Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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? . . i 10 "7 * I. I /. I ? ?- -w?? ?- -r -m -r -*- m T Hi M~ HT~H S thEToW?Or^i^MAf| |l Three Ootiou MilJS, one tin Si , g SI I j ^ I Ilk ' I I ^ / 8 J ' ' !( Tl? largest Kitting Mill and J I H H" I \ ill \ i 9 VI SiiN jj ing Concerns. One L<e ul* 1 J I J H I I F H I I VI I 'i L L 1)' makes *n unexcelled Guano, jj ( Seminary. Water Works a. d & J| JLJL M Jk \^S X 1 V-A X , *\X' JL X V JL B A # ? Three Graded Schools. Arte- { S-^^tr- hJg-l!l ^' T J ft 0 sian Water. Population 6,600. j VOL LI. NO. T,. UNION, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY. JULY 1901. Ai aa i ?.? I ?*"**> ?*><ifr-*#- -Wr -iK- *-5 T F. M. FARk Presidenl. A | aiEO. MUNk^, Cashier, J. C ? J Merchants' and Plan * | Of'"* FIN IO It Oiipitut Stock J Surplus * Stockholders' hinbilitios | Total | Dikicotous?J. A. Fa a, \V. T. (J. Duncan, J. X. Douglass, E Wm. Coleman. * J We Solicit Y?i * GMiURGK HARRIS. ;i< A Glowing Tribute to the Heroes fl( tnitl Heroines oi the Confederacy. d< General Caiwile. Commander Second Brigade, S. C. Division, L". 1 C. Veterans, as chairman on com J'1 miitec of r? solutions, introduced rlie '' fir.1l Aii'ittip ri'ki\liirtniiv: < f t 11 ti i L c veli wdi I c ' " v Whs unanimously adopted: "Kesolved. tir?r, that we hereby ' extend our thanks to the Congress and Pi'Cf.id- nt of the United State* f.ir ihe act of Congress opproved oil the O h day of .June, H>00, unking appropriations for the reinterment 11 ot the Confederate dead in tinNational Cemetery at Washington Stooud, Tliat whenever any State of the South or any organized manorial association fioui any State shall ask f r t^e dead of such Srate, we ask that such rnpiest he granted. General Cabhell, of Texas, made a HToiig plea for t'ue adoption of the resolution and w i&hcd that some action nnght be taken for the eare of our d- ad who lie in o'her States. Tlic resolution was ad opted without debate. Gen. John B. Gord-.n congratulated the convention upon the arrival of the day when even our ]<?t im r enemies as veil as our iiiodus arc willing to p?v tribute to our inn 11 mortal dead. Applause. ( Before proceeding wi li the Win;. ? nie Davis iiiCUiurial tei vices General '' (jrurti- n paid ? glowing tubu c to the s' I OH a. ] daughters c i' the (Joi.fid? racy ai.it 11 the congr* gatioti s'ood and sang: ' * I ?? tli ti, o\ (tod exalted high, IAnd as tliv jrl??ry lills tlu- sky; So let it he on earth displayed. U Till Thou art here as t here obeyed.' (] . General Gordon announced that $ Major General D. (J. Keliey. lb lb. <* 'of MarHhtdl, Tcnti., would iovokethe c idipine bleising. Every hat was re J miovtd and every herd bowed rover- 11 Jctenily when this grand old man who M had followed Genet at Forrest in his '1 Utiil.y battles, and liad shared the ? scanty radons of this knightly cava o Slier came to the front of the stage to ^ perforin the duty as igncd him. '* Silence reigned while he thanked s jGod for the lofty patriotism whi h v impelled the Confederate soldiers to c 't"ve up life and home t r what thev ' "deemed w;n right, and he thanked f i(iod that friend and once foe had t ovv clusptd hands and that ail Kicked v hove for inspiration to (to what should be done in the future. lie * iho tbaiikad God for the memory of 1 "Jefferson Davi* and his daughter, and ' for the memory of the private soldierami what they did m giving theii i llivcs, their all to their country and < I rayed that disgrace sln>uld never i lbc brou lit upon their graves. We t , pray Thdc, oh God" he fluid,'"that I the baptism of self consecration ' e. ould b?r upon the young men and 1 women of our country and that they 1 rn v ever remember thai their fathers 1 and grand fa'.Lers fhugh: for a ptiuci* ' 0 * - - ----- 1901 JULY 19011, Jil Mo. Til. We. Tit. jfri. Sat. ; 1 2 3 4 _5 6 ;; 7_8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 ^ 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 ' 28 29130 31 S n THE REUNION Z AT MEMPHIS. 