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THE UNION TIMES Published Every Friday. ' ?by tiie? UNION TIMES COMPANY Rooms 1, 8, 5 and 7, Bank Buildino. J SO. R. MATH IS, Editor. L. O. Young, Manager. Registered at the Postofflce in Tin ion, 8. C., as second-class mail matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES One year ------- $1.00 Six month* ------ 50 cents Three months ----- 2.r? cents. ADVERTISEMENTS One square, first insertion - - $1.00. Every subsequent insertion - 50 cents. Contracts for three months or longer will be made at reduced rites. Rejected manuscript will not l?e returned. Obituaries and tributes of respect will "be charged fwr at half rates. UNION, S. C., SEPT. 14, 1000. Did you hear anything drop? The State Dlsjiensary Board seem to have no fear of the dispensary kicking tlie bucket. At their meeting in Columbia Friday th *y ma le a purchase of 5,000 barrels of the ardent. It begins to look like we are going to liave that railroad to Glenn Sj?i ings pretty soon. We want it from the Sea Hoard to Spartanburg via Union and Glenn Springs. The Carnival to be held in Spartanburg seems to be on a fair road to success. The subscriptions^for that purpose have already amounted to about $1,200 and they continue to come in. Rock Hill had a $10,030 lire last Saturday afternoon. The lire broke out in the boiler room of the Frew Machine Shops. The Rock 11 ill Wagon Factory among other buildings was consumed. As a result of the Texas s'orm .">,000 are dead, 10,000 are suffering from hunger and 5,000 are homeless. Apathetic appeal has been made for help from all the States and from all who will contribute to the relief of this terrible suffering. "Spartanburg is to have a nrv we k'v JKll**! . I\?l I *X. onrcu' l . It ..v-.. ... youi g printer of this city, lias b night the outfit of the Aiken Times and will bring it here. The Aikei Tinier formerly belong*1 to a stock com.iany of which Hon. John (x.iry Evans war secretary and treasurer."?Spartanburg Journal. A new industry is ro ?n to l>e built in Union to lie known as the Union Ilaiduood Manufacturing Companv. The capital stock is to be $ti,00(\ The corporators are: S. M. Itice, Jr., T. C'. Duncan, E. Nicho'son, A. If. FosteJ, W. It. Walker and Jno. A. Eant. They make a fine term, and the onteiprise will no doubt be a success. We shall have something more to say of this new industry later. The cotton rmmupu'ators are getting wild in New York ?nl in J.iverpoo'. There has been great jagitalion anong them. This means cotton crop sh.ort? surplus nearly usel up?cotton must be had or shut* up shop. There is a good many manufauturers who are going to be in that boat this fall. Hold on to your cotton for the present, and lets see how the cat is going to jump. ' The city of Union is certainly coining to the front. She lias Just voted to issue tionds to put iu a sewerage system, and now the citizens are agitating the question of putting iu an electric railway svstem. We like to we such pluck displayed in a town."? Newberry Herald and News. Oh, yes, Union in coming and coming In a gallop. .lust Keep your eye on Union for pointi in push an 1 energy. To do this all that is necessary is to 1;oep mu eye on The Times, we have our little shoulders to the wheel and are pulling and blowing in our effoitsto keep the ball rolling, and this paper will keep you posted on Union. "It frequently happens that when a person entrusts some special work to another, It is not as well performed j as if he had done it himself. The headlines of Col. Hoyt'saddress on our first page are, therefore, not to our liking, nor do they voice our sentiments. Col Uoyt discusses matters which the voters should consider and digest well. It Is no more an operation of "rehashing than are the utterances which have been made since the first primary".?Newberry Observer, It very frequenty happens thus with papers using the ready print service for one side of their paper. The only remedy we can suggest is to make your paper an all home print and then jrou can control all its pages. f GOOD ROADS SOCIETY. It is very evident to those who have an opportunity of reading the papers from tho different counties of the State, that Union* county is not the only county that finds this question of good roads one that is hard to manage. There are a great mnny things to take into consideration when the question of what is tho best method or plan to bo adopted to secure good roads comes up. Ooo of the most imports: t. among tho many is how to secure I he funds necessary to put tho roads in good shape and keep them 8^. I*. strikes us that this road question should he handled in a systematic manner. It is, without douh>, the ino^t important question with which our people have to contend;, a good road< society for this county might be a great fact ? in devising some systematic method of working the roads to the satisfaction of all concerned. Chester county has a good roads movement on foot and it promises a great