Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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% \ I'*4 8* THE town of union NaIT \ jjj THE TOWN of union has jlj Three Cotton MiJIs, one the II ^ Sj 1 3$ L ? |J 7^1 ^ jj ^ ,-J^ ^ td \& /flj ijft 4 ^ H The largest Knitting Mill and j| (/( largest in the South. Fu?rFur- A B [S __ jS ffi J H S ?f SWL I H.. H !?? / ffi ' ill l?vo Hum :is the State. An Oil /( 111 auil Wood Maliuiaetur- /!; fl Q R H B& 3j BiilHL 0' ^ fe. jffl ft* ^ 111 nod Manufacturing t'o, that )|J a 'ng Concerns, (>no I'Cumle I II I | J I I V BY^R I B jji J I ^ tunkis no unexeellcu Cuano. U (( Seminary. Water Works and j( J| U U A R J I 9 i V B 91 ^il rv ' 0 ft 'I href tirnded School. Arte- i(( I Ele^tric hio1>ls- ffl [' J 1 1 ^ yw jjj . Water. Popula. on 0,600. | VOL. LI. NO II. UNION, SOUTH CAROLINA. L\V, MARCH I'., 11)01. #1.00 A YKAik * m* iK- -:& **> -iK- HK f F. M. FARK President. ) j OBO. MUNk?, Cashier, J. | Merchants' and Pla | | OF UNI 4 Capital Stock J Surplus f Stockholders' Liabilities I Total. i Directors?J. A. Fant, V ? T. 0. Duncan, J. T. Douglass, t Win. Coloinun. t We Solicit Y titbit* 1901 HAP CIT~ 19011 L Su. Mo. Tu. Wn.| T!>. Fri. Sat. _ TTi JL A A JL JLA 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20" 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 2.8 29j 30 31 |_ UNION COUNTflWS. Items of Interest Gathered from Various Sections by our Correspondents. REMINISCENCES OF THE WAR. Interesting Incidents Connected With the Late War, Bringing Out a Great Deal of Unwritten History, in Which the Private and Subordinate Officers are (liven Credit Tustly tiwve eat Men That Jivor j? * JEnem y Were to be FOUND AMONG THE PRIVATES. BY J. L. STUAIN. Just before night \ye left llennett's Point and took up our line of march towards Jacksonboro. The bridges had been torn up in many places and wc had them to repair, also make crossways to get our horses over ? :?..caohi,, barriers or f8WftIlipS &n<l ilUpacouuiv our lino of inarch. We had not gor.i far before night set in. It was in tensely dark, and to udd to this th sky was overspread with thick cloud I which every moinont threatened down-pour of rain. The road \vn f yA. overgrown with grass which mad the finding of our way a difficu tusk in many places. We knowir the Jcmrse we war,ted to go pr oeeded with but little difficulty exce as above stated. In the meantime violent storm of wind and rain ovt took us. This was accompanied wi lightning and thunder which v ferrific and if possible intensified t darkness and made it the more urn (jurable. While the storm was raging in of its fury we could see in iron l}8 what seemed to be a huge fire gyrating rapidly, sometimes it wc form a comph te circle, then up down, from one side to the ot cutting all kinds of motions 4,d?does." However, we made no halt, front filos rode right up to it - ?i... found it to be some negroes ?uu started out, they said, to cut tree, and it was a chunk of fire had to moke thctn with and were fanning it about to keep it < &omg out;- We halted and had words with them without tellinj fe wpre or where we were j ome of tho boys proposed j< the darkies in the bee hunt, b motion was overruled and w , ceeded on our way. Soon w< to a farm house, and a little 1 a fine mansion sutronnded^ it of nice cottages occupied slaves.. The man's name I ca ? to memory, but his son ha J J ? *K? buttle of Se I WOUDaeu ut> luw I fille only a short tiuio before H was at homo on wounded fi i v* rodo up to his well ami a oijr ^orses and finally wo got a piqn to occupy a house u? a phapel in which the negn ^ |h?PP*b (I will say here $ 4* ?? 4K? #&> -t*4K A. H. FOSTER, Vice President. $ D. ARTHUR, Assistant Cashier. | nlers' National Bank f * o^v, s. o. X $00,000 I 50,000 J 00,000 $ * $ $170,000 ^ V. 11. Wallace, Win. Jeffries, jfc E. P. MeKiasiok, A. H. Foster, X our Business. --** -** -ii*--M* -ifr<& -*>-Wr#*> -ftf- Sfr k of p-.rertthesithat most of those largo plantations had regular church buddings furnished with pulpit and seats communion tables and all the m eessary outfit for public worship. Their master c.red for them in this respect. A regular minister was employed to preach to them ) The house was a very commodious one for us under the circumstances, arid here we ic-tcd till morning, after feeding our horses and disposing of the rations we had in our haversacks. Next morning