2 ? ?ji Tili: <;KI2 IT Sl?KKr It or RH1". t\ ' . -.V H jtractiou, neither can our friendly iulution inoiease it by adding tl icreto. It would be the supreme ? resumption on our part to suppose 0 tut any of ua, or all of ua together 0 >uhl make a mote brilliant or radient ,] own thaii they wear. No eulogy a. : ours cm hcightou their sublime t? L'votion. Their record is in the iiuls ot God Himself. The glory ol * their struggle and of their victory, ^ 'en in defeat and death is the coin m property of us all. The story C( ' it is wur text book in studies of uriotism and with inexpressible rverence wc today take it up. Did f, mc only permit us to meditate upon tj single page of it, tve should gatlnr a ioj^/11 (LvlUllj 1U11 uij c! aspiring cfFott to emulate their ? rtljle example. Our suffering, to w i'gin with, is a tribute of affectionate c imira'ion and veneration for men j, ho having livid heroic lives found it j, ot impossible, nor even difficult to 0 ass out into the great beyond \\ earing the impress of patriotic a emisni. Look at their pictures in ic hook?some of them are old men p hose long years of active duty j, light have made for them some ,| l-iim to exemp'ion front the hardship w f this service, yet their grasp up in ,( te sword or musket is only 1(88 I 'rong than that other grasp whereby t] heir wills hold on to the lofty pur- n oso they pursue. Next to.these are ^ lie middle age in full possession of i\ II the force and power of magnificent n lanhood. As these come into view ( lie instirict is to uncover and be i ilent. Next are the young men, ?| onscious of danger, yet not appre- f iating its magnitude or consequences. r .hey are brave and lithe and cheer- 0 ul and hopeful. 1'hey are the soldiers (] ?ho?shall 1 say are dead? No, I ' ion't like that word. Rather they ,ro tho?e who are to live forever in ur hoarts and memories. They may iave had their personal faults. Who ias not? They are what men call inncrs. What man is not? But vhat if even that he true. In the :ase of any man who dies for men here can be few fiulis, there can be ew Rins which are not paidoncd by he love of God. They are hidden, vashed away by the baptism of blood. Greater love hath no man than this hat a man lay down his life for his riend.' This is divine love, and love is the fulfilling ol the law.' ()f the great multitude whom today ,ve embrace in reverent memory some lied upon the battlefield, while others n hospitals and prisons wait* d ,hrough days and weeks the slow- , meed coming of haggored death. , Many a thousand who mill lived vhen the colors were struck, who . eft the camp fires and hurried away ;o the ashes of their homes, have since ' aid themselves down to rest. Of ] * ; . M. FOSTER., Vice President. T ! A 1 K ARTHUR, Assistant Cashier. T t ters' National Bank ?N, ! *. O. J J $00,000 I 50,000 f 00,000 $ J $170,000 1 H. Wallace, Win. Jeffries. * . P. AlcKissick, A. H. Foster, X jr Business. f ^ ^ AH JU#- jue >y .?ii? ?" ?^r L t , ^ a i!c they thought was right." t (jeinrai Gordon introduced Rev. 8 leorgo Harris, of Mississippi, who '| poke lor thirty-two niinues, during c hich he said many line things. It i impossible lor us to give a lull re- ,. ort of all he a-tid. lie began thus: ? Comrades, ladies and gentlemen: () uHv sensible of the liunor 1 respond ^ ) but with much respect for the re- j ui vu. ni, 1 undertake to voice toay not only tny sentiments, but sen j, mcnis which are yours and miue 0 >gether. For together we reverence |, rod, therefore we can not fail to n jverenoe also man of Ilia making 8 ho have done bou<>r to their man- u jod 1 suppose no otic of us im j, *ines that the purpose of this great fl inhering is t ? tionor the Confederate t, L'ad. They themselves did that i? a le fuihst raeuaurc. To it we can w Id nothing but praise. No bitter- 8| ess of foe cun diminish their honor bv i these some died only yesterday, and no d?