deal more real good to tho country at large than all the politics within it? borders. They have issued a call foi a meetingof the "Good Roads Society of Chester County", for the 17th inst. The Reporter says the object of this meeting is "to discuss and agree upon some plan for the betterment ol the roads and to submit t lie plan to popular vote." The Greenville News says: "There is room for n good deal of discussion along t lie line of good roads?the best method, the cost, etc.?whether by general taxation or by requiring a certain amount of work; whether a civil engineer for roads would be a good idea; the cost and advisability of Macadamizing and particularly whether it would not be best to sell oil the State farms and concentrate the labor of convicts, both State and county, upon the working of the public roads. The road question is an important one? none more so to the State?and it would be a good thing if every counf.v hnrl n rrnnjl uncipf v UQ (Ihofi ter has, for discussing the question and formulating wise plans." We agree with the News, as to the importance of the subject, the wide range for discussion and the importance of the organization of good roads societies; and wo move that Union County take up this matter, and let a meeting be called to be held at Union Court House at :<?: early date looking to the organization of a good roads society. Till: STORM IN TEXAS. That was one of the most disastrous storms in the history of this country which swept over a portion of Texas last Saturday, leaving death and disaster in its path. The loss of life was something shocking to contemplate and the horrors of the scene during the raging of the wind and flood beggars description. The loss of lives in the city of Galveston alone is estimated to have been anywhere between two and three thousand. This city was almost entirely wrecked. The greater portion of the city was submerged by the meeting of the waters of the gulf on the oikside and of the bay on the other. The water stood in the streets from three to five feet deep. The most substantially built houses in the cily were crushed as if an eggshell. There were 'more than 2,000 houses completely wrecked and the inmates of hundreds of them were sent adrift, struggling in the mad waves, with no one to render aid. Their 1 ifolo.s.s bodies numbering up in the hundreds were cast up along the shores as the waters receded. Many vessels were driven ashore along the coast and beat themselves to pieces. The water works, all cisterns and the electric light plant are wrecked and ruined. What remains of the city is loft, in darkness and a water famine seemed eminent , itelief trains were unable to reach the city for two or three days and the suffering of many was intense. The deau bodies are being buried as rapidly as possible to avoid pestilence. In Brookshiro a town of l*f\! ? ! ? 1 L !i L _ A. !. . i _ J it j. uou liiouoitaiiis, it is reporteu unit only four houses are left standing. Sabine Pass is also reported to have been completely wrecked. Hundreds of dead bodies were seen floating in the water. It was the mo.-t terrible storm in its disastrous effects in the history of the count ry, with the exception of the great Johnstown Hood in which the loss of lives reached the enormous number of 7,0O()- 'J ho poor unfortunates are in great need of assistance and the States have been asked to raise a fund for this purposo and the cull should reeoivo u lieurty und prompt response. HOT AFTER EXTRAS. The Union Times again issued an extra showing the returns from every box in the county, exceptiug the State vote at a small box of 45 votes at Colcraine, a iemote box. We gotthecounty vote at that place too. We were determined to have thg returns in more promptly this time, and went to work in time, and arranged to get the returns in ou the- same night of tin election. As a result of this we issued a tabulated statement of the returns, showing who was elected and who got left and who was to run over iu 45 minutes after the last vote was counted at the Union box. We believe the people appreciate our efforts to give them good and prompt sei vice in handling this newspaper, as ? guarantee of this fact we think we need only state that our citizens were swarming around the otllee door like bees around a hive waiting to be among the thsl t<: get a copy. If you want the news and all of it reived up r.'ce and hot, all it costs you is one dollar a year. Our subsciiptior ' lM?ok is pretty well filled, but wc are go I ing to buy a new one and a bigger one, i and there v ill lie room for your name, * We like to hustle when wo know tin people appreciate our efforts and w< - know they do Tlli; STREET RAILWAY. i We understand that tlio committee t< secure right of way for the electric trolU \ i line are meeting with fair success, li i going down Church street it stiikosus that it would be the most economical plan to secure the necessary ground fos w id. ii'ng the street from the east side ol the street for these reasons, first tin buildings ou tint side of the street an . vt Lack far enough from the street foi , allowing a.uplo room without seiioush inteiferiug with the yards, while thost on the opposite side are without exception standing very close to the street, with very little front yard. Secondly, In coming down Church street, the Baptist church would have to he moved. Mr. Geo. May's residence would have io lie moved and the well in Mrs. MeXeace's yard would have to be li 1 d uj and a new one dug. This would unlet it a pretty expensive piece of busine.