we got ihe darkies to cook us hominy, potatoes, chicken, etc , and for breakfast \vc had a real f si*t. As soon as it was known that we had camped there the daikeys began to flock around, and some < f the men told them we were Yankees and had conic to take them north And [old woman of non-sense was talking to them with flattering promises as to what their freedom would amount to. But they were not to be duped, they knew better. As soon as we could do so we got off on our march for camp with a lot of vegetables, okra, onions, cabbage ?tid almost everything that a .'onerous I sJ.'il and climate produced Ru t J?i:u r- r ifh,. I uceu- fcacii r H ilUt IiQ ?T<)t we came across a mrgiTiiWu S. ine of the "Williams" had great long horns. Dolpli Fant began bleating like a goat, and they woulgather around him, turn their head: sideways and look as if greatl}' sur prised at this strange yet natural 8"un< Ltolph could make. They followci us for some distance, all bent o finding out the strange companioi Sometimes a "William" would "hue t up," stand on his hind legs and off. 3 to fight but to no purpose whateve - As soon as we crossed the ferry v o broke ranks with the understandii s that each man was to report to car a at 4 p. in., and as well as I n< is recollect all came to time and i e ported promptly. " "Wnna" McKown, Jim McCol'c it ig and myself occupied the same te o- We were camped near Adams 11 pt village at what was known as Ca a McKissick, when the battle of Se< ;r sionvillo took place, June 16, 18 ith Just at the break of day that rac fas ing the battle began. "Wess" he myself were sleeping on the s; en- pallet and dim had his bunk on other side of the tent. The boor all of cannons, the rattle of muskets t of the shouting of the men told un bug takably that tlie battle was on i >uld its fury. "Wess" and I were 1 and listening at it. Jim was as her, i "Ned," our cook, came .dashing and I the tent and called each of i name said: "Get up, get up, The you hear them fighting to1 , and Charleston now. You'll all be or had out and get ready." Jim wag a bee plaining and said: "Ned, wl thoy you mean coming here that they Don't you know that if the Yi from were up here a* Adam's Hun ) a few not get out of the tent" g who enough in a few minutes a going, dashed up to the colonel's tei oining in less time than it takes to ut fche "Bill'' Milam's bugle sounde c pro die up." The long beat in > came fantry camp and for a few mi ater to seemed as if a rapid marcl -?-* ;IIot ahead of u ih a lot ngiu wuo j~v,? by the before we wcro ready to n't call another message was recei< d been our men had been attack cession- morning at daylight by a la and he of Federals at Secessionv irlough. they had been driven baek t watered siderable loss and that the permis- in our possession. Before t led as a of the message was fully u oes wor the men raised a yell that1 by way up by first ono camp the until infantry, cavalry and urrili o y , all joined in the grand chorus, m k n.; the piney woods ring with the liuzzahs of the Confederate* over their first and moat decisive victory in the d* fu.ee of Charlc trn. In giving the 1;-1 of the men who cotnp"*o tbe York tno-s the name of Morgan Lc-'ch wis inadvertently omitted. Morgan, poor fellow, was killed at Kiddle's'Jap, Ya., June, 1-3. 18(54. IIis body fell into the hands of the enemy, but later in the day the line was retaken and l is body bo nj frutri the field and now it lies in the family burying ground at Salem church in this neighborhood. 1 am sorry I utn unable to give a full list of the kilied and wounded in that battle. John Long was one I well remember. Several were wounded. Among them my messmate William M. Kennedy, of Yorkvillc. in my next chapter I snail give an account, of our first engagement and the result, together with ?ome of the adventures of our scouts while on the coast of South Carolina. Anecdotes of the War. BY DR. A. E. FAST. A trooper and two foot soldiers, friends of his, had got into the ladies' car, whore there were a whole colony of bahies. One bov baby woke up mid raised a cry for the ''maternal fount." Then a feebler and morelady like squall broke upon the stillness of the night. Soon, a dozon infantile voices joined in tho chorus. The soldiers began to get very nervous and restless and a whispered conversation was held between them, as to beating a retreat. Tisc cavalryman