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Railroads are of rates to the Cor union at flempl BO I is offering free e a hearty welcom all who will visit Department Stoi welcome to take OUlUUtlUll Ul Furniture, Dry Gi Boots and Shoi Caps, Clothing, I Hardware and G and anything: that Yc free to spend as muc wish. The more the for our big shipmen this week. Good Plow Stock: 3>4c. Good Floui lbs. Sugar $6 Good Coffee, 10 I COME TO I Remember we have we want vour trade and fair treatment W? have the bigges plows on the markel YOURS FOR M. W. E Local Schedule for Passenger Trains. at trains from columbia. ne Arrive 10:15 a. m. Depart 10:15 a. m. w< " 1:40p.m. " 2:00p.m. he tbaivb from spartanburg. mi Arrive 12:45 p. m. Depart 1:05 p.m. co " 7:10 p.m. " 7:80p.m w] " co Local News Notes ? Put Together For Ready Reference nl bo Gathered Here and There by JJJ Our Man About Town. AAA Heart Pine Shingles ^UU^UUU for saie at Bailey's. th g.tf hi Our old friend J. W. Aden, of Spar- wi tanbnrg, was in Union Tuesday. m Mr. Joe Austell, policeman, who hat been ill for several days, is able to &c be op again. lfl Bev. D. C. Freeman has moved to D< . the house adjoining the Methodist parsonage on Mountain street. M Dr. J. G. Goings is improving the appearance of his residence very ^ much by a new coat of paint. 4( Miss Ethel Walker who has been pr t ^aching at J^anes has closed her school ar W ^n'(| returned home for vacation. tli Mr. Robert Allen left Union Satuiday for Montana where we understand at be will accept a position with I)r. French. n< Preston B. Allen, oue of the men ex- 8t honorated by the Anderson /rand jury L. the labor contract soanda! dropped dead at Anderson last Friday. ai tr Married at tlie home of tire bride's Q) parents, Mr. ueo. jouyai.a buss mamie r< Gatywell, ajlof Union?Sunday evening, tl March 10th, Rev. L. M. Rice, ofllciatmg. R Mr. Olark was called to Anderson by a telegram Wednesday an noun- R) clog the death of his eldest brother, J. H. Olark, which occurred sudden- ^ p Mr. Rightmire, who has been man- ^ e'llnjon Bteam'Laundry, has M returned to Newberry. The Steam fcl Laundry is closed for the present! Mr. and Mrs. Minter Turnerjmve g| been yisiting friends in W"l?n w this week. Mrs. Turner will fltnain <ji several weeks. Mrs. TurnM has a 1 bean visiting relatives and* frtttde at ir geUon einqs Tuesday. M e: Bering cheap ifederate Relis, Tenn. . . BO idmission and ie to one and his Mammoth e. You are a look at the oods, Notions, es, Hats and :arming Tools, roceries .... \ >u want. You are :h money as you better. Look out t of DRY GOODS t s 75c. Plows ? 4 r per I w per 100 lbs. bs. $1. SEE US > the goods and . Honest Goods to one and all. t assortment of b, 3c per pound. BUSINESS, JO BO. -?*1 * ? ? - . 1 JudgeD A. Townsend spent Sunday home in Union. lie returned toGalTy to finish up the civil docket this ?ek. lie says that while there was a avy criminal docket for this term, nfct of the cases were continued on acunt of the illness of Mr. T. B. Butler ho was interested in the cases and uld not attend court, AGENTS WANTED for "Life of ?bker T. Washington," written hy mself. Everybody buys; agents are ?w making over $100 per month; beet ok to sell to colored people ever pub bed. Write for terms, or send 94c for it fit and begin at onee. Mention The imes. J. L. Nichols & Co., Atlanta, a. H-2tP Mr. M. W. Bobo left Tuesday for ie Northern markets to purchase s summer stock of goods. One ould wonder, after looking over the ammoth stock in his stores, where ; would find room to put any more >ods. But they go out so rapidly >at a constant arrival of goods is icessary to keep up the stock. Another alarm of fire was sounded onday, it was found to be nothing ore than the grass and leaves burning the Ilill yard. The fire company had ;en called out, however, and they >ggedly remarked that they did not opose to run down there for nothing, id they mn off the hose, coupled on to ie hydrant and fought the littlp bla?e lat was orawling through the leaves, id soon came off conquerors. The city council is now building a jw sidewalk on the east side of Virgin reet, and are straightening and eurbing ie west side, which will be a great ad tioii to the fl|>i>earai)ce of the street, id also a (rreat convenience to pedesians. Let the good wook go on. Give jr street overseer Presnell plenty of >pe and he will make sightly towq qf lis after all. Good sidewalks has been long felt need of this town, A terrific report or explosion oocurred t the rear of the brick building on the ist corner of Virgin and Main streets londay night about 7 o'clock. The exlosion jarred the windows in houses >me distance away. big sfyioke fose p and people rushed to epe what the