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. __ 95 Kl Three Cotton Mills, one th6 (? j I I I I I I 1 I I M - A I lm I M 1 S The largeetlCnlttlnff lllil aad -V || largest In tlu South. Four Fur- 7( I Hi fl B ' H /I ({ Dye Plant in the State. An Oil ff H ntturo aud Wood Alanufactur- rj\ H H I H I H B ^^1 H H ^^1 H [)) and Manufacturing Co. that A) a ing Concerns, One Fen;nle j! II IN 1 I 1 V m I IWIHIJkl^ ,.! makes an unexcelled Guano. m (S Seminary. Water Works uud ((( J|. JL.M- B W s JL ^ W * JL JL -1?- w _M_ ^ # (u Three Graded Schools. Arte- I[ ffl Electric Lights. ^ /// ' IB 8,an Wufcor. Population (J,rXK). J/ ^?? ??? ' ?~?? _ " VOL. Li. KO. 15. UNION, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAy. APRIL V>. 1901. #1.00 A YEArT^ W# W M i) M m M Wf JtC JJJ || x f P.M. FARk President. A. QEO. MUNtK\ Cashier, J. D. J Merchants' and Plant L/ OF TJIVIO X Capital Stock ? Surplus ? Stockholders' Liabilities I Total 1 Directors?J. A. Fant, W. X T. C. Duncan, J. T. Douglass, E. T Wm. Coleman. J We Solicit Youi 1901 APRIL 1901 E SnJlWo. Tu.iWe.lTh. Fri. Sat L11H1 ? _7^JL_9_10 jl 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 p? 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 \ j ++***-? r 1 *? ? ? 28 29 30 jf , . ,-JL???? bli nuiAiT rniuTTv wrurc c.? UIUV11 LUU111I HCIIO. i Cc Items of Interest Gathered from ou Various Sections by our fir Correspondents. u} m thi REMINISCENCES OF TBE WAR. * of en Interesting Incidents Connected -t With the hate War, Bringing Out 8'1 - a Great Deal of Unwritten His- th< torv, im Which the Private and thi " r Subordinate Officers are Given Credit Justly Due Them. Some , . of the Truest, Noblest and BraV' est Men That Ever Faced an At Enem y Were to be |,0 fin BY J. L. STRAIN. joi Before we go further with our reminiscence-* we might tell of cx another incident that happened at WL Legare's (pronounced Lagree's) mill. bh It was during the winter of 'til or I16 rather in the early spring of '62 that *nl we had this for picket headquarters. ^ We had plenty of house room and food places to hitch our* horses. tr( Besides, some of the darkeys left ?? there by their owners to take care of W1 the premises were still there. If ^UI there is one thing more than another ca Sl- that the everagd soldier is a complete a? failure in it is in cooking, y'.t these headquarters the pickets got an old K negro woman to do their cooking and the premises became a kind of home to us. But we must not forget to no say something of the fleas we had to 8? contend with. Our bed room was w' a large cotton house in which there ^ was perhaps twenty bales of seed ?* cotton or may be more. This was a<j a great place to sleep. The house was well mnde and by closing the door and windows scarcely a breath W( of air could get into the building no matter how hard the wind blew, pi ?This was the position of the picket T guards who were sent to White ki point and tbat vicinity. But we fe were not there long before the fleas tt began a crusade which made us less C happy than we first anticipated. 1 However, we got rid of them by a moving our bedding into tne mm ? Jkeoae. v , Sometimes we were scare of non- a commissioned officers ready for duty, a This seemed to us to occur often er than for privates. Anyway, the a remedy was at hand and a private a eras appointed corporal pro tem and c so the work went on. fc On one occasion John Faucett was a acting as corporal of the guard. It a was the doty of the sergeant or oor- c poral at headquarters to look after t the stock and see that nothing went a ?nrATnifica. t WIVtIg ?MVM? ? w r Throughout that section there i were bands of marsh ponies?wild. < Many of them had never seen a < white aare or an up-country horse. ] they were a motley orowd made up i of males, ponies, jacks and jenneye. ' Sometimes as many as twenty were ' in a drove. All over the landscape < v<? .