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VOL L. NO. 51. T UNION. SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY. DECEMBER 21. 1900. #1.00 A YEAR.
F. M. FARk. President.
QEO. MUNkf\ Cashier, J.
* Merchants' and Pla
1 OF UNI
:I Capital ?tock...V..'
J Surplus .
I Stockholders' Liabilities
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Jiuiai
Directors?J. A. Fant, \
jl T. C. Duncan, J. T. Douglass,
T Wm. Coleman.
| We Solicit Y
CATAP HOR E515.
DR. H. K
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Crown and
Bridge Work. 3y
1900 DECEMBER 1900
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: ONION COUNTY NEWS.
' ' l_ - Items
of Interest Gathered from
Various Sections by our
Correspondents.
THE NEWS FROH SftNTUC.
Horse Doctor From Chester? Ai
Old Souvenir?Don't Gee Haw
With the Wide Tire.
We hare bean having some fin
frosty weather, anl many were th
hogs that were slaughtered.. Good fo
the people.
Some time ago a party of youn
v men went 'possum hunting, but ii
4* stea 1 of a possum tbey caught a skun
and consequently all the rank perfun
they were looking for. It was 1]
carrots strong*
I did not read McKinley's messaj
I begat: it, but he lied at the offdta
and I quit as I did not wish to i
how much he did iell those things.
Colds are prevalent now and nu
bers are announcing it in the uat
way. Your correspondent has be
Buttering for three weeks and fe
now as it he had been used as a t
to knock down several acros of ce
talks.
Mr. Will Sartor has gone to I
Wh'ttaker Cotton Mills, Ga , to 11
a position in the company store. 1
wish him success.
Young Mr. Sharp Hobson, v
has been visiting his relative, Rev
d H.inn for some months,
X juu?M?|
returned to Anderson county.
I regret to report that Mr. M.
deter, U. 8. Mail clerk, will m
his family from here either to Col
bia or Greenville. The service
requiring clerks to live on the lin
run.
Messrs. J. P. Jeter and R
McDmiel has received a fine Tei
see Jack. It has been here about
week. Fom ;thing arnu-iiig is, sei
little bojs nwer having seen a J
?ra? it q trior. "What is that thi
Uev. O. P. Burns his retu
from the annual Conference, an
are all glad that he has been all
to remain here another year,
peop'e 1 ere are a~q taiuted with
ami tstetm him as a friend, a n<
b?>r an I a minister of the gospel
Mr. Godfrey B Fowler, wh<
b?en i? tbe lower section of the
ty surveying l?n 1, stopped ovei
recently to otnplete a job h:
taken on a mill. As Vox r
says?from ont avocation to an
qua'lfted for anything?an all
Mr. J. D. Car.er is going tc
these puts. He is preparing tc
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A. H. FOSTER, Vice President, f
D. ARTHUR, Assistant Cashier, f
liters' National Bank I
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V. H. Wallace, Wm. Jeffries, I
E. P. McKissick, A. H. Foster, X
our Business. X
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- +? ELECTRICS.
. SMITH,
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H Union, S. C.
[ .ni ? n a. A r?>? -.
10 i^neroaee vx)uoi.y, near or ai umber
Ridge. I have seen -florae of that
coup try on more than one occasion,
and some of it is fino. Success to
you, Joe. I hope you may get some
of that fine land.
Qiite a number of men are around
selling from wagons. If peop'e are
willing to buy from them and pay the
prices it is none if our business.
Mr. J. E. Coruwell, a veterenari
an, of Chester came over to Carlisle
Monday, Dec. 10, for the purpose of
examining horses aud mules for tin
people, and he fi >oted the teeth of
several and prescribed for more. lie
is moderate, and if he does not think
Worth while to do the work will say
so, and will not do the work just because
egg DUO 1VIU, *
met *Mr. J. W. McGowan, who
showed me an old opptr medal or
badge, I do not think it was a coin.
