. t Unexpectedly Meets a Rejected e l,over in the Mountains?A <i Hero to the Rescue. t (Wntton for Tiie Umon Time* l.y f Annie Laurie.) ' "Murder! help! ' rang out on the | still night air, reaching the eara of a young man who was hurrying down the mountain. ' Halp!' agaia cans tS3 c:y f.eaz. iog the blood iu hie veias and rooting him to the spot; while help, help echoed and re-echoed over trees and rocks dying away iu soft accent far a down into the valley. ' It is us dees t> call for help, Mab.O, f>r no ouo will hear you, we are all alone on this mmntain; and I swear by heave 1 that yaa shall never leave uatill you consent t> be my wife." "L >033 me wretch let me go, how dare you treat me iu such a maunei?'' "I dare do anything, Mabel, so long as it aids me i t winning you. I have done everything that an honorable mm ould do t> win you, aud you have oaly sorned an 1 laughed at me. Now you aro in my p > vcr, and I intend to hold you a primner on this mountain uutil you consent to be mv ^ wife." ' MThen J shall stay hero until I die." "V -ry well, it matters little to m>, |o long as { havo you," "Walter Piercs, are you , " I don't know, Mibel. I am uot certain of anything except that I l>ve jou. I love you ao well that I would stain my hind* with blood. Yea, I 1 would sell my soul to Satan, if by so ' doing, I might win one look or oi.c word of love from you." "It is useless to spend more words upon the subject, Walter, so lets go. Ob! see how dark it has grown, my friends will be ssarching f>r mo." "Hal ha! ha! let you go? Your friends will be searching for you, hi! ha! let them search, search this old mniinllin fioar cnarr<ti uniil t.hft hiir UfVff uvnfu v V VI J ov?? vm ?? *f on their heads tnrns gray; but thoy will never find you, Mabol, novor, uever 'till you are mine." "Vidian, stand ande and let me pass." "Never." "Stand aside and let this lady p ibp, or by the Saints I'll put a bullet through your head." Turniug they beheld a man stindv ing near them, anl caught a gleam of .a pistol. "Stand ande, sir," came in the same Is ! ... X * ' 4*-^If1 w A. H. FOSTER, Vice President. J D. ARTHUR, Assistant Cashier. || liters' National Bank * ON, 8, C. | $00,000 I 50,000 f 00,(XK) $ $170,000 f r. II. Wallace, Win. Jeffries, i E. P. McKlaslck, A. II. Foster, g ?ur "uslncss. J ^^4 ?X +? ELECTRIC5. . SMITH, IST.^o | Union, S. C. ' 1 '" . ,l ? ? i a-ithorit ttive toie. It w?s all ) su llen, and unexpected that he stepped back with an exclamation of surprise, nod in doing so his f tot slipped ?n a | rock, and Walter Pierce fall bead i long down a ateep precipice. O'j! Cha >k you, sir, for coming to i my assistance and rescuing me from the insults of that man." < "Do not speak of thanks, I am only I too glad to be of service to you. I\jr- i mit me," with a bow, to escort you back to your friends." I "I am stopping at the 'Glenn,'" ( jhe said, taking his oHored arm. "we inly arrive 1 this afternoon, and I be? 1 iug perfectly familiar with the sir- t outidings decided to take a stroll i'ouc as the rest of the party was tir t id. 1 became bo engrossed in medi- \ ation that I took no heed of time or 1 ny footsteps, and before I was aware 1 >f it, I was far up the side of the * noun tain, and it was growing ate. 1 tunv <1 ami was burrs])** iorati when Mddenlv^L^iAfi^irffliBPI K30 with W aflSSr FimK Wwyra?v i i I via surprised is puttiug it mildly, for | f o tell tin truth I left New York to 1 scipe hia attentions as they were r lisigrecable to mi, and he would not 1 ake a refusal. I was very cautious ? lot to let any one, except my warmest t riends, kuow that I was leaving, or c vhen I was going; and how he found t t out I do not know, unless some of i hem betrayed ne. j When wo met I made a pretense t >f being glad to see him, and I told 1 iiai that 1 was hurrying back to my riends; but to my astonishment he t aughed at me and told me that I a ;ould never see my friends again, exsept I consented t> become his wife. A'hrt the result would have b;en ha I | fou not come to ray rescue, I do not enow for I could never have given ny consent." When they arrived at homo they bund Mable's friends greatly alarmed >ver her