(where the groundVaa not cultivated) oew palm bushes. These skirted fta premises about Legare'a mill and ym mm m mmmmmm H. FOSTER, Vice President. J , ARTHUR, Assistant Castalsr. I lers' National Bank ] IV, 8. O. I $60,000 I 60,000 T 60,000 9 $170,000 2 II. Wallace, Wm. Jeffries, | P. McKissick, A. H. Foster, X r Business. I ew luxuriantly right up to the lilding. So on the night in question, while >Ln Faucett was on guard at picket adquarters a drove of these "marsh :kers" came galloping np through e bushes. The sound of their feet the frozen ground as well as the ise they made coming through the lms induced John to think it was quadron of Federal cavalry making charge. But John was equal to e emergency and ho didn't intend be bluffed, but rather that the jflfuig should go the other way. > he fired off his gun at the caval de and shouted as loud ae he could: rall in hero Company A; fall in >mpariy B; Captain Bruce, throw t your line of skirmishers and open e; bring up two pieces of that ar- , lery and get ready for cation." All is demonstration on the part of | hn against the corps of "tickers" uck terror to the sleeping occupants the mill house. They w<ro awak- i ed but could not understand the ; uation. There was no time left em to decide from points as to what ?y must do. Immediate action j lat be taken which resulted in a ( ad of do-as-you-please campaign, i some of them rolled out of the use'und met Johh in the yard they md out the real situation and ned him in his line of defence, it one fellow who had made his ( it by another door took to the K>ds. leaving behind him horse, gun, ' mket and everything except what had on as wearing apparel, fteachr y the woods be climbed a tree and , ere stayed till next day when he ind out the real cause of the | mble. He was a mere youth?a od fellow and we could sympathise th him rather than censure him r his action on that particular ocsion. He was court marshalled d punished, however, for leaving s post. He didn't belong to Mcissick's company?This I want unrstood as we go along. If ever he ckered after that I never knew it, _ 1 ,i ?A11 ftf i? It a marto a I iioaru icu vi ?? ? od soldier in Virginia in places lere some of those who sat in judgent and condemned him in the case the Legare mill, (Lagroe) didn't t as meritoriously as their ages and ficial ranks should have prompted em to have done?we know what 0 are talking about. While we occupied Legare's mill as cket headquarters, one of Captain aylor's men by the name of'Harsey illed an alligator one night with a mce rail. The alligator was one of le largest ever seen in our South Carolina waters. It was about 13 or 5 feet in length. His horse came cross it in the path and took fright t it. It offered fight. Shooting rn8 not allowed and be had no other lternative but to go round it or use I fence rail which lie did effectively. I If the reader will allow a personal Uusion I will state that while at this ame place one day some of us oonluded to get some grass for our torses. There was plenty of it just cross the river, and we took turn .bout in going oyer in a skiff and utting it. When the tide was np he boat was ran out into the grass md by reaching over the sides of he boat we could soon cut a load of t. The boat we had would only sarry one at a time?a very small iffair it was. So one day while the vriter was taking his turn at gathering the grass and having his back to die friends on the other shore he beard one of them call out: "Look out there," and turning suddenly I saw a large alligator just behind the boat coming at fall speed toward me. I had only e moment in whioh to decide and act. So jumping to my feet I seized an oar and made ready to receive ray antagonist. I felt that I could manage it as long as it was in switning water unless it threw its pondnouspaw over the side of the vessel and upset it. The allogator, however, disappeared under the water and I 4<pulled, pulled for the shore." The First Great Battle. BY W. II. S. HARRIS. At the first battle of Manassas, on 1 the 21st of July, 1801, which was . the first great battle of the late war, n ti ? . n T ? i a uen i. u. iv. Jones Drigaue was . compose<l of the 5th S. C. Volunteers ; and the 17th and 18th Mississippi 1 regiments, these regiments were com- ' posed of about one thousand men ] each and were as a rule young, stout, J brave fellows who had enlisted at * the first call of the Confederacy for ( troops. The brigade lay nlong the . southern banks of Bull Hun creek, 1 on the extreme right of our army. ' The great battle commenoed in the ? morning of the 21st July. Sunday, 1 which was a clear, hot day. The v battle was to our left near the stone bridge and as the Yankees tried to ^ turn our left flank the battle moved * farther from our brigade, and while 0 we had been expecting all the fore- 1 noon to see the blue coats appear in L our front and wo were really eager n for the fight, they did not come, and F in the evening our brigade was ' ordered across Bull Run led by a 1 citizen of that community as a guide, we made a circuitous march around ' to the rear of the Yankee army and ^ finally we formed a line of battle and made a charge forward