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VOL LL \\). I:;. UNION, SOI'I'll CAROLINA, FRIDAY, MARCH ?.?, IDOL j ^1.00 A YKAR.
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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
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I. D. ARTHUjlL Assistant Cashier. |
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Kour Business.
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! 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
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Boiler, Liability and A<
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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.