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?iipm " ?1111 r'^{j *jt J hY ' { ^ V *0 . ir ITHETOWNO^UNTofTHiTa Sj _" - _ /' THE TOWN OF UNION HA8 jjj Threo Cotton -Mills*, ci o the I)/ 1 jli ? jfj 11 A X ^k IS 11 ^ / ^ ^ ^ TIi** largest Knitting Mill and if largest in t'no Sou tli. J'Mir Fur- [// mB-v; B B B RJ MBk | M I B ? ?i Pg g* '''( 1*1" *?t in the State. An Oil w mfcupo and Wool Munuliutur- JJi .^BmtB B"~"B fi ^ fl ra ^ M IB * , 111 11,11 Manufacturing Co. that fl) mi *n8 Concerns, One 1 on ul j IH^<B HI B ] J B B| B ? W B B B li E ! * L / makes an unexcelled Aiuuno. ..! IU Sjinluary. W at or Works tied c( ^'".'JB _B_ _B__ J ^ ^ _JL x J j B .JB_ S _-x. v _H M rC .'( Three (Iradcd Schools. Arte- .(( jj| Electric Eights. Vj^l. * t ||J sinn Water. Population (i,.rAH>. /|] VOL LL \\). I:;. UNION, SOI'I'll CAROLINA, FRIDAY, MARCH ?.?, IDOL j ^1.00 A YKAR. f F. M. PARK President. J QEO. MUNI?"\ Cashier, J ^ | Merchants' and Pli ^ O F UIN1 L .Capital Stock J Surplus * Stockholders' Liabilities... . | Total A i * w?* w . iLt r Mill, jl T. C. Duncan, J. T. Douglass T Win. Coleman. J. We Solicit 1 41^ A|4 -M/ J>K. OU- Ai/, .V|t Ml VU MA .VIA /^v nW * 1901 I'TAJICII 1901 _Sik Mo. JU We fTlu! FrL Sat. , lj_a i J_ 4 A 017 8 9 , 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 11 18 1.9 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 SO 31 n UNION COUNTY NEWS. 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 Given Credit Justly Due Them. Some of the Truest, Noblest and Bravest Men That liver Faced an J$nem y Were to be DY J. L. STRAIN*. While we were on the coast a little Frenchman by the name of Dultse drilled us in the sabre txercise. It was hard to understand a .word he said. But by paying strict attention to the harangue he made and the motion of his sabre the men naturally became efficient in the sword exercise. A_ 1 ..L .1 .1 1 une uay wnuc wc were going tnrougu the exercises Jim McCulloch didn't perform as the Captain thought lie ought to, and he took Jim to task. Placing himself before Jim lie told him how to do. Jim said to him: *'If you'll get somebody to tell ine what you say I'll try and do it, for 1 can't understand a word that you .^ ay." This broke up his trying to give Jim special lessors on the sword exercise. While we were picketing on Je hossa Island our headquarters was in Governor Aiken's summer house. One day the Federal Sharpshooters i undertook to run our men off post with their long range guns, and did succeed, partially. Hut we held our ground by concealing part of the men behind an embankment thrown up to protect the rice field and also a pile of brick that afforded a tempo, rary breastworks. Behind these Home of our men lay concealed wuitfor them to advance within range Wour guns. 44ut they ,ksmelta tat," and didn't come. They took their position at a safe distance and kept the relief guard from coming to our assistance. So we had to lie there till dark., when we could go out or come in unmolested. This was kept nn for sederal duvaand until our nu n determined upon making thu raid || mentioned in my hist chapter. During this, to us, perilous condition a |H crowd of former citizens who lived ig| on the island came over from Char's leston to make a rcconnoissance of the island and report the facts to m headquarters. They were well dress9 ed, and had everything in good style. They had rc-volvers and perhaps one raj or two had long ranged guns with B spy glasses, and all the paraphernalia for a successful scouting cxpeH dition. They had, the key to the MB npper story of the building and im<BB mediately repaired to their quarters 9| where they spent the time viewing the island and the federal troops as ^9 they came in sight. Some of our de39 tail were suspioious of them?thought * -ifr <#* 4* 4K 4* Jt -US A. h. FOSBR, Vice President. ^ I. D. ARTHUjlL Assistant Cashier. | inters' National Bank | COIN, H, EL # | $G0,000 I .'TTtV ? .?. 50,000 J 60,000 J 3..;..4170,000 I W. H. WHllace^Wm.' Jeffries, I , E. P. McKissick, A. H. Fosta*, X Kour Business. ? ? ! they were federal spies, sent to'catch j u?