prolonged absence, and a oirty was in the act tf starting to | ; learch tor her. Q, testions wore asked \ md j )ktfl cracked at their expeuse, , jut whea they related their adven- j are, their friends were quite indig- | aani;and called down terrible vou- < jonce upon Walter Pierce's head. But in a[>ite of Inr unple&sapt ad- < venture, Mabel spent a delightful , winner at the little maintain hotel. , In fact the pleaeautist of her life, for when tho roses come again, there will ( bo a grand wedding n Now York. The contracting parties being our beio and heroiue. I And Walter Pierce what becanu of bim? K)aly I do not know. said that Bselzebub carried him off alive, others that he ha! escaped on*, harmed and had left for part) in known. B) that* as it may, he has never cros)ed Mabel's pith again, and let us hope that he never wilt. LETTER FROMJONESVILLE. Crass Conquered?Big Bxcqrxhux, Good Health--Board of Health. We hp/1 a fine rain in this section of the country last Thursday night, which his given the crops a good send off. Most of the grass has been conquered, and the crops are getting in g-iol shape and are being laid bye. Crops are late; but they are looking well, and there is no reason to de. spair if the seasons hold out. About oue hundred people from L>ckhart cime up by ra 1 on an ex curaiou last Thursday. The excursion was iu charge of Dr. Brawley and Conductor Dodd. The Lockhar band wa< on hand to discourse sweei music. After a stiy of aboit tw hours taking in the town an 1 dispons ing of rofresments, the rxcursiouiati returned to Lockhart. They were a very good looking,(intelligent an 1 or' derly crowd and will be q lite wel come to c>me back again on an tx cursion to our town. Mrs. A. C. Sptncer, who has been in the hospital for the iusanefor a f.w mmths, was discharged and retnroed t? her home last Saturday. Mr. Speu cor, the husband, has the sympathy of hi) many friends in his troubles with his denaeatsd wife. It Is hopjd that she will now retain her reason. li >yd Scott, the little son (f Mr. R. IV. Scott, was monkeying with a freight train last week, and got his hand and arm ba<Jly hurt, and his face conti lerably bruisod. B )ys had hnLtnr ri'iit: Jninnim* nn on.l ? ? - - I - - J w? I.-IC moving freight trains. Rev. L. M. Rice filled the appoint' ment cf Rev. D. C. Freeman here Sun day, and Rev. Mr. Freeman preach ;d at Union for Rev. Mr. Rico. This exchange of pulpits seems Ij bo quite a good idea and w 11 prove bane filial to the church. The dclegaU-s from J mesville who attended the District Conference at Laurens last week returned Saturday. We oxpected to get the District Conference here next year but are dieappointei as Pacolet was elected for the next c inference. Mr. B. M. Whitlock, who is very successful with watermelon culture, has brought several loads of fine melons to town. lie will have a q tah tity of melons for the market this season. Miss Willio S>uthird has returned from an extended visit to relatives iu Glsfl'jey aud C ifton. . ^ Mr. and Mrs. R. N. Harriotts Browns Creek, v>pe;it yesterday .in Measis. M B. Lee,-S. R |5#regory in 1 R ibt. Holcoiaibv o^^tgaaiville, vero in JjueqrUlt Jast week. They wrought Qr|raytte'.wh^at to the Mc>? family have Red from & vmt t) relatives j . t? - ieni In our towo, we are very free rom anything like fever or any other oaths >ms disease aud our town is eally in a very healthy condition. Che local board of health is very ictive and onergeticin trying to keep he town well policed and in a healthy :ondition. The board don't, however, ilways meet with a wolcomo reception vhen they go round inspecting people's premises. A very unprofitable md unthankful office is this board of lealth. Mr. John W. Sanders, candidate 'or Sheriff, was in our town last week ihakin> hand with his friends. Tpirpunvr IEWS LETTER FROM ETTA JANE. flat "Weather-'Chills-"Ho Barbecues?Plenty of PeachesCounty Campaign. Rsv. Lnndrum Ezell preached at \bingdon Creek yesterday. Ilis lext was Psalms 5:7, "Bat as for me I will come iuto thy house in the nmltiLude of tby mercy and in thy fear t will worship towards thy holy temple." Rev. J. P. Marion preached at 5alcm yesterday