>ubr there are some who at this moment are gasping forth the lastmath of this earthly life?^ld soldiers they are still. Do these ;ou?e within the compass of our houghts today? Why not? The >ld army is one. The date, place or m inner of death can cut no figure. We may go still further and find ;<>mfort in the thought that the unity ind solidarity of the army embrace >oth the living and the dead or ra'her. he living and the dying. I suppose I lo <k today into the face of many a nan who hctore another reunion will lave passed to his reward and aniwcr to 'he roll call in that army that vill never disband. In these remions of the remnants our first and >"8t impulse is to give thanks to the river of all good fur the good exmple of ihose who, having fiuishod heir work, are resting under the hade waiting for the rear guard. I'he rost-rs of the a' my d > not dislosethe names <>f all those f >r whose ;oud example wo arc thaukful. It s impu-sihle f >r us to forget the aothers, wives, sisters and daughters f these men. Their story has never een written, their 8*?ng never sutig. fever it comes it will he high epic. The Confederate women made it npossitde for the war to be a short ne. They supplied whatever was eking to make not only possible but ecessary the prolongation of the ruggle' to i's bitter end. She lounted the seat of authority in her otnc She directed i?s affairs as ever before. She u.ale herseirwara--1 ;r as she was already mistress. In large part she supplied the armiea i<h fo?id and clothing. She set vbfe' pinning wheels to singing and the > una to beating reveille. When. irough the cxhau-tion of raw ma. rial she could 1.0 longer send home iade blankets. She rifled her home f its carpets, she robbed her children t their bedding, giving up whatever Ise could nuke comfortable the ildiers in the field or hospital to lake it possible for him to on ic great battles of tho war. _ i _i .1 . i i ut uer am mat couiu never nave een done. I am profoundly i in prosed with the onviction that much of the credit hich belongs of right to the Con:der?tte women has been withheld ont her, and through mistaken senQiont given to the negro. The man way from homo, only the women and hildren loft?left to the tender lercies of the black man, and the ord goes out tint he was very mcriful, faithful and dutiful, he was in is degree. The truth is these he ad to he. lie went on living the rdy life he knew anything about, the fe that is of complete subjection to uthority. Whatever slavery means, it means rocisely that authority re<iui'ed good ehavior and busy hands under the ireotion of a head. True the master as not there, the young rnas'er was ot there, the young master was also t the front, but no matter fur that here was 'ole mistess or young aistoss' who gave the orders which tad to he obeyed just the same. 1 hink if any one in ih >se days through uotives of philanthropy had taken he average negro and counselled him o forbearence and gentleue.-s towards liis own white folks'?lift master's amdy he wouhi have failed utterly to nake himself understood. No thought ither than being respcetful and obelient, had ever eome into his mind. I'he mistress was there; she was au hority. She was also power, moral >owor, which is greator than physical lower. Even had it been otherwise, he results would have been pracically unchanged. The physical lower was never so far away but hat a day of reckoning close at hand night revi al the fine steel of a swift lescending retribution. The women tnew that and hail the faith to trust t, the negro knew it and had not the nerve to chdleuge it. Harper's Weekly of the period of lie John Hrown raid has a cartoon : n_~.... r..n . i... <;,.r t'|>i unrii i ui? iMunu mil wi tur uiu t/i ntbusiasm of ;hc cra/.y reformer he was extending a pike to a negro and liiddiiif