Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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A. * . ( f ^ j E ^ THE TOWNO?UNloN^HA8 l| ^ ^ ^ ^ . 'j- THE TOWNOF UNION HA* J| yfch'l Three Cotton Mills, one the |? ljj ^ ''ij I I l\i //\iV rV I 1/1 9? L1 t'ii largest Knitting Mill and || if largest iu the South. Four Fur- 7( Hj "... J t*\-.k S| Sc r?1 jh JS / H }] j ' ,{ 1 ** ? Plant in the State. An Oil ff n.turo and Wood dauutuctur- )); H ?.3 uj gd 1 ll Ci ><j k-3 U ?3/ fe; \ [{ and Manufacturing Co. that R ing Concern-*. Ouo Female . I B2 tm ' A a am ^3 L- V,' K !1 i L 1 makes an unexcelled Guano. X I Seminary. Water Works and u( (5* ?8 A a B JL # . BL IdL J*. W _?aL 0 X Three Graded Schools. Arte- (ft Electric Lights. (// t',| uiuu Water. Population C.600. H . ~ r' " ? ^ "" " ^=^st VOL Llh NO 23. UNIOiN, SOUTH CAROLINA; fltlDAl. JUW-. 6. 1902. #1.00A YEAR 4*. <*?"**-4*> 4*- -a:- <* tP. M. PARK. President. QEO. MUNRO, Cashier, * Merchants' and I or t | x Capital Stock Surplus $ Stockholders' Liabilities X Total {Directors?J. A. F{' T. C. Duncan, J. T. Dou Wm. Coleinan. J We So 4K* **4* <9* A TRIP * NOTES P:CKBD UP DOWN C THE REUN (.Continued from lust week,). The Cotton licit Road has toilet rooms with basins, mirrors in each of its day coaches, the as our Pullman's. * * I saw a very curiously constr clock in a jewelry store in 1J The pendulum was a wheel slowly turned first one way and another. It is said to run 400 with one winding. * . * * "C si saw thousands of bundles 0 hay already gathered, baled hauled into Dallas and Fort 1 ready for shipment. It is not what' they make in Texas but they save that makes them ricli * * * Th n />Arn <>cnn in Tov-m lnut was short on accouut of the <lr and many farmers who usually corn for sale had to buy to their stock the past winter. Bi prospects are very bright for crop of both corn and cotton giant crop of wheat this year. * * * While there was an cxtraord large crowd in Dallas, Texas, d the reunion, the largest by the history of the city, there affidavits submitted to the eflfee there were more than 1,000 beds, etc., which had been pre that were not used. Dallas dh self nobly in caring for the cro' * w * The oil business of Texas is to be one of the greatest thir the State. Many industries a perimentirur with oil as a fue among other railroads which ai Eerimenting is the Santcfec, as adopted oil on its Texas and while it is considered danj ujr ouuiu it in ujuiu wv/iivujJV/U wood or coal. 3?C % * Upon >?rriving at the'encam grounds at Dallas one of tb< men I noticed particularly young fellow about years who was fuming with rage, glsi over him I noticed a slit in his orer his right hand pocket abo inche* long which was gaping ' t asked him if be had been tot He said yes, -some fellow ci pocket in the ciowd which j? the train and a I of his inone been taken. lie remarked si would give ten dollars to gtt h the scoundrel who did it. I d think it necessary to ask him he would get the ten dollars. * * * Mr. Thomas Lanham, of ^ Worth, who has just returned "Va visit to his old home, opartar 8. 0., noting the wonderful im ment that lias been going on section during the dozen ye his absence, upon returning < old home said: "The old sayir *go west young tnan," but my is "go to South Carolina, 1 and we see where he has a Love f?>: on his shoulders. it is h down old South Carolina, sections have their special adva but taken together, we have a j jspot, it only needs systematic c io n . m&*-. -- I . I Mian Sicholaou A 'n*--**- -Mr -?*-<& ?* <& -ifr 4* ttfr +)fr <SK~ A. H. FOSTER, Vice President. $ A J. D. ARTHUR, Assistant Cushicr. * Planters' National iank I JIVIOjCV !? ,, c. | 3S?^^;s?r- ^ $(>0,000 i * r>o,ooo X ? 