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11 t 1 , . r tmietown of union m**m| W ~W~ 'W t "rn t ~W / "v % 7 K,~W~ ~m m~ | the town"of ^a?cm?h^| hi Two Cotton Mills, one th6 || [Bill I i 1 I I M A I I 1 I |^k /I I i 1 ^ 1 1 The largest Knitting Mill and ill {J largest in the South. Two Fur- I Ml I ^ M I \M / Ml (1 Dye Plant in the State. An Oil ( ? niture and Wood Manufactur- ) - - 1 , m B M M ^ * I II W 1 . . 1 n?ul Manufacturing Co. that )) }u *n8 Concerns. One Female Ill .1 I i I ^ I I W \ ^ I B W I I J L I in lnu^os an unexcelled Guano. !(( j Seminary. Water Works and i( M. JL M JLJ JL * M 1 .M- Jl. ? M JLA Y^J ? ( Three Graded Schools. Arte- 'A Eloctrio Lights, ||| fll sian Wnter. Population O.fAKhM VOL L. NO>2. UNION, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 10, 1900. "" ? vv,n o a T ^ M. FARk PreMden:. '.* j OEO. MUNRO, Cashier, | Merchants' and Pl< I OF UN X Cnpltal Stock Surplus Stockholders' Liabilities.... | Total a Dihkotous?J. A. Fanfc, X T. C.Duncan, J.T. Douglass T Wm. Coleman. T; We Solicit _v CATAPH0RE51S. DR. H. h ?^_DEN Crown and ^ Bridge Work. 3 1900 Air&TJST 1900 Sm. Mo. Tu. We. Th j^ri. Sat. 12 3 4 5 fi 7 8 o irt ^ ? W w W J.U 11 "12 13 14"16116 17'18 - 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27|28|29 30 31 UNION COUNTY NEWS' Items of interest Gathered from Various Sections by our Correspondents. SUHTUC LETTER. Bfey Bcnvcr Wins the Battle in Tittle to Take in t1\c Convention-Hospital\1 Entertained, ,lSing of her smiles 1 ewitching power, Her every grace that warms and blesses; Sing of her brow's luxuriant Mower, The beaming glory of her tresses." Same kid* are willing targets fur c.upid, but he won't shoot that w.-y. , Mr. W. M. Butler has been sick several weeks with fever, but is now improving. Mies Floyd, of Spartauburg, is visiting her friend, Miss Ethel Jeter. Mr.*W. W. Z)aly, now of Milledgeville, Ga., spent several days here vis iting old friends. Mrs. C. P. Kim3, of Spartanburg, is pending some time ou the farm, at this pi AC 3. She is acompanied by her sister, Miss Essie Zialy. . Miss Bernice Fant, who has beon visiting relatives in Andeisoa for seme time, is at home again. We have been having very seaionable and very unseasonable rains since the 27th, and crop3, whero not too wet, are growing. Qiite a number of young people, and some not 8) young, attended the picnic at Hebron church on the 20 h. "There was a "straw ride" (what a )ride) here one night last week. S >me rpgarcj this as the Uvil end ol all sub. stuutes for a social gathering. Riads are b.nug worked in our secti>n with the common "phases," good, bad and iodiilhroot. 'I have been considerably thrown off t' e 'track" lor some ti-oe, especially the past two weekB. I ran afoul of a large number of great luxurious and continuous bunches of gras.', and it lditcbed" iqe vef/ near, The weather gut into g>ol erudition f>r killing grass that ha I been basking in the raioa for about five or six wseks, an 1 as I had considerable to do with the handles attached to the hoes and plowstocks, and was so near overcome by the heat and toil, I had j ist to let many news items "go by tbe htard." OI course I would like to have done bitter, bat hope there is a brighter and ewier time co ning. Then I wai economizing almost to tho verge o: pasrimony with time, in order thit J ., might have some vaca'iou lator. Then was a trip to Kelton iu view, and car tainly it woul<{ havo been vory much ?agiu the grain1' to miss it. By diu of p-rseverance I downed the noxioui stuff and took that much desired trip and attended the Sunday School Con A. H. F05TeR,?irtce Hresidential J. i>. ARTHUR, Assistant Cashier. T A antero' National Bank; iorsr, s, c. | $00,000 I 50,000 J 00,000 f $170,000 I W. H. Wallace, Wm. Jeffries, & V U ? ? ? ? , a . iucivisbick, a. ?i. Foster, I Your Business. J ?S- 1U--M1. -MS- -MA ASA Ait AM AU ??- ?>? i_ -?