It boro the date of 1827,R. Neither
he or I could make any sense out of
some of the words, but on one side
was a beautiful globe with a Dana
around it, and I think aorown above,
and "In hoc signo vince9". Mr. Mc
G. says that he has not seen anyone
n yet who could tell what the lettering
on one side was, but all agree that ii
must be Bpinish. It was given bin
quite a number of years ago, by hit
6 father. His father could possibly havi
6 given its history, but he is dead.
r The headlines on one of my article
made it appear that I am opposed t
& wide tires. , I may not be exactly op
? posed to the wide tire in it-elf but
am opposed to it being made com
J? pulsory until we have some proof the
they alone are the best things for u
If wo could have a certain section <
>e' mud set off for an experiment,
may be well, but don't force us y
166 on a wholesale of broad tires to pa<
down mud, and it raining and puttie
m" water on it all the time. Water wi
have to be dried out to a certain e
,e.n tent before dirt will pack. You nev
I can pack mud, I tried to pack sot
J0 wet clay around a scalding box, ma
>rn a loblolly and quit. Me and abro
, tire don't gee haw for general u
'ie We fell out some time ago. But i
them if you like, I can go anywhi
kVe they can.
r|]0 A mad dog put in an appearat
q here about a eekk ago and mad*
raid upon dogs and hogs. Dr. J.
Jeter followed it some time, trying
j get a gun at every house he past
I kill it. The dog evidently gett
Ufn tirod of this shadowing, or getting
Q0W a fit for biting turned and gave cfa
e Qf himself, but the doctor's horse be
faster than the dog, it was not a b
^ matter to keep out of its way. W
ines a 8un wa8 Huaaiiy secured the dog
one disappeared acoross the fields
/era! ^rouK^ a plantation road. A si
fack 4'm9 'aler waa agaia heard f
?.) still biting hogs and dogs. This
irned ea,,ly i? the morning. About tw
'1 wt o,<?1?0^ afterwards, I saw a stri
owe! dog, of questionable appearance
rp|je on the river road, that must
jjjm been the same dog. It was
eieh- discovered by au old negro, who
talking to me, and, not likinj
j hae dog's actions, I made the old ma
into the wagon for safety. We
r here 'owe * a4 4^e ^?B' *4 merely stc
( and looked at us, and moved oi
i htU * did not ra se a row with the
ioiher *01 * didn't have my gun, and
round' 4611110 40 Ounsider. It appeared
a collie dog, rather tall, gettiu(
. i?.-A and was very tired. Who hat
I *1 one like this? Hey De
ETTA JANE ETCHINGS.
Establishing a Dude Factory.
Etta Jane, Dec. 17.?Rov. J. P. i
Morris pleached at Salem yesterday. 1
His text was Hebrews 6:19. "Which
hope ve have as an anchor cf the '
soul, both euro and steadfast, and <
which cntereth into the vail," He j
will preach agaiu ou the 5,h Sabbath I
at 11 a. ui.
Mrs-John Foster is lying very ill I
at her home i.ear Sunny Side with <
typhoid fever.
Last week the family ol Dr. J. F. ;
McCluney erected a beautiful mouu- i
meat to his grave iu Salem grave- I
yard. It was nude by Mr. Hopper- <
field, of Yorkville. i
The new flat has been launch?d at 1
Howell's Ferry. It was made by 1
Messrs. Wilkinson and Robinson.
The widow '-Vox" gave the young i
people a very pleasant reception at
her home on last Saturday evening: <
All seemed to enjoy themselves. She
is one of the most handsome and win
some young widows and knows how to
make people enjoy themselves. Were 1
she to set out again the young girls '
would find In her a formidable* rival
But poor creature, she has been f )ole<t
once and that is a great satisfaction j
to the girls.
It's a fact that goes without dispute
that thete never was a man (of the
right sort) but thought he had the
best wife in the world, but at the same
time he thinks that she was extreme
ly fortnnate to marry just such a man
as he is.
Amongst the fashionable social
eveuts of the season was the organization
ot a club or chapter of "Dudes."