* in ii trap. . When night come ; some of theui went out and were I gone for some time?no ono knew i where?the others remained with our j pickets at headquarters. Our gu&rd : duty went on us usual. Still suspicions were entertained by some of the men w ho swore they were Yankee spies. After the first night some of our pickets went on the scout with i them, crossed over into Edisto Island, went to the uiost impoitant places where it was possibJ# to go without hiing detected and got all tho information obtainable. They knew every hog path on the island and how to dodge ilie federal pickets, and make a successful rcconnoissance of the island, which they did. When they come back to our picket headquarters they went up stairs shut the door and had nothing more to sav to our men in particular. One night after they had come iu and laid down our picket guard was relieved and come in too, we occupied the lower story of the house. Big Henry Fowler, (jfftvter known* as Henry Flli.*) comfchi fi*bm pkdfWtitnd on setting his pun down by some means it was discharged and the whole load of fifteen buckshot went through the plastering and iloor of the upper story and rained down like hail on them where they were sleeping. This scared them?they thought our men were trying to injure them and down they come to see what was the matter. The whole thing was explained as purely an accident and no one hated it more than Henry Fowler did, though he couldn't help it. Tho matter was satisfac^ toriiy explained and everything went to bed satisfied. The pickets on guard heard the report of the gun and they didn't know what to make of it. So the sergeant sent a man to tell them what it was. It was a gtand sight to go in the upper story of Governor Aiken's summer house on Jehossa Island and with the aid of a spy glass look at tho federal troops drilling on Edisto Island, We could .really count the buttons on their coats and distinguish between officers and privates by their uniforms. After our Charleston friends staid a few days we got on very immune Terms wun tnein and found them to be first class gentle men. VVe would often go on the scout with them and learned the island by heart. Every landing and crossing on the island they knew all about, and it was a great help to us after they were gone. We went over one night after they left and tore up the bridge between Little and Big Edisto. This caused the federals to abandon the former and occupy the latter island after that. Wasn't Guarding Stallions. DY W. It. S. IIAURIS. In the early fall of 1361 General I). 11. Jones's brigade was camped near Fairfax Court House, Va. Gen. Jones had a fine black stallion that he rode and he was very fond of his black steed, consequently he had a guard placed at his horse every night, the guard tent was at Gen. Jones's headquarters on the road leading to the court house. Mountain wagons were passing every dav with something for sale and very often they had a keg of apple brandy, which they would retail along the way. Orders were issued to search these wagons and if liquor was found to press it and store it at the guard tent. Long John Gregory, of Company A, of the 5th S. C. llegiment, and a mess mate of the writer was on guard ono day and a.mountain wagon cutnc along and sure enough it hid u j keg of apple j ?ck which the guards pressed and put it at the guard tent and long John, us we called him, had access to the keg, and being rather j fond rf it. as all his old friends know, j by night John was pretty full, and about dark the corporal of the guard posicdJohn by ti c side of General l._I i ? ?--- ? i\jma uui;c iu guuin uiui, out ay toon as the corporal passed on John 8liotjW*?#d his musket and umrchal to LU tent and pitched his gun in (qo tent cud fclTi# himself ,on bis face and said, "hoOp sto dooga all aboard fur Chattanooga, (tfhich were very . common expressions with him when he #03 drinking) I be d?n if! guard anySbdy's stud horse," and he was soon asleep and never turned over < during the right. Tho corporal of ] tho guard soon missed Gregory and I come round to see John but he was | too drunk to revive and another man was sent to take his place and the affair whs kept from Gen. Jones or he might have had poor long John court martialed and shot. / fter that tho boys had a good joke on John, they would laugh and tell him he might be a very good soldier but he would not do to guard a s? horse. While on this subject I will give one other story about guarding a black stallion, although there is considerable difference in their dates. a.i licoa surrenmr at Appomattox i Court Ilouse, on the 9th of Apri1, I lHG.1}, I was. then orderly sergeant ' of Company A, 18th S. C. Regiment. I The surrender occurred in the morn- i ing and our regiment camped in the ' woods nearby and all peace and quiet 1 during the evening. Col. W. B. 1 Allison of the 18th Kegiuient also t rode a black stallion but not as fine t a horse as that of Gen. Jones. About > night the adjutunt came to me and f said Col. Allison wanted a guard to I guard his horse, my brother J. L. ( Harris was a member of my company .