+ - ELECTRICS. :. SMITH, risT._^ |p Unlonr&ft"1 vcntion-mt Ml. Joy church. I kf ])t on the lookout for comparison cf crops aud to see all things to be soon. I went by Union and after I left the main road to Jonesville, I saw where there s<xnud to be no grass this year. All about Kelton, all along on the ridge the cropi were perfectly clean, aud there wa-? no dead grass lying > about; whilo below Union, if the grtss was not alive, the rows were fall cf dead buuehes. But the crops up th^re are very little larger than the crops in this section. Some places on branches and creeks weeds and buahea were in the corn, while about here bottom corn is very near ruined People all aloDg are ^bout ready to I ' lay by" crops, and the leisure season I is fast approaching. The roads that i morning, Friday 27th, were "heavy" i from the rain the evening before, until we began to got near the church. That section seemed to have been ' {riven the co-hv anil tWv.ouro nafil. i ing rain, but refreshing sbowers Tell 1 all day Friday. I The convention was a success in I every particular, except a full repro- i soutation of all the schools. Quite a I number ofspeakes were on hand, iacludiug some from other denomina^ i lions, notably, Rev. J. N. Isom, who i took part in the discussions, and this was interesting and edifying. The committees got their reports < fl promptly. No need to designate the various committees. The collections, considering the "off" time were very good, resulting in a total of over twenty^three dollars. This will be given to State Missions and the Orphanage at Greenwood. Sunday morning the convention met, and sat with the Mt. Joy Sunday School, taking part some as teaohers, and some as scholars. After this, Rev. L. M. Rice preached the Missionary bermon from Luke 1G: 8, to a crowded house, and a large number was out-of doors, not being able to find Beato. Then Mr. J. T. Goings and Mr. J. G. Garner were ordaiued as Deacons. Saturday night Rev. A. B, Kennedy preached to a well tilled house; ami will help through a series of meetiugs there. The next meeting of the convention will be with ihe Mt. Lebanon church. Aside irom the business part of the convention, this occasion was the n\03t enjoyable social event of recent date, to inyeelf, everybody is so social up there. I was none too much gradu ated to be greatly benefitted by the convention proper. I met so many friends, many whom I bal not seen for some time. They were enjoying themselves, which aided me wonderfully, I ?npyed seeing my lady friends most, I always do. You can't get a crowd of men together without them j >king; the grounds wore swarming with candidates, and I would take a turn at joking too. They are alia good, solid, upright set of men too, who are offering themselves, and I 1 trust, an honor to our county. 1 met aud made the acquaintance of our brother correspondent "Homo," and real glad I was to meet him. In fact, we were the recipient* of the hospital1 ity of the same homestead. I saw | llro. Thos. H. Gore Sunday, but be\ inK pressed with businesi I did not f talk much with him. Sim? very ' pretty girls were on a committee r^is5 ing mission money, and they woujl ' corner a fellow aqd I aq\ only sorry ' that 1 was one of those unfortunate i 1 who aid not possess a fat pocket-book. 9 bat a bovitching girl cin collect some thing if*it is onlv a browney." Two ' < f my rough male friends tackled me, one wishing he could have sent mo to an old bach's house, and one said 1 was put iu a warehouse as freight? dead rirer freight?hjut you boo I hare learned to do like the long horned range cattle of the far West, to rustle for myself at leas'; even if the con mitteo on assignment of homes did not know best for mo. I had a home; where there were two pretty girls that was to my liking. Atk Homo if I felt very much at home at Keltoa All of the delegates and visitors had good homes, aud said they enjoyed themselves hugely. I was assigned to Mies Mittie Wood, and she and her sister, Miss Bertha, and their brother Emerson, entertained us royally. I never enjoyed any more hospitable entertainment than 1 received at the home of those young people. M as Mittio is quite young for a housekeeper whero all the responsibity of same de volvcs upon kcr, but she and her brother are keeping house alone, and Miss Bortha, who lives ia another iuwu ai iiiia lime, making her own support, was viaising, so I was deeply impressed with the ease, graco and dignity with which those model young IIey Denver. PROHIBITION m POLITICS. Miss Hlixu Garner Comes Out in a Woman's Rights Argument ? Rather Caustic as to Flowers and Banners?Refers to Her Former Candidacy?Has Better Opinion of The Times Than a Year Ago. Mr. EJitor:?Some months past I sent you a short item, under the title Mt. Joy Newr, signing only my ini tials. The item was published in due tinqe, for which J am grateful to you. Since then a farmer has been writing the neighborhood news under the sume title, I am pleased to observe, and I will turn my attention to subjects of more importance i I observe with much iuterest thit ' The Union Times continues to im- i re"cTftems of valuable intormahtrrf r>i ? the advancement of the general