was for a prompt (light, but the infantry soldiers thought 'twould be offensive to the fond mothers. At , length, the cavalier got up and said lou i enough to bo heard by every one, ''well boys, I'm used to retreating when ihe infant-ry opens fire, Jia"JLT" ashamed of out fond of cird playing wil nlisli. ' In iny regiment was a fellow (I will i not say a soldier) named A. He was s a strange looking creature every way. - with eyes cut the wrong way of the .1 leather. He was fit for nothing but d to play poker, and acquainted Willi n little beyond the slang phrases ol i. the card-table. After the battle b k Harper's Ferry, at which he behave, r badly, he renewed a former appliea i; under the c^n r. tioo to ue uisuuui^vv. vc script act, alleging that he was ove ig thirty-five years old. Ilis proof up upon his first application wei )\v against him, and his attempt to mal re- the surgeons believe that he w blind, was equally unsuccessful. I >ch catno to me this time saying 4,Cc nt. onel, I've got the proof now, su Lun enough, that I am over thirty-five mp I said it is too late, A., your condi 3ea- has been such that I cannot befit 62. anything you say, besides the new >rn- papers report that Congress 1 and raised the conscript age to forty-fi lime Ho looked at ine with much surpi the expressed in his countenance, at I aing congressional blow to all his ho] and Then rolling his eyes around in mis- reverse direction to all other hui n all eyes, he said, 'Colonel, do I un ying stand you to s^y that Congress ileep. seen my blind and raised me ten? ; into There were a class of soli us by known as ' hospital rots" and n< don't ever had such an instinctive per wards tion of the vicinity of a cat, as i ? ,vf class had of the m uereu uuc ui v...? i com borhood of a battle, and I am i bat do to say the same kind a rat in way? the camp. They could litt inkers "smell the battle afar off" an< [ could odor was sufficient to send th Sure the hospital. It was really w< courier ful to notice how seldom their it, and tory organs were at fault. tell it times, a too great delicacy of p< d "sad- tion would make them mid the in- skirmish or a sham demons inutes it for a real fight. But they m 1 and a blunders about the approac s. But grand battle, and werft sur< march taken sick a few days before I /ed that gun was fired. A number < ed that "hospital ra's" were at dini ree force day in Richmond and secmc 11 " tn A ille and joy an excellent, uppj Vi iv. ivith con- who had just come from the field was inquire for a wounded comr he import looking on w*th a good dea nderotood gust expressed in his face, was taken eqw a surgeon approach. ( n another he said, ''Doctor, if you hav< I **a*. dp, please Ic' mo hive a little I ! to j>'? iho-e fellow's soup.'* Ill' | 1 'idrobaMy had hit upon the i only Liedy. which could have abated* nuisance. 1 tn t_v in th? near iVo give my remedy for ex- r terming:? the "camp rat."' It, , ; roveilcicnt in many cases, but I : could ljs'iv it was a specific. INTUCSIFilNGS. {' tot Concealed Weapon Law. | i sivni y r. brent h of spring, my tU nr, And Miiiun of h warm, sweet <Iuy, Thmijfb tTvErifriost morningiu all the year May fr<jh rouv"""" ?* ??j--" j Fi br:i U^ent out and' March j < camo in , jpical. ] Can Wruary March? No, but i April Ml. No wider the little birds ore < hired inlsinging a song. i Is nofhis beautiful weather sending in a a "brc t h of spring?'* Mi. ill. Rxndolph and daughter, Miss F, lie, of Campohello, are visiting in antucYourpr respondent has ha 1 a | week's lego of an extremely bad I col k anjwii! guarantee a poor letter. I misAl it some when I said I pre lict U coldest weather of tho winter toe from 1st of February to loth Feluiry. The 1-t it was. 20 degrees. coldest up to then, but on the 2 t and 24th it dr ?ppod to 18 and B degrees. a tew morning? at 18 dedcc^ would ruin a grain crop, butpnthe 24th snow was on the grain\ and it was badly frozen. 1. Farmeri^e generally going right j ahead brewing land, and they aro ! | getting u|(ri^ well with their work. | Some ar/; wtytiug to get the hard work of breaUng all done before the weather gets lot for the work stock. Some are goiig to try to break all their cotton' ihd corn land, too. A good acreage of spring oats have just been pujin, and if these prove well, and fall oa's be a good crop, J there will be plenty of good stock feed for tome of the farmers. Yet up'to-aafo smvn not a gram I am not censuring the Legislators for a thing they have done, nor anything they have not done. I am very well satisfied with their work. We had a very good ''concealed weapon t law, but it was abused, not enforced 1 A new onpdtas been passed. Som< f say it is-not worth the paper it i 1 written Qg. No law is, unless tie people are lawabidtng enough to observe it and en fore j it. 