rouble was. It was learned that some ne had thrown an extra large cannon racker or a stick of dynamite in the breet, and it shocked some people badly ho were near when it fell. This is a angerous praotioe, and Mr. States Lycock and others narrowly escaped jury. The polioe are making every (tort to discever who did it. { FEARFUL WORK OF THE LIGHTNING, j House Struck in Five Places?Hay Window Shattered and Scattered Fitty Yards?Run Across A Dofi's Ilack. One ot' Hie most miraculous escapes from death that it has ever been our pleasure to note occurred just, outside the incoiporate limits of Union last Sunday. It will be lemcmtwred that there were a great many Hashes of lightning about the time preaching w.is going on, just before the rain. About this lime Mr. L. Iv I lodge was standing in liis front piazza leaning against the wall with one foot on the balisters, harking out at the threatening skies. Ills wife, lib son-in-law, Mr. Fletcher Horn ana ins wire were sianuing me "wick porch at the veil. This poreh beiug very small, I hey were necessarily close to the whiN of the house. There was suddenly a deafening crash of lighning that blinded and stunned this whole household for a few minutes. It seciued that the current repainted into live different. section* One of them struck the boxing under the couib of the hou*e, ran down and switched <>1T on a nail that was half driven irito the wall two feet sibove Mr Hodge's head, this nail which it partially melted saving his life, but the shock seemed tostiike him a sledgehammer blow on the top of his head. He had the peculiat sensation of being forced upwards, howsver, iustead of downward. He sank aginst a large chair and remained in a semi-conscious state some moments. When he recovered he sfaggarpd to the door to look for his familyMrs. Hodge, Mr. and Mrs. Horn also had an escape that was very little short of a miracle. One of the cut rents struck the top of the house and ran down the wall within eight feet of them, and'' shattering the heavy framing, tore off a quantity of weather boarding just i:i front of them, melted another nail head, , then shattered the heavy sill of the cook room, also within a few feet of Ihese people. It then dropped to the ground where it plowed its wav some distance making a trench, in the meantime it had struck the bapk of the little dog under the house and plowed a furrow in its hair for six inches along its back and scorching the skin, the dog was totally ' deaf for a whole day. The three persons UJCiJiiuucvjf an nuini ai met icwvriru from the fearful shook, found they were uninjured and started to look for Mr. Hodge and they all met in the hall with a feeling of thankfulness for their deliverance from such a terrible danger. The 1 current that came near doing Mr Hodge followed the nail to the inside where ii demolished the plustering, leaving a burnt mark along the lathes showing that it had ran down in a zig zag course to au iron ram rod which was standing in the corner, this served as a conductor 1 and tho lightning followed it, and filially parsed through a crack in the II >or to the ground without further damage. Another bolt struck the biy window aud kuocked one side of it into kindling wood and scattered the pieces for 5 J to 7o yaids away in the held, while the plasteiing was injured on the inside. Another struck the top of the house and tearing up a big strip of shingles, came down the chimney breaking the plastering along its course until if rescind ilie top of a large old-lasliioned clock which it went through, literally demolishing it, thence to the mantle upon which it sat. tearing the mantle loose and sending it several feet out into the lloor. Another, the fifth ,stroke, struck the top of the house and tearing up the shingles entered and (lew around the gairett teari ig rafters loose aud bumping up against tilroof here and there, knocking up the shingles at various places until it finally got out and went somewhere. All of this, of course, happened in a moment, and it is the most remarkable occurrence we have ever seen or heard of. The family certainly owe a debt of everlasU ipg gratitude to a kind and merciful providence that they are alive today. We understand that the lightning seems to have a proclivity for this immediate neighborhood. It was only a few hundred yards frqm here that the man and bis team were killed in the road by lightning The trees are frequently struck by lightning. A hole was found in the ground in the shape of a funnel which was made by the lightning We are led by these circumstances to believe that there is some kind of natural attraction in die shape of ore that brings the lightning so frequently to this neighborhood, and it ought