h 1 in 1 iikc it and fol'ow in ihe liiht f r bis freedom. The f.ice of the negro betokens utter a nr/etn *nt *nd wnh hand* uplif'cd puts the p.ke tsido while he exclaims, *L >rdy, tnassu, data onpoasihlo, sab, we all *int done planting corn at our hou?e yet, aah.' This is the sciit'tnont which kept the negro quiet. Is it accessary to say he was merciful? ? ,/rfH : Would,. itT be true? lie had corn fc plant and there was no time fofool-shness. The Confederate wnm^n controlled him through the sceptex of authority which her blue veined white hand grasped firmly ?nd wisely wielded. Disclaiming the luxury of grief for her loneliness, for what would have been desolation if not resisted bv instinct of nob'e womanhood. She lif ed up herself to the full measure of, duty and responsibility. It was suMimo courage, it was devotion of Kfe to a great purpose, it was f >rgetfulncss and ?elf nbnigation in the tirdis^parvuits ,of that purpose. Th|*j?Tvbiit differentiates the I vuunvo v. >uuy n?muun urruic, thus saintly; because reuouncftig'^herself She .straggled .onward daily toward the goal ttffcet high endeavor. 1 larder fare fi<c^ePSelf'%?d her little children foltoWied close upota the periodical emptying'of the sender larder intq^^he commissariat of the army. 3S?' * Comrades we are her witnesses for these facts. We saw her do these things. We are therefore in position to understand why it was that she was the last to yield, refusing 'reconstruction.' She hail learned the difficult lesson in the high school of h:ird ovnprionpo nnrt tli.if ? ""f,v,,vv1 ul,v* ?ue?w lUCOUU not to be unlearned in a day. {Sustained by an aspiring hope which her own deft hand had so long sought to make real, it was not to be expected that she could without a struggle with herefi.lLsee it fade away and die. wonder the great sisrerhoo?l of Confederite women sbouhl turn to tke little baby girl of the Richmond White Douse and make her heiress of their own best distinction? The (wonj[en <>f the Confederacy unite to nam&a daughter of. the Confederacy. Threjmitd they make their chdd. A tTDilliojpuinothers give to her the impress of their high character. They see t^t bud unfold, they sec the full blooth.fl >wer and they arc satisfied. They 'have made no mistakes?they hajjD ohoscti wisely. She will stand fSTthqfa ?so they hope?ind carry Mown into the twentieth contury the Id traditions. She will share their feelings. She will breathe th?-ir breath. She will think th-ir thoughts. A'as, this hope also they saw fade away when Winnie Davis died. Tne Daughter of the Confederacy has no successor. The Confederacy itself has no successor. Ilencef?r h it is a memory which with unspeakable tenderness wo lay aside iu our hearts. It is family liist-.ry which we are not ashamed to leave to our children and our children's children. Hut more than all and better than all if. is a legacy, the heirs to which are the wh<?le people of this mighty n ition?America." After prapcr by Rev. J. Win. Joins, Ch iplain General U. C. Veterans, General Gordon announced the appointment of Lt. Gen. A. 1\ S evrarc, of Chutannoga, Teou., a* treasurer for Worn an'a Memorial Monument fund. During the exercises the South Carolina flag which was dipped over the grave at the burial of Winnie Davis was on the speaker's stand. Whet, the exercises closed the First Regiment hand of Cincinnati, Ohio, played "Rest be the ties that bind it:" Vox. JO\1<;SVILhB ' NEWS NOTE?. Some of Those Present at the Eoitnion, *V < *r The weather is a'l that could be desi red'just now for all kinds of works. Farmers are somewhat behind and have much gnus to contend with ami then they have their small grain , crop to take care < f which makes it quite lively f r thnn and it will be so for several weeks to come While the rains have been so abundant and the grass has been growing very fast the crops have grown also, which is un?re encouraging lor the farmer who