00,000 H ,4. sfe $.170,000 X int, \V. H. Wallaco, Wjn. Jeffries, glass, E 1'. McKissiek, A. 11. Foster, jt iich Your uusiness. ,? -$ 1 ? ! mwihi I BM?H?P? i?u?. lie -imriinaii \ TravnTg***^ TO TEXAS. AT RANDOfl AND JOTTED IN OUR TRIP TO ION AT DALLAS. The midway was conspicuous lor ? nice its absence at the Dalias reunion, i, efo There were some few catch pennies same around but tiie great and noisy mid way was not there, and the people were better oil' as a consequence, uctcd * * * alias. 'j'|le people of Texas are as.hard that J (iown on t}10 Johnson grass as we are then j on nut gross. They say while it days j m;ikes r.veellent food for stock ihov i do not need it. and when it once gets . started on a place it takes the place !K ^ i and thc-ve is no getting rid of it. and * * XT 1 J ' .0'l ii One tiling that struck us very a ?nu j forcibly regarding the business like j methods of the farming in Texas was l> i that the land is not only prepared in a most thorough manner before the ' year Crop put in but that the preparing oughtiofthe 1 and and the planting of the raise crop all done by the latest itn? feed proved machinery. The planters, at the the pious and the harvesters are all a fine . strictly up to-date. We noticed the and a I plowing was done by double team | and a two wheeled vehicle kind of a j plowing arrangement that looked linary j lihe it wouhl be a pleasure to guide uring, over the beautiful fields. It has far in J been remarked that the people ate were j too lazy to walk and do all their t that j farm woik riding in one kind of macots, | chine or another, pared ! * * * I her- j While rctui ning from a side*trip out rt(h to Oak C1 i 11", a suburban town some three miles out of Dallas, a lady going boarded the car and sat on the seat ,n beside inc. I took out some change re ex- f0 pay my ear Tar ; and dropped a 1, and dune on the iloor. 1 could not find re ex-- it and she assisted me. This naturally which started a conversation, and when I lines, told her I was from South Carolina jerous elic told me she was glad to meet tnc 1 than or .my one from 'fSouth Carolina. The reader can imagine that the pk-asure of the meeting was mutually pment agreeable when it developed that the e first 1 idy. Mrs. Stephens, was tho sistci was a of my old friends Walter and Charley of ago Allen. As she was taking boarders incing for this occasion 1 engaged a room at | pants her home. She told ino a great .deal >ut six about Texas and I tried to tell her open. what. I could ol' her old home, iched. * * * it Ids A Mt'AVK I.I i l l.K <; I it I., mined ., poiii* in Alabama a little v had wce curly headed tot of a child, a hat he gjrj 0nly live years old. was put on told ol train for a point in Texas. The id not little one was a good child and seemed w here lo j.,]^ the great journey as a matter ?c .....1 ? ... \ ~ -o 1 U1 lutv <114*1 IIWIIJIIJ;' I*) lie <I1<1IIIIC<1 over. I never heard her cry or Fort utter a word expressing lonlincss or I from fear. The conductor was very atlburg, tcntive to lier and the ladies in the prove- car, learning the situation, were also in this attentive and the little one fared ars of sumptuously with sweet meats and to his attention and seemed perfectly happy ig was and contented. She left our train advice at some junction point iu Arkansas, boys," It i" of course perfectly safe for 1 head children to travel if they arc obedient _-.li. 1 *11. * 1 * 1 T A. aru to arm win stay in tne coacn. 