through some ? woods and were soon in view of a J1 Yank camp and a line of blue coats. Jf The euemy opened a hetvy fire of . both shot and shell, but on the gal- 11 lant old Fifth regiment wont with n 8 yell with brave Micah Jenkins, its '' colonel, leading the charge. Three . of our regiment were killed in the '' charge, Tom Bunker Fowler, of** Jonesville, was one of the killed. in Tom said when he first enlisted and left home that ho would never get " back alive and when we started into 4 this fight he gave his pocket book to J. G. Fernandis and tqld him he *would be killed and sure enough he r was killed. The first blood the a writer saw in the war was shed in ? this charge. From some cause or " other Gen. Jones and the two Missis- ? nippi Regiments got parted from the ? 5th S. C. Regiment and did not a keep in the charge but emerged from * under a hill and being rather to our f lefc some distance in the rear mistook " the 5th regiment for Yankees and ? fired a heavy volley into us and * wounded some of our men. Our c r?giment made a short halt and was v preparing to renew the charge and v plunge right into the Yankee lines, 0 which were only a few hundred yards * away, and Gen. Jones ordered Col. * * tf . _ ? ii i l i e iL. C J easing 10 iaii Dae* miu luriu uu iu? Mississippians, which command Col. 1 Jenkins obeyed very reluctantly for 8 he wa9 eager to continue the charge A &nd wjp tpe f^ght, which really had { already been won, for the Yankees 1 had already left the field and had * fled in disorder. The brigade was f ordered back to our same position on ' Bull Run and the firing at Stone ' bridge and Blackburn's ford, the ' main battle ground, had ceased and 1 the greuf; battle iyas over. The next day a Yankee battery of sijc gqns 1 with a large camp of tents and equip- ' age was found deserted and left standing where the 5th regiment made its gallant cearge, whioh was really the spoils of the regiment but they never got them. History don't give the 5th regiment the credit it deserves in the success of our armies in that en-ant battle, for I claim that it was tLis flank movement and that charge upon that Yankee divieion which was in the rear of their army that sent the impression along their lines that the rebplg, as they called us, had got in their rear and cut tnem off from Washington and caused consternation and a general panic and a scramble for Washington and the grantj army of the republic comm?ndr ed by Generals Soottand McDowell, never stopped till they crossed the Potomao and took shelter under the guns of the fortifications around the i capital. I claim that the 5th South Carolina regiment commanded by tiie gallant Colonel (afterwards Gen* era!) Mi cab Jepkins shqu)d h?v? credit for that first great viotory, but ? ? ? history never gave us that credit, bul there are still come of that gallan 5th regiment living who can verify this unwritten bit of history but most of them have "passed over the rivet to rest under the shade of the trees.' Hey Denver Enjoys The Convention. April seems to be worse for winds than March wa9. The last few daye the wind would "rise sand." The Cti?rte and Crop Bulletins of &uth Carolina section of the Department of Agriculture will be begun this week. The two heavy rains of March 20th and April 2nd damaged farming lands considerably. The first Mie was 2.32 inohnH in 9J. PAnOnon. ive hours, and the last one 3.54 nches. The land is badly gullied, )ottoms washed to the hard and covered with nsnd. Mr. G. B. Fowler is here surveyor the School District, the patrons ooking to the establishing of a ;raded school. It wag first intended o have it five miles s.juare, but it riU be made only four miles square. I went to Union last Saturday on usine-'8, and it was businoss enough. was trying to attend to it for two r three others and it kept me on he move, and I had to leave some of ai?*? undone. I wanted to ao in ,nd gee tho Editor but could not K)8flibly squeexe in enough time. [*he wind raised such a dust that raveling was unpleasant. It is with muoh regret that I oarn of the death of Mrs. Nannie C. eter, wife of Mr. W. T. Jeter, of i'lsh Dam, which sad evont occurred n March 29th. I had known of er illness for some time, but did not now it was serious. I was away rom home a few days and on returnag learned that she had entered the reat eternity. Her remains were lid at rest in the church yard at telly's Chapel, Sunday, March 31, n f vka aa a f manir *?a! nf i iiao And ii buu ^ wvUvv va ujuujr a tian?ua <III\? fiends. ... Having been called to nouFn for (bear departed ones, I can .rrvirAtll; CAtCU j BjflDpatllJ (U lilC ereaved family, husband, daughter nd sons. I had the pleasure of attending a iunday School Convention at Hebon Chqroh from the 29-31 of March nd feel that that occasion was an asis in the desert of dullness. Feeing somewhat cramped and dull from long stay?