pay to prospect for it. Seeking a Location. Mr. Charles L. Keskett, of Marshall, Mo., has been spending several days in Union visiting at the home of Mr. A. V. H. Walker. Mr. Keskett is looking aiound for a good place to locate and engage in the mercantile business. Mr. Walke? took pains to show hirq over our oity, and he expressed himself very well pleased with the place and the business prospeots He telegraphed his brother to inset him here Monday, and they went|toGreenvi !e. Mr. Keskett has been over several States, Arkansas among the number. We hope he will see his w*y clear to locate in Union. There are possibly few places where better opportunities for successful business are offornH _... i#' ? Didn't Burn. The (he ?larpa rang out sharply again Friday afternoon, and there wan a rinh to the Main street orossing of the railroad where it was found that the old tinder box. Just across the railroad fr- m Nicholson's bank, had a blossom of (lame decorating its top. The fire company found it out and hurried to the sccn,? but in the meantime the hre VP*?* of the Bailey lumber yhrd had arrived with a ladder arid bad started their bucket brigade to work- The little blossom of dame seemed to have the grip or some kind of an attack of inertia, and did not oare a snap whether the fire company came or not, it seemed to be pei feetly content to wait. One of the men ol tho fire corp9 finally dashed a bucket of water in its face which sickened it pe^ ceptibly. The fire company arrived and turned a stream 1 upon What was left of it and it was ho more, and the crowd thrhed sorrowfully away and returned < to their daily avocations.' Card of Thanks. Mi:. Editor: ?Will y?>u kindly allow J mo epape in Til k Time* to pxpiws ray f appreciation of assistance rendered and kind expressions of s\ inputliy from the tuany fi lends of mv mother and myself during mother's last illness. These kind servicer will always l<e chcrishr d and remembered with the deepest sose of appreciation. May they never want for loving h mils to assist and kii d heaits to sympathize in their hours of sadness or uilliclioa. Mas. Iazzik IIasies. Herald Square Coining. 3 Here is some good news for the tlieatre c gonrs. The Herald Square Opera Troupe w has notified the manager of the opera J house, T)r. I. M Hair, that lliev will play t.h"ir return date in Union on Thursday evening. March 21st. Those who J have attended the perfoimances of this ] excellent troupe know there is a treat in store, and we have no doubt they will ? again be greeted by a large audience. I Heat the Conductor. ^ No matter how careful and watchful the i>assenger conductors are they will ore isionully get Ijeat out of a ride. This was very forcibly illustrated last Saturday night as the evening train arrived at the station Immediately after the train * stopped a passenger that had, without the I knowledge or consent of either conductor or engineer, stole a free ride into town, alighted from the cow catcher and hurriedly departed, looking neither to the right nor left, nor stopping to ascertain what the trainmen or the crowd at the depot thought of the lib.?ity taken. Not, even stopping to en| >v the joke, but left In a* manner that I indicated that an imptrtant engagement " was to be met, and as if its very life depended upon a moment's delay. It was a rabbit. B Here is Your Opportunity. We call attention to the ad. of the Un'oi Investment and Improvement Company on oyr second jv?ge this week. Now you have an opportunity to secure a home for yourself and el op paying rent to vonr landlord Tim lornm uro an reasonable that it hardly amounts to more than monthly rent, but bye and bye the jvapers are turned over and the home is yours. They will build your house, furnish it, paint it and then insure it for you, what more could you _ ask V [ Crass Reys Honor Roll. The following is th? honor roll of ^ Cross K?ys academy for the past month: PRIMARY CLASSES. Mary O'ShieldB Sarah O'Shields, Helton Estes, Mai lie O'Shield*, Bernice Prince, Lizzie Stevens, Belle Prince, Brant Harris, Duncan Estes, Elmer _ Bobo, Aubrey Wilbtirn, James Gore. ? Shanop Grady, Hubert IIill, Leila | Stevens, Lilian Stevens. INTERMEDIATE CLASHES. Janet Gore, John Wilbank", Maud Wilburn. ADVANCED ORADES. J Virginia Btigga, Ella Wilburn. Massie Estes, Claud Wilburn, Lottie Wilburn. Higher branches?