'lhc (jues r linn i?j. who will have the moral com I-J age to help to enforce it? \v no \vi "e report a man for violating it? Th ce it will be violated there is no doub a3 There will be men looked upon perfect gentlemen who will be lav d- breakers. Will Grand Juries repr rt; and look after violations? Not any pistol toters aro on the gra act juries, and no doubt that will be t ive caso with some. That is the trou ^s~ in getting any law enforced and w so many laws "are not worth V>1 paper it is writton on." It v rise Work pretty much with grand jui thjo as the gambling law. Can any Pe3 expect a grand jury to get after g tho i biers "with a sharp stick" when g nan biers are drawn, and serve on tl der- juries? Now who of the citi: has will observe the new law, or have courage to risk losing the friend liers 0f a violator. T do not feel D rat many of us will be held up and ,cel> bed or murdered by our fellowtc each we (J.> not carry pistols. If S' eigh- us go to a more civilized countn sorry Yes, B- B., I think that y festid man must have learned to "k; erally telegraph" on tho sly, but he 1 the to get to windward and learn tc *' * hreeze. Get hi pi lem iu K18SCO V/?1 ?n<ler- tliia. Hut perhaps the stick wi olfac- anfl never tell. Some- Hex Dkni sreep- ? itake :t Letter From Uncle Joe tration ladeno Editor Times:?We had di of a smart gathering of the citizei 3 to he lately. The Woodmen gave the first ter supper at our hotel and i )f these fed. Now we must say that t ner ouo and neighborhood can produ d to en* Qf the prettiest women and soldier, men we have come across. 1 front to are good, clever fellows but adc, was 'cm??oh ray! I of dis- Emeline, that is Mrs. H when he g?t hold of the grippe up in jloing up sonville and she has not let 3 got any That is her way about thi Wm. A. Nl BANK rrss nsact. a Reg u lar Ban Branches and Insure P Boiler, Liability and Ace af Indemnity for Officia Individuals as Administr YOUR BUSINESS IS RE! I ilways tries to bout anybody else j loing things. The ladies hereabouti kindly assisted her in the arrunguacnts for the supper. Everything and everybody was a success and we were pleased* and everybody else seemed t > be, at the Woodmen's ontcrtiimnent. There is as ?ng, "Woodman, spare ihat tree;' but the rem irk d ies not apply to oy.-ters?you bet! L /.. our gal, was ipiite in evidence upm t!iis occasion an 1 j-iic need r.think she can tool her l\i. She t-?! ! us some time ago that she intend', d to marry some day,! that she had as much right to support a man as anybody else, but wo noticed that -ho was like most of the other g:rls?l*Io-k'.ng out for the main chance." It was hard to tell which of the four she was trying to hook, viz: Jim Wileh. Dave Dailey, Dr. IIuncock or Mr. May. Who ever nets T/z "will have a lively time. Local dots rather scarce at this writing. " Joe Itonv. From the Keys. Mn. Emtok:?There is a iot of sickness in*our community. Mr. and Mrs. ?V. T. Davis have been very ill with lagrippe hut arc some better. All the neighbors around have had this contagious disease. It seems that Mr. J. D. Graham is having a lively time with his store, hope he will cotno out successful. There is a lot of plowing being l turn out very m?- ? think. r, . . 1 think the children at 1 adgett ; Creek intend to April tool the teacher. . Miss Bertha Humphries is spem 2 in" a while in vourtown. Vt e wou 3 be?triad to have her back with i L' again. It looks as it i^ross ivu will be broke up if they keep < ~ leaving. r" Miss Genu Wilson is at home fr< ^ Clifford's on account of her eyes 1 ing affected by the measles. There is an old colored won ,l* who says every time it goes to r s? her limbs begin to ache, they h been aching powerful lately. 