-and hard work-r-at tome, hemmed in by winter weather, nd being well acquainted with the riendliness and cordial hospitality of he people in that section, I argued t would be a recreation to go over, ,nd quite a pleasure to meet old riends that such an oocasion would lause to be congregated there. I /aa not disappointed. Though the fcattu*. wag very inclement the most if the time, it ??mv expectaions. I was on the tip^toe 01 expecations for some time. It would only :onsume space to say that I enjoyed he whole meeting, trip, hospitality ind all, except the rain. Many who vas well identified with the work of Vinaf> mAAtinora Hftvs it was an all ound good meet}ng, and I think hey were surprised even themselves, ;onsidering the weather. It was not iargely attendci on Friday and Saturday, but Sunday, being fair and mild, the ctowd of people more than filled the house, and Rev. L. M. Rice preached the Missionary ser. [pon ably. Let me here give the result of the election of officers, then proceed. President, J. A. Sawyer, Vipe president, D. N. Wilbujrn; Secretary, E- W. Jeter; Treasurer, Jos. 8anders; Executive Committee, L. M, Rice. C. C. Yates, J). A. Swindler, R. G. Gregory and Jos. Sanders Now then, while it afforded m< pleasure iq meeting old friends it wuc to me a pleasure to see those wh< were not old friends?old in years? and were pretty too. While th< "boys" would make congenial com Banions to sail in thp s^me bo%t wltl le writer (no effense intended boys their sisters and cousins were prettj and charming. Every evening litth parties of these "boys" who naturajlj (oves society tlwt js permeated witl more sweet tacit influence than the; two, would seek this society am enjoy it hugely. Sometimes you correspondent figured in them. 0 oourse. We'l, Jwbere they went it none of the reader's business, bu they were more than paid for th trips and are not publishing t*W out of tsbool. Wm A. NICHO ; BANK Transact a Regular Ban! Branches and Insure A Boiler, Liability and Acei of Indemnity for Official \ Individuals as Administri , YOUR BUSINESS IS RES I was assigned to the hospitable u home of Mr. N. It Hawkins, than which, there is no more genuine hos. ii pitality to be found anywhere in Uaion. It has been my pleasure to t! be assigned to that home on more h than one oiher like occasion, and it h is useless to try to add words to tell 6i how good a home it is to be a guest of. A good typical country home of a: big open hearted people, where one cannot but fool the welcome extend- ic ed, cxpres-es the situation in a sentence. sc The next meeting will be with the at 1st ijaptiat church at (Juion. of I lev Denver. bi ' Santuc, April 8tb. ? j,j Two Letters from Lockhart. m \\r u* i-*. ?u?."?iun, manager of Lockhait store, has returned from th the northern markets where he pur- ag chased the spring stook for Lockhatt th 1 c inrn TKn u?v< v* auv ^vv/uo ??c 'innjf at MVill^ and aro being opened up for ibe t|, inspection of the buying public. Mr. do Livingston is a man of fine taste in on the matter of buying, and an inspec- a tion of the goods in (juestion will fully wj sustain his reputation. 80 Joe Meggs, one of Lockhart's ac pioneer loom fixers has gone to fill a or like position in the Olympia mill, ^ Columbia, S. C. m Mr. John Parks who has been con- jc fined to his bed so long is thought to ar be some better. th Dist. Dept. Grand Master Gaff- W) ney, of the Masonic Lodge of S. CM ]e {U tnat is the way to write it) organ- ^ ized a lodge here recently. The fol- w lowing officers were elected: Jno. C. Cary, W. M-; W. T. Garner, S. W.; W. J. Weathersbee, J. W.} Dr. Sl J. C. Brawlcv, Treas ; T. I. Barber, te Sec ; P. 13. McA-bee, S. D.; 13, II. 8e Ilowe, J. D.; C. D. Broom and Sam th Gregorgy, Stewards. th This is pleasant weather. ca 44 All the winds of heaven are still. The rain is pattering on the sill," The watar is inching down the hill, It's a bad morning to go to the mill. During the recent freshet the cable of the Lockhart ferry was w< broken. Homo. is additional news?a new coi1re-!?1 8P0NDENT. m iu Wc are glad to welcome to our jn daughter Ellita. 