evening. His text was; John "Because there is wrath he ware lest he lake them away with his stroke, then a great ransom cometh, deliver thee." For somo days we have had oppressively hot weater and its effects one being shown by the rapid growth of vegetation. Showers have been plentiful during the past week. Some sickness is reported in our neighborhood. Chills have mado their appearance along the creeks. Whether they are the result of last year's ailment or of entirely new contraction we have heard no one say who it) likely to know. Some few watermelons are coming iu. The county Democratic Executive Committee have decided that there will be no barbecue's at the regular campaign speakings this summer as authority is given tbe chairman to "call off" any meeting where a barbecue is anticipated. Our people have decided that these arc not intended to promote the brst of order. No doubt several private barbecues will begotten up ia different parts and the candidates invited to attend them. ^ reach trecsare breaking down with fruit. There is an abuudance of this fruit in Cheroko; county, t Owing li tick nr.-8 your c?rreL spondeut dm'c get h:s letter oil t< > The Times .at week. Camp Jelies U. C. Veterans wil i meet at Wkin9villo next Saturday , to elect (legates and a sponsor t? represent thcamp at Gre-iivil, Aug Gt and 2nd . /'Mrs. Job A. M. Kites was q-iitc I sick last wbk. She ia batter now. Dr. T. S. I Ward, of Hickory, was Iter phytiim. * Mr. an# ^trs. Joe Kdes bad a very sick baljf last wcok. Dr. S. G Sar rati atf/o^d it ami the little suilcrer " .. a. ...1. w~..? i 11 : i o uuiTPMV/ii uonui u.uu a.i;i mi prov > i"g. W c Liriraongrrgations attended both p Abing-yi Creek and Salem churehet- t.1 yeatertfk. The former congregation * elected^ C. Dormer, P. S. Webbei ti l. ^msC. Jeflrio? as delegate to tl reprosenfi if at tho mee'iog of tht- ? asiociatkfhit Gallaey next ni >nth. ? ' The prol/acted meeting will begin I at Saleia oj Friday before the firdi * SabbatttitaAugust. C The jeirv along Thickc'y and Is Gilky's-tcief'ks planted after tin fe recent fapets is now up and ready (jt the [Wn^ and farmers will push 11 it) It *1 make hard even if the w fall is. life, otherwise, it will make re good-biwfeod. tn Kverwody thit wants an office in Oherok'S jjbaunty heieaf.er must go O before tre primary an l get the eu- p dorsetupK <?f a maj >rily of the Deui e< ocralic^Asj^ Jt The count} campaign will open at nr MabryV Mji{'oa the ILh and close at [ GaTney&'tho 27 th of August. w Keys Letter. j; \??Wjfor: --I have just returned * ' /rom3bJ>i8t(ict Conference at Liu- w t rehs. hfc 1 a good meeting, the 81 District^ Hfyrell represented. I was ^ giv^wjlnuln with a Union county t(naapr-liA.v! t) many of the people ol Lr this cowit.L As'im >re Davis. II-? w married an pstimabla youa* l ily, a ri daughter ol J Dr. Laurens Fuller, ol w Laurens, 3. 0. He is in tho merciu- 4 tile busings plunder the lirm of Divis w iae," I noticed <?n way a to old Laurens many notices, bur ^ their'a was built on a rock. Tncro ia M hardly a rock of any arz> on the pub i 1 lie road that wa3 not cleaned oil' and t' Davia A Riper printed there n ; aid |11 lobe thrown in the family of this (l christian gentleman, me w mid readily 8i believe that hia anl her hopes wiro ^ built upon a rock. It made nio fee1 proud of old Union to see the stand * that one of her boys had taken. ? Union is advancing butuot fir ahead 0 ol Laurens. y Bro3. P. P. Hamilton, Ira Ilarrii, Dr. Carlisle and John M. Bolt were elected delegates to tha annual c n terenco wnicn convenes in uneatcr in the near future, with T. L Jinnies and J. M. Switzer A3 alternates. ^ Thore was a difficulty between two j1 negroes this morning in our midst, j h one shot the other, both hurt, neither a killed. Q'lite a crowd at old Padgett's 1 Creek yesterday. Bco. E. C- Watson ^ praachod a good sirmon; he is a frith- j1 ful pastor. 1 Thomas H. Gore:. ,r LETTER FROM SPARTANBURG. \ v lilccttic Curs?Rain?Good Crops. Mooit-g:i?.infSmm'\Viirm Politics. ^ v Editor Union Times: c 1 will give your readers a little c news. Wo have six electric cars and our good friend, Mr. McEowen, is 1 gettiug ready to get them on the track I by the 20th of this month. I wish they were running a1, this time, and the park was built; the park will be near G'eudaie. ?ou must come up and t;ike a ride when they getstartel. 