1 cannot Other bring myself to understand bow a ntages mother and father or either could garden consent for their little five year old ultiva- child to make such a trip by itself. , (Continued next week.) REHINUCKS OF THE WAR! Interesting Incidents Connected With the fate War, Bringing (hit a-Great Ileal of Unwritten History, in Whieli the I'rivnte and Subordinate Officers are Given Credit fustly Due Them. Some of the Truest, Noblest and Br.ivest Men That ICver Faced an JCnern v Were to be pmian among tuf phivatfq a nmunu d 11 a- I mini L.Ui ItY J. L. STRAIN. i am glad to know th.it Reminiscences of the War arc meeting with such approval by the reading public, ami 1 fed bound to acknowledge some ol the pleasant things said about thcm and thank those who sa\ them. A young lady in York county? one of tiic sweetest of all that grand old county?wiitcs about the pupci thus: "Accept my sincere th inks lor I'lli: I NinN T'MFs. W'c aii cnj i . ed the piece f yours in the paper very touch. 1 never saw any one more pleased with any topic ot a papa* than papa was with yours. lie lias reul and reread until he knows it oil*. lie said the iiest time ho read it, it was so line lie must learn it off. Lie says: "1 never saw anything in print more real or better told than that conversation of Hans. Wherever a stray copy (ot Tin-. Timks) goes it seldom tails to lind 11 subscriber. Mr. J. Wess Smith, of Dallas, Ga , a member of the old 7th cavalry, writes eoneerning the death of Morgan Leech: "Dear Jim:?I received the I 'xio.n Tlmks a few moments ago. 1 see yours concerning the war. Your lettcis are very interesting to inc. 1 notice something about Morgan Leech. 1 only took a little sketch of it. 'When Morgan was killed 1 was horse holder, lie (Morgan) was sick from a spell oi cholera uior bus he had the night before. \ tried to get him to let. me take his place atid let him hold horses, but bo refused. 'I he Yanks ran us back but the next day we got posession of the battle ground and went and found a uiound at the head -of which said on a paper: "Here lies six of Ilatnp ton's Lcirion." and one other. We n / took the dirt oft ami took Out one or two and" found Morgan. I carried his body three or lour miles across my horses shoulders and we sent him on to Richmond to he sent home." The members of the old 7th cav airy will remember "Wess Smith." Tiiey called him 4,Luke" He itf now living at Dallas, Ga,, and is con sidered a leading citizen of the Em pire State, lie takes great interest in South Carolina a ft airs and is an appreciative reader of this paper. L reproduce the l.ettcrofa Dethany correspondent and publish* d in the Yorkviiic Yeoman which will interest many still living in L'nion county and oihei sections of the county, where the^c reminiscences are read ami appreciated. i* . ..<7, .. *i.~ jo ??:> vtiimu jii^o ami ii4V uumr of Clay's Farm bv a correspondent of the Columbia Guardian and published in that paper. Here it is in full: "Clay's Farm, Chesterfield Co., Ya. July ^0, l.StiF The day with all its event.-, lispassed and night with her sable mantle has*draped the earth in darkness. i hear notion/ -nit the groans of the wounded, the distant sound ol our pick'ts and the heavy tread of the sentinel as he slowly and slecp!os-dy paces his post. I am sitting by the wdunded and watching, and w hu - ' avateh i will wnt.\ for unless I we . ims South Carolinians can ncv ivo their appropriate place in the i >t -ry of this war, for though the battle of Clay's Farm was fousnt ! principally by Walker's (Iv/ins') 1 South (Jim-lma Brigade, Wise's Biigude ha . rtcoivod ail the praise. A1 though the paper may y< t do uo justice. t)fi ia ; i'litlay, Beauregard determined ; ' vo tho Yankees frointhriri '! pits in front ('four lines which resumed iii one of the sharpest contents nf this war consid ering the numbers engaged. It was fought almost entirely by the 17th. 18th, 12nd and South C$roiiria S. (h Vr., under command of General Walker, and never since this war commenced has *bv reputation and chivalry ot South Carolina been better * i :?.i:c '.'el, tie. lit i Dion, l't'OIll General W*:t!k<-l' !'