5fr3.?1^a^]frcMJli8 from Baltimore with a choice line of ^ millinery for the Company Store te While in the north getting up h< r stock Mrs. Cary had a d^jten good w positions offered her, so we foel proud p to have one so talented to fashion our Easter bonnets. a| The Company Store has opened 0j up its new goods Manager \V. K al Livingston has the latest and best in every line to offer his customers. vj The ^ethodists, with the aid of r( their pastor Rev. S. T. Creech, have. ^ organised a missionary society with j. the following officers: Mi?s Viancesj \ Whitmire, president; Mrs. W. Grice,, Cl vice president; Miss Leila Evans,! secretary; *,Miss Esther Oarey, treas- fc] , urer, The priino object is the build- 0 log of a Methodist ohurob. ^ The good Baptists and Presby> torians have churches of which we i \ are proud. Let us all "fall to" and j > aid the Methodists in their eflorts to - hare a place of worship. 5 The Presbytery will meet in our - tovfp .^pril Kith. The visitors will j i be heartily welcomed. I ) Mrs. John Cary and son Whitner, t / have returned from a rec$pt visit to t 9 relatives in S.eppca, 8. 0. , f Pleno Jurk. -| i [We welcome you to tho ranks, r and will include your name on corre- * 1 ipondent's list you have "Pleno 1 r Jure," to come weekly.?Ed.] f i Spartanburg News Notes. it 7 e As t have not written in some 1 ? time I will give your readers a letter. What is coming and going to be with iLSON & SON, ERS, king Business in all its gainst Fire, Tornado, dents, and Issue Bonds s of Corporations, and ators, Etc., Etc. 1PECTFULLY SOLICITED. is this year. The teachers meeting will he here a June. The K. of P., the ltedinen and bo Odd Fellows will have a big time ere this year and this fall we will ave another Carnival, and I can't ly what all will be here. We arc fixing to pave our streets ud extend the steeet car lines. Mr. Lynch is building the pavil>n at Glendale. We are to buiid a new graded hool and I think I will build me jothcr new house, and I can't think ? n * * an tne new things that are to be lilt this year but will tell you later. Mrs. Mattie Lawson has been very bat is o little better at this writing, iss Blanch. Gibk<"? ?-1 " " v h ivu iier. Yesterday was Eaater and I ought I would put on my new, bat the women put on their new hats at day and when I went up on e street the boys all said it made em cold. When I looked up and wn the 9treet and didn't see but e more straw hat and that was on little negro who has wore it all the nter it made me feel cold and I on made myself scarce on the street, id when I got home I had to put i my overcoat. So I have laid my raw hat aside until June. The en don't change when the women >, what makes that? The women e the best and smartest, at least ey think so, or some of them anyiy. They live the lungeti, or at ast there are more women today . i itheut husbands than there are men ithout wives. Did you ever count em? I am invited to a marriage next inday and the lady will not be sixen until next July and this is her oond husband. This shows that ey are smarter than a man. When ey fish for a husband they will tch him whether he bites or not. Union Boy. Jinelines from tho liuintinn Mu. Editor:?Since my last letter e have had rain, rain. Farm work at a stand still on account of so uch rain. The land is badly washed this section. Mrs. Mary Palmer has been visit-* g relatives and friends in this oom-. pril 5th. Miss Annie L'itHeyWr aoher, will take vacation awhile. The second Quarterly Conference as held at ^ew Hope the 4th inst., residing Elder, Mr. Moadors was in large. He preached a very force>le sermon after which the business * the conference was attended to id the meeting closed. Tub Times is always a weloosse isitor at our home. We do like to ;ad the Reminiscences and ,necdatea of the War and also like > read the Studies in Astronomy. I/A h A*VA VkArtA /*A*?WA<?aaa/IA?.A? IV uvpu VUWV VU1 I UOpMilUUUlO TI 111 ontinuo to write. The Lockhart car djd not reach be Junction last Friday on account f a run off the track. No one got iurt. Professor Sams, of Gafihey, has icen surveying some land near the 'unctioq, Moxy. -- ? The President easily succeeded in >ersuading Governor Allen, of Porto iico to withhold his resignation, alii o ugh he came to Washington for he purpose of presenting it. He vill return to Porto Rioo about the 1st of May, but it is not expected ;hat he will remain more than a few nonths longer. ? - Officials expect that the capture of Aguinaldo, and the surrender of other Fiiipino officers and men will make it unneoeesary to keep a large army in the Philippine* ft