public. Especially am I pleased to see 11 in it that women are acting as truv tees for several schools. When the i women get a proper spirit of zeal in i the schools, the people will bo better educated. I am really amused to read the many items with reference to Prohibition, and I am astonished that the ladies are invited out in public to use their influence under such a shallow pretence as bouquets, banners, ete., when some of them have labored so faithfully for years in behalf of Temperance \**d Prohibition. Es pecially does it seem surprising that the ladies should be requested to use their influence in public, when it will be remembered that this State has, only a few years past, spent much money, time and argument in a State convention apparantly to set a seal against woman's vote or suffrage in public, which is the only means, prop er for woman's public influence. Well, I truly hope there will be plenty of women out at all the cam paigu meetings with their bmqseta, banners, etc., to prove to the men that they are the very shallow creatures that they are taken to be, and that they are willing t) accept and use every little bit they cm get to the very best advantage. Besid?s going out to thcso meetings will af ford the women much pleasure, and the opportunity f >r gaining much in* formation, which they may usa to ad vantage in their iufluence for the election of the moat suitable and worthy candidates. We do not know how long our ni iion is to be blessed with peace and plenty, and the opportunity of all the people going out together in the sacred duty, which is if properly, is the se lecting of those, who are to bo in an tbority over the peoplo. i do hope the women everywhere will feel it a duty and a very serious conscientious duty to attend the near approaching county campaign meeting. As these meetings return in their course year after year, they remind me so vividly of my serious ex peri eqce as a candidate a few years past and of the very kind and oonsiderate hospitality I received at the hands i of the many intelligent worthy pe >p!e of Union oounty. and whenever I think of them, it ia to breathe a prayer for their welfare: I hope the time is not far distant when the women of the South will be more interested alnut their responsible duty a? citizens, and equal humqq beings of this ? | great republic that is blasting of iu liberty to ali. [ beliove whorovei women are properly prepared for lib erty ^pd public influence, it will come ?3 a natiCfflil crisis. I am af'home attending to my domestic duties; how I would like to be a candidate if I could see any use or ; good it would accomplish at present. I am thankful 1 have the great peace within which nothing can offend, aud which affords happiness in any circ urn stance of lif?. W? ate hloBsed with a bountiful supply of excellent fruit in this neighborhood; and havo favorable seasons a id gooc^crops. Eli/, a A. Gaknek. int NtWS FROM KELTON. Miss Hardin's School Opened?The Recent Convention?Personal News Notes. Oar school hero ha3 opened up with fifty three scholars under the efficient management of Miss Mary Lee Hardin, the accomplished daughter ?irdiu, of Chester. Miss excellent work here last ho patrons of the school augratulated on securing t)r another term. TU Pea Ridge, aro wise, and know a good thing when the/ seo it. We expect more pupils uext week, and we hope our brother patrons and trustees will employ an assistant for M iss Hardin. The Baptist S. S. convention c in voned here on last Friday, Saturday aud 8uuday. There was a lrirgo at tendance. Rev. Daniel C. Freeman conducted a series of meetings at Mt. Joy last week, assisted by Rev. O.cir Kennedy, lrora near West Springs. The j greatest interest was manifested ?? the night aerviceo. Miss Annie Little and brother of Glonn Spring*, visited at Kelton , Sunday. Mr. Bishop and son, of this place, has been on a visit to his frisnd and schoolmate, Mr. C. C. Ilardia, of Chester. He also visitei Winshoro aud Rock Hill while away. Hi ' spending his vacation at homo. Mr. J. C. Otta, of Gaffuey, is visit- < ing relatives aud friends in and < around Kelton. i Mrs. Jno. G. Gault's many friends i were pleased to have her among limn j Wednesday. [ i Wc are aorry to learn that Law- i ranee Southard, son of Dr. Southard, of Jonesville, is ao 1 jw with fever. We wish for him a rapid recovery. Messrs Clausou Iiardiu and Claude Hardin, of Chester, visited Kelton last Saturday and Sunday. Misses Crawford and Lily Wood, of Lockhart, attended the Baptist Sunday School canvention here. Among