( and 1 told him be was the next man c on guard and that Col. Allison Av.int- | ed him to guard his black stallion, I his reply was 4'Tll he d?n if 1 do c it, the war is over and I am free and i as big a man as the c done], this thing of guarding stud horses is over i with me," and sure enough it was, t so the colonel didn't say anything ( for ho knew he was beaten and there \ were no more guards called for from that day to this. \ GLEANINGS FROM GOSHEN HILL 1 Well, we have had quite a variety of weather since niv last writing Some lovely days like spring time. The fanners are happy to get to , plowing and the noise of the wood man's axe is a familiar sound. Nice new fences being built and more land beimi DUt in cultivation. *'Oh! there i is work, work for every man" to do if they would only get at it. The country folks are enjoying hog joles and turnip salad, big hom iny and sausage, persimmon beer and tater and grumbling about hard times. The small pox scare is about over. The grippe is holding the day?every body has it or have it or intend to have it before Faster. No deaths from it in this community, but 1 tell you it is a disease to be dreaded. 1 have served my time with it and ex press sympathies to B. B. Very little gardening done and very few young chickens, but multitudes of little pigs Rev. W. B. Jenkins has arranged to preach for Rogers and Ebenezer on a week day appointment. This looks like old time Methodism. Dr. W. L. Sims has moved to the Bush River section and will look after his farming interest while over there. The whole community reg:et to see hiin leave, for he is not only a fine M. D., but he is such a kind and gentle nurse. Dr. George Dougla-s will take his practice in Whitmire and community. He comes to us highly recommended. Mr. Billie Maybin has gone to housekeeping at the Crotwell place. Since my last writing it has been my pleasure to visit my dear old friend Mrs. Sarah Chick. She* is looking well and is cheerful and sprightly and engaged in piecin; quilts, her favorite employment, Mr. B. S. Hardy's family have all had the grippe. He has been on a visit to Pomaria and Whitmire. We rigret that the beauty of the quotation from Hiawatha (in my last piece) was marred by tho omission of the first 11 u Tho lines shouh liavM read: " Thus it is our daughters leave uThoso we love an<l those who love in Just when they have learned to helj us, % / Coines a youth?etc., etc. Mw. J. A Aughtry's une 0 froti Cln-Hfcr i^yisiting her. 5tr.'C^rr^co Jeter is an tflioien iruiil o tfitrni :or and wo lrv?W fnrwnn with ufea&jri to the time when tin route wi" Agg extended to the Dougcountry people that spen court week in your town came hotn< wild in proves of the hospitality o! the citizens of your town?the bcautv of the town?the amount of business carried on there and the magnificent factories, the fine knit'ing mill and the general beauty and push cf the place. Now we arc expecting the slrctrie cars, the town clock and then jvcry country man will want to move ; > town. A quantify of oats have been s nvn n the lust two weeks. Messrs. J. E. and J. C. Cofield wish to thatik their many friends and icquaiiitances for the generous manner in which they acted toward them line.' their great calamity last fall. 'Friends in need are friends indeed." Roth white and colored assisted them n gathering hay and giving them loads of hay and assisting theiu in Duilding their barns and stables? while gifts of money and other useful articles were sent them, in fact ive ha?l no idea how many friends re had until this loss befell us. Wo bray God's blessing upon them, I enow if the dumb brutes could speak hey too would join us in a vote of hanks. I have a tender feeling towards tho animals that escaped the ire?one of them is an old mule that ias hauled xne to Sunday School and ihurch many times, and on a certain >ecasion wo thought best to drive an>ther horse*- but the mule came to ictitflg niTtbe same and stood at us accustomed place until the dox>!ogy was sung then he walked leisiroly home. Well, I cannot close without givng three cheers for Mrs. Nation and he good she is accomplishing. May Jod bless her effort to break up the vhiskey traffic. I want to visit your town soon? vonder if I will know the town as he has grown so much since I was here? Success