It starts of well. A full corps of
charter members took part in the or
ganizition and others will doubtless
pats the required examination far
admittance. The enrollment will be
large if all elligables come in. The
bv laws orovide amoncr other thinzs
dlldfi Vtll Ka MluaUtf J
missal) to chop stove wooa, make
fires, draw or carry water for bis
mother or sisters or help them in anything
pertaining to their house work,
neither is he to be guilty of soiling
1
| his hands "by bridling, currying, nar
neasing or saddling a horse or other
animal, except when he wants to go a
courting, or to take his best girl out
to ride, and then it must be when
there is no one else to wait on him,
> at no time and under no circum
L stances is he to take less than 25
1 minutes to comb his hair and adjust
9 his collar and necktie when his moth3
er is waiting breakfast on him, under
no circumstances will he be permitted
8 to go to church where anti<dudish
? people assemble for devotional duties
- without first providing himself with a
I sufficient supply of cigarettes and
'* matches to keep him puffing during
it the time he is there, and it is expressly
8- enjoined that he emphasize his impor
tance by the use of a series of gram
it matical "cnss words" before the litth
0t boys or by his sonorous horse-laughi
near the door of the church while th<
;g religious service is going on, thi
ill nearer the door he gets the bettei
x He is not to enter the church unti
er after the service begins, and then tak
ne his seat as far from the preacher as h
de cau get. He is not to conform to an
*d of the church rules such as stand in
??- or kneeling during prayer or singin
5 41?? i? fn take no na
,W5 ?ana in mcoo uo .? m
-,re or interact whatever. As soon as 1
takes his seat he is to put on a fu
ice head of laughing gas, so as to mal
e a people at whom he casts his winsoo
T. intelligent eyes "feel cheap," or thii
; to they are the butt ofj some ludioro
ted, joke he has in store r.t their expeni
ing To carry out this part of his work
; in is to call to his assistance other du<
ias3 or dudesses if any are present, tl
ting making his conspicuity more noti
iard able and despisable. He is not
hen take a seat in the 8. 8. class or
had church choir but to play the cr
or and expose the awkardness and
hort norance of those who lake part in
rom devotional exeroises. He is, as far
was possible, to make himself useful to i
elva agreeable with those who solioit
sage presence on social ocoasions and t
over keep in touoh and sympathy with
have neighbors."
flnt We are satisfied that the pre
1 ?in m?nv or all of th
i was meiuuria nu>t J
5 the break over, but the order , ad libi
d get can be resusoitated.
hat> This closes our work for the !
ipped day season, and we wish all our r
). I era a merry Christmas and a hi
dog, New Year. Vo
bad a
X FR0M HUSTLING JOHESVII
Lvef^ The weather ia lovely ett'l jv
are moving to and fro with a C
mis ra ivo on them.
Thore is a negro in our town who
is thought to have the small pox.
The Council aod board of health have
taken the matter in hand and have
the hous? guarded day aud night.
Tin Alpha Mill ia running day and
night and is doing reasonably well, of
course the machinery has to be adjusted
and put in running order as is
the case with all now machinery.
The k'niituig mill is moving along on
full limp aud is disposing of all of its
outpitf? .
Fl&mars &re rounding up their
jrea'rV-f^rk and were never more
readj for Christmas than they will be
this time. The merchants are having
i good tfede although the cotton
markf t is rather Hat and not much
selling. There will be some cotton in
ihe ojuntrj* held over till after the
holidays for better prices. Tbe building
boom is still on in our towi.
Several new houses are being finished
up nod will be occupied by Christmas
Miss Jotephene Rogers, of Atlanta,
who has been visiting her sister, Mrs.
Dr. M. W. Chambers, has returned
home and Mrs. Chambers has gone
with heir to spend the holidays in
Atlanttb Miss Blanch Garner, of
Union is visiting relatives in town
Hey. David Hucks has moved into
the MeftTddiat parsonage, and ho filled
l : . * - . i . .1 i
uia uppjiucnmuia ouuuay at Doinie*
hem and New Hope, Rev. D. C.
Freeman filled his pulpit at the
Baptist Church here Sunday morning
and evening. Rev. Mr. Freeman
has been oilled to this church again
for the ne?t year.
Eggs aro very scarce in this market
and are hard to get at 25 eta per
dczeo. \
Mr. El Littlej.thn in building a
residence in our town and will move
here soon.
Telephone.
LETTER TROW* SPARTANBURG.
A change in the weather male a
change in the people.
Rev.'L. M. Roper of the First Baptist
Church, and B. P. Robinson, ol
Gaflney, changed places heie yesterday,
and my old woman w^nt to
church and made me stay at home
and gei dinner, ahd when Bhe came
back from churjh I had a hen baked,
and she said I was the best man on
earth, yon see I have got her in th<
dark. I was alone and 1 gel to think
ing, one thing 1 thought of was hov
the people used to guy nn when ]
first moved to this place about Union
how they kill one another. But i
??not Inner until this place got ii
the ead. But they have stopped oi
to 8>me extent and my old hom
has taken it up again. Boys, yo
mus. grant that it is a sin to tak
' thatyou can't give. Just thiak of il
the ife of the one you kill is as sw:(
to hm as yours is to you. I we
awfd sorry to hear of the last killing
* I krow both parties well.