others, who came wo mention' Rova; Rice, Kennedy and Messrs. Scaife aud Jeter, Mr. and Mrs. D. N. Wilburn, of Cross Keys. Mr. Byara Greer, of Union, came out 'Sunday, and spent several days with his aunt, Mrs. H. F. McKiarick. Mr. Henry Wilburn and brother, of Lockbart, worshipped at the Baptist church here Sunday. Rev. J. N. Isora will bagiu his protracted meetiug hero at Foster's Chapel on second Sunday. Miss Hardin will have charge of the siugiug, and that in iteelf is enough to assure that the music will bo tne best. Patron. NEWS NOTES * AROUND NEW HOPE7? very body Invited to Sunday Scltool Convention. ' It is very lsot and dry enl crops are in need of raiu. Corn is sufferiug and the crop will bo very short if it does not soon get rain. Cotton seems to be standing the heat and dry weather better but it is small. Oar community is very quiet and there is not much sickness in our midst. A barbecue at liockhart Junction 8a*urlay was largely attended by the otfc <iD< ot the community. Quite a number of candidates wero present an 1 tboro was some speaking. Every one s.'emed to ei j >y the occasion. U v. F. II. lieokham filled his appointment at New Hope Sunday and preached a sermon that was enjoyed by all who heard it. Mr. R. W. Scott, Henry I lames and wife, of Jonesville, attended preaohing at New Hope Sunday. ML-s Bessie Whillock accepted an invitation to a pic nic at Mt. Moriah 7 - Wm. A. NICH BANK RESPECTFULLY Banking Business am 1 And promise you the the best and reports a most onjoyablo time. Mr. John Beckham is operator at Orr's Crossing and the wedding bells will ring soon, ask John about it. Mr. A. G. Beutly in company with Mr. B. V. Going, came through yesterday on their way to West Springs, both gentlemen looking very healthv to ho ?:? 1 b"*"6 ?,uc dl'nugd, dul tben one of them is a candidate, and that possibly accounts for the trip. They are both very clever gentlemen. Mr. Editor, I want to cay something to all of Union county in regard to our Sunday School Convention, winch will convene at New Hope on Wednesday, Aug. 15, at 10 o'clock a. m. the people are all anxi.via to Kave a good convention and we are going to havo ?\. if you will help us. We insist upon every school iu the county sending representatives. So, brethren of all denominations don't i forget this grand work, coms everybody interested in tho wirk and help us make this meeting a grand succe?s. We are going to entertain yni the very best wo cm. We earnestly insist that the preachers be present and participate in tho meeting. Wo are expecting t> havo preaching at night during the o invention. We hope fir this to be ono of tho best, and I eay to all if you mi3S it you will regret it. The Misses Gossstt, Ida and Cora, are visiting friends at Glenu Springs aud Spartanburg, both of the young ladies will return boms soon. Mr. J. G. Bishop has his saw mill ruuning now. Traveller. WASHINGTON LETTER. i?M. i; or is making a gigantic bluir."*'uAV notice to the p >wers that the foreign ministers at Pekiu would bo allowed to send or receive cipher imssngos is an acknowledgement that tho ministers are prisoners, held ns hostages, and instead of resulting in stopping the march of the aliiod army to Pekiu, is likely to hurry it if any thing can couquer the international j jalousies and bickerings sufficiently to hurry it. In view of the strong and aggressive attitude this government has taken in demanding its treaty rights in China, it becomes important for everybody to know just what those rights are. First and foremost, of course, comes the obligation of the siguatorv powers to protect the person of each other's ministers; deplomatic and consular agents. This all the world know notwithstanding many conflicting statements, the Chinese government failed to do, and there is grave doubts as to whether it even made the attempt to do until after it imagined it heard the tramp of the allied army on its way to Pekin. Next iii importance ia that section of the treaty dealing with citi/.ins of cither country resi ling in tho other. Tnat promised the broadest protection, in I the exact words of the treaty, promising to "assure to citizens of the U. S. in China, and to Chinese in the U. S. entire liberty of conscience and exemption from disability or persecution on account of their religious faith or worship in either country." It is not denied that American citizens have been butchered by Chinese, for no other cause than their practice and preaching of Christianity. That is another couut that China must settle