1 Toe rail came in due time, we were ? needing it, hope you and your renders i ei j ')*ed the same good season. Crops t are looking fiae, they are small but f that is a'nght. Tu '02 I was on the 1 farm aud the fir of July cotton was t sia.u.Pl I could hardly eeo it at a I distance, and when 1 laid it by I was t ashamed to say I had liuiehed work it i was eo small, and rains camo and 1 nude the heat cotton crop I ever made in ir.y life. Old M*j ir 15. II. Ilica a lid to me once: (I cold him I had tin H lest li dd of c ii'.ou I ever saw ) '15 id die, what do you think you will ! mako on that liold?" I said a bale to the acre. Major said, "but cotton ( is like a young calf very easily stunted, so yon can't toll what citton is until you have it in u halo. Cotton don't fruit in this county like it does i in old Union. If you ciu get the - Wm. A. NICHO BANKI RESPECTFULLY Banking Business and \nd promise you the the best s ced you havo tho fruit, but they au'i any that in this county, 8one irfe of this county fruiU vary well, j nU oounty la good on grain if it is] 'orhed." Mnj. D. R Duncan ra i?e<1 and j ireshed nearly five hundred bushels f wheat and four hundred bushela of j ate; hie eon Willie ia a goal farmer j le takes hie oat off like a man and I orks as hard as any farms'*. Will )imcan said he was going t> show his md up with any Western land in a >w years. I was glad to shako hands will. ,ev. J. G. Farr ou our streets th's I eek, ho looks well an 1 sii I ho wa? ' Hiiug easy in his race. Well it wiil 1 ike a good man to boat. him. I will tell y m a j >ke on myc I < 1 io night )ast wesi our morning ( iper Slid the in ion would bs in total * dipsc ut eleven o'clock aud 1 wa< *d enough to a t up an 1 watch the I i >oo until '2 o'clock, nod the long-M looke I at it the brighter it got, m\ rifo tol I mo to not fcis up but 1 ' lought the Diily piper knew in ire I nn cite did. a id n Kt d iy I widiml I I ? al listene I t> Iter. Women are a ' 1 >ug way smarter tha l in *n s ?tne ' met and in a una things. We had a t 'oinart in this last c# irt wh ? wa? ' t nirteoough t> g *t rid of her h is ,i and. and it that w.;9 a man an-i cimip ! > cvart and ask lb it he bo released om a in trruge c jo tract the court oul I have hound h m tighter. That'r ght. Oiesi.il t> me last week that | * omen did not have but one right ' nil ilvit tu a a Kor f inrntrt a oil ?Kn f rouUl u**. that. ? ! y Mr. Llito^rv^w jd pjluicj ia jour 1 citing ffJK.Ireckna? Tbey r r^ g^tii',? very warm 'hoy don't kndw .wbkt th ilia county they 'aiy the i^H^r are I ot fit to eat, 8) you sec smijr^Wwmj ou't know a goxl thing when they], J9 it. A man who cau't eat ono of John | ^ !rawford'e barbecues had better go to j ( >me spring or get a doctir. It'my ( ppotito were to g > back o i me at one | j t the n I would send f>r a doctor at I nee. I hope I will be able tiseei ou at some of them this summer. Unios Boy. | The Broad River Association. j Tho next session of the Broad River j laptist Association will be held with j he First Baptist church of Gaffney , egianing Wednesday, Aug. 22 id ,nd continuing through the 25th. In as much as this session will be he centennial of this associations! >ody, each church not now, but foroerly a member of this association, ii nvitei to ee id one deleynte to ren* esent it iu thii special meoting, ii >raclicable; this delegate to be some inc who has in l'jrmer times met with his body. The centennial exercise rill be on Friday, 2 kh. All the churches appointing dole-1 ;a'c3 to this session ot the ass.ciation rill please send names of delrgnces at incc to llev. IV. Thompson,chairman >f committee on entertainment. The delegates will plea*'* notify the ihairui in \v letther in -v will come by oublic or private c liiv-v me'. Kr.v. \V. T. Fit' is ?v, Ch'in Coin, on JCn r anment. Tnere is living i.i L m ion?in fact, 10 hoi Is a high posossion i i a firm of (astern m (reboots ? \ Chinese gentlenan who has for ma ly years belonged ,o the lJixera' seerir. a icieiy in China, tnd with wh mi a reprsi-ti'ative of the Express iris had a m i foresting in.erview. It is as'o .isii ? g Irow much Urn terrible b>x*r hi<l :.o a&y tor himjelf and fjr h:a as?