>fan Wilburn. M- Wiutmirk, Teacher. Lost Letter From Webster l_ Mu Editor:?The weather has been favorable and farmers have not failed to get in their time in earnest. No doubt that activity along this line is being stimulated by the price of cotton last fall. There is an unusual amount of grain sowed. There is suoh a scarcity of labor that one may sow a large amouut then leave an ample portion for the ileecy staple. Guano is plentiful regardless of the price. Gaidening is receiving proper attention, a step in the right direction. t Sometimes we get Tub Times on * Saturday, ft is a welcome visitor when (. it does come. It was a special treat on r Sunday, there bei- g no other paper at * hand and its the oloulds gathered over- C head, the rain began to pour down in ? torrents. Out door exercise being shut off the paper came in all O. K. Columbus Wood is yet living on the same plantation, Mr. Thos. Wood's, 1 where emancipated. lie is piou*, in- \ dustrious and has a lar^e family of children. He is also a deacon of the i Baptst church and a school trust;e. This is a rare case. Few and far between may be found those so loyal. Mr. Wood owns a large tfack near ^sbury. Such occurrences as cited in The Ti^ek last week would not so frequently ~J be encountered with should public loit- J ering lie restricted. There will bo no improvement until a stimulation is brought to bear oa this class. The penalty, while it mav sutlloj as a warn- f< i ng, it was only h broken dose as to wh.it u it should t?e in similar eases repeated. Mrs. Relrecca Littlfj >hn killed u large e porker last week. She has killed several i this winter. Mr. Mike Sellers, of S'av V->tnu, when the occasion (\er^anda goes to the city to sOll and buy. He manages every time to take something to MeU. This is farming in its original form, We need a compulsory educational law too. The teacher draws a salary Just the same, hut education would bo x more general amoAg the masses should , there be some compt^lai^n attached to the system. ^hfeqeeu sent out i\y tl\e general gov-, eminent will cause a few move to ba I planted which would otherwise remain out of the ground- Aside from this the existence of such a government with headquarters at Washington is very immaterial to the average citizen after all. The six murder cases, five of which were to have been tried duri- g thg present term of court, were postponed. The i iability, physically, of the leading connsel w8.a the VSatise presented. ] This is last letter from Wehster by ye. scribe. School closes and Union will receive one more tax payer. Best wishes to Tiie Times and its readers. B. F. F. i \ HOT TIM ===B U HARRY i Will mako it COOL a fou when our SPRI1 stock gets here. Vlr. R. P. Harry joods, and as a dollar nore goods than the 'buys for his dollar," p ,o knock out all compc Get your tickets and 3.REAT BARG that Harry Be Sood Hard Cast uy a $10.00 Suit of Clothes and ii a 743 44 <c " 4' " " 6.48 44 44 ' " 44 " 44 5.00 44 44 4 4 44 - H A' luy a $2.98 Hat and we gi Yc MY for CASH and ! YVr IIIIY for IKS HARRY & \ Sixty D, At the prices men Come Q tere we come with a lar 3 lb. standard Weight, 3 c 3 Plugs thin Schnapps Tot 3 Plugs thin Early Bird T< 3 Plugs thin Uwanto Cliev 3 Plugs thin Apple Jack T 3 Plugs thin Harvey's Natu 2 Plugs thick Schnapps Tc 3 Plugs thick Early Bird ' 2 Plugs thick Uwanto Che 'lour, M* al, Meat, Sugar, Coflfe< Hgars, Cheroots, Smoking Toba rish Potatoes, Sweet Potatoes, Ca Jorn, Peas, Beans, Bottled Good? diite and red, at prices that wil Yours for goods at i w. H. WES Bank Building, Union, J QITTI ni\TP_ T U*J 1LL/11NU 1 We are opening up a building arinerly occupied by RODGERB and nowi almost all kinds of finis tc., with. Additional carloads ai Will greatly appreciate N. R. McCormick, Manager, rHE PARLOF Having recently purchased the busi am prepared to supply the needs al yoi PHOIV K UN Y and they wiW bo attended to wit ALL GOODS DEL Butter, Eggs and Vegeta HmHEST PB [Tor garden, farm and barnyard \ CHAS. R. sn PHOIV * % E COMING T=== StBELK J Tl T T-* ana iiTnn ? liiu jrL/EiA^A.iM r ror tfG and SUMMER ; now in the Northrn markets buying of our CASH buys average merchant laces us in position stition. i be ready for the iAIN SALES lk will offer. . n: a i uiven Away we give you $2.00 in cash. " " " 1.50 " " <? ? ? 1.35 " " 44 44 44 7 5 c 44 44 T Sve you $1.00 in CASH. >ELL for CASH, and SELL for LESS. , BELK. ay's Sale itioned below, uick! ge stock of Tomatoes. ians for 25c. >acco 25c. jbacco 25c. 7 Tobacco 25c. obacco 25c. ral Leaf Tobacco 25c. >bacco 25c, Tobacco 25c. w Tobacco 25c, Rice, Grits. Lard, ,Fine cco of all kinds, Cabbage, ,nned Blackberries, Cherries, i, Tinware, Onion Sets, both 1 knock out all competition, i close margin, iT &. CO., Bachelor Street, 5. C. MATERIAL material business on the yard RICK WORKS, and have on bed Dry Lumber, Shingles, riving constantly. fi part of the trade. W. E. ALMAN. J GROCERY ness of the PARLOR GROCERY, ur table. ITU WANTS h promptness and dispateh. IVERED FREE. bles always on hand. tICEN PAID >roduce suitable for table use ilTH, Mgr. U2 TO. j