satisfactorily with this government. To what extent our commercial treaty rights have been viohvut ii not yel definitely kuowu; b it overy dollar of damage dons wi.l have to b< paid by Cuius, with ioterost. Revenge is not dictating the policy ct this government, which is asking no mori and will take no less than what belong] to it under its treaties with China. Director Merriam, of the Ceusu Bureau, could safely offer a valuabli prizs to the city that is satisfied witl the census returns of its populalioi with little danger of having to awan it. If there is such a city, it hasa' besn heard from, while the dissatisfi -< one3 are heard from hourly by mail by wir<?, and by word of mouth, aut the heariog ii not pleasant for Dircc Tri.vu i\ i Ciivn: OLSON & SON. vERS. r SOLICIT YOUR d Your Fire Insurance, 3 best protection and service. tor Merriam and his immediate subordinate?. Tho burden ot all the complaints is the same. The overlooking of thousands that should have been counted. Of course, on general principles, the Census < flicials deny that anybody *vas overlooked br me enumerators, but th.y are nevertheless a little uneasy on account ot the threats ot business men in several cities to have a new census taken at their own expeu30, just to show the carelessness and worthlessness of that made by the U. 8. Prominent citizens of Ciucinnati insist that at least 10,000 names were omitted in taking the census of that city. * ? ? Anti-Typhoid.il Scrum. | I)r. Wright, professor of pathology I iu the British Army Medical School, make3 a report on the results ot inoculation with anti typhoidal terum, which is sure to attract much attention When ho was besieged in Ladysmith General While had 12,000 troops and thegirris>n had to drink very impure water. The result was a groat deal of typhoid fever. Of the 12.224 men.in General Wnite'a command only 1,705 allowed themselves to bo inoculated with the anti>tjphoidal serum, the oth*r 10,529 perferriug to take their chances without such treatment. The comparison tf results among tho inocnl?to't o.wi ?? in? non-inoculated soldiers makes a tine showing I ?r the efhciemy of the serum treatment. Am >ng the 10,529 non inoculated LldJ8milh Hiero occurred I.48J cases of typhoid fever; among too i ,On Inoculated soldiers, 35 cases. ^ otherwise, there was for every one moculated soldier who took euteric * alnost seven nonciontly 8triking to mmvo uuut and think. The value of tho serum was demonstrated in the comparative fatality as well as in the numbsr of attacks. The number of deaths among the inoculated was 329, and among the iuoculated 8. Thus, therefore, there was one death among overy 32 non. inoculated men, whereas there was only one death among every 213 inoculated men! Typhoid fever is one of the most freq mat aid most fatal diseaseo in this section aad Dr. Wright's report deserves consideratiou.-Atlanta Jour- -1 nal. Tillman on Negro Franchises. Senator Tillmau claims the credit oL introducing tho Declaration of IndeI pendence into the Democratic platform; but it does not conform to his. 1 anno^Kna nnr fho nroohnna r\ tKn T^nm. I ocratic party in South Carolina. According to Tillman's theory all white men are created free and e^ual; but he denies that Thomas Jefferson everintended that the Declaration of Independence should be applied to the coir ored race. When that instrument was. written, he says, negroes were chaA^ tela. They had no more recognition* as humau beings or a part of the body p ditio than tne cattle or horses upon the plantations, and neither Thomaa , Jefferson nor any other of the father', not even those from New England, ever dreamed that cilzenship would sometime be conferred upon them, i Therefore, they wrote the Declaration i of Indepedence and the Consitution for white people only, and it was not until after the war that any one ever t, 'ried to make those instruments cover the colored race. It waa then found : necessary to attach what Mr Tillman i calls a "tail to the kite," and finally a j number of tails in order to securo :na* ) jorities in the southern states for the s Rebublician parly. The only way this could be (lone was by giving the ballot s lo the negro, and the Costitution had to e bo amended in order to do it Mr Tillb man is very frank in the expression bt a his views on this subject, as he is on 1 all others, and when you accuse him l of inconsistency he declares that the i Democratic platform was not meant I, for the negro race any more than the 1 Declaration of Independence.?W. E. i' Curtis in Chicago Record.