1 hope liey Denver, Vox, T< n(^ phone und 11. B. will all come i '^c time. t>lc With best wishes to the U> Times, t"0 iieuuei' vill lie3 Jonesville News. one am" Mk. Editor:?As we like to am- 'p,lK 'Pimks so well we thougl lose W0UU write and toll the people i /.ens t^e progressive little town of J 1 ^lc ville. wlup Miss Sallie Mobley has been 1 'j16 sick with catarrhal fever, o ro hear she is better; this is ilu 'en 11 sickness in Jonesville at prtscn r)' Mr and Mrs. 1). A. Gillmi sister, Miss Llessie, have beei ,ou^ visit to Mrs. Sue Col eiuan. ,as h/ Mr. W. E. Aim an has had a ?i1i 1 Put to his home. ' blow The liaptist have got a pi n '^r* ^am9 I,reuched night to a large congregation. 1 went over to the Alphi ,KR* Mill Saturday, they seem to ting on fine over there. Somebody wants to kn a ri'dit monkcy can swim. Can yoi is here Editor.' au oys- LAs 's ono ^p^des o( >0 were 'hat wc do not *'monke; ;his city wc' are sorry to state that ee a lot unable to answer the (juestic ugliest think we can safely $i fhe men monkey in the water could most of t0 a hold on an; would not be apt to drown.ohy she With best wishes to Til Hender- ^wo ^ it go vet. " ngs, she Subscribe for The rJ LSON & SON, ERS, king Business in all its ^gainst Fire, Tornado, idents, and Issue Bonds In s-.cn n\ n 4 i ? > r? v-\ io v_?i uvji aiiui 10, aiiu ^ators, Etc., Etc. 3PECTFULLY SOLICITED. lilt. Joy Items. As our lai^lftter to your valuable paper didn't wnd its 'fray Jo the waste basket we will write agnfh. '*frT V Julio is slightly indisposed with cold and sore throat, and says for me to write about anything else but the we itie .-. ' Tv Mr. States Adams is c mvxlthfcing 11 } slowly. ^ - ? OuV school is still growing larger. Miss Ilaidin. our accomplished principal. has enrolled several new pupils and is greatly in need of an assistant, However, we have a complete list of ! the new books adopted by the State , Hoard of Education and are using I them with great satisfaction. M iss Ada (lault was absent from sch .ol a week on account of the ill? neas of her mother, Mrs. D. J. Gault, Master Morris Kelly, the son of Mr. J. II. Kelly, has been confined to his room nearly threo weeks. lie , vjh cutting wood and let the axe j slip which severed three of his toes. Mrs. Mary Fowler and family, of . Union Cotton Mills, have moved to this community, where they will reside until they recover good health. Jolly axd Julie. Junction Jottings. Mn. Editor:?It is beautiful spring like weather and the farmers are using this time hauling in their , fertilizers and fixing for another crop. Some are putting it down, preparing cents, there is not as uiuca ? ir in gathering. The health of our commuuity is , better, all sick are better. , , Mr K. C. White has gone to fca'! vannah, Ga., and will go from there J* to Florida. lie is with the Civil L Engineers surveying a railroad in that part. Mr. White is a go-ahead >m younS man> an<^ ^ wish him great ie. success. ^ c white? of thiac0mvin munity, has gone to visit relatives at ,':n I Cowpens, S. C. Mrs Patsy Nance, a respected aVC I and christian lady, died at her home ' ~ ,1 nrno KliriAfl fit tQ6 L.\c_ February zom aim ??o old family graveyard, near Bethlehem church, Moxy* JlOX ~? " * Kelton Dots. The farmers arc very busy getting ready for planting. 1 Miss Pacolette Palmer and sisters re.id entertained several of their friends at it we their home recently. Those who ibt 'it were present report a pleasant time, on s- We hope this won't be their last one as the young people of Kelton enjoy <(uite parties so much. ut we | AJr. J. IX. Foster,of Spartanburg, j only i spent a few days last wcoR with bio it. | friends near Kelton. in and i Mr. Emerson Wood's friends are a on a glad to know that he is getting along nicely with his work at Columbia, i phone Hksse. teacher Goes to Union. Sunday Mr. Ilenry Holmes, who has for i Yarn the past five or six years been in be get- Spartanburg as a druggist, has with Mr. Maurice A. Moore, of Union, ow if a bought out the Zemp Pharmacy of x tell us! that city and will in the future con{ duct the busines under the firm name animal 1 of Holmes & Mooro. Mr. Holmes " !?i. \ r.iV several vears with Ligon's y wuii, v*<io .v. we are drug Store and for the past few )n. Hut months has been with the crutchficldiiy if the Tolleson Co., of this city. He is a 1 manage young man of good business qualities /thing he and in every way qualified for a drug?Kn.l gist. He made many friends while * k Times, | in Spartanburg who win re ^rei iuau ansiks. lie has loft this place, but who wish for him every success in his new venrimes. turo.?Spartanburg Herald.