is in the grass. There are some fine fields of wheat in the community and it will all soon be harvested. Mr. J. L. Mc\Vl.irt?r has the satne land in wheat where he took the premium , last year and the wheat is nearly il no? ijuite as good as it was last year Mr. McWhirter has a new reapei and binder which is doing nice work. It saves the wheat, hinds it and drop! it down in piles of ten bundles ready to bo shocked. Three inules puli the machine and it will harvest fron 10 to 12 acres per day. ' Wm. A. NICH RAM M ? .'Transact a Regular Bs Branches and Insure Boiler, Liability and A< of Indemnity for Offic] Individuals as Adminis YOUR BUSINESS IS R I promised to say im re about th Memphis Reunion in this c? rrespond . enc4?. ?rJ"????svjlle fumirlu-d nine vet el-jine arid visitors-HYui they all re turned safety, had a good time am enjoyed the trip very much. Mr and Mrs. T. L. Haines went on fr??u Memphis to Greenville, Texas, t< visit relatives. Mr. Humes report crops < f corn and cotton fine in Texai but wheat and oats a failure. There were a good many old Unioi county boys from the far West ai the reunion; they cumc expecting tc meet many of th?ir old fronds am comrades there.which they did ami it WAR a reunion i?> rl.a ? .. - vuv bi uu aciiBC u the word. I will mention some o! the boy a we met: J. S. Crawforti and Smith Lipscomb, fr?>m Bon ham. Texas; Horace L. Stevenson, from Jacksonville, Ala. Mr. Stevenson is a son ot'Mr. James Stevenson, who once lived at Mt. Tabor. Mr Stev. etison is mayor of his town and presi lent of the National bank. Leantier G"?dolock, from Iieo*fu?iiit. Mifls.; Napoleon from Stilwcll, Indian Ten itorv; W. G. Estes, Adonn, Ark.; N. B. Turner, Cypress, Ark.; A. D. Pender^rass, from Ches'er comity but T\ow Clititon, Philips county. Ark ; 0. C. Spann, C.flee P. O. Philips county, Ark ; Frank Prince, Nordi Crock, P. O. Philip county. Miss.; Lnander It dtrers. LeCou'e, Miss; h. P. al i n _ i ?> - * i- - ler, un t'iiwiMiu, uf?iiiiiur K/uy* aih., Dr. John Askew, Birmingham. Ala.; F. Scaift. Philips county, Ark.; and our own Frank Mosley, fro o Birmingham, Ala. Mrs. Mary 11 uracil, froiu Surdis, Miss., was at the reunion looking f?r Union county people. She is a Union county lady and was the dung1 r? r of Thomas llay. One thing I noticed for ihc lirst time at a re union was the Uonf*elerate Hags floating f.om the U. S. P<>sl oflice and e-u-n?m houses. I met out polite and ?oial editor of th? UxioN Tim us at the rcui i*?n c'.*eulatin^ among the veterans making many aeij niiutai.ees and I think he- made mativ new friends and did nnndi gooi for h s paper, u< I heard many com plimcnta passed up n him. Mi ses \Vi lie S? uthard. M trie MejYVliirfct and Mlldie'd L'ml-ey have returned from college. M B< Willie Southard has gradual d au.t will make teaching a j r f-ssion. Miss Belle Whitlock has gradu ated at the Greenvil'c Colo ge. l>r. A. S. Fos er has gone u Lynchluirg, Ya., where he goes ti pr?ct ce dentistry this summer. The Oonfederatc pensioners hnv receivoei the-ir cheeks at last. Tin S'ate pension board made sour changes in the applicants from thi ' county which the county hoard don* understand, but they have to acccp the situation. There seems to be hu little use for a county hoard as th State b aid does .i"st to suit thei | own no'ion about approving the ap plications. 1 ho count}' board ha lie nppl-cints before them and the, examine ?lie woundtd and paralytic in person liHving a physician to niak a tl omugh examination and tbei th?