-s, if uo opposition to giving right of way is met with. We do not think the citizens on tlie East tide should be expected to give the whole light of way, whieli would benefit their opposite neighbor.1 as much as themselves. But an equitable adjustment might be arrived at it the matter. We are still of our origin:*', opinion, however, that the best plan, j the one which would be ttie greatest ad ( vantage to the gioatist number, ant | convenient to all, would bo to lay tin track down Mountain strett instead ol Church street, this would give thru streets access to the street cars, however, this is just an idea of our own and wt d > not puri>ose allowing it to contlicl with the action with council, let then: sdectany street they please, what wc want is the electric car line. The gentlemen at the head of affairs will work t ie best and most economical plan, wi have no doubt. South Carolina Cotton Mill st ck is way up in the list 011 the stock 111 irket and Union Mill stock is among the leaders. Out of thirty-six mills quoted we notice that Union stands in the tifili place. Tin quotation asked 011 the market l'or the five high.'kt are: Pacolet Manufactur ing Company 25o, Pelzer Manufacturing Company 18o, PieJmont Manufacturing Company 18 >, Laureis Mills 112 ai.e Union Mills 1:57. The lowest in tin list is the Warren Manufacturing Com puny 80. The best we see offered foi North Carolina mill stock in the list is 110. WASHINGTON LEPER. (From our rej.u'ar Correspondent The Prea'ilent.'j letter t\f nocinlann no v I o'iJs t1 o crater of tho politic?.! stage. Opinion differs, of course, a 1 to its merits, but it is admitted by hie opponents, as well as his supporter, that tho Presiden'. has shown that In pocsesses the courjgo ot his convictions in discussing the important U sues of tho campaign. The letter contains no dodges. It assumes the responsibility for what has been d me, and argues that the work ot the af ministration has been such as to de serve a ontiuuance in power of ths narty it represents. Tho argunm ta being, from the Republican poiut of view, are naturally not accepted by the opponents of that party, although no one questions tho adroitaesi with which they are put. So f.ir as this government is c>r.eerned, the situation in China has not changed during the past wtek. The powers havo been informed what wc intend t> do, and wo are waiting for them to givo U3 ioihrmaiiou about their intentions, ami they do not ?jip?ar to ba in tho slightest hurry t> do it. The latent hintcf this government w.ts to order Gen. Chaffee to bold him-olf in constant roadinpsj to lews Pokin. The President, accompanied by Mrs McKinley, has gone t> S ?m ri>e', Pa , to ?eo their irenc man in I, an 1 from there tfey will go to Canton, isn!***? some change in the eiiunli.m iu China makes tho Presideul's prCjJ. ence in Washington necessary. Tho idia prevails ia cflicial circles that 't niiy ba several weeks before it is known whether tho powers can agree 1 upon a Chinese programme. The Post Oifico Department Hsr issued n t' nu l order agaiust L D Ris*, 3422 Center i>'. N. XV. Wathiisgtor, 1 D. C., aud tho aocal'ed agencies conducted by him known as the Aanrii can Teacher's Agency, aud the Araaiicaa Civil Barvico Colllege, aud uirocted tho Postmaster at Washiugi toa to return all msil addressed to , either, to the writer'', after stimji 'g Several bales of new oottou were ' ginned here last week by the McWhirter end Whitloek ginneries. O ie 1 bale was told for 9 cents a pound. ' Farmeas don't think nine centi is r enough for their cotton this hard, * scarce year. R v. E. II B'ckbam filled his pulpit here yesterday morning, his subject was tho love ol money being ( the root of all evil. He gave his congregation something to think about s a?, to their duty in contributing to the I church and echoo's. i Mr, W. W. Nix, of Meador, was in > town Saturday and Sunday. ? Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Ilaile, of Union, ? were in town yesterday and today. Mrs. Rev. E. H. Beokbam and chilJren and Miss Estelle Perry a e on an ex ended visit to Lancaster 1 q unly. i Mr. James Whitten, who is working lit tho Southern Railway nrar Angus'a, ha? been home sick for the 1 last f:w days. Mrs. E. K. Ay cock and child r-u, who have been spending some time with the family of Air. N. B. Elton, U'jturue.l to their homo in Clinton last week. Mr. Means Bjaty, of Union, is in town tobty, Mrs. llasaa Asment and daughters, 1 of Pacolct, were in town yesterday visiting friends. A'l tho sick pe tplo in our town are much better and sxne of them aro on the streets again. Mr R mi hen Lindsay is with a bus i inrsn hnu?a in fJrrnnv ll/\ The two jear old child of Mr. a?'