Jtaas is right here on us and w
8 lool around aud see a good many i
8 a w>rse condition this Xmas tha
,'j the' were one year ago. A goo
may of our relatives and frien<
6 ha^ gone to await our coming. A
6 of e who are left behind ought to fe
y hapy and thankful, ([ do myseli
8 M; little boy said to me: "Pap
? wht you reckon they will have
gradpas, Muddie is not there tl
18 Xias, all of us will miss hei woi
yoi papa?" (Yes, son, but grand
?e wil be at home and he will know <
08 armoming.)
had the pleasure of shaking ban
88 I w?? my old friend, J. B. Porter,
~~ ' 1CH13 JWJ JUUUg BO WO U.v. J ~
^ Ir. Chas. Norman was on <
,u8 atnta last week.
08 was ao glad to gee guoh an
*? or?e in the censu3. And I am g
. . toee friend W. H. 8artor at
,.t,c hel of a ootton mill. Wiilie if
'K" gfd boy, and you may look So
C'olina over forever and you co
a8 m find one who we all would lik<
an. tat hit place, he ia an all round r
in very respect. Success to hi;
a.8 th<wiihes from his old friend,
k'8 Union Bo'
861111 The News at Carlisle.
em,
tum [r. Editor: Our town has 1
soewhat stirred up the past weel
holi- th work of burglars. They c
**d> the darkness and left with f
ippy "lodle", but not as much as
thight of obtaining in this v
atke town. We learn that the
iic aonnt they took with them
bween $300 or $400, which n
eople 't>eoa considerably mor
bnat csumatances had been different.
?- 33 O YOU "
HOLD YOU
Wm. A. NIGHOLSOr
Store Cotton and Adva
clew has 1 'd to any discovery of the
perpetrators, so far.
Mr. J. K. Sharpe, and his estimable
wife are here at the "Uarlihle" Hotel,
where they have made many friends
Mr. Sharpe is a nice scailcman amj a
tine business rnao, his aides aro tho
rignt mea m me rignt piac?. iney
come in eveiy Saturday evening and
make ibe Iowa lively, they make
friends wherever they go. They are
L. A. Panned I, ,J. H. Willingham, E.
L. Doss. P. M. Butzurse.J. E.French,
S. M. Mebane and J. L. Hunter.
Joe Rob v.
TVASIIING TON LB TTBR.
(From Our Regular Ccrreajjondent.)
The Scrape did not tako up the
Nicaragua ("anal hill i i accordance
with the resolution adopted at the last
ae88ion, because, with the votes of
many friends of the Canal bill. The
friend- of the Canal hill will wait until
the Hay Pauncefote treaty is aced
upi n before pushing that Measure.
They ray they have the votes pledged
to pats it whenever they got ready, and
there is no roaeon to rush it now.
When Congress is good, it is very
good, and it has becn^very good indeed
since this sessiou opened. There
has not been the slightest wrangle on
the floor of either Senate or House,
although the latter debated and passed
the Administration Army Reorganization
bid, providing for a regu\V
LI 1UU U uvfvAr - ?rk a 1 AA AAA
might have been expected to have
aroused the minorty. Doubtleee the
failure of the minorty causes to agree
upon a party policy had something to
do with the calmness of the debate*
1 Some shrewd lobbying is being done
1 in the Senate in the interests those
1 who wieh to prevent action on tbe
? Nicaragua Canal Bill at this session,
i and it n being done largely in the
5 name of patriotism. The lobyists have
- taken advnntcge of the strong public
v sentiment in favor of Americanizing
I the Hay-Pornceforro Treaty, not s<
> much because they are patriotic, a:
t because they saw therein a chance, al
a though a slim one, to prevent the pas
if sage of the Nicaragua Canal Bill a
e this s ssion, and not a few Senator
u voted for the Americanizing amend
? ments to the treaty under the impree
t> sion that they had given their patrio
d tism the benefit of the doubts they en
^ tertained, really did so because of tb
5- iosidious influence brought to bear o
them by the lobbyists in the employ c
r? Panama Canal Company. Now the
u it is certain that the amended treat
Q will be ratified by the Seuate, probabl
if! Christmas reoess, Whic
Is will begin next Friday, the questio
II whether it will delay action on tl
el Caual bill, is being asked. Secretar
:-) Hay expresses the opinion that Eu;
a. land will reject the amended treat
but that opinion is not held by ac
'is Senators. Should England reject tl
treaty, the passage of a joint resoluth
pa by Congress, decreeing the Clayto
we Bulwar Treaty abrogated is regardi
as certain, but all this, as the sli*
ids lobbyists very well know, will cc
he sume time, and if action on the Can
ara is made to wait upon the settleme
of the treaty question it will hard
)ur take place at this session. Senab
who realisse this, are now urging tl
in- the Nicaragua Canal bill shall
lad taken up and passed, regardless
the I treaties and ot wnat omer nam
? a I may have to say about it.