to the lo\cd Times! Ivy Gkeen. another Joins hands. Spicy News Notes From a New Jonesville Correspondent. Will the Editor allow me space to jive whatever news that I may be ible to collect here and in the neighborhood, and if the editor will allow ne I may do this from time to time. I cannot say that our quiet village s famed for anything special, but inancially, socially, literary and reigiously I guess it will compare favirably with any like size village. Tnc Knitting Mill Company have niimlm cd si site containing about ;wcnty-threc acres for the new mill ind are arranging for making brick or it. Mr. J. J. Littlejohu, the lustling manager, has secured the urgcr part of the required additional Mpital and expects to push the mill : > completion us quick as possible. Mr. Littlejohn deserves great credit br what he has done for our town. The prospects are good for the establishment of a graded school tere. Mr. J. F. Alman has lately moved iiis stock of goods into the store room inder the masonic hall. Mr. Alman a ill build a large up to-dato brick ttore room in the near future. Joncsvillc has three live, well attended Sunday Schools whose inllu3ncc is wide-spread. Supt. Wells says he is going lo build an up-to-date depot across die truck from the old one. We uive waited rather impatiently for diis much needed improvement and t seems as if our needs in this direction are soon to be attended. With good wishes for Tftk Times md fraternal greetings to all old rorrespondents, I am your new correspondent, Kittie. [We welcome you into the charmed irele, '"Kittie," and wo know the netnbers of the family will cheerfully )pen ranks to allow you to join hands in tho circle.?En.] '! Will. A. NICfi ' j BAN I Transact a Regular Be , i Branches and Insure Boiler, Liability and A< j of Indemnity for Offic j Individuals as Adminis YOUR BUSINESS IS R t > Schools Closed In No. 18. Mi; Kditoi::?The schools iti Di? 5 triet No 18 have closed. J Ion. IVin ; Jeffries Clerk of the board of Ti ns tees expressed a satisfictinn as to tin 1 uvmiagetncnt ol the schools in hi 1 District. There arc three cominodiou school houses already in use and an other soon to he elected which wil give'our for t: e distiiet '1 here an several schools here and there in tin c rnnty. The farmers are eoiraijed in tin trunno bu-inrss extensively. The\ may r epent ol the action next fall, bu Alas! it mav tin ii h ti'O l.itn i '-in planting will begin in a few days. It has Leon several years since thert has boon as much plowing <1 mo at this time of the year. This is cn cour.tging. Unless there he a decider change in the weather the present prospect is most favaruhle all along the highway one may sec where tht I earnest fanner has been. There is a very <langerou3 hole ii the floor of the btvlge across Thickety at Jt-flries'mill. The Supervisor eat not keep posted perfectly, on sue] matters unlets attention be calhl e.s> pecially. The same may be said ol the road leading frmii (I t ind ill bridge througli Mr. T. L. I lames plat.tatior in Union county. This road may he looked after by the overseer it certainly ^deserves attention. A child was burned to death t.eai Webster on the 22m]. The same oh story children left alone while the wind was blowing. Wheat which was properly prepared is making a fair showing. Oats are ne?t looking up yet. Everywhere tiie signs of returning spring may he observed. Early iloweis roses and blooms arc showing theii sweetness and hue. The birds toe auxilerate in their way the j ?y of the welcome season. The Southern has a very attracti v< Depot erected at Orr's Junction. Ii is now convenient wuting on the train. The p'acc is not infe ted by a b >istcrous, loitering, unnecessary crowd as usually hang about the depot in our city, Union. Mr. Editor kindly accept of -$1.00 for The Times. One can not kcej posted on the news of his town am county without his county paper. <>n< who do^s not read such a paper know very little of the mishaps or welfari of his fellow man. B es t wis h cs to T n e 'J' i M es . B. F. F. FROM THE KEYS. As the grippe is the order of tiu day I will tell of a few more cases Misses llcssie Miller and Agnos Wilburn have had it but are bcr.oi at this date. An old colored man Unsle Peter Rice, who was abou eighty-three years old, died Wed nosday with grippe. Rev. E. C. Watson li led his :ip pointment at Padgett's Creek Satur day and Sunday, lie prcaehed out of the best sermons I ever lis tencd to, from Daniel 5, 27. "Thoi ait weighed in the balance