\>o:.A.es. at t:ir old stand. Uiile33 American ministers in China poaaois a groat, deal leas vitality tha i the Dowager Empress, tlicy arc cooped up at 1'ekin but not dead. The Dowager Empress has been reported definitely killed, by all means known to civiliz ition, and soveral means known only to the barbarous, and still alio seems to be doing business at tho old stand ?Spartanburg Daily llerald. ILSON & SON,-' IRS. SOLICIT YOUR Your Fire Insurance, best protection and ervice. STATE NEWS. twntncrrrl l-rntn our Jixcltangcs and Comlciiricd for !>iiick Reading. WHO CAN UEAT IT? Mr. E. P. II ni lora >n, on Thu-sd-iy last, picked a tomato out of his garden that weighed 2."i ounces. It was Peter I lenders >ii*8 Ponderosa variety. This will be hard to beat ?Journal A* Review. NEW HANK AT IIONKA PATH. The atockholds of the 13 ink of [lonea Path met last week and organoid by electing the fdlowing officers: 'resident, d. J. FretweP; Vic3 PresiI en*, (J. M.Shirlei; Ciishi?r. J. C. \ i fird; directors, It. A. Moore. J. R. Jallaham, Jy A. M rris, 13. F. tiaasavay, .1. It. Austin and Dr. .1. F .Shi rley. l"nia gives llonea Path two llauks. OVER COM E nv TIIR Hi: VT. A negro convict on Mr. W. CI Ham nond's firm and ono on Mr. J. S. LA) vler'd fnrni died last Wednesday i fee r no in. 13 >th were overcome by the teat of the mi i and died in a short vhiie af er they were stricken down, .hough everything possible w.i? done ;?? relieve them.?Anders ?n I 'if ?*li jcucer. firmer? in*vr.ri'i i: cl.e.m iov. The annul! far ner?' insti nte at y m?o*i Collogi begins on Augrst dihanl cmliii-ies through on^ week. fha railroads h ive granted a one fare ate from all parts ot the State. Good toard and c?mf?rtihle lodging will be jraiahed at 50 ee.its a day. Tents nay be used by those who wish them i?iih I'hex ri cist, A number ofdisAP^uesuea apeikem irom *utw> purpose is to Feiire In favor of Mr. Stevenson. Such action on hit part will advance lim in the estimation of his Id low jountrymon, since it will show oon? , j usively that he places the principles . tir which he stands abivehis personal ambitious-Daily (Columbia) Record. THE l'ARAMOUKT ISSUE. T o burning issue oi imperialism, growing out ot the Spanish war, involves the very existence of the Re public and tho destruction of oor free institutions. We regard it as the paramount issue of the campaign.? From the Democra'ic P.alform. l.O'.tl) UOHERTS CIIANllEJ HIS TUNE. It was "liberty, peace and prosper-, .. :,..M r 1 D I 1. !- Li- 41?A uv which i/jrn n mjrm iu 010 iirsi proclamation said he was going to secure for South Africa. Liberty has eutirely disappeared, peace has been/ indefinitely poaponed and prosperity has adj turned sine die.?The Atlanta Journal. ... IN NORTIt CAROLINA. The whito man who waits for argument.'. to prove to him that he is superior to a negro is a poor specimen of the Anglo Saxon. A vote agaicst the Amendment is a. voto to cq ializa the ncgr > and the white man. A vote f <r the Amendment means that you alrea ly know that the white race is the a iperior race.?The Wilson (N. C.) News. II Til 13 NOP TRUE? "Cuisss, iike chickens, c>me home to roost." That jealousy of Russia and the greed of gain which prompted the representatives of European powers to drill the Chinese in modern warfare and the merchants of Europe to supply them with unlimited stores of the finest war material has made the slaughter of Pekiu possibly and the the subjection of China impossible without vast expenditure. The Chincae took the German drilling that was mont to strengthed them ngainat Russia and applied is against Christendom; they took the arms of Europe and used thorn against the world. Ten years ago such a reverse as that suffered by the allied troops would have been impossible, but now there is no knowing what forces will be required to overcome the hordes who fiave been drilled and equipped with the best of modern arm9.?The Colum* bia State. It