*y cla?s the applicant and ver often or fometimes at biist ibe Stat board ignores the county board" , clarification and places tho appli cant in another class with ut so-in the applicant. TklkpIIoNK. Santuc Sifiings. s Santpo, July 1?Miss JCstell I Tnornas, now of Charleston, is her , visiting relatives. I Mr Jeter Cromwell, who has bee i for some time in Alabama, is horn F again bnl" and hearty. July broke tolerably fair, but Ju'< r went out with a storm ol wind an rsin. i Tho temperature has been up yot r der. IjHst Monday 24th it reache I tho OH d-groc mark on official instn i mpn's. The past week whenever a 3I011 ttx*W A 1 ?jRt\. OLSON & SON, KERS, inking Business in all its Against Fire, Tornado, ^cidents, and Issue Bonds ials of Corporations, and trators, Etc., Etc. ESPECTFULLY SOLICITED. ? * e ar- se it was accompanied by a very - bighpvntd 'hat made houses tremble. wtthjjk tcrrlhl^tuij^bt rfind it J to tare heroic eflForta to difelodge it. Mueli bind is lying idle with no i corn m it. and with the rain Sunday, : I do ti"t know when it can he planted s now. The rain though was needed s on uplands. Dr. T. B. Bates has the fi?ld for i threshing this year, I think, around here, for I hear that Mr. Davis ? Gregory will not go out on the ''busI tings" with his machine. I Did you go to the convention B. I B. atid llomo, and enjoy it, and see F anvbodv? 1 was *4wild" to goto i i i j u'iir.i smoothing arnl?to see?some* . bo?lv. eb! B. B i To sh w what afleets crops, and i put farmers behi-.d and gras-i ahead, please lend your eye to some tainfall comparison*. the months of April, M iv and .June. 1900 and 1901: April. 1!KM> fi.ttf | April, l!M?i r,.7X Y',y *<?l 5liiy, " "?.4/i June, li.fm: June, " 4.10 Jotal - - - ii.7i ! Total - - - liuo 179 inches more this year than lust year for the same period, but June V^H1' was 'nuch lighter than last, J M'ich heavier. There wa> more rainy uijo . ; was hut rains not so heaJyie *J?.an rains is what held the farmeiV'W. check, put grass ahead, stunted crops, 'he temperature being below the n i DQcil, made land wet, and ihc June riins eisilv kept i'. wet and cold and crops C"uM not grow. Three consecutive rainy months in the working ' season is rather heavy on farmers, and if that is contii ued, the world will feel it. 1 am "down in the mouth" some, and have a long "manifest" of the ' why and wherefore. I wanted to 1 attend the convention at Union as the girls say "ever so much" as we r say "powerful had" and couldn't. A ? brother was and had been sick for , l .. , r . - 8Jine time and l Had to attend to his business and mtne. The extremely ' wet weather ami his sickness put us ' badly behind and more on me. I had been put on double duty trying J to harvest and house small gtam, ' came near succumbing to heat and 3 work, and took a bad sore throat. * More grain was to cut and corn to plant, i.r do without and there is but " a few days at b?st ill order to get it in tured tliis ?ide of an average frost. ' O i this, utiie was short and every J day counted much. 1 hope 1 wnl never bo so "haul run" during any f* other convention or at any t rae. l' Now for the conglomeration < f in' consistencies, tow it: The grand jury report about the stockade, stables, ' cribs, hogs, sc ittered to?ds, etc., over I llliw'li \l r 1 .....v.. Iiituviklt 9C-CUI3 (II ne ' very wroth. This, however, in their parr. :?r??| I am only, ean only, judge r t'roin what I read; hut anyway while * the grand jury is corporatilig that 8 particular c >mm<t'i?c report, why ie?t y i>e consi-tcnt and report the condi8 non of road4, planting to the wheel c tracks. darning wa;er in the n roads, heaping log4 beside them, lety ting hu-hes gruw in them, etc But, e oh no. too many of the giandjury 8 are road overseers and must keep mum. With all due respect gindc8 tnen, this last mat'er would cost hut little and toads would he better. In discharge ot duyy h?* no respoetor of persons and w here wc can have a good road lei us nave it. e IIey Denver. e ? Even the Administration cannot n stand for Pennsylvania rascality any l(> longer. Postmaster General Smith h is declared war against Quay and J all his works. Of course, he acts as representative of the President. 1" Things must be pretty bad w hen such !(^ an occurence can take place. ?-| I Suhacrihe for The Time*. . . ?