? ?.i the most buuihie private in tin- /<mks d'.il all 'liiit ' rave men could do "The lining a d brnv.r* of Gen Walker up " he lime he \v;}. net| : [ c<l and vapoured bv tl t ^ !?!? > scarcely had it. *.?jnii. Win . ... lVith S. . 0. Wai called t<charge, ho vu- ed in irons;. n i r> few up his hut over his head and ;'\e three cheer;? for S-. :.'h ( . It was an3Wei':al by iil'hdr- d i of I 1. injjj and dauntless hearts and :!: scene that followed honors all (lis enption. Cr u. Walker sector I a , if he courted death, for he was l.vajs in front and where trio balls llew tite thickest. Then there was C !o 0' Lhiutzlcr, of the iZ"Jr.?I. that w :\ iho admiration of a'I and fully met <hn exp-. eta 's;? of his most ardent fri< nil s. : "olouel ieM-'-rer and Id uteri.;:> Colonel 11 udst m, with tlr ir regime.' actori nobly, fhe charges of tho 17th S. C. V. under Colonel Mo~ Mas:er and th ? h'tith under Lieu tenaut-C< io'i'd Hudson were ungnifi cent. 'liny well imperishable honor and can punt ? > vli.it, ?? . one of live proudest days of thoir livos. i b,gaiiaut <Japt:ii??. Davis ??1 the ihith, was killed He was a bravo and meritorious officer and his death i< regretted by alt who know him. "The I Nth bore the brunt of the fight, as ins list of casualties w; i show. It stood many of the ino.-t galling fires that have been met since the commencement of this w;e. In less than v>ne hour fr.uu the tie it entered the fight it iov. novo ih;.n one humlicd men, hi my of them us most beloved and brivcst men md officers. Among the killed win Licutenat 0. l>. Dob >, of (Jmipany Iv In Lieutenant 11 >bo were blended all that makes man n >bie. He was kind and lenient as > friend, faithful as a patriot, brave, and as a Cbiistian devout and piour A'so Sergeant Maior 'P. It Simon w - cn*r K illed. A bo' ?ved and ii^rii .'I'ioa ollicer. uThc l,xth S. 0. ,\ . was ordered it*t?? action precisely ?ii throe o'clock. It was led by <\>1 oiel W. ii Wallace. The enemy ..ere stationed in die woods on an ciijiUL'iec in a p Hitiou. When the regiment oaine .11 range of their join* they poured into ir \ mo.-: deadly lire; but that, though tie nature ?>1* the wood and ground cm-cd some confusion, did not stop .heir progress. They rolled on like a wave of Ulianco with their men tailing at very step, driving the van'dds iike sheep before theai wherever they went, and to look at the ground passed over, it would seem impossible for man to go through it and live, for the trees and shrubs are cur to pi: ees with halls. No braver men ev? r faced death and escaped death. Colon* 1 Wallace led his cluirge and by his cool daring won for hiniselfa name that to all who saw his bearing will be a synoniyu. of bravery itself f>r lie hid during the whole engagement a place in the picture near the ll i-hin!; g ins a <1 ins daring as well as that, of liieu.te;raot-Colonel W. 1?. Allison and Major Detsill nerved the men ap r'> iignt I.?r their homes and all else that man holds sacred to hi heal t It was in this charge that there was a scufllo between several sergeants over tb^ old battle Hug vicing with other as to who oh* uhl . n rv it. "When it was taken by Major l?ct.sill ami borne gallantly to the front. ' four companies of this regiment; A. C. P.and under tho imtnodi* te command of General Walker, repulsed two Yankee regiiueuts and iiu-i.lv drove tbein from their works. Well may South Carolina ho proud of such regiments, o(Iic *v?- and ui( n us fought the buttle of Ohy's Farm,,anil well may' she point to them and siy, 'These are uiy jewels.' "The casualties arc as follows? given by the writer?but whether correct"or not 1 :?ui not able to suv: "Killed?17th regimen18th S. C. V., 1 0; 22nd, 2; 20th, 12. Total. 3,). 'Wounded?17th rf. 0. V . 