uth The proposition to settle the Ceni
uld Apportionment question by a cau
> to of the House majority, had to
nan abandoned, because of the divert
11 is of opinion among the members, i
the matter will probably be fou
{. out on the floor of the House, a
the Census Committee reports its i
which is likely to provide for an
crease in the House Members!
been which will prevent the loss of m
1 by berg by any state. Representa
141116 Hopkins, Chairman of the Cei
tome Committee, has introduced a bill
fhey his own fixing the membership
rid6- the House at 357, its present num
total which gives the following states
was member less.tban they now have;
dght diana, Kansas, Kentuckey Maine,
6 if braika, .Ohio South Carolina,
No yirginia, and gives Illinois Louii
- t
wt-A-jstt TO???xl-x
R COTTON?
I & SON, Bankers,
ince Money if Desired.
New Jptkj' Now Y&rk, Minnesota
West, Virginia ono more member each
thau they now have and Texas two
additional members.
Delegate Wilcoxjof IIuwai:, sworn
in as a member of the House without
j:__ -I?L i >
uifjcunuu, Hiinougn several protects
against seating him had been sent from
Hawaii to E'ections Committee No. 1
None of them however were fli: Mi dently
substantiated to base any action on,
but they may be at any timo the proper
evidence is brought forward. Mr.
Wilcox docsu't talk in Washington as
he hoe been credited with talking in
Hawaii. He 8ay8 that while he favor*
ed the restoration of the queen before
Hawaii wae formally annexed, he is
now an American citzon aud that he,
aud other Hawaiius, are oulirily satisfied
with existing conditions, having
leaned by experience that they enjoy
greater privileges than under the
royal regime.
To Secure Free Delivery.
4 Free Rural Delivery being no
longer on experiment this Congress
will appropriate several million dollars
for its extention. About every
community in the district can secure
the benefit of the Eervdce during the
eomming year by making application
therefor, The ouree to purpose is
this:
petition" elioufd'' Ifi? 'bf , . ~ ?
I heads of families, and should mention
1 the number in each family. It should
set forth the nature of the county
| where the delivery is desired, whether
densly or sparely populate.!, the principle
avocation of the people, the character
ot the roads, and the distance,
which, under the existing conditions,
i each patron has to travel to receive
i his mail, and should be accompanied,
> whenever possible, by a rough nap
r indicating the routes proposed.
) "This petition, wheu properly
i signed, should be sent to the represan.
tative in congresp, or to one of the
. senators, give a request that he ent
dorse thereon his recommendation of
a the service asked and forwarl the
,. petition to the department,
i* "The route should be between 20
i- anb 25 miles in length, and serve not
t- less than 100 families. Upon receipt
e of the petition a special agent will be
n detailed by the department to visit the
,f location, man out the route and select
it the carrier.
y
v Charles P. Sims Suspended.
h
11 On Monulay morniDg when court
ie convened Judge Benet rendered his
J decision in the matter of the return of
5* C. P. Sims, Esq., to a rule recently is>
y* sued to show cause who said C. P.
'y Sims Esq., should not be debarred
ie from the practice of law in South Caro>n
liua because of alleged unprofessional
n' conduct. Judge Benet recounted the
history of the proceedings in this matc
ter, gave a brief review of the laws
,u: governing such cases both in England
and South Carolina and stated that
I"1 after a most careful examination of the
y very voluminous-testimony whioh had
5r8 been taken and submitted he thought
V* that but three of the eleven charges
b? against Sims had been established.
These three were in substance as fol>U8
lows: That Sims had by undue influence
and unprofessional conduct forced
8U* Dr. S. J. Bivings to employ him in
the trial for the number ofT. 8. Trimbe
mier: that Sims had aided one Herbert
,ily Tucker under sentence for man?
ll? slaughter to escape from the custody
g of the officer: and Jbat Sims had frequently
pent to jail to see if any new
prisoners were in and solict said priso*
!.n ners to employ him. Judge Benet said
P' that there were extenuating cireume.m'
stances that mitigate the gravity of the
tlve charges made and he then passed an
j18118 order suspending Sims from the prao^
f tic of law for six months beginning
Januray 1st 1901, The attorneys for
'?er' 8ims will apeal the matter to the
?In0 ?uPI^nQ0 ^?urt*?Free I^ance.
1 Just tell them that vou saw it in
JSi The Times.