?l Mra IIorca Webber died Jest we k. Air. Louia C. Uatea ha-i taken a p<Vr.i>n with C liHinb'.-rlaiii Johnson. j Pcbote A Co., of Atlanta. Telephone 1 iSubacribe for The Tiiiiew. . it "fraudulent. iJr-<a baa boea in trouble befuro f>r tho same reason. The advertising matter of his alleged Civil Service College, was sj worded as to leave the impression that he had 1 a big pull with the Civil Service Cooi1 mission, which always appointed th >;e recommended by him. Swindling a ' person under tho preie~sa of securing ' them positions i3 pretty low d >wn in tho scale of crime, but it is growiog - very common. Tho postal authorities i can only act when proof of the swiai die is obtained, mil tho unwillingness - of victims to acknowledge that they , have allowed themselves to be robbed unkts that diflicult and olteu impo3> sible to obtain. Tbo he-it preventive > of this kind ol swindling is tho adopti >u of an iroucl id rule to have no money dealiugs with couccrus which cannot furnish undisputable evidence, bauk or commercial agency referenco > of responsibility. The general tendency (f distrust i the Chinese has extended to tho I nix s migration Bureau of the Treasury IXI ['artmeuf, which now employs Chiaceo a3 interpreters, but hopes to get some of the returned white mis iouaries to take their places at an early day. An ollicia' of that bureau said: "We are very anxious to get whito men cs Chinese interpreters. We v/ant about seven?tw v for San Frauciso, one for Malono, one for Now York, ouo f> r B iston and two for tho Canadian border. We can keep our fingers ou a whito man and know aomethiug of his habits and natural leauings, and may be protty well siti-fhd that he csnuot 1 hi corrupted if he is paid a fair salary, b it we arc not always cure ol that with the Chinese. I havo no doubt that among tho missionaries who will be obliged to have China, we can get good men who will bo willing to serve us The ealary of tho p ?sitiou is n it 1 lixod, but competent men get about i go.00 a day and expenses. This would ( he a pretty g>od thing for a euperru. nuated mi si >nar/, and we expect lo , get an eHicicut corps within a shoit 1 time. ' JONFSVILLF NEWS NOTES. ' Gloomy Crop Prospects. Nine Cents too Low For Cotton. r ) Jonesville, Sept. 10.?The dry, hit , weather is getting to be a serious ra.it> tor. The corn and cottoa crops arc t both very sorry, and gardons are misi erab'.o failures, while potatoos are 5 hanging a9 it wero in tho b.ilaaco3 waiting for rain to make them grow, hut the time with the potatoes will , soon be out, and the turnip seed that came up after tho shower a few days ago have died, and the poa crop is i also a failure, so tho outlook lor good I times is very discouraging. Columbus Moore, a colored miu ; who was reared at Jouesville, wns , killed last week at Rich Hill by pas, songer train No. 13. I unierotaid a _ suit will ko brought against the railroad for damage. It's No Trouble To Get Your JTeals ? I i In a hurry if you own one ' of our i I Art=Enterprise Cooking Stoves. ^wTTmZ. 1 No Burning. Brown BeautiQuick Baking. thc 8011010 Easy to get H0t. No Our long experience in the Stove and Hardware Businessenables us to sell you the best and most prac< tical Cooking Stove on the market At Reasonable Prices. <&0 Buys a Good No. 7 with 30 pieces ?PO of ware, worth $10. (bl O Buys a Good No. 8 with 30 pieces of ware, worth $14. * 4 I \ \ The A. H. Foster Co., THE HARDWARE LEADERS. The Cry Is "Still They Come" AND STILL THEY GO. ; t We want you, not your neighbor, but you, to come and look at. our stock and be convinced ? that we are prepared to sell you a Buggy, , .Wagon or Carriage, or a vehicle of any kind, including Mowers, Rakes, Harrows and Plows. Our stock of Harness is unsurpassed. Get our prices before buying, for we will sell you or VK ^ ' make the other man "get right." Our motto is: "to sell and please and above all to give you ' value for every dollar you give us." Don't forget Green & Boyd's is the place to buy your , S vehicles. We have one cane mill left and the i ? first man comes gets it at a low figure. j ^ GREEN & BOYD. \ Fancy Grocers. We have what you w^nt. We do no blowing. j We sell what we advertise. Wre sell as cheap as anybody, We guarantee all we sell. j We know we can please you, . ^?TRY US.?' GRAHAM & ESTES. i PHONE 84. 1 , THE PARLOR GROCERY ] Having recently purchased tho business of the PARLOR GROCERY, I I am prepared to supply the needs of your table. S PHONK US YOUR WANTS 1 and they will bo attended to with promptness and dispatch. 8 ALL GOODS DELIVERED FREE. II Butter, Eggs and Vegetables always on hand. 9 II imiEST PRICES PAID I For garden, farm and barnyard produce suitable for table use 8 CHAS. R. sniTH, Mgr. \ |l piioAR re.