1 ">; 18th, 103; 22nd, 10; 20th, o2. T?tu!, 180. "Missing?17th S. 0. V., 0: 18th, 2;'22nd, 0; 20th, 0. Total, 2. "To my knowledge the killed ol Company n were: Klias McCartor, Francis Simrill, Leo^idus Mitchell and Hubert Davinncv. "Of Company G: Killed?Ser Win. A. NICH BAN SOLICIT YO An-! promis" courteous !r< .i lion cons <3r C)? JES \ \ rile I kinds yf In sura MOVKY ORLXKRS issi j Oili'j'i and Kxpress Compan; m s or-/.'v? ,c.r,rr. ^c:iiU i. X. Knloo. Park-; Jackson I Aiv{.-. < > William Titommas i son. J >it!i K ' , Thomas Knl- e \va; I w< un 1 and died in %the hands o | til< Y:<I) i ! "1 am nnan!.: .o r.ve tiio naiuo ; the woui iled. J. W. P." (To 'h- con inuo i ) SANTUC SIFTINGS. i Woitlrl hike 10 I in vc 1 tacit o.t the j .v.; : ; . /<<?r't'lio ' was a Ihta ?Miss Thomas is )njon<l--i von pwtfi, i .. ... i '" ' i?i: :i . fir .ottii lt? tctlieljlg i j 111 I 'HI i ' C I'aiHifc <>. j Th new - went out by pli me and cable; I auv t Ji; 111 Uiitr ! A' .n ) . .{) the w hite IIKIII'. siV?:o.'* i bat's tho way us tones it uowri | hoi e. \\ I ioh way l i tho wind blow? Am .v r: Is. o. from a belated j piece "1' winter. The 1 n iians say 4'white inun eiu blow loth hot ami J cold, and that IS ju-it what thii I went her i; doing now. Vegetation, >vcni- to* be making ! tl'.vv gcowtl ?i <I stock it not rc. iing j in grn.-s. i. >r are tiu .* in elower. : 1 see It: lilllc 'haktim iiltlHW! I ami frying s/.e ami o:iter Axes oi ' chickens wili : -u we <>ii tl c*!c. A j luxury mi; ? canity family i.u^ht to j have. 1 Many thanks, Jlouio and -J. It. i MeGowau, for your woi-U of appro* Iciation of my wriliuh?which I ! thought was >v?.hi eneourugeuicnl j to e Mitiuuc. am' . A my tutn to I a pi-) eta to. 1 ; . < ad friends t( tell mc in j or- it !;?*< i? on," sc you see I am glad that I am of sonit use to smuch ? y. Mr Ivlitor, ! to.-, enjoy reading your Trip t > Texas. and I havehearr other:, sty y?m are '.lie equal of any one in writing u a trip. lint if 1 could' have n along with you I could have seen and lelt hotter than I could have read of it and crijoyei it more. 1 kri >\v you had a grcal ! big time. Miss Nora Thomas met with a sail and serious accident Friday evening, May dOth. by tailing from the pia/./.a : making an ugly cut in the temple, rendering iter unconscious for some time and breaking 'tie bone of hci arut near the wrist. "She was at hei brother's house where reveral Iiad nut, and the piaz/.i being rather crowded die was too close to the dooi and her v<> king e t.iiv slipped out. Ivvorybodv is s ?rry 'br her, and those wh" know pain sympathize very ?inuc':i. She is improving fast and I hope will soon he entirely well. Tho school here with Prof. Moore in eh rge ha ; clood f-r vacation ii the Jlaj tist clunvh grove. The pic rtic v?s v success in every respec though there was not a 4,lutgh' crowd. i he school children had tin d ty and en joyed themselves until lati in the afternoon. For several year: tlie picnics were getting at a low ebl here, caused l>v bad or though Fes, boys making it somewhat rowdv, am man; had misgivings as to this one but now they have been redeemed and thi* school picnic came up higher was smooth and <[uiet and there wa' enough of the good dinner for twic lli<> iiiirriltcv nrnsitnf \ 11 who w/. I /; v? "V1 pleased witii it. j Doesn't <?o\. Davis, of Aikanstt? ruho himself much, and heads ih lis; when he offered to pardon ;t nqgr provided the negro would go to Mm sachusctts within thirty days t > uiak his home, 11 was getting tired c the Northern papers always tellm of liow the South treated the ncgrc and especially had some Maesachu setts papers hceu recently talkin ahout it, so he wanted them t ) hah reform- .the negro, therefore th pardon was on that condition. ' I many criminals was exiled to th North there they would soon b OLSON & SON, KRRS. tJH EUSINESS tment and every accommodalisten t with NG. nee except life. icd at the same rate as Post V rrr ->nor?