and was found wanting." Miss Mattie Graham, acc mpanici ti . x t oy nor sister, iurs. d. u. Jiarttes, arc visiting friends at Blacksburg. Miss Beinico Waldrop :s visiting relatives in your town. Mr. W. Lester Davis is on a trij to town thence to Spartanburg or business. Mr. 11. K. Ray bad his 3inok( house broken into a tow days ago b} dogs, which destroyed a quantity o meat, thc)r dragged one middling about one hundred and tlfty yards and buried it The following is the honor roll ol Padgett's Creek academy: Primary?Ruth Wilburn, Lewii Prince, Willie Alvcrson, Claude Prince, Frances Wilburn, Mary Bai ley, Bessie Alverson, Willie ilnmph ries, Luthor Bailey, George Bailey [OLSON & SON, KER5, inking Business in all its Against Fire, Tornado, scidents, and Issue Bonds ials of Corporations, and itrators, Etc., Etc. ESPECTFULLY SOLICITED. Intermediate?-Guy Wilburn, Toy Murphy, Paul Wilburn. 5- 11 inner Grade?I?cssio Ilumphi. rits IJjiv IFt i? . , ?j ......ij um v, uuuim' nroivni-iing, Iris Wilburn, Johnnie Murphy, 5 [ E'lna Davis. sj M is; Bessie Miller, Teacher, s; With best wishes to you Mr. Ecli? tor, and the best weekly paper pub? 1: lished Tin: Times, e IIebukis. From the Junction. ' Mi:. Editor:?The farmers have ' i turned triors dirt up to this time than 11 they have for several years past. 1 Wheat and oats look very well. O ifs sown in the fall look promising, 'j This would have been the time for tlie farmers to have sown all their oats in the fall if they had known it, I but we never know the future, t We have had some cold windy days and frost; 1 fear our fruit crop ! will get killed vet if it don't make a change soon. 1 ; Mr. T. F. Gault, who has been sick, is tip again. I Mrs. Sue West, of West Springs, II has been visiting relatives and friends * in this community. Misses Lizzie, Mary and Sallie ! Coloman, of Jonesville, visited Miss 1 Maggie White last Saturday and 5 Sunday. flV Mr. Thomas Ilamcs died the 13th inst at Mr. George M. Fowler's, near Jonesville. Ilis two sons, Ilenry 1 a;id Johnnie, of Spartanburg, were * ddwn to see him durinrr his sirkTiraa | and staid with him until he died, i .Mr. 1 lames had been a member of ' | the Methodist church 40 years, part j af that time he had been an official ' member. His funeral services were ' conducted at Gilead, where he was . buried. ) We are looking forward to a post 5 olllee at this place, and the next will be something else. ; Moxy. I ??? __ ! Lockhart Laconics. The Presbyterian church is nearing completion. The carpenters are im' proving each shining hour in order to have it completed for the occupancy of the Euoree Presbytery which meets ) at Lockhart some time in April. It will .. , be a large up-to-date building and will ' compare favorably in every respect with s any church building of any town of the - ? s same number of inhabitants. Messrs. W. W. Finley, W. It. Young, .1. It. Hyars and T. M. Wood went to Kelt on to hear Rev. L. S. Carroll preach a trial sermon, looking to a call to the pistorate lately male vacant by the resignation of Rev. D. (3. Freeman. They express themselves as very much pleased at his sermon The churches i named ab>ve have extended to him a i call for the remiiuder of the present } year which he has under consideration. i >o you .>ee t int your Jouesvilie cori tespntidciit fired his gun before it was ' ' . 1 on.It*(l when lie said last week, "The Baptists have got a preacher at last," as ? Jouesvilie belongs to this field, t Mrs. Kobt. Griffin luts returned from a protracted visit to her parents at Belton. We are very much pleased with the make up of Tim Times. The "reminiscences" and "anecdotes" of the war are very interest ng and "Studies in ? astronomy" are quite worth the price asked for the paper. Mr. Kber Mahaffee, formerly second i hand in the cloth room of the M&ssal chusetts mill of Lindale, La., is visiting friends at Loekhart. Homo. 1 Senator llurrows of Michigan, who . will probably bo Chairman of the ? Senate Committee on Privileges and . Elections, when the committees are { reorganized at the next session of ; Congress predict that the new Maryj land ballot law will cause the whole (juestioi of representation in Congrosa ' on the basis of men who are not legal I voters under state laws, to come bei 1 fore Congress. He says the Conf gressional apportionment made by the last Congress, on the Census of i 1900, will not necessarily stand for ten years; that every Congress has . authority to make a new apportion. mcnt, if it sees fit.