*wji m m ?i ??i , i dumh on negro treatment or raise -j the l?i<_'gest row you ever head of. 5 1 :;ad to get a dentist hold of my. t tooth last week, and I think if there i.- anything I ara a coward about it fi is my teeth. It makes me tremble to j ut sti' 1 to them and I had ncg locte-i them until some of them was rioting "((uiek," and I did wish for a i:oil to bite a little just to help me is I tried to grin and endure it, , "out I could not grin much with my mouth open, nor could I grit my .coin and stand it, so 1 had to take it "dry *<> " I put a trip to Charleston which did not set well, but of course , : prof .*? a set of natural teeth to an ; 'X1 losition. !>ay, excure slang, but I how do you fancy a high speed drill among your apple grinders? ,( [Not mueh, we've been there, it j makes oiie see stars at midday,?Ed.] I Mr, William Giudy died last Frij d iv night, very suddenly, lie had had "umn acute spells once a year for ^1 several years, but on this occasion , had been' in very good health, except j a lu;l feeling on Friday afternoon, . and nothing serious was the mattor with him, apparently. Mr. Grady , was a plain, unassuming, inolVensible, ' poor, but respectable man, a good mid kind neighbor, and had not an j enemy that o;u ever heard ?f. Ho ' serv. I in the artillery service in the | civil' wir, and it has been handed , (down to me :hat he was a brave and j daring soldier, and servod his coun-^ I try with devotion. lie had become : enfeebled by age and was drawing i a pencion as a reward for the ser.[vices icndered his country in the , j pritlie of robust manhood. I knew ,1 Mr.. Grady well, liked to talk with Jhim, he had a retentive memory , and could interest me with war time 1 tales, and things that happened in , | his young days, and everybody liked j; him. lie was buried at the old Cane . Creek graveyard, many people being present to pay their last tribute of respect. His family was rondered t ml the service necessary, by friends, I in this sad time. t The crops in the storm beaten section are looking badly. The cotton and corn was blown about beaten in the ground by the down pour of rain, and much covered , up with dirt and sand or washed > by the water that was everywhere, : almost like a pond, pnd this was r followed by four nights with a l in limuui temperature of- from 44 to 47 degrees, which was detrir mental to cotton, and the consequences are, it looks about as bad as one ever saw young cotton. It - in nearly impossible to plow it, so as to save it. Several asked me what I considered the greatest dam; age done h.y the storm. I answer. i that in tliis section, it was to crops and land, the crops receiving the t grcatcut. The track of a storm being ' about six miles wide would do much ? more damage than one confined to 3 a path of two or three hundred yards, s Of course those who lost homes lost j doubly. Then orchards were heavy s sufferers. Much timber is blown 1 down. Large trees are piled about , wherever there was many trees. , Although the rain guage caught only , 1 Id inch of rain it is very evident t that there was more, probably thrice e as much, hut the wind blew it so 11 slanting that it struck the side of the receiver instead of the top. Everyi, where there is a level or "swag" in i: the lahd it is covered with a sediment o of mud as if 11 stream had been over i* it. In more hilly land it made many e cleain sweeps down to the subsoil. >f 1 have st en several low places where g water ponded knee deep on de >, pressed pi acts. The farmer's loss ia i- heavy. It is strange though many g peoplo never count a farmer's losa aa [> much, but. that it is his portion, and e when the wind-up and gathering if time comes he is charged with poor e farmers, had management, slovenly ic work or laziness. IIey Denver.